Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 47 -
Rank change year-on-year -25 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 7 10 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.02% 1.85% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.08% 6.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £355 £384 -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £399 £444 -
90th Percentile £420 £448 -
North West median daily rate £488 £410 £613
% change year-on-year +18.90% -33.06% +16.67%

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 227 165 116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.19% 30.56% 29.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 113 86
10th Percentile £278 £342 £206
25th Percentile £352 £375 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +1.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £488 £569 £495
90th Percentile £537 £638 £545
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £484
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.86% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 7
10th Percentile - £21.67 £22.32
25th Percentile £12.82 £22.61 £22.53
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.83% -26.73% +51.52%
75th Percentile £18.87 £55.84 £37.50
90th Percentile £43.13 £74.84 £54.00
North West median hourly rate £18.87 £41.09 £39.60
% change year-on-year -54.08% +3.76% -31.40%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

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 4 October 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 -20 7 £375 -6.25% 2
Amazon ECS
North West

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) MLflow
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) Flask
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) PySpark
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 4 (57.14%) MLOps
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) OOP
5 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) SOLID
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle