Amazon EC2 Contracts in South London

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 25 40
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 11 14 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 6.47% 6.42% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.67% 12.61% 7.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 6
10th Percentile £733 £360 £476
25th Percentile £745 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £785 £412 £500
Median % change year-on-year +90.42% -17.55% -21.26%
75th Percentile £820 £519 -
90th Percentile £829 £527 -
London median daily rate £575 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +9.52% -16.00% +4.17%

All Cloud 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 75 111 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 44.12% 50.92% 35.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 95 106
10th Percentile £423 £228 £291
25th Percentile £463 £400 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.50% -4.63%
75th Percentile £555 £534 £595
90th Percentile £704 £630 £725
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £20.00
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +11.81% -50.48% +31.25%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in South London

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in South London.

Daily rate trend 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 31 May 2025. 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 +4 10 £785 +108.22%
Amazon EC2
London

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (72.73%) Amazon S3
3 5 (45.45%) Amazon SQS
3 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (27.27%) IaaS
5 3 (27.27%) PaaS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (18.18%) Route 53
6 2 (18.18%) SaaS
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (9.09%) AWS KMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (18.18%) RDBMS
3 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Git
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
2 5 (45.45%) JUnit
2 5 (45.45%) Mockito
3 4 (36.36%) GitLab
4 3 (27.27%) Maven
4 3 (27.27%) SonarQube
5 2 (18.18%) JMeter
6 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (9.09%) DbUnit
6 1 (9.09%) jMock
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
1 5 (45.45%) Java Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Java Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) ActiveMQ
1 5 (45.45%) REST
1 5 (45.45%) Spring
1 5 (45.45%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) Bootstrap
2 3 (27.27%) Hibernate
2 3 (27.27%) JPA
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
3 2 (18.18%) Apache Camel
3 2 (18.18%) HTML
3 2 (18.18%) jQuery
3 2 (18.18%) JSON
3 2 (18.18%) WireMock
3 2 (18.18%) XML
4 1 (9.09%) PowerMock
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Onboarding
2 3 (27.27%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (18.18%) CSOC
3 2 (18.18%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Microservices
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
4 6 (54.55%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) Agile
5 5 (45.45%) TDD
6 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
7 3 (27.27%) BDD
7 3 (27.27%) Cloud Security
7 3 (27.27%) Refactoring
7 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
7 3 (27.27%) Scrum
7 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (27.27%) Task Automation
8 2 (18.18%) Process Management
8 2 (18.18%) SIEM
8 2 (18.18%) SOAR
8 2 (18.18%) Use Case
8 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
1 8 (72.73%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Docker
2 1 (9.09%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Grafana
1 7 (63.64%) Prometheus
2 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (36.36%) Terraform
4 3 (27.27%) Ansible
5 2 (18.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
2 2 (18.18%) Dynatrace
3 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
3 1 (9.09%) Jaspersoft