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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 414 368 415
Rank change year-on-year -46 +47 +47
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 225 161 113
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.58% 0.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.40% 1.51% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 113 90
10th Percentile £381 £358 £438
25th Percentile £453 £428 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £663 £625 £888
90th Percentile £775 £675 -
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +1.90% -4.59% -4.30%
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 16,066 10,672 11,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.51% 38.19% 34.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,700 7,228 7,489
10th Percentile £320 £303 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £530
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% -5.57% -3.59%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £645
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 249 162
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.87 £21.53
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £68.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -33 138 £598 +13.90% 136
North of England -73 41 £500 - 42
North West -43 30 £538 +18.13% 25
Midlands -44 23 £475 +2.70% 14
West Midlands -35 21 £488 +5.41% 6
South East -54 12 £600 +9.09% 17
East of England -19 9 £550 +22.22% 9
North East -32 8 £400 -5.88% 7
South West -35 4 £365 -41.60% 31
Yorkshire -50 3 £500 - 10
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 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 16 (7.11%) Confluence
2 9 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.67%) Apache
3 6 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.33%) nginx
5 2 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
1 1 (0.44%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.44%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 219 (97.33%) AWS
2 155 (68.89%) AWS Lambda
2 155 (68.89%) Serverless
3 133 (59.11%) Amazon EKS
4 125 (55.56%) Amazon S3
5 86 (38.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 64 (28.44%) GitHub
7 60 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
8 59 (26.22%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (25.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 53 (23.56%) Amazon SQS
11 40 (17.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 22 (9.78%) Azure
13 20 (8.89%) Amazon EventBridge
14 17 (7.56%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
15 15 (6.67%) AWS KMS
15 15 (6.67%) GCP
16 14 (6.22%) AWS Step Functions
17 12 (5.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.56%) Firewall
2 6 (2.67%) DNS
2 6 (2.67%) Network Security
3 4 (1.78%) HTTP
4 3 (1.33%) SSL
4 3 (1.33%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.33%) VPN
5 2 (0.89%) FTP
5 2 (0.89%) IMAP
5 2 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (0.89%) SMTP
5 2 (0.89%) SSH
6 1 (0.44%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (28.00%) Amazon RDS
2 43 (19.11%) DynamoDB
3 33 (14.67%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (8.00%) MongoDB
4 18 (8.00%) NoSQL
5 14 (6.22%) Amazon Aurora
6 12 (5.33%) Big Data
7 9 (4.00%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.56%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.22%) DocumentDB
9 5 (2.22%) MySQL
9 5 (2.22%) Presto
9 5 (2.22%) Redis
10 4 (1.78%) Apache Hudi
11 3 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.33%) Apache Iceberg
11 3 (1.33%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.33%) Flink
11 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (30.67%) Jenkins
2 52 (23.11%) GitLab
3 22 (9.78%) Git
4 19 (8.44%) JIRA
5 10 (4.44%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.67%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.78%) Maven
7 4 (1.78%) Mockito
7 4 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.33%) git-flow
8 3 (1.33%) JUnit
9 2 (0.89%) Gatling
9 2 (0.89%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.89%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.44%) MLflow
10 1 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.44%) RhodeCode
10 1 (0.44%) Selenium
General
1 54 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.33%) Finance
3 37 (16.44%) Public Sector
4 25 (11.11%) Banking
5 19 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.56%) Law
8 6 (2.67%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.78%) Military
10 3 (1.33%) Retail
11 2 (0.89%) iGaming
11 2 (0.89%) Local Government
12 1 (0.44%) Automotive
12 1 (0.44%) Front Office
12 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.44%) Prime Brokerage
12 1 (0.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 48 (21.33%) AWS Engineer
2 38 (16.89%) Senior
3 33 (14.67%) Developer
4 32 (14.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (14.22%) Lead
5 26 (11.56%) AWS DevOps
6 25 (11.11%) Architect
7 24 (10.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 23 (10.22%) Scrum Master
9 20 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 20 (8.89%) Software Engineer
10 19 (8.44%) Technical Leader
11 15 (6.67%) AWS Architect
11 15 (6.67%) Data Engineer
12 14 (6.22%) Java Developer
13 13 (5.78%) Senior DevOps
13 13 (5.78%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 12 (5.33%) AWS Software Engineer
14 12 (5.33%) Lead DevOps
14 12 (5.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (58.22%) Terraform
2 46 (20.44%) REST
3 40 (17.78%) Spring
4 39 (17.33%) Spring Boot
5 38 (16.89%) Kafka
6 34 (15.11%) RESTful
7 33 (14.67%) React
8 26 (11.56%) FastAPI
9 22 (9.78%) Node.js
10 16 (7.11%) AWS CDK
11 15 (6.67%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.44%) Flask
12 10 (4.44%) JWT
12 10 (4.44%) OAuth
12 10 (4.44%) OAuth2
13 9 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (4.00%) GraphQL
13 9 (4.00%) Jest
14 8 (3.56%) .NET
15 7 (3.11%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 108 (48.00%) Cloud Native
2 39 (17.33%) Distributed Systems
2 39 (17.33%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.22%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.44%) Cloud Security Posture
5 9 (4.00%) Virtual Team
6 7 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
9 4 (1.78%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.78%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.33%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.33%) NHS
11 2 (0.89%) Autonomous Agent
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.11%) Linux
2 13 (5.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (4.00%) Unix
3 9 (4.00%) Windows
4 2 (0.89%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.44%) CentOS
5 1 (0.44%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 166 (73.78%) CI/CD
2 135 (60.00%) DevOps
3 134 (59.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 101 (44.89%) Agile
5 91 (40.44%) Containerisation
6 87 (38.67%) Microservices
7 80 (35.56%) Observability
8 65 (28.89%) Test Automation
9 51 (22.67%) Event-Driven
10 50 (22.22%) Software Engineering
11 43 (19.11%) Technical Leadership
12 42 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 40 (17.78%) DevSecOps
13 40 (17.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 40 (17.78%) Scrum
14 38 (16.89%) Deployment Automation
15 36 (16.00%) AI
15 36 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
16 33 (14.67%) Cloud Security
17 32 (14.22%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 103 (45.78%) Python
2 74 (32.89%) Java
3 39 (17.33%) TypeScript
4 32 (14.22%) Bash
5 27 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 25 (11.11%) SQL
7 18 (8.00%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.89%) Scala
9 7 (3.11%) Bicep
9 7 (3.11%) Go
10 5 (2.22%) Groovy
10 5 (2.22%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.22%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.78%) C#
12 3 (1.33%) Lua
13 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.44%) C
14 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.44%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 84 (37.33%) Security Cleared
2 69 (30.67%) SC Cleared
3 37 (16.44%) AWS Certification
4 21 (9.33%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.44%) Azure Certification
5 10 (4.44%) Degree
6 9 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 8 (3.56%) SAFe Agilist
8 6 (2.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (2.67%) CISSP
9 5 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.33%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.89%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.11%) QA
2 5 (2.22%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.78%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.78%) NCSC
4 2 (0.89%) GDPR
4 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.44%) HL7
5 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 116 (51.56%) Docker
2 6 (2.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.89%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.89%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.89%) Postfix
3 2 (0.89%) Squid
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 84 (37.33%) Kubernetes
2 28 (12.44%) Grafana
3 22 (9.78%) Ansible
3 22 (9.78%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.67%) Kibana
4 6 (2.67%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.78%) Nessus
6 3 (1.33%) Consul
6 3 (1.33%) Istio
6 3 (1.33%) Packer
6 3 (1.33%) Puppet
6 3 (1.33%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.89%) linkerd
7 2 (0.89%) Proxmox
7 2 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.44%) Argo
8 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.44%) HP Fortify
8 1 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 17 (7.56%) Splunk
2 10 (4.44%) Dynatrace
2 10 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.11%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.67%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.22%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.22%) Confluent
5 5 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.78%) Google
6 4 (1.78%) Oracle
7 3 (1.33%) Databricks
8 2 (0.89%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 2 (0.89%) webMethods
9 1 (0.44%) Apple
9 1 (0.44%) Dell
9 1 (0.44%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.44%) New Relic
9 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.44%) Talend