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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 411 370 441
Rank change year-on-year -41 +71 +27
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 216 136 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.49% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.32% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 103 78
10th Percentile £389 £351 £405
25th Percentile £458 £450 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £530 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.90% -9.79% -2.08%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £875
90th Percentile £773 £826 £888
UK median daily rate £536 £533 £531
% change year-on-year +0.70% +0.24% -11.46%
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 15,958 10,279 11,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.07% 37.24% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,654 6,968 8,061
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £423 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £719 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.75% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 267 246
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.13 £16.10
Median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £51.43
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +29.09% +15.55% -32.00%

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 1 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 1 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 -17 138 £590 +2.59% 58
North of England -60 30 £525 +7.14% 31
North West -39 22 £607 +67.08% 17
Midlands -42 22 £475 -3.06% 4
West Midlands -52 22 £475 -3.06% 2
South East -63 10 £600 +4.35% 12
East of England -11 7 £550 +22.22% 7
North East -35 7 £406 -4.41% 6
South West -35 6 £350 -31.71% 15
Yorkshire -45 1 - - 8
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 21 (9.72%) Confluence
2 12 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.85%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.93%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 211 (97.69%) AWS
2 155 (71.76%) Serverless
3 151 (69.91%) AWS Lambda
4 131 (60.65%) Amazon S3
5 124 (57.41%) Amazon EKS
6 72 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 69 (31.94%) GitHub
8 67 (31.02%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (24.54%) Amazon EC2
11 49 (22.69%) Amazon SQS
12 33 (15.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 25 (11.57%) AWS CodePipeline
14 18 (8.33%) Amazon EventBridge
14 18 (8.33%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (6.94%) Datadog
16 14 (6.48%) Azure
17 13 (6.02%) Amazon Bedrock
18 11 (5.09%) Amazon ECR
18 11 (5.09%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.78%) Network Security
2 3 (1.39%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) DNS
3 1 (0.46%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (24.07%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (23.61%) DynamoDB
3 33 (15.28%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (10.65%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (6.94%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (5.56%) Big Data
7 11 (5.09%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.31%) Flink
8 5 (2.31%) Presto
8 5 (2.31%) Redis
9 4 (1.85%) Apache Hudi
10 3 (1.39%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.39%) Metadata
10 3 (1.39%) MySQL
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.93%) Db2
11 2 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (28.70%) Jenkins
2 41 (18.98%) GitLab
3 23 (10.65%) Git
3 23 (10.65%) JIRA
4 18 (8.33%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.31%) JUnit
7 3 (1.39%) Mockito
8 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.93%) MLflow
9 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.46%) Gatling
9 1 (0.46%) git-flow
9 1 (0.46%) JMeter
9 1 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.46%) Selenium
9 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.46%) Vite
General
1 60 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.20%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.96%) Finance
4 18 (8.33%) Banking
5 17 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.78%) Law
9 5 (2.31%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.39%) Front Office
10 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.39%) Retail
11 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.93%) Local Government
11 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.46%) Police
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (19.91%) Developer
2 41 (18.98%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (17.13%) Senior
4 30 (13.89%) Lead
5 26 (12.04%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (10.65%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (10.19%) Architect
8 21 (9.72%) Scrum Master
9 19 (8.80%) Software Engineer
10 18 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
10 18 (8.33%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.02%) AWS Software Engineer
12 12 (5.56%) AWS Developer
12 12 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.56%) Data Engineer
12 12 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (5.09%) Python Engineer
13 11 (5.09%) Technical Leader
14 10 (4.63%) Senior Developer
15 9 (4.17%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.98%) React
2 39 (18.06%) Kafka
3 37 (17.13%) Spring
4 36 (16.67%) Spring Boot
5 34 (15.74%) REST
6 29 (13.43%) Node.js
6 29 (13.43%) RESTful
7 21 (9.72%) FastAPI
8 16 (7.41%) AWS CDK
9 14 (6.48%) OAuth
10 13 (6.02%) OAuth2
11 11 (5.09%) Jest
12 10 (4.63%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (4.63%) Flask
13 9 (4.17%) JWT
14 8 (3.70%) .NET
14 8 (3.70%) Express.js
14 8 (3.70%) GraphQL
15 7 (3.24%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 89 (41.20%) Cloud Native
2 37 (17.13%) Distributed Systems
2 37 (17.13%) Product Ownership
3 12 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.24%) Cloud Security Posture
4 7 (3.24%) Virtual Team
5 6 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.85%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.93%) Equities
9 2 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.50%) Linux
2 9 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.24%) Unix
4 4 (1.85%) Windows
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (71.30%) CI/CD
2 119 (55.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (52.78%) DevOps
4 94 (43.52%) Agile
5 90 (41.67%) Microservices
6 81 (37.50%) Containerisation
7 64 (29.63%) Test Automation
8 63 (29.17%) Observability
9 41 (18.98%) Software Engineering
10 40 (18.52%) AI
10 40 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
11 39 (18.06%) DevSecOps
11 39 (18.06%) Event-Driven
12 36 (16.67%) Scrum
13 33 (15.28%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (13.89%) Code Quality
14 30 (13.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 30 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (12.50%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 102 (47.22%) Python
2 71 (32.87%) Java
3 41 (18.98%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 30 (13.89%) SQL
6 24 (11.11%) Bash
7 12 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.09%) Scala
9 5 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.31%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.85%) Bicep
10 4 (1.85%) C#
10 4 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.39%) Go
11 3 (1.39%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.93%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) C
13 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 77 (35.65%) Security Cleared
2 63 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.43%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.09%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.31%) Degree
10 4 (1.85%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.39%) CISSP
12 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.56%) QA
2 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.93%) NCSC
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
4 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (48.61%) Docker
2 3 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 118 (54.63%) Terraform
2 63 (29.17%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.72%) Prometheus
4 19 (8.80%) Grafana
5 18 (8.33%) Ansible
6 6 (2.78%) Kibana
7 5 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.39%) Istio
8 3 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.39%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) Argo
9 1 (0.46%) Consul
9 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.46%) Packer
9 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (9.72%) Splunk
2 9 (4.17%) Databricks
2 9 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.31%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.31%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.31%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.85%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.39%) Confluent
7 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.93%) Charles River
7 2 (0.93%) Google
7 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.93%) Sybase
8 1 (0.46%) New Relic
8 1 (0.46%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle
8 1 (0.46%) Qualys
8 1 (0.46%) Talend