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 16 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 342 458
Rank change year-on-year +10 +116 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 219 153 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.57% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.54% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 131 71
10th Percentile £370 £500 £425
25th Percentile £453 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £725 £538
Median % change year-on-year -26.72% +34.88% -10.42%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £613
90th Percentile £700 £888 £688
UK median daily rate £530 £675 £538
% change year-on-year -21.48% +25.58% -9.66%

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 12,105 9,927 12,268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.02% 36.83% 33.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,391 6,617 8,951
10th Percentile £302 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 277 136 239
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.41 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -0.32%
75th Percentile £57.25 £47.81 £52.63
90th Percentile £76.90 £68.75 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £28.22 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +2.62% +18.46% +3.18%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -3 133 £531 -26.72% 34
North of England -13 53 £525 -27.59% 41
North West +2 29 £550 +22.22% 12
Yorkshire -36 22 £500 -31.03% 24
Midlands -35 10 £475 +18.75% 14
West Midlands - 10 £475 - 6
South East -15 8 £530 +6.00% 52
South West -9 6 £625 +59.44% 17
East of England -15 4 £538 +7.50% 31
North East -13 2 £644 -14.17% 5
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 18 (8.22%) Confluence
2 9 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.11%) nginx
3 3 (1.37%) Apache
3 3 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.37%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.91%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 217 (99.09%) AWS
2 133 (60.73%) Serverless
3 128 (58.45%) AWS Lambda
4 102 (46.58%) Amazon S3
5 93 (42.47%) AWS CloudFormation
5 93 (42.47%) GitHub
6 79 (36.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 79 (36.07%) Amazon EKS
7 66 (30.14%) GitHub Actions
8 64 (29.22%) Amazon EC2
9 43 (19.63%) AWS Fargate
10 40 (18.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 37 (16.89%) Azure
12 26 (11.87%) Route 53
13 25 (11.42%) AWS CodePipeline
14 23 (10.50%) Datadog
15 21 (9.59%) Amazon SQS
16 18 (8.22%) AWS KMS
17 17 (7.76%) Amazon ECR
17 17 (7.76%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 31 (14.16%) DNS
2 18 (8.22%) Firewall
3 11 (5.02%) HTTP
4 9 (4.11%) FTP
4 9 (4.11%) IMAP
4 9 (4.11%) OpenLDAP
4 9 (4.11%) SMTP
4 9 (4.11%) SSH
5 5 (2.28%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.28%) VPN
6 2 (0.91%) SSL
7 1 (0.46%) Broadband
7 1 (0.46%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.46%) Network Security
7 1 (0.46%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (32.42%) Amazon RDS
2 53 (24.20%) DynamoDB
3 45 (20.55%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (12.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (10.05%) NoSQL
6 18 (8.22%) Relational Database
7 15 (6.85%) MongoDB
8 12 (5.48%) MySQL
9 11 (5.02%) Redis
10 8 (3.65%) DocumentDB
10 8 (3.65%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.65%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.20%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (3.20%) Big Data
12 5 (2.28%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.28%) Data Hub
12 5 (2.28%) DB2
13 4 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.37%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 76 (34.70%) Jenkins
2 57 (26.03%) Git
3 47 (21.46%) GitLab
4 29 (13.24%) JIRA
5 9 (4.11%) Maven
5 9 (4.11%) SonarQube
5 9 (4.11%) Vagrant
6 7 (3.20%) Bitbucket
7 6 (2.74%) MLflow
8 5 (2.28%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.28%) Gradle
8 5 (2.28%) JUnit
8 5 (2.28%) SonarLint
9 4 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (1.83%) Terragrunt
10 3 (1.37%) RStudio
11 2 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.91%) Selenium
11 2 (0.91%) Snyk
12 1 (0.46%) Mocha
General
1 59 (26.94%) Social Skills
2 54 (24.66%) Public Sector
3 21 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.22%) Finance
5 15 (6.85%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.11%) Banking
6 9 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.28%) Front Office
8 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.91%) Military
9 1 (0.46%) Games
9 1 (0.46%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.46%) Police
9 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (25.57%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (23.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (13.70%) AWS DevOps
3 30 (13.70%) Developer
3 30 (13.70%) Software Engineer
4 29 (13.24%) Senior
5 27 (12.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 24 (10.96%) Platform Engineer
7 23 (10.50%) Architect
7 23 (10.50%) Lead
8 19 (8.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 19 (8.68%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 15 (6.85%) Site Engineer
9 15 (6.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 14 (6.39%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (5.02%) AWS Developer
11 11 (5.02%) Java Architect
11 11 (5.02%) Lead DevOps
11 11 (5.02%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.57%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (20.09%) Kafka
2 37 (16.89%) Node.js
3 34 (15.53%) RESTful
4 27 (12.33%) Spring Boot
5 26 (11.87%) Spring
6 25 (11.42%) React
7 20 (9.13%) REST
8 18 (8.22%) AWS CDK
9 16 (7.31%) OAuth
10 15 (6.85%) .NET
10 15 (6.85%) FastAPI
10 15 (6.85%) JWT
11 14 (6.39%) Flask
12 10 (4.57%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.57%) LDAP
13 8 (3.65%) Django
13 8 (3.65%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.20%) HTML
15 6 (2.74%) OpenID
15 6 (2.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (28.31%) Cloud Native
2 22 (10.05%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (5.02%) Replication
4 8 (3.65%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.20%) NHS
6 5 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.28%) Equities
6 5 (2.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (2.28%) Legacy Applications
6 5 (2.28%) N-Tier
6 5 (2.28%) PKI
7 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.37%) Derivative
8 3 (1.37%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (25.57%) Linux
2 12 (5.48%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (5.48%) Windows
3 11 (5.02%) VMS
4 9 (4.11%) Ubuntu
5 7 (3.20%) Unix
6 5 (2.28%) CentOS
6 5 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.46%) Android
7 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (84.93%) CI/CD
2 124 (56.62%) DevOps
3 119 (54.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (41.55%) Containerisation
5 82 (37.44%) Microservices
6 72 (32.88%) Agile
7 48 (21.92%) Software Engineering
8 46 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (19.63%) Event-Driven
10 42 (19.18%) Observability
11 35 (15.98%) Configuration Management
12 34 (15.53%) AI
12 34 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (12.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (12.33%) Cloud Security
15 25 (11.42%) Analytics
15 25 (11.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (11.42%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 24 (10.96%) Mentoring
17 23 (10.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 132 (60.27%) Python
2 57 (26.03%) Java
3 35 (15.98%) Bash
3 35 (15.98%) SQL
4 22 (10.05%) JavaScript
4 22 (10.05%) TypeScript
5 18 (8.22%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.76%) Ruby
7 14 (6.39%) Go
8 12 (5.48%) Groovy
9 10 (4.57%) C#
10 7 (3.20%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.83%) C++
11 4 (1.83%) Perl
12 3 (1.37%) C
12 3 (1.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.46%) PHP
13 1 (0.46%) R
13 1 (0.46%) Rust
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 74 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 57 (26.03%) SC Cleared
3 33 (15.07%) AWS Certification
4 26 (11.87%) Degree
5 15 (6.85%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (4.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (4.11%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 7 (3.20%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.37%) CCSP
10 3 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.37%) CISSP
10 3 (1.37%) OSCP
10 3 (1.37%) PhD
10 3 (1.37%) SANS
11 2 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.13%) QA
2 13 (5.94%) NIST
3 11 (5.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (4.11%) NCSC
4 9 (4.11%) PCI DSS
5 7 (3.20%) GDPR
6 6 (2.74%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.46%) HL7
System Software
1 134 (61.19%) Docker
2 9 (4.11%) DFS Replication
2 9 (4.11%) Dovecot
2 9 (4.11%) Postfix
2 9 (4.11%) Squid
3 5 (2.28%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.83%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 149 (68.04%) Terraform
2 98 (44.75%) Kubernetes
3 35 (15.98%) Ansible
3 35 (15.98%) Grafana
4 23 (10.50%) Prometheus
5 15 (6.85%) Puppet
6 9 (4.11%) Nessus
6 9 (4.11%) Proxmox
7 8 (3.65%) Packer
7 8 (3.65%) Progress Chef
8 5 (2.28%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.37%) Argo
9 3 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.91%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.91%) Opsgenie
11 1 (0.46%) Kibana
11 1 (0.46%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (6.85%) Splunk
2 11 (5.02%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.57%) ServiceNow
4 9 (4.11%) Jaspersoft
5 8 (3.65%) PagerDuty
6 7 (3.20%) Google
7 6 (2.74%) Gigya
8 5 (2.28%) Okta
8 5 (2.28%) Sybase
9 4 (1.83%) Oracle
9 4 (1.83%) Rapid7
10 3 (1.37%) Databricks
10 3 (1.37%) Ping Identity
11 2 (0.91%) AppDynamics
11 2 (0.91%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.91%) CA Agile Central
11 2 (0.91%) CloudEndure
11 2 (0.91%) Confluent
11 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.91%) New Relic