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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 370 460
Rank change year-on-year -32 +90 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 201 114 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.23% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 92 60
10th Percentile £385 £363 £406
25th Percentile £473 £475 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +13.52% -15.58%
75th Percentile £650 £836 £591
90th Percentile £738 £838 £663
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -3.67% +8.91% -15.83%
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 14,777 9,235 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.98% 37.74% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,038 6,295 8,585
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 507 225 331
10th Percentile £15.97 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.36 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +28.41% +30.23% -41.89%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -16 134 £563 -13.46% 28
North of England -69 24 £513 +2.50% 16
North West -36 16 £650 +62.50% 6
West Midlands -43 14 £488 -0.76%
Midlands -54 14 £488 -0.76%
South East -64 11 £600 +4.35% 12
South West -17 7 £350 -31.71% 4
East of England - 5 £550 -
North East -20 4 £469 - 2
Yorkshire -55 4 £500 - 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 20 (9.95%) Confluence
2 12 (5.97%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
6 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
4 125 (62.19%) Amazon S3
5 105 (52.24%) Amazon EKS
6 76 (37.81%) GitHub
7 73 (36.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 69 (34.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (34.33%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (25.87%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (19.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 38 (18.91%) AWS CodePipeline
12 34 (16.92%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (7.96%) AWS Fargate
14 15 (7.46%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (6.97%) Datadog
16 12 (5.97%) Azure
17 10 (4.98%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (4.98%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (4.98%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.49%) DNS
1 5 (2.49%) Network Security
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Firewall
3 1 (0.50%) SSL
3 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (29.35%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (23.38%) DynamoDB
3 29 (14.43%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (12.44%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.96%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.97%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (6.47%) MongoDB
8 9 (4.48%) Big Data
8 9 (4.48%) Relational Database
9 7 (3.48%) Redis
10 6 (2.99%) Flink
11 5 (2.49%) DocumentDB
11 5 (2.49%) Presto
12 4 (1.99%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.99%) Db2
12 4 (1.99%) MySQL
13 3 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (1.00%) Metadata
14 2 (1.00%) Pinecone
15 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 60 (29.85%) Jenkins
2 42 (20.90%) GitLab
3 24 (11.94%) Git
4 21 (10.45%) JIRA
5 17 (8.46%) 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 60 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.92%) Public Sector
3 16 (7.96%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.96%) Finance
4 10 (4.98%) Banking
5 9 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.48%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.49%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.49%) Law
8 4 (1.99%) Front Office
9 3 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.00%) Local Government
10 2 (1.00%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (20.40%) Developer
2 40 (19.90%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (16.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 30 (14.93%) Senior
5 25 (12.44%) Lead
6 23 (11.44%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (10.45%) AWS DevOps
8 20 (9.95%) Architect
9 16 (7.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.96%) Java Developer
9 16 (7.96%) Software Engineer
10 15 (7.46%) AWS Developer
11 13 (6.47%) Python Developer
11 13 (6.47%) Scrum Master
12 12 (5.97%) Senior Developer
13 11 (5.47%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (5.47%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.98%) AWS Architect
14 10 (4.98%) Data Engineer
15 8 (3.98%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (19.90%) Kafka
2 39 (19.40%) React
3 31 (15.42%) Spring
3 31 (15.42%) Spring Boot
4 28 (13.93%) RESTful
5 19 (9.45%) AWS CDK
6 18 (8.96%) REST
7 17 (8.46%) Node.js
7 17 (8.46%) OAuth
8 15 (7.46%) FastAPI
9 14 (6.97%) OAuth2
10 11 (5.47%) .NET
10 11 (5.47%) GraphQL
11 10 (4.98%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (4.98%) Flask
11 10 (4.98%) OpenID
12 9 (4.48%) JWT
12 9 (4.48%) Next.js
13 8 (3.98%) AngularJS
14 7 (3.48%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 75 (37.31%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.44%) Product Ownership
3 23 (11.44%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (1.99%) AI Agents
4 4 (1.99%) Algorithms
4 4 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (1.99%) Distributed Architecture
4 4 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.99%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (1.99%) Security Posture
4 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.99%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.49%) Equities
5 3 (1.49%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.49%) NHS
6 2 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.43%) 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
1 157 (78.11%) CI/CD
2 121 (60.20%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (53.23%) DevOps
4 88 (43.78%) Containerisation
5 70 (34.83%) Agile
5 70 (34.83%) Microservices
6 52 (25.87%) Test Automation
7 49 (24.38%) Observability
8 35 (17.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 35 (17.41%) Software Engineering
9 32 (15.92%) DevSecOps
10 30 (14.93%) AI
10 30 (14.93%) Event-Driven
11 29 (14.43%) Platform Engineering
12 25 (12.44%) Full-Stack Development
12 25 (12.44%) Scrum
13 22 (10.95%) Cloud Security
14 21 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 21 (10.45%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (9.95%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 94 (46.77%) Python
2 66 (32.84%) Java
3 35 (17.41%) SQL
4 31 (15.42%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.93%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.95%) Bash
7 9 (4.48%) Scala
8 6 (2.99%) C#
8 6 (2.99%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.49%) Go
9 5 (2.49%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.49%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.50%) Groovy
12 1 (0.50%) Ruby
12 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (33.83%) Security Cleared
2 53 (26.37%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.94%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.47%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.98%) Degree
8 7 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.99%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.49%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
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%) OSCP
11 2 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.46%) QA
2 11 (5.47%) NIST
3 8 (3.98%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.99%) GDPR
6 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.00%) NCSC
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (53.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 124 (61.69%) Terraform
2 68 (33.83%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.93%) Prometheus
4 20 (9.95%) Ansible
4 20 (9.95%) Grafana
5 8 (3.98%) Puppet
6 6 (2.99%) Kibana
6 6 (2.99%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.49%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.00%) Argo
8 2 (1.00%) Istio
9 1 (0.50%) Consul
9 1 (0.50%) Packer
9 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (11.94%) Splunk
2 9 (4.48%) Databricks
3 6 (2.99%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.49%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.99%) AVEVA
5 4 (1.99%) Google
5 4 (1.99%) New Relic
5 4 (1.99%) Rapid7
5 4 (1.99%) Sybase
6 3 (1.49%) Amplitude
6 3 (1.49%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.49%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.49%) Charles River
6 3 (1.49%) Qualys
6 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.49%) Tenable
7 1 (0.50%) Confluent
7 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow