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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 328 461
Rank change year-on-year -3 +133 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 224 157 91
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.59% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.83% 1.60% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 135 71
10th Percentile £371 £475 £425
25th Percentile £456 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +38.10% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £588
90th Percentile £695 £888 £688
UK median daily rate £526 £675 £538
% change year-on-year -22.04% +25.58% -10.42%

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 12,249 9,806 12,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.94% 36.79% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,512 6,522 9,055
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £422 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £733
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 137 268
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.90 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.41 £23.23
Median % change year-on-year +5.60% +22.31% +0.33%
75th Percentile £57.38 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £76.67 £68.75 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £24.02
% change year-on-year +9.09% +14.49% +6.14%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -14 138 £530 -26.90% 31
North of England -16 53 £525 -26.32% 50
North West -14 29 £550 +37.50% 15
Yorkshire -36 22 £500 -31.03% 30
Midlands -37 10 £475 +18.75% 23
West Midlands - 10 £475 - 9
South East -19 8 £530 +6.00% 55
South West -8 6 £625 +59.44% 22
East of England -17 4 £538 +7.50% 30
North East -13 2 £644 -14.17% 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 18 (8.04%) Confluence
2 9 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.02%) nginx
3 3 (1.34%) Apache
3 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.34%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.02%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.89%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 222 (99.11%) AWS
2 138 (61.61%) Serverless
3 133 (59.38%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (47.77%) Amazon S3
5 96 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 93 (41.52%) GitHub
7 83 (37.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 82 (36.61%) Amazon EKS
9 67 (29.91%) GitHub Actions
10 66 (29.46%) Amazon EC2
11 43 (19.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 42 (18.75%) AWS Fargate
13 37 (16.52%) Azure
14 29 (12.95%) AWS CodePipeline
14 29 (12.95%) Route 53
15 23 (10.27%) Datadog
16 22 (9.82%) Amazon SQS
17 17 (7.59%) Amazon ECR
17 17 (7.59%) Apigee
17 17 (7.59%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (13.84%) DNS
2 18 (8.04%) Firewall
3 11 (4.91%) HTTP
4 9 (4.02%) FTP
4 9 (4.02%) IMAP
4 9 (4.02%) OpenLDAP
4 9 (4.02%) SMTP
4 9 (4.02%) SSH
5 5 (2.23%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.23%) VPN
6 2 (0.89%) SSL
7 1 (0.45%) Broadband
7 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.45%) Network Security
7 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (33.48%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (23.66%) DynamoDB
3 45 (20.09%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (9.82%) NoSQL
6 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
7 16 (7.14%) MongoDB
8 12 (5.36%) MySQL
8 12 (5.36%) Redis
9 8 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (3.57%) DocumentDB
9 8 (3.57%) RDBMS
9 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.13%) Big Data
11 5 (2.23%) BigQuery
11 5 (2.23%) Data Hub
11 5 (2.23%) DB2
12 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.34%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 80 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 58 (25.89%) Git
3 50 (22.32%) GitLab
4 29 (12.95%) JIRA
5 9 (4.02%) Maven
5 9 (4.02%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.02%) Vagrant
6 7 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.68%) MLflow
8 5 (2.23%) Gradle
8 5 (2.23%) JUnit
8 5 (2.23%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.79%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.79%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.34%) RStudio
11 2 (0.89%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.89%) Selenium
11 2 (0.89%) Snyk
12 1 (0.45%) Mocha
General
1 64 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.66%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.04%) Finance
5 16 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.02%) Banking
6 9 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.23%) Front Office
8 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.89%) Military
9 1 (0.45%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.45%) Police
9 1 (0.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (24.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (13.84%) Developer
4 30 (13.39%) AWS DevOps
4 30 (13.39%) Software Engineer
5 28 (12.50%) Senior
6 27 (12.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 23 (10.27%) Architect
7 23 (10.27%) Lead
8 22 (9.82%) Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 17 (7.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 16 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 15 (6.70%) Site Engineer
11 15 (6.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.91%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.91%) Java Architect
12 11 (4.91%) Lead DevOps
12 11 (4.91%) Technical Architect
13 10 (4.46%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.20%) Kafka
2 37 (16.52%) Node.js
3 35 (15.63%) RESTful
4 27 (12.05%) Spring Boot
5 26 (11.61%) Spring
6 25 (11.16%) React
7 20 (8.93%) REST
8 17 (7.59%) AWS CDK
8 17 (7.59%) OAuth
9 16 (7.14%) JWT
10 15 (6.70%) .NET
11 14 (6.25%) FastAPI
11 14 (6.25%) Flask
12 10 (4.46%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.46%) LDAP
13 8 (3.57%) Django
13 8 (3.57%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.13%) HTML
15 6 (2.68%) OpenID
15 6 (2.68%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (29.46%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.91%) Replication
4 8 (3.57%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.13%) NHS
6 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.23%) Equities
6 5 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.23%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.23%) N-Tier
6 5 (2.23%) PKI
7 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.34%) Derivative
8 3 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 57 (25.45%) Linux
2 14 (6.25%) Windows
3 12 (5.36%) Amazon Linux
4 11 (4.91%) VMS
5 9 (4.02%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.13%) Unix
7 5 (2.23%) CentOS
7 5 (2.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Android
8 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (84.82%) CI/CD
2 129 (57.59%) DevOps
3 124 (55.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 83 (37.05%) Microservices
6 72 (32.14%) Agile
7 48 (21.43%) Software Engineering
8 47 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (19.20%) Event-Driven
10 42 (18.75%) Observability
11 34 (15.18%) Configuration Management
12 33 (14.73%) AI
13 32 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 27 (12.05%) Analytics
15 27 (12.05%) Cloud Security
15 27 (12.05%) Mentoring
16 25 (11.16%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 23 (10.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 134 (59.82%) Python
2 59 (26.34%) Java
3 36 (16.07%) SQL
4 35 (15.63%) Bash
5 23 (10.27%) JavaScript
6 22 (9.82%) TypeScript
7 18 (8.04%) PowerShell
8 17 (7.59%) Ruby
9 14 (6.25%) Go
10 12 (5.36%) Groovy
11 10 (4.46%) C#
12 7 (3.13%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.79%) C++
13 4 (1.79%) Perl
14 3 (1.34%) C
14 3 (1.34%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.45%) PHP
15 1 (0.45%) R
15 1 (0.45%) Rust
15 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 76 (33.93%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.79%) SC Cleared
3 36 (16.07%) AWS Certification
4 26 (11.61%) Degree
5 15 (6.70%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 9 (4.02%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.57%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.79%) AWS Certified Developer
10 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.34%) CCSP
11 3 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.34%) CISSP
11 3 (1.34%) OSCP
11 3 (1.34%) PhD
11 3 (1.34%) SANS
12 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.93%) QA
2 13 (5.80%) NIST
3 11 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.02%) NCSC
4 9 (4.02%) PCI DSS
5 7 (3.13%) GDPR
6 6 (2.68%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.45%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 140 (62.50%) Docker
2 9 (4.02%) DFS Replication
2 9 (4.02%) Dovecot
2 9 (4.02%) Postfix
2 9 (4.02%) Squid
3 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 153 (68.30%) Terraform
2 98 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 35 (15.63%) Ansible
4 33 (14.73%) Grafana
5 27 (12.05%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.14%) Puppet
7 9 (4.02%) Nessus
7 9 (4.02%) Proxmox
8 8 (3.57%) Packer
8 8 (3.57%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.34%) Argo
10 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.89%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.89%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (6.70%) Splunk
2 11 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.46%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.02%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (3.57%) PagerDuty
6 7 (3.13%) Google
7 6 (2.68%) Gigya
8 5 (2.23%) Okta
8 5 (2.23%) Sybase
9 4 (1.79%) Oracle
9 4 (1.79%) Rapid7
10 3 (1.34%) AVEVA
10 3 (1.34%) Databricks
10 3 (1.34%) New Relic
10 3 (1.34%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.89%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.89%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.89%) CloudEndure
11 2 (0.89%) Dynatrace