Amazon EC2 Job Trends in London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 251 275
Rank change year-on-year -119 +24 +38
Permanent jobs citing Amazon EC2 70 144 199
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.29% 1.18% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 2.57% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 48 81 140
10th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £61,250
25th Percentile £69,375 £65,000 £87,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £105,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -19.05% +35.48%
75th Percentile £115,000 £130,000 £142,500
90th Percentile £150,000 £137,500 £165,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% -9.38% +18.52%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,450 5,609 8,361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.50% 45.99% 42.67%
Number of salaries quoted 5,679 3,916 6,279
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £43,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,688 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £120,000 £122,500
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in London

Amazon EC2
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EC2.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
South London -19 2 - - 1
Central London -18 1 £95,000 +26.67% 3
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 4 (5.71%) Apache
2 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.86%) WordPress
3 1 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.43%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.43%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 70 (100.00%) AWS
2 63 (90.00%) Amazon S3
3 46 (65.71%) Serverless
4 43 (61.43%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (41.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 27 (38.57%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (34.29%) Azure
8 23 (32.86%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (24.29%) Datadog
11 15 (21.43%) AWS CloudTrail
11 15 (21.43%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (18.57%) Amazon ECS
12 13 (18.57%) GitHub
13 11 (15.71%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (14.29%) OCI
15 9 (12.86%) Amazon ELB
16 8 (11.43%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 7 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 7 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.29%) DNS
2 2 (2.86%) Firewall
2 2 (2.86%) SSL
2 2 (2.86%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (62.86%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (27.14%) DynamoDB
3 17 (24.29%) NoSQL
4 11 (15.71%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (7.14%) MySQL
6 4 (5.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (4.29%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.86%) Metadata
8 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.43%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.43%) Flink
9 1 (1.43%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.43%) Semantic Layer
9 1 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.43%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 25 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 15 (21.43%) GitLab
3 12 (17.14%) CircleCI
3 12 (17.14%) Git
4 6 (8.57%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.71%) JUnit
6 3 (4.29%) Maven
6 3 (4.29%) Mockito
7 2 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.86%) Gradle
7 2 (2.86%) JMeter
7 2 (2.86%) Snyk
7 2 (2.86%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.43%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (1.43%) Crashlytics
8 1 (1.43%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.43%) git-flow
8 1 (1.43%) JIRA
8 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.43%) webpack
General
1 19 (27.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.71%) Finance
3 13 (18.57%) Banking
4 11 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Military
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Advertising
6 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Games
7 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (41.43%) AWS Engineer
2 22 (31.43%) Developer
3 19 (27.14%) Senior
4 13 (18.57%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (12.86%) Senior Developer
6 8 (11.43%) Cloud Security Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (11.43%) Security Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (8.57%) Junior
7 6 (8.57%) Python Developer
8 5 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (7.14%) Consultant
8 5 (7.14%) Data Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Gen AI Developer
9 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
9 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (25.71%) RESTful
2 13 (18.57%) Kafka
3 12 (17.14%) RabbitMQ
4 11 (15.71%) gRPC
5 10 (14.29%) web3js
6 9 (12.86%) REST
7 5 (7.14%) SAML
7 5 (7.14%) Web Services
8 4 (5.71%) AWS CDK
8 4 (5.71%) FastAPI
9 3 (4.29%) Hibernate
9 3 (4.29%) HTML
9 3 (4.29%) JPA
9 3 (4.29%) JSON
9 3 (4.29%) Spring
9 3 (4.29%) Spring Boot
10 2 (2.86%) AngularJS
10 2 (2.86%) Apache Camel
10 2 (2.86%) jQuery
10 2 (2.86%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 18 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 10 (14.29%) Blockchain
2 10 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 10 (14.29%) Web3
3 6 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.71%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (5.71%) IVR
4 4 (5.71%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.43%) PKI
6 1 (1.43%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.86%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (2.86%) CentOS
3 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.86%) Windows
4 1 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 49 (70.00%) CI/CD
3 45 (64.29%) DevOps
4 24 (34.29%) Containerisation
5 22 (31.43%) Microservices
6 19 (27.14%) Observability
7 18 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
7 18 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (25.71%) Test Automation
8 16 (22.86%) Platform Engineering
9 15 (21.43%) Analytics
9 15 (21.43%) DevSecOps
9 15 (21.43%) Event-Driven
10 14 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 14 (20.00%) Low Latency
10 14 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
11 13 (18.57%) AI
11 13 (18.57%) Continuous Delivery
11 13 (18.57%) High Availability
11 13 (18.57%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (52.86%) Python
2 13 (18.57%) Bash
3 11 (15.71%) Go
4 10 (14.29%) SQL
5 9 (12.86%) PowerShell
6 7 (10.00%) Java
6 7 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.86%) Groovy
7 2 (2.86%) PHP
7 2 (2.86%) Scala
7 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.43%) C#
8 1 (1.43%) Google Apps Script
8 1 (1.43%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.43%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (21.43%) Degree
2 13 (18.57%) AWS Certification
3 12 (17.14%) Security Cleared
4 10 (14.29%) SC Cleared
5 8 (11.43%) Master's Degree
6 4 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.29%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (1.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) GDPR
1 4 (5.71%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 36 (51.43%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 57 (81.43%) Terraform
2 32 (45.71%) Kubernetes
3 18 (25.71%) Prometheus
4 11 (15.71%) Grafana
5 8 (11.43%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (10.00%) Argo
7 6 (8.57%) Ansible
7 6 (8.57%) Packer
8 3 (4.29%) Kibana
9 2 (2.86%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) Oracle
2 10 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.71%) Avaya
3 4 (5.71%) Cisco
3 4 (5.71%) Genesys
3 4 (5.71%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.86%) Databricks
4 2 (2.86%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
4 2 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (1.43%) Apple
5 1 (1.43%) Google
5 1 (1.43%) New Relic
5 1 (1.43%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.43%) Solace
5 1 (1.43%) Veeam
5 1 (1.43%) VMware
5 1 (1.43%) Zerto