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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 30 42
Rank change year-on-year 0 +12 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 18 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in South London 7.76% 4.02% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.40% 11.69% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 3
10th Percentile £513 £589 £361
25th Percentile £515 £625 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £693 £375
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +84.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £550 £768 £382
90th Percentile - £808 £385
London median daily rate £530 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -21.48% +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 125 77 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 53.88% 34.38% 51.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 58 117
10th Percentile £294 £328 £231
25th Percentile £463 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £601 £691 £655
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.55 - £19.25
Median hourly rate £58.94 £34.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.34% +65.85% -8.89%
75th Percentile £63.32 - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £29.69 £31.35 £30.50
% change year-on-year -5.28% +2.77% +5.17%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +2 13 £550 -20.58% 2
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 (61.11%) Confluence
1 11 (61.11%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
2 12 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 11 (61.11%) Route 53
4 9 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (38.89%) Amazon ELB
6 7 (38.89%) AWS KMS
6 7 (38.89%) Azure
6 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
7 6 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (33.33%) Serverless
8 5 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (27.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) DNS
1 11 (61.11%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) FTP
2 7 (38.89%) HTTP
2 7 (38.89%) IMAP
2 7 (38.89%) OpenLDAP
2 7 (38.89%) SMTP
2 7 (38.89%) SSH
3 4 (22.22%) OpenVPN
3 4 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 4 (22.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
4 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) JIRA
2 9 (50.00%) Git
3 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
4 7 (38.89%) Vagrant
5 4 (22.22%) Bitbucket
5 4 (22.22%) SonarQube
6 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (38.89%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 5 (27.78%) Site Engineer
5 4 (22.22%) Architect
5 4 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (22.22%) Technical Architect
6 3 (16.67%) Senior
7 2 (11.11%) AWS Architect
7 2 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (61.11%) LDAP
2 4 (22.22%) OpenID
3 3 (16.67%) Kafka
4 1 (5.56%) boto
4 1 (5.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Replication
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Amazon Linux
2 7 (38.89%) Ubuntu
2 7 (38.89%) VMS
2 7 (38.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
1 13 (72.22%) DevOps
2 12 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 8 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (38.89%) Change Management
4 7 (38.89%) Cloud Security
4 7 (38.89%) Patch Management
4 7 (38.89%) Performance Tuning
5 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 6 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (27.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (22.22%) Roadmaps
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%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 14 (77.78%) Python
2 7 (38.89%) Groovy
2 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
2 7 (38.89%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) Degree
3 7 (38.89%) AWS Certification
3 7 (38.89%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 13 (72.22%) Docker
2 11 (61.11%) Squid
3 7 (38.89%) DFS Replication
3 7 (38.89%) Dovecot
3 7 (38.89%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 17 (94.44%) Grafana
1 17 (94.44%) Terraform
2 12 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 7 (38.89%) Nessus
3 7 (38.89%) Proxmox
4 6 (33.33%) Ansible
4 6 (33.33%) Kubernetes
5 5 (27.78%) Puppet
6 4 (22.22%) Consul
6 4 (22.22%) FortiGate
6 4 (22.22%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Jaspersoft
1 7 (38.89%) ServiceNow
2 5 (27.78%) PagerDuty
3 4 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 4 (22.22%) Dynatrace
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 3 (16.67%) Microsoft