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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 360 412
Rank change year-on-year -54 +52 +54
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 240 164 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.58% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.51% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 114 93
10th Percentile £385 £364 £445
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -22.22% +17.39%
75th Percentile £669 £629 £888
90th Percentile £775 £675 -
UK median daily rate £529 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +0.76% -12.50% +4.35%
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 16,181 10,869 11,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.55% 38.64% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,776 7,351 7,492
10th Percentile £323 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 260 159
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £16.24
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.51 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.03 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -40 150 £598 +13.90% 155
North of England -67 41 £500 - 38
North West -43 30 £513 +5.13% 23
Midlands -47 23 £475 +2.70% 16
West Midlands -44 21 £488 +5.41% 6
South East -57 13 £613 +11.36% 22
East of England -22 9 £550 +18.92% 9
North East -35 8 £400 -5.88% 4
South West -35 4 £365 -41.60% 22
Yorkshire -42 3 £500 - 11
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 10
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 18 (7.50%) Confluence
2 9 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.33%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.92%) Apache
5 6 (2.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.25%) nginx
7 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.42%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 234 (97.50%) AWS
2 166 (69.17%) Serverless
3 164 (68.33%) AWS Lambda
4 140 (58.33%) Amazon EKS
5 134 (55.83%) Amazon S3
6 93 (38.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 67 (27.92%) GitHub
8 65 (27.08%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (25.83%) AWS CloudFormation
10 61 (25.42%) GitHub Actions
11 54 (22.50%) Amazon SQS
12 44 (18.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (10.42%) Azure
14 20 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
15 19 (7.92%) AWS Fargate
16 17 (7.08%) AWS CodePipeline
16 17 (7.08%) GCP
17 15 (6.25%) AWS KMS
18 14 (5.83%) AWS Step Functions
19 13 (5.42%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.33%) Firewall
2 6 (2.50%) DNS
2 6 (2.50%) Network Security
3 4 (1.67%) HTTP
4 3 (1.25%) SSL
4 3 (1.25%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.25%) VPN
5 2 (0.83%) FTP
5 2 (0.83%) IMAP
5 2 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.83%) SMTP
5 2 (0.83%) SSH
6 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (28.75%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (20.42%) DynamoDB
3 37 (15.42%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (7.50%) MongoDB
4 18 (7.50%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (4.58%) Big Data
6 11 (4.58%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (2.50%) MySQL
9 5 (2.08%) DocumentDB
9 5 (2.08%) Redis
10 4 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.67%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.67%) Apache Iceberg
10 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.67%) Presto
10 4 (1.67%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.25%) Flink
11 3 (1.25%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 77 (32.08%) Jenkins
2 57 (23.75%) GitLab
3 26 (10.83%) Git
4 22 (9.17%) JIRA
5 10 (4.17%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.50%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.50%) Maven
7 5 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.67%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.67%) Mockito
9 3 (1.25%) git-flow
9 3 (1.25%) JUnit
10 2 (0.83%) Gatling
10 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.83%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.42%) Gradle
11 1 (0.42%) MLflow
11 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.42%) RhodeCode
General
1 58 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.50%) Finance
3 39 (16.25%) Public Sector
4 27 (11.25%) Banking
5 20 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.33%) Law
8 6 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.08%) Military
10 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.67%) Retail
11 2 (0.83%) iGaming
11 2 (0.83%) Local Government
11 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Back Office
12 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (20.83%) AWS Engineer
2 45 (18.75%) Senior
3 36 (15.00%) Developer
4 35 (14.58%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (13.75%) Lead
6 29 (12.08%) Architect
7 28 (11.67%) AWS DevOps
8 24 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
8 24 (10.00%) Scrum Master
9 22 (9.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (8.75%) Software Engineer
11 20 (8.33%) AWS Architect
11 20 (8.33%) Technical Leader
12 18 (7.50%) Java Developer
13 16 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 15 (6.25%) Data Engineer
15 13 (5.42%) AWS Software Engineer
15 13 (5.42%) Python Engineer
16 12 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (59.17%) Terraform
2 48 (20.00%) REST
3 45 (18.75%) Spring
4 44 (18.33%) Spring Boot
5 39 (16.25%) Kafka
6 37 (15.42%) RESTful
7 33 (13.75%) React
8 28 (11.67%) FastAPI
9 21 (8.75%) Node.js
10 17 (7.08%) AWS CDK
11 16 (6.67%) AngularJS
12 11 (4.58%) Flask
12 11 (4.58%) GraphQL
12 11 (4.58%) JWT
12 11 (4.58%) OAuth
12 11 (4.58%) OAuth2
13 9 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (3.75%) Jest
14 7 (2.92%) Express.js
14 7 (2.92%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 116 (48.33%) Cloud Native
2 41 (17.08%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (16.25%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.83%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (3.33%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.92%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.50%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.67%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.25%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.25%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.25%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 34 (14.17%) Linux
2 13 (5.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.17%) Windows
4 8 (3.33%) Unix
5 2 (0.83%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.83%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (72.92%) CI/CD
2 146 (60.83%) DevOps
3 140 (58.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 106 (44.17%) Agile
5 98 (40.83%) Containerisation
6 96 (40.00%) Microservices
7 89 (37.08%) Observability
8 69 (28.75%) Test Automation
9 55 (22.92%) Event-Driven
10 51 (21.25%) Software Engineering
11 48 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
13 43 (17.92%) Scrum
14 42 (17.50%) AI
14 42 (17.50%) Deployment Automation
14 42 (17.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 42 (17.50%) Migration
15 41 (17.08%) DevSecOps
16 39 (16.25%) Platform Engineering
17 36 (15.00%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 106 (44.17%) Python
2 79 (32.92%) Java
3 44 (18.33%) TypeScript
4 34 (14.17%) Bash
5 26 (10.83%) SQL
6 25 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 10 (4.17%) Scala
9 7 (2.92%) Bicep
9 7 (2.92%) Go
10 5 (2.08%) Groovy
10 5 (2.08%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.08%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.25%) C#
11 3 (1.25%) Lua
12 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.42%) Cypher
13 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 86 (35.83%) Security Cleared
2 71 (29.58%) SC Cleared
3 43 (17.92%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.17%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.17%) Degree
6 9 (3.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.33%) SAFe Agilist
8 7 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.50%) CISSP
10 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.25%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.08%) QA
2 6 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.67%) NCSC
4 2 (0.83%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) HL7
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (52.08%) Docker
2 6 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.83%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.83%) Postfix
3 2 (0.83%) Squid
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (37.92%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.67%) Grafana
3 23 (9.58%) Ansible
4 21 (8.75%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.92%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.08%) Kibana
7 4 (1.67%) Nessus
7 4 (1.67%) Puppet
8 3 (1.25%) Consul
8 3 (1.25%) Istio
8 3 (1.25%) Packer
8 3 (1.25%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.83%) linkerd
9 2 (0.83%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.42%) Argo
10 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.42%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.42%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (7.08%) Splunk
2 11 (4.58%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 7 (2.92%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.08%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.08%) Confluent
6 5 (2.08%) Google
6 5 (2.08%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.67%) Oracle
8 3 (1.25%) Databricks
9 2 (0.83%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.83%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.83%) webMethods
10 1 (0.42%) Apple
10 1 (0.42%) Dell
10 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.42%) Talend