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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -7 +3 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 21 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in South London 7.00% 11.11% 5.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.27% 24.10% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile - £529 £486
25th Percentile £456 £610 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £622 £538
Median % change year-on-year -22.63% +15.61% +7.60%
75th Percentile £531 £644 £551
90th Percentile £588 £723 £563
London median daily rate £542 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -9.67% -4.00% +4.17%

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 109 83 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 36.33% 46.11% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 45 67
10th Percentile £416 £255 £270
25th Percentile £478 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £495 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% +4.21% -9.52%
75th Percentile £551 £630 £538
90th Percentile £649 £714 £567
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.70 - -
Median hourly rate £17.85 - -
75th Percentile £19.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £32.81 £31.00 £30.80
% change year-on-year +5.84% +0.67% -35.17%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 20 £481 -22.63% 2
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 9 (42.86%) Confluence
2 2 (9.52%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (90.48%) Amazon S3
3 12 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 10 (47.62%) AWS KMS
5 9 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
5 9 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (42.86%) Azure
5 9 (42.86%) Serverless
6 7 (33.33%) GitHub
6 7 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (19.05%) Route 53
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (9.52%) Power Platform
9 1 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
2 2 (9.52%) FTP
2 2 (9.52%) HTTP
2 2 (9.52%) IMAP
2 2 (9.52%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (9.52%) SMTP
2 2 (9.52%) SSH
3 1 (4.76%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (47.62%) Amazon Aurora
2 10 (47.62%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.52%) DynamoDB
3 2 (9.52%) Power BI
3 2 (9.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (80.95%) Jenkins
2 11 (52.38%) Git
3 9 (42.86%) JIRA
4 2 (9.52%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (9.52%) DbUnit
4 2 (9.52%) GitLab
4 2 (9.52%) jMock
4 2 (9.52%) JUnit
4 2 (9.52%) Maven
4 2 (9.52%) Mockito
4 2 (9.52%) SonarQube
4 2 (9.52%) Vagrant
5 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (47.62%) Public Sector
3 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.52%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Scrum Master
3 5 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) DBA
4 4 (19.05%) Java Scrum Master
4 4 (19.05%) Lead
4 4 (19.05%) Technical Leader
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior
6 1 (4.76%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (47.62%) Terraform
2 8 (38.10%) RESTful
2 8 (38.10%) Spring
2 8 (38.10%) Spring Boot
3 2 (9.52%) ActiveMQ
3 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
3 2 (9.52%) Bootstrap
3 2 (9.52%) Hibernate
3 2 (9.52%) JPA
3 2 (9.52%) Node.js
3 2 (9.52%) PowerMock
3 2 (9.52%) REST
3 2 (9.52%) SOAP
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Batch
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Cloud
3 2 (9.52%) Spring Integration
3 2 (9.52%) Web Services
4 1 (4.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Replication
2 7 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 6 (28.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Linux
2 8 (38.10%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Ubuntu
3 2 (9.52%) Windows
4 1 (4.76%) VMS
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (90.48%) DevOps
2 18 (85.71%) Agile
3 17 (80.95%) CI/CD
4 15 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (61.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (52.38%) Observability
8 10 (47.62%) Containerisation
8 10 (47.62%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (47.62%) Technical Leadership
9 9 (42.86%) Microservices
9 9 (42.86%) Scrum
10 7 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
10 7 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (33.33%) DevSecOps
10 7 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 7 (33.33%) Servant Leadership
10 7 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (33.33%) Test Automation
11 6 (28.57%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) Groovy
2 8 (38.10%) Python
3 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 6 (28.57%) Perl
4 6 (28.57%) SQL
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (71.43%) AWS Certification
3 9 (42.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (80.95%) Docker
2 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) Postfix
3 2 (9.52%) DFS Replication
3 2 (9.52%) Dovecot
3 2 (9.52%) Squid
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (52.38%) Grafana
2 8 (38.10%) Prometheus
3 2 (9.52%) Nessus
3 2 (9.52%) Proxmox
4 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) ServiceNow
2 4 (19.05%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (9.52%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft