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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 340 457
Rank change year-on-year -13 +117 +7
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 224 146 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.60% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 1.61% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 127 59
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £452 £575 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £489
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +48.26% -18.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £588
90th Percentile £675 £875 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.75 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.63 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 14,305 9,067 11,772
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.54% 37.31% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,853 6,353 8,480
10th Percentile £319 £313 £290
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £743 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 445 193 321
10th Percentile £15.96 £15.17 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% +27.35% -35.70%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.25 £27.50 £20.99
% change year-on-year +46.36% +31.05% -40.04%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 -35 146 £530 -31.61% 17
North of England -54 42 £534 -5.11% 19
North West -25 20 £625 +56.25% 10
Yorkshire -51 17 £500 -31.03% 5
South West -23 10 £461 +17.67% 2
West Midlands -50 9 £475 -11.89%
Midlands -55 9 £475 -11.89% 1
South East -57 7 £530 -7.83% 7
North East -13 5 £530 -29.33% 4
East of England - 3 £550 - 3
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 16 (7.14%) Confluence
2 14 (6.25%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.79%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 221 (98.66%) AWS
2 158 (70.54%) Serverless
3 152 (67.86%) AWS Lambda
4 132 (58.93%) Amazon S3
5 100 (44.64%) Amazon EKS
6 97 (43.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 87 (38.84%) GitHub
8 75 (33.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 73 (32.59%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (24.55%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (19.64%) AWS CodePipeline
12 40 (17.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (11.61%) Amazon SQS
14 21 (9.38%) AWS Fargate
15 20 (8.93%) Datadog
16 18 (8.04%) Amazon ECR
16 18 (8.04%) AWS Step Functions
17 17 (7.59%) Azure
18 13 (5.80%) IaaS
18 13 (5.80%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.14%) DNS
2 6 (2.68%) Firewall
3 5 (2.23%) Network Security
3 5 (2.23%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.34%) HTTP
5 1 (0.45%) SSL
5 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (26.79%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (23.21%) DynamoDB
3 37 (16.52%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (11.16%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (7.59%) Amazon Aurora
6 15 (6.70%) Relational Database
7 14 (6.25%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.13%) Big Data
9 7 (3.13%) Redis
10 6 (2.68%) Flink
11 5 (2.23%) Data Hub
11 5 (2.23%) MySQL
11 5 (2.23%) Presto
12 4 (1.79%) Apache Hudi
12 4 (1.79%) DB2
12 4 (1.79%) DocumentDB
13 3 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 67 (29.91%) Jenkins
2 47 (20.98%) Git
3 42 (18.75%) GitLab
4 19 (8.48%) JIRA
5 15 (6.70%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.02%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.23%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.23%) Maven
8 4 (1.79%) JUnit
9 3 (1.34%) Gradle
9 3 (1.34%) Selenium
9 3 (1.34%) Snyk
9 3 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.34%) Vite
10 2 (0.89%) MLflow
10 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Mocha
11 1 (0.45%) Mockito
General
1 55 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 44 (19.64%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.27%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.48%) Finance
5 11 (4.91%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.57%) Front Office
8 7 (3.13%) Banking
9 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.89%) Local Government
10 2 (0.89%) Police
10 2 (0.89%) Retail
11 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.45%) Law
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (18.30%) Developer
2 40 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
3 35 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (13.84%) Senior
5 23 (10.27%) Architect
5 23 (10.27%) Lead
6 22 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 19 (8.48%) AWS DevOps
8 15 (6.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.70%) Site Engineer
9 14 (6.25%) Java Developer
9 14 (6.25%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 13 (5.80%) Java Engineer
10 13 (5.80%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.91%) AWS Developer
12 10 (4.46%) Python Engineer
12 10 (4.46%) Security Engineer
13 9 (4.02%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.57%) Scrum Master
14 8 (3.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.20%) Kafka
2 39 (17.41%) Spring
3 37 (16.52%) Spring Boot
4 35 (15.63%) RESTful
5 32 (14.29%) Node.js
6 31 (13.84%) React
7 20 (8.93%) OAuth
8 17 (7.59%) REST
9 15 (6.70%) AWS CDK
10 13 (5.80%) .NET
11 12 (5.36%) JWT
11 12 (5.36%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.46%) OpenID
13 9 (4.02%) FastAPI
13 9 (4.02%) Flask
14 8 (3.57%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.57%) Jest
14 8 (3.57%) Next.js
15 7 (3.13%) Django
15 7 (3.13%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 71 (31.70%) Cloud Native
2 23 (10.27%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.57%) NHS
5 7 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.13%) Equities
6 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.34%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.34%) Derivative
7 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.34%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.89%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.89%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.32%) Linux
2 6 (2.68%) Unix
3 4 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (1.79%) Windows
4 2 (0.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (80.80%) CI/CD
2 136 (60.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (49.55%) DevOps
4 93 (41.52%) Containerisation
5 80 (35.71%) Microservices
6 75 (33.48%) Agile
7 47 (20.98%) Test Automation
8 45 (20.09%) Observability
9 35 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (15.18%) Software Engineering
11 33 (14.73%) Event-Driven
12 29 (12.95%) DevSecOps
12 29 (12.95%) Problem-Solving
13 27 (12.05%) AI
13 27 (12.05%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (11.61%) Analytics
14 26 (11.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 26 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (10.71%) Scrum
16 23 (10.27%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 119 (53.13%) Python
2 75 (33.48%) Java
3 38 (16.96%) SQL
4 34 (15.18%) JavaScript
5 29 (12.95%) Bash
6 26 (11.61%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.25%) Ruby
8 10 (4.46%) C#
9 7 (3.13%) Go
9 7 (3.13%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.13%) Scala
10 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.34%) C++
12 2 (0.89%) Groovy
12 2 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.89%) Perl
12 2 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.45%) C
13 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 74 (33.04%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.23%) SC Cleared
3 28 (12.50%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.14%) Degree
5 12 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.57%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (2.68%) SAFe Agilist
10 4 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.34%) CCSP
11 3 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.34%) CISSP
11 3 (1.34%) OSCP
11 3 (1.34%) PhD
11 3 (1.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.48%) QA
2 13 (5.80%) NIST
3 9 (4.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.23%) GDPR
5 4 (1.79%) NCSC
6 2 (0.89%) GRC
7 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 133 (59.38%) Docker
2 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 143 (63.84%) Terraform
2 82 (36.61%) Kubernetes
3 28 (12.50%) Grafana
4 26 (11.61%) Ansible
4 26 (11.61%) Prometheus
5 13 (5.80%) Puppet
6 6 (2.68%) Kibana
6 6 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.79%) Packer
7 4 (1.79%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.89%) Argo
9 2 (0.89%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.89%) Istio
9 2 (0.89%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.45%) Consul
10 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 25 (11.16%) Splunk
2 11 (4.91%) Databricks
3 10 (4.46%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.57%) PagerDuty
5 5 (2.23%) Google
5 5 (2.23%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.79%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.79%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.79%) Charles River
6 4 (1.79%) Sybase
7 3 (1.34%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.34%) New Relic
7 3 (1.34%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.34%) Qualys
7 3 (1.34%) Tenable
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle
9 1 (0.45%) Brio
9 1 (0.45%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.45%) Pega