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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 24 45
Rank change year-on-year -1 +21 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 18 12 2
As % of all contract jobs in South London 8.87% 5.36% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.65% 16.67% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £501 - -
25th Percentile £514 £538 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £539 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% +7.80% +9.89%
75th Percentile £631 £556 -
90th Percentile £636 £563 -
London median daily rate £530 £700 £575
% change year-on-year -24.29% +21.74% -8.00%

All Cloud 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 102 72 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 50.25% 32.14% 48.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 51 108
10th Percentile £263 £283 £231
25th Percentile £460 £380 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £528
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -7.11% -4.09%
75th Percentile £549 £564 £625
90th Percentile £645 £700 £673
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile - - £17.29
Median hourly rate - - £19.07
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.27%
75th Percentile - - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -26.47% -7.28% +37.27%

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 28 November 2025.

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 28 November 2025. 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 0 13 £621 +15.21% 1
Sutton - 5 £530 - 1
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 11 (61.11%) Confluence
2 10 (55.56%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (83.33%) Amazon ECS
3 12 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (61.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 10 (55.56%) Amazon ELB
5 10 (55.56%) AWS KMS
5 10 (55.56%) Azure
5 10 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (55.56%) Route 53
6 5 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (27.78%) IaaS
7 3 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) DNS
1 10 (55.56%) Firewall
1 10 (55.56%) FTP
1 10 (55.56%) HTTP
1 10 (55.56%) IMAP
1 10 (55.56%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (55.56%) SMTP
1 10 (55.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (83.33%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (55.56%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Git
1 12 (66.67%) JIRA
2 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
3 10 (55.56%) Vagrant
4 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 10 (55.56%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (44.44%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Site Engineer
5 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (16.67%) Senior
7 2 (11.11%) DevOps Specialist
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Specialist
8 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) LDAP
2 3 (16.67%) Kafka
3 2 (11.11%) boto
3 2 (11.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Replication
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 15 (83.33%) Linux
2 10 (55.56%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (55.56%) Ubuntu
2 10 (55.56%) VMS
2 10 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 15 (83.33%) Configuration Management
3 13 (72.22%) DevOps
4 11 (61.11%) Cloud Security
4 11 (61.11%) Platform Engineering
5 10 (55.56%) Change Management
5 10 (55.56%) Patch Management
5 10 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
6 6 (33.33%) Agile
6 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
6 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (16.67%) Analytics
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 2 (11.11%) Mathematics
9 2 (11.11%) Microservices
10 1 (5.56%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) Python
2 10 (55.56%) Groovy
2 10 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 10 (55.56%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Bash
4 1 (5.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
1 12 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) AWS Certification
2 10 (55.56%) Azure Certification
3 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) Docker
2 10 (55.56%) DFS Replication
2 10 (55.56%) Dovecot
2 10 (55.56%) Postfix
2 10 (55.56%) Squid
Systems Management
1 16 (88.89%) Terraform
2 15 (83.33%) Grafana
3 10 (55.56%) Nessus
3 10 (55.56%) Prometheus
3 10 (55.56%) Proxmox
4 6 (33.33%) Ansible
5 5 (27.78%) Puppet
6 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (55.56%) ServiceNow
2 5 (27.78%) PagerDuty
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft