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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 379 448
Rank change year-on-year -26 +69 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 215 127 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.25% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 102 73
10th Percentile £381 £358 £406
25th Percentile £475 £425 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £875
90th Percentile £775 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £543 £530 £525
% change year-on-year +2.36% +0.95% -12.50%
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 15,626 10,136 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.36% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,489 6,852 8,592
10th Percentile £325 £311 £311
25th Percentile £419 £409 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.20% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 266 324
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.84 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.30
% change year-on-year +34.55% +23.32% -36.29%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +4 144 £581 +1.04% 32
North of England -70 25 £528 +24.12% 33
North West -38 18 £632 +64.45% 16
Midlands -47 18 £475 -3.06% 11
West Midlands -56 18 £475 -3.06% 3
South East -62 10 £600 +4.35% 14
East of England -15 7 £550 +22.22% 6
South West -27 7 £350 -31.71% 14
North East -38 4 £469 +10.29% 8
Yorkshire -58 3 - - 9
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 20 (9.30%) Confluence
2 12 (5.58%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.26%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.79%) SharePoint
5 3 (1.40%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.93%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 210 (97.67%) AWS
2 151 (70.23%) Serverless
3 148 (68.84%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (62.79%) Amazon S3
5 114 (53.02%) Amazon EKS
6 71 (33.02%) GitHub
7 67 (31.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 67 (31.16%) GitHub Actions
8 61 (28.37%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (24.65%) Amazon EC2
10 42 (19.53%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (16.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 32 (14.88%) AWS CodePipeline
13 17 (7.91%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (7.44%) Amazon EventBridge
14 16 (7.44%) Datadog
15 15 (6.98%) Amazon Bedrock
16 12 (5.58%) AWS Fargate
17 9 (4.19%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (4.19%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.79%) Network Security
2 2 (0.93%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (27.44%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (22.79%) DynamoDB
3 29 (13.49%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (8.84%) NoSQL
5 15 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.51%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.58%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (5.12%) Big Data
9 10 (4.65%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.79%) Flink
11 5 (2.33%) Presto
11 5 (2.33%) Redis
12 4 (1.86%) Apache Hudi
13 2 (0.93%) Db2
13 2 (0.93%) Metadata
13 2 (0.93%) Pinecone
13 2 (0.93%) Power BI
14 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
14 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.47%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 63 (29.30%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.21%) GitLab
3 22 (10.23%) Git
4 21 (9.77%) JIRA
5 17 (7.91%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.72%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.86%) Maven
8 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.40%) Gradle
8 3 (1.40%) Vite
9 2 (0.93%) JUnit
10 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) Gatling
10 1 (0.47%) JMeter
10 1 (0.47%) Mockito
10 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.47%) Selenium
10 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (28.84%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.35%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.23%) Finance
4 18 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (6.98%) Banking
6 10 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.33%) Law
7 5 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Front Office
8 3 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.93%) Local Government
9 2 (0.93%) Retail
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 39 (18.14%) Developer
2 37 (17.21%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (17.21%) Senior
3 29 (13.49%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (13.49%) Lead
4 26 (12.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 23 (10.70%) Architect
6 18 (8.37%) AWS DevOps
7 17 (7.91%) Java Developer
7 17 (7.91%) Scrum Master
7 17 (7.91%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 12 (5.58%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.58%) Lead DevOps
9 11 (5.12%) AWS Developer
9 11 (5.12%) Python Engineer
10 10 (4.65%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.65%) Technical Leader
11 9 (4.19%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 9 (4.19%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.47%) React
2 33 (15.35%) Kafka
3 31 (14.42%) Spring Boot
4 30 (13.95%) Spring
5 25 (11.63%) Node.js
5 25 (11.63%) RESTful
6 23 (10.70%) REST
7 18 (8.37%) AWS CDK
7 18 (8.37%) FastAPI
8 16 (7.44%) OAuth
9 13 (6.05%) OAuth2
10 11 (5.12%) GraphQL
10 11 (5.12%) JWT
11 10 (4.65%) .NET
12 9 (4.19%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.19%) Flask
12 9 (4.19%) Jest
13 7 (3.26%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.26%) OpenID
13 7 (3.26%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 80 (37.21%) Cloud Native
2 29 (13.49%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (13.49%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.72%) Security Posture
4 7 (3.26%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.86%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.86%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.86%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.40%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.40%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.93%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.63%) Linux
2 6 (2.79%) Unix
3 5 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.40%) Windows
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 153 (71.16%) CI/CD
2 119 (55.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 114 (53.02%) DevOps
4 88 (40.93%) Containerisation
5 81 (37.67%) Microservices
6 76 (35.35%) Agile
7 56 (26.05%) Test Automation
8 53 (24.65%) Observability
9 40 (18.60%) Software Engineering
10 39 (18.14%) AI
11 36 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (15.81%) DevSecOps
12 34 (15.81%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (15.35%) Event-Driven
14 31 (14.42%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (13.49%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (12.56%) Scrum
17 25 (11.63%) Code Quality
17 25 (11.63%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 21 (9.77%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 100 (46.51%) Python
2 64 (29.77%) Java
3 37 (17.21%) TypeScript
4 31 (14.42%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.56%) SQL
6 20 (9.30%) Bash
7 11 (5.12%) Scala
8 9 (4.19%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.33%) Go
9 5 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.33%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.86%) C#
10 4 (1.86%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.93%) Groovy
11 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Bicep
12 1 (0.47%) Cypher
12 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.47%) SHACL
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (33.95%) Security Cleared
2 60 (27.91%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.16%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.44%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.12%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.79%) Degree
9 3 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.40%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.72%) QA
2 3 (1.40%) NIST
3 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.93%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.93%) GDPR
3 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.47%) GRC
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 104 (48.37%) Docker
2 2 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 116 (53.95%) Terraform
2 56 (26.05%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.70%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.91%) Ansible
4 17 (7.91%) Grafana
5 6 (2.79%) Kibana
6 5 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.86%) Puppet
8 2 (0.93%) Istio
8 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.47%) Packer
9 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (9.77%) Splunk
2 9 (4.19%) Databricks
3 8 (3.72%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.33%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.86%) AVEVA
5 4 (1.86%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.86%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.40%) Google
7 2 (0.93%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.93%) Bloomberg
7 2 (0.93%) Charles River
7 2 (0.93%) New Relic
7 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.93%) Rapid7
7 2 (0.93%) Sybase
8 1 (0.47%) Confluent
8 1 (0.47%) Qualys
8 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.47%) Tenable