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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 331 351
Rank change year-on-year +19 +20 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 281 430 666
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.75% 0.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 2.05% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 324 449
10th Percentile £380 £453 £438
25th Percentile £438 £505 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £694 £746 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £63.75
25th Percentile - - £66.88
Median hourly rate - - £77.00
75th Percentile - - £84.00
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 13,823 20,974 33,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 36.73% 38.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 15,173 24,585
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 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 334 420
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.31 £15.88
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -29.12% +25.00% -

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 15 May 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 14 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 15 May 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 -10 227 £525 -12.50% 89
London +15 142 £520 -16.80% 45
UK excluding London +22 104 £525 -4.55% 45
Work from Home +35 96 £520 -9.57% 62
North of England +7 48 £510 -7.27% 14
North West +32 38 £550 -15.38% 8
Scotland +41 22 £487 -3.94% 2
South East +3 16 £537 -2.45% 8
Yorkshire -7 10 £463 -15.91% 6
South West +20 9 £550 -21.43% 6
East of England +12 3 £625 +8.70% 2
Wales - 3 £645 - 1
West Midlands - 3 £425 - 8
Midlands - 3 £425 - 11

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 16 (5.69%) Apache
2 14 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.27%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.85%) nginx
5 6 (2.14%) Confluence
6 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.71%) Traefik
7 1 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.36%) Drupal
7 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (2.49%) NEC Housing
2 3 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.36%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.36%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.36%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 277 (98.58%) AWS
2 206 (73.31%) Amazon S3
3 145 (51.60%) Serverless
4 140 (49.82%) AWS Lambda
5 91 (32.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 88 (31.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 57 (20.28%) AWS CloudFormation
7 57 (20.28%) Route 53
8 54 (19.22%) Amazon EKS
9 41 (14.59%) Amazon ECS
10 38 (13.52%) Amazon SQS
11 23 (8.19%) Snowflake
12 21 (7.47%) GitHub
13 19 (6.76%) AWS Fargate
14 18 (6.41%) OpenShift
15 17 (6.05%) Amazon ECR
15 17 (6.05%) Amazon EMR
15 17 (6.05%) Azure
16 16 (5.69%) Amazon ELB
16 16 (5.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.83%) Network Security
2 17 (6.05%) Firewall
3 15 (5.34%) DNS
4 10 (3.56%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.56%) VPN
5 7 (2.49%) Remote Desktop
6 6 (2.14%) DHCP
7 5 (1.78%) AMQP
7 5 (1.78%) FTP
7 5 (1.78%) Wireless
8 4 (1.42%) HTTP
8 4 (1.42%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (1.07%) LAN
9 3 (1.07%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (1.07%) WLAN
10 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
10 1 (0.36%) MQTT
10 1 (0.36%) SMTP
10 1 (0.36%) SSH
10 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (36.30%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (8.90%) Amazon Redshift
3 23 (8.19%) MySQL
3 23 (8.19%) Relational Database
4 21 (7.47%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (7.12%) DynamoDB
6 19 (6.76%) Elasticsearch
7 17 (6.05%) Amazon Athena
8 16 (5.69%) MongoDB
9 14 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
10 12 (4.27%) InfluxDB
11 11 (3.91%) Data Lake
12 10 (3.56%) NoSQL
13 9 (3.20%) Big Data
14 8 (2.85%) RDBMS
14 8 (2.85%) SQL Server
15 7 (2.49%) Amazon Aurora
16 5 (1.78%) Informix
16 5 (1.78%) Oracle Database
17 4 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 72 (25.62%) Git
2 58 (20.64%) Jenkins
3 51 (18.15%) GitLab
4 20 (7.12%) JIRA
5 11 (3.91%) Bitbucket
6 10 (3.56%) JUnit
7 9 (3.20%) webpack
8 8 (2.85%) Maven
8 8 (2.85%) Selenium
8 8 (2.85%) SonarQube
9 7 (2.49%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.49%) JMeter
10 5 (1.78%) Artifactory
10 5 (1.78%) Mockito
10 5 (1.78%) REST Assured
11 4 (1.42%) Gradle
11 4 (1.42%) Sourcetree
12 3 (1.07%) Mocha
12 3 (1.07%) NeoLoad
12 3 (1.07%) SoapUI
General
1 48 (17.08%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.68%) Finance
3 21 (7.47%) Public Sector
4 12 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (2.49%) Banking
5 7 (2.49%) Manufacturing
6 6 (2.14%) Retail
7 5 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.07%) Marketing
9 2 (0.71%) Electronics
9 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.71%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.36%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Law
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 82 (29.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 75 (26.69%) AWS Engineer
3 47 (16.73%) Developer
4 43 (15.30%) AWS DevOps
5 39 (13.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 34 (12.10%) Senior
7 28 (9.96%) Data Engineer
8 26 (9.25%) Architect
9 25 (8.90%) Lead
10 21 (7.47%) Platform Engineer
11 20 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
12 19 (6.76%) Java Developer
13 18 (6.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 16 (5.69%) AWS Architect
15 14 (4.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 13 (4.63%) Software Engineer
17 11 (3.91%) Senior Developer
18 10 (3.56%) AWS Developer
18 10 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 10 (3.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (8.54%) React
2 23 (8.19%) Node.js
3 20 (7.12%) Spring
4 19 (6.76%) AWS CDK
5 17 (6.05%) Kafka
6 13 (4.63%) RabbitMQ
6 13 (4.63%) RESTful
7 11 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (3.91%) OAuth
7 11 (3.91%) REST
8 10 (3.56%) .NET
8 10 (3.56%) Express.js
8 10 (3.56%) Spring Boot
9 9 (3.20%) Lambda Expressions
9 9 (3.20%) Redux
10 8 (2.85%) JSON
11 7 (2.49%) .NET Core
11 7 (2.49%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.14%) LDAP
13 5 (1.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.34%) Public Cloud
2 14 (4.98%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.20%) Data Structures
3 9 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (2.85%) Replication
5 7 (2.49%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.14%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.14%) PKI
7 5 (1.78%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.78%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.42%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (1.42%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.42%) Derivative
8 4 (1.42%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.42%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.42%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.07%) Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 66 (23.49%) Linux
2 30 (10.68%) Windows
3 24 (8.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (6.05%) Windows Server
5 11 (3.91%) Unix
6 10 (3.56%) CentOS
7 7 (2.49%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.14%) Windows 10
9 3 (1.07%) Debian
10 2 (0.71%) Amazon Linux
10 2 (0.71%) VMS
10 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (48.75%) DevOps
2 134 (47.69%) CI/CD
3 78 (27.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (22.78%) Agile
5 62 (22.06%) Containerisation
6 38 (13.52%) Migration
7 33 (11.74%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (11.03%) Microservices
8 31 (11.03%) Test Automation
9 30 (10.68%) Scrum
10 24 (8.54%) ETL
11 23 (8.19%) Software Engineering
12 22 (7.83%) Kanban
13 21 (7.47%) Configuration Management
14 20 (7.12%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (7.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 18 (6.41%) Computer Science
15 18 (6.41%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (6.05%) Data Protection
16 17 (6.05%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 144 (51.25%) Python
2 72 (25.62%) Java
3 60 (21.35%) SQL
4 43 (15.30%) Bash
5 28 (9.96%) TypeScript
6 20 (7.12%) JavaScript
7 18 (6.41%) Go
8 11 (3.91%) Shell Script
9 10 (3.56%) C
10 9 (3.20%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.49%) C#
12 6 (2.14%) Groovy
12 6 (2.14%) Perl
12 6 (2.14%) Ruby
13 3 (1.07%) C++
14 2 (0.71%) PHP
14 2 (0.71%) Scala
15 1 (0.36%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (29.54%) Security Cleared
2 70 (24.91%) SC Cleared
3 27 (9.61%) AWS Certification
4 20 (7.12%) Degree
5 15 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (3.56%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.36%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.36%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.36%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.12%) QA
2 5 (1.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.07%) ISO 22301
3 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.71%) NCSC
4 2 (0.71%) SLA
5 1 (0.36%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.36%) GDPR
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS
5 1 (0.36%) IFRS 17
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 86 (30.60%) Docker
2 19 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.71%) Varnish
7 1 (0.36%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 119 (42.35%) Terraform
2 117 (41.64%) Kubernetes
3 62 (22.06%) Ansible
4 49 (17.44%) Grafana
5 38 (13.52%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.98%) Progress Chef
7 13 (4.63%) Puppet
8 10 (3.56%) Kibana
9 9 (3.20%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (3.20%) Packer
10 7 (2.49%) Consul
10 7 (2.49%) SCCM
11 6 (2.14%) HP Fortify
11 6 (2.14%) WSUS
12 5 (1.78%) Graylog
12 5 (1.78%) Nagios
13 4 (1.42%) HAProxy
13 4 (1.42%) Rancher
14 3 (1.07%) AirWatch
14 3 (1.07%) Podman
Vendors
1 28 (9.96%) Oracle
2 23 (8.19%) Splunk
3 20 (7.12%) Microsoft
4 14 (4.98%) VMware
5 13 (4.63%) Red Hat
6 11 (3.91%) Databricks
6 11 (3.91%) Informatica
7 8 (2.85%) SAP
8 7 (2.49%) NEC
9 6 (2.14%) Apple
9 6 (2.14%) Talend
10 5 (1.78%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.78%) UiPath
11 4 (1.42%) Cisco
11 4 (1.42%) Commvault
11 4 (1.42%) Confluent
11 4 (1.42%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.07%) AppDynamics
12 3 (1.07%) MKS
13 2 (0.71%) IBM