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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 327 447
Rank change year-on-year -15 +120 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 204 153 96
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.66% 0.57% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.73% 1.56% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 131 77
10th Percentile £368 £500 £425
25th Percentile £450 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £725 £538
Median % change year-on-year -26.72% +34.88% -8.98%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £638
90th Percentile £709 £888 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £688 £550
% change year-on-year -22.91% +25.00% -6.14%

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 11,786 9,808 12,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.00% 36.72% 34.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,146 6,531 9,054
10th Percentile £304 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 130 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.18 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.21 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.36% -
75th Percentile £56.50 £45.89 £50.79
90th Percentile £78.45 £64.78 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.43 £23.11
% change year-on-year +0.27% +18.68% +2.70%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -20 117 £533 -26.55% 42
North of England -13 53 £525 -27.59% 50
North West -11 29 £550 +22.22% 18
Yorkshire -23 22 £500 -31.03% 26
Midlands -34 11 £503 +25.63% 21
West Midlands - 11 £503 - 9
South East -10 8 £530 +6.00% 68
South West -12 6 £625 +59.44% 25
East of England -17 4 £538 +7.50% 38
North East -7 2 £644 -14.17% 6
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 19 (9.31%) Confluence
2 9 (4.41%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.41%) nginx
3 3 (1.47%) Apache
3 3 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.47%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.49%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 201 (98.53%) AWS
2 128 (62.75%) Serverless
3 123 (60.29%) AWS Lambda
4 98 (48.04%) Amazon S3
5 84 (41.18%) GitHub
6 82 (40.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 76 (37.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 76 (37.25%) Amazon EKS
8 63 (30.88%) Amazon EC2
9 62 (30.39%) GitHub Actions
10 41 (20.10%) AWS Fargate
11 40 (19.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 34 (16.67%) Azure
13 27 (13.24%) Route 53
14 22 (10.78%) Datadog
15 20 (9.80%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (9.80%) AWS CodePipeline
16 18 (8.82%) AWS KMS
17 17 (8.33%) Apigee
18 16 (7.84%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (15.20%) DNS
2 18 (8.82%) Firewall
3 10 (4.90%) HTTP
4 9 (4.41%) FTP
4 9 (4.41%) IMAP
4 9 (4.41%) OpenLDAP
4 9 (4.41%) SMTP
4 9 (4.41%) SSH
5 5 (2.45%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.45%) VPN
6 2 (0.98%) SSL
7 1 (0.49%) Broadband
7 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.49%) Network Security
7 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (33.82%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (25.00%) DynamoDB
3 42 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (13.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (9.80%) NoSQL
6 17 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 14 (6.86%) MongoDB
8 12 (5.88%) MySQL
9 11 (5.39%) Redis
10 8 (3.92%) DocumentDB
10 8 (3.92%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.92%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.43%) Big Data
12 5 (2.45%) Amazon Athena
12 5 (2.45%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.45%) Data Hub
13 3 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.47%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.47%) Metadata
13 3 (1.47%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 74 (36.27%) Jenkins
2 53 (25.98%) Git
3 44 (21.57%) GitLab
4 29 (14.22%) JIRA
5 9 (4.41%) Maven
5 9 (4.41%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.41%) Vagrant
6 8 (3.92%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.94%) MLflow
8 5 (2.45%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.45%) Gradle
8 5 (2.45%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.96%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.47%) JUnit
10 3 (1.47%) RStudio
11 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.98%) Selenium
12 1 (0.49%) Mocha
12 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 53 (25.98%) Public Sector
1 53 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.82%) Finance
3 17 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (4.41%) Banking
6 8 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.96%) Front Office
8 2 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.98%) Military
9 1 (0.49%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.49%) Police
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (26.47%) AWS Engineer
2 48 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (14.22%) AWS DevOps
3 29 (14.22%) Software Engineer
4 28 (13.73%) Developer
5 27 (13.24%) Senior
6 26 (12.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 24 (11.76%) Lead
7 24 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
8 23 (11.27%) Architect
9 19 (9.31%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 19 (9.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 15 (7.35%) Site Engineer
10 15 (7.35%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (5.39%) Java Architect
11 11 (5.39%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (5.39%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.90%) AWS Developer
12 10 (4.90%) Python Developer
13 9 (4.41%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.14%) Kafka
1 37 (18.14%) Node.js
2 30 (14.71%) RESTful
3 26 (12.75%) React
4 22 (10.78%) Spring
4 22 (10.78%) Spring Boot
5 19 (9.31%) REST
6 16 (7.84%) AWS CDK
6 16 (7.84%) OAuth
7 15 (7.35%) FastAPI
7 15 (7.35%) JWT
8 14 (6.86%) Flask
9 11 (5.39%) .NET
10 10 (4.90%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.90%) LDAP
11 8 (3.92%) Django
11 8 (3.92%) OAuth2
12 7 (3.43%) HTML
13 6 (2.94%) OpenID
13 6 (2.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 56 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.78%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.39%) Replication
4 8 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.43%) NHS
6 5 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.45%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.45%) N-Tier
6 5 (2.45%) PKI
7 4 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.96%) Equities
7 4 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.47%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.47%) Derivative
8 3 (1.47%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.47%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.49%) Linux
2 12 (5.88%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (5.39%) VMS
4 10 (4.90%) Windows
5 9 (4.41%) Ubuntu
6 7 (3.43%) Unix
7 5 (2.45%) CentOS
7 5 (2.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.49%) Android
8 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (83.82%) CI/CD
2 116 (56.86%) DevOps
3 112 (54.90%) Infrastructure as Code
4 79 (38.73%) Containerisation
5 73 (35.78%) Microservices
6 65 (31.86%) Agile
7 46 (22.55%) Software Engineering
8 44 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (19.61%) Observability
10 39 (19.12%) Event-Driven
11 34 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (15.69%) Configuration Management
13 31 (15.20%) AI
14 28 (13.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 24 (11.76%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 23 (11.27%) Analytics
16 23 (11.27%) Cloud Security
16 23 (11.27%) Mentoring
17 22 (10.78%) Full-Stack Development
17 22 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 128 (62.75%) Python
2 46 (22.55%) Java
3 33 (16.18%) Bash
4 32 (15.69%) SQL
5 22 (10.78%) JavaScript
5 22 (10.78%) TypeScript
6 18 (8.82%) PowerShell
7 17 (8.33%) Ruby
8 14 (6.86%) Go
9 12 (5.88%) Groovy
10 9 (4.41%) C#
11 8 (3.92%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.96%) C++
12 4 (1.96%) Perl
13 3 (1.47%) C
13 3 (1.47%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.49%) PHP
14 1 (0.49%) R
14 1 (0.49%) Rust
14 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 68 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.98%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.71%) AWS Certification
4 24 (11.76%) Degree
5 13 (6.37%) DV Cleared
6 10 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.41%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.45%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.47%) PhD
12 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 2 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.49%) CCSP
13 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.49%) CISSP
13 1 (0.49%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.33%) QA
2 11 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.41%) NCSC
3 9 (4.41%) NIST
4 6 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.94%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.96%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
System Software
1 125 (61.27%) Docker
2 9 (4.41%) DFS Replication
2 9 (4.41%) Dovecot
2 9 (4.41%) Postfix
2 9 (4.41%) Squid
3 5 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.96%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 142 (69.61%) Terraform
2 87 (42.65%) Kubernetes
3 35 (17.16%) Grafana
4 32 (15.69%) Ansible
5 22 (10.78%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.86%) Puppet
7 9 (4.41%) Nessus
7 9 (4.41%) Proxmox
8 8 (3.92%) Packer
9 7 (3.43%) Progress Chef
10 5 (2.45%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.47%) Argo
11 3 (1.47%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.98%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.98%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.49%) Kibana
13 1 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (6.86%) Splunk
2 11 (5.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.90%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.41%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (3.92%) PagerDuty
6 6 (2.94%) Gigya
7 5 (2.45%) Okta
8 4 (1.96%) Google
8 4 (1.96%) Oracle
9 3 (1.47%) Databricks
9 3 (1.47%) Ping Identity
9 3 (1.47%) Sybase
10 2 (0.98%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.98%) Cisco
10 2 (0.98%) CloudEndure
10 2 (0.98%) Confluent
10 2 (0.98%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.49%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.49%) IBM