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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 371 475
Rank change year-on-year +44 +104 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 215 153 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.49% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.36% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 129 84
10th Percentile £364 £472 £404
25th Percentile £450 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £888 £638
90th Percentile £688 - £734
UK median daily rate £529 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -27.07% +31.82% -8.33%

All Cloud 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 11,844 11,252 13,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.51% 36.05% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,062 7,474 9,888
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £716 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 156 275
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.88
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.82% +24.53% +17.78%
75th Percentile £50.88 £58.95 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -13.33% +11.11% +21.13%

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 27 November 2025.

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 27 November 2025. 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 -5 121 £528 -27.24% 28
North of England -1 54 £518 -20.38% 17
North West -3 27 £550 +37.50% 10
Yorkshire -22 24 £500 -31.03% 4
Midlands -10 17 £475 +4.97% 3
West Midlands -12 17 £475 -5.94% 1
South West +5 7 £625 +59.44% 4
South East -1 7 £530 +6.00% 18
East of England -11 5 £475 -5.00% 9
North East -6 3 £588 -21.67% 3
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 22 (10.23%) Confluence
2 12 (5.58%) nginx
3 9 (4.19%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.33%) CMS
4 5 (2.33%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.40%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.93%) Apache
6 2 (0.93%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.47%) CICS
7 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.58%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 211 (98.14%) AWS
2 125 (58.14%) Serverless
3 119 (55.35%) AWS Lambda
4 112 (52.09%) Amazon S3
5 82 (38.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 80 (37.21%) GitHub
7 74 (34.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 73 (33.95%) Amazon EKS
9 71 (33.02%) Amazon EC2
10 50 (23.26%) AWS Fargate
10 50 (23.26%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (18.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 35 (16.28%) Azure
13 26 (12.09%) Route 53
14 25 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
15 24 (11.16%) Datadog
16 19 (8.84%) AWS KMS
17 17 (7.91%) Apigee
18 16 (7.44%) AWS CodePipeline
19 15 (6.98%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.02%) DNS
2 20 (9.30%) Firewall
3 12 (5.58%) IMAP
3 12 (5.58%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (5.58%) SMTP
4 10 (4.65%) FTP
4 10 (4.65%) HTTP
4 10 (4.65%) SSH
5 5 (2.33%) VPN
6 3 (1.40%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.93%) SSL
8 1 (0.47%) Broadband
8 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.47%) NAS
8 1 (0.47%) Network Security
8 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (37.21%) Amazon RDS
2 61 (28.37%) DynamoDB
3 53 (24.65%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (12.56%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (9.30%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.98%) NoSQL
7 14 (6.51%) MongoDB
8 13 (6.05%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.65%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.72%) MySQL
10 8 (3.72%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.26%) Big Data
11 7 (3.26%) Redis
12 5 (2.33%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.33%) DB2
13 4 (1.86%) DocumentDB
14 3 (1.40%) Data Hub
14 3 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
14 3 (1.40%) Metadata
14 3 (1.40%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 75 (34.88%) Jenkins
2 49 (22.79%) GitLab
3 47 (21.86%) Git
4 31 (14.42%) JIRA
5 15 (6.98%) Maven
6 12 (5.58%) Vagrant
7 11 (5.12%) JUnit
8 10 (4.65%) SonarQube
9 8 (3.72%) Cucumber
10 7 (3.26%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.79%) Cypress.io
12 5 (2.33%) Gradle
12 5 (2.33%) MLflow
12 5 (2.33%) SonarLint
12 5 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (1.86%) Terragrunt
14 3 (1.40%) RStudio
15 2 (0.93%) Selenium
16 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 1 (0.47%) Mocha
General
1 67 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 46 (21.40%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (7.91%) Finance
4 11 (5.12%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (3.72%) Banking
6 7 (3.26%) Aerospace
6 7 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (0.93%) Front Office
7 2 (0.93%) Publishing
8 1 (0.47%) Aviation
8 1 (0.47%) Games
8 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.47%) Military
8 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (28.37%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (24.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (15.35%) Senior
4 32 (14.88%) AWS DevOps
5 31 (14.42%) Developer
6 29 (13.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 29 (13.49%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (12.56%) Lead
7 27 (12.56%) Software Engineer
8 24 (11.16%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 24 (11.16%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 20 (9.30%) Architect
10 15 (6.98%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.58%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 12 (5.58%) Technical Architect
12 11 (5.12%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (4.65%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 10 (4.65%) Java Developer
13 10 (4.65%) Site Engineer
13 10 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.53%) Node.js
2 32 (14.88%) Kafka
3 26 (12.09%) React
3 26 (12.09%) RESTful
4 25 (11.63%) Spring
5 21 (9.77%) AWS CDK
6 20 (9.30%) Spring Boot
7 17 (7.91%) OAuth
8 15 (6.98%) JWT
8 15 (6.98%) REST
9 13 (6.05%) Jest
9 13 (6.05%) LDAP
10 12 (5.58%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.65%) Flask
12 9 (4.19%) .NET
12 9 (4.19%) OAuth2
13 7 (3.26%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.26%) HTML
13 7 (3.26%) Keycloak
13 7 (3.26%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.26%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.84%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.51%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (5.58%) Replication
5 8 (3.72%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.26%) PKI
7 6 (2.79%) NHS
8 5 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.33%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.86%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.93%) Equities
11 2 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.47%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 49 (22.79%) Linux
2 15 (6.98%) Amazon Linux
3 14 (6.51%) VMS
4 12 (5.58%) Windows
5 10 (4.65%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.19%) Unix
7 7 (3.26%) CentOS
7 7 (3.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.47%) AIX
8 1 (0.47%) Android
8 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.47%) Solaris
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (75.35%) CI/CD
2 119 (55.35%) DevOps
3 108 (50.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (44.19%) Containerisation
5 72 (33.49%) Agile
6 70 (32.56%) Microservices
7 52 (24.19%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (20.93%) Software Engineering
9 35 (16.28%) Event-Driven
9 35 (16.28%) Platform Engineering
10 34 (15.81%) Configuration Management
10 34 (15.81%) Mentoring
11 31 (14.42%) AI
11 31 (14.42%) Observability
12 28 (13.02%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (12.09%) Cloud Security
13 26 (12.09%) Technical Leadership
14 25 (11.63%) Test Automation
15 24 (11.16%) Machine Learning
16 23 (10.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 127 (59.07%) Python
2 50 (23.26%) Java
3 32 (14.88%) SQL
4 31 (14.42%) Bash
5 30 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 23 (10.70%) PowerShell
7 20 (9.30%) JavaScript
8 17 (7.91%) Go
9 16 (7.44%) Groovy
10 11 (5.12%) Ruby
11 8 (3.72%) Shell Script
12 5 (2.33%) C#
13 4 (1.86%) Perl
14 3 (1.40%) C
15 2 (0.93%) C++
15 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.47%) COBOL
16 1 (0.47%) PHP
16 1 (0.47%) Rust
16 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (33.02%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 42 (19.53%) AWS Certification
4 30 (13.95%) Degree
5 20 (9.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 19 (8.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (5.12%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.65%) Azure Certification
9 7 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.26%) Master's Degree
10 6 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.47%) CCSP
13 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.47%) CISSP
13 1 (0.47%) OSCP
13 1 (0.47%) SANS
13 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.98%) QA
2 9 (4.19%) NCSC
3 5 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.33%) GDPR
3 5 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.86%) NIST
5 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.47%) GRC
6 1 (0.47%) HL7
6 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (60.00%) Docker
2 12 (5.58%) Dovecot
2 12 (5.58%) Postfix
2 12 (5.58%) Squid
3 10 (4.65%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.86%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 139 (64.65%) Terraform
2 75 (34.88%) Kubernetes
3 37 (17.21%) Grafana
4 31 (14.42%) Ansible
5 24 (11.16%) Prometheus
6 12 (5.58%) Nessus
6 12 (5.58%) Puppet
7 11 (5.12%) Packer
8 10 (4.65%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.19%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.26%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.93%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.47%) Argo
13 1 (0.47%) Kibana
13 1 (0.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (8.84%) ServiceNow
2 14 (6.51%) Splunk
3 12 (5.58%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (4.19%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (4.19%) IBM
5 8 (3.72%) Microsoft
6 7 (3.26%) Okta
6 7 (3.26%) PagerDuty
7 6 (2.79%) Gigya
8 5 (2.33%) Sybase
9 4 (1.86%) Google
9 4 (1.86%) Oracle
10 3 (1.40%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.93%) Cisco
11 2 (0.93%) CloudEndure
11 2 (0.93%) Confluent
11 2 (0.93%) Databricks
12 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.47%) JDA
12 1 (0.47%) NetApp