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 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 368 476
Rank change year-on-year -34 +108 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 199 115 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.48% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.27% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 94 56
10th Percentile £385 £378 £406
25th Percentile £470 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £498
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +20.10% -17.08%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £578
90th Percentile £735 - £623
UK median daily rate £530 £555 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +11.00% -16.67%
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 14,667 9,041 11,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.11% 37.69% 32.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,973 6,174 8,462
10th Percentile £325 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.39% -1.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 218 323
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.17 £17.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.26 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +56.40% +18.18% -38.94%
75th Percentile £68.63 £37.69 £39.50
90th Percentile £81.65 £68.75 £69.90
UK median hourly rate £35.81 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +27.89% +30.23% -42.67%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -18 130 £560 -13.85% 40
North of England -69 24 £513 +2.50% 18
North West -27 16 £650 +62.50% 9
West Midlands -50 14 £488 -0.76% 1
Midlands -52 14 £488 -0.76% 1
South East -55 11 £600 +4.35% 12
South West -25 8 £369 -43.27% 4
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
North East -25 4 £469 - 3
Yorkshire -61 4 £500 -2.44% 6
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 (10.05%) Confluence
2 12 (6.03%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.51%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 194 (97.49%) AWS
2 138 (69.35%) Serverless
3 136 (68.34%) AWS Lambda
4 120 (60.30%) Amazon S3
5 100 (50.25%) Amazon EKS
6 78 (39.20%) GitHub
7 71 (35.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 70 (35.18%) AWS CloudFormation
8 70 (35.18%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (26.13%) Amazon EC2
10 39 (19.60%) AWS CodePipeline
10 39 (19.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 29 (14.57%) Amazon SQS
12 16 (8.04%) AWS Fargate
13 15 (7.54%) AWS Step Functions
14 13 (6.53%) Datadog
15 10 (5.03%) Amazon ECR
15 10 (5.03%) Amazon EMR
15 10 (5.03%) Azure
16 9 (4.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.02%) DNS
2 5 (2.51%) Network Security
3 3 (1.51%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (27.14%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (23.12%) DynamoDB
3 26 (13.07%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (12.56%) NoSQL
5 18 (9.05%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (7.04%) MongoDB
7 10 (5.03%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.52%) Redis
9 6 (3.02%) Big Data
9 6 (3.02%) Flink
10 5 (2.51%) DocumentDB
10 5 (2.51%) Presto
11 4 (2.01%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (2.01%) DB2
11 4 (2.01%) MySQL
12 3 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.01%) Metadata
13 2 (1.01%) Pinecone
14 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 59 (29.65%) Jenkins
2 41 (20.60%) GitLab
3 27 (13.57%) Git
4 22 (11.06%) JIRA
5 17 (8.54%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.52%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.01%) JUnit
8 3 (1.51%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.51%) Gradle
8 3 (1.51%) Maven
8 3 (1.51%) Snyk
8 3 (1.51%) Vite
9 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.50%) Mockito
9 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.08%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.53%) Finance
5 10 (5.03%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.52%) Banking
8 5 (2.51%) Front Office
8 5 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.51%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.01%) Law
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
10 2 (1.01%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (21.11%) Developer
2 38 (19.10%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (15.58%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (14.07%) Senior
5 23 (11.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (11.56%) Lead
6 20 (10.05%) Architect
7 19 (9.55%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (8.54%) Software Engineer
9 16 (8.04%) Java Developer
10 15 (7.54%) AWS Developer
11 14 (7.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (6.53%) Python Developer
12 13 (6.53%) Scrum Master
13 12 (6.03%) Senior Developer
14 11 (5.53%) Python Engineer
15 10 (5.03%) AWS Architect
15 10 (5.03%) Lead DevOps
16 8 (4.02%) Security Engineer
16 8 (4.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.60%) Kafka
2 38 (19.10%) React
3 31 (15.58%) Spring
3 31 (15.58%) Spring Boot
4 28 (14.07%) RESTful
5 17 (8.54%) AWS CDK
5 17 (8.54%) Node.js
5 17 (8.54%) OAuth
6 14 (7.04%) FastAPI
6 14 (7.04%) OAuth2
7 13 (6.53%) REST
8 12 (6.03%) .NET
9 11 (5.53%) GraphQL
10 10 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (5.03%) Flask
10 10 (5.03%) OpenID
11 9 (4.52%) JWT
11 9 (4.52%) Next.js
12 8 (4.02%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.52%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 72 (36.18%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.56%) Product Ownership
3 18 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.01%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.01%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.01%) Equities
4 4 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.51%) NHS
5 3 (1.51%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.01%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 30 (15.08%) Linux
2 6 (3.02%) Unix
3 4 (2.01%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (79.90%) CI/CD
2 119 (59.80%) Infrastructure as Code
3 106 (53.27%) DevOps
4 83 (41.71%) Containerisation
5 71 (35.68%) Agile
6 64 (32.16%) Microservices
7 52 (26.13%) Test Automation
8 46 (23.12%) Observability
9 36 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (17.09%) Software Engineering
11 32 (16.08%) DevSecOps
12 30 (15.08%) Event-Driven
13 28 (14.07%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (13.57%) Scrum
15 25 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
16 24 (12.06%) AI
17 22 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 21 (10.55%) Cloud Security
18 21 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
19 20 (10.05%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 90 (45.23%) Python
2 65 (32.66%) Java
3 35 (17.59%) SQL
4 31 (15.58%) JavaScript
5 27 (13.57%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.55%) Bash
7 9 (4.52%) Scala
8 8 (4.02%) C#
9 7 (3.52%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.51%) Go
10 5 (2.51%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.51%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (2.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.01%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.01%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (34.17%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.13%) SC Cleared
3 21 (10.55%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.04%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.53%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (4.02%) Degree
8 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.51%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.01%) CCSP
12 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.01%) CISSP
12 2 (1.01%) OSCP
12 2 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.05%) QA
2 11 (5.53%) NIST
3 8 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.01%) GDPR
6 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.01%) NCSC
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
System Software
1 109 (54.77%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (62.31%) Terraform
2 69 (34.67%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.57%) Prometheus
4 20 (10.05%) Ansible
4 20 (10.05%) Grafana
5 8 (4.02%) Puppet
6 6 (3.02%) Kibana
6 6 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.51%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.01%) Argo
8 2 (1.01%) Istio
9 1 (0.50%) Consul
9 1 (0.50%) Packer
9 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (12.06%) Splunk
2 9 (4.52%) Databricks
3 6 (3.02%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.01%) AVEVA
4 4 (2.01%) Google
4 4 (2.01%) New Relic
4 4 (2.01%) Rapid7
4 4 (2.01%) Sybase
5 3 (1.51%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.51%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.51%) Charles River
5 3 (1.51%) Qualys
5 3 (1.51%) Tenable
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.50%) Confluent
7 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow