Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 26 29
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 6 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 5.22% 0.93% 4.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.79% 1.79% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £805 £674
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £820 £698
Median % change year-on-year -42.07% +17.56% -
75th Percentile - £835 £721
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £530 £685 £698
% change year-on-year -22.63% -1.79% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 77 56 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 66.96% 51.85% 57.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 43 76
10th Percentile £463 £380 £361
25th Percentile £500 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £488 £542
Median % change year-on-year +6.37% -9.97% -6.84%
75th Percentile £553 £544 £630
90th Percentile £627 £685 £673
South London median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -9.09%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Croydon

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 6 (100.00%) Confluence
1 6 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (100.00%) Route 53
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
1 6 (100.00%) FTP
1 6 (100.00%) HTTP
1 6 (100.00%) IMAP
1 6 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 6 (100.00%) SMTP
1 6 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
1 6 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 6 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 6 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 6 (100.00%) VMS
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Groovy
1 6 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (100.00%) Python
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 6 (100.00%) Docker
1 6 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 6 (100.00%) Postfix
1 6 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Grafana
1 6 (100.00%) Nessus
1 6 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 6 (100.00%) ServiceNow