Amazon ECS Contracts with Work from Home Options

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 342 391
Rank change year-on-year +55 +49 -33
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 54 126 236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.50% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 1.27% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 92 143
10th Percentile £405 £500 £420
25th Percentile £431 £534 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £542 £678 £656
90th Percentile £600 £700 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,447 9,934 18,168
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.13% 39.60% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,923 7,315 13,601
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 168
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +64.89% -17.09%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

Amazon ECS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon ECS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon ECS.

Amazon ECS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Amazon ECS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (1.85%) Confluence
1 1 (1.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 53 (98.15%) AWS
2 37 (68.52%) Serverless
3 34 (62.96%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (48.15%) Amazon S3
5 22 (40.74%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (27.78%) Amazon EKS
7 14 (25.93%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (24.07%) OpenShift
9 12 (22.22%) AWS Fargate
10 11 (20.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (16.67%) Azure
11 9 (16.67%) CloudFront
12 8 (14.81%) GCP
13 7 (12.96%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (11.11%) Amazon ElastiCache
14 6 (11.11%) Route 53
15 5 (9.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 5 (9.26%) AWS KMS
15 5 (9.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 3 (5.56%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) Firewall
2 3 (5.56%) DHCP
2 3 (5.56%) DNS
2 3 (5.56%) LAN
2 3 (5.56%) WLAN
3 2 (3.70%) Network Security
4 1 (1.85%) HTTP
4 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (31.48%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (18.52%) DynamoDB
3 6 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.41%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (5.56%) InfluxDB
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.70%) MariaDB
6 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (3.70%) MySQL
6 2 (3.70%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.85%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (1.85%) Redis
7 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 16 (29.63%) GitLab
3 10 (18.52%) Git
4 8 (14.81%) Maven
5 7 (12.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 6 (11.11%) Cypress.io
6 6 (11.11%) Protractor
7 4 (7.41%) Artifactory
8 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
9 2 (3.70%) Selenium
10 1 (1.85%) Gradle
10 1 (1.85%) JIRA
10 1 (1.85%) JMeter
10 1 (1.85%) JUnit
10 1 (1.85%) Mockito
General
1 17 (31.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Retail
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (53.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (35.19%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (29.63%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (29.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (14.81%) Developer
5 6 (11.11%) Consultant
6 5 (9.26%) Java Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Senior
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (5.56%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Angular Developer
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Developer
9 2 (3.70%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Lead
9 2 (3.70%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) PHP Developer
9 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) Node.js
2 6 (11.11%) AngularJS
2 6 (11.11%) AWS CDK
2 6 (11.11%) Jest
3 4 (7.41%) React
3 4 (7.41%) REST
3 4 (7.41%) Web Services
4 3 (5.56%) OAuth
4 3 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (3.70%) CodeIgniter
5 2 (3.70%) Django
5 2 (3.70%) Laravel
5 2 (3.70%) Spring
5 2 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.85%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (1.85%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.85%) Hibernate
6 1 (1.85%) jQuery
6 1 (1.85%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.70%) IoT
2 2 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (3.70%) Life Science
3 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.93%) Linux
2 5 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.41%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (3.70%) CentOS
4 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (68.52%) DevOps
2 36 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 22 (40.74%) Agile
4 16 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 16 (29.63%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 7 (12.96%) Computer Science
6 7 (12.96%) Migration
6 7 (12.96%) Observability
6 7 (12.96%) Task Automation
7 6 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (11.11%) Microservices
8 5 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (9.26%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (9.26%) Use Case
9 4 (7.41%) Kanban
9 4 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (7.41%) Scrum
10 3 (5.56%) BDD
10 3 (5.56%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 26 (48.15%) Python
2 17 (31.48%) Bash
3 14 (25.93%) Java
4 10 (18.52%) Go
5 7 (12.96%) Perl
6 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.41%) Groovy
7 4 (7.41%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 3 (5.56%) PHP
8 3 (5.56%) Scala
9 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.70%) R
9 2 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (12.96%) Degree
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) GDPR
1 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (40.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 22 (40.74%) Terraform
3 7 (12.96%) Ansible
4 6 (11.11%) Grafana
5 5 (9.26%) Kibana
6 4 (7.41%) Prometheus
7 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.85%) Knative
8 1 (1.85%) Puppet
8 1 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (7.41%) Dynatrace
2 3 (5.56%) Splunk
3 2 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (1.85%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle
4 1 (1.85%) Zscaler