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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 94 103
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 1 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.077% 0.20% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 1.11% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - £510 £609
25th Percentile - £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £700
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -21.43% +11.38%
75th Percentile - £575 -
90th Percentile - £590 -
England median daily rate £525 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -

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 352 270 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.12% 17.87% 26.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 156 323
10th Percentile £220 £213 £189
25th Percentile £407 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% -8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £579 £563 £588
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 29
10th Percentile £14.99 - £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £14.16 £15.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.11% -18.50% +29.03%
75th Percentile £46.18 £21.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £26.55 £71.71
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS 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
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 16 September 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 1 £450 -10.00%
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM