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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 349 454
Rank change year-on-year -30 +105 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 213 120 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.52% 0.50% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.49% 1.33% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 105 60
10th Percentile £385 £400 £406
25th Percentile £456 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £700 £489
Median % change year-on-year -23.57% +43.15% -18.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £575
90th Percentile £714 £875 £621
UK median daily rate £525 £628 £500
% change year-on-year -16.33% +25.50% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £67.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 14,332 8,992 11,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.19% 37.16% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,816 6,239 8,405
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £633 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 195 324
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.40 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%
75th Percentile £67.67 £38.13 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.00 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -38.94%

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 15 May 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon ECS in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon ECS in England

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 15 May 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 -14 141 £550 -29.03% 36
North of England -50 30 £534 +18.61% 25
North West -30 17 £650 +62.50% 12
West Midlands -49 13 £488 -9.57% 1
Midlands -54 13 £488 -9.57% 2
South West -21 10 £461 +17.67% 7
Yorkshire -51 8 £500 -20.00% 11
South East -55 8 £530 -7.83% 13
North East -15 5 £530 - 2
East of England - 5 £550 - 3
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 19 (8.92%) Confluence
2 14 (6.57%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.94%) Apache
4 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.88%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 208 (97.65%) AWS
2 150 (70.42%) Serverless
3 147 (69.01%) AWS Lambda
4 125 (58.69%) Amazon S3
5 95 (44.60%) Amazon EKS
6 87 (40.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 86 (40.38%) GitHub
8 76 (35.68%) GitHub Actions
9 74 (34.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 48 (22.54%) Amazon EC2
11 46 (21.60%) AWS CodePipeline
12 38 (17.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (12.68%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (8.92%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (7.98%) AWS Fargate
16 16 (7.51%) Datadog
17 14 (6.57%) Amazon ECR
18 12 (5.63%) Azure
19 10 (4.69%) Amazon EMR
19 10 (4.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.16%) DNS
2 5 (2.35%) Network Security
3 4 (1.88%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.41%) HTTP
5 1 (0.47%) Firewall
5 1 (0.47%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (23.94%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (22.54%) DynamoDB
3 29 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (11.27%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.45%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.57%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.16%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.29%) Big Data
9 7 (3.29%) Redis
10 6 (2.82%) Flink
11 5 (2.35%) Presto
12 4 (1.88%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.88%) DB2
12 4 (1.88%) DocumentDB
12 4 (1.88%) MySQL
13 3 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.41%) Data Hub
13 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.94%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 63 (29.58%) Jenkins
2 44 (20.66%) GitLab
3 39 (18.31%) Git
4 21 (9.86%) JIRA
5 17 (7.98%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.23%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.35%) Maven
8 4 (1.88%) JUnit
9 3 (1.41%) Gradle
9 3 (1.41%) Selenium
9 3 (1.41%) Snyk
9 3 (1.41%) Vite
10 2 (0.94%) MLflow
10 2 (0.94%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.47%) Gatling
11 1 (0.47%) Mocha
11 1 (0.47%) Mockito
11 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.78%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.39%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (6.57%) Finance
5 10 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.76%) Front Office
7 5 (2.35%) Banking
8 3 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.94%) Local Government
9 2 (0.94%) Police
9 2 (0.94%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 39 (18.31%) Developer
2 36 (16.90%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (15.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (12.21%) Lead
4 26 (12.21%) Senior
5 22 (10.33%) Architect
6 21 (9.86%) AWS DevOps
7 20 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 16 (7.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.57%) Software Engineer
10 13 (6.10%) Java Developer
11 12 (5.63%) Java Engineer
11 12 (5.63%) Scrum Master
11 12 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (5.16%) AWS Developer
12 11 (5.16%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (4.69%) Python Engineer
14 9 (4.23%) Security Engineer
15 8 (3.76%) Python Developer
15 8 (3.76%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.19%) Kafka
2 38 (17.84%) Spring
3 36 (16.90%) Spring Boot
4 33 (15.49%) React
5 31 (14.55%) RESTful
6 23 (10.80%) Node.js
7 17 (7.98%) AWS CDK
8 16 (7.51%) OAuth
9 13 (6.10%) .NET
9 13 (6.10%) REST
10 12 (5.63%) OAuth2
11 10 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (4.69%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.69%) OpenID
12 9 (4.23%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.76%) Flask
13 8 (3.76%) Jest
13 8 (3.76%) JWT
13 8 (3.76%) Next.js
14 7 (3.29%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 69 (32.39%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.33%) Product Ownership
3 20 (9.39%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (3.76%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.29%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.29%) Equities
6 5 (2.35%) NHS
7 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.41%) Derivative
8 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.41%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.41%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 42 (19.72%) Linux
2 6 (2.82%) Unix
3 4 (1.88%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.47%) Android
4 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (83.10%) CI/CD
2 130 (61.03%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (51.17%) DevOps
4 90 (42.25%) Containerisation
5 71 (33.33%) Microservices
6 69 (32.39%) Agile
7 50 (23.47%) Test Automation
8 47 (22.07%) Observability
9 34 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (15.96%) Software Engineering
10 32 (15.02%) Event-Driven
11 30 (14.08%) DevSecOps
12 28 (13.15%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (12.68%) Scrum
14 26 (12.21%) AI
14 26 (12.21%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (12.21%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (11.27%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (10.33%) Mentoring
16 22 (10.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (48.36%) Python
2 74 (34.74%) Java
3 36 (16.90%) SQL
4 34 (15.96%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.15%) TypeScript
6 25 (11.74%) Bash
7 10 (4.69%) C#
7 10 (4.69%) Ruby
8 9 (4.23%) Scala
9 6 (2.82%) Go
10 5 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.35%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.88%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.41%) C++
13 2 (0.94%) Groovy
14 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 70 (32.86%) Security Cleared
2 54 (25.35%) SC Cleared
3 25 (11.74%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.57%) DV Cleared
5 13 (6.10%) Degree
6 12 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.69%) SAFe Agilist
8 9 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (3.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 8 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (3.76%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.41%) CCSP
11 3 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.41%) CISSP
11 3 (1.41%) OSCP
11 3 (1.41%) PhD
11 3 (1.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.45%) QA
2 12 (5.63%) NIST
3 9 (4.23%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.35%) GDPR
6 4 (1.88%) NCSC
7 3 (1.41%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.94%) GRC
9 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
System Software
1 118 (55.40%) Docker
2 4 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 133 (62.44%) Terraform
2 78 (36.62%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.68%) Prometheus
4 26 (12.21%) Grafana
5 21 (9.86%) Ansible
6 11 (5.16%) Puppet
7 6 (2.82%) Kibana
7 6 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.88%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.41%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.94%) Argo
10 2 (0.94%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.94%) Istio
10 2 (0.94%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.47%) Consul
11 1 (0.47%) Packer
11 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (11.27%) Splunk
2 11 (5.16%) Databricks
3 7 (3.29%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.35%) Google
4 5 (2.35%) Rapid7
5 4 (1.88%) AppDynamics
5 4 (1.88%) AVEVA
5 4 (1.88%) Bloomberg
5 4 (1.88%) Charles River
5 4 (1.88%) Sybase
6 3 (1.41%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.41%) New Relic
6 3 (1.41%) PagerDuty
6 3 (1.41%) Qualys
6 3 (1.41%) Tenable
7 1 (0.47%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.47%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.47%) UiPath