Amazon EC2 Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 317 327 339
Rank change year-on-year +10 +12 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 232 361 559
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.75% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 2.05% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 277 385
10th Percentile £361 £452 £438
25th Percentile £450 £513 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £607 £675 £650
90th Percentile £703 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £68.00
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £79.00
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £77.00
% change year-on-year - - +92.50%

All Cloud Skills
England

Amazon EC2 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,649 17,595 26,956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.02% 36.52% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,405 12,904 19,935
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 294 337
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.95
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.40 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +50.70% +0.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £67.13 £52.50
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in England.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in England

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London +22 147 £520 -16.80% 49
North of England +14 49 £510 -7.27% 14
North West +33 38 £550 -15.38% 8
South East -5 15 £543 -1.27% 8
Yorkshire -12 11 £463 -15.91% 6
South West +12 9 £550 -21.43% 5
East of England +10 3 £625 +8.70% 1
Midlands - 3 £425 - 11
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 9
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (6.90%) Apache
2 15 (6.47%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (5.17%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.45%) nginx
5 5 (2.16%) Confluence
6 2 (0.86%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.86%) Traefik
7 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.43%) Drupal
7 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (2.59%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.29%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.43%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.43%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.43%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 229 (98.71%) AWS
2 168 (72.41%) Amazon S3
3 122 (52.59%) Serverless
4 118 (50.86%) AWS Lambda
5 85 (36.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 65 (28.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (21.12%) Route 53
8 39 (16.81%) Amazon EKS
9 33 (14.22%) Amazon ECS
9 33 (14.22%) AWS CloudFormation
10 32 (13.79%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (9.91%) Snowflake
12 17 (7.33%) Amazon EMR
13 16 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
13 16 (6.90%) Amazon ELB
13 16 (6.90%) GitHub
14 13 (5.60%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (5.17%) AWS CodePipeline
15 12 (5.17%) CloudFront
16 11 (4.74%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.90%) DNS
2 15 (6.47%) Network Security
3 13 (5.60%) Firewall
4 8 (3.45%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (3.02%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.59%) DHCP
6 6 (2.59%) VPN
7 5 (2.16%) AMQP
7 5 (2.16%) FTP
7 5 (2.16%) Wireless
8 4 (1.72%) HTTP
8 4 (1.72%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.29%) LAN
9 3 (1.29%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.29%) WLAN
10 1 (0.43%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.43%) MQTT
10 1 (0.43%) SMTP
10 1 (0.43%) SSH
10 1 (0.43%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (36.21%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (9.48%) Amazon Redshift
3 21 (9.05%) Relational Database
4 20 (8.62%) DynamoDB
5 18 (7.76%) MySQL
6 14 (6.03%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (6.03%) Elasticsearch
7 12 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
8 11 (4.74%) Data Lake
9 10 (4.31%) NoSQL
9 10 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (3.88%) Big Data
11 8 (3.45%) MongoDB
12 7 (3.02%) RDBMS
12 7 (3.02%) SQL Server
13 6 (2.59%) InfluxDB
14 4 (1.72%) Oracle Database
14 4 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
15 3 (1.29%) Parquet
16 2 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 61 (26.29%) Git
2 47 (20.26%) Jenkins
3 42 (18.10%) GitLab
4 17 (7.33%) JIRA
5 11 (4.74%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.88%) webpack
7 8 (3.45%) SonarQube
8 6 (2.59%) JUnit
9 5 (2.16%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.16%) JMeter
9 5 (2.16%) Maven
9 5 (2.16%) Mockito
9 5 (2.16%) Selenium
10 4 (1.72%) Sourcetree
11 3 (1.29%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.29%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.29%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.86%) Gradle
12 2 (0.86%) Snyk
13 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
General
1 37 (15.95%) Social Skills
2 29 (12.50%) Finance
3 13 (5.60%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.02%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.02%) Manufacturing
5 6 (2.59%) Retail
6 5 (2.16%) Banking
6 5 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (1.29%) Marketing
8 2 (0.86%) Electronics
8 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
8 2 (0.86%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.43%) Front Office
9 1 (0.43%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.43%) Law
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 69 (29.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 66 (28.45%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (16.38%) Developer
4 36 (15.52%) AWS DevOps
5 32 (13.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 30 (12.93%) Senior
7 24 (10.34%) Lead
8 22 (9.48%) Architect
9 20 (8.62%) Cloud Engineer
9 20 (8.62%) Data Engineer
10 17 (7.33%) Platform Engineer
11 15 (6.47%) AWS Architect
11 15 (6.47%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 14 (6.03%) Java Developer
12 14 (6.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (5.17%) Senior Developer
14 11 (4.74%) Software Engineer
15 10 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 9 (3.88%) AWS Developer
16 9 (3.88%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.62%) React
2 19 (8.19%) Node.js
3 13 (5.60%) Kafka
4 12 (5.17%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (5.17%) Spring
5 11 (4.74%) RESTful
6 9 (3.88%) .NET
6 9 (3.88%) Express.js
6 9 (3.88%) Lambda Expressions
6 9 (3.88%) Redux
7 8 (3.45%) OAuth
8 7 (3.02%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (3.02%) JSON
8 7 (3.02%) REST
9 6 (2.59%) .NET Core
9 6 (2.59%) LDAP
9 6 (2.59%) OAuth2
9 6 (2.59%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.16%) AWS CDK
10 5 (2.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (4.31%) Public Cloud
3 9 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.88%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (3.02%) Data Structures
4 7 (3.02%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.59%) PKI
6 5 (2.16%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.16%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.72%) Credit Derivative
7 4 (1.72%) Credit Risk
7 4 (1.72%) Derivative
7 4 (1.72%) Fixed Income
7 4 (1.72%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.72%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.29%) Clustering
8 3 (1.29%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.86%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 50 (21.55%) Linux
2 22 (9.48%) Windows
3 15 (6.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (5.17%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.45%) CentOS
5 8 (3.45%) Unix
6 6 (2.59%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.29%) Debian
8 2 (0.86%) VMS
9 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (49.57%) DevOps
2 109 (46.98%) CI/CD
3 57 (24.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (21.55%) Containerisation
5 46 (19.83%) Agile
6 33 (14.22%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (10.78%) ETL
7 25 (10.78%) Microservices
8 22 (9.48%) Configuration Management
8 22 (9.48%) Data Pipeline
8 22 (9.48%) Migration
8 22 (9.48%) Software Engineering
8 22 (9.48%) Test Automation
9 20 (8.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 19 (8.19%) Performance Tuning
11 18 (7.76%) Scrum
12 17 (7.33%) Computer Science
12 17 (7.33%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (7.33%) Technical Leadership
13 16 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 129 (55.60%) Python
2 55 (23.71%) Java
3 52 (22.41%) SQL
4 37 (15.95%) Bash
5 18 (7.76%) Go
5 18 (7.76%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.03%) JavaScript
7 12 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 9 (3.88%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.02%) C
9 7 (3.02%) C#
10 6 (2.59%) Ruby
11 4 (1.72%) Perl
12 3 (1.29%) C++
13 2 (0.86%) Scala
14 1 (0.43%) Groovy
14 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 75 (32.33%) Security Cleared
2 64 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.48%) AWS Certification
4 18 (7.76%) Degree
5 14 (6.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.31%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.43%) CCNA
10 1 (0.43%) CCNP
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.43%) MCSA
10 1 (0.43%) MCSE
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.43%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.47%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.29%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.86%) NCSC
4 2 (0.86%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) IFRS
5 1 (0.43%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 73 (31.47%) Docker
2 20 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.86%) Varnish
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 102 (43.97%) Kubernetes
2 100 (43.10%) Terraform
3 47 (20.26%) Ansible
4 28 (12.07%) Prometheus
5 26 (11.21%) Grafana
6 14 (6.03%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.17%) Puppet
8 9 (3.88%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (3.88%) Packer
9 7 (3.02%) Consul
10 6 (2.59%) HP Fortify
10 6 (2.59%) SCCM
10 6 (2.59%) WSUS
11 4 (1.72%) HAProxy
11 4 (1.72%) Kibana
11 4 (1.72%) Rancher
12 3 (1.29%) AirWatch
12 3 (1.29%) Podman
13 2 (0.86%) Graphite
13 2 (0.86%) Salt
Vendors
1 19 (8.19%) Oracle
1 19 (8.19%) Splunk
2 14 (6.03%) Microsoft
2 14 (6.03%) VMware
3 10 (4.31%) Informatica
3 10 (4.31%) Red Hat
4 9 (3.88%) Databricks
5 7 (3.02%) SAP
6 6 (2.59%) Apple
6 6 (2.59%) NEC
6 6 (2.59%) Talend
7 4 (1.72%) Cisco
7 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 3 (1.29%) AppDynamics
8 3 (1.29%) Confluent
8 3 (1.29%) MKS
8 3 (1.29%) Okta
8 3 (1.29%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.86%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.86%) Qualys