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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 360 428
Rank change year-on-year -46 +68 +41
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 221 146 103
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.53% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.42% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 108 83
10th Percentile £387 £354 £405
25th Percentile £456 £450 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £526 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -12.29% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £875
90th Percentile £755 £750 £888
UK median daily rate £535 £530 £545
% change year-on-year +0.94% -2.75% -9.17%
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 15,927 10,265 11,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.15% 33.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,624 6,963 7,943
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 268 232
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.08 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.72 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.76 £24.84
% change year-on-year +26.08% +11.76% -29.03%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -26 139 £575 +2.22% 76
North of England -72 34 £513 +2.50% 29
North West -32 24 £575 +17.95% 15
Midlands -43 24 £463 -5.61% 3
West Midlands -45 23 £475 -3.06% 2
South East -71 10 £600 +6.67% 13
East of England -13 8 £550 +22.22% 9
North East -37 8 £413 -2.94% 3
South West -36 4 £388 -38.00% 19
Yorkshire -53 2 £500 - 11
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 1
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 (9.95%) Confluence
2 10 (4.52%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.07%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.81%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.36%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 216 (97.74%) AWS
2 161 (72.85%) Serverless
3 157 (71.04%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (59.73%) Amazon S3
5 129 (58.37%) Amazon EKS
6 76 (34.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 73 (33.03%) GitHub
8 71 (32.13%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (25.79%) Amazon EC2
10 56 (25.34%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (23.08%) Amazon SQS
12 37 (16.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (11.31%) AWS CodePipeline
14 21 (9.50%) Amazon EventBridge
15 20 (9.05%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (6.79%) Azure
17 14 (6.33%) Datadog
18 13 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
19 11 (4.98%) Amazon EMR
19 11 (4.98%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.26%) Network Security
2 2 (0.90%) DNS
2 2 (0.90%) Firewall
2 2 (0.90%) HTTP
2 2 (0.90%) SSL
2 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.34%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (23.53%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.93%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (9.95%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.79%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.33%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (5.43%) Big Data
8 10 (4.52%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.26%) Presto
10 4 (1.81%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.81%) Redis
11 3 (1.36%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.36%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.36%) Flink
11 3 (1.36%) Metadata
11 3 (1.36%) MySQL
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.90%) Db2
12 2 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 67 (30.32%) Jenkins
2 46 (20.81%) GitLab
3 24 (10.86%) JIRA
4 23 (10.41%) Git
5 18 (8.14%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.62%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.26%) JUnit
8 3 (1.36%) Mockito
9 2 (0.90%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.90%) MLflow
9 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.45%) Gatling
10 1 (0.45%) git-flow
10 1 (0.45%) JMeter
10 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.45%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.45%) Selenium
10 1 (0.45%) Snyk
10 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 61 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.29%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.48%) Finance
4 20 (9.05%) Banking
5 17 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.71%) Law
9 5 (2.26%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.81%) Retail
11 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.90%) Front Office
12 2 (0.90%) Local Government
12 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (20.36%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (18.10%) Developer
3 39 (17.65%) Senior
4 30 (13.57%) Lead
5 26 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (11.31%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (10.41%) Scrum Master
8 22 (9.95%) Architect
9 21 (9.50%) AWS DevOps
9 21 (9.50%) Software Engineer
10 16 (7.24%) Java Developer
11 15 (6.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (6.33%) Data Engineer
13 13 (5.88%) AWS Software Engineer
14 12 (5.43%) AWS Developer
14 12 (5.43%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (5.43%) Python Engineer
14 12 (5.43%) Technical Leader
15 10 (4.52%) AWS Architect
16 9 (4.07%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.65%) React
2 38 (17.19%) Kafka
3 37 (16.74%) REST
3 37 (16.74%) Spring
4 35 (15.84%) Spring Boot
5 28 (12.67%) RESTful
6 27 (12.22%) Node.js
7 22 (9.95%) FastAPI
8 18 (8.14%) AWS CDK
9 11 (4.98%) Flask
9 11 (4.98%) OAuth
9 11 (4.98%) OAuth2
10 10 (4.52%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (4.52%) Jest
11 9 (4.07%) GraphQL
12 8 (3.62%) .NET
13 7 (3.17%) Express.js
13 7 (3.17%) OpenID
13 7 (3.17%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 95 (42.99%) Cloud Native
2 40 (18.10%) Product Ownership
3 39 (17.65%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.43%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.62%) Cloud Security Posture
6 7 (3.17%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.71%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.81%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.36%) NHS
11 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.57%) Linux
2 10 (4.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.62%) Unix
4 5 (2.26%) Windows
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (71.49%) CI/CD
2 125 (56.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 121 (54.75%) DevOps
4 98 (44.34%) Agile
5 90 (40.72%) Microservices
6 84 (38.01%) Containerisation
7 71 (32.13%) Observability
8 68 (30.77%) Test Automation
9 47 (21.27%) Software Engineering
10 45 (20.36%) Event-Driven
11 44 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 43 (19.46%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (18.10%) AI
13 40 (18.10%) DevSecOps
14 38 (17.19%) Scrum
15 35 (15.84%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 35 (15.84%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (13.12%) Code Quality
16 29 (13.12%) Deployment Automation
16 29 (13.12%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 105 (47.51%) Python
2 72 (32.58%) Java
3 40 (18.10%) TypeScript
4 30 (13.57%) JavaScript
4 30 (13.57%) SQL
5 28 (12.67%) Bash
6 13 (5.88%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.98%) Scala
8 5 (2.26%) Bicep
8 5 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.26%) Search Processing Language
8 5 (2.26%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.81%) C#
10 3 (1.36%) Go
10 3 (1.36%) Groovy
11 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.90%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 80 (36.20%) Security Cleared
2 65 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.93%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.05%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.98%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.26%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.26%) Degree
10 4 (1.81%) CISSP
10 4 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.79%) QA
2 5 (2.26%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.90%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) HL7
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (50.68%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 125 (56.56%) Terraform
2 71 (32.13%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.50%) Grafana
4 20 (9.05%) Prometheus
5 19 (8.60%) Ansible
6 6 (2.71%) Kibana
7 5 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.81%) Istio
8 4 (1.81%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.36%) Puppet
10 2 (0.90%) Consul
10 2 (0.90%) Packer
10 2 (0.90%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.45%) Argo
11 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.45%) ITRS Geneos
11 1 (0.45%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (9.50%) Splunk
2 8 (3.62%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.62%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.17%) Databricks
4 5 (2.26%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.26%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.36%) Confluent
6 2 (0.90%) Google
6 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.90%) Oracle
6 2 (0.90%) Sybase
7 1 (0.45%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.45%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.45%) Charles River
7 1 (0.45%) Informatica
7 1 (0.45%) New Relic
7 1 (0.45%) Qualys
7 1 (0.45%) Talend