Amazon EC2 Contracts in South London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 27 42
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 7 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.80% 6.64% 3.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.46% 13.01% 7.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 8
10th Percentile - £360 -
25th Percentile £805 £363 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £820 £412 £478
Median % change year-on-year +98.91% -13.66% -26.25%
75th Percentile £835 £519 £500
90th Percentile - £527 -
London median daily rate £635 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +20.95% -16.00% +4.17%

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 74 123 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 40.22% 51.04% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 96 128
10th Percentile £380 £206 £292
25th Percentile £463 £407 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £544 £540 £649
90th Percentile £700 £630 £725
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile - - £20.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in South London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend 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 2 May 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 +1 7 £820 +117.51%
Amazon EC2
London

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (85.71%) Serverless
3 5 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
4 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (57.14%) IaaS
4 4 (57.14%) PaaS
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
2 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) GitLab
2 4 (57.14%) Git
3 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (28.57%) JMeter
4 2 (28.57%) JUnit
4 2 (28.57%) Mockito
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
1 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) jQuery
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) REST
1 2 (28.57%) Spring
1 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
1 2 (28.57%) WireMock
1 2 (28.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Load Balancing
3 4 (57.14%) Refactoring
3 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Process Management
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 4 (57.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (71.43%) Grafana
2 5 (71.43%) Prometheus
2 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) Ansible
4 2 (28.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk