Amazon EC2 Contracts in London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 243 262 296
Rank change year-on-year +19 +34 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 148 244 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 0.94% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.19% 2.41% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 189 265
10th Percentile £333 £450 £438
25th Percentile £425 £513 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.80% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £793 £775 £700
England median daily rate £525 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -12.86% +4.78% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate - - £77.00

All Cloud Skills
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 London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,757 10,139 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.66% 38.97% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 7,439 12,131
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 80 78
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.89 £19.76
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.25 £23.49
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.47 £78.98
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +2.14%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Amazon EC2 in London

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +24 22 £545 -14.51% 9
South London +12 16 £412 -17.55%
West London +7 3 £600 -4.00% 1
East London - 2 £763 - 16
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (4.73%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (4.73%) Apache Spark
2 5 (3.38%) Apache
3 3 (2.03%) Confluence
3 3 (2.03%) nginx
4 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.68%) Drupal
4 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (4.05%) NEC Housing
2 3 (2.03%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.68%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.68%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.68%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 146 (98.65%) AWS
2 107 (72.30%) Amazon S3
3 78 (52.70%) Serverless
4 75 (50.68%) AWS Lambda
5 44 (29.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 39 (26.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 25 (16.89%) Amazon ECS
7 25 (16.89%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (15.54%) Route 53
9 16 (10.81%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (9.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 11 (7.43%) AWS Step Functions
12 10 (6.76%) AWS Fargate
12 10 (6.76%) GitHub
12 10 (6.76%) Snowflake
13 9 (6.08%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (5.41%) Azure
14 8 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (4.73%) Amazon SageMaker
16 6 (4.05%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.11%) DNS
2 8 (5.41%) Firewall
3 7 (4.73%) Network Security
4 6 (4.05%) DHCP
5 5 (3.38%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (2.70%) HTTP
6 4 (2.70%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.03%) LAN
7 3 (2.03%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (2.03%) VPN
7 3 (2.03%) Wireless
7 3 (2.03%) WLAN
8 2 (1.35%) Kerberos
8 2 (1.35%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (1.35%) SSL
9 1 (0.68%) MQTT
9 1 (0.68%) SMTP
9 1 (0.68%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (31.76%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (10.14%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (8.78%) Amazon Redshift
4 11 (7.43%) Amazon Athena
4 11 (7.43%) Relational Database
5 8 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (4.73%) DynamoDB
6 7 (4.73%) MongoDB
6 7 (4.73%) MySQL
7 6 (4.05%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (4.05%) SQL Server
8 5 (3.38%) RDBMS
9 4 (2.70%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
9 4 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (2.03%) Big Data
10 3 (2.03%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.35%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.35%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.35%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 34 (22.97%) Git
2 28 (18.92%) Jenkins
3 16 (10.81%) GitLab
4 9 (6.08%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.08%) JIRA
5 6 (4.05%) JUnit
6 5 (3.38%) Cucumber
6 5 (3.38%) JMeter
6 5 (3.38%) Maven
6 5 (3.38%) Mockito
6 5 (3.38%) Selenium
7 4 (2.70%) Sourcetree
8 3 (2.03%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.03%) NeoLoad
8 3 (2.03%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.35%) Gradle
9 2 (1.35%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.68%) Mocha
10 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 25 (16.89%) Finance
2 24 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 7 (4.73%) Public Sector
4 5 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.70%) Banking
6 2 (1.35%) Front Office
6 2 (1.35%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.68%) Law
7 1 (0.68%) Legal
7 1 (0.68%) Local Government
7 1 (0.68%) Marketing
7 1 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (32.43%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (27.03%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (25.68%) Developer
4 28 (18.92%) Senior
5 23 (15.54%) AWS DevOps
5 23 (15.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.14%) Architect
7 13 (8.78%) Data Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Java Developer
8 12 (8.11%) AWS Architect
8 12 (8.11%) Senior Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Lead
10 10 (6.76%) Python Developer
10 10 (6.76%) Software Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) AWS Developer
12 8 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) Senior Java Developer
13 7 (4.73%) Software Developer
14 6 (4.05%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.14%) Kafka
2 12 (8.11%) React
3 11 (7.43%) RESTful
4 10 (6.76%) Spring
5 8 (5.41%) .NET
5 8 (5.41%) Lambda Expressions
5 8 (5.41%) Node.js
5 8 (5.41%) OAuth
6 6 (4.05%) .NET Core
6 6 (4.05%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (4.05%) OAuth2
6 6 (4.05%) REST
6 6 (4.05%) Spring Boot
7 3 (2.03%) AWS CDK
7 3 (2.03%) Middleware
7 3 (2.03%) PySpark
7 3 (2.03%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (2.03%) SOAP
7 3 (2.03%) Web Services
8 2 (1.35%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.08%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (5.41%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.73%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.38%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.70%) Credit Derivative
5 4 (2.70%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.70%) Derivative
5 4 (2.70%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.70%) Market Risk
5 4 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.03%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.03%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.03%) PKI
6 3 (2.03%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.35%) Private Cloud
7 2 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.57%) Linux
2 11 (7.43%) Windows
3 7 (4.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (4.73%) Unix
3 7 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.03%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.35%) VMS
6 1 (0.68%) CentOS
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (43.92%) DevOps
2 62 (41.89%) CI/CD
3 42 (28.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (20.27%) Agile
5 23 (15.54%) Microservices
5 23 (15.54%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.19%) Containerisation
7 17 (11.49%) Data Pipeline
7 17 (11.49%) Migration
8 14 (9.46%) ETL
8 14 (9.46%) Software Engineering
8 14 (9.46%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (8.78%) Analytics
9 13 (8.78%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (8.11%) BDD
10 12 (8.11%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (8.11%) Data Protection
10 12 (8.11%) TDD
11 11 (7.43%) Computer Science
11 11 (7.43%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (58.78%) Python
2 42 (28.38%) Java
3 29 (19.59%) SQL
4 17 (11.49%) Bash
5 15 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 11 (7.43%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.05%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.05%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.03%) C
8 3 (2.03%) C++
8 3 (2.03%) Go
9 2 (1.35%) Perl
9 2 (1.35%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) C#
10 1 (0.68%) Groovy
10 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 41 (27.70%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.11%) Degree
4 11 (7.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.76%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.35%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 1 (0.68%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.68%) CCNA
8 1 (0.68%) CCNP
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.68%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.68%) MCSA
8 1 (0.68%) MCSE
8 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 4 (2.70%) QA
2 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.35%) SLA
3 1 (0.68%) GDPR
System Software
1 42 (28.38%) Docker
2 16 (10.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (40.54%) Terraform
2 53 (35.81%) Kubernetes
3 24 (16.22%) Ansible
4 15 (10.14%) Grafana
5 14 (9.46%) Prometheus
6 8 (5.41%) Progress Chef
7 6 (4.05%) Puppet
8 5 (3.38%) Consul
9 4 (2.70%) Kibana
9 4 (2.70%) Packer
9 4 (2.70%) WSUS
10 3 (2.03%) SCCM
11 2 (1.35%) AirWatch
11 2 (1.35%) Salt
11 2 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 17 (11.49%) Oracle
2 11 (7.43%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.08%) Databricks
3 9 (6.08%) Splunk
4 7 (4.73%) Red Hat
4 7 (4.73%) VMware
5 6 (4.05%) NEC
6 5 (3.38%) SAP
7 4 (2.70%) Confluent
8 3 (2.03%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.03%) Apple
8 3 (2.03%) MKS
8 3 (2.03%) Okta
9 2 (1.35%) Informatica
9 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.35%) Qualys
9 2 (1.35%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.68%) Aareon
10 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
10 1 (0.68%) StreamSets