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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 414 452
Rank change year-on-year +51 +38 +65
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 153 114 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.56% 0.35% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.48% 1.01% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 91 115
10th Percentile £358 £407 £425
25th Percentile £450 £485 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £888 £663
90th Percentile £678 - £700
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £588
% change year-on-year -3.49% -7.40% -2.08%

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 10,343 11,232 15,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.56% 34.55% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,002 7,648 11,230
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 176 306
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.33 £14.57
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.38 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.99 £68.31
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £29.04 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -6.34% -11.43% +62.79%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +28 84 £528 -34.06% 28
North of England +4 36 £495 +11.49% 13
North West -5 20 £405 -1.22% 8
West Midlands +8 19 £475 -5.94% 3
Midlands +7 19 £475 +4.97% 3
Yorkshire -6 13 £500 +1.01% 4
South East +21 6 £550 - 9
South West - 4 £625 - 7
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East of England +3 1 £450 -18.18%
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (10.46%) nginx
2 15 (9.80%) Confluence
3 7 (4.58%) CMS
4 6 (3.92%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (3.27%) Headless CMS
6 4 (2.61%) Apache
6 4 (2.61%) Tomcat
7 2 (1.31%) WordPress
8 1 (0.65%) CICS
8 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (7.84%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 149 (97.39%) AWS
2 80 (52.29%) Amazon S3
3 78 (50.98%) Serverless
4 73 (47.71%) AWS Lambda
5 54 (35.29%) Amazon EC2
5 54 (35.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 51 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 49 (32.03%) GitHub
8 41 (26.80%) Amazon EKS
9 31 (20.26%) AWS Fargate
10 29 (18.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 27 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (16.34%) Amazon SQS
12 25 (16.34%) AWS KMS
13 24 (15.69%) Azure
14 21 (13.73%) Route 53
15 18 (11.76%) Datadog
16 15 (9.80%) Amazon ELB
17 13 (8.50%) GCP
18 12 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.76%) DNS
2 13 (8.50%) Firewall
3 12 (7.84%) IMAP
3 12 (7.84%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (7.84%) SMTP
4 10 (6.54%) FTP
4 10 (6.54%) HTTP
4 10 (6.54%) SSH
5 4 (2.61%) Network Security
5 4 (2.61%) SSL
5 4 (2.61%) VPN
6 2 (1.31%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.65%) Broadband
7 1 (0.65%) IPv4
7 1 (0.65%) Multicast
7 1 (0.65%) NAS
7 1 (0.65%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (33.99%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (28.76%) PostgreSQL
3 42 (27.45%) DynamoDB
4 20 (13.07%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (9.15%) MongoDB
5 14 (9.15%) Relational Database
6 13 (8.50%) Amazon Athena
7 10 (6.54%) NoSQL
8 9 (5.88%) RDBMS
9 7 (4.58%) MySQL
10 6 (3.92%) Redis
11 5 (3.27%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.27%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.96%) Big Data
12 3 (1.96%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (1.96%) Metadata
13 2 (1.31%) DB2
13 2 (1.31%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 59 (38.56%) Jenkins
2 33 (21.57%) GitLab
3 30 (19.61%) Git
4 21 (13.73%) JIRA
5 12 (7.84%) Maven
5 12 (7.84%) Vagrant
6 10 (6.54%) JUnit
7 8 (5.23%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.92%) Cucumber
9 5 (3.27%) Gradle
9 5 (3.27%) SonarLint
10 4 (2.61%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.96%) MLflow
12 2 (1.31%) Bitbucket
12 2 (1.31%) JMeter
12 2 (1.31%) Mockito
12 2 (1.31%) Terragrunt
13 1 (0.65%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 53 (34.64%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.61%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.19%) Presentation Skills
4 7 (4.58%) Aerospace
4 7 (4.58%) Finance
5 5 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.31%) Publishing
8 1 (0.65%) Aviation
8 1 (0.65%) Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 53 (34.64%) AWS Engineer
2 42 (27.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (16.99%) AWS DevOps
3 26 (16.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 26 (16.99%) Developer
4 24 (15.69%) Senior
5 23 (15.03%) Platform Engineer
6 20 (13.07%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 20 (13.07%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 20 (13.07%) Lead
7 18 (11.76%) Software Engineer
8 15 (9.80%) Architect
9 12 (7.84%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 10 (6.54%) AWS Developer
11 9 (5.88%) Java Developer
11 9 (5.88%) Technical Architect
12 8 (5.23%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Java Architect
13 7 (4.58%) Java Technical Architect
13 7 (4.58%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (15.03%) Node.js
2 20 (13.07%) Kafka
3 19 (12.42%) React
4 18 (11.76%) Spring
5 17 (11.11%) AWS CDK
6 16 (10.46%) RESTful
7 13 (8.50%) LDAP
7 13 (8.50%) OAuth
7 13 (8.50%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.54%) Jest
9 9 (5.88%) .NET
10 8 (5.23%) OAuth2
10 8 (5.23%) REST
11 7 (4.58%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.58%) JWT
11 7 (4.58%) OpenID
12 6 (3.92%) GraphQL
12 6 (3.92%) HTML
12 6 (3.92%) SAML
13 5 (3.27%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 36 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 10 (6.54%) Replication
3 9 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.58%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.92%) PKI
6 5 (3.27%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.31%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.31%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.31%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.31%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.65%) NHS
9 1 (0.65%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.95%) Linux
2 12 (7.84%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (7.84%) VMS
3 11 (7.19%) Windows
4 10 (6.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (6.54%) Ubuntu
5 7 (4.58%) Unix
6 5 (3.27%) CentOS
7 1 (0.65%) AIX
7 1 (0.65%) Android
7 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.65%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (71.90%) CI/CD
2 84 (54.90%) DevOps
3 67 (43.79%) Containerisation
3 67 (43.79%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (32.68%) Agile
5 36 (23.53%) Microservices
6 35 (22.88%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (18.30%) Software Engineering
8 26 (16.99%) Mentoring
9 25 (16.34%) Cloud Security
9 25 (16.34%) Platform Engineering
10 23 (15.03%) Event-Driven
11 21 (13.73%) Observability
12 20 (13.07%) Configuration Management
13 19 (12.42%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
14 17 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 17 (11.11%) Migration
14 17 (11.11%) Test Automation
15 16 (10.46%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 74 (48.37%) Python
2 37 (24.18%) Java
3 22 (14.38%) SQL
4 19 (12.42%) TypeScript
5 17 (11.11%) Bash
5 17 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 16 (10.46%) Groovy
7 14 (9.15%) JavaScript
8 13 (8.50%) Shell Script
9 10 (6.54%) Go
10 3 (1.96%) C#
10 3 (1.96%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.31%) C
11 2 (1.31%) PHP
12 1 (0.65%) C++
12 1 (0.65%) COBOL
12 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.65%) Ruby
12 1 (0.65%) Rust
12 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 51 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 42 (27.45%) AWS Certification
3 39 (25.49%) SC Cleared
4 22 (14.38%) Degree
5 20 (13.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (6.54%) Azure Certification
8 8 (5.23%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.61%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.96%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.65%) CCSP
12 1 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.65%) CISSP
12 1 (0.65%) OSCP
12 1 (0.65%) SANS
12 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.80%) QA
2 7 (4.58%) GDPR
3 6 (3.92%) NCSC
4 4 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.96%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.31%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (1.31%) NIST
6 2 (1.31%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 87 (56.86%) Docker
2 12 (7.84%) Dovecot
2 12 (7.84%) Postfix
2 12 (7.84%) Squid
3 10 (6.54%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 91 (59.48%) Terraform
2 54 (35.29%) Kubernetes
3 27 (17.65%) Grafana
4 20 (13.07%) Prometheus
5 14 (9.15%) Ansible
6 12 (7.84%) Nessus
7 10 (6.54%) Proxmox
8 7 (4.58%) Progress Chef
9 6 (3.92%) Kibana
9 6 (3.92%) Packer
10 5 (3.27%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (3.27%) Puppet
11 3 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.31%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 18 (11.76%) ServiceNow
2 12 (7.84%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (7.19%) Splunk
4 9 (5.88%) IBM
5 7 (4.58%) CA Agile Central
6 6 (3.92%) Gigya
7 5 (3.27%) Okta
8 4 (2.61%) AppDynamics
9 3 (1.96%) Google
9 3 (1.96%) Microsoft
10 2 (1.31%) Cisco
10 2 (1.31%) Confluent
10 2 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.31%) Sybase
11 1 (0.65%) JDA
11 1 (0.65%) NetApp
11 1 (0.65%) Rapid7
11 1 (0.65%) Rollbar