Amazon EC2 Contracts in the South East

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 187 195 219
Rank change year-on-year +8 +24 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 13 20 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.23% 0.35% 0.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.97% 1.21% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 20
10th Percentile £455 £453 £434
25th Percentile £522 £488 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £580 £490
Median % change year-on-year +2.59% +18.37% -12.50%
75th Percentile £602 £675 £575
90th Percentile £607 - £650
England median daily rate £525 £609 £575
% change year-on-year -13.76% +5.87% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
South East

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,338 1,652 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.26% 29.17% 32.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 912 1,195 1,805
10th Percentile £268 £250 £213
25th Percentile £408 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +4.44%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £614
90th Percentile £675 £713 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 47 54
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.83 £13.56
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +57.56% -2.61%
75th Percentile £59.95 £70.00 £23.56
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.30 £54.43
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in the South East over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in the South East

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 12 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
Thames Valley +6 7 £600 +20.00% 2
Berkshire -11 6 £600 +25.65% 1
Surrey +12 2 £343 -47.31% 1
Hampshire -9 2 £595 +19.00% 5
Buckinghamshire +25 1 - - 1
West Sussex +8 1 - - 1
East Sussex - 1 - -
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
1 2 (15.38%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (69.23%) Amazon S3
3 5 (38.46%) Serverless
4 4 (30.77%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (23.08%) Azure
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (15.38%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) CloudFront
6 2 (15.38%) Route 53
7 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (7.69%) Cloudinary
7 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security
3 2 (15.38%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (15.38%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (15.38%) Wireless
4 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (15.38%) RDBMS
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (7.69%) Metadata
3 1 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.69%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) JMeter
3 1 (7.69%) JUnit
3 1 (7.69%) Mockito
General
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) DBA
3 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) LDAP
2 2 (15.38%) Node.js
2 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Camel
3 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.69%) Flask
3 1 (7.69%) Hibernate
3 1 (7.69%) HTML
3 1 (7.69%) jQuery
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) DevOps
1 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (23.08%) Agile
2 3 (23.08%) Kanban
3 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (15.38%) Patch Management
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (7.69%) Architectural Design
4 1 (7.69%) Coaching
4 1 (7.69%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.69%) Microservices
4 1 (7.69%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (7.69%) SDLC
4 1 (7.69%) Software Delivery
4 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Certification
1 4 (30.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) SCCM
3 2 (15.38%) WSUS
4 1 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (7.69%) Graylog
4 1 (7.69%) Kibana
4 1 (7.69%) Nagios
4 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) VMware
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Apple
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat