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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 362 469
Rank change year-on-year -34 +107 -5
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 205 114 80
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.46% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.22% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 89 61
10th Percentile £385 £358 £406
25th Percentile £475 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% -14.58%
75th Percentile £650 £780 £600
90th Percentile £746 £838 £875
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -2.73% +7.58% -14.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £68.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.88 - -
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 15,046 9,350 12,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.69% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,190 6,358 8,621
10th Percentile £325 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 531 234 338
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%
75th Percentile £69.60 £38.50 £43.44
90th Percentile £82.37 £70.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +12 137 £574 -11.73% 21
North of England -70 24 £513 +10.81% 11
North West -34 16 £650 +62.50% 5
West Midlands -41 15 £488 -0.76%
Midlands -44 15 £488 -0.76%
South East -51 11 £600 +4.35% 8
South West -19 7 £350 -31.71% 4
East of England - 6 £550 -
North East -35 4 £469 +10.29% 2
Yorkshire -63 4 £500 - 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 20 (9.76%) Confluence
2 12 (5.85%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.95%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.46%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 200 (97.56%) AWS
2 142 (69.27%) Serverless
3 140 (68.29%) AWS Lambda
4 130 (63.41%) Amazon S3
5 106 (51.71%) Amazon EKS
6 79 (38.54%) GitHub
7 73 (35.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 72 (35.12%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (33.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (25.85%) Amazon EC2
11 38 (18.54%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (18.54%) AWS CodePipeline
11 38 (18.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (7.80%) AWS Fargate
13 15 (7.32%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (6.83%) Datadog
15 13 (6.34%) Amazon EventBridge
16 12 (5.85%) Azure
17 10 (4.88%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (4.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.44%) DNS
1 5 (2.44%) Network Security
2 2 (0.98%) HTTP
3 1 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) SSL
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (29.76%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (23.90%) DynamoDB
3 32 (15.61%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (12.20%) NoSQL
5 17 (8.29%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (7.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.83%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.88%) Big Data
8 10 (4.88%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.39%) Redis
10 6 (2.93%) Flink
11 5 (2.44%) DocumentDB
11 5 (2.44%) Presto
12 4 (1.95%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.95%) Db2
12 4 (1.95%) MySQL
13 2 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.98%) Metadata
13 2 (0.98%) Pinecone
14 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 64 (31.22%) Jenkins
2 44 (21.46%) GitLab
3 26 (12.68%) Git
4 22 (10.73%) JIRA
5 17 (8.29%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.41%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.95%) JUnit
8 3 (1.46%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.46%) Gradle
8 3 (1.46%) Maven
8 3 (1.46%) Vite
9 2 (0.98%) Snyk
10 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.49%) Gatling
10 1 (0.49%) MLflow
10 1 (0.49%) Mockito
10 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.49%) Selenium
10 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 18 (8.78%) Finance
4 16 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.37%) Banking
6 9 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.44%) Law
9 4 (1.95%) Front Office
10 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.98%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (20.49%) Developer
2 40 (19.51%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (16.10%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (16.10%) Senior
4 25 (12.20%) Cloud Engineer
4 25 (12.20%) Lead
5 21 (10.24%) AWS DevOps
6 20 (9.76%) Architect
7 19 (9.27%) Software Engineer
8 17 (8.29%) Java Developer
9 15 (7.32%) AWS Developer
9 15 (7.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.83%) Scrum Master
11 13 (6.34%) Python Developer
11 13 (6.34%) Python Engineer
12 12 (5.85%) Senior Developer
13 11 (5.37%) AWS Architect
13 11 (5.37%) Data Engineer
13 11 (5.37%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (4.39%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.51%) Kafka
1 40 (19.51%) React
2 33 (16.10%) Spring
2 33 (16.10%) Spring Boot
3 29 (14.15%) RESTful
4 24 (11.71%) REST
5 20 (9.76%) Node.js
5 20 (9.76%) OAuth
6 19 (9.27%) AWS CDK
7 18 (8.78%) FastAPI
8 17 (8.29%) OAuth2
9 12 (5.85%) Flask
10 11 (5.37%) GraphQL
10 11 (5.37%) JWT
10 11 (5.37%) OpenID
11 10 (4.88%) .NET
11 10 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.39%) AngularJS
12 9 (4.39%) Next.js
13 8 (3.90%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 79 (38.54%) Cloud Native
2 27 (13.17%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (12.20%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.44%) Virtual Team
5 4 (1.95%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.95%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.95%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (1.95%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.46%) Equities
6 3 (1.46%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.46%) NHS
7 2 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.68%) Linux
2 6 (2.93%) Unix
3 4 (1.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (77.56%) CI/CD
2 124 (60.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (54.15%) DevOps
4 91 (44.39%) Containerisation
5 76 (37.07%) Microservices
6 74 (36.10%) Agile
7 54 (26.34%) Test Automation
8 51 (24.88%) Observability
9 37 (18.05%) Software Engineering
10 36 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (16.59%) Event-Driven
12 33 (16.10%) AI
12 33 (16.10%) DevSecOps
13 30 (14.63%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (12.68%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (12.68%) Scrum
15 24 (11.71%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 22 (10.73%) Technical Leadership
17 21 (10.24%) Cloud Security
17 21 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 97 (47.32%) Python
2 67 (32.68%) Java
3 34 (16.59%) SQL
4 30 (14.63%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.15%) TypeScript
6 19 (9.27%) Bash
7 9 (4.39%) Scala
8 7 (3.41%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.44%) C#
9 5 (2.44%) Go
9 5 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.44%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.49%) C
12 1 (0.49%) Groovy
12 1 (0.49%) Ruby
12 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 72 (35.12%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.80%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.22%) AWS Certification
4 19 (9.27%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.37%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.41%) Degree
9 4 (1.95%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.98%) CCSP
11 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.98%) CISSP
11 2 (0.98%) OSCP
11 2 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.80%) QA
2 10 (4.88%) NIST
3 8 (3.90%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.95%) GDPR
6 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
7 1 (0.49%) NCSC
System Software
1 113 (55.12%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 125 (60.98%) Terraform
2 69 (33.66%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.17%) Prometheus
4 20 (9.76%) Grafana
5 19 (9.27%) Ansible
6 7 (3.41%) Puppet
7 6 (2.93%) Kibana
7 6 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.98%) Istio
10 1 (0.49%) Argo
10 1 (0.49%) Consul
10 1 (0.49%) Packer
10 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (11.71%) Splunk
2 9 (4.39%) Databricks
3 6 (2.93%) Dynatrace
3 6 (2.93%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.95%) Amplitude
4 4 (1.95%) AVEVA
4 4 (1.95%) Google
4 4 (1.95%) New Relic
4 4 (1.95%) Rapid7
4 4 (1.95%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.95%) Sybase
5 3 (1.46%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.46%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.46%) Charles River
6 2 (0.98%) Qualys
6 2 (0.98%) Tenable
7 1 (0.49%) Confluent
7 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow