Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in South London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 29 27
Rank change year-on-year +11 -2 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 34 10 16
As % of all contract jobs in South London 10.66% 5.65% 6.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.97% 12.82% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 2 10
10th Percentile - £733 £360
25th Percentile £456 £745 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £785 £412
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +90.42% -17.55%
75th Percentile £539 £820 £519
90th Percentile £550 £829 £527
London median daily rate £530 £616 £520
% change year-on-year -14.00% +18.51% -16.80%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 148 78 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 46.39% 44.07% 51.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 53 99
10th Percentile £305 £425 £210
25th Percentile £456 £463 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £483
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% +2.59% -3.50%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £625 £730 £630
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.70 - -
Median hourly rate £17.85 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% - -
75th Percentile £30.08 - -
90th Percentile £50.02 - -
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -45.26%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in South London

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in South London over the 6 months to 18 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in South London

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 18 May 2026. 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
Croydon +3 31 £505 -35.67% 1
Sutton - 2 £530 -
Amazon EC2
London

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (41.18%) Confluence
2 6 (17.65%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) AWS
2 32 (94.12%) Amazon S3
3 28 (82.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (70.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 20 (58.82%) AWS Lambda
5 20 (58.82%) Serverless
6 14 (41.18%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (29.41%) AWS KMS
8 9 (26.47%) Route 53
9 8 (23.53%) Power Platform
10 6 (17.65%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (14.71%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (11.76%) Amazon ELB
12 4 (11.76%) Amazon Glacier
12 4 (11.76%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (11.76%) GitHub
12 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (8.82%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (8.82%) Azure
14 2 (5.88%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) Firewall
2 6 (17.65%) DNS
2 6 (17.65%) OpenVPN
2 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 6 (17.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (58.82%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (23.53%) Power BI
2 8 (23.53%) Tableau
3 6 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (8.82%) DynamoDB
5 2 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (41.18%) Git
1 14 (41.18%) JIRA
2 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
3 10 (29.41%) Bitbucket
4 9 (26.47%) SonarQube
5 7 (20.59%) GitLab
6 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (8.82%) DbUnit
6 3 (8.82%) jMock
6 3 (8.82%) JUnit
6 3 (8.82%) Maven
6 3 (8.82%) Mockito
7 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
General
1 21 (61.76%) Social Skills
2 17 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (23.53%) Finance
5 6 (17.65%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (20.59%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 7 (20.59%) Technical Manager
3 6 (17.65%) Architect
3 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Technical Architect
5 4 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (8.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Java Developer
7 2 (5.88%) AWS Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) LDAP
1 6 (17.65%) OpenID
2 3 (8.82%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (8.82%) AngularJS
2 3 (8.82%) AWS CDK
2 3 (8.82%) Bootstrap
2 3 (8.82%) Hibernate
2 3 (8.82%) JPA
2 3 (8.82%) PowerMock
2 3 (8.82%) REST
2 3 (8.82%) RESTful
2 3 (8.82%) SOAP
2 3 (8.82%) Spring
2 3 (8.82%) Spring Batch
2 3 (8.82%) Spring Boot
2 3 (8.82%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (8.82%) Spring Integration
2 3 (8.82%) Web Services
3 2 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (8.82%) Replication
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Linux
2 4 (11.76%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (64.71%) Agile
2 19 (55.88%) DevOps
3 18 (52.94%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (38.24%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (35.29%) CI/CD
5 12 (35.29%) Decision-Making
6 10 (29.41%) Containerisation
7 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (23.53%) Cost Management
8 8 (23.53%) Data Extraction
8 8 (23.53%) Data Visualisation
8 8 (23.53%) ETL
8 8 (23.53%) Migration
8 8 (23.53%) Visualisation
9 7 (20.59%) Project Delivery
10 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
10 6 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
10 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 6 (17.65%) Java
3 5 (14.71%) Bash
4 3 (8.82%) Groovy
4 3 (8.82%) Perl
4 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.82%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (85.29%) Security Cleared
2 28 (82.35%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) AWS Certification
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) PMO
2 1 (2.94%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Docker
2 6 (17.65%) Squid
3 2 (5.88%) Postfix
4 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 18 (52.94%) Terraform
2 17 (50.00%) Grafana
3 12 (35.29%) Prometheus
4 8 (23.53%) Kubernetes
5 6 (17.65%) Consul
5 6 (17.65%) FortiGate
5 6 (17.65%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (11.76%) Ansible
7 2 (5.88%) Puppet
8 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (26.47%) Atlassian
2 7 (20.59%) ServiceNow
3 6 (17.65%) Dynatrace
3 6 (17.65%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.82%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (5.88%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft