Amazon EC2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 291 319 336
Rank change year-on-year +28 +17 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 104 132 180
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.57% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.98% 1.73% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 95 111
10th Percentile £410 £463 £425
25th Percentile £450 £504 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.42%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £693 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £66.50
25th Percentile - - £68.75
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £79.25
90th Percentile - - £80.30
UK median hourly rate - - £77.00
% change year-on-year - - +92.50%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,254 7,633 9,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.89% 33.18% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,726 5,635 7,234
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 222 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.31 £31.69
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.75
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK excluding London

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England +14 49 £510 -7.27% 14
North West +33 38 £550 -15.38% 8
Scotland +29 22 £487 -3.94% 2
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% 2
Midlands - 3 £425 - 11
Wales - 3 £645 -
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 9
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (9.62%) Apache
2 9 (8.65%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.85%) nginx
5 3 (2.88%) Confluence
6 2 (1.92%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.92%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 103 (99.04%) AWS
2 85 (81.73%) Amazon S3
3 54 (51.92%) Serverless
4 52 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (36.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 34 (32.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (31.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 24 (23.08%) Route 53
9 18 (17.31%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (17.31%) OpenShift
10 17 (16.35%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (13.46%) Snowflake
12 12 (11.54%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (9.62%) Amazon ECR
13 10 (9.62%) Amazon ELB
13 10 (9.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 9 (8.65%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
15 8 (7.69%) Azure
16 7 (6.73%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.65%) Network Security
2 8 (7.69%) Firewall
3 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.77%) VPN
4 5 (4.81%) AMQP
4 5 (4.81%) FTP
5 4 (3.85%) DNS
6 2 (1.92%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.92%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (1.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (40.38%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (12.50%) MySQL
2 13 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 12 (11.54%) InfluxDB
4 11 (10.58%) DynamoDB
5 8 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 7 (6.73%) Amazon Aurora
6 7 (6.73%) Data Lake
7 6 (5.77%) NoSQL
8 5 (4.81%) Big Data
8 5 (4.81%) Informix
9 3 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.96%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.96%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.96%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (29.81%) GitLab
2 30 (28.85%) Git
3 24 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 10 (9.62%) JIRA
5 8 (7.69%) webpack
6 6 (5.77%) SonarQube
7 5 (4.81%) Artifactory
8 2 (1.92%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.92%) JUnit
9 1 (0.96%) JMeter
9 1 (0.96%) Mockito
9 1 (0.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.96%) Terragrunt
General
1 22 (21.15%) Social Skills
2 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.77%) Finance
3 6 (5.77%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.81%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (4.81%) Retail
5 3 (2.88%) Banking
6 1 (0.96%) Electronics
6 1 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Marketing
6 1 (0.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (31.73%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (19.23%) AWS Engineer
3 17 (16.35%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (13.46%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 13 (12.50%) Lead
5 13 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 12 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (11.54%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (10.58%) Data Engineer
8 9 (8.65%) Developer
9 7 (6.73%) Java Developer
10 6 (5.77%) Architect
10 6 (5.77%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Senior
11 5 (4.81%) Snowflake Data Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) DBA
12 4 (3.85%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (14.42%) AWS CDK
2 12 (11.54%) Node.js
2 12 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (10.58%) React
4 9 (8.65%) Spring
5 8 (7.69%) Express.js
5 8 (7.69%) Redux
6 6 (5.77%) JSON
7 5 (4.81%) XML
8 4 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.85%) Kafka
8 4 (3.85%) LDAP
9 2 (1.92%) cloud-init
9 2 (1.92%) Django
9 2 (1.92%) Guice
9 2 (1.92%) HornetQ
9 2 (1.92%) REST
9 2 (1.92%) Spring Boot
9 2 (1.92%) VCL
10 1 (0.96%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.73%) Replication
2 6 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (5.77%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 4 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.92%) Clustering
6 2 (1.92%) PKI
7 1 (0.96%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 37 (35.58%) Linux
2 18 (17.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (9.62%) Windows
4 7 (6.73%) CentOS
4 7 (6.73%) Ubuntu
5 5 (4.81%) Unix
6 4 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 3 (2.88%) Debian
8 2 (1.92%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.96%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (55.77%) DevOps
2 56 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 34 (32.69%) Agile
4 33 (31.73%) Containerisation
5 26 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (23.08%) Scrum
7 19 (18.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (17.31%) Test Automation
9 16 (15.38%) Kanban
10 15 (14.42%) Migration
11 13 (12.50%) ETL
12 12 (11.54%) Configuration Management
13 10 (9.62%) Full Stack Development
13 10 (9.62%) Observability
13 10 (9.62%) Software Delivery
14 9 (8.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 9 (8.65%) End-to-End Testing
14 9 (8.65%) Front End Development
14 9 (8.65%) OO
14 9 (8.65%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 50 (48.08%) Python
2 31 (29.81%) SQL
3 25 (24.04%) Bash
4 23 (22.12%) Java
5 14 (13.46%) Go
6 12 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 8 (7.69%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.77%) C#
8 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
9 5 (4.81%) C
9 5 (4.81%) Groovy
9 5 (4.81%) Ruby
10 4 (3.85%) Perl
11 3 (2.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 29 (27.88%) Security Cleared
2 21 (20.19%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.54%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.69%) Degree
4 8 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 6 (5.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (5.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.96%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.46%) QA
2 3 (2.88%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.92%) NCSC
4 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 30 (28.85%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.88%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.92%) Varnish
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (50.96%) Kubernetes
2 45 (43.27%) Terraform
3 38 (36.54%) Ansible
4 28 (26.92%) Grafana
5 18 (17.31%) Prometheus
6 9 (8.65%) Docker Swarm
7 7 (6.73%) Kibana
7 7 (6.73%) Puppet
8 6 (5.77%) HP Fortify
8 6 (5.77%) Packer
8 6 (5.77%) Progress Chef
9 4 (3.85%) Graylog
9 4 (3.85%) HAProxy
9 4 (3.85%) Nagios
9 4 (3.85%) Rancher
10 2 (1.92%) Consul
10 2 (1.92%) linkerd
10 2 (1.92%) SCCM
10 2 (1.92%) WSUS
10 2 (1.92%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (14.42%) Splunk
2 9 (8.65%) Informatica
3 8 (7.69%) Oracle
4 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
5 6 (5.77%) Microsoft
5 6 (5.77%) VMware
6 5 (4.81%) Talend
7 4 (3.85%) Commvault
8 3 (2.88%) Cisco
8 3 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.92%) Apple
9 2 (1.92%) Google
9 2 (1.92%) PagerDuty
9 2 (1.92%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.96%) Confluent
10 1 (0.96%) Dell
10 1 (0.96%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.96%) IBM
10 1 (0.96%) SAP
10 1 (0.96%) StreamSets