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 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 375 455
Rank change year-on-year -39 +80 0
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 212 137 92
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.50% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 1.34% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 106 73
10th Percentile £385 £357 £407
25th Percentile £469 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £528 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.64% -12.08% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £875
90th Percentile £775 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £550 £531 £538
% change year-on-year +3.53% -1.16% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £64.00 - -
25th Percentile £68.50 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.25 - -
90th Percentile £73.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 15,795 10,260 11,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.39% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,541 6,939 8,158
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 562 270 261
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.27 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.58 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.63% +16.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £84.88 £67.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

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 28 July 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 28 July 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 -11 136 £598 +4.00% 49
North of England -66 29 £525 +14.75% 24
North West -37 21 £607 +64.81% 12
Midlands -42 20 £475 -3.06% 4
West Midlands -43 20 £475 -3.06% 3
South East -67 10 £600 +4.35% 15
East of England -14 7 £550 +22.22% 3
South West -30 7 £350 -31.71% 11
North East -38 6 £413 -2.94% 8
Yorkshire -47 2 - - 4
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 21 (9.91%) Confluence
2 13 (6.13%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.77%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.83%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.89%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.94%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.94%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 207 (97.64%) AWS
2 152 (71.70%) Serverless
3 148 (69.81%) AWS Lambda
4 128 (60.38%) Amazon S3
5 121 (57.08%) Amazon EKS
6 68 (32.08%) GitHub
7 67 (31.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 66 (31.13%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (25.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 50 (23.58%) Amazon EC2
11 47 (22.17%) Amazon SQS
12 34 (16.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 26 (12.26%) AWS CodePipeline
14 18 (8.49%) Amazon EventBridge
14 18 (8.49%) AWS Step Functions
15 16 (7.55%) Datadog
16 14 (6.60%) Azure
17 13 (6.13%) Amazon Bedrock
18 11 (5.19%) AWS KMS
19 10 (4.72%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.30%) Network Security
2 3 (1.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (24.53%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (23.58%) DynamoDB
3 30 (14.15%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (10.85%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.08%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (6.13%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (5.66%) Big Data
7 12 (5.66%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.83%) Flink
9 5 (2.36%) Presto
10 4 (1.89%) Apache Hudi
10 4 (1.89%) Redis
11 3 (1.42%) Metadata
12 2 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.94%) Delta Lake
12 2 (0.94%) DocumentDB
12 2 (0.94%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.94%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 60 (28.30%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.45%) GitLab
3 22 (10.38%) JIRA
4 19 (8.96%) Git
5 17 (8.02%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.77%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.89%) JUnit
8 2 (0.94%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.94%) MLflow
8 2 (0.94%) Mockito
9 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.47%) Gatling
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.47%) Selenium
9 1 (0.47%) Snyk
9 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.47%) Vite
General
1 60 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 35 (16.51%) Public Sector
3 28 (13.21%) Finance
4 17 (8.02%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (8.02%) Banking
5 9 (4.25%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 6 (2.83%) Law
7 5 (2.36%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.42%) Front Office
8 3 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.42%) Retail
9 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.94%) Local Government
9 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.47%) Police
10 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (18.87%) Developer
2 39 (18.40%) AWS Engineer
3 37 (17.45%) Senior
4 30 (14.15%) Lead
5 25 (11.79%) Cloud Engineer
5 25 (11.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (10.85%) Architect
7 20 (9.43%) Scrum Master
8 18 (8.49%) AWS DevOps
8 18 (8.49%) Java Developer
8 18 (8.49%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.66%) AWS Software Engineer
9 12 (5.66%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.66%) Lead DevOps
10 11 (5.19%) AWS Developer
10 11 (5.19%) Python Engineer
10 11 (5.19%) Technical Leader
11 10 (4.72%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.25%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (19.34%) React
2 38 (17.92%) Kafka
3 32 (15.09%) Spring
3 32 (15.09%) Spring Boot
4 31 (14.62%) REST
5 26 (12.26%) Node.js
5 26 (12.26%) RESTful
6 21 (9.91%) FastAPI
7 16 (7.55%) AWS CDK
8 14 (6.60%) OAuth
9 13 (6.13%) OAuth2
10 10 (4.72%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (4.72%) Flask
10 10 (4.72%) Jest
11 9 (4.25%) JWT
12 8 (3.77%) .NET
12 8 (3.77%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.77%) GraphQL
13 7 (3.30%) Express.js
13 7 (3.30%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 83 (39.15%) Cloud Native
2 36 (16.98%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (16.04%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.66%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.30%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (3.30%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.83%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.89%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.89%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.89%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.89%) Distributed Architecture
8 4 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.89%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.89%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.42%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 2 (0.94%) Equities
10 2 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.74%) Linux
2 9 (4.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.30%) Unix
4 4 (1.89%) Windows
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 150 (70.75%) CI/CD
2 117 (55.19%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (52.36%) DevOps
4 88 (41.51%) Agile
5 86 (40.57%) Microservices
6 82 (38.68%) Containerisation
7 61 (28.77%) Observability
8 60 (28.30%) Test Automation
9 40 (18.87%) Software Engineering
10 39 (18.40%) AI
11 38 (17.92%) DevSecOps
11 38 (17.92%) Event-Driven
11 38 (17.92%) Platform Engineering
12 37 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (15.57%) Scrum
14 31 (14.62%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (13.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 28 (13.21%) Code Quality
17 27 (12.74%) Full-Stack Development
18 25 (11.79%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 102 (48.11%) Python
2 66 (31.13%) Java
3 39 (18.40%) TypeScript
4 31 (14.62%) JavaScript
5 30 (14.15%) SQL
6 24 (11.32%) Bash
7 12 (5.66%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.19%) Scala
9 5 (2.36%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.36%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.89%) Bicep
10 4 (1.89%) C#
10 4 (1.89%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.42%) Go
12 2 (0.94%) Groovy
12 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) Cypher
13 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
13 1 (0.47%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 74 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 61 (28.77%) SC Cleared
3 27 (12.74%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.49%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.19%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 7 (3.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.36%) Degree
10 4 (1.89%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.89%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.42%) CISSP
12 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.19%) QA
2 4 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.94%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) GRC
4 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 101 (47.64%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 115 (54.25%) Terraform
2 60 (28.30%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.91%) Prometheus
4 19 (8.96%) Grafana
5 18 (8.49%) Ansible
6 6 (2.83%) Kibana
7 5 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.42%) Istio
8 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.47%) Argo
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.47%) Packer
9 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (9.91%) Splunk
2 10 (4.72%) Databricks
3 9 (4.25%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.36%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.36%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.36%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.36%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.89%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.94%) Charles River
6 2 (0.94%) Confluent
6 2 (0.94%) Google
6 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.94%) Sybase
7 1 (0.47%) Informatica
7 1 (0.47%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.47%) Oracle
7 1 (0.47%) Qualys
7 1 (0.47%) Tenable