Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 350 419
Rank change year-on-year -78 +69 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 217 153 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.55% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.46% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 109 91
10th Percentile £381 £358 £407
25th Percentile £458 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.74% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £888
90th Percentile £775 £678 -
UK median daily rate £540 £525 £544
% change year-on-year +2.86% -3.49% -5.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,915 10,455 11,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.52% 37.65% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,616 7,071 7,707
10th Percentile £320 £306 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £720 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 252 177
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.35
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.32 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
London -35 138 £582 +10.28% 194
North of England -76 36 £500 +1.01% 59
North West -37 27 £607 +49.75% 36
Midlands -38 24 £463 -2.63% 20
West Midlands -48 22 £475 - 8
South East -65 9 £600 +9.09% 31
East of England -15 8 £550 +22.22% 12
North East -35 7 £400 -5.88% 12
South West -46 4 £365 -41.60% 34
Yorkshire -56 2 £500 - 11
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 12
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 19 (8.76%) Confluence
2 10 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (4.15%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.76%) Apache
4 6 (2.76%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.46%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 212 (97.70%) AWS
2 152 (70.05%) AWS Lambda
2 152 (70.05%) Serverless
3 124 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
4 120 (55.30%) Amazon S3
5 79 (36.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 66 (30.41%) GitHub
7 63 (29.03%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (25.35%) Amazon EC2
9 53 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (23.04%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (16.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (9.68%) Azure
13 20 (9.22%) Amazon EventBridge
14 18 (8.29%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (7.37%) AWS CodePipeline
16 15 (6.91%) AWS Fargate
17 14 (6.45%) GCP
18 13 (5.99%) AWS KMS
19 12 (5.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.69%) Firewall
2 5 (2.30%) DNS
2 5 (2.30%) Network Security
3 4 (1.84%) HTTP
4 3 (1.38%) SSL
4 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.92%) FTP
5 2 (0.92%) IMAP
5 2 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.92%) SMTP
5 2 (0.92%) SSH
6 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (27.19%) Amazon RDS
2 45 (20.74%) DynamoDB
3 34 (15.67%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.22%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.91%) Amazon Aurora
5 15 (6.91%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.53%) Big Data
7 10 (4.61%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.30%) MySQL
9 5 (2.30%) Presto
10 4 (1.84%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.84%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.84%) Redis
11 3 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.38%) Metadata
11 3 (1.38%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 66 (30.41%) Jenkins
2 46 (21.20%) GitLab
3 22 (10.14%) JIRA
4 21 (9.68%) Git
5 11 (5.07%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.69%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.84%) Mockito
8 3 (1.38%) JUnit
8 3 (1.38%) Maven
8 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.92%) git-flow
9 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.46%) Gatling
10 1 (0.46%) JMeter
10 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.46%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 57 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 37 (17.05%) Finance
3 34 (15.67%) Public Sector
4 22 (10.14%) Banking
5 19 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.69%) Law
8 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.30%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.38%) Military
10 3 (1.38%) Retail
11 2 (0.92%) Local Government
12 1 (0.46%) Automotive
12 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.46%) Front Office
12 1 (0.46%) iGaming
12 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (21.20%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (17.51%) Senior
3 35 (16.13%) Developer
4 32 (14.75%) Lead
5 28 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (11.06%) Scrum Master
7 23 (10.60%) AWS DevOps
8 22 (10.14%) Architect
9 21 (9.68%) Software Engineer
10 18 (8.29%) Technical Leader
11 17 (7.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 15 (6.91%) Data Engineer
13 13 (5.99%) AWS Architect
13 13 (5.99%) Java Developer
14 12 (5.53%) AWS Software Engineer
14 12 (5.53%) Lead DevOps
15 11 (5.07%) AWS Developer
15 11 (5.07%) Python Engineer
16 10 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (57.14%) Terraform
2 42 (19.35%) REST
3 39 (17.97%) Spring
4 37 (17.05%) React
4 37 (17.05%) Spring Boot
5 33 (15.21%) Kafka
6 29 (13.36%) RESTful
7 25 (11.52%) FastAPI
8 23 (10.60%) Node.js
9 14 (6.45%) AngularJS
9 14 (6.45%) AWS CDK
10 10 (4.61%) Flask
11 9 (4.15%) .NET
11 9 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (3.69%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.69%) Jest
13 7 (3.23%) CSS
13 7 (3.23%) HTML
13 7 (3.23%) OAuth
13 7 (3.23%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 100 (46.08%) Cloud Native
2 39 (17.97%) Product Ownership
3 38 (17.51%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.61%) Cloud Security Posture
6 9 (4.15%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.84%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.38%) NHS
11 2 (0.92%) Autonomous Agent
11 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.67%) Linux
2 13 (5.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.15%) Unix
3 9 (4.15%) Windows
4 2 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.92%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) CentOS
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 126 (58.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 125 (57.60%) DevOps
4 99 (45.62%) Agile
5 86 (39.63%) Containerisation
6 85 (39.17%) Microservices
7 74 (34.10%) Observability
8 64 (29.49%) Test Automation
9 50 (23.04%) Event-Driven
9 50 (23.04%) Software Engineering
10 43 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
10 43 (19.82%) Technical Leadership
11 40 (18.43%) Scrum
12 38 (17.51%) DevSecOps
12 38 (17.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 35 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
14 34 (15.67%) Deployment Automation
15 33 (15.21%) AI
16 32 (14.75%) Full-Stack Development
17 31 (14.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 105 (48.39%) Python
2 73 (33.64%) Java
3 43 (19.82%) TypeScript
4 31 (14.29%) Bash
5 29 (13.36%) JavaScript
6 28 (12.90%) SQL
7 17 (7.83%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.07%) Scala
9 7 (3.23%) Bicep
10 5 (2.30%) C#
10 5 (2.30%) Groovy
10 5 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.30%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.84%) Go
12 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.46%) C
13 1 (0.46%) Cypher
13 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 78 (35.94%) Security Cleared
2 63 (29.03%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.05%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.22%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.61%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.15%) Degree
6 9 (4.15%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.76%) CISSP
10 5 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.92%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.06%) QA
2 5 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.84%) NCSC
4 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (51.15%) Docker
2 6 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.92%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.92%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.92%) Postfix
3 2 (0.92%) Squid
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 73 (33.64%) Kubernetes
2 26 (11.98%) Grafana
3 21 (9.68%) Ansible
4 20 (9.22%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.76%) Kibana
5 6 (2.76%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.84%) Nessus
7 3 (1.38%) Consul
7 3 (1.38%) Istio
7 3 (1.38%) Packer
7 3 (1.38%) Puppet
7 3 (1.38%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.92%) linkerd
8 2 (0.92%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 19 (8.76%) Splunk
2 10 (4.61%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.15%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.23%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.30%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.84%) Confluent
7 4 (1.84%) Google
7 4 (1.84%) Oracle
8 3 (1.38%) Databricks
9 2 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.92%) webMethods
10 1 (0.46%) Apple
10 1 (0.46%) Informatica
10 1 (0.46%) New Relic
10 1 (0.46%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.46%) Talend