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 8 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 363 408
Rank change year-on-year -62 +45 +66
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 218 154 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.56% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.50% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 109 91
10th Percentile £384 £358 £407
25th Percentile £456 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £888
90th Percentile £775 £690 -
UK median daily rate £543 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 15,954 10,236 11,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.70% 37.42% 34.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,675 6,912 7,736
10th Percentile £323 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.69% -4.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £723 £732 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 545 257 187
10th Percentile £15.39 £15.40 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.87 £19.97
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.45 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +29.02% -13.53% -7.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £46.18 £60.83
90th Percentile £82.75 £71.67 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.31 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.03% - -14.29%

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 8 September 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
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 8 September 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 -23 137 £581 +10.67% 149
North of England -72 37 £500 +1.01% 38
North West -47 27 £600 +48.15% 23
Midlands -50 25 £463 -2.63% 15
West Midlands -42 23 £475 - 4
South East -69 9 £600 +9.09% 18
East of England -16 8 £550 +22.22% 8
North East -37 8 £400 -5.88% 7
South West -47 2 £403 -35.60% 28
Yorkshire -51 2 £500 - 8
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 11
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 24 (11.01%) Confluence
2 9 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.67%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.75%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.38%) Apache
6 2 (0.92%) nginx
6 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.46%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 213 (97.71%) AWS
2 157 (72.02%) AWS Lambda
2 157 (72.02%) Serverless
3 124 (56.88%) Amazon S3
4 123 (56.42%) Amazon EKS
5 76 (34.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 70 (32.11%) GitHub
7 67 (30.73%) GitHub Actions
8 56 (25.69%) Amazon EC2
9 52 (23.85%) AWS CloudFormation
10 51 (23.39%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (16.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (10.09%) AWS Step Functions
13 21 (9.63%) Azure
14 20 (9.17%) Amazon EventBridge
15 16 (7.34%) AWS CodePipeline
16 14 (6.42%) GCP
17 13 (5.96%) AWS KMS
18 12 (5.50%) AWS Fargate
18 12 (5.50%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.67%) Firewall
2 6 (2.75%) Network Security
3 4 (1.83%) DNS
3 4 (1.83%) HTTP
4 3 (1.38%) SSL
4 3 (1.38%) VPN
5 2 (0.92%) FTP
5 2 (0.92%) IMAP
5 2 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.92%) SMTP
5 2 (0.92%) SSH
5 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (27.06%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (22.02%) DynamoDB
3 32 (14.68%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.17%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.88%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (6.42%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.50%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.50%) Big Data
8 8 (3.67%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.29%) Presto
10 4 (1.83%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.83%) DocumentDB
10 4 (1.83%) MySQL
10 4 (1.83%) Redis
11 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.38%) Metadata
11 3 (1.38%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.92%) Data Hub
12 2 (0.92%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (29.36%) Jenkins
2 46 (21.10%) GitLab
3 26 (11.93%) JIRA
4 24 (11.01%) Git
5 13 (5.96%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.59%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.83%) Mockito
8 3 (1.38%) JUnit
8 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.92%) git-flow
9 2 (0.92%) Maven
9 2 (0.92%) MLflow
9 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.46%) Gatling
10 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.46%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.46%) Selenium
10 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (27.06%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.06%) Finance
2 35 (16.06%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.17%) Banking
4 18 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.21%) Law
7 6 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.29%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.38%) Retail
10 2 (0.92%) Local Government
10 2 (0.92%) Military
11 1 (0.46%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.46%) iGaming
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (21.10%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (16.97%) Developer
2 37 (16.97%) Senior
3 29 (13.30%) Lead
4 27 (12.39%) DevOps Engineer
5 24 (11.01%) Cloud Engineer
5 24 (11.01%) Scrum Master
6 23 (10.55%) Architect
6 23 (10.55%) AWS DevOps
7 22 (10.09%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 15 (6.88%) Technical Leader
10 14 (6.42%) Data Engineer
11 13 (5.96%) AWS Software Engineer
12 12 (5.50%) AWS Architect
12 12 (5.50%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (5.50%) Python Engineer
13 11 (5.05%) AWS Developer
13 11 (5.05%) Java Developer
14 10 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (59.17%) Terraform
2 41 (18.81%) REST
3 39 (17.89%) React
4 36 (16.51%) Spring
5 34 (15.60%) Spring Boot
6 31 (14.22%) Kafka
7 26 (11.93%) RESTful
8 25 (11.47%) FastAPI
9 23 (10.55%) Node.js
10 16 (7.34%) AWS CDK
11 13 (5.96%) AngularJS
12 11 (5.05%) Flask
13 9 (4.13%) .NET
14 8 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (3.67%) GraphQL
14 8 (3.67%) Jest
14 8 (3.67%) JWT
14 8 (3.67%) OAuth
14 8 (3.67%) OAuth2
15 7 (3.21%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 101 (46.33%) Cloud Native
2 41 (18.81%) Product Ownership
3 38 (17.43%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.42%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.59%) Cloud Security Posture
6 9 (4.13%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.75%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.83%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.83%) NHS
9 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.38%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.92%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.14%) Linux
2 12 (5.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.13%) Windows
4 8 (3.67%) Unix
5 2 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (0.92%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.46%) Android
6 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.46%) VMS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (69.72%) CI/CD
2 127 (58.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 123 (56.42%) DevOps
4 100 (45.87%) Agile
5 84 (38.53%) Containerisation
6 82 (37.61%) Microservices
7 71 (32.57%) Observability
8 69 (31.65%) Test Automation
9 51 (23.39%) Event-Driven
10 49 (22.48%) Software Engineering
11 42 (19.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (18.35%) DevSecOps
12 40 (18.35%) Technical Leadership
13 39 (17.89%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 39 (17.89%) Platform Engineering
13 39 (17.89%) Scrum
14 33 (15.14%) AI
15 32 (14.68%) Deployment Automation
16 31 (14.22%) Full-Stack Development
17 30 (13.76%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 108 (49.54%) Python
2 70 (32.11%) Java
3 44 (20.18%) TypeScript
4 30 (13.76%) Bash
4 30 (13.76%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.93%) SQL
6 17 (7.80%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.05%) Scala
8 7 (3.21%) Bicep
9 5 (2.29%) C#
9 5 (2.29%) Groovy
9 5 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.29%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.38%) Go
11 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) Cypher
12 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 79 (36.24%) Security Cleared
2 63 (28.90%) SC Cleared
3 34 (15.60%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.63%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.05%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.59%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.67%) Degree
9 6 (2.75%) CISSP
10 5 (2.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
14 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.63%) QA
2 5 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) HL7
4 1 (0.46%) NCSC
4 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 111 (50.92%) Docker
2 6 (2.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.92%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.92%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.92%) Postfix
3 2 (0.92%) Squid
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (31.65%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.09%) Grafana
3 21 (9.63%) Ansible
4 16 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.75%) Kibana
5 6 (2.75%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.83%) Nessus
7 3 (1.38%) Puppet
8 2 (0.92%) Consul
8 2 (0.92%) Istio
8 2 (0.92%) Packer
8 2 (0.92%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.92%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.46%) Argo
9 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.46%) linkerd
9 1 (0.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (9.17%) Splunk
2 11 (5.05%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.13%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.21%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.75%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.29%) Amplitude
6 5 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.83%) Confluent
7 4 (1.83%) Google
8 3 (1.38%) Databricks
9 2 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
9 2 (0.92%) Oracle
10 1 (0.46%) Informatica
10 1 (0.46%) LogicMonitor
10 1 (0.46%) New Relic
10 1 (0.46%) NVIDIA
10 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.46%) Talend