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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 320 465
Rank change year-on-year -33 +145 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 220 153 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.62% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.64% 1.63% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 133 60
10th Percentile £368 £483 £425
25th Percentile £438 £613 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile £641 £838 £591
90th Percentile £675 £875 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £524
% change year-on-year -27.59% +38.49% -10.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 13,451 9,383 12,311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.05% 38.01% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,250 6,498 8,876
10th Percentile £313 £313 £275
25th Percentile £412 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 155 331
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £19.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +26.19% -16.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.39 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.75 £64.50
UK median hourly rate £38.51 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +48.10% +21.67% -14.52%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -30 137 £525 -27.59% 26
North of England -37 46 £534 -26.38% 31
North West -19 24 £550 +10.00% 13
Yorkshire -55 19 £500 -31.03% 17
South West -7 11 £438 +11.61% 15
South East -37 9 £530 -7.83% 18
East of England - 4 £538 - 6
North East -11 3 £538 -28.33% 1
West Midlands - 3 - - 8
Midlands - 3 - - 13
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 10 (4.55%) Confluence
2 9 (4.09%) Apache Spark
3 5 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.36%) Apache
4 3 (1.36%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.82%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 219 (99.55%) AWS
2 148 (67.27%) Serverless
3 138 (62.73%) AWS Lambda
4 115 (52.27%) Amazon S3
5 100 (45.45%) AWS CloudFormation
6 99 (45.00%) Amazon EKS
7 84 (38.18%) GitHub
8 76 (34.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (29.55%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (25.45%) Amazon EC2
11 39 (17.73%) AWS CodePipeline
11 39 (17.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 38 (17.27%) AWS Fargate
13 23 (10.45%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
15 21 (9.55%) Azure
16 19 (8.64%) Datadog
17 15 (6.82%) Amazon MSK
18 14 (6.36%) Amazon GuardDuty
18 14 (6.36%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.09%) DNS
2 10 (4.55%) Firewall
3 5 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.82%) Network Security
5 3 (1.36%) VPN
6 2 (0.91%) HTTP
7 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (28.18%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (22.27%) DynamoDB
3 31 (14.09%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (9.55%) NoSQL
5 19 (8.64%) Relational Database
6 14 (6.36%) MongoDB
7 13 (5.91%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (3.64%) DocumentDB
9 8 (3.64%) Redis
9 8 (3.64%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.18%) DB2
10 7 (3.18%) MySQL
11 6 (2.73%) Flink
12 5 (2.27%) Data Hub
13 4 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.82%) Big Data
14 3 (1.36%) Power BI
14 3 (1.36%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 64 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 49 (22.27%) Git
3 45 (20.45%) GitLab
4 15 (6.82%) JIRA
5 12 (5.45%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.18%) JUnit
7 6 (2.73%) Maven
8 4 (1.82%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.82%) MLflow
8 4 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.36%) Gradle
9 3 (1.36%) RStudio
9 3 (1.36%) Snyk
9 3 (1.36%) Terragrunt
9 3 (1.36%) Vite
10 2 (0.91%) Selenium
10 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 51 (23.18%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.82%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.09%) Finance
5 11 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (4.09%) Banking
8 7 (3.18%) Front Office
9 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Military
10 2 (0.91%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.45%) Games
11 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
1 44 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (17.73%) Developer
3 30 (13.64%) Senior
4 26 (11.82%) Lead
5 23 (10.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (10.00%) AWS DevOps
7 20 (9.09%) Architect
8 19 (8.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 19 (8.64%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.73%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.82%) Site Engineer
11 13 (5.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (5.45%) Java Engineer
13 11 (5.00%) AWS Developer
13 11 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (5.00%) Security Engineer
14 10 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
15 9 (4.09%) Python Developer
15 9 (4.09%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (22.73%) Kafka
2 37 (16.82%) Spring
3 35 (15.91%) Node.js
3 35 (15.91%) Spring Boot
4 34 (15.45%) RESTful
5 25 (11.36%) React
6 22 (10.00%) OAuth
7 19 (8.64%) REST
8 14 (6.36%) AWS CDK
9 13 (5.91%) .NET
9 13 (5.91%) JWT
10 12 (5.45%) FastAPI
10 12 (5.45%) Flask
11 11 (5.00%) OAuth2
12 9 (4.09%) OpenID
13 8 (3.64%) Django
14 7 (3.18%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.18%) Jest
15 6 (2.73%) Express.js
15 6 (2.73%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 62 (28.18%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.18%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.18%) Equities
3 7 (3.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.18%) NHS
4 6 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.36%) Derivative
7 3 (1.36%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.36%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.36%) PKI
7 3 (1.36%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.91%) Replication
9 1 (0.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 47 (21.36%) Linux
2 5 (2.27%) Windows
3 4 (1.82%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (1.36%) CentOS
4 3 (1.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.36%) Unix
5 2 (0.91%) VMS
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (82.27%) CI/CD
2 128 (58.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 121 (55.00%) DevOps
4 96 (43.64%) Containerisation
5 90 (40.91%) Microservices
6 61 (27.73%) Agile
7 46 (20.91%) Observability
8 40 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (16.36%) AI
10 34 (15.45%) Software Engineering
11 30 (13.64%) Event-Driven
12 28 (12.73%) Analytics
13 27 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (12.27%) Test Automation
14 25 (11.36%) Code Quality
14 25 (11.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 24 (10.91%) Configuration Management
15 24 (10.91%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (10.45%) Mentoring
17 22 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 125 (56.82%) Python
2 65 (29.55%) Java
3 39 (17.73%) SQL
4 33 (15.00%) Bash
5 23 (10.45%) JavaScript
6 19 (8.64%) TypeScript
7 17 (7.73%) Ruby
8 13 (5.91%) Go
9 9 (4.09%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.18%) C#
11 6 (2.73%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.82%) Perl
13 3 (1.36%) C++
13 3 (1.36%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.45%) C
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) PHP
14 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 71 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.73%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.18%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.73%) Degree
5 12 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (4.55%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.09%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.73%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.36%) CCSP
10 3 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.36%) CISSP
10 3 (1.36%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.36%) OSCP
10 3 (1.36%) PhD
10 3 (1.36%) SANS
11 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.18%) QA
2 15 (6.82%) NIST
3 11 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 7 (3.18%) NCSC
6 6 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 6 (2.73%) GDPR
7 2 (0.91%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 130 (59.09%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 134 (60.91%) Terraform
2 89 (40.45%) Kubernetes
3 32 (14.55%) Ansible
4 26 (11.82%) Prometheus
5 23 (10.45%) Grafana
6 16 (7.27%) Puppet
7 7 (3.18%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.73%) Packer
9 5 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.36%) Argo
10 3 (1.36%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.36%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.91%) Istio
11 2 (0.91%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (6.36%) Splunk
2 12 (5.45%) Databricks
3 10 (4.55%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.64%) PagerDuty
5 7 (3.18%) Sybase
6 5 (2.27%) Google
6 5 (2.27%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.82%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.82%) AVEVA
7 4 (1.82%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.82%) Charles River
7 4 (1.82%) Oracle
8 3 (1.36%) New Relic
8 3 (1.36%) Okta
8 3 (1.36%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.36%) Qualys
8 3 (1.36%) Tenable
9 2 (0.91%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow