Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 80 103
Rank change year-on-year -32 +23 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 21 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.15% 0.76% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 1.97% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 6 6
10th Percentile £500 £500 -
25th Percentile £504 £503 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% -13.64%
75th Percentile £550 £542 £494
90th Percentile £601 £597 £544
England median daily rate £525 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -19.23% +18.18% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Yorkshire

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 758 456 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.49% 38.32% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 302 436
10th Percentile £213 £283 £231
25th Percentile £375 £401 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £596
90th Percentile £600 £700 £672
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 3
10th Percentile - £18.04 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.81 £19.25
Median hourly rate £38.43 £34.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% +71.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £56.31 £97.98 £41.00
90th Percentile £57.25 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Yorkshire

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire -5 16 £538 +2.38% 4
South Yorkshire -42 5 £525 - 2
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (90.48%) Amazon S3
3 15 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 13 (61.90%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (61.90%) Serverless
6 8 (38.10%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (28.57%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (23.81%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (23.81%) GitHub
9 4 (19.05%) Datadog
9 4 (19.05%) Route 53
10 3 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
10 3 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
10 3 (14.29%) AWS Direct Connect
11 2 (9.52%) Amazon Cognito
11 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (9.52%) AWS KMS
11 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (9.52%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) Firewall
2 8 (38.10%) DNS
3 6 (28.57%) VPN
4 5 (23.81%) SSL
4 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
5 3 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (19.05%) DynamoDB
2 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
4 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
4 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.76%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Jenkins
2 10 (47.62%) Git
3 6 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Senior
3 7 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
3 7 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 3 (14.29%) Lead
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Operations Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Python Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Network Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 3 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
2 2 (9.52%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) CSS3
3 1 (4.76%) Django
3 1 (4.76%) FastAPI
3 1 (4.76%) Flask
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) HTML5
3 1 (4.76%) Jest
3 1 (4.76%) Next.js
3 1 (4.76%) pytest
3 1 (4.76%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (9.52%) NHS
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
1 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 3 (14.29%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (85.71%) DevOps
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
2 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (23.81%) Agile
4 5 (23.81%) High Availability
4 5 (23.81%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (19.05%) DevSecOps
5 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
5 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 3 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
6 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 3 (14.29%) Load Balancing
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 2 (9.52%) Key Management
7 2 (9.52%) RBAC
7 2 (9.52%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.52%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (71.43%) Python
2 10 (47.62%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) C
Qualifications
1 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
2 6 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) Terraform
2 11 (52.38%) Ansible
3 5 (23.81%) Packer
4 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.76%) Grafana
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) CheckPoint
1 6 (28.57%) F5
1 6 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 4 (19.05%) Splunk
3 2 (9.52%) CloudEndure
3 2 (9.52%) Databricks
3 2 (9.52%) Zscaler