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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 373 477
Rank change year-on-year -22 +104 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 200 115 78
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.48% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.35% 1.26% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 94 59
10th Percentile £385 £364 £406
25th Percentile £470 £475 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £585 £508
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +15.16% -15.33%
75th Percentile £650 £838 £594
90th Percentile £738 - £663
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £504
% change year-on-year -3.65% +9.13% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £68.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.88 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 14,812 9,123 11,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.12% 37.73% 32.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,071 6,234 8,479
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £748
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 511 218 328
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.88 £16.05
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +67.39% +18.83% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.19
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £28.21 £21.50
% change year-on-year +31.18% +31.19% -42.67%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -18 131 £560 -13.85% 47
North of England -68 24 £513 +2.50% 20
North West -39 16 £650 +62.50% 9
Midlands -46 14 £488 -0.76% 1
West Midlands -48 14 £488 -0.76% 1
South East -56 11 £600 +4.35% 12
South West -18 8 £369 -28.05% 3
East of England - 5 £550 - 3
North East -23 4 £469 - 3
Yorkshire -63 4 £500 - 8
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 20 (10.00%) Confluence
2 12 (6.00%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.50%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 195 (97.50%) AWS
2 138 (69.00%) Serverless
3 136 (68.00%) AWS Lambda
4 121 (60.50%) Amazon S3
5 101 (50.50%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (38.50%) GitHub
7 71 (35.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 69 (34.50%) AWS CloudFormation
8 69 (34.50%) GitHub Actions
9 52 (26.00%) Amazon EC2
10 40 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 39 (19.50%) AWS CodePipeline
12 30 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (8.00%) AWS Fargate
14 15 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 14 (7.00%) Datadog
16 11 (5.50%) Azure
17 10 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
17 10 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
18 9 (4.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.00%) DNS
2 5 (2.50%) Network Security
3 3 (1.50%) HTTP
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (28.50%) Amazon RDS
2 47 (23.50%) DynamoDB
3 27 (13.50%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 18 (9.00%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (7.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 14 (7.00%) MongoDB
7 10 (5.00%) Relational Database
8 7 (3.50%) Big Data
8 7 (3.50%) Redis
9 6 (3.00%) Flink
10 5 (2.50%) DocumentDB
10 5 (2.50%) Presto
11 4 (2.00%) Apache Hudi
11 4 (2.00%) Db2
11 4 (2.00%) MySQL
12 3 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.00%) Metadata
13 2 (1.00%) Pinecone
14 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 58 (29.00%) Jenkins
2 41 (20.50%) GitLab
3 26 (13.00%) Git
4 22 (11.00%) JIRA
5 17 (8.50%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.50%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.00%) JUnit
8 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.50%) Gradle
8 3 (1.50%) Maven
8 3 (1.50%) Snyk
8 3 (1.50%) Vite
9 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.50%) Gatling
9 1 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.50%) Mockito
9 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.50%) Selenium
9 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 62 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 32 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 16 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.00%) Finance
5 9 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.50%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (4.00%) Banking
7 6 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.50%) Investment Banking
9 4 (2.00%) Front Office
10 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.50%) Law
10 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 2 (1.00%) Retail
12 1 (0.50%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 41 (20.50%) Developer
2 38 (19.00%) AWS Engineer
3 32 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 28 (14.00%) Senior
5 25 (12.50%) Lead
6 23 (11.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (10.00%) Architect
8 19 (9.50%) AWS DevOps
9 17 (8.50%) Software Engineer
10 16 (8.00%) Java Developer
11 15 (7.50%) AWS Developer
12 14 (7.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 13 (6.50%) Python Developer
13 13 (6.50%) Scrum Master
14 12 (6.00%) Senior Developer
15 11 (5.50%) Lead DevOps
15 11 (5.50%) Python Engineer
16 10 (5.00%) AWS Architect
17 8 (4.00%) Data Engineer
17 8 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (20.00%) Kafka
2 39 (19.50%) React
3 31 (15.50%) Spring
3 31 (15.50%) Spring Boot
4 28 (14.00%) RESTful
5 17 (8.50%) AWS CDK
5 17 (8.50%) Node.js
5 17 (8.50%) OAuth
6 15 (7.50%) FastAPI
7 14 (7.00%) OAuth2
7 14 (7.00%) REST
8 12 (6.00%) .NET
9 11 (5.50%) GraphQL
10 10 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (5.00%) Flask
10 10 (5.00%) OpenID
11 9 (4.50%) JWT
11 9 (4.50%) Next.js
12 8 (4.00%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.50%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 73 (36.50%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.50%) Product Ownership
3 19 (9.50%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (2.00%) AI Agents
4 4 (2.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
4 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.50%) Equities
5 3 (1.50%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.50%) NHS
6 2 (1.00%) Cloud Security Posture
6 2 (1.00%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (14.50%) Linux
2 6 (3.00%) Unix
3 4 (2.00%) Windows
4 1 (0.50%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Android
4 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 158 (79.00%) CI/CD
2 120 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 107 (53.50%) DevOps
4 85 (42.50%) Containerisation
5 72 (36.00%) Agile
6 66 (33.00%) Microservices
7 53 (26.50%) Test Automation
8 48 (24.00%) Observability
9 37 (18.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (17.00%) Software Engineering
11 32 (16.00%) DevSecOps
12 30 (15.00%) Event-Driven
13 27 (13.50%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (13.50%) Scrum
14 26 (13.00%) AI
15 25 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
16 22 (11.00%) Cloud Security
16 22 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (10.50%) Technical Leadership
18 20 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 91 (45.50%) Python
2 66 (33.00%) Java
3 35 (17.50%) SQL
4 31 (15.50%) JavaScript
5 28 (14.00%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.50%) Bash
7 9 (4.50%) Scala
8 7 (3.50%) C#
9 6 (3.00%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.50%) Go
10 5 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.50%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (2.00%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.00%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) Groovy
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 68 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.00%) AWS Certification
4 16 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.50%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (4.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 9 (4.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (4.00%) Degree
8 7 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (2.00%) Master's Degree
11 3 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
11 3 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (1.00%) CCSP
12 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (1.00%) CISSP
12 2 (1.00%) OSCP
12 2 (1.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (9.00%) QA
2 11 (5.50%) NIST
3 8 (4.00%) PCI DSS
4 6 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.00%) GDPR
6 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.00%) NCSC
7 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
System Software
1 107 (53.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 124 (62.00%) Terraform
2 68 (34.00%) Kubernetes
3 28 (14.00%) Prometheus
4 21 (10.50%) Ansible
5 20 (10.00%) Grafana
6 8 (4.00%) Puppet
7 6 (3.00%) Kibana
7 6 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.00%) Argo
9 2 (1.00%) Istio
10 1 (0.50%) Consul
10 1 (0.50%) Packer
10 1 (0.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (12.00%) Splunk
2 9 (4.50%) Databricks
3 6 (3.00%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.00%) AVEVA
4 4 (2.00%) Google
4 4 (2.00%) New Relic
4 4 (2.00%) Rapid7
4 4 (2.00%) Sybase
5 3 (1.50%) AppDynamics
5 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg
5 3 (1.50%) Charles River
5 3 (1.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (1.50%) Qualys
5 3 (1.50%) Tenable
6 1 (0.50%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.50%) Confluent
6 1 (0.50%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow