Amazon ECS Contracts in Cheshire

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 55 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.89% 0.60% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 1.71% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £325 £445 -
25th Percentile £346 £446 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £447 -
Median % change year-on-year -19.91% - -
75th Percentile £361 £449 -
90th Percentile £365 £449 -
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -11.11% -21.74% +19.79%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 122 175 225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 27.17% 34.72% 42.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 118 166
10th Percentile £312 £281 £214
25th Percentile £364 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £575
90th Percentile £638 £588 £638
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 6
10th Percentile - £16.98 £12.63
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £21.21
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -16.43% -18.44%
75th Percentile - £43.75 £35.60
90th Percentile - - £52.88
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in Cheshire

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in Cheshire

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Knutsford -2 4 £358 -19.91%
Amazon ECS
North West

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (75.00%) Apache
1 3 (75.00%) nginx
1 3 (75.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS KMS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Secrets Management
2 3 (75.00%) Service Catalogue
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kibana
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) AppDynamics