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 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 26 22
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 23 13 18
As % of all contract jobs in South London 7.57% 7.60% 9.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.25% 17.11% 21.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 10
10th Percentile - £617 £491
25th Percentile £456 £627 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £644 £534
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +20.60% +6.80%
75th Percentile £514 £710 £540
90th Percentile £542 £749 £547
London median daily rate £537 £590 £625
% change year-on-year -8.98% -5.60% +3.31%

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 126 76 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 41.45% 44.44% 45.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 49 66
10th Percentile £413 £243 £291
25th Percentile £458 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £491
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% +0.76% -1.75%
75th Percentile £553 £633 £536
90th Percentile £650 £709 £567
London median daily rate £538 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +0.89% -3.14% -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 £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in South London over the 6 months to 13 August 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 13 August 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 £481 -25.27% 1
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 7 (30.43%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (91.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 21 (91.30%) Amazon S3
3 15 (65.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 12 (52.17%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (52.17%) Serverless
5 9 (39.13%) AWS KMS
6 8 (34.78%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (26.09%) Azure
8 5 (21.74%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (21.74%) GitHub
8 5 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (21.74%) Power Platform
8 5 (21.74%) Route 53
9 4 (17.39%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) DNS
2 1 (4.35%) OpenVPN
2 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (60.87%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (39.13%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (39.13%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (21.74%) Power BI
3 5 (21.74%) Tableau
4 4 (17.39%) DynamoDB
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) Jenkins
2 11 (47.83%) Git
3 7 (30.43%) JIRA
4 5 (21.74%) SonarQube
5 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket Server
5 4 (17.39%) DbUnit
5 4 (17.39%) GitLab
5 4 (17.39%) jMock
5 4 (17.39%) JUnit
5 4 (17.39%) Maven
5 4 (17.39%) Mockito
6 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
General
1 15 (65.22%) Public Sector
2 13 (56.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Finance
5 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Scrum Master
4 3 (13.04%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) DBA
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Java Scrum Master
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
6 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (30.43%) RESTful
1 7 (30.43%) Spring
1 7 (30.43%) Spring Boot
2 4 (17.39%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
2 4 (17.39%) Bootstrap
2 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
2 4 (17.39%) JPA
2 4 (17.39%) PowerMock
2 4 (17.39%) REST
2 4 (17.39%) SOAP
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Batch
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Cloud
2 4 (17.39%) Spring Integration
2 4 (17.39%) Web Services
3 3 (13.04%) Node.js
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.35%) LDAP
4 1 (4.35%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Replication
2 4 (17.39%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
3 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (78.26%) Agile
2 17 (73.91%) DevOps
3 15 (65.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (56.52%) CI/CD
5 10 (43.48%) Containerisation
6 9 (39.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (34.78%) Microservices
7 8 (34.78%) Performance Tuning
7 8 (34.78%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (34.78%) Scrum
7 8 (34.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
8 6 (26.09%) Observability
8 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (26.09%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (21.74%) Collaborative Culture
9 5 (21.74%) Cost Management
9 5 (21.74%) Data Extraction
9 5 (21.74%) Servant Leadership
9 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) Java
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 8 (34.78%) Python
4 5 (21.74%) Groovy
4 5 (21.74%) Perl
4 5 (21.74%) PowerShell
5 2 (8.70%) Bash
6 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (91.30%) Security Cleared
2 20 (86.96%) SC Cleared
3 9 (39.13%) AWS Certification
4 6 (26.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.35%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) PMO
2 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Docker
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Postfix
3 1 (4.35%) Squid
Systems Management
1 12 (52.17%) Grafana
2 10 (43.48%) Terraform
3 8 (34.78%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.35%) Ansible
5 1 (4.35%) Consul
5 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
5 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Atlassian
1 5 (21.74%) ServiceNow
2 4 (17.39%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat