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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 371 460
Rank change year-on-year -36 +89 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 210 118 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 1.24% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 94 70
10th Percentile £385 £358 £406
25th Percentile £475 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £659
90th Percentile £760 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -2.73% +5.77% -13.33%
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 15,208 9,531 12,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.81% 32.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,287 6,462 8,623
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £415 £413 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.34% -2.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 337
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.72% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.15
% change year-on-year +33.93% +26.41% -36.71%

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 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 26 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 26 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 +3 143 £573 -8.40% 32
North of England -65 23 £528 +24.12% 19
North West -40 16 £650 +62.50% 9
West Midlands -50 15 £488 -0.76% 1
Midlands -55 15 £488 -0.76% 2
South East -54 10 £600 +4.35% 10
South West -28 7 £350 -31.71% 9
East of England - 6 £550 -
North East -30 4 £469 +10.29% 3
Yorkshire -50 3 - - 7
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 (9.52%) Confluence
2 12 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.95%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.48%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.43%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.48%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 205 (97.62%) AWS
2 146 (69.52%) Serverless
3 144 (68.57%) AWS Lambda
4 133 (63.33%) Amazon S3
5 108 (51.43%) Amazon EKS
6 77 (36.67%) GitHub
7 72 (34.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 70 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
9 69 (32.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (24.76%) Amazon EC2
11 41 (19.52%) Amazon SQS
12 40 (19.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 38 (18.10%) AWS CodePipeline
14 16 (7.62%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
15 15 (7.14%) Datadog
16 14 (6.67%) Amazon EventBridge
17 12 (5.71%) Amazon Bedrock
18 11 (5.24%) Azure
19 10 (4.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.38%) DNS
1 5 (2.38%) Network Security
2 2 (0.95%) HTTP
3 1 (0.48%) Firewall
3 1 (0.48%) SSL
3 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
2 50 (23.81%) DynamoDB
3 33 (15.71%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (11.90%) NoSQL
5 17 (8.10%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (7.62%) Amazon Aurora
7 15 (7.14%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.24%) Big Data
9 10 (4.76%) Relational Database
10 9 (4.29%) Redis
11 6 (2.86%) Flink
12 5 (2.38%) DocumentDB
12 5 (2.38%) Presto
13 4 (1.90%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (1.90%) Db2
13 4 (1.90%) MySQL
14 2 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
14 2 (0.95%) Metadata
14 2 (0.95%) Pinecone
15 1 (0.48%) TigerGraph
Development Applications
1 63 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 44 (20.95%) GitLab
3 25 (11.90%) Git
4 22 (10.48%) JIRA
5 17 (8.10%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.33%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.90%) JUnit
8 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.43%) Gradle
8 3 (1.43%) Maven
8 3 (1.43%) Vite
9 2 (0.95%) Snyk
10 1 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.48%) Gatling
10 1 (0.48%) MLflow
10 1 (0.48%) Mockito
10 1 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.48%) Selenium
10 1 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.71%) Public Sector
3 19 (9.05%) Finance
4 17 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.71%) Banking
6 10 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.38%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.38%) Law
9 4 (1.90%) Front Office
10 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.95%) Local Government
11 2 (0.95%) Retail
12 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.48%) Police
Job Titles
1 39 (18.57%) Developer
2 38 (18.10%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (16.19%) Senior
4 31 (14.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (12.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 25 (11.90%) Architect
6 25 (11.90%) Lead
7 20 (9.52%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (8.10%) Java Developer
8 17 (8.10%) Software Engineer
9 14 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 14 (6.67%) Scrum Master
10 13 (6.19%) AWS Developer
11 12 (5.71%) AWS Architect
11 12 (5.71%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.71%) Senior Developer
12 11 (5.24%) Python Engineer
13 10 (4.76%) Lead DevOps
13 10 (4.76%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.81%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (20.00%) Kafka
2 40 (19.05%) React
3 33 (15.71%) Spring
3 33 (15.71%) Spring Boot
4 29 (13.81%) RESTful
5 25 (11.90%) REST
6 22 (10.48%) Node.js
7 20 (9.52%) OAuth
8 19 (9.05%) AWS CDK
9 17 (8.10%) OAuth2
10 16 (7.62%) FastAPI
11 11 (5.24%) .NET
11 11 (5.24%) GraphQL
11 11 (5.24%) JWT
11 11 (5.24%) OpenID
12 10 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (4.29%) Flask
14 8 (3.81%) Jest
14 8 (3.81%) OpenTelemetry
15 7 (3.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 79 (37.62%) Cloud Native
2 28 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 25 (11.90%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.86%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.38%) Security Posture
5 5 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.90%) AI Agents
6 4 (1.90%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (1.90%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.90%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.43%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.43%) Equities
7 3 (1.43%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.95%) NHS
8 2 (0.95%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.38%) Linux
2 6 (2.86%) Unix
3 4 (1.90%) Windows
4 2 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.48%) Android
5 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (73.81%) CI/CD
2 120 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 111 (52.86%) DevOps
4 88 (41.90%) Containerisation
5 81 (38.57%) Microservices
6 73 (34.76%) Agile
7 53 (25.24%) Observability
7 53 (25.24%) Test Automation
8 37 (17.62%) AI
9 36 (17.14%) Event-Driven
10 35 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (16.67%) Software Engineering
11 32 (15.24%) DevSecOps
12 31 (14.76%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (12.86%) Full-Stack Development
14 25 (11.90%) Scrum
15 24 (11.43%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 24 (11.43%) Technical Leadership
16 22 (10.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (10.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 95 (45.24%) Python
2 67 (31.90%) Java
3 34 (16.19%) SQL
4 31 (14.76%) TypeScript
5 29 (13.81%) JavaScript
6 19 (9.05%) Bash
7 9 (4.29%) Scala
8 7 (3.33%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.38%) C#
9 5 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.38%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.90%) Go
10 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.95%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.48%) Cypher
12 1 (0.48%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.48%) Groovy
12 1 (0.48%) SHACL
12 1 (0.48%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.48%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (34.76%) Security Cleared
2 57 (27.14%) SC Cleared
3 23 (10.95%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.10%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.24%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 8 (3.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 8 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.81%) Degree
9 5 (2.38%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.95%) CCSP
11 2 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.95%) CISSP
11 2 (0.95%) OSCP
11 2 (0.95%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.14%) QA
2 10 (4.76%) NIST
3 8 (3.81%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) NCSC
System Software
1 109 (51.90%) Docker
2 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 121 (57.62%) Terraform
2 64 (30.48%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.86%) Prometheus
4 20 (9.52%) Grafana
5 19 (9.05%) Ansible
6 6 (2.86%) Kibana
6 6 (2.86%) Puppet
6 6 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.43%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.95%) Istio
9 1 (0.48%) Consul
9 1 (0.48%) Packer
9 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (11.43%) Splunk
2 9 (4.29%) Databricks
3 7 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.86%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.38%) Amplitude
5 5 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.90%) AVEVA
6 4 (1.90%) Google
6 4 (1.90%) New Relic
6 4 (1.90%) Rapid7
6 4 (1.90%) Sybase
7 3 (1.43%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.43%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.43%) Charles River
8 2 (0.95%) Qualys
8 2 (0.95%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.95%) Tenable
9 1 (0.48%) Confluent
9 1 (0.48%) OpenAI