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 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 363 462
Rank change year-on-year -21 +99 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 208 124 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.51% 0.51% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.45% 1.36% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 107 56
10th Percentile £385 £400 £406
25th Percentile £469 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £700 £495
Median % change year-on-year -23.21% +41.41% -17.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £578
90th Percentile £714 £875 £623
UK median daily rate £528 £625 £500
% change year-on-year -15.52% +25.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £67.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 14,368 9,103 11,691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.06% 37.20% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,846 6,306 8,436
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 201 327
10th Percentile £15.48 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.89 £18.13 £15.87
Median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.43 £21.37
% change year-on-year +35.35% +28.33% -38.94%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 -9 136 £550 -29.03% 32
North of England -64 30 £534 +6.75% 20
North West -35 17 £650 +62.50% 11
West Midlands -45 13 £488 -9.57% 1
Midlands -51 13 £488 -9.57% 1
South West -14 10 £461 +17.67% 7
Yorkshire -55 8 £500 -4.76% 8
South East -59 8 £530 -7.83% 11
North East -16 5 £530 - 1
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
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 (9.13%) Confluence
2 13 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.92%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.92%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 203 (97.60%) AWS
2 145 (69.71%) Serverless
3 142 (68.27%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (57.69%) Amazon S3
5 93 (44.71%) Amazon EKS
6 84 (40.38%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (39.90%) GitHub
8 75 (36.06%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (33.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (22.60%) Amazon EC2
11 46 (22.12%) AWS CodePipeline
12 35 (16.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (12.98%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (8.65%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (7.21%) AWS Fargate
16 13 (6.25%) Datadog
17 12 (5.77%) Amazon ECR
18 10 (4.81%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (4.81%) Azure
18 10 (4.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.29%) DNS
2 5 (2.40%) Network Security
3 4 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.44%) HTTP
5 1 (0.48%) Firewall
5 1 (0.48%) SSL
5 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (24.04%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (22.60%) DynamoDB
3 30 (14.42%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (11.54%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.65%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (7.21%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.73%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.29%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.37%) Redis
10 6 (2.88%) Big Data
10 6 (2.88%) Flink
11 5 (2.40%) Presto
12 4 (1.92%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.92%) DB2
12 4 (1.92%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.92%) MySQL
13 3 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.44%) Data Hub
13 3 (1.44%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.96%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 59 (28.37%) Jenkins
2 41 (19.71%) GitLab
3 38 (18.27%) Git
4 21 (10.10%) JIRA
5 17 (8.17%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.33%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.40%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.40%) Maven
8 4 (1.92%) JUnit
9 3 (1.44%) Gradle
9 3 (1.44%) Selenium
9 3 (1.44%) Snyk
9 3 (1.44%) Vite
10 2 (0.96%) MLflow
10 2 (0.96%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.48%) Gatling
11 1 (0.48%) Mocha
11 1 (0.48%) Mockito
11 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.19%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.29%) Finance
5 10 (4.81%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.85%) Front Office
8 5 (2.40%) Banking
9 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.96%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.96%) Local Government
10 2 (0.96%) Police
10 2 (0.96%) Retail
11 1 (0.48%) Law
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (20.19%) Developer
2 37 (17.79%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (14.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (12.98%) Senior
5 24 (11.54%) Lead
6 21 (10.10%) Architect
7 19 (9.13%) AWS DevOps
7 19 (9.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 15 (7.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.73%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.25%) AWS Developer
12 12 (5.77%) Python Engineer
12 12 (5.77%) Scrum Master
12 12 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 11 (5.29%) Python Developer
14 10 (4.81%) Java Engineer
15 9 (4.33%) Lead DevOps
15 9 (4.33%) Senior Developer
16 8 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.19%) Kafka
2 35 (16.83%) React
2 35 (16.83%) Spring
3 34 (16.35%) Spring Boot
4 29 (13.94%) RESTful
5 22 (10.58%) Node.js
6 17 (8.17%) AWS CDK
7 15 (7.21%) OAuth
8 12 (5.77%) .NET
8 12 (5.77%) FastAPI
8 12 (5.77%) OAuth2
8 12 (5.77%) REST
9 10 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (4.81%) Flask
9 10 (4.81%) Next.js
9 10 (4.81%) OpenID
10 9 (4.33%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.33%) GraphQL
11 8 (3.85%) Django
11 8 (3.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 67 (32.21%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.58%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.37%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.37%) Equities
5 5 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.40%) NHS
6 4 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.92%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.92%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.44%) Derivative
7 3 (1.44%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.96%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 39 (18.75%) Linux
2 6 (2.88%) Unix
3 4 (1.92%) Windows
4 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.48%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.48%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (82.21%) CI/CD
2 127 (61.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (49.52%) DevOps
4 88 (42.31%) Containerisation
5 69 (33.17%) Agile
6 64 (30.77%) Microservices
7 48 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 43 (20.67%) Observability
9 35 (16.83%) Software Engineering
10 31 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (14.90%) DevSecOps
11 29 (13.94%) Event-Driven
12 27 (12.98%) Platform Engineering
12 27 (12.98%) Scrum
13 25 (12.02%) Technical Leadership
14 24 (11.54%) AI
14 24 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
15 23 (11.06%) Problem-Solving
16 22 (10.58%) Mentoring
17 20 (9.62%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 100 (48.08%) Python
2 69 (33.17%) Java
3 36 (17.31%) SQL
4 34 (16.35%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.46%) TypeScript
6 22 (10.58%) Bash
7 10 (4.81%) C#
7 10 (4.81%) Ruby
8 9 (4.33%) Scala
9 6 (2.88%) Go
10 5 (2.40%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.40%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.40%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.92%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.44%) C++
13 2 (0.96%) Groovy
14 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.44%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.58%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (5.77%) Degree
6 10 (4.81%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.85%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.37%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.44%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.44%) PhD
12 2 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.96%) CCSP
12 2 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.96%) CISSP
12 2 (0.96%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.69%) QA
2 11 (5.29%) NIST
3 8 (3.85%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.92%) GDPR
6 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
System Software
1 115 (55.29%) Docker
2 4 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 131 (62.98%) Terraform
2 76 (36.54%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.98%) Prometheus
4 26 (12.50%) Grafana
5 21 (10.10%) Ansible
6 11 (5.29%) Puppet
7 6 (2.88%) Kibana
7 6 (2.88%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.92%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.96%) Argo
9 2 (0.96%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.96%) Istio
9 2 (0.96%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.48%) Consul
10 1 (0.48%) Packer
10 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (11.54%) Splunk
2 10 (4.81%) Databricks
3 7 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.92%) AppDynamics
4 4 (1.92%) AVEVA
4 4 (1.92%) Bloomberg
4 4 (1.92%) Charles River
4 4 (1.92%) Google
4 4 (1.92%) Rapid7
4 4 (1.92%) Sybase
5 3 (1.44%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.44%) New Relic
5 3 (1.44%) PagerDuty
5 3 (1.44%) Qualys
5 3 (1.44%) Tenable
6 1 (0.48%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.48%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.48%) UiPath