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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 358 415
Rank change year-on-year -64 +57 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 207 149 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.54% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.45% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 111 91
10th Percentile £386 £350 £406
25th Percentile £456 £450 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £888
90th Percentile £768 £738 -
UK median daily rate £546 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.32% -8.33%
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 15,947 10,270 11,234
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.92% 37.27% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,653 6,955 7,908
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 276 214
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.17 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.00% -22.65%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.15%

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 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 21 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 -36 129 £575 +9.52% 15
North of England -74 34 £500 - 18
Midlands -40 24 £463 -2.63% 3
North West -37 23 £575 +17.95% 7
West Midlands -43 23 £475 - 2
South East -62 10 £600 +6.67% 11
East of England -7 8 £550 +22.22% 2
North East -31 8 £413 -2.94% 3
Yorkshire -49 3 £500 - 8
South West -50 2 £403 -35.60% 10
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 (10.63%) Confluence
2 9 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.86%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.90%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.93%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.45%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 202 (97.58%) AWS
2 151 (72.95%) Serverless
3 149 (71.98%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (58.45%) Amazon EKS
4 121 (58.45%) Amazon S3
5 70 (33.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 67 (32.37%) GitHub
7 65 (31.40%) GitHub Actions
8 52 (25.12%) Amazon EC2
8 52 (25.12%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (24.64%) Amazon SQS
10 32 (15.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (9.66%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (9.18%) Amazon EventBridge
12 19 (9.18%) AWS CodePipeline
13 16 (7.73%) Azure
14 12 (5.80%) Datadog
14 12 (5.80%) GCP
15 11 (5.31%) Amazon Bedrock
15 11 (5.31%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.42%) Network Security
2 3 (1.45%) Firewall
3 2 (0.97%) DNS
3 2 (0.97%) HTTP
3 2 (0.97%) SSL
3 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (26.09%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (23.67%) DynamoDB
3 33 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (8.70%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.76%) MongoDB
6 13 (6.28%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (5.80%) Big Data
8 8 (3.86%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.42%) Presto
10 4 (1.93%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.93%) Redis
11 3 (1.45%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.45%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.45%) Metadata
11 3 (1.45%) MySQL
12 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.97%) Power BI
12 2 (0.97%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (29.95%) Jenkins
2 43 (20.77%) GitLab
3 24 (11.59%) JIRA
4 23 (11.11%) Git
5 15 (7.25%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.86%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.45%) JUnit
7 3 (1.45%) Mockito
8 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.97%) MLflow
8 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.48%) Gatling
9 1 (0.48%) git-flow
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) Maven
9 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.48%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.48%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (26.57%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.43%) Public Sector
3 33 (15.94%) Finance
4 20 (9.66%) Banking
5 16 (7.73%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.90%) Law
8 5 (2.42%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.93%) Retail
10 3 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.97%) Local Government
12 1 (0.48%) Front Office
12 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (20.77%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (17.87%) Developer
2 37 (17.87%) Senior
3 28 (13.53%) Lead
4 26 (12.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (11.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (11.11%) Scrum Master
7 21 (10.14%) Architect
7 21 (10.14%) AWS DevOps
7 21 (10.14%) Software Engineer
8 15 (7.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.76%) Data Engineer
10 13 (6.28%) AWS Software Engineer
11 12 (5.80%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.80%) Lead DevOps
11 12 (5.80%) Python Engineer
11 12 (5.80%) Technical Leader
12 11 (5.31%) AWS Developer
13 10 (4.83%) AWS Architect
14 9 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (57.97%) Terraform
2 39 (18.84%) React
3 36 (17.39%) REST
4 33 (15.94%) Spring
5 31 (14.98%) Kafka
5 31 (14.98%) Spring Boot
6 25 (12.08%) Node.js
7 24 (11.59%) RESTful
8 22 (10.63%) FastAPI
9 15 (7.25%) AWS CDK
10 11 (5.31%) Flask
11 10 (4.83%) AngularJS
11 10 (4.83%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.35%) .NET
12 9 (4.35%) GraphQL
12 9 (4.35%) OAuth
12 9 (4.35%) OAuth2
13 8 (3.86%) Jest
14 7 (3.38%) JWT
14 7 (3.38%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 93 (44.93%) Cloud Native
2 40 (19.32%) Distributed Systems
3 39 (18.84%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.28%) Security Posture
5 9 (4.35%) Cloud Security Posture
6 7 (3.38%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.90%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.93%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.93%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.93%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.93%) NHS
9 4 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.93%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.45%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.49%) Linux
2 11 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.86%) Unix
4 6 (2.90%) Windows
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (71.01%) CI/CD
2 119 (57.49%) Infrastructure as Code
3 115 (55.56%) DevOps
4 92 (44.44%) Agile
5 84 (40.58%) Microservices
6 74 (35.75%) Containerisation
7 67 (32.37%) Observability
8 66 (31.88%) Test Automation
9 47 (22.71%) Software Engineering
10 44 (21.26%) Event-Driven
11 41 (19.81%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (19.32%) DevSecOps
13 38 (18.36%) Platform Engineering
13 38 (18.36%) Scrum
14 35 (16.91%) AI
14 35 (16.91%) Technical Leadership
15 34 (16.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 29 (14.01%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (13.53%) Cloud Security
17 28 (13.53%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 100 (48.31%) Python
2 67 (32.37%) Java
3 39 (18.84%) TypeScript
4 29 (14.01%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.53%) Bash
6 25 (12.08%) SQL
7 14 (6.76%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.31%) Scala
9 6 (2.90%) Bicep
10 5 (2.42%) C#
10 5 (2.42%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.42%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.45%) Go
11 3 (1.45%) Groovy
12 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.48%) C
13 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (35.27%) Security Cleared
2 58 (28.02%) SC Cleared
3 31 (14.98%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.66%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.31%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.90%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.90%) Degree
10 5 (2.42%) CISSP
11 4 (1.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
13 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.48%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.25%) QA
2 5 (2.42%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.97%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) HL7
5 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 102 (49.28%) Docker
2 3 (1.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 67 (32.37%) Kubernetes
2 20 (9.66%) Grafana
3 19 (9.18%) Ansible
4 15 (7.25%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.90%) Kibana
6 5 (2.42%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.45%) Puppet
7 3 (1.45%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.97%) Consul
8 2 (0.97%) Istio
8 2 (0.97%) Packer
8 2 (0.97%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.48%) Argo
9 1 (0.48%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.48%) linkerd
Vendors
1 20 (9.66%) Splunk
2 9 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.86%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.90%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.42%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.42%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.93%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.45%) Confluent
7 3 (1.45%) Databricks
7 3 (1.45%) Google
8 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.97%) Oracle
9 1 (0.48%) Informatica
9 1 (0.48%) New Relic
9 1 (0.48%) NVIDIA
9 1 (0.48%) Talend