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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 356 468
Rank change year-on-year +18 +112 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 210 161 112
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.53% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.46% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 138 85
10th Percentile £363 £491 £405
25th Percentile £444 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.07% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £888 £638
90th Percentile £700 - £733
UK median daily rate £528 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -27.24% +31.82% -8.33%

All Cloud 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 11,657 11,063 13,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.27% 36.16% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,973 7,372 9,941
10th Percentile £305 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £647
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 150 270
10th Percentile £15.40 £17.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.73
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.41% +28.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.25 £57.44 £56.88
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year -13.33% +14.29% +19.10%

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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 -2 116 £525 -30.00% 22
North of England -6 54 £518 -26.07% 18
North West -2 27 £550 +37.50% 9
Yorkshire -21 24 £500 -31.03% 7
West Midlands -7 17 £475 -5.94% 1
Midlands -18 17 £475 +4.97% 2
South West +9 7 £625 +59.44%
South East -2 7 £530 +6.00% 13
East of England -11 5 £475 -5.00% 8
North East -6 3 £588 -21.67% 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 (10.48%) Confluence
2 12 (5.71%) nginx
3 10 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.43%) Apache
4 3 (1.43%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.43%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.48%) CICS
5 1 (0.48%) CMS
5 1 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.48%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 206 (98.10%) AWS
2 121 (57.62%) Serverless
3 115 (54.76%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (50.95%) Amazon S3
5 81 (38.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 79 (37.62%) GitHub
7 72 (34.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 69 (32.86%) Amazon EKS
9 68 (32.38%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (21.90%) AWS Fargate
12 41 (19.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 35 (16.67%) Azure
14 26 (12.38%) Route 53
15 24 (11.43%) Datadog
16 21 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
17 19 (9.05%) AWS KMS
18 17 (8.10%) Apigee
19 16 (7.62%) AWS CodePipeline
19 16 (7.62%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.33%) DNS
2 20 (9.52%) Firewall
3 12 (5.71%) IMAP
3 12 (5.71%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (5.71%) SMTP
4 10 (4.76%) FTP
4 10 (4.76%) HTTP
4 10 (4.76%) SSH
5 5 (2.38%) VPN
6 3 (1.43%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.95%) SSL
8 1 (0.48%) Broadband
8 1 (0.48%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.48%) NAS
8 1 (0.48%) Network Security
8 1 (0.48%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (36.19%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (25.24%) DynamoDB
3 49 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (12.86%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (9.52%) Relational Database
6 15 (7.14%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.67%) MongoDB
8 13 (6.19%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.76%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.81%) MySQL
10 8 (3.81%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.33%) Big Data
11 7 (3.33%) Redis
12 5 (2.38%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.38%) DB2
13 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (1.90%) DocumentDB
14 3 (1.43%) Data Hub
14 3 (1.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 76 (36.19%) Jenkins
2 49 (23.33%) GitLab
3 48 (22.86%) Git
4 31 (14.76%) JIRA
5 12 (5.71%) Vagrant
6 11 (5.24%) Maven
7 10 (4.76%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.33%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.33%) JUnit
9 6 (2.86%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.86%) MLflow
10 5 (2.38%) Gradle
10 5 (2.38%) SonarLint
10 5 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.90%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.90%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.43%) RStudio
13 2 (0.95%) Selenium
14 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.48%) Mocha
General
1 66 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.38%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.57%) Finance
5 11 (5.24%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.29%) Banking
7 7 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.86%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.43%) Front Office
10 2 (0.95%) Military
11 1 (0.48%) Games
11 1 (0.48%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.48%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.48%) Police
11 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (29.05%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (25.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (16.19%) Senior
4 32 (15.24%) AWS DevOps
5 29 (13.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 29 (13.81%) Developer
5 29 (13.81%) Platform Engineer
6 27 (12.86%) Lead
6 27 (12.86%) Software Engineer
7 24 (11.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 24 (11.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 20 (9.52%) Architect
9 12 (5.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 12 (5.71%) Technical Architect
10 11 (5.24%) AWS Developer
10 11 (5.24%) Lead DevOps
11 10 (4.76%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.76%) Java Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Site Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.52%) Node.js
2 33 (15.71%) Kafka
3 27 (12.86%) RESTful
4 26 (12.38%) React
5 22 (10.48%) Spring
6 21 (10.00%) AWS CDK
6 21 (10.00%) Spring Boot
7 15 (7.14%) JWT
7 15 (7.14%) REST
8 13 (6.19%) LDAP
8 13 (6.19%) OAuth
9 12 (5.71%) FastAPI
10 10 (4.76%) Flask
11 9 (4.29%) .NET
11 9 (4.29%) Jest
12 7 (3.33%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.33%) cloud-init
12 7 (3.33%) HTML
12 7 (3.33%) Keycloak
13 6 (2.86%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 49 (23.33%) Cloud Native
2 19 (9.05%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (6.19%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (5.71%) Replication
5 8 (3.81%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.33%) PKI
7 6 (2.86%) NHS
8 5 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.38%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.43%) Equities
10 3 (1.43%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.95%) Derivative
11 2 (0.95%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (23.33%) Linux
2 15 (7.14%) Amazon Linux
3 14 (6.67%) VMS
4 12 (5.71%) Windows
5 10 (4.76%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.29%) Unix
7 7 (3.33%) CentOS
7 7 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.48%) AIX
8 1 (0.48%) Android
8 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.48%) Solaris
8 1 (0.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (78.10%) CI/CD
2 121 (57.62%) DevOps
3 108 (51.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (43.33%) Containerisation
5 72 (34.29%) Microservices
6 69 (32.86%) Agile
7 52 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (20.95%) Software Engineering
9 36 (17.14%) Event-Driven
10 35 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (16.19%) Configuration Management
12 32 (15.24%) AI
13 31 (14.76%) Observability
14 29 (13.81%) Mentoring
15 26 (12.38%) Machine Learning
16 25 (11.90%) Cloud Security
17 24 (11.43%) Full-Stack Development
18 23 (10.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 23 (10.95%) Technical Leadership
19 22 (10.48%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 125 (59.52%) Python
2 48 (22.86%) Java
3 33 (15.71%) SQL
4 31 (14.76%) Bash
5 26 (12.38%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.52%) JavaScript
7 19 (9.05%) PowerShell
8 17 (8.10%) Go
9 16 (7.62%) Groovy
10 11 (5.24%) Ruby
11 8 (3.81%) Shell Script
12 6 (2.86%) C#
13 4 (1.90%) Perl
14 3 (1.43%) C
14 3 (1.43%) C++
14 3 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.48%) COBOL
15 1 (0.48%) PHP
15 1 (0.48%) Rust
15 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 72 (34.29%) Security Cleared
2 58 (27.62%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.62%) AWS Certification
4 30 (14.29%) Degree
5 18 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (8.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.24%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.76%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.33%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 2 (0.95%) PhD
12 1 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.48%) CCSP
12 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.48%) CISSP
12 1 (0.48%) OSCP
12 1 (0.48%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.19%) QA
2 9 (4.29%) NCSC
3 5 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.38%) GDPR
3 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.90%) NIST
5 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.48%) GRC
6 1 (0.48%) HL7
6 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 126 (60.00%) Docker
2 12 (5.71%) Dovecot
2 12 (5.71%) Postfix
2 12 (5.71%) Squid
3 10 (4.76%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 139 (66.19%) Terraform
2 77 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 37 (17.62%) Grafana
4 31 (14.76%) Ansible
5 24 (11.43%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.71%) Nessus
6 12 (5.71%) Puppet
7 11 (5.24%) Packer
8 10 (4.76%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.29%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.43%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.95%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.48%) Argo
13 1 (0.48%) Kibana
13 1 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (7.62%) ServiceNow
2 14 (6.67%) Splunk
3 12 (5.71%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (3.81%) IBM
4 8 (3.81%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.33%) Okta
5 7 (3.33%) PagerDuty
6 6 (2.86%) Gigya
7 5 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (2.38%) Sybase
8 4 (1.90%) Google
8 4 (1.90%) Oracle
9 3 (1.43%) Databricks
9 3 (1.43%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.95%) Cisco
10 2 (0.95%) CloudEndure
10 2 (0.95%) Confluent
11 1 (0.48%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.48%) JDA
11 1 (0.48%) NetApp