Amazon ECS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 140 161
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 -25
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 9 8 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.34% 0.28% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.20% 0.95% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 4
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile - £575 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% +75.00%
75th Percentile - £675 £546
90th Percentile - - £560
South East median daily rate £600 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% +19.05% +46.85%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 749 841 1,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.91% 28.98% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 613 850
10th Percentile £273 £314 £184
25th Percentile £413 £425 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 19 20
10th Percentile £15.99 £19.70 £12.33
25th Percentile £19.37 £21.83 £15.53
Median hourly rate £42.50 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% +53.81% -0.24%
75th Percentile £59.95 £61.00 £24.44
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £68.79
South East median hourly rate £22.36 £24.00 £21.05
% change year-on-year -6.84% +14.01% -2.21%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the Thames Valley

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the Thames Valley

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 2 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
Berkshire -8 9 £600 -2.04% 1
Amazon ECS
South East

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (66.67%) OpenStack
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Serverless
2 7 (77.78%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon S3
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (77.78%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (77.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (77.78%) Jenkins
2 6 (66.67%) Git
3 5 (55.56%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) Mockito
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) Java Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Full Stack Developer
2 5 (55.56%) Full Stack Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (77.78%) REST
1 7 (77.78%) Spring
1 7 (77.78%) Spring Boot
1 7 (77.78%) Web Services
2 6 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (66.67%) Node.js
3 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) RESTful
3 4 (44.44%) SOAP
4 3 (33.33%) J2EE
5 2 (22.22%) Apache Camel
5 2 (22.22%) Kafka
5 2 (22.22%) Mustache
5 2 (22.22%) React
6 1 (11.11%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
6 1 (11.11%) HTML
6 1 (11.11%) jQuery
6 1 (11.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
1 7 (77.78%) Microservices
1 7 (77.78%) Scrum
1 7 (77.78%) TDD
2 6 (66.67%) DevOps
3 5 (55.56%) BDD
3 5 (55.56%) Full Stack Development
3 5 (55.56%) Kanban
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
6 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (11.11%) Process Management
6 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
6 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) Java
1 7 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk