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 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 248 275 277
Rank change year-on-year +27 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 146 230 373
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.83% 0.90% 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.14% 2.30% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 176 272
10th Percentile £360 £450 £438
25th Percentile £418 £513 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.40% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £700 £675
90th Percentile £795 £775 £713
England median daily rate £525 £605 £589
% change year-on-year -13.22% +2.76% +12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -41.18% -
England median hourly rate - £50.00 £77.00
% change year-on-year - -35.06% -

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 6,816 9,993 15,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.89% 39.06% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,024 7,349 12,037
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £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 67 78 67
10th Percentile £17.16 £19.68 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +26.51% +5.06%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.50 £90.00 £80.25
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 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 2 June 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 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
Central London +17 19 £565 -11.37% 7
South London +11 14 £412 -17.55%
West London +11 3 £600 -4.00%
East London - 2 £763 -
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 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (4.79%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.74%) Apache
3 3 (2.05%) Confluence
4 2 (1.37%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.68%) SAS
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
Business Applications
1 6 (4.11%) NEC Housing
2 3 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.68%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.68%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.68%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 144 (98.63%) AWS
2 106 (72.60%) Amazon S3
3 76 (52.05%) Serverless
4 73 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 42 (28.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 41 (28.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 26 (17.81%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (17.12%) Amazon ECS
9 22 (15.07%) Route 53
10 17 (11.64%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (8.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 13 (8.90%) GitHub
12 11 (7.53%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (6.85%) Snowflake
14 8 (5.48%) Amazon EMR
14 8 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (4.79%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (4.79%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (4.79%) AWS KMS
15 7 (4.79%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (8.22%) DNS
2 8 (5.48%) Firewall
3 6 (4.11%) DHCP
3 6 (4.11%) Network Security
4 5 (3.42%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (2.74%) Kerberos
5 4 (2.74%) SSL
5 4 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.05%) HTTP
6 3 (2.05%) LAN
6 3 (2.05%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (2.05%) VPN
6 3 (2.05%) Wireless
6 3 (2.05%) WLAN
7 2 (1.37%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.68%) Internet
8 1 (0.68%) MQTT
8 1 (0.68%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (30.82%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (11.64%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (9.59%) Amazon Redshift
4 12 (8.22%) Relational Database
5 10 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (6.16%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.79%) MongoDB
7 7 (4.79%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (4.11%) MySQL
8 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.11%) RDBMS
8 6 (4.11%) SQL Server
9 4 (2.74%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.74%) Oracle Reports
10 3 (2.05%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.05%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.37%) Data Mining
11 2 (1.37%) DB2
11 2 (1.37%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 33 (22.60%) Git
2 28 (19.18%) Jenkins
3 19 (13.01%) GitLab
4 9 (6.16%) JIRA
5 6 (4.11%) Bitbucket
6 5 (3.42%) JUnit
6 5 (3.42%) Mockito
7 4 (2.74%) Cucumber
7 4 (2.74%) JMeter
7 4 (2.74%) Selenium
7 4 (2.74%) Sourcetree
8 3 (2.05%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.05%) NeoLoad
8 3 (2.05%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.37%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.68%) Gradle
10 1 (0.68%) Maven
10 1 (0.68%) webpack
General
1 26 (17.81%) Finance
2 21 (14.38%) Social Skills
3 9 (6.16%) Public Sector
4 6 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.11%) Banking
5 2 (1.37%) Front Office
5 2 (1.37%) Marketing
6 1 (0.68%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.68%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.68%) Law
6 1 (0.68%) Legal
6 1 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (31.51%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (27.40%) Developer
3 37 (25.34%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (19.18%) Senior
5 21 (14.38%) AWS DevOps
5 21 (14.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (8.90%) Data Engineer
6 13 (8.90%) Java Developer
6 13 (8.90%) Senior Developer
7 11 (7.53%) Architect
7 11 (7.53%) Lead
7 11 (7.53%) Software Engineer
8 10 (6.85%) AWS Architect
8 10 (6.85%) Python Developer
9 9 (6.16%) AWS Developer
10 8 (5.48%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.48%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (5.48%) Software Developer
11 7 (4.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (11.64%) Kafka
2 12 (8.22%) React
3 11 (7.53%) RESTful
4 9 (6.16%) Spring
5 8 (5.48%) .NET
5 8 (5.48%) Lambda Expressions
5 8 (5.48%) OAuth
6 7 (4.79%) Node.js
7 6 (4.11%) .NET Core
7 6 (4.11%) OAuth2
8 5 (3.42%) REST
8 5 (3.42%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.05%) AWS CDK
9 3 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.05%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (2.05%) PySpark
9 3 (2.05%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.05%) Web Services
10 2 (1.37%) PyTorch
10 2 (1.37%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.16%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (5.48%) Public Cloud
3 7 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (4.11%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.74%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.74%) Credit Derivative
5 4 (2.74%) Credit Risk
5 4 (2.74%) Derivative
5 4 (2.74%) Fixed Income
5 4 (2.74%) Market Risk
5 4 (2.74%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.74%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.05%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.05%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.05%) PKI
6 3 (2.05%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.37%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.37%) IoT
7 2 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (17.81%) Linux
2 10 (6.85%) Windows
3 9 (6.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (6.16%) Unix
4 6 (4.11%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.05%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.37%) VMS
7 1 (0.68%) CentOS
7 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (45.89%) DevOps
2 56 (38.36%) CI/CD
3 37 (25.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (21.92%) Agile
5 23 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.38%) Containerisation
7 20 (13.70%) Microservices
8 18 (12.33%) Migration
8 18 (12.33%) Software Engineering
9 17 (11.64%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (10.96%) ETL
11 14 (9.59%) Analytics
11 14 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (8.90%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (8.22%) Data Protection
13 12 (8.22%) TDD
14 11 (7.53%) BDD
14 11 (7.53%) Computer Science
14 11 (7.53%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (60.96%) Python
2 43 (29.45%) Java
3 34 (23.29%) SQL
4 16 (10.96%) Bash
5 15 (10.27%) TypeScript
6 13 (8.90%) JavaScript
7 8 (5.48%) Shell Script
8 6 (4.11%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.74%) Groovy
10 3 (2.05%) C
10 3 (2.05%) C++
11 2 (1.37%) Perl
12 1 (0.68%) C#
12 1 (0.68%) Go
12 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.68%) R
12 1 (0.68%) Ruby
12 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 37 (25.34%) SC Cleared
3 12 (8.22%) Degree
4 11 (7.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (6.85%) AWS Certification
6 5 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.37%) 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 6 (4.11%) QA
2 4 (2.74%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.74%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.37%) SLA
4 1 (0.68%) GDPR
4 1 (0.68%) NCSC
System Software
1 39 (26.71%) Docker
2 17 (11.64%) Active Directory
3 5 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (38.36%) Terraform
2 49 (33.56%) Kubernetes
3 25 (17.12%) Ansible
4 17 (11.64%) Grafana
5 14 (9.59%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.42%) Progress Chef
7 4 (2.74%) Kibana
7 4 (2.74%) Packer
8 3 (2.05%) Puppet
8 3 (2.05%) SCCM
8 3 (2.05%) WSUS
9 2 (1.37%) AirWatch
9 2 (1.37%) Salt
9 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.68%) Argo
10 1 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 19 (13.01%) Oracle
2 10 (6.85%) Databricks
2 10 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.16%) Splunk
4 8 (5.48%) Red Hat
5 7 (4.79%) VMware
6 6 (4.11%) Confluent
6 6 (4.11%) NEC
7 5 (3.42%) SAP
8 3 (2.05%) AppDynamics
8 3 (2.05%) Apple
8 3 (2.05%) Okta
8 3 (2.05%) Solace
9 2 (1.37%) Informatica
9 2 (1.37%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.37%) Qualys
9 2 (1.37%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.68%) Capita
10 1 (0.68%) Civica
10 1 (0.68%) Fortinet