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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 352 327
Rank change year-on-year +29 -25 +43
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 292 385 709
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.67% 0.69% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 1.89% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 286 470
10th Percentile £379 £463 £438
25th Percentile £425 £513 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £606 £675 £653
90th Percentile £700 £744 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.05% +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 14,077 20,332 33,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.38% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,953 14,710 24,762
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 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 351 332 387
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.98 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £39.55 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.64% +79.77% +0.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £68.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £28.16 £19.09
% change year-on-year -32.53% +47.51% -4.55%

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 7 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 15 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 7 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 +18 232 £525 -14.81% 94
London +16 150 £525 -16.00% 52
UK excluding London +43 106 £511 -7.05% 48
Work from Home +56 100 £513 -14.58% 57
North of England +11 45 £510 -7.27% 13
North West +31 35 £510 -14.11% 7
Scotland +36 26 £463 -8.78% 6
South East +3 13 £595 +2.59% 10
South West +18 11 £575 -23.97% 7
Yorkshire -5 10 £463 -15.91% 6
Midlands - 5 £425 - 9
East of England +7 3 £625 +6.38%
Wales - 3 £645 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 5
East Midlands - 2 - - 4

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 21 (7.19%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (5.48%) Apache
3 12 (4.11%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.40%) Confluence
5 4 (1.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.68%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.34%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.34%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.34%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.40%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.34%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 287 (98.29%) AWS
2 218 (74.66%) Amazon S3
3 146 (50.00%) Serverless
4 139 (47.60%) AWS Lambda
5 90 (30.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 81 (27.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 60 (20.55%) Amazon EKS
7 60 (20.55%) AWS CloudFormation
8 51 (17.47%) Route 53
9 45 (15.41%) Amazon ECS
10 40 (13.70%) Amazon SQS
11 28 (9.59%) Snowflake
12 25 (8.56%) OpenShift
13 21 (7.19%) GitHub
14 18 (6.16%) AWS Fargate
15 17 (5.82%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (5.82%) Amazon EMR
16 16 (5.48%) Amazon ELB
16 16 (5.48%) Azure
17 15 (5.14%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.53%) Network Security
2 16 (5.48%) Firewall
3 13 (4.45%) DNS
4 9 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 9 (3.08%) VPN
5 7 (2.40%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (2.05%) AMQP
6 6 (2.05%) DHCP
7 5 (1.71%) FTP
7 5 (1.71%) Kerberos
7 5 (1.71%) SSL
7 5 (1.71%) Wireless
8 4 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.03%) HTTP
9 3 (1.03%) LAN
9 3 (1.03%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.03%) WLAN
10 1 (0.34%) Internet
10 1 (0.34%) MQTT
10 1 (0.34%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (35.96%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (9.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 27 (9.25%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (8.56%) Relational Database
4 22 (7.53%) DynamoDB
4 22 (7.53%) MongoDB
5 21 (7.19%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.51%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (5.82%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (5.82%) MySQL
8 15 (5.14%) InfluxDB
9 14 (4.79%) Data Lake
10 12 (4.11%) NoSQL
11 9 (3.08%) Informix
12 8 (2.74%) Amazon Aurora
13 7 (2.40%) Big Data
13 7 (2.40%) RDBMS
13 7 (2.40%) SQL Server
14 6 (2.05%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (1.37%) Apache Ignite
Development Applications
1 70 (23.97%) Git
2 61 (20.89%) Jenkins
3 51 (17.47%) GitLab
4 21 (7.19%) JIRA
5 9 (3.08%) webpack
6 8 (2.74%) JUnit
6 8 (2.74%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.40%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.05%) Artifactory
9 5 (1.71%) JMeter
9 5 (1.71%) Maven
9 5 (1.71%) Mockito
9 5 (1.71%) Selenium
10 4 (1.37%) Cucumber
10 4 (1.37%) Gradle
10 4 (1.37%) Sourcetree
11 3 (1.03%) LoadRunner
11 3 (1.03%) NeoLoad
11 3 (1.03%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 46 (15.75%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.01%) Finance
3 23 (7.88%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (4.45%) Banking
6 7 (2.40%) Front Office
7 5 (1.71%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (1.71%) Retail
8 2 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.34%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.34%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Law
9 1 (0.34%) Legal
9 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 78 (26.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (25.68%) AWS Engineer
3 56 (19.18%) Developer
4 40 (13.70%) AWS DevOps
5 38 (13.01%) Senior
6 36 (12.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 27 (9.25%) Lead
8 26 (8.90%) Data Engineer
9 25 (8.56%) Architect
10 21 (7.19%) Java Developer
11 18 (6.16%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (5.82%) Cloud Engineer
13 16 (5.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 16 (5.48%) Software Engineer
14 15 (5.14%) AWS Architect
14 15 (5.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 14 (4.79%) Python Developer
15 14 (4.79%) Senior Developer
16 13 (4.45%) AWS Developer
17 12 (4.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.22%) React
2 23 (7.88%) Kafka
3 22 (7.53%) AWS CDK
4 21 (7.19%) Node.js
5 20 (6.85%) Spring
6 14 (4.79%) RabbitMQ
7 13 (4.45%) RESTful
8 10 (3.42%) .NET
8 10 (3.42%) Express.js
8 10 (3.42%) Lambda Expressions
8 10 (3.42%) OAuth
9 9 (3.08%) Redux
10 8 (2.74%) Spring Boot
11 7 (2.40%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.40%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.40%) JSON
11 7 (2.40%) OAuth2
11 7 (2.40%) PySpark
11 7 (2.40%) REST
12 6 (2.05%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.79%) Public Cloud
2 13 (4.45%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (4.11%) Replication
4 11 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 8 (2.74%) Derivative
6 8 (2.74%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.40%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.05%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.71%) PKI
10 4 (1.37%) Credit Derivative
10 4 (1.37%) Credit Risk
10 4 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.37%) Equities
10 4 (1.37%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.37%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 66 (22.60%) Linux
2 27 (9.25%) Windows
3 25 (8.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 15 (5.14%) Unix
4 15 (5.14%) Windows Server
5 9 (3.08%) CentOS
6 7 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.71%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
8 2 (0.68%) VMS
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (47.26%) DevOps
2 128 (43.84%) CI/CD
3 75 (25.68%) Agile
3 75 (25.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (21.58%) Containerisation
5 49 (16.78%) Migration
6 36 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (12.33%) Scrum
7 31 (10.62%) ETL
7 31 (10.62%) Software Engineering
7 31 (10.62%) Test Automation
8 26 (8.90%) Microservices
9 25 (8.56%) Kanban
10 22 (7.53%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (7.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 20 (6.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 20 (6.85%) Performance Tuning
13 19 (6.51%) Computer Science
13 19 (6.51%) Configuration Management
14 17 (5.82%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 156 (53.42%) Python
2 79 (27.05%) Java
2 79 (27.05%) SQL
3 40 (13.70%) Bash
4 35 (11.99%) TypeScript
5 22 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.14%) Go
6 15 (5.14%) Shell Script
7 12 (4.11%) Groovy
8 9 (3.08%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.74%) C
10 7 (2.40%) C#
11 6 (2.05%) Perl
12 5 (1.71%) Ruby
13 3 (1.03%) C++
14 2 (0.68%) PHP
15 1 (0.34%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.34%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.34%) R
15 1 (0.34%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 60 (20.55%) SC Cleared
3 28 (9.59%) AWS Certification
4 21 (7.19%) Degree
5 16 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Developer
9 1 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CCNA
9 1 (0.34%) CCNP
9 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.34%) MCSA
9 1 (0.34%) MCSE
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.34%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.53%) QA
2 7 (2.40%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.03%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.68%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.68%) NCSC
5 2 (0.68%) SLA
6 1 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.34%) GDPR
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS
6 1 (0.34%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 87 (29.79%) Docker
2 23 (7.88%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 117 (40.07%) Kubernetes
2 113 (38.70%) Terraform
3 71 (24.32%) Ansible
4 57 (19.52%) Grafana
5 39 (13.36%) Prometheus
6 12 (4.11%) Progress Chef
7 10 (3.42%) Packer
8 9 (3.08%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (3.08%) Kibana
9 8 (2.74%) Puppet
10 6 (2.05%) HP Fortify
10 6 (2.05%) SCCM
11 5 (1.71%) WSUS
12 4 (1.37%) Graylog
12 4 (1.37%) Nagios
12 4 (1.37%) Rancher
13 2 (0.68%) AirWatch
13 2 (0.68%) Argo
13 2 (0.68%) Salt
13 2 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (11.30%) Oracle
2 21 (7.19%) Splunk
3 17 (5.82%) Microsoft
4 15 (5.14%) Red Hat
5 12 (4.11%) Databricks
5 12 (4.11%) VMware
6 11 (3.77%) Informatica
7 8 (2.74%) Confluent
8 7 (2.40%) NEC
9 6 (2.05%) SAP
9 6 (2.05%) Talend
9 6 (2.05%) UiPath
10 5 (1.71%) Apple
10 5 (1.71%) Commvault
11 4 (1.37%) Bloomberg
11 4 (1.37%) Palo Alto
11 4 (1.37%) Reuters
11 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.03%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.03%) Solace