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 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 365 424
Rank change year-on-year -54 +59 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 211 151 114
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.46% 0.54% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.46% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 107 92
10th Percentile £389 £358 £409
25th Percentile £466 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £663
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -20.75% +10.42%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £888
90th Percentile £775 £693 -
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 15,874 10,360 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.69% 37.33% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,597 7,015 7,852
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £716 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 549 268 195
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £18.33
Median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £59.76
90th Percentile £82.49 £68.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.12 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.20% -4.17% -14.29%

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 31 August 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
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 31 August 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 -21 134 £578 +10.10% 82
North of England -71 33 £500 - 39
Midlands -41 26 £463 -2.63% 7
West Midlands -38 24 £475 - 3
North West -44 23 £600 +26.32% 20
South East -63 10 £600 +9.09% 15
East of England -9 8 £550 +22.22% 9
North East -32 7 £406 -4.41% 8
Yorkshire -54 3 £500 - 11
South West -43 2 £403 -35.60% 23
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 4
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 23 (10.90%) Confluence
2 9 (4.27%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.84%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.90%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.42%) Apache
7 2 (0.95%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.47%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.47%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 206 (97.63%) AWS
2 152 (72.04%) Serverless
3 150 (71.09%) AWS Lambda
4 122 (57.82%) Amazon EKS
5 121 (57.35%) Amazon S3
6 72 (34.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 66 (31.28%) GitHub
8 64 (30.33%) GitHub Actions
9 55 (26.07%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (24.17%) Amazon SQS
10 51 (24.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (16.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (9.48%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (9.00%) Amazon EventBridge
13 19 (9.00%) Azure
14 15 (7.11%) AWS CodePipeline
15 13 (6.16%) GCP
16 12 (5.69%) Datadog
17 11 (5.21%) AWS KMS
18 10 (4.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.32%) Firewall
2 5 (2.37%) Network Security
3 4 (1.90%) DNS
3 4 (1.90%) HTTP
4 3 (1.42%) SSL
4 3 (1.42%) VPN
5 2 (0.95%) FTP
5 2 (0.95%) IMAP
5 2 (0.95%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.95%) SMTP
5 2 (0.95%) SSH
5 2 (0.95%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.47%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (27.49%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (21.80%) DynamoDB
3 34 (16.11%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (9.00%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (6.64%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.69%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.69%) Big Data
7 10 (4.74%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.37%) Presto
9 4 (1.90%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.90%) Redis
10 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.42%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.42%) Metadata
10 3 (1.42%) MySQL
10 3 (1.42%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
11 2 (0.95%) Data Hub
11 2 (0.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 64 (30.33%) Jenkins
2 44 (20.85%) GitLab
3 25 (11.85%) Git
3 25 (11.85%) JIRA
4 13 (6.16%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.27%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.90%) Mockito
7 3 (1.42%) JUnit
8 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.95%) git-flow
8 2 (0.95%) MLflow
8 2 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.95%) Vagrant
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.47%) Gatling
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.47%) RhodeCode
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.64%) Finance
2 33 (15.64%) Public Sector
3 20 (9.48%) Banking
4 18 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.84%) Law
7 5 (2.37%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Retail
9 2 (0.95%) Local Government
9 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.47%) Front Office
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 45 (21.33%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (18.01%) Developer
3 35 (16.59%) Senior
4 29 (13.74%) Lead
5 27 (12.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (10.90%) Architect
6 23 (10.90%) AWS DevOps
6 23 (10.90%) Scrum Master
7 22 (10.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (9.95%) Software Engineer
9 16 (7.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.64%) Data Engineer
10 14 (6.64%) Technical Leader
11 13 (6.16%) AWS Software Engineer
11 13 (6.16%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.16%) Lead DevOps
12 12 (5.69%) AWS Architect
13 11 (5.21%) AWS Developer
13 11 (5.21%) Python Engineer
14 9 (4.27%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (58.77%) Terraform
2 40 (18.96%) React
3 39 (18.48%) REST
4 36 (17.06%) Spring
5 34 (16.11%) Spring Boot
6 31 (14.69%) Kafka
7 24 (11.37%) Node.js
7 24 (11.37%) RESTful
8 23 (10.90%) FastAPI
9 15 (7.11%) AWS CDK
10 11 (5.21%) AngularJS
11 10 (4.74%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (4.74%) Flask
12 9 (4.27%) .NET
13 8 (3.79%) GraphQL
14 7 (3.32%) Jest
14 7 (3.32%) JWT
14 7 (3.32%) OAuth
14 7 (3.32%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.32%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 96 (45.50%) Cloud Native
2 39 (18.48%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (18.48%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.16%) Security Posture
4 9 (4.27%) Cloud Security Posture
5 8 (3.79%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.84%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.90%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.90%) NHS
8 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.42%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.42%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.95%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.17%) Linux
2 11 (5.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.79%) Unix
3 8 (3.79%) Windows
4 2 (0.95%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (69.19%) CI/CD
2 122 (57.82%) Infrastructure as Code
3 117 (55.45%) DevOps
4 96 (45.50%) Agile
5 82 (38.86%) Microservices
6 79 (37.44%) Containerisation
7 69 (32.70%) Observability
8 65 (30.81%) Test Automation
9 47 (22.27%) Event-Driven
9 47 (22.27%) Software Engineering
10 42 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 39 (18.48%) DevSecOps
11 39 (18.48%) Platform Engineering
12 38 (18.01%) Scrum
12 38 (18.01%) Technical Leadership
13 37 (17.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 33 (15.64%) AI
15 31 (14.69%) Deployment Automation
16 30 (14.22%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (13.74%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 103 (48.82%) Python
2 69 (32.70%) Java
3 42 (19.91%) TypeScript
4 30 (14.22%) Bash
4 30 (14.22%) JavaScript
5 26 (12.32%) SQL
6 16 (7.58%) PowerShell
7 11 (5.21%) Scala
8 6 (2.84%) Bicep
9 5 (2.37%) C#
9 5 (2.37%) Groovy
9 5 (2.37%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.37%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (1.42%) Go
11 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.47%) C
12 1 (0.47%) Cypher
12 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 75 (35.55%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 33 (15.64%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.48%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.21%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (4.27%) Azure Certification
7 8 (3.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (3.32%) Degree
9 5 (2.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.37%) CISSP
10 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.53%) QA
2 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.90%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.47%) HL7
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (50.71%) Docker
2 5 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.95%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.95%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.95%) Postfix
3 2 (0.95%) Squid
4 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (33.18%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.43%) Grafana
3 21 (9.95%) Ansible
4 17 (8.06%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.84%) Kibana
6 5 (2.37%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.90%) Nessus
8 3 (1.42%) Puppet
9 2 (0.95%) Consul
9 2 (0.95%) Istio
9 2 (0.95%) Packer
9 2 (0.95%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.95%) ZABBIX
10 1 (0.47%) Argo
10 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.47%) linkerd
10 1 (0.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (9.48%) Splunk
2 10 (4.74%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.79%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.84%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.84%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.37%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.37%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.42%) Confluent
6 3 (1.42%) Databricks
6 3 (1.42%) Google
7 2 (0.95%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.95%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.95%) Oracle
8 1 (0.47%) Informatica
8 1 (0.47%) New Relic
8 1 (0.47%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.47%) Talend