Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.33% - 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.56% - 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £545 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £693 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.12%
75th Percentile £714 - £588
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £625 £392 £600
% change year-on-year +59.44% -34.67% +9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 192 149 291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 20.82% 24.55% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 98 227
10th Percentile £362 £213 £273
25th Percentile £406 £384 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £594 £604 £630
90th Percentile £675 £686 £700
South West median daily rate £500 £536 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% +2.14% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile - - £19.58
25th Percentile £16.62 £25.26 £29.81
Median hourly rate £22.27 £27.13 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% -17.80% -49.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £28.99 £36.94
90th Percentile £93.75 - £61.13
South West median hourly rate £43.61 £26.50 £19.06
% change year-on-year +64.55% +39.03% -66.85%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Bristol

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in Bristol

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CodePipeline
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Serverless
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
3 1 (33.33%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Reverse Proxy
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes