Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 50 -
Rank change year-on-year -24 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.32% 0.72% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 2.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £469 £428 -
25th Percentile £487 £431 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.94% - -
75th Percentile £567 £469 -
90th Percentile £587 £473 -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £490 £505
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.97% -27.86%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Birmingham

Amazon ECS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 293 155 234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.54% 27.73% 31.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 111 183
10th Percentile £308 £200 £250
25th Percentile £394 £340 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £538 £607
90th Percentile £688 £625 £721
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 6
10th Percentile £57.00 - £14.01
25th Percentile £65.00 £56.88 £14.59
Median hourly rate £70.00 £58.75 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.15% +205.19% -1.28%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.63 £25.81
90th Percentile - - £40.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £34.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year -1.28% +53.02% +20.00%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon ECS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
1 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Mustache
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 1 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk