Amazon ECS Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Amazon ECS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 457 464 485
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 -31
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 81 193 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 1.04% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 150 194
10th Percentile £406 £463 £450
25th Percentile £425 £525 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% +1.18% +10.07%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £640 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +11.11%

All Cloud Skills
England

Amazon ECS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,769 18,488 27,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.83% 36.63% 38.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,478 13,522 20,053
10th Percentile £290 £325 £339
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 311 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -6.30%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London +62 66 £500 -16.67% 36
South East +14 9 £600 -4.00% 5
North of England +2 7 £463 -22.92% 9
North West +20 6 £450 -21.74% 4
Midlands +15 2 £450 -35.71% 4
East Midlands +10 2 £450 -35.71% 2
South West +9 1 - - 3
Yorkshire -4 1 £475 -24.00% 3
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.64%) OpenStack
2 3 (3.70%) Apache
2 3 (3.70%) nginx
2 3 (3.70%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.23%) Confluence
3 1 (1.23%) JBoss
3 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) AWS
2 58 (71.60%) Serverless
3 45 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 40 (49.38%) Amazon S3
5 36 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (20.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 14 (17.28%) Amazon Kinesis
9 13 (16.05%) CloudFront
10 12 (14.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (14.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 11 (13.58%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (12.35%) AWS CodePipeline
12 10 (12.35%) GitHub
13 9 (11.11%) Azure
13 9 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (9.88%) Route 53
15 7 (8.64%) Amazon ECR
15 7 (8.64%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (8.64%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.64%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) Firewall
3 3 (3.70%) DHCP
3 3 (3.70%) LAN
3 3 (3.70%) SMTP
3 3 (3.70%) WLAN
4 2 (2.47%) Network Security
4 2 (2.47%) SMS
5 1 (1.23%) HTTP
5 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (32.10%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (20.99%) DynamoDB
3 13 (16.05%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (11.11%) Relational Database
5 7 (8.64%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (8.64%) MongoDB
6 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.70%) MySQL
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.47%) Parquet
10 1 (1.23%) DB2
10 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
10 1 (1.23%) Redis
10 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (28.40%) Jenkins
2 20 (24.69%) Git
3 12 (14.81%) GitLab
4 10 (12.35%) Cypress.io
4 10 (12.35%) Maven
5 8 (9.88%) Protractor
6 5 (6.17%) JUnit
7 3 (3.70%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.47%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.47%) Mocha
8 2 (2.47%) Selenium
8 2 (2.47%) Terragrunt
8 2 (2.47%) webpack
9 1 (1.23%) Gradle
9 1 (1.23%) JMeter
9 1 (1.23%) Mockito
General
1 17 (20.99%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.41%) Finance
5 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.70%) Retail
6 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Law
6 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.23%) Front Office
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (38.27%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (34.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 24 (29.63%) AWS DevOps
3 24 (29.63%) Developer
4 23 (28.40%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (14.81%) Java Developer
6 10 (12.35%) Senior
7 8 (9.88%) Full Stack Developer
8 6 (7.41%) Data Engineer
8 6 (7.41%) Lead
9 5 (6.17%) AWS Developer
9 5 (6.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.94%) Architect
10 4 (4.94%) AWS Architect
10 4 (4.94%) Consultant
10 4 (4.94%) Node.js Developer
10 4 (4.94%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (28.40%) Node.js
2 14 (17.28%) AngularJS
2 14 (17.28%) REST
3 11 (13.58%) RESTful
4 10 (12.35%) Web Services
5 9 (11.11%) Jest
5 9 (11.11%) React
5 9 (11.11%) Spring
6 8 (9.88%) Spring Boot
7 7 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (8.64%) Lambda Expressions
8 6 (7.41%) SOAP
9 5 (6.17%) AWS CDK
10 4 (4.94%) Django
10 4 (4.94%) J2EE
10 4 (4.94%) JSON
10 4 (4.94%) Kafka
11 3 (3.70%) Apache Camel
11 3 (3.70%) OAuth
12 2 (2.47%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.70%) PKI
4 2 (2.47%) IoT
4 2 (2.47%) Life Science
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Tandem
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (17.28%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (60.49%) DevOps
2 35 (43.21%) CI/CD
3 28 (34.57%) Agile
4 18 (22.22%) Microservices
5 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (12.35%) Full Stack Development
6 10 (12.35%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.11%) Scrum
7 9 (11.11%) TDD
7 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
8 8 (9.88%) BDD
8 8 (9.88%) Containerisation
9 7 (8.64%) Kanban
9 7 (8.64%) Migration
9 7 (8.64%) Software Engineering
9 7 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (6.17%) Data Pipeline
11 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 5 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.27%) Python
2 27 (33.33%) Java
3 20 (24.69%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 9 (11.11%) Bash
6 8 (9.88%) SQL
7 6 (7.41%) Go
7 6 (7.41%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.94%) PHP
9 2 (2.47%) Groovy
9 2 (2.47%) Perl
10 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (34.57%) SC Cleared
1 28 (34.57%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.47%) GDPR
1 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.23%) NCSC
2 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (30.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (34.57%) Terraform
2 27 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 13 (16.05%) Ansible
4 4 (4.94%) Puppet
5 3 (3.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.47%) Grafana
7 1 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.23%) Kibana
7 1 (1.23%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (3.70%) F5
1 3 (3.70%) Oracle
1 3 (3.70%) Splunk
2 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
2 2 (2.47%) SAP
3 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
3 1 (1.23%) WSO2
3 1 (1.23%) Zscaler