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

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 361 458
Rank change year-on-year -40 +97 +2
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 199 115 75
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.48% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.29% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 98 57
10th Percentile £385 £390 £406
25th Percentile £471 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £630 £495
Median % change year-on-year -13.29% +27.27% -17.50%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £575
90th Percentile £716 - £622
UK median daily rate £530 £582 £500
% change year-on-year -8.93% +16.40% -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 14,525 8,907 11,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.99% 37.42% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,909 6,144 8,467
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £746
UK median daily rate £507 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.17% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 490 199 322
10th Percentile £15.61 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.08 £18.13 £15.86
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £37.50 £38.13
90th Percentile £81.03 £68.75 £66.88
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.76 £21.37
% change year-on-year +29.52% +29.90% -40.64%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -16 131 £555 -23.45% 29
North of England -67 26 £538 +7.50% 19
North West -33 17 £650 +62.50% 8
West Midlands -51 13 £488 -1.43% 1
Midlands -52 13 £488 -1.43% 1
South East -58 10 £600 +4.35% 9
South West - 8 £369 - 6
North East -18 5 £530 - 3
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
Yorkshire -57 4 £500 -2.44% 8
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 (9.55%) Confluence
2 13 (6.53%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.02%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.01%) Apache
4 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.51%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 194 (97.49%) AWS
2 137 (68.84%) Serverless
3 135 (67.84%) AWS Lambda
4 117 (58.79%) Amazon S3
5 93 (46.73%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (38.69%) GitHub
7 74 (37.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (34.67%) GitHub Actions
9 66 (33.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 47 (23.62%) Amazon EC2
11 43 (21.61%) AWS CodePipeline
12 34 (17.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 27 (13.57%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (7.54%) AWS Fargate
14 15 (7.54%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (5.53%) Datadog
16 10 (5.03%) Amazon EMR
16 10 (5.03%) Amazon GuardDuty
16 10 (5.03%) Azure
17 9 (4.52%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.02%) DNS
2 5 (2.51%) Network Security
3 3 (1.51%) HTTP
4 2 (1.01%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.50%) Firewall
5 1 (0.50%) SSL
5 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (24.62%) Amazon RDS
2 46 (23.12%) DynamoDB
3 29 (14.57%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (13.07%) NoSQL
5 18 (9.05%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (7.04%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (7.04%) MongoDB
7 10 (5.03%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.52%) Redis
9 6 (3.02%) Big Data
9 6 (3.02%) Flink
10 5 (2.51%) Presto
11 4 (2.01%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (2.01%) DB2
11 4 (2.01%) DocumentDB
11 4 (2.01%) MySQL
12 3 (1.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.01%) Delta Lake
13 2 (1.01%) Metadata
13 2 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 56 (28.14%) Jenkins
2 38 (19.10%) GitLab
3 32 (16.08%) Git
4 21 (10.55%) JIRA
5 17 (8.54%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.52%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.01%) JUnit
8 3 (1.51%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.51%) Gradle
8 3 (1.51%) Maven
8 3 (1.51%) Snyk
8 3 (1.51%) Vite
9 2 (1.01%) MLflow
10 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.50%) Gatling
10 1 (0.50%) JMeter
10 1 (0.50%) Mockito
10 1 (0.50%) Selenium
10 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 57 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.09%) Public Sector
3 18 (9.05%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.53%) Finance
5 9 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.52%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.52%) Banking
7 6 (3.02%) Front Office
8 5 (2.51%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.01%) Local Government
10 2 (1.01%) Police
10 2 (1.01%) Retail
11 1 (0.50%) Law
11 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (21.61%) Developer
2 35 (17.59%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (15.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (14.07%) Senior
5 24 (12.06%) Lead
6 19 (9.55%) Architect
6 19 (9.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 17 (8.54%) AWS DevOps
8 16 (8.04%) Java Developer
9 15 (7.54%) AWS Developer
10 14 (7.04%) Software Engineer
11 13 (6.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (6.53%) Python Developer
12 12 (6.03%) Scrum Master
12 12 (6.03%) Senior Developer
13 11 (5.53%) Python Engineer
14 10 (5.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 9 (4.52%) Java Engineer
15 9 (4.52%) Lead DevOps
16 8 (4.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.60%) Kafka
2 36 (18.09%) React
3 32 (16.08%) Spring
4 31 (15.58%) Spring Boot
5 29 (14.57%) RESTful
6 18 (9.05%) Node.js
7 17 (8.54%) OAuth
8 16 (8.04%) AWS CDK
9 14 (7.04%) OAuth2
10 12 (6.03%) .NET
10 12 (6.03%) FastAPI
11 11 (5.53%) GraphQL
11 11 (5.53%) REST
12 10 (5.03%) Elastic Stack
12 10 (5.03%) Next.js
12 10 (5.03%) OpenID
13 9 (4.52%) Flask
13 9 (4.52%) JWT
14 7 (3.52%) Django
14 7 (3.52%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 64 (32.16%) Cloud Native
2 23 (11.56%) Product Ownership
3 14 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (3.02%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.51%) Equities
6 4 (2.01%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.01%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.01%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
6 4 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.51%) NHS
8 2 (1.01%) Derivative
8 2 (1.01%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.01%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.01%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.01%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (17.09%) Linux
2 6 (3.02%) Unix
3 4 (2.01%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (80.90%) CI/CD
2 117 (58.79%) Infrastructure as Code
3 101 (50.75%) DevOps
4 82 (41.21%) Containerisation
5 68 (34.17%) Agile
6 62 (31.16%) Microservices
7 47 (23.62%) Test Automation
8 42 (21.11%) Observability
9 32 (16.08%) Continuous Improvement
9 32 (16.08%) Software Engineering
10 31 (15.58%) DevSecOps
11 29 (14.57%) Event-Driven
12 26 (13.07%) Platform Engineering
12 26 (13.07%) Scrum
13 23 (11.56%) AI
13 23 (11.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 21 (10.55%) Technical Leadership
15 20 (10.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 19 (9.55%) Cloud Security
16 19 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 94 (47.24%) Python
2 67 (33.67%) Java
3 37 (18.59%) SQL
4 31 (15.58%) JavaScript
5 26 (13.07%) TypeScript
6 20 (10.05%) Bash
7 9 (4.52%) C#
7 9 (4.52%) Scala
8 6 (3.02%) Go
8 6 (3.02%) Ruby
9 5 (2.51%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.51%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.51%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.51%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.01%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 67 (33.67%) Security Cleared
2 51 (25.63%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.06%) AWS Certification
4 14 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (5.03%) Degree
5 10 (5.03%) SAFe Agilist
6 8 (4.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 7 (3.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (3.02%) Master's Degree
9 4 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.51%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (1.01%) CCSP
11 2 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (1.01%) CISSP
11 2 (1.01%) OSCP
11 2 (1.01%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.54%) QA
2 11 (5.53%) NIST
3 8 (4.02%) PCI DSS
4 7 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.01%) GDPR
6 3 (1.51%) NCSC
7 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.50%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (53.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 121 (60.80%) Terraform
2 69 (34.67%) Kubernetes
3 27 (13.57%) Prometheus
4 23 (11.56%) Grafana
5 20 (10.05%) Ansible
6 10 (5.03%) Puppet
7 6 (3.02%) Kibana
7 6 (3.02%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.51%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.01%) Argo
9 2 (1.01%) Istio
9 2 (1.01%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.50%) Consul
10 1 (0.50%) Packer
10 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 23 (11.56%) Splunk
2 10 (5.03%) Databricks
3 6 (3.02%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.01%) AVEVA
4 4 (2.01%) Google
4 4 (2.01%) Rapid7
4 4 (2.01%) Sybase
5 3 (1.51%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.51%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.51%) Charles River
5 3 (1.51%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.51%) New Relic
5 3 (1.51%) Qualys
5 3 (1.51%) Tenable
6 2 (1.01%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.50%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.50%) UiPath