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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 367 407
Rank change year-on-year -60 +40 +68
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 206 152 111
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.55% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.48% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 112 90
10th Percentile £387 £351 £407
25th Percentile £461 £450 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £888
90th Percentile £775 £711 -
UK median daily rate £546 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.05% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £63.00 - -
25th Percentile £66.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 15,871 10,275 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.74% 37.30% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,602 6,957 7,878
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £718 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 274 196
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £83.40 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.72
% change year-on-year +21.39% +1.01% -20.80%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 -34 128 £581 +10.74% 21
North of England -72 33 £513 +2.50% 28
Midlands -43 25 £463 -2.63% 3
West Midlands -51 23 £475 - 2
North West -45 22 £600 +23.08% 14
South East -67 10 £600 +9.09% 7
East of England -17 8 £550 +22.22% 2
North East -36 8 £413 -2.94% 4
Yorkshire -47 3 £500 - 10
South West -46 2 £403 -35.60% 18
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 1
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 23 (11.17%) Confluence
2 9 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (3.88%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.91%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.94%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.46%) Apache
7 2 (0.97%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.49%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 201 (97.57%) AWS
2 150 (72.82%) Serverless
3 148 (71.84%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (58.74%) Amazon S3
5 120 (58.25%) Amazon EKS
6 70 (33.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 66 (32.04%) GitHub
8 64 (31.07%) GitHub Actions
9 54 (26.21%) Amazon EC2
10 51 (24.76%) Amazon SQS
10 51 (24.76%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (16.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 20 (9.71%) AWS Step Functions
13 19 (9.22%) Amazon EventBridge
14 18 (8.74%) Azure
15 16 (7.77%) AWS CodePipeline
16 12 (5.83%) AWS KMS
16 12 (5.83%) Datadog
16 12 (5.83%) GCP
17 11 (5.34%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.43%) Firewall
2 4 (1.94%) DNS
2 4 (1.94%) HTTP
2 4 (1.94%) Network Security
3 3 (1.46%) SSL
4 2 (0.97%) FTP
4 2 (0.97%) IMAP
4 2 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
4 2 (0.97%) SMTP
4 2 (0.97%) SSH
4 2 (0.97%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.49%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (27.67%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (22.82%) DynamoDB
3 34 (16.50%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (9.22%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.80%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (6.80%) MongoDB
6 12 (5.83%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.83%) Big Data
7 10 (4.85%) Relational Database
8 5 (2.43%) Presto
9 4 (1.94%) Apache Hudi
9 4 (1.94%) Redis
10 3 (1.46%) Data Lake
10 3 (1.46%) DocumentDB
10 3 (1.46%) Metadata
10 3 (1.46%) MySQL
10 3 (1.46%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.97%) Power BI
11 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 64 (31.07%) Jenkins
2 44 (21.36%) GitLab
3 25 (12.14%) Git
3 25 (12.14%) JIRA
4 13 (6.31%) Bitbucket
5 8 (3.88%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.46%) JUnit
6 3 (1.46%) Mockito
7 2 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.97%) git-flow
7 2 (0.97%) MLflow
7 2 (0.97%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.97%) Vagrant
8 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.49%) Gatling
8 1 (0.49%) JMeter
8 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.49%) RhodeCode
8 1 (0.49%) Selenium
8 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 56 (27.18%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.02%) Public Sector
3 31 (15.05%) Finance
4 20 (9.71%) Banking
5 16 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.91%) Law
8 5 (2.43%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.46%) Retail
10 2 (0.97%) Local Government
10 2 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.49%) Front Office
11 1 (0.49%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.49%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 43 (20.87%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (18.45%) Developer
3 36 (17.48%) Senior
4 29 (14.08%) Lead
5 26 (12.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 23 (11.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 22 (10.68%) AWS DevOps
7 22 (10.68%) Scrum Master
8 21 (10.19%) Architect
8 21 (10.19%) Software Engineer
9 15 (7.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 14 (6.80%) Data Engineer
11 13 (6.31%) AWS Software Engineer
11 13 (6.31%) Java Developer
11 13 (6.31%) Lead DevOps
11 13 (6.31%) Technical Leader
12 11 (5.34%) AWS Developer
12 11 (5.34%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.85%) AWS Architect
14 9 (4.37%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (58.74%) Terraform
2 40 (19.42%) React
3 37 (17.96%) REST
4 34 (16.50%) Spring
5 32 (15.53%) Spring Boot
6 31 (15.05%) Kafka
7 25 (12.14%) Node.js
8 24 (11.65%) RESTful
9 22 (10.68%) FastAPI
10 15 (7.28%) AWS CDK
11 10 (4.85%) AngularJS
11 10 (4.85%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (4.85%) Flask
12 9 (4.37%) .NET
12 9 (4.37%) GraphQL
12 9 (4.37%) OAuth
12 9 (4.37%) OAuth2
13 8 (3.88%) Jest
13 8 (3.88%) JWT
14 7 (3.40%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 93 (45.15%) Cloud Native
2 40 (19.42%) Distributed Systems
3 38 (18.45%) Product Ownership
4 13 (6.31%) Security Posture
5 9 (4.37%) Cloud Security Posture
6 7 (3.40%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.91%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.94%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.94%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.94%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.94%) NHS
9 4 (1.94%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.94%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.46%) Legacy Applications
11 2 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.53%) Linux
2 11 (5.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (3.88%) Unix
3 8 (3.88%) Windows
4 2 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.97%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.49%) Android
5 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.49%) VMS
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (70.87%) CI/CD
2 120 (58.25%) Infrastructure as Code
3 115 (55.83%) DevOps
4 95 (46.12%) Agile
5 82 (39.81%) Microservices
6 76 (36.89%) Containerisation
7 68 (33.01%) Observability
8 65 (31.55%) Test Automation
9 47 (22.82%) Software Engineering
10 46 (22.33%) Event-Driven
11 41 (19.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 38 (18.45%) DevSecOps
12 38 (18.45%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (17.96%) Scrum
14 36 (17.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 35 (16.99%) AI
15 35 (16.99%) Technical Leadership
16 30 (14.56%) Deployment Automation
16 30 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
17 29 (14.08%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 100 (48.54%) Python
2 68 (33.01%) Java
3 41 (19.90%) TypeScript
4 29 (14.08%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.59%) Bash
6 26 (12.62%) SQL
7 15 (7.28%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.34%) Scala
9 6 (2.91%) Bicep
10 5 (2.43%) C#
10 5 (2.43%) Groovy
10 5 (2.43%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.43%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (1.46%) Go
12 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.97%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.97%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.49%) C
13 1 (0.49%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 71 (34.47%) Security Cleared
2 56 (27.18%) SC Cleared
3 30 (14.56%) AWS Certification
4 20 (9.71%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.34%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (4.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.88%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.40%) Degree
9 5 (2.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.43%) CISSP
10 4 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
12 1 (0.49%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.28%) QA
2 5 (2.43%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) HL7
4 1 (0.49%) NCSC
4 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 105 (50.97%) Docker
2 3 (1.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.97%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.97%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.97%) Postfix
3 2 (0.97%) Squid
4 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 68 (33.01%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.68%) Grafana
3 19 (9.22%) Ansible
4 17 (8.25%) Prometheus
5 6 (2.91%) Kibana
6 5 (2.43%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.46%) Puppet
7 3 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.97%) Consul
8 2 (0.97%) Istio
8 2 (0.97%) Nessus
8 2 (0.97%) Packer
8 2 (0.97%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.97%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.49%) Argo
9 1 (0.49%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.49%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.49%) linkerd
9 1 (0.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (9.71%) Splunk
2 10 (4.85%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.88%) Dynatrace
4 6 (2.91%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.43%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.43%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.46%) Confluent
6 3 (1.46%) Databricks
6 3 (1.46%) Google
7 2 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
7 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.97%) Oracle
8 1 (0.49%) Informatica
8 1 (0.49%) New Relic
8 1 (0.49%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.49%) Talend