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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 350 467
Rank change year-on-year -29 +117 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 205 117 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.50% 0.49% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 1.31% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 100 56
10th Percentile £385 £397 £406
25th Percentile £470 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £640 £495
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% +29.29% -17.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £578
90th Percentile £725 - £623
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -11.67% +20.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £67.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
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 14,456 8,952 11,709
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.00% 37.33% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,880 6,189 8,457
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 478 198 324
10th Percentile £15.59 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £18.13 £15.88
Median hourly rate £41.78 £26.45 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +57.96% +23.77% -34.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £38.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £71.63 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.60 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.37% +33.83% -38.94%

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 22 May 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 22 May 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 22 May 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 -7 133 £550 -24.14% 36
North of England -61 29 £534 +6.75% 21
North West -40 17 £650 +62.50% 10
West Midlands -45 13 £488 -1.43% 1
Midlands -57 13 £488 -1.43% 1
South West - 10 £461 - 6
South East -53 9 £565 -1.74% 9
Yorkshire -50 7 £500 -2.44% 9
North East -24 5 £530 - 2
East of England - 5 £550 - 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 19 (9.27%) Confluence
2 13 (6.34%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.98%) Apache
4 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.46%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 200 (97.56%) AWS
2 144 (70.24%) Serverless
3 142 (69.27%) AWS Lambda
4 119 (58.05%) Amazon S3
5 93 (45.37%) Amazon EKS
6 81 (39.51%) GitHub
7 80 (39.02%) AWS CloudFormation
8 73 (35.61%) GitHub Actions
9 68 (33.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (22.93%) Amazon EC2
11 46 (22.44%) AWS CodePipeline
12 34 (16.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (13.17%) Amazon SQS
14 18 (8.78%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (7.32%) AWS Fargate
16 11 (5.37%) Amazon ECR
16 11 (5.37%) Datadog
17 10 (4.88%) Amazon EMR
17 10 (4.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
17 10 (4.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.88%) DNS
2 5 (2.44%) Network Security
3 4 (1.95%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.46%) HTTP
5 1 (0.49%) Firewall
5 1 (0.49%) SSL
5 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (23.90%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (23.41%) DynamoDB
3 30 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (12.20%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.78%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.83%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (6.83%) MongoDB
7 10 (4.88%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.41%) Redis
9 6 (2.93%) Big Data
9 6 (2.93%) Flink
10 5 (2.44%) Presto
11 4 (1.95%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (1.95%) DB2
11 4 (1.95%) DocumentDB
11 4 (1.95%) MySQL
12 3 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.98%) Delta Lake
13 2 (0.98%) Metadata
13 2 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 57 (27.80%) Jenkins
2 40 (19.51%) GitLab
3 35 (17.07%) Git
4 21 (10.24%) JIRA
5 17 (8.29%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.39%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.44%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.44%) Maven
8 4 (1.95%) JUnit
9 3 (1.46%) Gradle
9 3 (1.46%) Selenium
9 3 (1.46%) Snyk
9 3 (1.46%) Vite
10 2 (0.98%) MLflow
10 2 (0.98%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.49%) Gatling
11 1 (0.49%) JMeter
11 1 (0.49%) Mockito
11 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (28.29%) Social Skills
2 39 (19.02%) Public Sector
3 18 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.85%) Finance
5 9 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (2.93%) Banking
6 6 (2.93%) Front Office
7 4 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.46%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.98%) Local Government
9 2 (0.98%) Police
9 2 (0.98%) Retail
10 1 (0.49%) Law
10 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.49%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (20.98%) Developer
2 36 (17.56%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (13.66%) Senior
5 25 (12.20%) Lead
6 22 (10.73%) Architect
7 19 (9.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (8.78%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (7.80%) Java Developer
10 15 (7.32%) Software Engineer
11 14 (6.83%) AWS Developer
11 14 (6.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (5.85%) Python Developer
12 12 (5.85%) Scrum Master
13 11 (5.37%) Python Engineer
13 11 (5.37%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.88%) Java Engineer
14 10 (4.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (4.39%) Lead DevOps
16 8 (3.90%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.00%) Kafka
2 36 (17.56%) React
3 35 (17.07%) Spring
4 34 (16.59%) Spring Boot
5 29 (14.15%) RESTful
6 21 (10.24%) Node.js
7 17 (8.29%) AWS CDK
8 16 (7.80%) OAuth
9 13 (6.34%) OAuth2
10 12 (5.85%) .NET
10 12 (5.85%) FastAPI
11 11 (5.37%) REST
12 10 (4.88%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (4.88%) GraphQL
12 10 (4.88%) Next.js
12 10 (4.88%) OpenID
13 9 (4.39%) AngularJS
13 9 (4.39%) Flask
14 8 (3.90%) JWT
15 7 (3.41%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 65 (31.71%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.22%) Product Ownership
3 15 (7.32%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (2.93%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.44%) Equities
6 4 (1.95%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.95%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.95%) NHS
6 4 (1.95%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.98%) Derivative
7 2 (0.98%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.98%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.98%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.05%) Linux
2 6 (2.93%) Unix
3 4 (1.95%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (80.49%) CI/CD
2 123 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 103 (50.24%) DevOps
4 84 (40.98%) Containerisation
5 69 (33.66%) Agile
6 63 (30.73%) Microservices
7 47 (22.93%) Test Automation
8 43 (20.98%) Observability
9 34 (16.59%) Software Engineering
10 31 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (15.12%) DevSecOps
11 30 (14.63%) Event-Driven
12 26 (12.68%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (12.68%) Scrum
13 24 (11.71%) AI
13 24 (11.71%) Technical Leadership
14 23 (11.22%) Full-Stack Development
15 21 (10.24%) Mentoring
15 21 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
16 20 (9.76%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 97 (47.32%) Python
2 69 (33.66%) Java
3 36 (17.56%) SQL
4 32 (15.61%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.15%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.24%) Bash
7 9 (4.39%) C#
7 9 (4.39%) Ruby
7 9 (4.39%) Scala
8 6 (2.93%) Go
9 5 (2.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.44%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.95%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.95%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.98%) C++
11 2 (0.98%) Groovy
12 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 70 (34.15%) Security Cleared
2 54 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.73%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.80%) DV Cleared
5 12 (5.85%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (4.88%) Degree
6 10 (4.88%) SAFe Agilist
7 8 (3.90%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 7 (3.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (2.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.93%) Master's Degree
10 4 (1.95%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.98%) CCSP
12 2 (0.98%) CISSP
12 2 (0.98%) OSCP
12 2 (0.98%) PhD
12 2 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.29%) QA
2 11 (5.37%) NIST
3 8 (3.90%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.95%) GDPR
6 3 (1.46%) NCSC
7 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
System Software
1 110 (53.66%) Docker
2 4 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 127 (61.95%) Terraform
2 73 (35.61%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.17%) Prometheus
4 24 (11.71%) Grafana
5 20 (9.76%) Ansible
6 10 (4.88%) Puppet
7 6 (2.93%) Kibana
7 6 (2.93%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.46%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.98%) Argo
9 2 (0.98%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.98%) Istio
9 2 (0.98%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.49%) Consul
10 1 (0.49%) Packer
10 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (11.22%) Splunk
2 10 (4.88%) Databricks
3 6 (2.93%) Microsoft
4 4 (1.95%) AVEVA
4 4 (1.95%) Google
4 4 (1.95%) Rapid7
4 4 (1.95%) Sybase
5 3 (1.46%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.46%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.46%) Charles River
5 3 (1.46%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.46%) New Relic
5 3 (1.46%) Qualys
5 3 (1.46%) Tenable
6 2 (0.98%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.49%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.49%) UiPath