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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 482 476 512
Rank change year-on-year -6 +36 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 97 221 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.39% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.70% 1.05% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 176 222
10th Percentile £405 £463 £450
25th Percentile £425 £521 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £655
90th Percentile £625 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +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 13,842 21,041 34,006
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.54% 36.74% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 15,232 24,816
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £748 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 332 411
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.50 £15.35
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +59.09% -2.22%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £53.88
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -29.12% +29.89% -3.76%

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 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 13 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 20 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
England +15 75 £495 -17.50% 76
London +57 55 £500 -16.67% 55
Work from Home +51 50 £498 -17.08% 54
UK excluding London -2 25 £513 -14.58% 36
North of England 0 9 £485 -19.17% 12
Scotland +34 6 £521 -13.17% 1
South East +13 6 £600 -1.64% 15
North West +12 5 £447 -22.26% 4
Yorkshire -7 4 £495 -20.80% 6
East Midlands +8 2 £450 -35.71% 1
Midlands +7 2 £450 -35.71% 1
South West +2 1 - - 3
East of England -4 1 £600 -14.29% 1

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 5 (5.15%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.12%) nginx
3 3 (3.09%) Apache
3 3 (3.09%) Confluence
3 3 (3.09%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.03%) JBoss
4 1 (1.03%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 96 (98.97%) AWS
2 62 (63.92%) Serverless
3 49 (50.52%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (43.30%) Amazon EC2
4 42 (43.30%) Amazon S3
5 36 (37.11%) Amazon EKS
6 23 (23.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 23 (23.71%) AWS CloudFormation
7 18 (18.56%) Azure
8 17 (17.53%) Amazon SQS
9 16 (16.49%) OpenShift
10 15 (15.46%) AWS Fargate
11 14 (14.43%) Amazon Kinesis
12 12 (12.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (11.34%) GCP
14 10 (10.31%) GitHub
15 9 (9.28%) Amazon SageMaker
15 9 (9.28%) AWS CodePipeline
15 9 (9.28%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (8.25%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) DNS
2 4 (4.12%) Firewall
3 3 (3.09%) DHCP
3 3 (3.09%) LAN
3 3 (3.09%) SMTP
3 3 (3.09%) WLAN
4 2 (2.06%) Network Security
4 2 (2.06%) SMS
5 1 (1.03%) HTTP
5 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (31.96%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (14.43%) DynamoDB
2 14 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (11.34%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (7.22%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.22%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.19%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.15%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.15%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.09%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (3.09%) InfluxDB
8 3 (3.09%) MySQL
9 2 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.06%) DB2
9 2 (2.06%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.06%) Parquet
10 1 (1.03%) Redis
10 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (37.11%) Jenkins
2 26 (26.80%) Git
3 25 (25.77%) GitLab
4 10 (10.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (6.19%) Artifactory
6 5 (5.15%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.15%) Maven
7 4 (4.12%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.09%) Protractor
8 3 (3.09%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.06%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.06%) JIRA
9 2 (2.06%) JUnit
9 2 (2.06%) Mocha
9 2 (2.06%) Selenium
9 2 (2.06%) webpack
10 1 (1.03%) Gradle
10 1 (1.03%) JMeter
10 1 (1.03%) Mockito
10 1 (1.03%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (24.74%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.49%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.15%) Finance
4 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Law
6 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.06%) Retail
7 1 (1.03%) Banking
7 1 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 44 (45.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (39.18%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (30.93%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (29.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 18 (18.56%) Developer
6 8 (8.25%) Senior
7 7 (7.22%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.22%) Lead
8 6 (6.19%) Architect
8 6 (6.19%) Consultant
8 6 (6.19%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.15%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) AWS Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Full Stack Developer
10 4 (4.12%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (4.12%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.46%) Node.js
2 12 (12.37%) REST
3 10 (10.31%) AWS CDK
4 9 (9.28%) React
5 8 (8.25%) RESTful
5 8 (8.25%) Spring
5 8 (8.25%) Web Services
6 7 (7.22%) Lambda Expressions
7 6 (6.19%) AngularJS
7 6 (6.19%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.15%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.15%) Kafka
9 4 (4.12%) Django
9 4 (4.12%) Jest
9 4 (4.12%) JSON
10 3 (3.09%) Apache Camel
10 3 (3.09%) Mustache
10 3 (3.09%) OAuth
10 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.15%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.12%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.09%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.09%) PKI
5 2 (2.06%) IoT
5 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.03%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.03%) Life Science
6 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.68%) Linux
2 8 (8.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.15%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.06%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (2.06%) CentOS
5 1 (1.03%) Unix
5 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (67.01%) DevOps
2 54 (55.67%) CI/CD
3 33 (34.02%) Agile
4 26 (26.80%) Containerisation
5 24 (24.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (18.56%) Microservices
7 16 (16.49%) Migration
8 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.40%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.28%) Computer Science
10 9 (9.28%) Task Automation
10 9 (9.28%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.25%) Scrum
11 8 (8.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.22%) Observability
12 7 (7.22%) Use Case
13 6 (6.19%) Full Stack Development
13 6 (6.19%) TDD
13 6 (6.19%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.42%) Python
2 22 (22.68%) Bash
2 22 (22.68%) Java
3 17 (17.53%) JavaScript
4 11 (11.34%) Go
4 11 (11.34%) TypeScript
5 9 (9.28%) Perl
6 8 (8.25%) Shell Script
6 8 (8.25%) SQL
7 6 (6.19%) Groovy
7 6 (6.19%) PHP
8 3 (3.09%) Scala
9 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.06%) R
10 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (29.90%) SC Cleared
1 29 (29.90%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (9.28%) Degree
3 7 (7.22%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.06%) GDPR
1 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) NCSC
2 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (34.02%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (49.48%) Kubernetes
2 38 (39.18%) Terraform
3 14 (14.43%) Ansible
4 7 (7.22%) Grafana
5 6 (6.19%) Kibana
6 4 (4.12%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.12%) Puppet
7 2 (2.06%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.03%) Consul
8 1 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.03%) Knative
8 1 (1.03%) Packer
8 1 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (4.12%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.09%) F5
2 3 (3.09%) Oracle
2 3 (3.09%) SAP
2 3 (3.09%) Splunk
3 2 (2.06%) Google
3 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.03%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.03%) WSO2
4 1 (1.03%) Zscaler