Amazon ECS Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 458 462
Rank change year-on-year +119 +4 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 146 84 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.61% 0.71% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 61 150
10th Percentile £400 £406 £463
25th Percentile £575 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £489 £600
Median % change year-on-year +48.26% -18.50% +2.39%
75th Percentile £838 £588 £675
90th Percentile £875 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +27.45% -15.00% -

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 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily 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 1 May 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 +79 108 £775 +55.00% 108
North of England +34 23 £563 +18.42% 46
North West +23 12 £400 -11.11% 35
Yorkshire +14 8 £725 +39.76% 8
South East +43 6 £575 -4.17% 22
North East - 3 £750 - 7
South West +46 1 £392 - 9
Midlands +21 1 £539 +19.80% 5
West Midlands - 1 £539 - 4
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 52 (35.62%) Apache
2 47 (32.19%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (19.86%) Apache Spark
4 16 (10.96%) nginx
5 12 (8.22%) Traefik
6 9 (6.16%) Confluence
7 7 (4.79%) Tomcat
8 2 (1.37%) Camunda
8 2 (1.37%) CMS
8 2 (1.37%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 142 (97.26%) AWS
2 77 (52.74%) Serverless
3 69 (47.26%) AWS Lambda
4 59 (40.41%) Amazon EC2
5 51 (34.93%) AWS CloudFormation
6 46 (31.51%) Amazon EKS
6 46 (31.51%) dbt
7 35 (23.97%) Amazon SQS
8 34 (23.29%) Amazon S3
8 34 (23.29%) OpenShift
9 29 (19.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (15.07%) AWS Fargate
11 20 (13.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 19 (13.01%) GCP
12 19 (13.01%) Snowflake
13 18 (12.33%) Dagster
14 17 (11.64%) GitHub
15 14 (9.59%) Entra ID
16 8 (5.48%) AWS KMS
17 6 (4.11%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.01%) DNS
2 14 (9.59%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.42%) HTTP
3 5 (3.42%) SSL
4 3 (2.05%) SMTP
5 2 (1.37%) IPsec
5 2 (1.37%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.68%) Firewall
6 1 (0.68%) IPv4
6 1 (0.68%) Multicast
6 1 (0.68%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (31.51%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (30.82%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (30.82%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (30.82%) Apache Ignite
2 45 (30.82%) Dremio
3 25 (17.12%) Amazon RDS
3 25 (17.12%) MongoDB
4 18 (12.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (12.33%) Data Lake
5 17 (11.64%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (6.85%) DynamoDB
7 6 (4.11%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.74%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.74%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.05%) MySQL
10 2 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.37%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.68%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 38 (26.03%) Jenkins
2 34 (23.29%) Artifactory
3 22 (15.07%) GitLab
4 9 (6.16%) JIRA
5 8 (5.48%) Git
6 5 (3.42%) git-flow
7 3 (2.05%) Maven
8 2 (1.37%) JMeter
8 2 (1.37%) JUnit
8 2 (1.37%) Mockito
8 2 (1.37%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 64 (43.84%) Finance
2 59 (40.41%) Front Office
3 34 (23.29%) Banking
4 19 (13.01%) Investment Banking
5 16 (10.96%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.48%) Social Skills
7 6 (4.11%) Military
8 2 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.68%) German Language
9 1 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.68%) Marketing
9 1 (0.68%) Retail
9 1 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 78 (53.42%) AWS Engineer
2 71 (48.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 54 (36.99%) AWS DevOps
3 54 (36.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 43 (29.45%) Python Engineer
5 40 (27.40%) Senior
6 30 (20.55%) Data Engineer
7 26 (17.81%) Software Engineer
8 22 (15.07%) Senior DevOps
9 19 (13.01%) Developer
10 17 (11.64%) AWS Software Engineer
10 17 (11.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 15 (10.27%) Senior Software Engineer
12 14 (9.59%) Java Engineer
13 11 (7.53%) Architect
13 11 (7.53%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (6.16%) DevOps Manager
14 9 (6.16%) Finance Manager
15 8 (5.48%) Site Reliability Engineer
16 7 (4.79%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (32.88%) Kafka
2 45 (30.82%) PySpark
3 33 (22.60%) J2EE
4 21 (14.38%) Node.js
5 17 (11.64%) gRPC
5 17 (11.64%) NumPy
5 17 (11.64%) Pandas
5 17 (11.64%) Protocol Buffers
5 17 (11.64%) SciPy
6 16 (10.96%) Keycloak
7 15 (10.27%) cloud-init
8 14 (9.59%) React
9 13 (8.90%) Spring
10 10 (6.85%) AWS CDK
10 10 (6.85%) Spring Boot
11 9 (6.16%) HTML
11 9 (6.16%) Web Services
12 7 (4.79%) .NET
12 7 (4.79%) CSS
12 7 (4.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.64%) Derivative
1 17 (11.64%) Equities
1 17 (11.64%) Fixed Income
1 17 (11.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 17 (11.64%) Hedge funds
2 14 (9.59%) PKI
3 7 (4.79%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (3.42%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.42%) Tandem
5 2 (1.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (17.12%) Linux
2 20 (13.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (10.27%) CentOS
3 15 (10.27%) Unix
4 3 (2.05%) Android
5 2 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (63.70%) CI/CD
2 89 (60.96%) DevOps
3 77 (52.74%) Agile
4 72 (49.32%) Software Engineering
5 59 (40.41%) Asset Management
6 45 (30.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 39 (26.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 35 (23.97%) Open Source
9 30 (20.55%) Data Engineering
10 22 (15.07%) Migration
11 20 (13.70%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (13.70%) Secrets Management
12 19 (13.01%) Observability
13 18 (12.33%) Microservices
14 16 (10.96%) Cloud Security
15 15 (10.27%) Containerisation
16 14 (9.59%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
16 14 (9.59%) Fintech
16 14 (9.59%) Identity Management
16 14 (9.59%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 91 (62.33%) Python
2 68 (46.58%) Java
3 50 (34.25%) Go
4 44 (30.14%) JavaScript
5 30 (20.55%) TypeScript
6 23 (15.75%) Bash
7 16 (10.96%) SQL
8 6 (4.11%) T-SQL
9 5 (3.42%) PHP
10 4 (2.74%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.05%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.68%) C#
12 1 (0.68%) Groovy
12 1 (0.68%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (23.97%) Security Cleared
2 31 (21.23%) SC Cleared
3 24 (16.44%) AWS Certification
4 5 (3.42%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 5 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (2.74%) Degree
6 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.37%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.68%) CCSP
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.68%) CISSP
7 1 (0.68%) OCP
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.68%) OSCP
7 1 (0.68%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.64%) NCSC
2 3 (2.05%) GDPR
3 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.68%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.68%) QA
System Software
1 67 (45.89%) Docker
2 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.37%) RACF
Systems Management
1 88 (60.27%) Terraform
2 81 (55.48%) Kubernetes
3 22 (15.07%) Grafana
3 22 (15.07%) Prometheus
4 18 (12.33%) Packer
5 14 (9.59%) Consul
5 14 (9.59%) Istio
5 14 (9.59%) Jamf Pro
5 14 (9.59%) linkerd
5 14 (9.59%) Rancher
5 14 (9.59%) ZABBIX
6 12 (8.22%) HAProxy
7 6 (4.11%) Ansible
7 6 (4.11%) Kibana
8 2 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (1.37%) Puppet
8 2 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.68%) Graylog
9 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 19 (13.01%) Splunk
2 14 (9.59%) Okta
3 12 (8.22%) Apple
3 12 (8.22%) ESET
4 5 (3.42%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.74%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.05%) F5
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft
7 1 (0.68%) Databricks
7 1 (0.68%) New Relic
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle
7 1 (0.68%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.68%) Rollbar