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 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 337 457
Rank change year-on-year -32 +120 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 219 146 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.60% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.61% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 126 61
10th Percentile £385 £400 £406
25th Percentile £461 £566 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £489
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +48.26% -18.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £575
90th Percentile £700 £875 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £67.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
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 14,359 9,084 11,754
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.33% 37.23% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 6,352 8,496
10th Percentile £319 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 198 318
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.25 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +71.08% +27.35% -31.90%
75th Percentile £68.07 £41.85 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.88 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -15 142 £531 -31.45% 19
North of England -47 37 £538 +2.38% 26
North West -35 20 £638 +59.38% 11
Yorkshire -53 12 £500 -31.03% 8
West Midlands -46 11 £475 -11.89% 2
Midlands -60 11 £475 -11.89% 3
South West -25 10 £461 +17.67% 4
South East -48 9 £530 -7.83% 11
North East -17 5 £530 -29.33% 7
East of England - 4 £550 - 2
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 18 (8.22%) Confluence
2 14 (6.39%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.37%) Apache
5 2 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.83%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 215 (98.17%) AWS
2 151 (68.95%) Serverless
3 147 (67.12%) AWS Lambda
4 128 (58.45%) Amazon S3
5 100 (45.66%) Amazon EKS
6 93 (42.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 83 (37.90%) GitHub
8 73 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 73 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
9 51 (23.29%) Amazon EC2
10 45 (20.55%) AWS CodePipeline
11 36 (16.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 26 (11.87%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (8.68%) AWS Fargate
13 19 (8.68%) Datadog
14 18 (8.22%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (6.85%) Amazon ECR
16 13 (5.94%) Azure
16 13 (5.94%) IaaS
17 10 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.02%) DNS
2 5 (2.28%) Network Security
3 4 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.37%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) Firewall
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
5 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.57%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (21.46%) DynamoDB
3 33 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (11.42%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.76%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (7.31%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.39%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.02%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.65%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.20%) Big Data
10 7 (3.20%) Redis
11 6 (2.74%) Flink
12 5 (2.28%) Presto
13 4 (1.83%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (1.83%) DB2
13 4 (1.83%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.83%) MySQL
14 3 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.37%) Data Hub
15 2 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 61 (27.85%) Jenkins
2 42 (19.18%) GitLab
3 41 (18.72%) Git
4 19 (8.68%) JIRA
5 15 (6.85%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.11%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.28%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.28%) Maven
8 4 (1.83%) JUnit
9 3 (1.37%) Gradle
9 3 (1.37%) Selenium
9 3 (1.37%) Snyk
9 3 (1.37%) Vite
10 2 (0.91%) MLflow
10 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.46%) Mocha
11 1 (0.46%) Mockito
11 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (26.48%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.76%) Finance
5 10 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.65%) Front Office
7 5 (2.28%) Banking
8 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.91%) Local Government
9 2 (0.91%) Police
9 2 (0.91%) Retail
10 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (18.26%) Developer
2 38 (17.35%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (14.61%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (13.70%) Senior
5 25 (11.42%) Lead
6 23 (10.50%) Architect
7 22 (10.05%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (9.59%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (7.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (6.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 14 (6.39%) Software Engineer
12 13 (5.94%) Java Developer
12 13 (5.94%) Java Engineer
12 13 (5.94%) Site Engineer
13 11 (5.02%) AWS Developer
14 10 (4.57%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.57%) Scrum Master
14 10 (4.57%) Security Engineer
15 9 (4.11%) Lead DevOps
15 9 (4.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.09%) Kafka
2 39 (17.81%) Spring
3 37 (16.89%) Spring Boot
4 35 (15.98%) RESTful
5 33 (15.07%) React
6 28 (12.79%) Node.js
7 17 (7.76%) OAuth
8 16 (7.31%) REST
9 15 (6.85%) AWS CDK
10 13 (5.94%) .NET
11 12 (5.48%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.57%) FastAPI
12 10 (4.57%) OpenID
13 9 (4.11%) Flask
13 9 (4.11%) GraphQL
13 9 (4.11%) JWT
14 8 (3.65%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (3.65%) Jest
14 8 (3.65%) Next.js
15 7 (3.20%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 72 (32.88%) Cloud Native
2 20 (9.13%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (9.13%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (3.20%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.20%) Equities
4 7 (3.20%) NHS
5 4 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.37%) AI Agents
6 3 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.37%) Derivative
6 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.37%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.37%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
7 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 46 (21.00%) Linux
2 6 (2.74%) Unix
3 4 (1.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (82.65%) CI/CD
2 134 (61.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 110 (50.23%) DevOps
4 95 (43.38%) Containerisation
5 78 (35.62%) Agile
6 77 (35.16%) Microservices
7 49 (22.37%) Test Automation
8 48 (21.92%) Observability
9 38 (17.35%) Software Engineering
10 36 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (15.07%) Event-Driven
12 31 (14.16%) DevSecOps
13 27 (12.33%) AI
13 27 (12.33%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (12.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 26 (11.87%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (11.87%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (11.87%) Scrum
15 25 (11.42%) Technical Leadership
16 23 (10.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 110 (50.23%) Python
2 75 (34.25%) Java
3 38 (17.35%) SQL
4 34 (15.53%) JavaScript
5 31 (14.16%) Bash
6 29 (13.24%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.57%) C#
7 10 (4.57%) Ruby
8 9 (4.11%) Scala
9 6 (2.74%) Go
10 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.37%) C++
11 3 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.37%) Search Processing Language
12 2 (0.91%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (31.05%) Security Cleared
2 54 (24.66%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.87%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.31%) Degree
5 12 (5.48%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (5.48%) DV Cleared
6 11 (5.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.65%) Master's Degree
8 8 (3.65%) SAFe Agilist
9 6 (2.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.37%) CCSP
11 3 (1.37%) CISSP
11 3 (1.37%) OSCP
11 3 (1.37%) PhD
11 3 (1.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.68%) QA
2 12 (5.48%) NIST
3 9 (4.11%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.28%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.28%) GDPR
6 4 (1.83%) NCSC
7 2 (0.91%) GRC
8 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.46%) HL7
System Software
1 126 (57.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 137 (62.56%) Terraform
2 80 (36.53%) Kubernetes
3 31 (14.16%) Grafana
4 29 (13.24%) Prometheus
5 25 (11.42%) Ansible
6 16 (7.31%) Puppet
7 6 (2.74%) Kibana
7 6 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.91%) Argo
10 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.91%) Istio
10 2 (0.91%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.46%) Consul
11 1 (0.46%) Packer
11 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (10.05%) Splunk
2 11 (5.02%) Databricks
3 10 (4.57%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.65%) PagerDuty
5 5 (2.28%) Google
5 5 (2.28%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.83%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.83%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.83%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.83%) Charles River
6 4 (1.83%) Sybase
7 3 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.37%) New Relic
7 3 (1.37%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.37%) Qualys
7 3 (1.37%) Tenable
8 1 (0.46%) Brio
8 1 (0.46%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.46%) Pega
8 1 (0.46%) UiPath