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 26 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 381 439
Rank change year-on-year -32 +58 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 221 138 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.49% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.39% 1.34% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 107 75
10th Percentile £388 £357 £407
25th Percentile £472 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.66% -7.83% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £875
90th Percentile £770 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £543 £533 £538
% change year-on-year +1.88% -0.93% -10.42%
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 15,851 10,315 11,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.05% 37.40% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,583 6,980 8,216
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £419 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.70% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 269 265
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.10 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +30.58% +23.18% -36.21%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 -15 138 £590 +2.59% 51
North of England -65 34 £525 +14.75% 24
North West -33 25 £607 +64.81% 12
Midlands -40 21 £475 -3.06% 4
West Midlands -43 21 £475 -3.06% 3
South East -73 10 £600 +4.35% 16
South West -30 8 £369 -28.05% 12
East of England -19 7 £550 +22.22% 2
North East -40 6 £413 -2.94% 8
Yorkshire -51 3 - - 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 21 (9.50%) Confluence
2 13 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.62%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.71%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.81%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.90%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.90%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 216 (97.74%) AWS
2 160 (72.40%) Serverless
3 156 (70.59%) AWS Lambda
4 134 (60.63%) Amazon S3
5 124 (56.11%) Amazon EKS
6 70 (31.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 69 (31.22%) GitHub
8 67 (30.32%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (25.79%) AWS CloudFormation
10 55 (24.89%) Amazon EC2
11 48 (21.72%) Amazon SQS
12 36 (16.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (12.22%) AWS CodePipeline
14 18 (8.14%) Amazon EventBridge
14 18 (8.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (7.24%) Datadog
16 14 (6.33%) AWS Fargate
16 14 (6.33%) Azure
17 13 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
18 11 (4.98%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.17%) Network Security
2 3 (1.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.45%) DNS
3 1 (0.45%) HTTP
3 1 (0.45%) SSL
3 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (26.70%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (23.98%) DynamoDB
3 31 (14.03%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (10.41%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.79%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.33%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.43%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (5.43%) Big Data
7 12 (5.43%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.71%) Flink
9 5 (2.26%) Presto
9 5 (2.26%) Redis
10 4 (1.81%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (1.36%) Metadata
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.90%) Db2
12 2 (0.90%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.90%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.90%) MySQL
12 2 (0.90%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 61 (27.60%) Jenkins
2 37 (16.74%) GitLab
3 23 (10.41%) Git
4 22 (9.95%) JIRA
5 17 (7.69%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.62%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.81%) JUnit
7 4 (1.81%) Maven
8 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.36%) Gradle
8 3 (1.36%) Mockito
9 2 (0.90%) MLflow
9 2 (0.90%) Vite
10 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.45%) Gatling
10 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.45%) Snyk
10 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.84%) Public Sector
3 28 (12.67%) Finance
4 18 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.69%) Banking
6 9 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.71%) Law
8 5 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.36%) Front Office
9 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.36%) Retail
10 2 (0.90%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.90%) Local Government
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.45%) Police
11 1 (0.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (18.55%) AWS Engineer
1 41 (18.55%) Developer
2 40 (18.10%) Senior
3 30 (13.57%) Lead
4 26 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (11.31%) Cloud Engineer
6 24 (10.86%) Architect
7 21 (9.50%) Software Engineer
8 20 (9.05%) Scrum Master
9 18 (8.14%) AWS DevOps
9 18 (8.14%) Java Developer
10 12 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) AWS Software Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.43%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.43%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.98%) AWS Developer
11 11 (4.98%) Technical Leader
12 10 (4.52%) Senior Developer
12 10 (4.52%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (20.81%) React
2 38 (17.19%) Kafka
3 36 (16.29%) Spring
3 36 (16.29%) Spring Boot
4 31 (14.03%) REST
5 27 (12.22%) Node.js
5 27 (12.22%) RESTful
6 21 (9.50%) FastAPI
7 16 (7.24%) AWS CDK
8 15 (6.79%) OAuth
9 13 (5.88%) OAuth2
10 12 (5.43%) GraphQL
11 10 (4.52%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (4.52%) Flask
11 10 (4.52%) Jest
11 10 (4.52%) JWT
12 8 (3.62%) .NET
12 8 (3.62%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.17%) Express.js
13 7 (3.17%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 87 (39.37%) Cloud Native
2 36 (16.29%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (15.38%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.43%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.17%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (3.17%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.71%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.81%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.81%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.81%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.81%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.81%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.36%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Equities
10 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.22%) Linux
2 9 (4.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.17%) Unix
4 4 (1.81%) Windows
5 1 (0.45%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (71.04%) CI/CD
2 121 (54.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 117 (52.94%) DevOps
4 88 (39.82%) Agile
5 87 (39.37%) Microservices
6 83 (37.56%) Containerisation
7 63 (28.51%) Test Automation
8 61 (27.60%) Observability
9 44 (19.91%) Software Engineering
10 39 (17.65%) AI
11 38 (17.19%) Continuous Improvement
11 38 (17.19%) DevSecOps
11 38 (17.19%) Event-Driven
11 38 (17.19%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (14.93%) Scrum
13 32 (14.48%) Technical Leadership
14 31 (14.03%) Code Quality
15 30 (13.57%) Full-Stack Development
16 29 (13.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
17 25 (11.31%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 104 (47.06%) Python
2 70 (31.67%) Java
3 40 (18.10%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.48%) JavaScript
5 30 (13.57%) SQL
6 24 (10.86%) Bash
7 12 (5.43%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.98%) Scala
9 5 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.26%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.81%) Bicep
10 4 (1.81%) C#
10 4 (1.81%) Go
10 4 (1.81%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.90%) Groovy
11 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.45%) C
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 74 (33.48%) Security Cleared
2 61 (27.60%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.22%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.14%) DV Cleared
5 11 (4.98%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.71%) Degree
10 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.81%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.36%) CISSP
13 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.90%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.43%) QA
2 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.90%) NCSC
4 1 (0.45%) GRC
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 107 (48.42%) Docker
2 3 (1.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 119 (53.85%) Terraform
2 61 (27.60%) Kubernetes
3 22 (9.95%) Prometheus
4 19 (8.60%) Grafana
5 18 (8.14%) Ansible
6 6 (2.71%) Kibana
7 5 (2.26%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.36%) Istio
8 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.45%) Argo
9 1 (0.45%) Consul
9 1 (0.45%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.45%) Packer
9 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (9.50%) Splunk
2 10 (4.52%) Databricks
3 9 (4.07%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.26%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.26%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.26%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.81%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.90%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.90%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.90%) Charles River
6 2 (0.90%) Confluent
6 2 (0.90%) Google
6 2 (0.90%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.90%) Sybase
7 1 (0.45%) New Relic
7 1 (0.45%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.45%) Qualys
7 1 (0.45%) Talend
7 1 (0.45%) Tenable