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

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 371 462
Rank change year-on-year +7 +91 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 193 141 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.46% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 1.27% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 117 87
10th Percentile £363 £461 £396
25th Percentile £444 £604 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £888 £638
90th Percentile £674 - £730
UK median daily rate £525 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -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 11,544 11,091 14,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.64% 35.90% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,863 7,378 10,253
10th Percentile £304 £313 £290
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £645 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 140 279
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.47 £14.47
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.27
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +35.09%
75th Percentile £44.43 £60.64 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.73 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £32.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +3.97% +46.19%

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 17 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 17 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 -7 104 £525 -27.59% 116
North of England -6 50 £509 -21.73% 47
North West -5 27 £550 +37.50% 32
Yorkshire -21 21 £500 -31.03% 13
West Midlands -10 18 £463 -8.42% 3
Midlands -12 18 £463 +2.21% 4
South East +3 7 £530 +6.00% 24
East of England -12 5 £475 -5.00% 13
South West - 5 £625 - 9
North East -7 2 £425 -43.33% 2
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 (11.40%) Confluence
2 12 (6.22%) nginx
3 9 (4.66%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.59%) CMS
4 5 (2.59%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.55%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.04%) Apache
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.52%) CICS
7 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (6.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 189 (97.93%) AWS
2 109 (56.48%) Serverless
3 104 (53.89%) AWS Lambda
4 100 (51.81%) Amazon S3
5 72 (37.31%) GitHub
6 70 (36.27%) AWS CloudFormation
7 68 (35.23%) Amazon EC2
8 66 (34.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 63 (32.64%) Amazon EKS
10 48 (24.87%) AWS Fargate
11 42 (21.76%) GitHub Actions
12 38 (19.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 33 (17.10%) Azure
14 26 (13.47%) Amazon SQS
15 25 (12.95%) Route 53
16 21 (10.88%) Datadog
17 20 (10.36%) AWS KMS
18 15 (7.77%) Amazon ELB
18 15 (7.77%) Amazon EventBridge
19 14 (7.25%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 26 (13.47%) DNS
2 21 (10.88%) Firewall
3 12 (6.22%) IMAP
3 12 (6.22%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (6.22%) SMTP
4 10 (5.18%) FTP
4 10 (5.18%) HTTP
4 10 (5.18%) SSH
5 6 (3.11%) VPN
6 3 (1.55%) SSL
7 2 (1.04%) Network Security
8 1 (0.52%) Broadband
8 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.52%) NAS
8 1 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (38.34%) Amazon RDS
2 58 (30.05%) DynamoDB
3 50 (25.91%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (13.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 19 (9.84%) Relational Database
6 15 (7.77%) NoSQL
7 14 (7.25%) MongoDB
8 13 (6.74%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (5.18%) RDBMS
10 8 (4.15%) MySQL
11 7 (3.63%) Redis
12 6 (3.11%) Big Data
12 6 (3.11%) SQL Server
13 5 (2.59%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.59%) DB2
14 4 (2.07%) DocumentDB
15 3 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (1.55%) Data Lake
15 3 (1.55%) Metadata
15 3 (1.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 69 (35.75%) Jenkins
2 43 (22.28%) Git
2 43 (22.28%) GitLab
3 31 (16.06%) JIRA
4 13 (6.74%) Maven
5 12 (6.22%) Vagrant
6 11 (5.70%) JUnit
7 8 (4.15%) SonarQube
8 7 (3.63%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.63%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (3.11%) Cucumber
10 5 (2.59%) Gradle
10 5 (2.59%) MLflow
10 5 (2.59%) SonarLint
11 4 (2.07%) Cypress.io
11 4 (2.07%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.55%) RStudio
13 1 (0.52%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 1 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 62 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.21%) Public Sector
3 15 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.22%) Finance
5 10 (5.18%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.63%) Aerospace
7 6 (3.11%) Banking
7 6 (3.11%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.04%) Publishing
9 1 (0.52%) Aviation
9 1 (0.52%) Games
9 1 (0.52%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.52%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Military
9 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (31.09%) AWS Engineer
2 52 (26.94%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (15.54%) AWS DevOps
3 30 (15.54%) Senior
4 29 (15.03%) Platform Engineer
5 28 (14.51%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 28 (14.51%) Developer
6 25 (12.95%) Software Engineer
7 24 (12.44%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 24 (12.44%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 24 (12.44%) Lead
8 16 (8.29%) Architect
9 15 (7.77%) AWS Developer
10 12 (6.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.18%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (4.66%) Java Developer
12 9 (4.66%) Site Engineer
12 9 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (4.66%) Technical Architect
13 8 (4.15%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (19.17%) Node.js
2 29 (15.03%) Kafka
3 25 (12.95%) React
4 23 (11.92%) RESTful
5 19 (9.84%) AWS CDK
5 19 (9.84%) Spring
6 16 (8.29%) OAuth
7 15 (7.77%) Spring Boot
8 14 (7.25%) JWT
9 13 (6.74%) LDAP
9 13 (6.74%) REST
10 11 (5.70%) FastAPI
11 10 (5.18%) Jest
12 9 (4.66%) Flask
12 9 (4.66%) OAuth2
13 8 (4.15%) .NET
14 7 (3.63%) cloud-init
14 7 (3.63%) HTML
14 7 (3.63%) Keycloak
14 7 (3.63%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 41 (21.24%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.74%) Data Protection Act
2 13 (6.74%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.22%) Replication
4 7 (3.63%) PKI
4 7 (3.63%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.59%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.59%) N-Tier
6 4 (2.07%) NHS
7 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.04%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.04%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.04%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.04%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.52%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.73%) Linux
2 15 (7.77%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (6.74%) VMS
4 12 (6.22%) Windows
5 10 (5.18%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.66%) Unix
7 7 (3.63%) CentOS
7 7 (3.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.52%) AIX
8 1 (0.52%) Android
8 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.52%) Solaris
8 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (73.58%) CI/CD
2 110 (56.99%) DevOps
3 92 (47.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 85 (44.04%) Containerisation
5 66 (34.20%) Agile
6 60 (31.09%) Microservices
7 47 (24.35%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (20.73%) Software Engineering
9 31 (16.06%) Configuration Management
9 31 (16.06%) Platform Engineering
10 30 (15.54%) Event-Driven
11 29 (15.03%) Mentoring
12 28 (14.51%) AI
13 27 (13.99%) Full-Stack Development
14 26 (13.47%) Observability
15 25 (12.95%) Cloud Security
16 22 (11.40%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 22 (11.40%) Machine Learning
17 20 (10.36%) Clean Code
17 20 (10.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 113 (58.55%) Python
2 38 (19.69%) Java
3 30 (15.54%) SQL
4 26 (13.47%) Bash
5 25 (12.95%) TypeScript
6 23 (11.92%) PowerShell
7 16 (8.29%) Go
7 16 (8.29%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.77%) Groovy
9 11 (5.70%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.63%) Ruby
11 4 (2.07%) C#
11 4 (2.07%) Perl
12 3 (1.55%) C
13 2 (1.04%) CodeQL
14 1 (0.52%) C++
14 1 (0.52%) COBOL
14 1 (0.52%) PHP
14 1 (0.52%) R
14 1 (0.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (33.68%) Security Cleared
2 51 (26.42%) SC Cleared
3 42 (21.76%) AWS Certification
4 27 (13.99%) Degree
5 18 (9.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 17 (8.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.18%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.66%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.59%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.55%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.52%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (7.25%) QA
2 8 (4.15%) NCSC
3 5 (2.59%) GDPR
3 5 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.07%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.07%) NIST
5 2 (1.04%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.52%) HL7
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 117 (60.62%) Docker
2 12 (6.22%) Dovecot
2 12 (6.22%) Postfix
2 12 (6.22%) Squid
3 10 (5.18%) DFS Replication
4 4 (2.07%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 123 (63.73%) Terraform
2 66 (34.20%) Kubernetes
3 33 (17.10%) Grafana
4 30 (15.54%) Ansible
5 24 (12.44%) Prometheus
6 12 (6.22%) Nessus
7 11 (5.70%) Packer
7 11 (5.70%) Puppet
8 10 (5.18%) Proxmox
9 8 (4.15%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.63%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.52%) Argo
12 1 (0.52%) Kibana
12 1 (0.52%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.52%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (9.84%) ServiceNow
2 14 (7.25%) Splunk
3 12 (6.22%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (4.66%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (4.66%) IBM
5 7 (3.63%) Okta
6 6 (3.11%) Gigya
6 6 (3.11%) Microsoft
7 5 (2.59%) PagerDuty
7 5 (2.59%) Sybase
8 4 (2.07%) Oracle
9 3 (1.55%) Google
9 3 (1.55%) Ping Identity
10 2 (1.04%) Cisco
10 2 (1.04%) CloudEndure
10 2 (1.04%) Confluent
11 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.52%) Brio
11 1 (0.52%) JDA
11 1 (0.52%) NetApp