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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 332 454
Rank change year-on-year -38 +122 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 218 144 84
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.59% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.53% 1.59% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 125 61
10th Percentile £383 £400 £406
25th Percentile £458 £575 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £489
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +48.26% -18.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £575
90th Percentile £700 £875 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £66.75 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.63 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 14,233 9,074 11,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.33% 37.22% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,777 6,350 8,496
10th Percentile £318 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £744 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 448 195 318
10th Percentile £15.98 £15.04 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £15.85
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +84.31% +22.77% -35.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £39.38 £32.31
90th Percentile £81.38 £73.25 £61.72
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -18 141 £530 -31.61% 21
North of England -46 38 £538 -4.44% 20
North West -29 20 £625 +56.25% 10
Yorkshire -42 13 £500 -31.03% 6
South West -25 10 £461 +17.67% 3
West Midlands -52 10 £475 -11.89% 1
Midlands -62 10 £475 -11.89% 2
South East -52 9 £530 -7.83% 10
North East -18 5 £530 -29.33% 4
East of England - 3 £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 17 (7.80%) Confluence
2 14 (6.42%) Apache Spark
3 9 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.38%) Apache
5 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.83%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.46%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 215 (98.62%) AWS
2 151 (69.27%) Serverless
3 147 (67.43%) AWS Lambda
4 129 (59.17%) Amazon S3
5 99 (45.41%) Amazon EKS
6 93 (42.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 84 (38.53%) GitHub
8 74 (33.94%) GitHub Actions
9 73 (33.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 50 (22.94%) Amazon EC2
11 44 (20.18%) AWS CodePipeline
12 36 (16.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (11.93%) Amazon SQS
14 19 (8.72%) AWS Fargate
14 19 (8.72%) Datadog
15 18 (8.26%) AWS Step Functions
16 16 (7.34%) Amazon ECR
17 15 (6.88%) Azure
18 13 (5.96%) IaaS
19 11 (5.05%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.50%) DNS
2 5 (2.29%) Network Security
3 4 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.38%) HTTP
5 2 (0.92%) Firewall
6 1 (0.46%) SSL
6 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (25.69%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (22.48%) DynamoDB
3 34 (15.60%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (11.47%) NoSQL
5 17 (7.80%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (7.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.42%) MongoDB
8 12 (5.50%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.67%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.21%) Big Data
10 7 (3.21%) Redis
11 6 (2.75%) Flink
12 5 (2.29%) Presto
13 4 (1.83%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (1.83%) DB2
13 4 (1.83%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.83%) MySQL
14 3 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.38%) Data Hub
15 2 (0.92%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 62 (28.44%) Jenkins
2 41 (18.81%) Git
2 41 (18.81%) GitLab
3 18 (8.26%) JIRA
4 14 (6.42%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.13%) Cypress.io
6 5 (2.29%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.29%) Maven
7 4 (1.83%) JUnit
8 3 (1.38%) Gradle
8 3 (1.38%) Selenium
8 3 (1.38%) Snyk
8 3 (1.38%) Vite
9 2 (0.92%) MLflow
9 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.46%) Mocha
10 1 (0.46%) Mockito
10 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.72%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.80%) Finance
5 11 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.59%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.67%) Front Office
8 5 (2.29%) Banking
9 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.92%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.92%) Local Government
10 2 (0.92%) Police
10 2 (0.92%) Retail
11 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (18.35%) Developer
2 38 (17.43%) AWS Engineer
3 33 (15.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (14.22%) Senior
5 25 (11.47%) Lead
6 23 (10.55%) Architect
7 21 (9.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 20 (9.17%) AWS DevOps
9 16 (7.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 13 (5.96%) Java Developer
11 13 (5.96%) Java Engineer
11 13 (5.96%) Site Engineer
11 13 (5.96%) Software Engineer
12 11 (5.05%) AWS Developer
13 10 (4.59%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.59%) Security Engineer
14 9 (4.13%) Lead DevOps
14 9 (4.13%) Python Developer
14 9 (4.13%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (19.72%) Kafka
2 38 (17.43%) Spring
3 36 (16.51%) Spring Boot
4 35 (16.06%) RESTful
5 32 (14.68%) React
6 29 (13.30%) Node.js
7 18 (8.26%) OAuth
8 16 (7.34%) REST
9 15 (6.88%) AWS CDK
10 13 (5.96%) .NET
11 12 (5.50%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.59%) FastAPI
12 10 (4.59%) JWT
12 10 (4.59%) OpenID
13 9 (4.13%) Flask
13 9 (4.13%) GraphQL
14 8 (3.67%) Jest
14 8 (3.67%) Next.js
15 7 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
15 7 (3.21%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 72 (33.03%) Cloud Native
2 21 (9.63%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (8.72%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.67%) NHS
5 7 (3.21%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.21%) Equities
6 4 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.38%) Derivative
7 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.38%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.38%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.92%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (0.92%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 2 (0.92%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 46 (21.10%) Linux
2 6 (2.75%) Unix
3 4 (1.83%) Windows
4 2 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.46%) Android
5 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.46%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 179 (82.11%) CI/CD
2 134 (61.47%) Infrastructure as Code
3 109 (50.00%) DevOps
4 94 (43.12%) Containerisation
5 77 (35.32%) Agile
6 76 (34.86%) Microservices
7 48 (22.02%) Test Automation
8 47 (21.56%) Observability
9 36 (16.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (16.51%) Software Engineering
10 33 (15.14%) Event-Driven
11 30 (13.76%) DevSecOps
12 27 (12.39%) AI
12 27 (12.39%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (11.93%) Platform Engineering
13 26 (11.93%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 25 (11.47%) Scrum
14 25 (11.47%) Technical Leadership
15 24 (11.01%) Analytics
15 24 (11.01%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 112 (51.38%) Python
2 74 (33.94%) Java
3 38 (17.43%) SQL
4 35 (16.06%) JavaScript
5 30 (13.76%) Bash
6 29 (13.30%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.59%) C#
7 10 (4.59%) Ruby
8 9 (4.13%) Scala
9 7 (3.21%) Go
10 4 (1.83%) Kotlin
10 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.38%) C++
12 2 (0.92%) Groovy
12 2 (0.92%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.92%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (31.19%) Security Cleared
2 55 (25.23%) SC Cleared
3 26 (11.93%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.34%) Degree
5 12 (5.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (5.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (5.05%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.67%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.21%) SAFe Agilist
10 6 (2.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (1.38%) CCSP
12 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (1.38%) CISSP
12 3 (1.38%) OSCP
12 3 (1.38%) PhD
12 3 (1.38%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.72%) QA
2 12 (5.50%) NIST
3 9 (4.13%) PCI DSS
4 8 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.29%) GDPR
6 4 (1.83%) NCSC
7 2 (0.92%) GRC
8 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.46%) HL7
System Software
1 127 (58.26%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 138 (63.30%) Terraform
2 80 (36.70%) Kubernetes
3 30 (13.76%) Grafana
4 28 (12.84%) Prometheus
5 24 (11.01%) Ansible
6 15 (6.88%) Puppet
7 6 (2.75%) Kibana
7 6 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.38%) ITRS Geneos
10 2 (0.92%) Argo
10 2 (0.92%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.92%) Istio
10 2 (0.92%) Opsgenie
10 2 (0.92%) Packer
11 1 (0.46%) Consul
11 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (10.09%) Splunk
2 11 (5.05%) Databricks
3 10 (4.59%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.67%) PagerDuty
5 5 (2.29%) Google
5 5 (2.29%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.83%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.83%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.83%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.83%) Charles River
6 4 (1.83%) Sybase
7 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.38%) New Relic
7 3 (1.38%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.38%) Qualys
7 3 (1.38%) Tenable
8 1 (0.46%) Brio
8 1 (0.46%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.46%) Pega
8 1 (0.46%) UiPath