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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 374 462
Rank change year-on-year -27 +88 +14
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 216 121 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.46% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.41% 1.23% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 97 74
10th Percentile £385 £357 £406
25th Percentile £477 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £533 £531
Median % change year-on-year +4.23% +0.24% -11.46%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £875
90th Percentile £775 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £543 £536 £522
% change year-on-year +1.25% +2.65% -13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £68.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.88 - -
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 15,363 9,838 12,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.70% 32.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,344 6,633 8,684
10th Percentile £325 £310 £308
25th Percentile £415 £410 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 254 333
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.03 £14.13
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.88 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.33 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.04% +15.11% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -1 148 £575 -1.71% 51
North of England -69 24 £525 +23.53% 22
North West -37 17 £650 +69.27% 12
Midlands -53 15 £488 -0.76% 4
West Midlands -54 15 £488 -0.76% 2
South East -56 10 £600 +4.35% 12
South West -21 7 £350 -31.71% 13
East of England - 6 £550 - 1
North East -36 4 £469 +10.29% 3
Yorkshire -56 3 - - 7
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 20 (9.26%) Confluence
2 12 (5.56%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.39%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 211 (97.69%) AWS
2 148 (68.52%) Serverless
3 146 (67.59%) AWS Lambda
4 133 (61.57%) Amazon S3
5 110 (50.93%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (35.65%) GitHub
7 70 (32.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (32.41%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (31.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (24.54%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (18.52%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (17.59%) AWS CodePipeline
11 38 (17.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (7.87%) Datadog
13 15 (6.94%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (6.94%) AWS Fargate
13 15 (6.94%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (6.02%) Amazon Bedrock
15 11 (5.09%) Azure
16 10 (4.63%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) Network Security
2 2 (0.93%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (28.24%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (22.69%) DynamoDB
3 31 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (10.19%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.87%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (6.94%) MongoDB
7 13 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (5.09%) Big Data
9 10 (4.63%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.78%) Flink
10 6 (2.78%) Redis
11 5 (2.31%) Presto
12 4 (1.85%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.85%) Db2
13 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.93%) DocumentDB
13 2 (0.93%) Metadata
13 2 (0.93%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.93%) Power BI
14 1 (0.46%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 62 (28.70%) Jenkins
2 41 (18.98%) GitLab
3 25 (11.57%) Git
4 22 (10.19%) JIRA
5 17 (7.87%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.24%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.85%) JUnit
8 3 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.39%) Gradle
8 3 (1.39%) Maven
8 3 (1.39%) Vite
9 2 (0.93%) Snyk
10 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.46%) Gatling
10 1 (0.46%) MLflow
10 1 (0.46%) Mockito
10 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.46%) Selenium
10 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.80%) Finance
5 12 (5.56%) Banking
5 12 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.31%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.31%) Law
8 4 (1.85%) Front Office
9 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.93%) Local Government
10 2 (0.93%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (18.06%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (17.59%) Developer
2 38 (17.59%) Senior
3 33 (15.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.96%) Lead
5 27 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (10.65%) Architect
7 20 (9.26%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (7.87%) Java Developer
8 17 (7.87%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.48%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.48%) Scrum Master
10 12 (5.56%) AWS Developer
10 12 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.56%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.63%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (18.98%) React
2 40 (18.52%) Kafka
3 30 (13.89%) Spring
3 30 (13.89%) Spring Boot
4 26 (12.04%) RESTful
5 23 (10.65%) Node.js
6 22 (10.19%) REST
7 19 (8.80%) AWS CDK
8 17 (7.87%) OAuth
9 16 (7.41%) FastAPI
10 14 (6.48%) OAuth2
11 13 (6.02%) .NET
12 11 (5.09%) GraphQL
12 11 (5.09%) JWT
13 10 (4.63%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (3.70%) Flask
14 8 (3.70%) Jest
14 8 (3.70%) OpenID
15 7 (3.24%) Play Framework
16 6 (2.78%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 79 (36.57%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.57%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 6 (2.78%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.85%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.85%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.85%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.85%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.39%) Equities
7 3 (1.39%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.96%) Linux
2 6 (2.78%) Unix
3 4 (1.85%) Windows
4 3 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (71.76%) CI/CD
2 120 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (51.85%) DevOps
4 89 (41.20%) Containerisation
5 81 (37.50%) Microservices
6 73 (33.80%) Agile
7 54 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 53 (24.54%) Observability
9 39 (18.06%) AI
10 36 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 35 (16.20%) Event-Driven
12 33 (15.28%) Platform Engineering
13 32 (14.81%) DevSecOps
14 28 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (11.57%) Scrum
17 24 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 22 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 21 (9.72%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 98 (45.37%) Python
2 65 (30.09%) Java
3 34 (15.74%) TypeScript
4 31 (14.35%) SQL
5 30 (13.89%) JavaScript
6 21 (9.72%) Bash
7 9 (4.17%) PowerShell
7 9 (4.17%) Scala
8 5 (2.31%) C#
8 5 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.31%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (1.85%) Go
9 4 (1.85%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.46%) C
11 1 (0.46%) Cypher
11 1 (0.46%) Gremlin
11 1 (0.46%) Groovy
11 1 (0.46%) SHACL
11 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 73 (33.80%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.85%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.65%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.41%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.09%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.70%) Degree
9 5 (2.31%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.93%) CCSP
11 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.93%) CISSP
11 2 (0.93%) OSCP
11 2 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.56%) QA
2 7 (3.24%) NIST
3 5 (2.31%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.85%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 106 (49.07%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 121 (56.02%) Terraform
2 62 (28.70%) Kubernetes
3 26 (12.04%) Prometheus
4 20 (9.26%) Ansible
5 19 (8.80%) Grafana
6 6 (2.78%) Kibana
6 6 (2.78%) Puppet
6 6 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.39%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.93%) Istio
9 1 (0.46%) Consul
9 1 (0.46%) Packer
9 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (10.65%) Splunk
2 9 (4.17%) Databricks
3 7 (3.24%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.31%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.31%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.85%) AVEVA
5 4 (1.85%) Google
5 4 (1.85%) New Relic
5 4 (1.85%) Rapid7
5 4 (1.85%) Sybase
6 3 (1.39%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.39%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.39%) Charles River
6 3 (1.39%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.93%) Qualys
7 2 (0.93%) Tenable
8 1 (0.46%) Confluent