Amazon EC2 Contracts

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 344 337
Rank change year-on-year +35 -7 +44
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 287 389 700
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.69% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.05% 1.90% 2.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 290 467
10th Percentile £382 £463 £438
25th Percentile £433 £509 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £651
90th Percentile £694 £739 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £64.00
25th Percentile - £47.50 £68.75
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% -
75th Percentile - £52.50 £83.00
90th Percentile - - £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the UK

Amazon EC2
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England +7 228 £525 -13.76% 115
London +26 146 £523 -16.40% 72
UK excluding London +26 105 £525 -4.55% 47
Work from Home +35 96 £513 -14.58% 59
North of England +16 47 £510 -7.27% 10
North West +35 36 £510 -18.40% 4
Scotland +33 24 £475 -5.00% 9
South East -1 14 £593 +4.87% 9
South West +9 11 £575 -17.86% 6
Yorkshire -3 11 £463 -15.91% 6
East of England +4 3 £625 +8.70% 1
Midlands - 3 £425 - 10
Wales - 3 £645 -
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 8

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.57%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.53%) Apache
3 12 (4.18%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.44%) Confluence
5 6 (2.09%) nginx
6 2 (0.70%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.70%) Traefik
7 1 (0.35%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.44%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.35%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.35%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 282 (98.26%) AWS
2 217 (75.61%) Amazon S3
3 143 (49.83%) Serverless
4 137 (47.74%) AWS Lambda
5 89 (31.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 86 (29.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 59 (20.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 55 (19.16%) Amazon EKS
9 53 (18.47%) Route 53
10 42 (14.63%) Amazon ECS
10 42 (14.63%) Amazon SQS
11 24 (8.36%) Snowflake
12 22 (7.67%) GitHub
13 21 (7.32%) OpenShift
14 18 (6.27%) AWS Fargate
15 17 (5.92%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (5.92%) Amazon EMR
16 16 (5.57%) Amazon ELB
16 16 (5.57%) Azure
17 15 (5.23%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.67%) Network Security
2 15 (5.23%) DNS
2 15 (5.23%) Firewall
3 10 (3.48%) TCP/IP
4 8 (2.79%) VPN
5 6 (2.09%) AMQP
5 6 (2.09%) DHCP
5 6 (2.09%) Remote Desktop
6 5 (1.74%) FTP
7 4 (1.39%) Kerberos
7 4 (1.39%) OpenLDAP
7 4 (1.39%) SSL
7 4 (1.39%) Wireless
8 3 (1.05%) HTTP
8 3 (1.05%) LAN
8 3 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.05%) WLAN
9 1 (0.35%) Internet
9 1 (0.35%) MQTT
9 1 (0.35%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (36.24%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (9.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 25 (8.71%) Relational Database
4 24 (8.36%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (7.67%) DynamoDB
6 19 (6.62%) MongoDB
7 18 (6.27%) MySQL
8 17 (5.92%) Amazon Athena
8 17 (5.92%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (5.57%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (4.53%) InfluxDB
11 12 (4.18%) NoSQL
12 10 (3.48%) Data Lake
13 7 (2.44%) Big Data
13 7 (2.44%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.44%) SQL Server
14 6 (2.09%) Amazon Aurora
14 6 (2.09%) Amazon QuickSight
15 5 (1.74%) Informix
15 5 (1.74%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 70 (24.39%) Git
2 59 (20.56%) Jenkins
3 54 (18.82%) GitLab
4 20 (6.97%) JIRA
5 9 (3.14%) JUnit
5 9 (3.14%) webpack
6 8 (2.79%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.44%) Selenium
8 6 (2.09%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.09%) JMeter
9 5 (1.74%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.74%) Mockito
10 4 (1.39%) Maven
10 4 (1.39%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.39%) Sourcetree
11 3 (1.05%) Gradle
11 3 (1.05%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.05%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.05%) TeamCity
General
1 45 (15.68%) Social Skills
2 33 (11.50%) Finance
3 22 (7.67%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.14%) Banking
6 5 (1.74%) Manufacturing
6 5 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
6 5 (1.74%) Retail
7 2 (0.70%) Front Office
7 2 (0.70%) Marketing
8 1 (0.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.35%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.35%) Law
8 1 (0.35%) Legal
8 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 79 (27.53%) DevOps Engineer
2 73 (25.44%) AWS Engineer
3 54 (18.82%) Developer
4 41 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
5 37 (12.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 35 (12.20%) Senior
7 26 (9.06%) Data Engineer
8 25 (8.71%) Lead
9 24 (8.36%) Architect
10 21 (7.32%) Java Developer
11 20 (6.97%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (6.62%) Cloud Engineer
13 18 (6.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 15 (5.23%) AWS Architect
14 15 (5.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 14 (4.88%) Software Engineer
16 13 (4.53%) Senior Developer
17 12 (4.18%) Python Developer
18 10 (3.48%) AWS Developer
18 10 (3.48%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.36%) React
2 22 (7.67%) Kafka
2 22 (7.67%) Node.js
3 21 (7.32%) Spring
4 19 (6.62%) AWS CDK
5 15 (5.23%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (4.53%) RESTful
7 11 (3.83%) OAuth
8 10 (3.48%) .NET
8 10 (3.48%) Express.js
8 10 (3.48%) Lambda Expressions
9 9 (3.14%) Redux
9 9 (3.14%) REST
9 9 (3.14%) Spring Boot
10 7 (2.44%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.44%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.44%) JSON
10 7 (2.44%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.09%) LDAP
12 5 (1.74%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
1 14 (4.88%) Public Cloud
2 11 (3.83%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (3.48%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.48%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (3.14%) Replication
5 8 (2.79%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.09%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.09%) PKI
8 5 (1.74%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.74%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.39%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (1.39%) Credit Risk
9 4 (1.39%) Derivative
9 4 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.39%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.39%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.39%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.05%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.00%) Linux
2 26 (9.06%) Windows
3 25 (8.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (4.88%) Unix
4 14 (4.88%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.48%) CentOS
6 7 (2.44%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.39%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.70%) Debian
8 2 (0.70%) VMS
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (47.74%) DevOps
2 129 (44.95%) CI/CD
3 75 (26.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (24.39%) Agile
5 62 (21.60%) Containerisation
6 44 (15.33%) Migration
7 36 (12.54%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (11.50%) Scrum
9 31 (10.80%) Test Automation
10 30 (10.45%) ETL
11 29 (10.10%) Microservices
12 26 (9.06%) Software Engineering
13 22 (7.67%) Data Pipeline
13 22 (7.67%) Kanban
14 21 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 20 (6.97%) Configuration Management
15 20 (6.97%) Performance Tuning
16 19 (6.62%) Computer Science
17 18 (6.27%) Platform Engineering
17 18 (6.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 153 (53.31%) Python
2 75 (26.13%) Java
3 71 (24.74%) SQL
4 42 (14.63%) Bash
5 28 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 20 (6.97%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.57%) Go
8 15 (5.23%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.48%) C
10 9 (3.14%) Groovy
11 8 (2.79%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.44%) C#
13 6 (2.09%) Perl
13 6 (2.09%) Ruby
14 3 (1.05%) C++
15 2 (0.70%) PHP
16 1 (0.35%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.35%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.35%) R
16 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 79 (27.53%) Security Cleared
2 64 (22.30%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.76%) AWS Certification
4 21 (7.32%) Degree
5 16 (5.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.83%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.35%) CCNA
10 1 (0.35%) CCNP
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.35%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.35%) MCSA
10 1 (0.35%) MCSE
10 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.35%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.32%) QA
2 6 (2.09%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.39%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.05%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.05%) NCSC
5 2 (0.70%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.70%) SLA
6 1 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.35%) GDPR
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS
6 1 (0.35%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 85 (29.62%) Docker
2 21 (7.32%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.09%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.35%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 118 (41.11%) Kubernetes
2 115 (40.07%) Terraform
3 67 (23.34%) Ansible
4 54 (18.82%) Grafana
5 39 (13.59%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.18%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.48%) Docker Swarm
7 10 (3.48%) Kibana
7 10 (3.48%) Packer
8 9 (3.14%) Puppet
9 6 (2.09%) HP Fortify
10 5 (1.74%) SCCM
11 4 (1.39%) Graylog
11 4 (1.39%) Nagios
11 4 (1.39%) Rancher
11 4 (1.39%) WSUS
12 3 (1.05%) HAProxy
13 2 (0.70%) AirWatch
13 2 (0.70%) Graphite
13 2 (0.70%) Salt
Vendors
1 31 (10.80%) Oracle
2 23 (8.01%) Splunk
3 17 (5.92%) Microsoft
4 13 (4.53%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.18%) Databricks
5 12 (4.18%) VMware
6 11 (3.83%) Informatica
7 7 (2.44%) Confluent
7 7 (2.44%) NEC
7 7 (2.44%) SAP
8 6 (2.09%) Talend
8 6 (2.09%) UiPath
9 5 (1.74%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.39%) Apple
10 4 (1.39%) Commvault
10 4 (1.39%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.05%) AppDynamics
11 3 (1.05%) Okta
11 3 (1.05%) Solace
12 2 (0.70%) StreamSets