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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 23 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +19 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 20 12 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 11.30% 5.94% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.69% 14.63% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 2
10th Percentile £529 £486 -
25th Percentile £610 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £622 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.61% +7.60% +9.89%
75th Percentile £644 £551 -
90th Percentile £723 £563 -
London median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 81 82 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 45.76% 40.59% 40.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 65 108
10th Percentile £254 £310 £400
25th Percentile £422 £400 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £633 £538 £625
90th Percentile £732 £567 £675
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -1.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile - - £17.29
Median hourly rate - - £19.07
75th Percentile - - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.59 £40.50
% change year-on-year +1.34% -24.47% +15.71%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +2 19 £622 +15.61%
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (55.00%) Confluence
2 10 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 20 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (90.00%) Amazon S3
3 13 (65.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 12 (60.00%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (55.00%) AWS KMS
5 11 (55.00%) Route 53
5 11 (55.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 10 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
6 10 (50.00%) Azure
6 10 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
7 5 (25.00%) Serverless
8 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) DNS
1 10 (50.00%) Firewall
1 10 (50.00%) FTP
1 10 (50.00%) HTTP
1 10 (50.00%) IMAP
1 10 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (50.00%) SMTP
1 10 (50.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (75.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (65.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 13 (65.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (70.00%) Git
3 12 (60.00%) JIRA
4 10 (50.00%) Vagrant
5 5 (25.00%) JUnit
5 5 (25.00%) Mockito
6 3 (15.00%) Maven
6 3 (15.00%) SonarQube
7 2 (10.00%) JMeter
8 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (5.00%) DbUnit
8 1 (5.00%) GitLab
8 1 (5.00%) jMock
General
1 16 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 5 (25.00%) Developer
4 5 (25.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Architect
6 2 (10.00%) DevOps Specialist
6 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
6 2 (10.00%) Security Architect
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) LDAP
2 5 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (25.00%) REST
2 5 (25.00%) Spring
2 5 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (15.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (15.00%) Bootstrap
3 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (15.00%) JPA
3 3 (15.00%) SOAP
3 3 (15.00%) Spring Cloud
3 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 2 (10.00%) Apache Camel
4 2 (10.00%) boto
4 2 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (10.00%) jQuery
4 2 (10.00%) JSON
4 2 (10.00%) pytest
4 2 (10.00%) WireMock
4 2 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Replication
2 3 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (10.00%) CSOC
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
2 10 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 10 (50.00%) VMS
2 10 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) DevOps
2 15 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (55.00%) Cloud Security
4 10 (50.00%) Change Management
4 10 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 10 (50.00%) Patch Management
4 10 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 7 (35.00%) Microservices
6 6 (30.00%) Agile
7 5 (25.00%) TDD
8 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 3 (15.00%) BDD
9 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
9 3 (15.00%) Scrum
9 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 2 (10.00%) Process Management
10 2 (10.00%) SIEM
10 2 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (75.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) SQL
3 10 (50.00%) Groovy
3 10 (50.00%) PowerShell
4 5 (25.00%) Java
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.00%) Bash
6 1 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 16 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 16 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 10 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 10 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) Docker
2 11 (55.00%) Postfix
3 10 (50.00%) DFS Replication
3 10 (50.00%) Dovecot
3 10 (50.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) Grafana
1 13 (65.00%) Prometheus
2 11 (55.00%) Terraform
3 10 (50.00%) Nessus
3 10 (50.00%) Proxmox
4 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (10.00%) Kibana
6 1 (5.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (55.00%) Jaspersoft
2 10 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (20.00%) Splunk
4 2 (10.00%) Dynatrace
5 1 (5.00%) Atlassian