Amazon ECS Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 375 464 471
Rank change year-on-year +89 +7 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 121 95 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.25% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 0.78% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 75 129
10th Percentile £357 £406 £450
25th Percentile £425 £450 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £738 £875 £675
90th Percentile £838 £888 £703
UK median daily rate £536 £521 £600
% change year-on-year +2.84% -13.17% -

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 9,908 12,158 17,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.60% 32.56% 36.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,684 8,677 12,700
10th Percentile £313 £308 £320
25th Percentile £413 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 328 292
10th Percentile £15.02 £14.15 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.40
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -32.10% +50.70%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £69.63
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in England over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily 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 July 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 +40 76 £585 +6.32% 344
North of England +17 22 £425 -10.53% 140
North West +10 12 £384 -14.09% 90
West Midlands +17 7 £491 -2.72% 30
Midlands +12 7 £491 +9.17% 45
Yorkshire +5 7 £500 +1.01% 41
South East +40 6 £575 -4.17% 107
North East - 3 £425 - 9
South West - 2 £513 - 46
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (19.83%) Apache
2 22 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
3 16 (13.22%) Apache Spark
4 7 (5.79%) CMS
5 6 (4.96%) nginx
6 5 (4.13%) Confluence
6 5 (4.13%) Headless CMS
7 4 (3.31%) Tomcat
8 2 (1.65%) Camunda
8 2 (1.65%) WordPress
9 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 116 (95.87%) AWS
2 75 (61.98%) Serverless
3 67 (55.37%) AWS Lambda
4 44 (36.36%) Amazon S3
5 42 (34.71%) Amazon EC2
6 38 (31.40%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (29.75%) Amazon EKS
8 32 (26.45%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (22.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (20.66%) GitHub
11 21 (17.36%) dbt
12 18 (14.88%) AWS Fargate
13 17 (14.05%) OpenShift
14 13 (10.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (9.09%) AWS KMS
15 11 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
16 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudTrail
16 9 (7.44%) Datadog
16 9 (7.44%) GCP
17 8 (6.61%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.13%) DNS
1 5 (4.13%) HTTP
2 4 (3.31%) Firewall
3 3 (2.48%) Network Security
4 2 (1.65%) IMAP
4 2 (1.65%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (1.65%) SMTP
4 2 (1.65%) SSL
4 2 (1.65%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.65%) VPN
5 1 (0.83%) IPv4
5 1 (0.83%) Multicast
5 1 (0.83%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (23.97%) DynamoDB
2 28 (23.14%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (21.49%) Amazon Athena
4 22 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (16.53%) Apache Arrow
5 20 (16.53%) Apache Iceberg
5 20 (16.53%) Apache Ignite
5 20 (16.53%) Dremio
6 9 (7.44%) MongoDB
7 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
8 6 (4.96%) Data Lake
9 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
10 4 (3.31%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (3.31%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.31%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.65%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.65%) DB2
11 2 (1.65%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.65%) MySQL
12 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 34 (28.10%) Jenkins
2 20 (16.53%) GitLab
3 16 (13.22%) Artifactory
4 15 (12.40%) Git
5 10 (8.26%) JUnit
6 7 (5.79%) Maven
7 6 (4.96%) Cucumber
8 5 (4.13%) git-flow
8 5 (4.13%) JIRA
9 4 (3.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.65%) JMeter
10 2 (1.65%) Mockito
10 2 (1.65%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.65%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (21.49%) Finance
2 20 (16.53%) Front Office
3 19 (15.70%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.57%) Banking
4 14 (11.57%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.61%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.48%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.48%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.65%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Aviation
8 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Marketing
8 1 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Retail
8 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 46 (38.02%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (33.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 27 (22.31%) AWS DevOps
3 27 (22.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 25 (20.66%) Developer
5 24 (19.83%) Senior
6 17 (14.05%) Data Engineer
6 17 (14.05%) Software Engineer
7 16 (13.22%) Lead
7 16 (13.22%) Python Engineer
8 10 (8.26%) AWS Developer
8 10 (8.26%) Java Engineer
9 9 (7.44%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (6.61%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.61%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (6.61%) Java Developer
10 8 (6.61%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Node.js Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Site Engineer
11 6 (4.96%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (22.31%) Node.js
2 24 (19.83%) Kafka
3 20 (16.53%) PySpark
4 17 (14.05%) React
4 17 (14.05%) Spring
5 15 (12.40%) AWS CDK
5 15 (12.40%) J2EE
6 11 (9.09%) Jest
7 10 (8.26%) OAuth
8 9 (7.44%) RESTful
9 8 (6.61%) HTML
9 8 (6.61%) Spring Boot
9 8 (6.61%) Web Services
10 7 (5.79%) JSON
11 6 (4.96%) .NET
11 6 (4.96%) CSS
11 6 (4.96%) OpenID
11 6 (4.96%) Redux
12 5 (4.13%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (4.13%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.92%) Cloud Native
2 6 (4.96%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.13%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (4.13%) Derivative
3 5 (4.13%) Equities
3 5 (4.13%) Fixed Income
3 5 (4.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 5 (4.13%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.65%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.65%) PKI
6 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.74%) Linux
2 6 (4.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.48%) Android
4 2 (1.65%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.65%) VMS
5 1 (0.83%) CentOS
5 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (57.02%) CI/CD
2 55 (45.45%) DevOps
3 45 (37.19%) Agile
4 39 (32.23%) Software Engineering
5 36 (29.75%) Containerisation
6 35 (28.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (19.01%) Microservices
8 22 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 21 (17.36%) Mentoring
10 20 (16.53%) Asset Management
11 18 (14.88%) Open Source
12 17 (14.05%) Data Engineering
12 17 (14.05%) Problem-Solving
13 15 (12.40%) Clean Code
14 14 (11.57%) Migration
14 14 (11.57%) Test Automation
15 12 (9.92%) Cloud Security
15 12 (9.92%) Observability
16 10 (8.26%) Secrets Management
17 9 (7.44%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.11%) Python
2 48 (39.67%) Java
3 26 (21.49%) TypeScript
4 22 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 19 (15.70%) Go
5 19 (15.70%) SQL
6 11 (9.09%) Bash
7 8 (6.61%) Shell Script
8 7 (5.79%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.96%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.31%) Groovy
11 3 (2.48%) CodeQL
12 2 (1.65%) PHP
13 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (24.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.66%) SC Cleared
3 24 (19.83%) AWS Certification
4 14 (11.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (5.79%) Degree
6 6 (4.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.31%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.31%) Master's Degree
9 3 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (0.83%) CCSP
10 1 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.83%) CISSP
10 1 (0.83%) OCP
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.83%) OSCP
10 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) GDPR
3 3 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.48%) NCSC
4 2 (1.65%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.65%) NIST
4 2 (1.65%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.83%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (49.59%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Dovecot
2 2 (1.65%) Postfix
2 2 (1.65%) Squid
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 60 (49.59%) Terraform
2 45 (37.19%) Kubernetes
3 13 (10.74%) Grafana
4 11 (9.09%) Ansible
5 10 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 6 (4.96%) Kibana
7 5 (4.13%) Puppet
8 4 (3.31%) Progress Chef
9 3 (2.48%) Packer
10 2 (1.65%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.65%) Nessus
11 1 (0.83%) Graylog
11 1 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (6.61%) ServiceNow
1 8 (6.61%) Splunk
2 7 (5.79%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (4.13%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.31%) AppDynamics
4 4 (3.31%) IBM
4 4 (3.31%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.65%) Jaspersoft
5 2 (1.65%) Sybase
6 1 (0.83%) Databricks
6 1 (0.83%) New Relic
6 1 (0.83%) Okta
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle
6 1 (0.83%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.83%) Rollbar