Amazon EC2 Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 295 315 319
Rank change year-on-year +20 +4 +26
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 107 115 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.51% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.96% 1.55% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 80 117
10th Percentile £409 £475 £432
25th Percentile £450 £511 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.05% +4.76% +5.42%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £687 £688 £674
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £67.25
25th Percentile - - £70.63
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £78.38
90th Percentile - - £79.95
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -33.33% -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,466 7,412 9,987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 32.66% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,807 5,454 7,397
10th Percentile £220 £238 £210
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £674 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 216 273
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.57 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.15 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.19 £29.38
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.63 £64.60
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 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
North of England +9 45 £510 -7.27% 12
North West +27 35 £510 -14.11% 6
Scotland +45 27 £463 -8.78% 6
South East +8 13 £595 +2.59% 11
South West +6 11 £575 -23.97% 8
Yorkshire -6 10 £463 -15.91% 6
Midlands - 5 £425 - 6
East of England +3 3 £625 +6.38%
Wales - 3 £645 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 5
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
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 9 (8.41%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.48%) Apache
3 5 (4.67%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.80%) Confluence
5 2 (1.87%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.93%) nginx
6 1 (0.93%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 106 (99.07%) AWS
2 90 (84.11%) Amazon S3
3 56 (52.34%) Serverless
4 53 (49.53%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (34.58%) AWS CloudFormation
6 32 (29.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 32 (29.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 23 (21.50%) OpenShift
8 20 (18.69%) Route 53
9 17 (15.89%) Amazon SQS
10 16 (14.95%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (13.08%) Snowflake
12 13 (12.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 11 (10.28%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (9.35%) Amazon ECR
14 10 (9.35%) Amazon ELB
15 9 (8.41%) Amazon EMR
16 8 (7.48%) Azure
17 7 (6.54%) AWS CodePipeline
18 5 (4.67%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.35%) Network Security
2 8 (7.48%) Firewall
3 6 (5.61%) AMQP
3 6 (5.61%) VPN
4 5 (4.67%) FTP
4 5 (4.67%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.87%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.87%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.87%) Wireless
6 1 (0.93%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (39.25%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (14.02%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (13.08%) InfluxDB
4 14 (13.08%) MongoDB
4 14 (13.08%) Relational Database
5 11 (10.28%) DynamoDB
5 11 (10.28%) MySQL
6 8 (7.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 8 (7.48%) Informix
7 7 (6.54%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (5.61%) Data Lake
8 6 (5.61%) NoSQL
9 5 (4.67%) Big Data
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.87%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.93%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (27.10%) GitLab
2 27 (25.23%) Git
3 25 (23.36%) Jenkins
4 10 (9.35%) JIRA
5 8 (7.48%) webpack
6 6 (5.61%) SonarQube
7 5 (4.67%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.80%) Gradle
8 3 (2.80%) JUnit
9 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.87%) Maven
10 1 (0.93%) JMeter
10 1 (0.93%) Mockito
General
1 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
2 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.61%) Finance
4 5 (4.67%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 5 (4.67%) Retail
5 4 (3.74%) Banking
6 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (28.97%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (16.82%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (14.02%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (13.08%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Lead
6 11 (10.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) Developer
7 10 (9.35%) Data Engineer
7 10 (9.35%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (8.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (8.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Database Engineer
9 8 (7.48%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.54%) Architect
10 7 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (6.54%) Senior
10 7 (6.54%) Site Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
11 5 (4.67%) Snowflake Engineer
12 4 (3.74%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.82%) AWS CDK
2 12 (11.21%) Node.js
3 11 (10.28%) RabbitMQ
3 11 (10.28%) React
3 11 (10.28%) Spring
4 8 (7.48%) Express.js
4 8 (7.48%) Redux
5 5 (4.67%) JSON
5 5 (4.67%) Kafka
5 5 (4.67%) XML
6 4 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (3.74%) LDAP
7 3 (2.80%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.87%) Guice
9 1 (0.93%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.93%) Apache Camel
9 1 (0.93%) Flask
9 1 (0.93%) Java EE
9 1 (0.93%) jQuery
9 1 (0.93%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Replication
2 7 (6.54%) Linux Command Line
3 6 (5.61%) Public Cloud
4 5 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.74%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.74%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.87%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.93%) Clustering
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.93%) PKI
8 1 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (31.78%) Linux
2 14 (13.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (9.35%) Windows
4 7 (6.54%) Ubuntu
5 6 (5.61%) CentOS
6 5 (4.67%) Unix
7 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (51.40%) CI/CD
2 54 (50.47%) DevOps
3 35 (32.71%) Agile
4 34 (31.78%) Containerisation
5 26 (24.30%) Scrum
6 24 (22.43%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (18.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (16.82%) Kanban
8 18 (16.82%) Migration
8 18 (16.82%) Test Automation
9 13 (12.15%) ETL
10 11 (10.28%) Configuration Management
10 11 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 10 (9.35%) Full Stack Development
11 10 (9.35%) Observability
11 10 (9.35%) Software Delivery
12 9 (8.41%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 9 (8.41%) End-to-End Testing
12 9 (8.41%) Front End Development
12 9 (8.41%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 50 (46.73%) Python
2 36 (33.64%) SQL
3 27 (25.23%) Java
4 22 (20.56%) Bash
5 15 (14.02%) TypeScript
6 14 (13.08%) Go
7 8 (7.48%) Groovy
8 7 (6.54%) Shell Script
9 6 (5.61%) C#
10 4 (3.74%) C
10 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.74%) Perl
10 4 (3.74%) Ruby
11 3 (2.80%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (25.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.82%) SC Cleared
3 12 (11.21%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.41%) DV Cleared
5 8 (7.48%) Degree
6 6 (5.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.02%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) ISO 22301
2 3 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.93%) NCSC
System Software
1 32 (29.91%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (50.47%) Kubernetes
2 42 (39.25%) Ansible
2 42 (39.25%) Terraform
3 33 (30.84%) Grafana
4 18 (16.82%) Prometheus
5 9 (8.41%) Docker Swarm
6 7 (6.54%) Progress Chef
7 6 (5.61%) HP Fortify
7 6 (5.61%) Kibana
7 6 (5.61%) Packer
8 5 (4.67%) Puppet
9 4 (3.74%) Graylog
9 4 (3.74%) Nagios
9 4 (3.74%) Rancher
10 2 (1.87%) SCCM
10 2 (1.87%) WSUS
11 1 (0.93%) Consul
11 1 (0.93%) Graphite
11 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.93%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (12.15%) Splunk
2 10 (9.35%) Oracle
3 9 (8.41%) Informatica
4 6 (5.61%) Microsoft
5 5 (4.67%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.67%) Talend
5 5 (4.67%) VMware
6 4 (3.74%) Commvault
7 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.87%) Apple
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.93%) Cisco
9 1 (0.93%) Confluent
9 1 (0.93%) Dell
9 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.93%) IBM
9 1 (0.93%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.93%) StreamSets