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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 359 322 468
Rank change year-on-year -37 +146 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 223 153 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.63% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.65% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 135 58
10th Percentile £368 £475 £425
25th Percentile £438 £613 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile £641 £838 £597
90th Percentile £675 £875 £654
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £522
% change year-on-year -27.59% +38.89% -13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 13,692 9,262 12,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.00% 37.85% 32.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,437 6,456 8,774
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 412 171 329
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £40.75
90th Percentile £79.95 £75.50 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -16.88%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 £525 -27.59% 34
North of England -39 48 £528 -27.24% 27
North West -14 25 £550 +10.00% 10
Yorkshire -45 19 £500 -31.03% 16
South West -10 11 £438 +11.61% 8
South East -46 7 £530 -7.83% 18
West Midlands - 7 £463 - 2
Midlands - 7 £463 - 2
North East -6 4 £534 -28.83% 1
East of England - 4 £538 - 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 13 (5.83%) Confluence
2 9 (4.04%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.35%) Apache
4 3 (1.35%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 222 (99.55%) AWS
2 155 (69.51%) Serverless
3 145 (65.02%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (54.71%) Amazon S3
5 102 (45.74%) Amazon EKS
5 102 (45.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 89 (39.91%) GitHub
7 80 (35.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 71 (31.84%) GitHub Actions
9 62 (27.80%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (18.83%) AWS CodePipeline
10 42 (18.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 37 (16.59%) AWS Fargate
12 24 (10.76%) Amazon SQS
13 22 (9.87%) Amazon ECR
13 22 (9.87%) Azure
14 19 (8.52%) Datadog
15 15 (6.73%) Amazon MSK
15 15 (6.73%) Route 53
16 13 (5.83%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 19 (8.52%) DNS
2 10 (4.48%) Firewall
3 5 (2.24%) Network Security
3 5 (2.24%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.90%) HTTP
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (28.70%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (22.87%) DynamoDB
3 31 (13.90%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (9.42%) NoSQL
5 19 (8.52%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (5.83%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
8 8 (3.59%) DocumentDB
8 8 (3.59%) Redis
8 8 (3.59%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.14%) DB2
9 7 (3.14%) MySQL
10 6 (2.69%) Flink
11 5 (2.24%) Data Hub
12 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.79%) Big Data
13 3 (1.35%) Power BI
13 3 (1.35%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 69 (30.94%) Jenkins
2 52 (23.32%) Git
3 48 (21.52%) GitLab
4 18 (8.07%) JIRA
5 15 (6.73%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.14%) JUnit
7 6 (2.69%) Maven
8 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.79%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.79%) MLflow
8 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.35%) Gradle
9 3 (1.35%) RStudio
9 3 (1.35%) Snyk
9 3 (1.35%) Vite
10 2 (0.90%) Selenium
10 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.90%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 54 (24.22%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.52%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.97%) Finance
5 11 (4.93%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.04%) Banking
8 7 (3.14%) Front Office
9 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.90%) Military
10 2 (0.90%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (18.83%) AWS Engineer
2 41 (18.39%) Developer
2 41 (18.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (13.00%) Senior
4 25 (11.21%) Lead
5 23 (10.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (9.87%) Architect
7 21 (9.42%) AWS DevOps
8 19 (8.52%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 17 (7.62%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.73%) Site Engineer
11 13 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (5.38%) AWS Developer
12 12 (5.38%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.93%) Security Engineer
14 10 (4.48%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (4.48%) Python Developer
14 10 (4.48%) Python Engineer
15 9 (4.04%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.97%) Kafka
2 38 (17.04%) Spring
3 36 (16.14%) Spring Boot
4 35 (15.70%) Node.js
5 34 (15.25%) RESTful
6 26 (11.66%) React
7 23 (10.31%) OAuth
8 20 (8.97%) REST
9 15 (6.73%) AWS CDK
10 14 (6.28%) JWT
11 13 (5.83%) .NET
11 13 (5.83%) FastAPI
11 13 (5.83%) Flask
12 12 (5.38%) OAuth2
13 10 (4.48%) OpenID
14 9 (4.04%) Django
15 8 (3.59%) AngularJS
16 7 (3.14%) Jest
17 6 (2.69%) Express.js
17 6 (2.69%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 65 (29.15%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.87%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.48%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.14%) Equities
5 7 (3.14%) NHS
6 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.35%) Derivative
8 3 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.90%) PKI
9 2 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 46 (20.63%) Linux
2 5 (2.24%) Windows
3 4 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.90%) CentOS
4 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.90%) Unix
4 2 (0.90%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 182 (81.61%) CI/CD
2 130 (58.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 123 (55.16%) DevOps
4 98 (43.95%) Containerisation
5 90 (40.36%) Microservices
6 67 (30.04%) Agile
7 45 (20.18%) Observability
8 39 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
9 35 (15.70%) AI
10 34 (15.25%) Software Engineering
11 33 (14.80%) Test Automation
12 30 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (13.45%) Event-Driven
13 29 (13.00%) Analytics
14 27 (12.11%) Platform Engineering
15 25 (11.21%) Code Quality
15 25 (11.21%) DevSecOps
15 25 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 23 (10.31%) Mentoring
17 22 (9.87%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 124 (55.61%) Python
2 67 (30.04%) Java
3 38 (17.04%) SQL
4 31 (13.90%) Bash
5 24 (10.76%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.97%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.62%) Ruby
8 11 (4.93%) Go
9 9 (4.04%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.14%) C#
11 5 (2.24%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.79%) Perl
13 3 (1.35%) C++
14 1 (0.45%) C
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) PHP
14 1 (0.45%) R
14 1 (0.45%) Scala
14 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (32.74%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.35%) SC Cleared
3 30 (13.45%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.62%) Degree
5 12 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (4.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 9 (4.04%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 3 (1.35%) CCSP
9 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.35%) CISSP
9 3 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.35%) OSCP
9 3 (1.35%) PhD
9 3 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
9 3 (1.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.52%) QA
2 15 (6.73%) NIST
3 11 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.48%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.69%) Accessibility
5 6 (2.69%) GDPR
5 6 (2.69%) NCSC
6 2 (0.90%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 134 (60.09%) Docker
2 5 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 137 (61.43%) Terraform
2 88 (39.46%) Kubernetes
3 29 (13.00%) Ansible
4 26 (11.66%) Prometheus
5 22 (9.87%) Grafana
6 14 (6.28%) Puppet
7 6 (2.69%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.24%) Packer
8 5 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.35%) Argo
9 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.90%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.90%) Istio
10 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.45%) Kibana
11 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (6.28%) Splunk
2 12 (5.38%) Databricks
3 11 (4.93%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.59%) PagerDuty
5 7 (3.14%) Sybase
6 5 (2.24%) Google
6 5 (2.24%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.79%) AVEVA
7 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.79%) Charles River
7 4 (1.79%) Oracle
8 3 (1.35%) New Relic
8 3 (1.35%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.35%) Qualys
8 3 (1.35%) Tenable
9 2 (0.90%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.90%) Okta
9 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow