Amazon ECS Contracts in the City of London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 122 169
Rank change year-on-year +4 +47 -10
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 1 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.057% 0.18% 0.083%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.13% 0.47% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -14.89%
Central London median daily rate - £538 £500
% change year-on-year - +7.50% -16.67%

All Cloud Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 762 856 1,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.37% 38.96% 38.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 610 937
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £674 £713
90th Percentile £750 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £554 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +3.01% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the City of London

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the City of London

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EventBridge
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker