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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 361 469
Rank change year-on-year -36 +108 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 201 110 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.46% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.23% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 93 57
10th Percentile £385 £374 £406
25th Percentile £471 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £630 £495
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +27.27% -17.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £575
90th Percentile £729 - £622
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -7.83% +15.00% -16.67%
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 14,671 8,950 11,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.13% 37.56% 32.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,994 6,159 8,486
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £508 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -0.72% -2.63% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 502 200 323
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.95
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%
75th Percentile £67.84 £37.75 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £66.75
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +31.11% +31.02% -39.80%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -10 132 £560 -21.40% 30
North of England -67 26 £534 +6.75% 17
North West -34 18 £650 +62.50% 6
West Midlands -50 13 £488 -1.43% 1
Midlands -51 13 £488 -1.43% 1
South East -50 10 £600 +4.35% 10
South West - 8 £369 - 6
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
North East -25 4 £528 - 3
Yorkshire -59 4 £500 -2.44% 8
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 19 (9.45%) Confluence
2 12 (5.97%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.49%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 196 (97.51%) AWS
2 139 (69.15%) Serverless
3 137 (68.16%) AWS Lambda
4 118 (58.71%) Amazon S3
5 95 (47.26%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (38.31%) GitHub
7 74 (36.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (34.33%) GitHub Actions
9 68 (33.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 49 (24.38%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (20.90%) AWS CodePipeline
12 35 (17.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (13.43%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (7.46%) AWS Fargate
15 14 (6.97%) AWS Step Functions
16 12 (5.97%) Datadog
17 10 (4.98%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (4.98%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 10 (4.98%) Azure
18 9 (4.48%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.98%) DNS
2 5 (2.49%) Network Security
3 3 (1.49%) HTTP
4 2 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.50%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) SSL
5 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (25.87%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (23.38%) DynamoDB
3 27 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (12.94%) NoSQL
5 17 (8.46%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.97%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (6.97%) MongoDB
7 10 (4.98%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.48%) Redis
9 6 (2.99%) Big Data
9 6 (2.99%) Flink
10 5 (2.49%) Presto
11 4 (1.99%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.99%) DB2
11 4 (1.99%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.99%) MySQL
12 3 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.00%) Data Hub
13 2 (1.00%) Metadata
13 2 (1.00%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 56 (27.86%) Jenkins
2 37 (18.41%) GitLab
3 32 (15.92%) Git
4 21 (10.45%) JIRA
5 18 (8.96%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.48%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.99%) JUnit
8 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.49%) Gradle
8 3 (1.49%) Maven
8 3 (1.49%) Snyk
8 3 (1.49%) Vite
9 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.50%) Mockito
9 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.91%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.47%) Finance
5 10 (4.98%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Banking
8 6 (2.99%) Front Office
9 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 2 (1.00%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Law
12 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (20.90%) Developer
2 37 (18.41%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (15.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (12.94%) Senior
5 24 (11.94%) Lead
6 22 (10.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (10.45%) Architect
8 17 (8.46%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (7.96%) Java Developer
10 15 (7.46%) AWS Developer
10 15 (7.46%) Software Engineer
11 13 (6.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (6.47%) Python Developer
12 12 (5.97%) Scrum Master
12 12 (5.97%) Senior Developer
13 11 (5.47%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.98%) AWS Architect
15 9 (4.48%) Lead DevOps
15 9 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 8 (3.98%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.90%) Kafka
2 38 (18.91%) React
3 32 (15.92%) Spring
4 31 (15.42%) Spring Boot
5 28 (13.93%) RESTful
6 17 (8.46%) Node.js
6 17 (8.46%) OAuth
7 16 (7.96%) AWS CDK
8 14 (6.97%) OAuth2
9 13 (6.47%) FastAPI
10 12 (5.97%) .NET
11 11 (5.47%) GraphQL
11 11 (5.47%) REST
12 10 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (4.98%) Next.js
12 10 (4.98%) OpenID
13 9 (4.48%) Flask
13 9 (4.48%) JWT
14 7 (3.48%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.48%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 66 (32.84%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.44%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.97%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.49%) Equities
5 4 (1.99%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.99%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.99%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.49%) NHS
7 2 (1.00%) Derivative
7 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.00%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (17.41%) Linux
2 6 (2.99%) Unix
3 4 (1.99%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (80.10%) CI/CD
2 120 (59.70%) Infrastructure as Code
3 105 (52.24%) DevOps
4 80 (39.80%) Containerisation
5 69 (34.33%) Agile
6 60 (29.85%) Microservices
7 47 (23.38%) Test Automation
8 45 (22.39%) Observability
9 33 (16.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.92%) Software Engineering
11 31 (15.42%) DevSecOps
12 28 (13.93%) Event-Driven
13 27 (13.43%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (12.94%) Scrum
15 24 (11.94%) Full-Stack Development
16 23 (11.44%) Technical Leadership
17 22 (10.95%) AI
17 22 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 20 (9.95%) Cloud Security
19 19 (9.45%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 94 (46.77%) Python
2 65 (32.34%) Java
3 35 (17.41%) SQL
4 30 (14.93%) JavaScript
5 26 (12.94%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.45%) Bash
7 9 (4.48%) C#
7 9 (4.48%) Scala
8 7 (3.48%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.99%) Ruby
10 5 (2.49%) Go
10 5 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.49%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) C++
12 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 51 (25.37%) SC Cleared
3 23 (11.44%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.97%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.98%) Degree
5 10 (4.98%) SAFe Agilist
6 8 (3.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (3.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.99%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.00%) CCSP
11 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.00%) CISSP
11 2 (1.00%) PhD
11 2 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.96%) QA
2 11 (5.47%) NIST
3 8 (3.98%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.99%) GDPR
6 3 (1.49%) NCSC
7 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (53.23%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 123 (61.19%) Terraform
2 70 (34.83%) Kubernetes
3 26 (12.94%) Prometheus
4 21 (10.45%) Grafana
5 20 (9.95%) Ansible
6 9 (4.48%) Puppet
7 6 (2.99%) Kibana
7 6 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.00%) Argo
9 2 (1.00%) Istio
9 2 (1.00%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.50%) Consul
10 1 (0.50%) Packer
10 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (11.94%) Splunk
2 9 (4.48%) Databricks
3 5 (2.49%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.99%) AVEVA
4 4 (1.99%) Google
4 4 (1.99%) New Relic
4 4 (1.99%) Rapid7
4 4 (1.99%) Sybase
5 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.49%) Charles River
5 3 (1.49%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.49%) Qualys
5 3 (1.49%) Tenable
6 1 (0.50%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow