Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 126 149
Rank change year-on-year +5 +23 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 6 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.047% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.12% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile - - £438
25th Percentile £663 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £731 - £650
90th Percentile £758 - £673
Central London median daily rate £675 - £625
% change year-on-year - - -13.79%

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 705 844 1,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.42% 39.79% 41.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 550 830
10th Percentile £339 £387 £325
25th Percentile £435 £475 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £561
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% +0.67% -2.39%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £688
90th Percentile £761 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 6
10th Percentile £23.03 - £14.63
25th Percentile £28.06 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.25 £27.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +30.12% -8.79%
75th Percentile £63.37 £59.75 £34.44
90th Percentile £89.88 £79.40 £45.25
Central London median hourly rate £38.25 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +9.29% +68.67% -8.79%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Amazon ECS

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 (16.67%) CICS
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub
4 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) IaaS
5 1 (16.67%) PaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Pulumi
5 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Pinecone
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) Faiss
1 1 (16.67%) FastAPI
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) LangGraph
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth
1 1 (16.67%) OAuth2
1 1 (16.67%) OpenID
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (16.67%) NHS
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (16.67%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Solaris
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Observability
2 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (16.67%) GitOps
3 1 (16.67%) Inventory Management
3 1 (16.67%) LLM
3 1 (16.67%) Multi-Agent System
3 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) COBOL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) NetApp