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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 372 468
Rank change year-on-year +23 +96 +61
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 205 152 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.35% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 128 85
10th Percentile £363 £471 £394
25th Percentile £450 £610 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.41% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £629 £888 £638
90th Percentile £675 - £733
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -27.59% +31.82% -8.33%

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 11,711 11,263 13,848
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.52% 35.84% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 7,484 10,089
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £650 £650
90th Percentile £723 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 151 278
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +26.84% +18.89%
75th Percentile £49.13 £59.78 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% +12.27% +25.00%

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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 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 +8 117 £525 -27.59% 99
North of England -4 50 £518 -20.38% 57
North West -3 27 £550 +37.50% 34
Yorkshire -17 21 £500 -31.03% 18
West Midlands -3 17 £475 -5.94% 2
Midlands -15 17 £475 +4.97% 4
South East +5 7 £530 +6.00% 22
South West +2 5 £625 +59.44% 4
East of England -11 5 £475 -5.00% 10
North East -5 2 £425 -43.33% 5
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 22 (10.73%) Confluence
2 12 (5.85%) nginx
3 9 (4.39%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.44%) CMS
4 5 (2.44%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.46%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.98%) Apache
6 2 (0.98%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.49%) CICS
7 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.85%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.98%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.49%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 201 (98.05%) AWS
2 116 (56.59%) Serverless
3 110 (53.66%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (52.20%) Amazon S3
5 74 (36.10%) AWS CloudFormation
5 74 (36.10%) GitHub
6 71 (34.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 70 (34.15%) Amazon EKS
8 69 (33.66%) Amazon EC2
9 49 (23.90%) AWS Fargate
10 44 (21.46%) GitHub Actions
11 39 (19.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 35 (17.07%) Azure
13 26 (12.68%) Route 53
14 25 (12.20%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (11.71%) Datadog
16 19 (9.27%) AWS KMS
17 15 (7.32%) Amazon EventBridge
17 15 (7.32%) Apigee
18 13 (6.34%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 26 (12.68%) DNS
2 20 (9.76%) Firewall
3 12 (5.85%) IMAP
3 12 (5.85%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (5.85%) SMTP
4 10 (4.88%) FTP
4 10 (4.88%) HTTP
4 10 (4.88%) SSH
5 5 (2.44%) VPN
6 2 (0.98%) SSL
7 1 (0.49%) Broadband
7 1 (0.49%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.49%) NAS
7 1 (0.49%) Network Security
7 1 (0.49%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.49%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (38.05%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (28.29%) DynamoDB
3 51 (24.88%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (13.17%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (9.76%) Relational Database
6 15 (7.32%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.83%) MongoDB
8 13 (6.34%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.88%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.90%) MySQL
11 7 (3.41%) Big Data
11 7 (3.41%) Redis
11 7 (3.41%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.44%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.44%) DB2
13 4 (1.95%) DocumentDB
14 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.46%) Data Hub
14 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.46%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 72 (35.12%) Jenkins
2 46 (22.44%) GitLab
3 44 (21.46%) Git
4 31 (15.12%) JIRA
5 13 (6.34%) Maven
6 12 (5.85%) Vagrant
7 11 (5.37%) JUnit
8 8 (3.90%) SonarQube
9 7 (3.41%) Bitbucket
10 6 (2.93%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.44%) Gradle
11 5 (2.44%) MLflow
11 5 (2.44%) SonarLint
11 5 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.95%) Cypress.io
12 4 (1.95%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.46%) RStudio
14 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.49%) Mocha
14 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 42 (20.49%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (8.29%) Finance
4 11 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (3.90%) Banking
6 7 (3.41%) Aerospace
6 7 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.98%) Front Office
7 2 (0.98%) Publishing
8 1 (0.49%) Aviation
8 1 (0.49%) Games
8 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Military
8 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (29.27%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (25.37%) DevOps Engineer
3 31 (15.12%) AWS DevOps
3 31 (15.12%) Senior
4 29 (14.15%) Developer
4 29 (14.15%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (13.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 26 (12.68%) Software Engineer
7 25 (12.20%) Lead
8 24 (11.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 24 (11.71%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 17 (8.29%) Architect
10 15 (7.32%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.85%) DevOps Platform Engineer
12 10 (4.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 10 (4.88%) Lead DevOps
13 9 (4.39%) Python Developer
13 9 (4.39%) Site Engineer
13 9 (4.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (4.39%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.54%) Node.js
2 31 (15.12%) Kafka
3 26 (12.68%) React
4 25 (12.20%) RESTful
5 22 (10.73%) Spring
6 19 (9.27%) AWS CDK
7 17 (8.29%) OAuth
7 17 (8.29%) Spring Boot
8 15 (7.32%) JWT
8 15 (7.32%) REST
9 13 (6.34%) LDAP
10 12 (5.85%) FastAPI
11 11 (5.37%) Jest
12 10 (4.88%) Flask
13 9 (4.39%) .NET
13 9 (4.39%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.41%) cloud-init
14 7 (3.41%) HTML
14 7 (3.41%) Keycloak
14 7 (3.41%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 47 (22.93%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.78%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.83%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (5.85%) Replication
5 7 (3.41%) PKI
5 7 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.44%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.44%) NHS
6 5 (2.44%) N-Tier
7 4 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.46%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.98%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.98%) Equities
9 2 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.98%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.49%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.95%) Linux
2 15 (7.32%) Amazon Linux
3 14 (6.83%) VMS
4 12 (5.85%) Windows
5 10 (4.88%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.39%) Unix
7 7 (3.41%) CentOS
7 7 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.49%) AIX
8 1 (0.49%) Android
8 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.49%) Solaris
8 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (75.61%) CI/CD
2 115 (56.10%) DevOps
3 100 (48.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (44.39%) Containerisation
5 69 (33.66%) Agile
6 68 (33.17%) Microservices
7 50 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (20.49%) Software Engineering
9 34 (16.59%) Platform Engineering
10 33 (16.10%) Configuration Management
10 33 (16.10%) Event-Driven
11 30 (14.63%) Mentoring
12 29 (14.15%) AI
12 29 (14.15%) Observability
13 28 (13.66%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (12.20%) Cloud Security
15 24 (11.71%) Test Automation
16 23 (11.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 23 (11.22%) Machine Learning
16 23 (11.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 121 (59.02%) Python
2 46 (22.44%) Java
3 31 (15.12%) SQL
4 29 (14.15%) Bash
5 26 (12.68%) TypeScript
6 23 (11.22%) PowerShell
7 18 (8.78%) JavaScript
8 16 (7.80%) Go
9 15 (7.32%) Groovy
10 8 (3.90%) Ruby
10 8 (3.90%) Shell Script
11 5 (2.44%) C#
12 4 (1.95%) Perl
13 3 (1.46%) C
14 2 (0.98%) C++
15 1 (0.49%) COBOL
15 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
15 1 (0.49%) PHP
15 1 (0.49%) Rust
15 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 67 (32.68%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 42 (20.49%) AWS Certification
4 30 (14.63%) Degree
5 20 (9.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (9.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.88%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.39%) DV Cleared
9 7 (3.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.41%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.49%) CCSP
13 1 (0.49%) CISSP
13 1 (0.49%) OSCP
13 1 (0.49%) PhD
13 1 (0.49%) SANS
13 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.83%) QA
2 9 (4.39%) NCSC
3 5 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.44%) GDPR
3 5 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.95%) NIST
5 2 (0.98%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) GRC
6 1 (0.49%) HL7
6 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 124 (60.49%) Docker
2 12 (5.85%) Dovecot
2 12 (5.85%) Postfix
2 12 (5.85%) Squid
3 10 (4.88%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.95%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 131 (63.90%) Terraform
2 71 (34.63%) Kubernetes
3 34 (16.59%) Grafana
4 30 (14.63%) Ansible
5 23 (11.22%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.85%) Nessus
7 11 (5.37%) Packer
7 11 (5.37%) Puppet
8 10 (4.88%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.39%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.41%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.46%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.49%) Argo
13 1 (0.49%) Kibana
13 1 (0.49%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (9.27%) ServiceNow
2 14 (6.83%) Splunk
3 12 (5.85%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (4.39%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (4.39%) IBM
5 7 (3.41%) Microsoft
5 7 (3.41%) Okta
6 6 (2.93%) Gigya
6 6 (2.93%) PagerDuty
7 5 (2.44%) Sybase
8 4 (1.95%) Google
8 4 (1.95%) Oracle
9 3 (1.46%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.98%) Cisco
10 2 (0.98%) CloudEndure
10 2 (0.98%) Confluent
10 2 (0.98%) Databricks
11 1 (0.49%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.49%) JDA
11 1 (0.49%) Pega