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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 356 414
Rank change year-on-year -60 +58 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 238 165 116
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.59% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.47% 1.52% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 115 94
10th Percentile £384 £365 £446
25th Percentile £450 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -22.22% +17.39%
75th Percentile £670 £628 £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 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
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 16,178 10,882 11,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.54% 38.66% 35.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,769 7,357 7,545
10th Percentile £322 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -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 581 264 160
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.07 £16.27
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 £80.00 £67.18 £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 15 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 15 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 -23 149 £596 +13.43% 23
North of England -67 41 £500 - 9
North West -42 30 £513 +5.13% 5
Midlands -43 23 £475 +2.70% 1
West Midlands -41 21 £488 +5.41% 1
South East -62 13 £613 +11.36% 6
East of England -22 9 £550 +15.79%
North East -30 8 £400 -5.88%
South West -38 4 £365 -41.60% 11
Yorkshire -49 3 £500 - 4
East Midlands - 2 £358 -
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 17 (7.14%) Confluence
2 7 (2.94%) Apache
3 6 (2.52%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.26%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.26%) nginx
6 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
7 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
1 232 (97.48%) AWS
2 167 (70.17%) Serverless
3 162 (68.07%) AWS Lambda
4 141 (59.24%) Amazon EKS
5 129 (54.20%) Amazon S3
6 94 (39.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 67 (28.15%) GitHub
8 66 (27.73%) Amazon EC2
8 66 (27.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 60 (25.21%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (23.11%) Amazon SQS
11 44 (18.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (10.92%) Azure
13 22 (9.24%) Amazon EventBridge
14 20 (8.40%) AWS Fargate
15 17 (7.14%) AWS CodePipeline
15 17 (7.14%) GCP
16 15 (6.30%) AWS KMS
17 13 (5.46%) AWS CloudTrail
17 13 (5.46%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.36%) Firewall
2 6 (2.52%) DNS
2 6 (2.52%) Network Security
3 4 (1.68%) HTTP
4 3 (1.26%) SSL
4 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.26%) VPN
5 2 (0.84%) FTP
5 2 (0.84%) IMAP
5 2 (0.84%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.84%) SMTP
5 2 (0.84%) SSH
6 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (28.15%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (20.59%) DynamoDB
3 34 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 13 (5.46%) NoSQL
6 12 (5.04%) Relational Database
7 10 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.52%) Big Data
9 6 (2.52%) MySQL
9 6 (2.52%) Redis
10 5 (2.10%) DocumentDB
10 5 (2.10%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.68%) Apache Iceberg
11 4 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.26%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.26%) Flink
12 3 (1.26%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.84%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 72 (30.25%) Jenkins
2 57 (23.95%) GitLab
3 25 (10.50%) Git
4 21 (8.82%) JIRA
5 10 (4.20%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.52%) Maven
7 5 (2.10%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.68%) Mockito
9 3 (1.26%) git-flow
9 3 (1.26%) JUnit
10 2 (0.84%) Gatling
10 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.84%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.42%) JMeter
11 1 (0.42%) MLflow
11 1 (0.42%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.42%) RhodeCode
General
1 58 (24.37%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.07%) Finance
3 40 (16.81%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.76%) Banking
5 15 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.36%) Law
8 6 (2.52%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.10%) Military
9 5 (2.10%) Retail
10 4 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) iGaming
11 2 (0.84%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.42%) Automotive
12 1 (0.42%) Back Office
12 1 (0.42%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 50 (21.01%) AWS Engineer
2 45 (18.91%) Senior
3 38 (15.97%) Developer
4 35 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 33 (13.87%) Lead
6 29 (12.18%) Architect
6 29 (12.18%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (10.08%) Scrum Master
8 23 (9.66%) Cloud Engineer
9 22 (9.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 21 (8.82%) Software Engineer
11 20 (8.40%) AWS Architect
11 20 (8.40%) Technical Leader
12 18 (7.56%) Java Developer
13 16 (6.72%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (6.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 13 (5.46%) AWS Software Engineer
14 13 (5.46%) Python Engineer
15 12 (5.04%) Lead DevOps
16 11 (4.62%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (58.40%) Terraform
2 48 (20.17%) REST
3 47 (19.75%) Spring
4 46 (19.33%) Spring Boot
5 40 (16.81%) Kafka
6 36 (15.13%) RESTful
7 32 (13.45%) React
8 28 (11.76%) FastAPI
9 22 (9.24%) Node.js
10 17 (7.14%) AngularJS
10 17 (7.14%) AWS CDK
11 12 (5.04%) JWT
11 12 (5.04%) OAuth
11 12 (5.04%) OAuth2
12 11 (4.62%) Flask
12 11 (4.62%) GraphQL
13 9 (3.78%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (3.78%) Jest
14 8 (3.36%) Express.js
15 7 (2.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 117 (49.16%) Cloud Native
2 43 (18.07%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (14.71%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.88%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.20%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.36%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (2.52%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.68%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.68%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.68%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.68%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.26%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.26%) Fixed Income
10 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.61%) Linux
2 13 (5.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (4.20%) Windows
4 4 (1.68%) Unix
5 2 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.42%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (73.11%) CI/CD
2 147 (61.76%) DevOps
3 138 (57.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (42.44%) Agile
5 100 (42.02%) Containerisation
6 98 (41.18%) Microservices
7 90 (37.82%) Observability
8 65 (27.31%) Test Automation
9 57 (23.95%) Event-Driven
10 49 (20.59%) Software Engineering
11 48 (20.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (19.33%) Technical Leadership
13 44 (18.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 43 (18.07%) Migration
15 42 (17.65%) AI
15 42 (17.65%) Deployment Automation
15 42 (17.65%) DevSecOps
16 39 (16.39%) Platform Engineering
16 39 (16.39%) Scrum
17 36 (15.13%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 101 (42.44%) Python
2 76 (31.93%) Java
3 44 (18.49%) TypeScript
4 34 (14.29%) Bash
5 21 (8.82%) SQL
6 20 (8.40%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.40%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.94%) Bicep
7 7 (2.94%) Go
8 5 (2.10%) Groovy
8 5 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.10%) Scala
8 5 (2.10%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (1.68%) C#
10 3 (1.26%) Lua
11 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.42%) C
12 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 84 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 71 (29.83%) SC Cleared
3 45 (18.91%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.24%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.20%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.20%) Degree
6 9 (3.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.36%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.52%) CISSP
9 4 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.26%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (12.18%) QA
2 5 (2.10%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.68%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.68%) NCSC
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) HL7
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 123 (51.68%) Docker
2 6 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.84%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.84%) Postfix
3 2 (0.84%) Squid
4 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 91 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 24 (10.08%) Grafana
3 23 (9.66%) Ansible
4 22 (9.24%) Prometheus
5 7 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.68%) Nessus
6 4 (1.68%) Puppet
7 3 (1.26%) Consul
7 3 (1.26%) Istio
7 3 (1.26%) Packer
7 3 (1.26%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.84%) linkerd
8 2 (0.84%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.42%) Argo
9 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.42%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.42%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (5.46%) Splunk
2 11 (4.62%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.20%) Dynatrace
4 7 (2.94%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.52%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.10%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.10%) Confluent
6 5 (2.10%) Google
6 5 (2.10%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.68%) Oracle
8 3 (1.26%) Databricks
9 2 (0.84%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.84%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.84%) 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