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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 379 457
Rank change year-on-year +40 +78 +67
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 207 148 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.33% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 124 84
10th Percentile £363 £461 £393
25th Percentile £448 £610 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £888 £638
90th Percentile £675 - £734
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -27.59% +31.82% -8.33%

All Cloud 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 11,794 11,147 13,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.62% 35.89% 35.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 7,413 10,057
10th Percentile £303 £313 £288
25th Percentile £405 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £650
90th Percentile £724 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 144 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.66 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.32 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £47.50 £60.15 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +5.00% +36.36%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 2025. 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 -11 118 £525 -27.59% 114
North of England -11 50 £518 -20.38% 60
North West +3 27 £550 +37.50% 36
Yorkshire -26 21 £500 -31.03% 19
West Midlands -5 18 £463 -8.42% 3
Midlands -12 18 £463 +2.21% 5
South East +6 7 £530 +6.00% 24
South West +5 5 £625 +59.44% 3
East of England -8 5 £475 -5.00% 12
North East -8 2 £425 -43.33% 5
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 22 (10.63%) Confluence
2 12 (5.80%) nginx
3 9 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.42%) CMS
4 5 (2.42%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.45%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.97%) Apache
6 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.48%) CICS
7 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 203 (98.07%) AWS
2 118 (57.00%) Serverless
3 112 (54.11%) AWS Lambda
4 109 (52.66%) Amazon S3
5 77 (37.20%) AWS CloudFormation
5 77 (37.20%) GitHub
6 72 (34.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 72 (34.78%) Amazon EC2
7 71 (34.30%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (23.67%) AWS Fargate
9 45 (21.74%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (19.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 35 (16.91%) Azure
12 26 (12.56%) Datadog
12 26 (12.56%) Route 53
13 25 (12.08%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (9.18%) AWS KMS
15 15 (7.25%) Amazon ELB
15 15 (7.25%) Amazon EventBridge
15 15 (7.25%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.56%) DNS
2 20 (9.66%) Firewall
3 12 (5.80%) IMAP
3 12 (5.80%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (5.80%) SMTP
4 10 (4.83%) FTP
4 10 (4.83%) HTTP
4 10 (4.83%) SSH
5 5 (2.42%) VPN
6 2 (0.97%) SSL
7 1 (0.48%) Broadband
7 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.48%) NAS
7 1 (0.48%) Network Security
7 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (37.68%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (28.02%) DynamoDB
3 51 (24.64%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (9.66%) Relational Database
6 15 (7.25%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.76%) MongoDB
8 13 (6.28%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.83%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.86%) MySQL
11 7 (3.38%) Big Data
11 7 (3.38%) Redis
11 7 (3.38%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.42%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.42%) DB2
13 4 (1.93%) DocumentDB
14 3 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.45%) Data Hub
14 3 (1.45%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (35.75%) Jenkins
2 46 (22.22%) GitLab
3 45 (21.74%) Git
4 31 (14.98%) JIRA
5 13 (6.28%) Maven
6 12 (5.80%) Vagrant
7 11 (5.31%) JUnit
8 8 (3.86%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.38%) Bitbucket
9 7 (3.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (2.90%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.42%) Gradle
11 5 (2.42%) MLflow
11 5 (2.42%) SonarLint
12 4 (1.93%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.93%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.45%) RStudio
14 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.29%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.73%) Finance
4 11 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.38%) Aerospace
5 7 (3.38%) Banking
5 7 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.97%) Publishing
7 1 (0.48%) Aviation
7 1 (0.48%) Front Office
7 1 (0.48%) Games
7 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.48%) Military
7 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (29.47%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (25.60%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (15.46%) AWS DevOps
4 31 (14.98%) Senior
5 29 (14.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 29 (14.01%) Platform Engineer
6 28 (13.53%) Developer
7 26 (12.56%) Lead
7 26 (12.56%) Software Engineer
8 24 (11.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 24 (11.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 17 (8.21%) Architect
10 15 (7.25%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.80%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.31%) Site Engineer
12 11 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (4.83%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (4.35%) Java Developer
14 9 (4.35%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.36%) Node.js
2 31 (14.98%) Kafka
3 26 (12.56%) React
4 25 (12.08%) RESTful
5 22 (10.63%) Spring
6 19 (9.18%) AWS CDK
7 17 (8.21%) OAuth
7 17 (8.21%) Spring Boot
8 15 (7.25%) JWT
8 15 (7.25%) REST
9 13 (6.28%) LDAP
10 12 (5.80%) FastAPI
11 11 (5.31%) Jest
12 10 (4.83%) Flask
13 9 (4.35%) .NET
13 9 (4.35%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.38%) cloud-init
14 7 (3.38%) HTML
14 7 (3.38%) Keycloak
14 7 (3.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (22.71%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.76%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (5.80%) Replication
5 7 (3.38%) PKI
5 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.42%) NHS
6 5 (2.42%) N-Tier
7 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.97%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (0.48%) SIMD
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.74%) Linux
2 15 (7.25%) Amazon Linux
3 14 (6.76%) VMS
4 12 (5.80%) Windows
5 10 (4.83%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.35%) Unix
7 7 (3.38%) CentOS
7 7 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.48%) AIX
8 1 (0.48%) Android
8 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.48%) Solaris
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (74.88%) CI/CD
2 117 (56.52%) DevOps
3 100 (48.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (43.96%) Containerisation
5 69 (33.33%) Agile
6 68 (32.85%) Microservices
7 50 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (20.29%) Software Engineering
9 34 (16.43%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (15.94%) Configuration Management
10 33 (15.94%) Event-Driven
11 31 (14.98%) Observability
12 30 (14.49%) Mentoring
13 29 (14.01%) AI
14 28 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (12.08%) Cloud Security
16 24 (11.59%) Test Automation
17 23 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 23 (11.11%) Machine Learning
17 23 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 123 (59.42%) Python
2 46 (22.22%) Java
3 31 (14.98%) SQL
4 30 (14.49%) Bash
5 26 (12.56%) TypeScript
6 23 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 16 (7.73%) Go
9 15 (7.25%) Groovy
10 10 (4.83%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.86%) Ruby
12 4 (1.93%) C#
12 4 (1.93%) Perl
13 3 (1.45%) C
14 2 (0.97%) CodeQL
15 1 (0.48%) C++
15 1 (0.48%) COBOL
15 1 (0.48%) PHP
15 1 (0.48%) R
15 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 44 (21.26%) AWS Certification
4 29 (14.01%) Degree
5 20 (9.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (9.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.35%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.90%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.48%) CCSP
14 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.48%) CISSP
14 1 (0.48%) OSCP
14 1 (0.48%) SANS
14 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.73%) QA
2 9 (4.35%) NCSC
3 5 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.42%) GDPR
3 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.93%) NIST
5 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 124 (59.90%) Docker
2 12 (5.80%) Dovecot
2 12 (5.80%) Postfix
2 12 (5.80%) Squid
3 10 (4.83%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.93%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (64.25%) Terraform
2 71 (34.30%) Kubernetes
3 34 (16.43%) Grafana
4 30 (14.49%) Ansible
5 23 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.80%) Nessus
7 11 (5.31%) Packer
7 11 (5.31%) Puppet
8 10 (4.83%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.35%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.38%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.48%) Argo
13 1 (0.48%) Kibana
13 1 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (9.18%) ServiceNow
2 14 (6.76%) Splunk
3 12 (5.80%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (4.35%) IBM
5 7 (3.38%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.38%) Okta
6 6 (2.90%) Gigya
6 6 (2.90%) PagerDuty
7 5 (2.42%) Sybase
8 4 (1.93%) Google
8 4 (1.93%) Oracle
9 3 (1.45%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.97%) Cisco
10 2 (0.97%) CloudEndure
10 2 (0.97%) Confluent
10 2 (0.97%) Databricks
11 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.48%) JDA
11 1 (0.48%) NetApp