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 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 30 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 28 6 12
As % of all contract jobs in South London 9.69% 2.80% 4.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.67% 7.23% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 2 6
10th Percentile £456 £589 £360
25th Percentile £483 £625 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £693 £370
Median % change year-on-year -25.12% +87.16% -22.51%
75th Percentile £545 £768 £385
90th Percentile £550 £808 £444
London median daily rate £525 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -12.00%

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 150 83 141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 51.90% 38.79% 52.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 64 110
10th Percentile £413 £354 £227
25th Percentile £492 £441 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £599
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - -
Median hourly rate £58.94 £34.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +73.34% - -
75th Percentile £63.32 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.35 £29.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +5.47% -7.84%

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
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 1 March 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 +9 23 £516 -25.56% 5
Sutton - 5 £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 11 (39.29%) Confluence
2 7 (25.00%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 28 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 28 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (75.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 16 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (57.14%) Serverless
4 15 (53.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 14 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
6 9 (32.14%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (32.14%) Route 53
7 8 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (25.00%) AWS KMS
9 5 (17.86%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (17.86%) IaaS
9 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
10 4 (14.29%) Amazon Glacier
11 3 (10.71%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (10.71%) GitHub
11 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
13 1 (3.57%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) DNS
1 7 (25.00%) Firewall
2 6 (21.43%) OpenVPN
2 6 (21.43%) TCP/IP
2 6 (21.43%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) FTP
3 1 (3.57%) HTTP
3 1 (3.57%) IMAP
3 1 (3.57%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (3.57%) SMTP
3 1 (3.57%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (60.71%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (17.86%) Power BI
4 5 (17.86%) SQL Server
4 5 (17.86%) Tableau
5 3 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) JIRA
2 10 (35.71%) Git
3 9 (32.14%) Bitbucket
4 8 (28.57%) SonarQube
5 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 5 (17.86%) GitLab
7 2 (7.14%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (7.14%) DbUnit
7 2 (7.14%) jMock
7 2 (7.14%) JUnit
7 2 (7.14%) Maven
7 2 (7.14%) Mockito
8 1 (3.57%) Vagrant
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Public Sector
3 6 (21.43%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Finance
5 2 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
1 7 (25.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 7 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Site Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Technical Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Architect
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) LDAP
2 6 (21.43%) OpenID
3 3 (10.71%) AWS CDK
3 3 (10.71%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
4 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
4 2 (7.14%) Bootstrap
4 2 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 2 (7.14%) JPA
4 2 (7.14%) PowerMock
4 2 (7.14%) REST
4 2 (7.14%) RESTful
4 2 (7.14%) SOAP
4 2 (7.14%) Spring
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Batch
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Spring Integration
4 2 (7.14%) Web Services
5 1 (3.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) Replication
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.57%) VMS
3 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (60.71%) Agile
2 13 (46.43%) DevOps
3 12 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (39.29%) CI/CD
4 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
4 11 (39.29%) Decision-Making
5 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
7 6 (21.43%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 6 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
8 5 (17.86%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (17.86%) Change Management
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (17.86%) Data Extraction
8 5 (17.86%) ETL
8 5 (17.86%) Migration
8 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 7 (25.00%) Bash
4 3 (10.71%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.14%) Java
6 1 (3.57%) Groovy
6 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (46.43%) Docker
2 7 (25.00%) Squid
3 2 (7.14%) Postfix
4 1 (3.57%) DFS Replication
4 1 (3.57%) Dovecot
Systems Management
1 17 (60.71%) Terraform
2 16 (57.14%) Grafana
3 10 (35.71%) Prometheus
4 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 7 (25.00%) Ansible
6 6 (21.43%) Consul
6 6 (21.43%) FortiGate
6 6 (21.43%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (17.86%) Puppet
8 1 (3.57%) Nessus
8 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.57%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Atlassian
2 6 (21.43%) Dynatrace
2 6 (21.43%) Red Hat
3 5 (17.86%) PagerDuty
3 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.71%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft