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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 418 357 412
Rank change year-on-year -61 +55 +54
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 217 159 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.57% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.50% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 111 91
10th Percentile £376 £358 £425
25th Percentile £456 £439 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £888
90th Percentile £775 £675 -
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +0.92% -4.55% -4.35%
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 16,037 10,617 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.45% 38.00% 34.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,689 7,193 7,615
10th Percentile £319 £305 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £533
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -6.10% -3.09%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 555 252 166
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £15.99
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.37
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £65.68
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.48 £33.54
% change year-on-year +13.31% -21.06% -4.17%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -34 134 £595 +13.24% 155
North of England -71 39 £500 +2.04% 49
North West -38 29 £538 +27.98% 30
Midlands -41 23 £475 - 16
West Midlands -43 21 £488 +2.63% 7
South East -67 10 £600 +9.09% 21
East of England -27 9 £550 +22.22% 10
North East -34 8 £400 -5.88% 8
South West -39 4 £365 -41.60% 32
Yorkshire -52 2 £500 - 11
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 9
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 16 (7.37%) Confluence
2 9 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.76%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.30%) Apache
5 3 (1.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.46%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.46%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.46%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 212 (97.70%) AWS
2 150 (69.12%) AWS Lambda
2 150 (69.12%) Serverless
3 128 (58.99%) Amazon EKS
4 122 (56.22%) Amazon S3
5 81 (37.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 63 (29.03%) GitHub
7 59 (27.19%) GitHub Actions
8 55 (25.35%) Amazon EC2
9 53 (24.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (23.96%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (16.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 21 (9.68%) Azure
13 20 (9.22%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (7.83%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (6.91%) AWS CodePipeline
15 15 (6.91%) AWS KMS
16 14 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (6.45%) GCP
17 11 (5.07%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.69%) Firewall
2 6 (2.76%) DNS
3 5 (2.30%) Network Security
4 4 (1.84%) HTTP
5 3 (1.38%) SSL
5 3 (1.38%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.38%) VPN
6 2 (0.92%) FTP
6 2 (0.92%) IMAP
6 2 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (0.92%) SMTP
6 2 (0.92%) SSH
7 1 (0.46%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (27.65%) Amazon RDS
2 41 (18.89%) DynamoDB
3 33 (15.21%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (8.29%) MongoDB
4 18 (8.29%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.99%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (5.53%) Big Data
7 8 (3.69%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.30%) DocumentDB
9 5 (2.30%) MySQL
9 5 (2.30%) Presto
9 5 (2.30%) Redis
10 4 (1.84%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (1.38%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.38%) Flink
11 3 (1.38%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 68 (31.34%) Jenkins
2 51 (23.50%) GitLab
3 22 (10.14%) Git
4 19 (8.76%) JIRA
5 10 (4.61%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.76%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.84%) Mockito
8 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.38%) git-flow
8 3 (1.38%) JUnit
8 3 (1.38%) Maven
8 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.92%) Gatling
9 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.92%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.46%) JMeter
10 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.46%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.46%) Selenium
General
1 53 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 36 (16.59%) Finance
2 36 (16.59%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.60%) Banking
4 19 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.69%) Law
7 5 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.38%) Military
9 3 (1.38%) Retail
10 2 (0.92%) iGaming
10 2 (0.92%) Local Government
11 1 (0.46%) Automotive
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (21.66%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (17.05%) Senior
3 33 (15.21%) Developer
4 31 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (14.29%) Lead
5 25 (11.52%) AWS DevOps
6 24 (11.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 23 (10.60%) Architect
7 23 (10.60%) Scrum Master
8 20 (9.22%) Software Engineer
9 19 (8.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 18 (8.29%) Technical Leader
11 14 (6.45%) AWS Architect
11 14 (6.45%) Data Engineer
11 14 (6.45%) Java Developer
12 12 (5.53%) AWS Software Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (5.53%) Python Engineer
12 12 (5.53%) Senior DevOps
12 12 (5.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (57.60%) Terraform
2 46 (21.20%) REST
3 40 (18.43%) Spring
4 39 (17.97%) Spring Boot
5 37 (17.05%) Kafka
6 33 (15.21%) React
6 33 (15.21%) RESTful
7 25 (11.52%) FastAPI
8 22 (10.14%) Node.js
9 15 (6.91%) AngularJS
9 15 (6.91%) AWS CDK
10 10 (4.61%) Flask
11 9 (4.15%) Elastic Stack
11 9 (4.15%) GraphQL
11 9 (4.15%) Jest
11 9 (4.15%) JWT
11 9 (4.15%) OAuth
11 9 (4.15%) OAuth2
12 8 (3.69%) .NET
13 7 (3.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 104 (47.93%) Cloud Native
2 39 (17.97%) Product Ownership
3 37 (17.05%) Distributed Systems
4 14 (6.45%) Security Posture
5 10 (4.61%) Cloud Security Posture
6 9 (4.15%) Virtual Team
7 7 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.76%) Public Cloud
9 5 (2.30%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (1.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 4 (1.84%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.84%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.38%) NHS
12 2 (0.92%) Autonomous Agent
12 2 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 2 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.67%) Linux
2 13 (5.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.15%) Unix
3 9 (4.15%) Windows
4 2 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.92%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.46%) CentOS
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (73.27%) CI/CD
2 129 (59.45%) DevOps
3 128 (58.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 98 (45.16%) Agile
5 85 (39.17%) Containerisation
5 85 (39.17%) Microservices
6 77 (35.48%) Observability
7 62 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 50 (23.04%) Software Engineering
9 49 (22.58%) Event-Driven
10 41 (18.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 41 (18.89%) Technical Leadership
11 40 (18.43%) Scrum
12 38 (17.51%) DevSecOps
12 38 (17.51%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 36 (16.59%) Deployment Automation
13 36 (16.59%) Platform Engineering
14 33 (15.21%) AI
14 33 (15.21%) Cloud Security
15 32 (14.75%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 102 (47.00%) Python
2 74 (34.10%) Java
3 39 (17.97%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.75%) Bash
5 27 (12.44%) JavaScript
6 25 (11.52%) SQL
7 18 (8.29%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.07%) Scala
9 7 (3.23%) Bicep
10 6 (2.76%) Go
11 5 (2.30%) Groovy
11 5 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.30%) Search Processing Language
12 4 (1.84%) C#
13 2 (0.92%) Lua
13 2 (0.92%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.46%) C
14 1 (0.46%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 81 (37.33%) Security Cleared
2 66 (30.41%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.05%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.68%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.61%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.61%) Degree
6 9 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.69%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.76%) CISSP
9 5 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.38%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.52%) QA
2 5 (2.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.84%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.84%) NCSC
4 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 112 (51.61%) Docker
2 6 (2.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.92%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.92%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.92%) Postfix
3 2 (0.92%) Squid
4 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (35.94%) Kubernetes
2 27 (12.44%) Grafana
3 22 (10.14%) Ansible
4 21 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.76%) Kibana
5 6 (2.76%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.84%) Nessus
7 3 (1.38%) Consul
7 3 (1.38%) Istio
7 3 (1.38%) Packer
7 3 (1.38%) Puppet
7 3 (1.38%) ZABBIX
8 2 (0.92%) linkerd
8 2 (0.92%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (7.83%) Splunk
2 10 (4.61%) Dynatrace
2 10 (4.61%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.23%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.76%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.30%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.30%) Confluent
5 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.84%) Google
6 4 (1.84%) Oracle
7 3 (1.38%) Databricks
8 2 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.92%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.92%) webMethods
9 1 (0.46%) Apple
9 1 (0.46%) Informatica
9 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.46%) New Relic
9 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.46%) Talend