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 22 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 372 462
Rank change year-on-year +28 +90 +69
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 207 151 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.68% 0.48% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.76% 1.35% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 127 84
10th Percentile £363 £461 £393
25th Percentile £450 £613 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £626 £888 £638
90th Percentile £675 - £734
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -27.59% +31.82% -8.33%

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 11,787 11,196 13,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.55% 35.81% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,030 7,444 10,120
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 148 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.93 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.27 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.44% +22.09% +21.11%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.68 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.30 £29.86
% change year-on-year -14.18% +1.46% +35.73%

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 22 November 2025.

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 22 November 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 +2 119 £525 -27.59% 99
North of England -5 50 £518 -20.38% 59
North West -6 27 £550 +37.50% 36
Yorkshire -26 21 £500 -31.03% 18
West Midlands -9 17 £475 -5.94% 3
Midlands -20 17 £475 +4.97% 6
South East +3 7 £530 +6.00% 20
South West +2 5 £625 +59.44% 4
East of England -10 5 £475 -5.00% 12
North East -3 2 £425 -43.33% 5
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 (10.63%) Confluence
2 12 (5.80%) nginx
3 9 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.42%) CMS
4 5 (2.42%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.45%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.97%) Apache
6 2 (0.97%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.48%) CICS
7 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 203 (98.07%) AWS
2 118 (57.00%) Serverless
3 112 (54.11%) AWS Lambda
4 109 (52.66%) Amazon S3
5 76 (36.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 76 (36.71%) GitHub
6 71 (34.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 71 (34.30%) Amazon EC2
7 70 (33.82%) Amazon EKS
8 49 (23.67%) AWS Fargate
9 44 (21.26%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (19.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 35 (16.91%) Azure
12 26 (12.56%) Datadog
12 26 (12.56%) Route 53
13 25 (12.08%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (9.18%) AWS KMS
15 15 (7.25%) Amazon ELB
15 15 (7.25%) Amazon EventBridge
15 15 (7.25%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.56%) DNS
2 20 (9.66%) Firewall
3 12 (5.80%) IMAP
3 12 (5.80%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (5.80%) SMTP
4 10 (4.83%) FTP
4 10 (4.83%) HTTP
4 10 (4.83%) SSH
5 5 (2.42%) VPN
6 2 (0.97%) SSL
7 1 (0.48%) Broadband
7 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.48%) NAS
7 1 (0.48%) Network Security
7 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (37.68%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (28.02%) DynamoDB
3 51 (24.64%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (13.04%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (9.66%) Relational Database
6 15 (7.25%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.76%) MongoDB
8 13 (6.28%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.83%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.86%) MySQL
11 7 (3.38%) Big Data
11 7 (3.38%) Redis
11 7 (3.38%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.42%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.42%) DB2
13 4 (1.93%) DocumentDB
14 3 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.45%) Data Hub
14 3 (1.45%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.45%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (35.75%) Jenkins
2 46 (22.22%) Git
2 46 (22.22%) GitLab
3 31 (14.98%) JIRA
4 13 (6.28%) Maven
5 12 (5.80%) Vagrant
6 11 (5.31%) JUnit
7 8 (3.86%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.38%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (2.90%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.42%) Gradle
10 5 (2.42%) MLflow
10 5 (2.42%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.93%) Cypress.io
11 4 (1.93%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.45%) RStudio
13 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.48%) Mocha
13 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (31.88%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.29%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.21%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.21%) Finance
4 11 (5.31%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (3.86%) Banking
6 7 (3.38%) Aerospace
6 7 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.97%) Front Office
7 2 (0.97%) Publishing
8 1 (0.48%) Aviation
8 1 (0.48%) Games
8 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.48%) Military
8 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (28.99%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (25.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (14.98%) AWS DevOps
3 31 (14.98%) Senior
4 29 (14.01%) Developer
4 29 (14.01%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (13.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 26 (12.56%) Lead
6 26 (12.56%) Software Engineer
7 24 (11.59%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 24 (11.59%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 17 (8.21%) Architect
9 15 (7.25%) AWS Developer
10 12 (5.80%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 11 (5.31%) Site Engineer
11 11 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (4.83%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (4.35%) Java Developer
13 9 (4.35%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.36%) Node.js
2 31 (14.98%) Kafka
3 26 (12.56%) React
4 25 (12.08%) RESTful
5 22 (10.63%) Spring
6 19 (9.18%) AWS CDK
7 17 (8.21%) OAuth
7 17 (8.21%) Spring Boot
8 15 (7.25%) JWT
8 15 (7.25%) REST
9 13 (6.28%) LDAP
10 12 (5.80%) FastAPI
11 11 (5.31%) Jest
12 10 (4.83%) Flask
13 9 (4.35%) .NET
13 9 (4.35%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.38%) cloud-init
14 7 (3.38%) HTML
14 7 (3.38%) Keycloak
14 7 (3.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (22.71%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.76%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (5.80%) Replication
5 7 (3.38%) PKI
5 7 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.42%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.42%) NHS
6 5 (2.42%) N-Tier
7 4 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.45%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.97%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.97%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.97%) Equities
9 2 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.97%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.74%) Linux
2 15 (7.25%) Amazon Linux
3 14 (6.76%) VMS
4 12 (5.80%) Windows
5 10 (4.83%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.35%) Unix
7 7 (3.38%) CentOS
7 7 (3.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.48%) AIX
8 1 (0.48%) Android
8 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.48%) Solaris
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (74.88%) CI/CD
2 117 (56.52%) DevOps
3 100 (48.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (43.96%) Containerisation
5 69 (33.33%) Agile
6 68 (32.85%) Microservices
7 50 (24.15%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (20.29%) Software Engineering
9 34 (16.43%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (15.94%) Configuration Management
10 33 (15.94%) Event-Driven
11 31 (14.98%) Observability
12 30 (14.49%) Mentoring
13 29 (14.01%) AI
14 28 (13.53%) Full-Stack Development
15 25 (12.08%) Cloud Security
16 24 (11.59%) Test Automation
17 23 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 23 (11.11%) Machine Learning
17 23 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 123 (59.42%) Python
2 46 (22.22%) Java
3 31 (14.98%) SQL
4 29 (14.01%) Bash
5 26 (12.56%) TypeScript
6 23 (11.11%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 16 (7.73%) Go
9 15 (7.25%) Groovy
10 10 (4.83%) Shell Script
11 8 (3.86%) Ruby
12 5 (2.42%) C#
13 4 (1.93%) Perl
14 3 (1.45%) C
15 2 (0.97%) C++
15 2 (0.97%) CodeQL
16 1 (0.48%) COBOL
16 1 (0.48%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.48%) PHP
16 1 (0.48%) Rust
Qualifications
1 67 (32.37%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.60%) SC Cleared
3 44 (21.26%) AWS Certification
4 30 (14.49%) Degree
5 20 (9.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (9.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.83%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.35%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.38%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.45%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.48%) CCSP
13 1 (0.48%) CISSP
13 1 (0.48%) OSCP
13 1 (0.48%) PhD
13 1 (0.48%) SANS
13 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.73%) QA
2 9 (4.35%) NCSC
3 5 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.42%) GDPR
3 5 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.93%) NIST
5 2 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 124 (59.90%) Docker
2 12 (5.80%) Dovecot
2 12 (5.80%) Postfix
2 12 (5.80%) Squid
3 10 (4.83%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.93%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 133 (64.25%) Terraform
2 71 (34.30%) Kubernetes
3 34 (16.43%) Grafana
4 30 (14.49%) Ansible
5 23 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.80%) Nessus
7 11 (5.31%) Packer
7 11 (5.31%) Puppet
8 10 (4.83%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.35%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.38%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.45%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.48%) Argo
13 1 (0.48%) Kibana
13 1 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (9.18%) ServiceNow
2 14 (6.76%) Splunk
3 12 (5.80%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (4.35%) IBM
5 7 (3.38%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.38%) Okta
6 6 (2.90%) Gigya
6 6 (2.90%) PagerDuty
7 5 (2.42%) Sybase
8 4 (1.93%) Google
8 4 (1.93%) Oracle
9 3 (1.45%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.97%) Cisco
10 2 (0.97%) CloudEndure
10 2 (0.97%) Confluent
10 2 (0.97%) Databricks
11 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.48%) JDA
11 1 (0.48%) Pega