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 3 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 12 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 8 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.93% 9.47% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.60% 23.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £617 -
25th Percentile £575 £627 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £644 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.83% - -
75th Percentile £625 £710 -
90th Percentile - £749 -
London median daily rate £500 £620 £750
% change year-on-year -19.35% -17.33% +27.66%

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 43 38 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 31.85% 40.00% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 20
10th Percentile £446 £255 £321
25th Percentile £496 £275 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -19.43%
75th Percentile £588 £630 £503
90th Percentile £650 £694 £540
London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.70 - -
Median hourly rate £17.85 - -
75th Percentile £19.01 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £37.50
% change year-on-year +30.15% -29.87% -31.82%

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 3 months to 29 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Croydon -1 7 £600 -6.83%
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 (35.48%) Confluence
2 2 (6.45%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 31 (100.00%) AWS
2 29 (93.55%) Amazon S3
3 28 (90.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (77.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 17 (54.84%) AWS Lambda
5 17 (54.84%) Serverless
6 12 (38.71%) AWS KMS
7 10 (32.26%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
9 6 (19.35%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (19.35%) GitHub
9 6 (19.35%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (19.35%) Route 53
10 5 (16.13%) Azure
11 4 (12.90%) Amazon ELB
11 4 (12.90%) Amazon Glacier
11 4 (12.90%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (12.90%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (9.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.13%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) OpenVPN
2 2 (6.45%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (64.52%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (25.81%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (25.81%) Power BI
2 8 (25.81%) Tableau
3 4 (12.90%) DynamoDB
4 2 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 14 (45.16%) Git
1 14 (45.16%) Jenkins
2 11 (35.48%) JIRA
3 6 (19.35%) Bitbucket
3 6 (19.35%) GitLab
3 6 (19.35%) SonarQube
4 4 (12.90%) Bitbucket Server
4 4 (12.90%) DbUnit
4 4 (12.90%) jMock
4 4 (12.90%) JUnit
4 4 (12.90%) Maven
4 4 (12.90%) Mockito
5 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
General
1 19 (61.29%) Public Sector
1 19 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Finance
4 7 (22.58%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Delivery Manager
2 7 (22.58%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 7 (22.58%) Technical Manager
3 6 (19.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Scrum Master
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) DBA
7 1 (3.23%) Senior
7 1 (3.23%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
7 1 (3.23%) Tableau Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) RESTful
1 6 (19.35%) Spring
1 6 (19.35%) Spring Boot
2 4 (12.90%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (12.90%) AngularJS
2 4 (12.90%) Bootstrap
2 4 (12.90%) Hibernate
2 4 (12.90%) JPA
2 4 (12.90%) PowerMock
2 4 (12.90%) REST
2 4 (12.90%) SOAP
2 4 (12.90%) Spring Batch
2 4 (12.90%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (12.90%) Spring Integration
2 4 (12.90%) Web Services
3 3 (9.68%) AWS CDK
3 3 (9.68%) Node.js
4 2 (6.45%) LDAP
4 2 (6.45%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Replication
2 3 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Linux
2 5 (16.13%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (77.42%) Agile
2 21 (67.74%) Continuous Improvement
3 18 (58.06%) DevOps
4 13 (41.94%) CI/CD
5 10 (32.26%) Containerisation
6 9 (29.03%) Decision-Making
6 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (25.81%) Cost Management
7 8 (25.81%) Data Extraction
7 8 (25.81%) Data Visualisation
7 8 (25.81%) ETL
7 8 (25.81%) Migration
7 8 (25.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (25.81%) Visualisation
8 7 (22.58%) Microservices
8 7 (22.58%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (22.58%) Project Delivery
8 7 (22.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) SQL
2 10 (32.26%) Java
3 9 (29.03%) Python
4 4 (12.90%) Groovy
4 4 (12.90%) Perl
4 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
5 3 (9.68%) Shell Script
6 2 (6.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (90.32%) Security Cleared
2 27 (87.10%) SC Cleared
3 7 (22.58%) AWS Certification
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.23%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) PMO
2 2 (6.45%) QA
3 1 (3.23%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Docker
2 3 (9.68%) Postfix
3 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
3 2 (6.45%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (38.71%) Grafana
1 12 (38.71%) Terraform
2 8 (25.81%) Prometheus
3 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.45%) Consul
4 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
4 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (3.23%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (25.81%) ServiceNow
2 6 (19.35%) Atlassian
3 4 (12.90%) Jaspersoft
4 2 (6.45%) Dynatrace
4 2 (6.45%) Red Hat