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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 314 462
Rank change year-on-year -48 +148 +19
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 223 153 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.63% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.67% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 137 61
10th Percentile £375 £417 £407
25th Percentile £450 £604 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £588
90th Percentile £685 £875 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £700 £520
% change year-on-year -25.00% +34.62% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 13,995 9,174 12,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.58% 37.84% 32.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,640 6,466 8,691
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 180 323
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.51 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.73% +26.19% -18.75%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.23 £35.00
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.05 £61.20
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -35 144 £525 -27.59% 40
North of England -44 44 £534 -17.88% 26
North West -24 21 £575 +43.75% 13
Yorkshire -44 19 £500 -31.03% 13
South West -16 10 £461 +17.67% 6
South East -51 7 £530 -7.83% 17
West Midlands -56 7 £463 -14.21% 1
Midlands -57 7 £463 -14.21% 2
North East -11 4 £534 -28.83%
East of England - 3 £538 - 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 13 (5.83%) Confluence
2 8 (3.59%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.35%) Apache
4 3 (1.35%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 222 (99.55%) AWS
2 157 (70.40%) Serverless
3 147 (65.92%) AWS Lambda
4 123 (55.16%) Amazon S3
5 99 (44.39%) AWS CloudFormation
6 97 (43.50%) Amazon EKS
7 89 (39.91%) GitHub
8 79 (35.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 72 (32.29%) GitHub Actions
10 57 (25.56%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (18.83%) AWS CodePipeline
12 38 (17.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 35 (15.70%) AWS Fargate
14 26 (11.66%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (9.87%) Amazon ECR
15 22 (9.87%) Azure
16 19 (8.52%) Datadog
17 15 (6.73%) Route 53
18 14 (6.28%) AWS Step Functions
19 13 (5.83%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.62%) DNS
2 8 (3.59%) Firewall
3 5 (2.24%) Network Security
3 5 (2.24%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.35%) VPN
5 2 (0.90%) HTTP
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (27.35%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (23.77%) DynamoDB
3 32 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.97%) NoSQL
5 19 (8.52%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.73%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.38%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (4.48%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.59%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.14%) DB2
10 7 (3.14%) Redis
11 6 (2.69%) DocumentDB
11 6 (2.69%) Flink
12 5 (2.24%) Data Hub
12 5 (2.24%) MySQL
13 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.35%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.90%) Big Data
15 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.90%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (27.80%) Jenkins
2 52 (23.32%) Git
3 43 (19.28%) GitLab
4 16 (7.17%) JIRA
5 12 (5.38%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.14%) JUnit
7 6 (2.69%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.69%) Maven
8 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.35%) Gradle
9 3 (1.35%) MLflow
9 3 (1.35%) RStudio
9 3 (1.35%) Snyk
9 3 (1.35%) Vite
10 2 (0.90%) Selenium
10 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Mocha
11 1 (0.45%) Mockito
General
1 55 (24.66%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.08%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.07%) Finance
5 12 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.14%) Banking
7 7 (3.14%) Front Office
8 3 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.90%) Military
9 2 (0.90%) Police
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (19.73%) Developer
2 40 (17.94%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (17.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (14.80%) Senior
4 24 (10.76%) Architect
5 22 (9.87%) Lead
6 21 (9.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (8.97%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (7.62%) Java Developer
9 16 (7.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.17%) Software Engineer
10 15 (6.73%) Site Engineer
11 13 (5.83%) AWS Developer
11 13 (5.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (5.38%) Java Engineer
12 12 (5.38%) Senior Developer
13 11 (4.93%) Python Developer
13 11 (4.93%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.48%) Security Engineer
15 9 (4.04%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (20.63%) Kafka
2 39 (17.49%) Spring
3 37 (16.59%) Spring Boot
4 35 (15.70%) Node.js
5 33 (14.80%) RESTful
6 29 (13.00%) React
7 23 (10.31%) OAuth
8 20 (8.97%) REST
9 14 (6.28%) JWT
10 13 (5.83%) .NET
10 13 (5.83%) AWS CDK
10 13 (5.83%) FastAPI
11 12 (5.38%) Flask
11 12 (5.38%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.48%) OpenID
13 8 (3.59%) Django
13 8 (3.59%) Next.js
14 7 (3.14%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.14%) Jest
15 6 (2.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (30.04%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.21%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.59%) NHS
5 7 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.14%) Equities
6 5 (2.24%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.35%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.35%) Derivative
8 3 (1.35%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.18%) Linux
2 5 (2.24%) Windows
3 4 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.90%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) CentOS
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (80.72%) CI/CD
2 130 (58.30%) Infrastructure as Code
3 116 (52.02%) DevOps
4 97 (43.50%) Containerisation
5 88 (39.46%) Microservices
6 68 (30.49%) Agile
7 44 (19.73%) Observability
8 34 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
9 33 (14.80%) Test Automation
10 31 (13.90%) AI
10 31 (13.90%) Event-Driven
10 31 (13.90%) Software Engineering
11 30 (13.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (13.00%) Analytics
13 25 (11.21%) DevSecOps
13 25 (11.21%) Mentoring
13 25 (11.21%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 25 (11.21%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (10.31%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 121 (54.26%) Python
2 68 (30.49%) Java
3 38 (17.04%) SQL
4 29 (13.00%) Bash
5 26 (11.66%) JavaScript
5 26 (11.66%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.73%) Ruby
7 10 (4.48%) Go
8 9 (4.04%) C#
9 7 (3.14%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.35%) C++
12 2 (0.90%) Perl
13 1 (0.45%) C
13 1 (0.45%) Groovy
13 1 (0.45%) R
13 1 (0.45%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (31.84%) Security Cleared
2 60 (26.91%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.00%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.17%) Degree
5 12 (5.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (4.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.93%) DV Cleared
7 8 (3.59%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (1.35%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (1.35%) CCSP
9 3 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.35%) CISSP
9 3 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.35%) OSCP
9 3 (1.35%) PhD
9 3 (1.35%) SAFe Agilist
9 3 (1.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.52%) QA
2 15 (6.73%) NIST
3 11 (4.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.48%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.69%) GDPR
6 5 (2.24%) Accessibility
6 5 (2.24%) NCSC
7 2 (0.90%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 131 (58.74%) Docker
2 5 (2.24%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 138 (61.88%) Terraform
2 85 (38.12%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.11%) Ansible
4 26 (11.66%) Prometheus
5 22 (9.87%) Grafana
6 14 (6.28%) Puppet
7 6 (2.69%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.24%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.79%) Packer
10 3 (1.35%) Argo
10 3 (1.35%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.90%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.90%) Istio
11 2 (0.90%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (6.73%) Splunk
2 11 (4.93%) Databricks
2 11 (4.93%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.59%) PagerDuty
4 7 (3.14%) Sybase
5 5 (2.24%) Google
5 5 (2.24%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.79%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.79%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.79%) Charles River
7 3 (1.35%) New Relic
7 3 (1.35%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.35%) Qualys
7 3 (1.35%) Tenable
8 2 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.90%) CloudEndure
8 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.90%) Oracle
8 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow