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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 346 463
Rank change year-on-year +4 +117 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 211 154 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.67% 0.55% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 1.51% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 131 75
10th Percentile £368 £500 £425
25th Percentile £450 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £538
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +34.88% -10.42%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £638
90th Percentile £713 £888 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -21.48% +22.73% -7.56%

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 12,075 10,180 12,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.10% 36.56% 34.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,349 6,809 9,207
10th Percentile £304 £313 £281
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £645 £638
90th Percentile £705 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 135 246
10th Percentile £14.68 £16.46 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.36 £28.50 £23.43
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% +21.66% +3.51%
75th Percentile £57.06 £46.84 £53.44
90th Percentile £77.70 £67.65 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £25.19
% change year-on-year -1.05% +9.17% +11.96%

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 2 January 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
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 2 January 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 -22 119 £533 -26.55% 41
North of England -3 53 £525 -27.59% 33
North West -11 29 £550 +22.22% 11
Yorkshire -34 22 £500 -31.03% 21
Midlands -25 13 £475 +18.75% 7
West Midlands - 13 £475 - 5
South East -8 10 £530 +6.00% 15
South West -4 6 £625 +59.44% 6
East of England -15 5 £475 -5.00% 4
North East -7 2 £644 -14.17% 1
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 (9.48%) Confluence
2 10 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.74%) nginx
3 3 (1.42%) Apache
3 3 (1.42%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.42%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.47%) CICS
4 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 208 (98.58%) AWS
2 129 (61.14%) Serverless
3 124 (58.77%) AWS Lambda
4 104 (49.29%) Amazon S3
5 87 (41.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 87 (41.23%) GitHub
6 77 (36.49%) Amazon EKS
7 74 (35.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 66 (31.28%) Amazon EC2
9 60 (28.44%) GitHub Actions
10 42 (19.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 41 (19.43%) AWS Fargate
12 36 (17.06%) Azure
13 27 (12.80%) Route 53
14 22 (10.43%) Datadog
15 20 (9.48%) Amazon SQS
15 20 (9.48%) AWS CodePipeline
16 19 (9.00%) AWS KMS
17 17 (8.06%) Apigee
18 16 (7.58%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.17%) DNS
2 19 (9.00%) Firewall
3 11 (5.21%) HTTP
4 10 (4.74%) FTP
4 10 (4.74%) IMAP
4 10 (4.74%) OpenLDAP
4 10 (4.74%) SMTP
4 10 (4.74%) SSH
5 5 (2.37%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.37%) VPN
6 2 (0.95%) SSL
7 1 (0.47%) Broadband
7 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.47%) NAS
7 1 (0.47%) Network Security
7 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (36.02%) Amazon RDS
2 51 (24.17%) DynamoDB
3 47 (22.27%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (13.27%) Amazon Aurora
5 19 (9.00%) NoSQL
6 18 (8.53%) Relational Database
7 15 (7.11%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.21%) MySQL
9 10 (4.74%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.74%) Redis
10 9 (4.27%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.79%) RDBMS
12 7 (3.32%) Big Data
12 7 (3.32%) DocumentDB
13 5 (2.37%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.37%) Data Hub
14 4 (1.90%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
15 3 (1.42%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 74 (35.07%) Jenkins
2 54 (25.59%) Git
3 46 (21.80%) GitLab
4 30 (14.22%) JIRA
5 10 (4.74%) Vagrant
6 9 (4.27%) Maven
6 9 (4.27%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.79%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.84%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.84%) MLflow
9 5 (2.37%) Gradle
9 5 (2.37%) SonarLint
10 4 (1.90%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.90%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.42%) JUnit
11 3 (1.42%) RStudio
12 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.95%) Selenium
13 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
13 1 (0.47%) Snyk
General
1 61 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 54 (25.59%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.00%) Finance
4 18 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.27%) Banking
7 7 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.90%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.90%) Front Office
9 2 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.95%) Military
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (27.96%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (23.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (14.22%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (13.74%) Software Engineer
5 28 (13.27%) Developer
5 28 (13.27%) Senior
6 27 (12.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 25 (11.85%) Architect
7 25 (11.85%) Lead
7 25 (11.85%) Platform Engineer
8 20 (9.48%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 20 (9.48%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 15 (7.11%) Site Engineer
9 15 (7.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Lead DevOps
10 12 (5.69%) Technical Architect
11 10 (4.74%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.74%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.74%) Java Architect
11 10 (4.74%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.01%) Node.js
2 37 (17.54%) Kafka
3 29 (13.74%) RESTful
4 27 (12.80%) React
5 21 (9.95%) Spring
5 21 (9.95%) Spring Boot
6 18 (8.53%) REST
7 16 (7.58%) AWS CDK
7 16 (7.58%) FastAPI
8 15 (7.11%) JWT
8 15 (7.11%) OAuth
9 14 (6.64%) Flask
10 11 (5.21%) .NET
10 11 (5.21%) LDAP
11 10 (4.74%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.79%) Django
13 7 (3.32%) HTML
13 7 (3.32%) Jest
13 7 (3.32%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.84%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 57 (27.01%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.43%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.69%) Replication
4 9 (4.27%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.79%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.32%) NHS
7 6 (2.84%) PKI
8 5 (2.37%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.37%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.90%) Equities
9 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.42%) Derivative
10 3 (1.42%) Equity Derivative
10 3 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.95%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.95%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 54 (25.59%) Linux
2 13 (6.16%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (5.69%) VMS
3 12 (5.69%) Windows
4 10 (4.74%) Ubuntu
5 8 (3.79%) Unix
6 6 (2.84%) CentOS
6 6 (2.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.47%) AIX
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.47%) Solaris
7 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (81.99%) CI/CD
2 123 (58.29%) DevOps
3 118 (55.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 87 (41.23%) Containerisation
5 73 (34.60%) Microservices
6 67 (31.75%) Agile
7 48 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
8 47 (22.27%) Software Engineering
9 39 (18.48%) Observability
10 38 (18.01%) Event-Driven
11 34 (16.11%) Platform Engineering
12 33 (15.64%) Configuration Management
13 32 (15.17%) AI
14 27 (12.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 24 (11.37%) Analytics
15 24 (11.37%) Cloud Security
15 24 (11.37%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 24 (11.37%) Mentoring
16 23 (10.90%) Machine Learning
17 22 (10.43%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 130 (61.61%) Python
2 45 (21.33%) Java
3 33 (15.64%) Bash
3 33 (15.64%) SQL
4 22 (10.43%) JavaScript
4 22 (10.43%) TypeScript
5 18 (8.53%) PowerShell
6 17 (8.06%) Ruby
7 15 (7.11%) Go
8 13 (6.16%) Groovy
9 9 (4.27%) C#
10 8 (3.79%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.90%) C++
11 4 (1.90%) Perl
12 3 (1.42%) C
12 3 (1.42%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
13 1 (0.47%) R
13 1 (0.47%) Rust
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 70 (33.18%) Security Cleared
2 55 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 36 (17.06%) AWS Certification
4 30 (14.22%) Degree
5 15 (7.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (6.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.16%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.74%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.79%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.37%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 3 (1.42%) PhD
13 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
14 1 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.47%) CCSP
14 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.47%) CISSP
14 1 (0.47%) SANS
14 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.58%) QA
2 10 (4.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.74%) NCSC
3 8 (3.79%) NIST
4 6 (2.84%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.37%) GDPR
5 5 (2.37%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.95%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) HL7
System Software
1 125 (59.24%) Docker
2 10 (4.74%) DFS Replication
2 10 (4.74%) Dovecot
2 10 (4.74%) Postfix
2 10 (4.74%) Squid
3 5 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 148 (70.14%) Terraform
2 86 (40.76%) Kubernetes
3 36 (17.06%) Grafana
4 32 (15.17%) Ansible
5 23 (10.90%) Prometheus
6 14 (6.64%) Puppet
7 10 (4.74%) Nessus
7 10 (4.74%) Proxmox
8 9 (4.27%) Packer
9 7 (3.32%) Progress Chef
10 6 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.42%) Argo
11 3 (1.42%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.95%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.95%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.47%) Kibana
13 1 (0.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (6.64%) Splunk
2 11 (5.21%) Microsoft
2 11 (5.21%) ServiceNow
3 10 (4.74%) Jaspersoft
4 8 (3.79%) PagerDuty
5 6 (2.84%) Gigya
5 6 (2.84%) Okta
6 5 (2.37%) IBM
7 4 (1.90%) Google
7 4 (1.90%) Oracle
8 3 (1.42%) Databricks
8 3 (1.42%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.42%) Sybase
9 2 (0.95%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.95%) Cisco
9 2 (0.95%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.95%) Confluent
10 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.47%) JDA
10 1 (0.47%) NetApp