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 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 365 425
Rank change year-on-year -50 +60 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 214 148 108
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.53% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.43% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 110 89
10th Percentile £384 £350 £406
25th Percentile £456 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £650 £647 £875
90th Percentile £760 £739 £888
UK median daily rate £546 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.05% -2.33% -10.42%
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 15,983 10,336 11,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.97% 37.18% 33.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,666 6,998 7,938
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 274 221
10th Percentile £15.53 £15.02 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.22 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £83.58 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +12.00% -28.15%

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 17 August 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 17 August 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 -24 133 £575 +9.52% 27
North of England -67 34 £513 +2.50% 22
North West -33 24 £575 +17.95% 10
Midlands -37 24 £463 -2.63% 3
West Midlands -44 23 £475 - 2
South East -60 10 £600 +6.67% 13
East of England -13 8 £550 +22.22% 3
North East -37 8 £413 -2.94% 4
South West -43 3 £380 -39.20% 11
Yorkshire -43 2 £500 - 8
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 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 22 (10.28%) Confluence
2 9 (4.21%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.21%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.87%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.40%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 209 (97.66%) AWS
2 156 (72.90%) Serverless
3 153 (71.50%) AWS Lambda
4 126 (58.88%) Amazon S3
5 125 (58.41%) Amazon EKS
6 73 (34.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 69 (32.24%) GitHub
8 67 (31.31%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (25.23%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (24.30%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (23.83%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (15.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 21 (9.81%) Amazon EventBridge
13 21 (9.81%) AWS CodePipeline
14 20 (9.35%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (7.01%) Azure
16 13 (6.07%) Amazon Bedrock
16 13 (6.07%) Datadog
17 11 (5.14%) AWS Fargate
17 11 (5.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.87%) Network Security
2 2 (0.93%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) HTTP
2 2 (0.93%) SSL
2 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (26.17%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (23.83%) DynamoDB
3 33 (15.42%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (9.81%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.54%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (6.54%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.61%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (5.61%) Big Data
7 9 (4.21%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.34%) Presto
9 4 (1.87%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.87%) Redis
10 3 (1.40%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.40%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.40%) Metadata
10 3 (1.40%) MySQL
11 2 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.93%) Delta Lake
11 2 (0.93%) Flink
11 2 (0.93%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (29.91%) Jenkins
2 43 (20.09%) GitLab
3 24 (11.21%) JIRA
4 23 (10.75%) Git
5 15 (7.01%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.74%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.34%) JUnit
8 3 (1.40%) Mockito
9 2 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.93%) MLflow
9 2 (0.93%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) Gatling
10 1 (0.47%) git-flow
10 1 (0.47%) JMeter
10 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.47%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.47%) Selenium
10 1 (0.47%) Snyk
10 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 58 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.36%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.95%) Finance
4 20 (9.35%) Banking
5 17 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.80%) Law
9 5 (2.34%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.87%) Retail
11 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.93%) Front Office
12 2 (0.93%) Local Government
13 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (21.03%) AWS Engineer
2 39 (18.22%) Developer
2 39 (18.22%) Senior
3 29 (13.55%) Lead
4 26 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (10.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (10.75%) Scrum Master
6 21 (9.81%) Architect
6 21 (9.81%) AWS DevOps
6 21 (9.81%) Software Engineer
7 15 (7.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 15 (7.01%) Java Developer
8 14 (6.54%) Data Engineer
9 13 (6.07%) AWS Developer
9 13 (6.07%) AWS Software Engineer
10 12 (5.61%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.61%) Python Engineer
10 12 (5.61%) Technical Leader
11 10 (4.67%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (18.22%) React
2 37 (17.29%) REST
3 36 (16.82%) Kafka
3 36 (16.82%) Spring
4 34 (15.89%) Spring Boot
5 27 (12.62%) RESTful
6 26 (12.15%) Node.js
7 22 (10.28%) FastAPI
8 15 (7.01%) AWS CDK
9 11 (5.14%) Flask
10 10 (4.67%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (4.67%) OAuth
10 10 (4.67%) OAuth2
11 9 (4.21%) GraphQL
11 9 (4.21%) Jest
12 8 (3.74%) .NET
13 7 (3.27%) JWT
13 7 (3.27%) Play Framework
14 6 (2.80%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 94 (43.93%) Cloud Native
2 40 (18.69%) Product Ownership
3 39 (18.22%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.61%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.74%) Cloud Security Posture
6 7 (3.27%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.80%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.34%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.87%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.87%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.40%) NHS
10 3 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.55%) Linux
2 10 (4.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.74%) Unix
4 5 (2.34%) Windows
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (70.56%) CI/CD
2 119 (55.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 115 (53.74%) DevOps
4 94 (43.93%) Agile
5 88 (41.12%) Microservices
6 79 (36.92%) Containerisation
7 70 (32.71%) Observability
8 67 (31.31%) Test Automation
9 47 (21.96%) Software Engineering
10 45 (21.03%) Event-Driven
11 41 (19.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 40 (18.69%) DevSecOps
12 40 (18.69%) Platform Engineering
13 38 (17.76%) AI
13 38 (17.76%) Scrum
14 35 (16.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 35 (16.36%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (13.55%) Deployment Automation
15 29 (13.55%) Full-Stack Development
16 28 (13.08%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 101 (47.20%) Python
2 71 (33.18%) Java
3 39 (18.22%) TypeScript
4 29 (13.55%) JavaScript
4 29 (13.55%) SQL
5 28 (13.08%) Bash
6 13 (6.07%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.14%) Scala
8 5 (2.34%) Bicep
8 5 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.34%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (1.87%) C#
10 3 (1.40%) Go
10 3 (1.40%) Groovy
11 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.93%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.93%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) Cypher
12 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 75 (35.05%) Security Cleared
2 60 (28.04%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.95%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.35%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.14%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.21%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.34%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.34%) Degree
10 4 (1.87%) CISSP
10 4 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.01%) QA
2 5 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.87%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.47%) HL7
5 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.47%) NIST
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 106 (49.53%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 120 (56.07%) Terraform
2 69 (32.24%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.81%) Grafana
4 19 (8.88%) Ansible
5 18 (8.41%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.80%) Kibana
7 4 (1.87%) Istio
7 4 (1.87%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.40%) Puppet
9 2 (0.93%) Consul
9 2 (0.93%) Packer
9 2 (0.93%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
10 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.47%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (9.81%) Splunk
2 8 (3.74%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.74%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.80%) Databricks
4 5 (2.34%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.34%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.34%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.34%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.40%) Confluent
6 2 (0.93%) Google
6 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.93%) Oracle
6 2 (0.93%) Sybase
7 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.47%) Charles River
7 1 (0.47%) Informatica
7 1 (0.47%) New Relic
7 1 (0.47%) Qualys
7 1 (0.47%) Talend