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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 412 456
Rank change year-on-year +55 +44 +69
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 164 118 128
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.51% 1.05% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 97 104
10th Percentile £365 £457 £416
25th Percentile £450 £513 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +17.39% -4.17%
75th Percentile £626 £888 £650
90th Percentile £675 - £688
UK median daily rate £525 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.57% -4.17%

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 10,868 11,255 14,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.63% 35.35% 35.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,329 7,489 10,705
10th Percentile £303 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £643 £650
90th Percentile £725 £749 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 269 158 297
10th Percentile £15.20 £16.21 £14.51
25th Percentile £18.51 £23.80 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.75 £62.00
90th Percentile £67.05 £70.00 £78.30
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -28.14% +8.36% +44.91%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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 +18 88 £525 -27.59% 34
North of England -7 37 £500 +10.19% 29
North West -2 23 £488 +21.88% 25
West Midlands +6 19 £463 -8.42% 3
Midlands 0 19 £463 +2.21% 5
Yorkshire -14 12 £500 +1.01% 3
South East +16 6 £550 +10.00% 16
South West - 5 £625 - 2
East of England -6 4 £475 -13.64% 2
North East - 2 £425 - 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 21 (12.80%) Confluence
2 12 (7.32%) nginx
3 9 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (3.05%) CMS
4 5 (3.05%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.83%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.61%) Apache
6 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.61%) CICS
6 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (7.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.61%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 161 (98.17%) AWS
2 86 (52.44%) Serverless
3 83 (50.61%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (49.39%) Amazon S3
5 60 (36.59%) GitHub
6 58 (35.37%) AWS CloudFormation
7 56 (34.15%) Amazon EC2
8 51 (31.10%) Amazon EKS
9 50 (30.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (23.78%) AWS Fargate
11 37 (22.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 36 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
13 25 (15.24%) Amazon SQS
13 25 (15.24%) Azure
14 23 (14.02%) Route 53
15 22 (13.41%) AWS KMS
16 18 (10.98%) Datadog
17 16 (9.76%) Amazon ELB
18 13 (7.93%) AWS CloudTrail
19 12 (7.32%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (13.41%) DNS
2 17 (10.37%) Firewall
3 12 (7.32%) IMAP
3 12 (7.32%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (7.32%) SMTP
4 10 (6.10%) FTP
4 10 (6.10%) HTTP
4 10 (6.10%) SSH
5 7 (4.27%) VPN
6 4 (2.44%) SSL
7 3 (1.83%) Network Security
8 2 (1.22%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.61%) Broadband
9 1 (0.61%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.61%) NAS
9 1 (0.61%) SMS
9 1 (0.61%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (38.41%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (28.05%) DynamoDB
3 43 (26.22%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (14.02%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (8.54%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (7.93%) MongoDB
6 13 (7.93%) NoSQL
6 13 (7.93%) Relational Database
7 7 (4.27%) MySQL
7 7 (4.27%) RDBMS
7 7 (4.27%) Redis
8 6 (3.66%) Big Data
9 5 (3.05%) BigQuery
10 4 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.83%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.83%) Metadata
12 2 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (1.22%) DB2
Development Applications
1 66 (40.24%) Jenkins
2 44 (26.83%) GitLab
3 38 (23.17%) Git
4 29 (17.68%) JIRA
5 13 (7.93%) Maven
6 12 (7.32%) Vagrant
7 8 (4.88%) JUnit
7 8 (4.88%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.66%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (3.05%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.05%) Gradle
9 5 (3.05%) MLflow
9 5 (3.05%) SonarLint
10 4 (2.44%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.44%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.83%) RStudio
12 1 (0.61%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.61%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 56 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 33 (20.12%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.71%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (5.49%) Finance
5 7 (4.27%) Aerospace
5 7 (4.27%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.44%) Banking
6 4 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.22%) Publishing
8 1 (0.61%) Aviation
8 1 (0.61%) Games
8 1 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.61%) Military
8 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.61%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (34.15%) AWS Engineer
2 43 (26.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 28 (17.07%) AWS DevOps
4 26 (15.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 25 (15.24%) Platform Engineer
6 23 (14.02%) Developer
6 23 (14.02%) Lead
6 23 (14.02%) Senior
7 22 (13.41%) Software Engineer
8 21 (12.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 21 (12.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 17 (10.37%) Architect
10 12 (7.32%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 11 (6.71%) AWS Developer
12 10 (6.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 9 (5.49%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (5.49%) Lead DevOps Engineer
13 9 (5.49%) Technical Architect
14 7 (4.27%) Java Architect
14 7 (4.27%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (15.24%) Node.js
2 24 (14.63%) Kafka
3 22 (13.41%) React
4 20 (12.20%) AWS CDK
4 20 (12.20%) RESTful
5 15 (9.15%) Spring
6 13 (7.93%) LDAP
7 11 (6.71%) Spring Boot
8 10 (6.10%) FastAPI
8 10 (6.10%) Jest
8 10 (6.10%) OAuth
8 10 (6.10%) REST
9 9 (5.49%) OAuth2
10 8 (4.88%) Flask
10 8 (4.88%) HTML
10 8 (4.88%) OpenID
11 7 (4.27%) cloud-init
11 7 (4.27%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (4.27%) JWT
11 7 (4.27%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 38 (23.17%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.32%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (6.71%) Replication
4 8 (4.88%) PKI
5 7 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.27%) Product Ownership
6 5 (3.05%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (3.05%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.22%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.22%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.22%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.22%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.61%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.61%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.61%) NHS
8 1 (0.61%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.61%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.68%) Linux
2 12 (7.32%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (7.32%) VMS
2 12 (7.32%) Windows
3 10 (6.10%) Ubuntu
4 9 (5.49%) Unix
5 7 (4.27%) CentOS
5 7 (4.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.61%) AIX
6 1 (0.61%) Android
6 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.61%) Solaris
6 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (74.39%) CI/CD
2 95 (57.93%) DevOps
3 75 (45.73%) Containerisation
4 73 (44.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (31.10%) Agile
6 45 (27.44%) Microservices
7 41 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (20.12%) Software Engineering
9 28 (17.07%) AI
9 28 (17.07%) Event-Driven
9 28 (17.07%) Mentoring
9 28 (17.07%) Platform Engineering
10 25 (15.24%) Cloud Security
10 25 (15.24%) Configuration Management
10 25 (15.24%) Observability
11 23 (14.02%) Full-Stack Development
12 22 (13.41%) Machine Learning
13 21 (12.80%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 19 (11.59%) Migration
15 18 (10.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (54.27%) Python
2 35 (21.34%) Java
3 25 (15.24%) SQL
4 20 (12.20%) Bash
4 20 (12.20%) PowerShell
4 20 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 15 (9.15%) Go
5 15 (9.15%) Groovy
5 15 (9.15%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.93%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.83%) C#
7 3 (1.83%) CodeQL
7 3 (1.83%) Ruby
8 2 (1.22%) C
8 2 (1.22%) Perl
9 1 (0.61%) C++
9 1 (0.61%) COBOL
9 1 (0.61%) PHP
9 1 (0.61%) R
9 1 (0.61%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (33.54%) Security Cleared
2 43 (26.22%) AWS Certification
3 42 (25.61%) SC Cleared
4 24 (14.63%) Degree
5 20 (12.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (8.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (6.10%) Azure Certification
8 8 (4.88%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.05%) Master's Degree
11 4 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (1.22%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.54%) QA
2 8 (4.88%) NCSC
3 7 (4.27%) GDPR
4 5 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.44%) NIST
6 3 (1.83%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.22%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 100 (60.98%) Docker
2 12 (7.32%) Dovecot
2 12 (7.32%) Postfix
2 12 (7.32%) Squid
3 10 (6.10%) DFS Replication
4 2 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 102 (62.20%) Terraform
2 60 (36.59%) Kubernetes
3 29 (17.68%) Grafana
4 22 (13.41%) Prometheus
5 19 (11.59%) Ansible
6 12 (7.32%) Nessus
7 10 (6.10%) Proxmox
8 9 (5.49%) Progress Chef
9 8 (4.88%) Packer
10 7 (4.27%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (4.27%) Puppet
11 3 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.22%) Kustomize
13 1 (0.61%) Argo
13 1 (0.61%) Nagios
Vendors
1 18 (10.98%) ServiceNow
2 12 (7.32%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (6.71%) Splunk
4 9 (5.49%) IBM
5 7 (4.27%) CA Agile Central
5 7 (4.27%) Okta
6 6 (3.66%) Gigya
7 4 (2.44%) Microsoft
8 3 (1.83%) Google
9 2 (1.22%) Cisco
9 2 (1.22%) CloudEndure
9 2 (1.22%) Confluent
9 2 (1.22%) Oracle
9 2 (1.22%) Sybase
10 1 (0.61%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.61%) Databricks
10 1 (0.61%) JDA
10 1 (0.61%) NetApp
10 1 (0.61%) SaltStack