Amazon ECS Contracts in the North of England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 175 174 227
Rank change year-on-year -1 +53 -51
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 9 39 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.19% 0.68% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 1.88% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 35 13
10th Percentile £432 £525 £420
25th Percentile £449 £575 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.17% +20.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £547 £700 £575
90th Percentile £578 - -
England median daily rate £489 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -18.50% - +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
North of 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 the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,368 2,077 2,491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.15% 36.39% 34.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 1,552 1,901
10th Percentile £263 £300 £195
25th Percentile £375 £414 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £687 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 36 61
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £39.80 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -59.65% +112.27% -1.32%
75th Percentile £22.00 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £44.24 £70.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.31
% change year-on-year -34.98% +51.55% +0.95%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West +21 6 £450 -21.74% 6
Yorkshire 0 3 £495 -20.80% 4
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (66.67%) Serverless
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (44.44%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
6 1 (11.11%) Akamai
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
6 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) DynamoDB
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 1 (11.11%) Git
3 1 (11.11%) Maven
3 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) AWS CDK
1 1 (11.11%) AWS SAM
1 1 (11.11%) Jest
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 3 (33.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Observability
5 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven
5 1 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 1 (11.11%) Extreme Programming
5 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Kanban
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) Bash
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Progress Chef
3 1 (11.11%) Puppet
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) ForgeRock
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Zscaler