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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 384 454
Rank change year-on-year -9 +70 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 213 127 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.25% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 102 73
10th Percentile £384 £356 £406
25th Percentile £472 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.16% -4.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £875
90th Percentile £775 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £543 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +2.12% +1.19% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £68.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.88 - -
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 15,661 10,188 11,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.38% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,470 6,885 8,378
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 268 287
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.04 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.27 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.14% +14.32% -36.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £47.47
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.49% +25.00% -37.14%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -6 134 £599 +4.17% 48
North of England -63 31 £525 +14.75% 23
North West -36 22 £613 +66.58% 11
Midlands -37 20 £475 -3.06% 4
West Midlands -43 20 £475 -3.06% 3
South East -68 10 £600 +4.35% 15
East of England -16 7 £550 +22.22% 1
South West -32 7 £350 -31.71% 10
North East -39 6 £413 -2.94% 7
Yorkshire -57 3 - - 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 20 (9.39%) Confluence
2 12 (5.63%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.88%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.94%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 208 (97.65%) AWS
2 153 (71.83%) Serverless
3 149 (69.95%) AWS Lambda
4 133 (62.44%) Amazon S3
5 117 (54.93%) Amazon EKS
6 69 (32.39%) GitHub
7 66 (30.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 66 (30.99%) GitHub Actions
8 57 (26.76%) AWS CloudFormation
9 52 (24.41%) Amazon EC2
10 44 (20.66%) Amazon SQS
11 35 (16.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 27 (12.68%) AWS CodePipeline
13 16 (7.51%) Amazon EventBridge
13 16 (7.51%) AWS Step Functions
13 16 (7.51%) Datadog
14 14 (6.57%) Amazon Bedrock
14 14 (6.57%) AWS Fargate
15 13 (6.10%) Azure
16 10 (4.69%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.29%) Network Security
2 3 (1.41%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (26.76%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (23.47%) DynamoDB
3 28 (13.15%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (8.92%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.57%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (6.57%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
7 11 (5.16%) Big Data
7 11 (5.16%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.82%) Flink
9 5 (2.35%) Presto
10 4 (1.88%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.88%) Redis
11 2 (0.94%) Db2
11 2 (0.94%) DocumentDB
11 2 (0.94%) Metadata
11 2 (0.94%) Pinecone
11 2 (0.94%) Power BI
12 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 60 (28.17%) Jenkins
2 36 (16.90%) GitLab
3 22 (10.33%) Git
4 21 (9.86%) JIRA
5 17 (7.98%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.76%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.88%) Maven
8 3 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.41%) Gradle
9 2 (0.94%) JUnit
9 2 (0.94%) Vite
10 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) JMeter
10 1 (0.47%) MLflow
10 1 (0.47%) Mockito
10 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.47%) Selenium
10 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 59 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.43%) Public Sector
3 25 (11.74%) Finance
4 18 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.04%) Banking
6 10 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.35%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.35%) Law
9 3 (1.41%) Front Office
9 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.41%) Retail
10 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.94%) Local Government
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (18.78%) Developer
2 38 (17.84%) Senior
3 36 (16.90%) AWS Engineer
4 30 (14.08%) Lead
5 26 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 25 (11.74%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (10.80%) Architect
8 18 (8.45%) Java Developer
8 18 (8.45%) Scrum Master
8 18 (8.45%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.98%) AWS DevOps
10 12 (5.63%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (5.16%) AWS Developer
11 11 (5.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.16%) Data Engineer
11 11 (5.16%) Technical Leader
12 10 (4.69%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.69%) Senior Developer
13 9 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (4.23%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (21.60%) React
2 35 (16.43%) Kafka
3 33 (15.49%) Spring Boot
4 32 (15.02%) Spring
5 26 (12.21%) Node.js
6 25 (11.74%) REST
7 24 (11.27%) RESTful
8 19 (8.92%) FastAPI
9 16 (7.51%) AWS CDK
10 15 (7.04%) OAuth
11 13 (6.10%) OAuth2
12 11 (5.16%) GraphQL
13 10 (4.69%) Jest
13 10 (4.69%) JWT
14 9 (4.23%) .NET
14 9 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (4.23%) Flask
15 8 (3.76%) AngularJS
16 7 (3.29%) Express.js
16 7 (3.29%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 82 (38.50%) Cloud Native
2 32 (15.02%) Distributed Systems
3 31 (14.55%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.63%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.29%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (3.29%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.88%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.41%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
9 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (13.15%) Linux
2 9 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.29%) Unix
4 4 (1.88%) Windows
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (70.89%) CI/CD
2 115 (53.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (52.58%) DevOps
4 83 (38.97%) Agile
5 82 (38.50%) Containerisation
5 82 (38.50%) Microservices
6 57 (26.76%) Test Automation
7 54 (25.35%) Observability
8 39 (18.31%) AI
8 39 (18.31%) Software Engineering
9 37 (17.37%) DevSecOps
10 36 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (15.96%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (15.49%) Event-Driven
13 32 (15.02%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (14.55%) Scrum
15 30 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (12.68%) Code Quality
17 25 (11.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 24 (11.27%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 100 (46.95%) Python
2 66 (30.99%) Java
3 39 (18.31%) TypeScript
4 32 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 26 (12.21%) SQL
6 24 (11.27%) Bash
7 13 (6.10%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.16%) Scala
9 5 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.35%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.88%) Bicep
10 4 (1.88%) C#
10 4 (1.88%) Go
10 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) Groovy
11 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) SHACL
12 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.70%) SC Cleared
3 26 (12.21%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.16%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (3.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (3.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 6 (2.82%) Degree
11 5 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.88%) Azure Certification
13 3 (1.41%) CISSP
13 3 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
14 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
15 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
15 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.23%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) GRC
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 104 (48.83%) Docker
2 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 113 (53.05%) Terraform
2 58 (27.23%) Kubernetes
3 20 (9.39%) Prometheus
4 18 (8.45%) Ansible
4 18 (8.45%) Grafana
5 6 (2.82%) Kibana
6 5 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.41%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.41%) Puppet
8 2 (0.94%) Istio
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.47%) Packer
9 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (9.86%) Splunk
2 9 (4.23%) Databricks
2 9 (4.23%) Microsoft
3 5 (2.35%) Amplitude
3 5 (2.35%) Dynatrace
3 5 (2.35%) Salesforce
3 5 (2.35%) ServiceNow
4 4 (1.88%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.41%) Google
6 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.94%) Charles River
6 2 (0.94%) Confluent
6 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.94%) Sybase
7 1 (0.47%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.47%) New Relic
7 1 (0.47%) Qualys
7 1 (0.47%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.47%) Tenable