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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 318 458
Rank change year-on-year -66 +140 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 219 155 82
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.56% 0.64% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 1.69% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 138 60
10th Percentile £368 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £604 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £506
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +43.21% -15.63%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £588
90th Percentile £689 £875 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -19.23% +26.83% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 14,208 9,180 12,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.33% 37.69% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,809 6,465 8,638
10th Percentile £313 £313 £281
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £638
90th Percentile £714 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 185 322
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £15.92
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +26.98% -21.19%
75th Percentile £67.50 £43.00 £33.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.30 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +45.85% +30.60% -26.32%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -37 144 £525 -27.59% 40
North of England -51 42 £544 -9.38% 26
North West -24 19 £625 +56.25% 13
Yorkshire -43 19 £500 -31.03% 13
South West -16 10 £461 +17.67% 6
West Midlands -53 7 £463 -14.21% 1
Midlands -57 7 £463 -14.21% 2
South East -50 6 £530 -7.83% 17
North East -15 4 £534 -28.83%
East of England - 3 £538 - 2
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 12 (5.48%) Confluence
2 8 (3.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.37%) Apache
3 3 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.91%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.91%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.83%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 218 (99.54%) AWS
2 157 (71.69%) Serverless
3 147 (67.12%) AWS Lambda
4 123 (56.16%) Amazon S3
5 98 (44.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 96 (43.84%) Amazon EKS
7 86 (39.27%) GitHub
8 79 (36.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 70 (31.96%) GitHub Actions
10 55 (25.11%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (19.18%) AWS CodePipeline
12 36 (16.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 32 (14.61%) AWS Fargate
14 25 (11.42%) Amazon SQS
15 21 (9.59%) Amazon ECR
15 21 (9.59%) Azure
16 20 (9.13%) Datadog
17 14 (6.39%) AWS Step Functions
17 14 (6.39%) Route 53
18 13 (5.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.31%) DNS
2 8 (3.65%) Firewall
3 5 (2.28%) Network Security
3 5 (2.28%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.37%) VPN
5 2 (0.91%) HTTP
6 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (27.40%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (24.20%) DynamoDB
3 31 (14.16%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (9.13%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.22%) Relational Database
6 14 (6.39%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (4.11%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.65%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.20%) DB2
10 7 (3.20%) Redis
11 6 (2.74%) DocumentDB
11 6 (2.74%) Flink
12 5 (2.28%) Data Hub
12 5 (2.28%) MySQL
13 3 (1.37%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.37%) RDBMS
14 2 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (0.91%) Data Lake
14 2 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 59 (26.94%) Jenkins
2 49 (22.37%) Git
3 40 (18.26%) GitLab
4 15 (6.85%) JIRA
5 12 (5.48%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.20%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.20%) JUnit
7 5 (2.28%) Maven
8 4 (1.83%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.37%) Gradle
9 3 (1.37%) Selenium
9 3 (1.37%) Snyk
9 3 (1.37%) Vite
10 2 (0.91%) MLflow
10 2 (0.91%) RStudio
10 2 (0.91%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.46%) Mockito
11 1 (0.46%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 55 (25.11%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.46%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.22%) Finance
5 12 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.65%) Front Office
8 7 (3.20%) Banking
9 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.91%) Military
10 2 (0.91%) Police
11 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (20.09%) Developer
2 38 (17.35%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (16.89%) AWS Engineer
4 32 (14.61%) Senior
5 24 (10.96%) Architect
6 23 (10.50%) Lead
7 21 (9.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (8.22%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (7.76%) Java Developer
10 16 (7.31%) Software Engineer
11 15 (6.85%) Site Engineer
12 14 (6.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 14 (6.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 13 (5.94%) AWS Developer
14 12 (5.48%) Java Engineer
15 11 (5.02%) Python Engineer
15 11 (5.02%) Senior Developer
16 10 (4.57%) Python Developer
16 10 (4.57%) Security Engineer
17 8 (3.65%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (20.55%) Kafka
2 40 (18.26%) Spring
3 38 (17.35%) Spring Boot
4 35 (15.98%) Node.js
5 32 (14.61%) RESTful
6 30 (13.70%) React
7 22 (10.05%) OAuth
8 18 (8.22%) REST
9 14 (6.39%) .NET
9 14 (6.39%) JWT
10 12 (5.48%) AWS CDK
11 11 (5.02%) FastAPI
11 11 (5.02%) OAuth2
12 9 (4.11%) Flask
12 9 (4.11%) OpenID
13 8 (3.65%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.65%) Jest
13 8 (3.65%) Next.js
14 7 (3.20%) Django
15 6 (2.74%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 68 (31.05%) Cloud Native
2 24 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.65%) NHS
5 7 (3.20%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.20%) Equities
6 5 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.37%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.37%) Derivative
8 3 (1.37%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.91%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 43 (19.63%) Linux
2 5 (2.28%) Windows
3 4 (1.83%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.91%) VMS
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (80.37%) CI/CD
2 127 (57.99%) Infrastructure as Code
3 115 (52.51%) DevOps
4 94 (42.92%) Containerisation
5 86 (39.27%) Microservices
6 67 (30.59%) Agile
7 43 (19.63%) Observability
8 33 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (15.07%) Test Automation
9 32 (14.61%) Software Engineering
10 31 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (13.70%) Event-Driven
12 29 (13.24%) Analytics
13 28 (12.79%) AI
14 26 (11.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 25 (11.42%) DevSecOps
16 24 (10.96%) Platform Engineering
16 24 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
17 23 (10.50%) Code Quality
17 23 (10.50%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 116 (52.97%) Python
2 70 (31.96%) Java
3 38 (17.35%) SQL
4 27 (12.33%) Bash
4 27 (12.33%) JavaScript
5 25 (11.42%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.85%) Ruby
7 9 (4.11%) C#
8 7 (3.20%) Go
9 6 (2.74%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.37%) C++
11 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.91%) Perl
13 1 (0.46%) C
13 1 (0.46%) Groovy
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 58 (26.48%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.24%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.31%) Degree
5 12 (5.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 11 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (4.57%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.65%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.37%) CCSP
10 3 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.37%) CISSP
10 3 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.37%) OSCP
10 3 (1.37%) PhD
10 3 (1.37%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (1.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.68%) QA
2 13 (5.94%) NIST
3 9 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (4.11%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.28%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.28%) GDPR
5 4 (1.83%) NCSC
6 2 (0.91%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
System Software
1 127 (57.99%) Docker
2 5 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 136 (62.10%) Terraform
2 83 (37.90%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.33%) Ansible
4 25 (11.42%) Prometheus
5 21 (9.59%) Grafana
6 14 (6.39%) Puppet
7 5 (2.28%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.28%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (1.37%) Packer
9 2 (0.91%) Argo
9 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.91%) Istio
9 2 (0.91%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.46%) Kibana
10 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (6.39%) Splunk
2 11 (5.02%) Databricks
3 10 (4.57%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.65%) PagerDuty
5 7 (3.20%) Sybase
6 5 (2.28%) Google
6 5 (2.28%) Rapid7
7 4 (1.83%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.83%) AVEVA
7 4 (1.83%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.83%) Charles River
8 3 (1.37%) New Relic
8 3 (1.37%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.37%) Qualys
8 3 (1.37%) Tenable
9 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.91%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle
9 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow