Amazon EC2 Job Trends in Central London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 162 161
Rank change year-on-year +25 -1 +68
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 7 21 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.29% 0.65% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% 1.30% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 15
10th Percentile £49,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £54,875 £57,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -10.34% -29.27%
75th Percentile £94,375 £79,313 £83,125
90th Percentile £96,250 £103,750 £103,250
London median annual salary £78,000 £107,500 £78,750
% change year-on-year -27.44% +36.51% -12.50%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Central London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 986 1,619 1,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 41.48% 49.91% 51.65%
Number of salaries quoted 777 1,113 1,467
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,875 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Central London

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Central London over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in Central London

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +20 7 £77,500 +19.23% 9
Amazon EC2
London

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (85.71%) Serverless
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 5 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (28.57%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (28.57%) Azure
6 2 (28.57%) GitHub
6 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (28.57%) Snowflake
7 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
7 1 (14.29%) GCP
7 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
7 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (28.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) Loki
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Reinsurance
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) High Availability
3 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Pair Programming
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Natural Language Processing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (14.29%) vCloud
2 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Grafana
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 1 (14.29%) Ansible
4 1 (14.29%) Argo
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) VMware