Amazon EC2 Contracts in the South West

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
England > South West

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 153 154
Rank change year-on-year +13 +1 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 11 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.34% 0.24% 0.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 0.71% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 11
10th Percentile £524 £588 £450
25th Percentile £525 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £700 £635
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +10.24% +27.51%
75th Percentile £600 £831 £687
90th Percentile £603 £843 £701
England median daily rate £525 £605 £589
% change year-on-year -13.22% +2.76% +12.14%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 803 1,119 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 24.68% 32.89% 30.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 606 899 870
10th Percentile £213 £288 £250
25th Percentile £388 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £612
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 60 21
10th Percentile £12.70 £16.51 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.88 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £55.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +155.81% -55.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in the South West

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in the South West

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Gloucestershire +9 9 £550 -21.43% 3
Wiltshire +1 2 £600 -10.28%
Amazon EC2
England

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (81.82%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (81.82%) Serverless
3 8 (72.73%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Network Security
2 6 (54.55%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (63.64%) InfluxDB
2 7 (63.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Site Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Architect
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Security Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (18.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 7 (63.64%) Event-Driven
2 7 (63.64%) Service Management
3 6 (54.55%) Configuration Management
3 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 6 (54.55%) Observability
4 2 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
4 2 (18.18%) Threat Modelling
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) Go
2 7 (63.64%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) Python
3 6 (54.55%) Shell Script
4 4 (36.36%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) DV Cleared
1 9 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Grafana
1 9 (81.82%) Kubernetes
1 9 (81.82%) Prometheus
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 8 (72.73%) Docker Swarm
3 7 (63.64%) Ansible
3 7 (63.64%) Progress Chef