Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 87 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 +31 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.29% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.02% 1.02% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £453 £510 -
25th Percentile £456 £525 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +11.11% -1.00%
75th Percentile £544 £575 £518
90th Percentile £578 £590 -
England median daily rate £525 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 393 293 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 28.11% 20.45% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 173 294
10th Percentile £220 £214 £183
25th Percentile £400 £300 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £456
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -7.95% -10.76%
75th Percentile £580 £568 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £675
England median daily rate £501 £530 £540
% change year-on-year -5.57% -1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 29
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.98 £15.33
Median hourly rate £23.78 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% - +29.03%
75th Percentile £59.88 £21.46 £67.56
90th Percentile £67.00 £50.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +43.56%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the East of England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the East of England

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
Cambridgeshire -1 3 £525 +5.00%
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 1
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) Sumo Logic
4 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Solution Architect
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) LDAP
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) Redux
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) AI
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (25.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) CloudEndure
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) SaltStack