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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 376 464
Rank change year-on-year -20 +88 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 219 121 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.46% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.22% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 97 75
10th Percentile £381 £357 £406
25th Percentile £475 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +1.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £875
90th Percentile £775 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £540 £536 £521
% change year-on-year +0.78% +2.84% -13.17%
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 15,383 9,918 12,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.66% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,344 6,690 8,678
10th Percentile £325 £313 £308
25th Percentile £415 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 554 255 331
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.04 £14.16
25th Percentile £23.17 £17.96 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.53 £25.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.94% +15.91% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.73 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.18 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +7 151 £575 -1.71% 51
North of England -72 24 £525 +23.53% 22
North West -35 17 £650 +69.27% 12
Midlands -47 15 £488 -0.76% 4
West Midlands -55 15 £488 -0.76% 2
South East -52 10 £600 +4.35% 12
South West -27 7 £350 -31.71% 13
East of England - 6 £550 - 1
North East -34 4 £469 +10.29% 3
Yorkshire -58 3 - - 7
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 (9.13%) Confluence
2 12 (5.48%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.74%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.91%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.37%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 214 (97.72%) AWS
2 149 (68.04%) Serverless
3 147 (67.12%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (61.19%) Amazon S3
5 112 (51.14%) Amazon EKS
6 78 (35.62%) GitHub
7 71 (32.42%) GitHub Actions
8 69 (31.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 69 (31.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (24.20%) Amazon EC2
10 41 (18.72%) Amazon SQS
11 38 (17.35%) AWS CodePipeline
11 38 (17.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (8.22%) Datadog
13 15 (6.85%) Amazon EventBridge
13 15 (6.85%) AWS Step Functions
14 14 (6.39%) Amazon Bedrock
14 14 (6.39%) AWS Fargate
15 11 (5.02%) Azure
16 10 (4.57%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.28%) Network Security
2 2 (0.91%) DNS
2 2 (0.91%) HTTP
3 1 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) SSL
3 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (28.31%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (22.37%) DynamoDB
3 31 (14.16%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (10.05%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.76%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (6.85%) MongoDB
7 13 (5.94%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (5.02%) Big Data
9 10 (4.57%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.74%) Flink
10 6 (2.74%) Redis
11 5 (2.28%) Presto
12 4 (1.83%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.83%) Db2
13 2 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.91%) DocumentDB
13 2 (0.91%) Metadata
13 2 (0.91%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.91%) Power BI
14 1 (0.46%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 62 (28.31%) Jenkins
2 40 (18.26%) GitLab
3 25 (11.42%) Git
4 22 (10.05%) JIRA
5 17 (7.76%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.20%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.83%) JUnit
8 3 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.37%) Gradle
8 3 (1.37%) Maven
8 3 (1.37%) Vite
9 2 (0.91%) Snyk
10 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.46%) Gatling
10 1 (0.46%) MLflow
10 1 (0.46%) Mockito
10 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.46%) Selenium
10 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 67 (30.59%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.61%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.13%) Finance
5 13 (5.94%) Banking
6 12 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.28%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.28%) Law
9 4 (1.83%) Front Office
10 3 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.91%) Local Government
11 2 (0.91%) Retail
12 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.46%) Police
12 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (17.81%) AWS Engineer
1 39 (17.81%) Developer
2 38 (17.35%) Senior
3 33 (15.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (12.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (12.79%) Lead
5 24 (10.96%) Architect
6 20 (9.13%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (7.76%) Java Developer
7 17 (7.76%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 14 (6.39%) Scrum Master
9 12 (5.48%) AWS Developer
9 12 (5.48%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.48%) Lead DevOps
9 12 (5.48%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.57%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) AWS Architect
11 9 (4.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.18%) React
2 39 (17.81%) Kafka
3 31 (14.16%) Spring
3 31 (14.16%) Spring Boot
4 26 (11.87%) RESTful
5 24 (10.96%) Node.js
6 23 (10.50%) REST
7 19 (8.68%) AWS CDK
8 17 (7.76%) OAuth
9 16 (7.31%) FastAPI
10 14 (6.39%) OAuth2
11 13 (5.94%) .NET
12 11 (5.02%) GraphQL
12 11 (5.02%) JWT
13 10 (4.57%) Elastic Stack
14 8 (3.65%) Flask
14 8 (3.65%) Jest
14 8 (3.65%) OpenID
15 7 (3.20%) Play Framework
16 6 (2.74%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (36.53%) Cloud Native
2 27 (12.33%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.42%) Product Ownership
4 7 (3.20%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.20%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.28%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.83%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.83%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.37%) Equities
7 3 (1.37%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.91%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 29 (13.24%) Linux
2 6 (2.74%) Unix
3 4 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (1.83%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (72.15%) CI/CD
2 120 (54.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 113 (51.60%) DevOps
4 91 (41.55%) Containerisation
5 82 (37.44%) Microservices
6 74 (33.79%) Agile
7 53 (24.20%) Test Automation
8 52 (23.74%) Observability
9 40 (18.26%) AI
10 37 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 36 (16.44%) Software Engineering
12 35 (15.98%) Event-Driven
13 33 (15.07%) DevSecOps
13 33 (15.07%) Platform Engineering
14 28 (12.79%) Full-Stack Development
15 27 (12.33%) Technical Leadership
16 25 (11.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 25 (11.42%) Scrum
17 23 (10.50%) Cloud Security
17 23 (10.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 99 (45.21%) Python
2 67 (30.59%) Java
3 34 (15.53%) TypeScript
4 31 (14.16%) SQL
5 30 (13.70%) JavaScript
6 22 (10.05%) Bash
7 10 (4.57%) Scala
8 9 (4.11%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.28%) C#
9 5 (2.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.28%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.83%) Go
10 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.91%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.46%) C
12 1 (0.46%) Cypher
12 1 (0.46%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.46%) SHACL
12 1 (0.46%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 59 (26.94%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.50%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.31%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.02%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (3.65%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.65%) Degree
9 5 (2.28%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.91%) CCSP
11 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.91%) CISSP
11 2 (0.91%) OSCP
11 2 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.48%) QA
2 7 (3.20%) NIST
3 5 (2.28%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.46%) GRC
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 106 (48.40%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 121 (55.25%) Terraform
2 64 (29.22%) Kubernetes
3 25 (11.42%) Prometheus
4 21 (9.59%) Ansible
5 18 (8.22%) Grafana
6 6 (2.74%) Kibana
6 6 (2.74%) Puppet
6 6 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.37%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.91%) Istio
9 1 (0.46%) Consul
9 1 (0.46%) Packer
9 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (10.05%) Splunk
2 9 (4.11%) Databricks
3 7 (3.20%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.28%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.28%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.83%) AVEVA
5 4 (1.83%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.83%) Google
5 4 (1.83%) New Relic
5 4 (1.83%) Rapid7
5 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.83%) Sybase
6 3 (1.37%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.37%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.37%) Charles River
7 2 (0.91%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.91%) Qualys
7 2 (0.91%) Tenable
8 1 (0.46%) Confluent