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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 30 37
Rank change year-on-year +8 +7 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 27 7 8
As % of all contract jobs in South London 9.68% 3.26% 2.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.49% 9.46% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 5
10th Percentile £466 £589 -
25th Percentile £509 £625 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £693 £365
Median % change year-on-year -24.19% +89.73% -23.56%
75th Percentile £546 £768 £377
90th Percentile £550 £808 £383
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 146 74 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 52.33% 34.42% 53.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 56 117
10th Percentile £326 £313 £231
25th Percentile £488 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £600
90th Percentile £645 £681 £638
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
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 £34.00 £31.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year +7.94% +3.28% -10.29%

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 17 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 17 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 +1 22 £519 -25.12% 6
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 13 (48.15%) Confluence
2 9 (33.33%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (14.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (77.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 16 (59.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 14 (51.85%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (51.85%) Serverless
5 13 (48.15%) Amazon EKS
6 12 (44.44%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (33.33%) Route 53
8 8 (29.63%) Amazon ELB
8 8 (29.63%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (29.63%) AWS KMS
9 5 (18.52%) IaaS
10 4 (14.81%) Amazon Glacier
10 4 (14.81%) Azure
10 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (14.81%) Power Platform
11 3 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (11.11%) GitHub
11 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (33.33%) DNS
1 9 (33.33%) Firewall
2 5 (18.52%) OpenVPN
2 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
2 5 (18.52%) VPN
3 4 (14.81%) FTP
3 4 (14.81%) HTTP
3 4 (14.81%) IMAP
3 4 (14.81%) OpenLDAP
3 4 (14.81%) SMTP
3 4 (14.81%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (62.96%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (18.52%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (14.81%) Power BI
4 4 (14.81%) Tableau
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) JIRA
2 10 (37.04%) Git
3 8 (29.63%) Bitbucket
3 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
4 5 (18.52%) SonarQube
5 4 (14.81%) GitLab
5 4 (14.81%) Vagrant
General
1 17 (62.96%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (18.52%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (14.81%) Finance
5 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.93%) Delivery Manager
1 7 (25.93%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 7 (25.93%) Technical Manager
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Site Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Technical Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (14.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) LDAP
2 5 (18.52%) OpenID
3 3 (11.11%) AWS CDK
3 3 (11.11%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) boto
4 1 (3.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Replication
2 2 (7.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
3 4 (14.81%) VMS
3 4 (14.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Agile
2 14 (51.85%) DevOps
3 13 (48.15%) CI/CD
4 11 (40.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 9 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (29.63%) Change Management
6 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
6 8 (29.63%) Platform Engineering
6 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (25.93%) Decision-Making
7 7 (25.93%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
8 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
8 5 (18.52%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) Cloud Security
9 4 (14.81%) Cost Management
9 4 (14.81%) ETL
9 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (14.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) SQL
3 6 (22.22%) Bash
4 4 (14.81%) Groovy
4 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
5 3 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (74.07%) SC Cleared
1 20 (74.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (22.22%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) AWS Certification
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (48.15%) Docker
2 9 (33.33%) Squid
3 4 (14.81%) DFS Replication
3 4 (14.81%) Dovecot
3 4 (14.81%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Terraform
2 15 (55.56%) Grafana
3 10 (37.04%) Prometheus
4 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
5 6 (22.22%) Ansible
6 5 (18.52%) Consul
6 5 (18.52%) FortiGate
6 5 (18.52%) Puppet
6 5 (18.52%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (14.81%) Nessus
7 4 (14.81%) Proxmox
8 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) ServiceNow
2 5 (18.52%) Atlassian
2 5 (18.52%) Dynatrace
2 5 (18.52%) PagerDuty
2 5 (18.52%) Red Hat
3 4 (14.81%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (11.11%) Microsoft