Amazon ECS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 478 508
Rank change year-on-year -17 +30 -46
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 103 249 380
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.42% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 1.13% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 189 225
10th Percentile £405 £463 £450
25th Percentile £425 £505 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £663 £671
90th Percentile £653 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.96% +9.09% +7.32%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,989 22,053 34,308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.87% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,925 15,944 24,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £353
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 355 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.39
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%
75th Percentile £34.69 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £18.75
% change year-on-year -28.09% +31.31% -6.25%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +20 81 £489 -18.50% 65
London +54 66 £500 -16.67% 36
Work from Home +44 49 £489 -18.50% 40
UK excluding London +14 26 £516 -13.96% 27
South East +20 9 £600 -4.00% 4
Scotland +25 7 £521 -13.17%
North of England +6 7 £463 -22.92% 9
North West +13 6 £450 -21.74% 4
Midlands +11 2 £450 -35.71% 4
East Midlands +9 2 £450 -35.71% 2
South West +16 1 - - 6
Yorkshire -4 1 £475 -24.00% 3

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (7.77%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.91%) Apache
2 3 (2.91%) nginx
2 3 (2.91%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.97%) JBoss
4 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 102 (99.03%) AWS
2 71 (68.93%) Serverless
3 56 (54.37%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (48.54%) Amazon S3
5 44 (42.72%) Amazon EC2
6 38 (36.89%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (20.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (19.42%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (15.53%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (15.53%) OpenShift
10 15 (14.56%) CloudFront
11 14 (13.59%) Amazon Kinesis
11 14 (13.59%) AWS Fargate
11 14 (13.59%) Azure
12 12 (11.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (9.71%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (9.71%) GitHub
14 9 (8.74%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (8.74%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (8.74%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.80%) DNS
2 4 (3.88%) Firewall
3 3 (2.91%) DHCP
3 3 (2.91%) LAN
3 3 (2.91%) SMTP
3 3 (2.91%) WLAN
4 2 (1.94%) Network Security
4 2 (1.94%) SMS
5 1 (0.97%) HTTP
5 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (31.07%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (18.45%) DynamoDB
3 17 (16.50%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.71%) Relational Database
5 9 (8.74%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (6.80%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.85%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (4.85%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (2.91%) InfluxDB
10 3 (2.91%) MySQL
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon Aurora
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon QuickSight
11 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.94%) MariaDB
11 2 (1.94%) Parquet
12 1 (0.97%) DB2
12 1 (0.97%) Redis
12 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (36.89%) Jenkins
2 27 (26.21%) Git
3 26 (25.24%) GitLab
4 10 (9.71%) Cypress.io
4 10 (9.71%) Maven
5 8 (7.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (7.77%) Protractor
6 7 (6.80%) Artifactory
7 5 (4.85%) JUnit
8 3 (2.91%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.91%) Selenium
8 3 (2.91%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.94%) Mocha
9 2 (1.94%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.94%) webpack
10 1 (0.97%) Gradle
10 1 (0.97%) JIRA
10 1 (0.97%) JMeter
10 1 (0.97%) Mockito
General
1 25 (24.27%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.39%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.83%) Finance
5 3 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (2.91%) Retail
6 2 (1.94%) Banking
6 2 (1.94%) Law
6 2 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.97%) Front Office
7 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 42 (40.78%) DevOps Engineer
2 40 (38.83%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (31.07%) AWS DevOps
4 31 (30.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 26 (25.24%) Developer
6 12 (11.65%) Java Developer
7 10 (9.71%) Senior
8 8 (7.77%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (6.80%) Lead
10 6 (5.83%) Consultant
10 6 (5.83%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.85%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.85%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.88%) AWS Architect
12 4 (3.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.30%) Node.js
2 15 (14.56%) REST
3 14 (13.59%) AngularJS
4 11 (10.68%) RESTful
4 11 (10.68%) Web Services
5 10 (9.71%) AWS CDK
5 10 (9.71%) React
5 10 (9.71%) Spring
6 9 (8.74%) Jest
6 9 (8.74%) Spring Boot
7 8 (7.77%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.80%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (5.83%) SOAP
10 5 (4.85%) Kafka
11 4 (3.88%) Django
11 4 (3.88%) J2EE
11 4 (3.88%) JSON
12 3 (2.91%) Mustache
12 3 (2.91%) OAuth
12 3 (2.91%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.74%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.85%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.85%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.91%) PKI
4 2 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.94%) IoT
4 2 (1.94%) Life Science
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.97%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.97%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.97%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 21 (20.39%) Linux
2 8 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.85%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.91%) Windows
5 2 (1.94%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.94%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (65.05%) DevOps
2 54 (52.43%) CI/CD
3 38 (36.89%) Agile
4 21 (20.39%) Containerisation
4 21 (20.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (18.45%) Microservices
6 13 (12.62%) Test Automation
7 11 (10.68%) Migration
7 11 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (10.68%) Scrum
8 10 (9.71%) Full Stack Development
9 9 (8.74%) Kanban
9 9 (8.74%) TDD
10 8 (7.77%) BDD
10 8 (7.77%) Task Automation
10 8 (7.77%) Translating Business Requirements
11 7 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (6.80%) Software Engineering
11 7 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (5.83%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 45 (43.69%) Python
2 28 (27.18%) Java
3 21 (20.39%) JavaScript
4 20 (19.42%) Bash
5 12 (11.65%) Go
5 12 (11.65%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.77%) Perl
6 8 (7.77%) Shell Script
6 8 (7.77%) SQL
7 7 (6.80%) Groovy
8 6 (5.83%) PHP
9 2 (1.94%) R
10 1 (0.97%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (28.16%) SC Cleared
1 29 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.80%) AWS Certification
3 6 (5.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.83%) Degree
4 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.94%) GDPR
1 2 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.97%) NCSC
2 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (31.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 44 (42.72%) Kubernetes
2 37 (35.92%) Terraform
3 19 (18.45%) Ansible
4 7 (6.80%) Grafana
5 6 (5.83%) Kibana
6 4 (3.88%) Puppet
7 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.97%) Knative
8 1 (0.97%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (2.91%) F5
1 3 (2.91%) Oracle
1 3 (2.91%) Splunk
2 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
2 2 (1.94%) SAP
3 1 (0.97%) Dynatrace
3 1 (0.97%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft
3 1 (0.97%) WSO2
3 1 (0.97%) Zscaler