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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 337 467
Rank change year-on-year -36 +130 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 226 150 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.61% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.63% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 131 59
10th Percentile £372 £400 £406
25th Percentile £450 £579 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £489
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +48.26% -18.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £588
90th Percentile £675 £875 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.75 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.63 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 14,244 9,210 11,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.88% 37.47% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,820 6,447 8,583
10th Percentile £315 £313 £284
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 194 320
10th Percentile £15.99 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.02 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £46.00 £26.48 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +73.75% +26.86% -29.25%
75th Percentile £67.84 £42.74 £32.88
90th Percentile £81.00 £74.63 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +55.22% +30.95% -37.78%

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 23 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon ECS in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon ECS in England

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 23 April 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 -17 148 £525 -32.26% 21
North of England -42 44 £538 -4.44% 18
North West -28 20 £625 +56.25% 8
Yorkshire -41 19 £500 -31.03% 6
South West -22 10 £461 +17.67% 2
South East -51 7 £530 -7.83% 9
West Midlands -54 7 £463 -14.21% 1
Midlands -55 7 £463 -14.21% 2
North East -17 5 £530 -29.33% 4
East of England - 2 £550 - 4
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 14 (6.19%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.75%) Confluence
3 9 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.77%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 224 (99.12%) AWS
2 161 (71.24%) Serverless
3 155 (68.58%) AWS Lambda
4 133 (58.85%) Amazon S3
5 98 (43.36%) Amazon EKS
6 94 (41.59%) AWS CloudFormation
7 88 (38.94%) GitHub
8 76 (33.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 72 (31.86%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (23.45%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (18.58%) AWS CodePipeline
12 38 (16.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (11.95%) Amazon SQS
14 24 (10.62%) AWS Fargate
15 21 (9.29%) Amazon ECR
16 20 (8.85%) Azure
16 20 (8.85%) Datadog
17 18 (7.96%) AWS Step Functions
18 13 (5.75%) IaaS
18 13 (5.75%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.08%) DNS
2 6 (2.65%) Firewall
3 5 (2.21%) Network Security
3 5 (2.21%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.33%) HTTP
5 1 (0.44%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (26.55%) Amazon RDS
2 55 (24.34%) DynamoDB
3 37 (16.37%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (11.50%) NoSQL
5 18 (7.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 17 (7.52%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (6.64%) MongoDB
7 15 (6.64%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.54%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.10%) Big Data
9 7 (3.10%) Redis
10 6 (2.65%) Flink
11 5 (2.21%) Data Hub
11 5 (2.21%) DocumentDB
11 5 (2.21%) MySQL
11 5 (2.21%) Presto
12 4 (1.77%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.77%) DB2
13 3 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (28.32%) Jenkins
2 47 (20.80%) Git
3 39 (17.26%) GitLab
4 16 (7.08%) JIRA
5 13 (5.75%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.98%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.21%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.21%) Maven
8 4 (1.77%) JUnit
9 3 (1.33%) Gradle
9 3 (1.33%) Selenium
9 3 (1.33%) Snyk
9 3 (1.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.33%) Vite
10 2 (0.88%) MLflow
10 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.44%) Mocha
11 1 (0.44%) Mockito
General
1 54 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.35%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.96%) Finance
5 12 (5.31%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.54%) Front Office
8 7 (3.10%) Banking
9 3 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.88%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.88%) Local Government
10 2 (0.88%) Police
11 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.44%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.44%) Law
11 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.44%) Military
11 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (19.03%) Developer
2 41 (18.14%) AWS Engineer
3 38 (16.81%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (14.16%) Senior
5 23 (10.18%) Architect
6 22 (9.73%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (9.73%) Lead
7 19 (8.41%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (7.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.64%) Site Engineer
9 15 (6.64%) Software Engineer
10 14 (6.19%) Java Developer
10 14 (6.19%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (5.75%) Java Engineer
12 12 (5.31%) AWS Developer
13 11 (4.87%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.42%) Python Developer
14 10 (4.42%) Security Engineer
15 8 (3.54%) Backend Developer
15 8 (3.54%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.58%) Kafka
2 39 (17.26%) Spring
3 37 (16.37%) Spring Boot
4 35 (15.49%) Node.js
4 35 (15.49%) RESTful
5 33 (14.60%) React
6 23 (10.18%) OAuth
7 17 (7.52%) REST
8 15 (6.64%) JWT
9 14 (6.19%) .NET
10 13 (5.75%) AWS CDK
11 12 (5.31%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.42%) OpenID
13 9 (3.98%) FastAPI
13 9 (3.98%) Flask
14 8 (3.54%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.54%) Jest
14 8 (3.54%) Next.js
15 7 (3.10%) Django
15 7 (3.10%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 70 (30.97%) Cloud Native
2 26 (11.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.54%) NHS
5 7 (3.10%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.10%) Equities
6 5 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.33%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.33%) Derivative
8 3 (1.33%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.33%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.88%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.88%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 49 (21.68%) Linux
2 6 (2.65%) Unix
3 4 (1.77%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (1.77%) Windows
4 2 (0.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (80.53%) CI/CD
2 135 (59.73%) Infrastructure as Code
3 113 (50.00%) DevOps
4 95 (42.04%) Containerisation
5 83 (36.73%) Microservices
6 74 (32.74%) Agile
7 44 (19.47%) Observability
7 44 (19.47%) Test Automation
8 37 (16.37%) Software Engineering
9 34 (15.04%) Event-Driven
10 33 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (13.72%) Problem-Solving
12 29 (12.83%) Analytics
13 27 (11.95%) AI
14 26 (11.50%) DevSecOps
14 26 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 25 (11.06%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (11.06%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (10.62%) Full-Stack Development
17 22 (9.73%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 124 (54.87%) Python
2 75 (33.19%) Java
3 39 (17.26%) SQL
4 34 (15.04%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.39%) Bash
5 28 (12.39%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.19%) Ruby
7 10 (4.42%) C#
8 7 (3.10%) Go
8 7 (3.10%) Scala
9 6 (2.65%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.77%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.77%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.33%) C++
12 2 (0.88%) Groovy
12 2 (0.88%) Perl
13 1 (0.44%) C
13 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.44%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.44%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (32.30%) Security Cleared
2 61 (26.99%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.39%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.08%) Degree
5 12 (5.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (4.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.87%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.54%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 4 (1.77%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.33%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.33%) CCSP
10 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.33%) CISSP
10 3 (1.33%) OSCP
10 3 (1.33%) PhD
10 3 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.41%) QA
2 13 (5.75%) NIST
3 9 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (3.98%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.21%) GDPR
5 4 (1.77%) NCSC
6 2 (0.88%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.44%) HL7
System Software
1 134 (59.29%) Docker
2 5 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 145 (64.16%) Terraform
2 83 (36.73%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.39%) Ansible
3 28 (12.39%) Grafana
4 26 (11.50%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.75%) Puppet
6 7 (3.10%) Kibana
7 6 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.77%) Packer
8 4 (1.77%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.33%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.88%) Argo
10 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.88%) Istio
10 2 (0.88%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.44%) Consul
11 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (10.62%) Splunk
2 11 (4.87%) Databricks
3 10 (4.42%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.54%) PagerDuty
5 5 (2.21%) Google
5 5 (2.21%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.77%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.77%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.77%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.77%) Charles River
6 4 (1.77%) Sybase
7 3 (1.33%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.33%) New Relic
7 3 (1.33%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.33%) Qualys
7 3 (1.33%) Tenable
8 2 (0.88%) Oracle
9 1 (0.44%) Brio
9 1 (0.44%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.44%) Pega