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 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 320 469
Rank change year-on-year -42 +149 +9
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 224 154 81
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.64% 0.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.68% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 137 60
10th Percentile £370 £400 £407
25th Percentile £450 £604 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £513
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +41.46% -14.58%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £588
90th Percentile £684 £875 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £663 £516
% change year-on-year -20.75% +28.33% -13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 14,022 9,174 12,064
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 36.56% 37.84% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,659 6,466 8,671
10th Percentile £313 £313 £280
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 179 319
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.24 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.43 £18.51 £15.98
Median hourly rate £42.69 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.08% +26.19% -18.69%
75th Percentile £67.50 £42.49 £34.38
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.10 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -39 146 £525 -27.59% 40
North of England -44 44 £534 -11.04% 26
North West -36 21 £575 +43.75% 13
Yorkshire -49 19 £500 -31.03% 13
South West -18 10 £461 +17.67% 6
West Midlands -58 7 £463 -14.21% 1
Midlands -58 7 £463 -14.21% 2
South East -51 6 £530 -7.83% 17
North East -12 4 £534 -28.83%
East of England - 3 £538 - 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 13 (5.80%) Confluence
2 8 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.34%) Apache
4 3 (1.34%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.79%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 223 (99.55%) AWS
2 159 (70.98%) Serverless
3 149 (66.52%) AWS Lambda
4 124 (55.36%) Amazon S3
5 100 (44.64%) AWS CloudFormation
6 97 (43.30%) Amazon EKS
7 89 (39.73%) GitHub
8 81 (36.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 72 (32.14%) GitHub Actions
10 56 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (18.75%) AWS CodePipeline
12 37 (16.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 35 (15.63%) AWS Fargate
14 26 (11.61%) Amazon SQS
15 22 (9.82%) Azure
16 21 (9.38%) Amazon ECR
17 19 (8.48%) Datadog
18 15 (6.70%) Route 53
19 14 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
20 13 (5.80%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.59%) DNS
2 8 (3.57%) Firewall
3 5 (2.23%) Network Security
3 5 (2.23%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.34%) VPN
5 2 (0.89%) HTTP
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (24.11%) DynamoDB
3 31 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (8.93%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.70%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.36%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (4.46%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.13%) DB2
10 7 (3.13%) Redis
11 6 (2.68%) DocumentDB
11 6 (2.68%) Flink
12 5 (2.23%) Data Hub
12 5 (2.23%) MySQL
13 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.89%) Big Data
15 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
15 2 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 63 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 51 (22.77%) Git
3 43 (19.20%) GitLab
4 16 (7.14%) JIRA
5 12 (5.36%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.13%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.13%) JUnit
7 6 (2.68%) Maven
8 4 (1.79%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.34%) Gradle
9 3 (1.34%) MLflow
9 3 (1.34%) RStudio
9 3 (1.34%) Selenium
9 3 (1.34%) Snyk
9 3 (1.34%) Vite
10 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.89%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.45%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.45%) Terragrunt
General
1 55 (24.55%) Social Skills
2 48 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.04%) Finance
5 12 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.57%) Banking
7 8 (3.57%) Front Office
8 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.89%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.89%) Military
9 2 (0.89%) Police
10 1 (0.45%) Games
10 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Law
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (19.64%) Developer
2 40 (17.86%) AWS Engineer
2 40 (17.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (14.29%) Senior
4 24 (10.71%) Architect
5 23 (10.27%) Lead
6 21 (9.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (8.93%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (7.59%) Java Developer
9 16 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 16 (7.14%) Software Engineer
10 15 (6.70%) Site Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) AWS Developer
11 13 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (5.36%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.91%) Python Engineer
13 11 (4.91%) Senior Developer
14 10 (4.46%) Python Developer
14 10 (4.46%) Security Engineer
15 9 (4.02%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (20.54%) Kafka
2 40 (17.86%) Spring
3 38 (16.96%) Spring Boot
4 36 (16.07%) Node.js
5 33 (14.73%) RESTful
6 30 (13.39%) React
7 22 (9.82%) OAuth
8 19 (8.48%) REST
9 14 (6.25%) .NET
9 14 (6.25%) JWT
10 13 (5.80%) AWS CDK
11 12 (5.36%) FastAPI
12 11 (4.91%) Flask
12 11 (4.91%) OAuth2
13 9 (4.02%) OpenID
14 8 (3.57%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.57%) Jest
14 8 (3.57%) Next.js
15 7 (3.13%) Django
16 6 (2.68%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 69 (30.80%) Cloud Native
2 25 (11.16%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.91%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.57%) NHS
5 7 (3.13%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.13%) Equities
6 5 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.34%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.34%) Derivative
8 3 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.34%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.89%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.89%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 45 (20.09%) Linux
2 5 (2.23%) Windows
3 4 (1.79%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.89%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.45%) CentOS
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (80.80%) CI/CD
2 130 (58.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 118 (52.68%) DevOps
4 97 (43.30%) Containerisation
5 89 (39.73%) Microservices
6 69 (30.80%) Agile
7 44 (19.64%) Observability
8 33 (14.73%) Problem-Solving
8 33 (14.73%) Test Automation
9 32 (14.29%) Event-Driven
9 32 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 31 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (13.39%) AI
12 29 (12.95%) Analytics
13 25 (11.16%) DevSecOps
13 25 (11.16%) Platform Engineering
13 25 (11.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 24 (10.71%) Mentoring
14 24 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
15 23 (10.27%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 121 (54.02%) Python
2 70 (31.25%) Java
3 39 (17.41%) SQL
4 29 (12.95%) Bash
5 27 (12.05%) JavaScript
6 26 (11.61%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.70%) Ruby
8 10 (4.46%) Go
9 9 (4.02%) C#
10 7 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.79%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.79%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.34%) C++
13 2 (0.89%) Perl
14 1 (0.45%) C
14 1 (0.45%) Groovy
14 1 (0.45%) R
14 1 (0.45%) Scala
14 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 70 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 59 (26.34%) SC Cleared
3 29 (12.95%) AWS Certification
4 17 (7.59%) Degree
5 12 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.46%) DV Cleared
8 8 (3.57%) Master's Degree
9 7 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.34%) CCSP
10 3 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.34%) CISSP
10 3 (1.34%) OSCP
10 3 (1.34%) PhD
10 3 (1.34%) SAFe Agilist
10 3 (1.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.48%) QA
2 14 (6.25%) NIST
3 10 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.46%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.23%) GDPR
4 5 (2.23%) NCSC
5 2 (0.89%) GRC
6 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 131 (58.48%) Docker
2 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 139 (62.05%) Terraform
2 86 (38.39%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.05%) Ansible
4 25 (11.16%) Prometheus
5 21 (9.38%) Grafana
6 14 (6.25%) Puppet
7 6 (2.68%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.23%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.79%) Packer
10 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.89%) Argo
11 2 (0.89%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.89%) Istio
11 2 (0.89%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (6.70%) Splunk
2 11 (4.91%) Databricks
2 11 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.57%) PagerDuty
4 7 (3.13%) Sybase
5 5 (2.23%) Google
5 5 (2.23%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.79%) AppDynamics
6 4 (1.79%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.79%) Charles River
7 3 (1.34%) New Relic
7 3 (1.34%) Ping Identity
7 3 (1.34%) Qualys
7 3 (1.34%) Tenable
8 2 (0.89%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.89%) CloudEndure
8 2 (0.89%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.89%) Oracle
8 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow