Amazon EC2 Job Trends in the City of London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 143 154
Rank change year-on-year +14 +11 +56
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 7 19 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.31% 0.72% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.82% 1.36% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 14
10th Percentile £49,500 £56,250 £55,000
25th Percentile £54,875 £57,500 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -8.77% -30.49%
75th Percentile £94,375 £79,313 £83,438
90th Percentile £96,250 £103,750 £98,875
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +19.23% -10.34% -29.27%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 856 1,393 1,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 38.01% 52.49% 51.28%
Number of salaries quoted 674 961 1,345
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £114,625 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £76,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in the City of London

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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%) API Design
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (14.29%) Presales
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