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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.22% - 0.053%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% - 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £620 - -
England median daily rate £550 £640 £495
% change year-on-year -14.06% +29.29% -17.50%

All Cloud Computing 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 444 304 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 19.90% 31.77% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 185 155
10th Percentile £198 £202 £211
25th Percentile £400 £413 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £574
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 35 61
10th Percentile £14.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £16.73 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £21.72 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.22% - -23.47%
75th Percentile £55.00 £22.24 £21.37
90th Percentile £60.00 £31.64 £65.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

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
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 24 May 2026. 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
Hertfordshire - 5 £550 - 2
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:

General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) SOC Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (80.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (80.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 5 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
2 4 (80.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 4 (80.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Detection
2 4 (80.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SOAR
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 5 (100.00%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk