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 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 345 469
Rank change year-on-year -5 +124 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 224 145 88
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.57% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.69% 1.51% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 125 67
10th Percentile £368 £518 £425
25th Percentile £423 £630 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +38.10% -11.09%
75th Percentile £641 £838 £588
90th Percentile £675 £888 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -27.59% +38.10% -10.41%
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 13,242 9,623 12,332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.55% 37.62% 32.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,147 6,507 8,922
10th Percentile £307 £313 £275
25th Percentile £407 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £602 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 368 148 318
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.38 £14.21
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.48
Median % change year-on-year +43.64% +28.03% -14.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £47.63 £46.18
90th Percentile £78.98 £74.28 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.65% +27.91% -14.00%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -29 141 £525 -30.00% 27
North of England -29 48 £525 -27.59% 26
North West -18 26 £550 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire -46 20 £500 -31.03% 12
South West -15 11 £438 +11.61% 8
South East -32 7 £530 -7.83% 9
West Midlands - 5 - - 4
Midlands - 5 - - 4
East of England - 4 £538 - 1
North East -15 2 £644 -14.17% 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 11 (4.91%) Confluence
2 9 (4.02%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.34%) Apache
4 3 (1.34%) Jupyter
4 3 (1.34%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.34%) Chatbot
1 3 (1.34%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg AIM
1 4 (1.79%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 222 (99.11%) AWS
2 144 (64.29%) Serverless
3 136 (60.71%) AWS Lambda
4 113 (50.45%) Amazon S3
5 101 (45.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 97 (43.30%) Amazon EKS
7 84 (37.50%) GitHub
8 81 (36.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 65 (29.02%) GitHub Actions
10 60 (26.79%) Amazon EC2
11 42 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 38 (16.96%) AWS CodePipeline
13 36 (16.07%) AWS Fargate
14 25 (11.16%) Azure
15 22 (9.82%) Amazon ECR
16 19 (8.48%) Datadog
17 18 (8.04%) Amazon SQS
17 18 (8.04%) Route 53
18 15 (6.70%) Amazon MSK
18 15 (6.70%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.27%) DNS
2 13 (5.80%) Firewall
3 5 (2.23%) HTTP
3 5 (2.23%) Reverse Proxy
4 4 (1.79%) Network Security
4 4 (1.79%) VPN
5 3 (1.34%) FTP
5 3 (1.34%) IMAP
5 3 (1.34%) OpenLDAP
5 3 (1.34%) SMTP
5 3 (1.34%) SSH
6 1 (0.45%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.45%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.45%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (29.91%) Amazon RDS
2 44 (19.64%) DynamoDB
3 31 (13.84%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.04%) Relational Database
6 16 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (6.25%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.46%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (3.57%) DocumentDB
9 8 (3.57%) Redis
9 8 (3.57%) SQL Server
10 7 (3.13%) Big Data
10 7 (3.13%) DB2
10 7 (3.13%) MySQL
11 6 (2.68%) Flink
12 5 (2.23%) Data Hub
13 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.34%) Power BI
14 3 (1.34%) RDBMS
15 2 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 68 (30.36%) Jenkins
2 49 (21.88%) Git
2 49 (21.88%) GitLab
3 17 (7.59%) JIRA
4 12 (5.36%) Bitbucket
5 7 (3.13%) JUnit
5 7 (3.13%) Maven
6 6 (2.68%) MLflow
7 4 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.34%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.34%) Gradle
8 3 (1.34%) RStudio
8 3 (1.34%) Snyk
8 3 (1.34%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.34%) Terragrunt
8 3 (1.34%) Vagrant
8 3 (1.34%) Vite
9 2 (0.89%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.89%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.89%) Selenium
General
1 51 (22.77%) Public Sector
1 51 (22.77%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (8.04%) Finance
4 12 (5.36%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.02%) Banking
7 7 (3.13%) Front Office
8 2 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.89%) Military
8 2 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.89%) Police
9 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.45%) Games
9 1 (0.45%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 47 (20.98%) AWS Engineer
2 46 (20.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 36 (16.07%) Developer
4 28 (12.50%) Senior
5 24 (10.71%) AWS DevOps
6 23 (10.27%) Lead
6 23 (10.27%) Software Engineer
7 22 (9.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 21 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (8.93%) Architect
10 15 (6.70%) Java Developer
10 15 (6.70%) Site Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (5.36%) Java Engineer
13 11 (4.91%) AWS Developer
13 11 (4.91%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 11 (4.91%) Security Engineer
14 10 (4.46%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (21.88%) Kafka
2 36 (16.07%) RESTful
3 35 (15.63%) Spring
4 32 (14.29%) Spring Boot
5 31 (13.84%) Node.js
6 23 (10.27%) React
7 21 (9.38%) OAuth
8 17 (7.59%) REST
9 15 (6.70%) Flask
10 14 (6.25%) .NET
10 14 (6.25%) AWS CDK
11 12 (5.36%) FastAPI
11 12 (5.36%) JWT
12 10 (4.46%) OAuth2
13 9 (4.02%) OpenID
14 8 (3.57%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.57%) Django
15 7 (3.13%) HTML
16 6 (2.68%) Middleware
16 6 (2.68%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 60 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.93%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 7 (3.13%) Equities
3 7 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (3.13%) NHS
4 5 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.23%) Replication
5 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.79%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.79%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.34%) Derivative
6 3 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
6 3 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.34%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.34%) PKI
6 3 (1.34%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.32%) Linux
2 8 (3.57%) Windows
3 7 (3.13%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (2.23%) VMS
5 3 (1.34%) CentOS
5 3 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.34%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.34%) Unix
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (82.59%) CI/CD
2 126 (56.25%) DevOps
2 126 (56.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 100 (44.64%) Containerisation
4 86 (38.39%) Microservices
5 60 (26.79%) Agile
6 42 (18.75%) Observability
7 39 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (16.96%) Software Engineering
9 36 (16.07%) AI
10 30 (13.39%) Analytics
11 29 (12.95%) Event-Driven
12 27 (12.05%) Configuration Management
13 26 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (11.61%) Platform Engineering
14 25 (11.16%) Machine Learning
14 25 (11.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 24 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
16 23 (10.27%) Cloud Security
16 23 (10.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 131 (58.48%) Python
2 63 (28.13%) Java
3 41 (18.30%) SQL
4 33 (14.73%) Bash
5 21 (9.38%) JavaScript
6 17 (7.59%) Ruby
6 17 (7.59%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.80%) Go
7 13 (5.80%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.57%) C#
9 6 (2.68%) Shell Script
10 5 (2.23%) Groovy
11 4 (1.79%) C++
11 4 (1.79%) Perl
12 3 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) C
13 1 (0.45%) PHP
13 1 (0.45%) R
13 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 72 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 62 (27.68%) SC Cleared
3 32 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 20 (8.93%) Degree
5 12 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 10 (4.46%) DV Cleared
8 9 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.02%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.34%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.34%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.34%) CCSP
10 3 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.34%) CISSP
10 3 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.34%) OSCP
10 3 (1.34%) PhD
10 3 (1.34%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.48%) QA
2 15 (6.70%) NIST
3 12 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.46%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.57%) NCSC
6 7 (3.13%) GDPR
7 6 (2.68%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.89%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.45%) HL7
System Software
1 134 (59.82%) Docker
2 5 (2.23%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.79%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.34%) DFS Replication
4 3 (1.34%) Dovecot
4 3 (1.34%) Postfix
4 3 (1.34%) Squid
5 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 137 (61.16%) Terraform
2 94 (41.96%) Kubernetes
3 32 (14.29%) Ansible
4 28 (12.50%) Prometheus
5 25 (11.16%) Grafana
6 16 (7.14%) Puppet
7 7 (3.13%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.68%) Packer
9 4 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.34%) Argo
10 3 (1.34%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.34%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.34%) Nessus
10 3 (1.34%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.89%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.89%) Istio
11 2 (0.89%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.45%) Kibana
12 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (5.80%) Splunk
2 11 (4.91%) Databricks
2 11 (4.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.57%) PagerDuty
4 7 (3.13%) Sybase
5 6 (2.68%) Google
6 5 (2.23%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.79%) AppDynamics
7 4 (1.79%) AVEVA
7 4 (1.79%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.79%) Charles River
7 4 (1.79%) Oracle
8 3 (1.34%) Jaspersoft
8 3 (1.34%) New Relic
8 3 (1.34%) Okta
8 3 (1.34%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.34%) Qualys
8 3 (1.34%) Tenable
9 2 (0.89%) Dynatrace