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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 373 420
Rank change year-on-year -31 +47 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 217 144 105
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.52% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.40% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 107 86
10th Percentile £384 £354 £406
25th Percentile £456 £450 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £610
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -13.93% +1.67%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £884
90th Percentile £755 £750 £888
UK median daily rate £540 £526 £550
% change year-on-year +2.61% -4.32% -8.33%
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 15,926 10,278 11,227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.95% 37.18% 33.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 6,965 7,955
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £643
90th Percentile £720 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 273 230
10th Percentile £15.97 £15.01 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
Median % change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £83.43 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

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 13 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 13 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 -24 135 £575 +8.49% 73
North of England -59 34 £513 +2.50% 24
North West -38 24 £575 +17.95% 10
Midlands -42 24 £463 -5.61% 4
West Midlands -33 23 £475 -3.06% 2
South East -60 10 £600 +6.67% 14
East of England -13 8 £550 +22.22% 8
North East -37 8 £413 -2.94% 3
South West -38 4 £380 -39.20% 16
Yorkshire -48 2 £500 - 11
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 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 22 (10.14%) Confluence
2 10 (4.61%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.76%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.84%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.38%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.46%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 212 (97.70%) AWS
2 158 (72.81%) Serverless
3 155 (71.43%) AWS Lambda
4 129 (59.45%) Amazon S3
5 127 (58.53%) Amazon EKS
6 74 (34.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 71 (32.72%) GitHub
8 69 (31.80%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (25.35%) Amazon EC2
10 53 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
11 51 (23.50%) Amazon SQS
12 35 (16.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 23 (10.60%) AWS CodePipeline
14 21 (9.68%) Amazon EventBridge
15 20 (9.22%) AWS Step Functions
16 15 (6.91%) Azure
17 14 (6.45%) Datadog
18 13 (5.99%) Amazon Bedrock
19 11 (5.07%) Amazon EMR
19 11 (5.07%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.30%) Network Security
2 2 (0.92%) DNS
2 2 (0.92%) Firewall
2 2 (0.92%) HTTP
2 2 (0.92%) SSL
2 2 (0.92%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.81%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (23.50%) DynamoDB
3 33 (15.21%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (9.68%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.91%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.45%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.53%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (5.53%) Big Data
8 10 (4.61%) Relational Database
9 5 (2.30%) Presto
10 4 (1.84%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.84%) Redis
11 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.38%) DocumentDB
11 3 (1.38%) Flink
11 3 (1.38%) Metadata
11 3 (1.38%) MySQL
12 2 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.92%) Db2
12 2 (0.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 65 (29.95%) Jenkins
2 44 (20.28%) GitLab
3 24 (11.06%) JIRA
4 23 (10.60%) Git
5 16 (7.37%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.69%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.30%) JUnit
8 3 (1.38%) Mockito
9 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.92%) MLflow
9 2 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.46%) Gatling
10 1 (0.46%) git-flow
10 1 (0.46%) JMeter
10 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.46%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.46%) Selenium
10 1 (0.46%) Snyk
10 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (27.19%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.13%) Public Sector
3 32 (14.75%) Finance
4 20 (9.22%) Banking
5 17 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.76%) Law
9 5 (2.30%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.84%) Retail
11 3 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.92%) Front Office
12 2 (0.92%) Local Government
12 2 (0.92%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (20.74%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (18.43%) Developer
3 39 (17.97%) Senior
4 29 (13.36%) Lead
5 26 (11.98%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (10.60%) Scrum Master
8 21 (9.68%) Architect
8 21 (9.68%) AWS DevOps
8 21 (9.68%) Software Engineer
9 16 (7.37%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 14 (6.45%) Data Engineer
12 13 (5.99%) AWS Developer
12 13 (5.99%) AWS Software Engineer
13 12 (5.53%) Lead DevOps
13 12 (5.53%) Python Engineer
13 12 (5.53%) Technical Leader
14 10 (4.61%) AWS Architect
15 9 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (17.97%) React
2 37 (17.05%) Kafka
2 37 (17.05%) REST
2 37 (17.05%) Spring
3 35 (16.13%) Spring Boot
4 28 (12.90%) RESTful
5 26 (11.98%) Node.js
6 22 (10.14%) FastAPI
7 16 (7.37%) AWS CDK
8 11 (5.07%) Flask
9 10 (4.61%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (4.61%) OAuth
9 10 (4.61%) OAuth2
10 9 (4.15%) GraphQL
10 9 (4.15%) Jest
11 8 (3.69%) .NET
12 7 (3.23%) JWT
12 7 (3.23%) Play Framework
13 6 (2.76%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 94 (43.32%) Cloud Native
2 40 (18.43%) Product Ownership
3 39 (17.97%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (5.53%) Security Posture
5 8 (3.69%) Cloud Security Posture
6 7 (3.23%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.76%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 5 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.84%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.84%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.38%) NHS
10 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.92%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.36%) Linux
2 10 (4.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.69%) Unix
4 5 (2.30%) Windows
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (70.97%) CI/CD
2 121 (55.76%) Infrastructure as Code
3 117 (53.92%) DevOps
4 95 (43.78%) Agile
5 89 (41.01%) Microservices
6 81 (37.33%) Containerisation
7 71 (32.72%) Observability
8 67 (30.88%) Test Automation
9 47 (21.66%) Software Engineering
10 45 (20.74%) Event-Driven
11 42 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 41 (18.89%) Platform Engineering
13 40 (18.43%) DevSecOps
14 38 (17.51%) AI
14 38 (17.51%) Scrum
15 35 (16.13%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 35 (16.13%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (13.36%) Deployment Automation
16 29 (13.36%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (12.90%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 103 (47.47%) Python
2 72 (33.18%) Java
3 39 (17.97%) TypeScript
4 30 (13.82%) JavaScript
4 30 (13.82%) SQL
5 28 (12.90%) Bash
6 13 (5.99%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.07%) Scala
8 5 (2.30%) Bicep
8 5 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (2.30%) Search Processing Language
9 4 (1.84%) C#
10 3 (1.38%) Go
10 3 (1.38%) Groovy
10 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 77 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 62 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.75%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.22%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.07%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.61%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.15%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.30%) Azure Certification
9 5 (2.30%) Degree
10 4 (1.84%) CISSP
10 4 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.91%) QA
2 5 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.92%) NCSC
5 1 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) NIST
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 108 (49.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 122 (56.22%) Terraform
2 70 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.68%) Grafana
4 19 (8.76%) Ansible
4 19 (8.76%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.76%) Kibana
6 4 (1.84%) Istio
6 4 (1.84%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.84%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.38%) Puppet
8 2 (0.92%) Consul
8 2 (0.92%) Packer
8 2 (0.92%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.46%) Argo
9 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.46%) linkerd
Vendors
1 21 (9.68%) Splunk
2 8 (3.69%) Dynatrace
2 8 (3.69%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.23%) Databricks
4 5 (2.30%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.30%) Red Hat
4 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.30%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.38%) Confluent
6 2 (0.92%) Google
6 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.92%) Oracle
6 2 (0.92%) Sybase
7 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.46%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.46%) Charles River
7 1 (0.46%) Informatica
7 1 (0.46%) New Relic
7 1 (0.46%) Qualys
7 1 (0.46%) Talend