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

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 362 417
Rank change year-on-year -61 +55 +60
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 224 156 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.56% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 1.46% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 108 90
10th Percentile £382 £363 £443
25th Percentile £456 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £666 £632 £888
90th Percentile £775 £675 -
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £557
% change year-on-year +2.14% -5.66% -3.22%
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 15,857 10,675 11,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.39% 38.22% 34.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,546 7,222 7,541
10th Percentile £320 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -3.67%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 255 165
10th Percentile £15.36 £15.35 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 5 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 5 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 -35 137 £600 +14.29% 154
North of England -65 41 £500 - 46
North West -35 30 £513 +5.13% 27
Midlands -37 23 £475 +2.70% 18
West Midlands -45 21 £488 +5.41% 8
South East -53 12 £600 +9.09% 36
East of England -16 9 £550 +22.22% 18
North East -32 8 £400 -5.88% 8
South West -38 4 £365 -41.60% 27
Yorkshire -44 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 16 (7.14%) Confluence
2 9 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.68%) Apache
3 6 (2.68%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.34%) nginx
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.45%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 218 (97.32%) AWS
2 154 (68.75%) AWS Lambda
2 154 (68.75%) Serverless
3 133 (59.38%) Amazon EKS
4 124 (55.36%) Amazon S3
5 86 (38.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 63 (28.13%) GitHub
7 59 (26.34%) Amazon EC2
8 58 (25.89%) GitHub Actions
9 56 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (23.66%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (9.82%) Azure
13 20 (8.93%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (7.59%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (6.70%) AWS CodePipeline
15 15 (6.70%) AWS KMS
15 15 (6.70%) GCP
16 14 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (5.36%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.57%) Firewall
2 6 (2.68%) DNS
2 6 (2.68%) Network Security
3 4 (1.79%) HTTP
4 3 (1.34%) SSL
4 3 (1.34%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.34%) VPN
5 2 (0.89%) FTP
5 2 (0.89%) IMAP
5 2 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.89%) SMTP
5 2 (0.89%) SSH
6 1 (0.45%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (27.68%) Amazon RDS
2 42 (18.75%) DynamoDB
3 34 (15.18%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (8.04%) MongoDB
5 17 (7.59%) NoSQL
6 14 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (5.36%) Big Data
8 10 (4.46%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
10 5 (2.23%) DocumentDB
10 5 (2.23%) MySQL
10 5 (2.23%) Presto
10 5 (2.23%) Redis
11 4 (1.79%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.34%) Apache Iceberg
12 3 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.34%) Flink
Development Applications
1 71 (31.70%) Jenkins
2 53 (23.66%) GitLab
3 24 (10.71%) Git
4 20 (8.93%) JIRA
5 10 (4.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (2.23%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.23%) Maven
7 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.79%) Mockito
7 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.34%) git-flow
8 3 (1.34%) JUnit
9 2 (0.89%) Gatling
9 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.89%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.45%) Gradle
10 1 (0.45%) JMeter
10 1 (0.45%) MLflow
10 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.45%) RhodeCode
General
1 55 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 40 (17.86%) Finance
3 37 (16.52%) Public Sector
4 25 (11.16%) Banking
5 20 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.57%) Law
8 6 (2.68%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.79%) Military
11 3 (1.34%) Retail
12 2 (0.89%) iGaming
12 2 (0.89%) Local Government
13 1 (0.45%) Automotive
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Prime Brokerage
13 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (21.43%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (17.41%) Senior
3 34 (15.18%) Developer
4 32 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 31 (13.84%) Lead
6 26 (11.61%) AWS DevOps
7 24 (10.71%) Architect
7 24 (10.71%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (10.27%) Scrum Master
9 21 (9.38%) Software Engineer
10 20 (8.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 19 (8.48%) Technical Leader
12 16 (7.14%) Java Developer
13 15 (6.70%) AWS Architect
13 15 (6.70%) Data Engineer
14 13 (5.80%) AWS Software Engineer
14 13 (5.80%) Python Engineer
14 13 (5.80%) Senior DevOps
14 13 (5.80%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 12 (5.36%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (58.48%) Terraform
2 47 (20.98%) REST
3 40 (17.86%) Spring
4 39 (17.41%) Spring Boot
5 38 (16.96%) Kafka
6 34 (15.18%) RESTful
7 31 (13.84%) React
8 27 (12.05%) FastAPI
9 20 (8.93%) Node.js
10 17 (7.59%) AWS CDK
11 15 (6.70%) AngularJS
12 11 (4.91%) Flask
13 10 (4.46%) JWT
13 10 (4.46%) OAuth
13 10 (4.46%) OAuth2
14 9 (4.02%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (4.02%) GraphQL
15 8 (3.57%) Jest
16 7 (3.13%) CSS
16 7 (3.13%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 106 (47.32%) Cloud Native
2 39 (17.41%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (16.96%) Product Ownership
4 14 (6.25%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.46%) Cloud Security Posture
6 8 (3.57%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.68%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.34%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.34%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.34%) Fixed Income
11 3 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.34%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.73%) Linux
2 13 (5.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.02%) Unix
3 9 (4.02%) Windows
4 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.45%) CentOS
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (73.21%) CI/CD
2 134 (59.82%) DevOps
2 134 (59.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (45.09%) Agile
4 91 (40.63%) Containerisation
5 86 (38.39%) Microservices
6 82 (36.61%) Observability
7 67 (29.91%) Test Automation
8 50 (22.32%) Event-Driven
8 50 (22.32%) Software Engineering
9 42 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (18.30%) DevSecOps
10 41 (18.30%) Scrum
11 40 (17.86%) Technical Leadership
12 39 (17.41%) Deployment Automation
12 39 (17.41%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 38 (16.96%) AI
14 37 (16.52%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (15.18%) Cloud Security
16 32 (14.29%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 103 (45.98%) Python
2 73 (32.59%) Java
3 40 (17.86%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.29%) Bash
5 26 (11.61%) JavaScript
6 24 (10.71%) SQL
7 18 (8.04%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.91%) Scala
9 7 (3.13%) Bicep
9 7 (3.13%) Go
10 5 (2.23%) Groovy
10 5 (2.23%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.23%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.34%) C#
11 3 (1.34%) Lua
12 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.45%) C
13 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 84 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 69 (30.80%) SC Cleared
3 39 (17.41%) AWS Certification
4 22 (9.82%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.46%) Azure Certification
6 9 (4.02%) Degree
7 8 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.57%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.68%) CISSP
9 5 (2.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.61%) QA
2 5 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.79%) NCSC
4 2 (0.89%) GDPR
4 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) HL7
5 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (51.79%) Docker
2 6 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.89%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.89%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.89%) Postfix
3 2 (0.89%) Squid
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.50%) Grafana
3 23 (10.27%) Ansible
4 22 (9.82%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.68%) Kibana
5 6 (2.68%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.79%) Nessus
7 3 (1.34%) Consul
7 3 (1.34%) Istio
7 3 (1.34%) Packer
7 3 (1.34%) Puppet
7 3 (1.34%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.89%) linkerd
8 2 (0.89%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.45%) Argo
9 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.45%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (7.59%) Splunk
2 10 (4.46%) Dynatrace
2 10 (4.46%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.68%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.23%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.23%) Confluent
5 5 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.79%) Google
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle
7 3 (1.34%) Databricks
8 2 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.89%) webMethods
9 1 (0.45%) Apple
9 1 (0.45%) Dell
9 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.45%) New Relic
9 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.45%) Talend