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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 384 446
Rank change year-on-year -23 +62 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 213 127 95
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.36% 1.25% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 102 75
10th Percentile £379 £358 £407
25th Percentile £477 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £875
90th Percentile £775 £838 £888
UK median daily rate £543 £530 £525
% change year-on-year +2.36% +0.95% -12.50%
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 15,640 10,152 12,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.94% 37.35% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,495 6,858 8,574
10th Percentile £325 £311 £312
25th Percentile £420 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 270 321
10th Percentile £16.70 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.09 £43.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -2 141 £581 +1.04% 31
North of England -79 25 £528 +24.12% 20
West Midlands -47 19 £475 -3.06% 3
Midlands -51 19 £475 -3.06% 4
North West -45 18 £632 +64.45% 9
South East -58 10 £600 +4.35% 9
East of England -15 7 £550 +22.22% 1
South West -23 7 £350 -31.71% 10
North East -37 4 £469 +10.29% 8
Yorkshire -56 3 - - 3
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 (9.39%) Confluence
2 12 (5.63%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.29%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.82%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.88%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.47%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.94%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.47%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 208 (97.65%) AWS
2 151 (70.89%) Serverless
3 147 (69.01%) AWS Lambda
4 135 (63.38%) Amazon S3
5 115 (53.99%) Amazon EKS
6 70 (32.86%) GitHub
7 67 (31.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 67 (31.46%) GitHub Actions
8 59 (27.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (24.88%) Amazon EC2
10 43 (20.19%) Amazon SQS
11 36 (16.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 32 (15.02%) AWS CodePipeline
13 17 (7.98%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (7.51%) Amazon EventBridge
14 16 (7.51%) Datadog
15 15 (7.04%) Amazon Bedrock
16 12 (5.63%) AWS Fargate
17 9 (4.23%) Amazon ECR
17 9 (4.23%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.82%) Network Security
2 2 (0.94%) Firewall
3 1 (0.47%) DNS
3 1 (0.47%) HTTP
3 1 (0.47%) SSL
3 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.47%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (27.70%) Amazon RDS
2 49 (23.00%) DynamoDB
3 29 (13.62%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (8.92%) NoSQL
5 15 (7.04%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (6.57%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.63%) Amazon Aurora
8 11 (5.16%) Big Data
8 11 (5.16%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.82%) Flink
10 5 (2.35%) Presto
10 5 (2.35%) Redis
11 4 (1.88%) Apache Hudi
12 2 (0.94%) Db2
12 2 (0.94%) Metadata
12 2 (0.94%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.94%) Power BI
13 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.47%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 64 (30.05%) Jenkins
2 37 (17.37%) GitLab
3 22 (10.33%) Git
4 21 (9.86%) JIRA
5 17 (7.98%) Bitbucket
6 8 (3.76%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.88%) Maven
8 3 (1.41%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.41%) Gradle
8 3 (1.41%) Vite
9 2 (0.94%) JUnit
10 1 (0.47%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.47%) Gatling
10 1 (0.47%) JMeter
10 1 (0.47%) Mockito
10 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.47%) Selenium
10 1 (0.47%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 33 (15.49%) Public Sector
3 22 (10.33%) Finance
4 17 (7.98%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.04%) Banking
6 10 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 5 (2.35%) Law
8 4 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.41%) Front Office
9 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.94%) Local Government
10 2 (0.94%) Retail
11 1 (0.47%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 40 (18.78%) Developer
2 37 (17.37%) AWS Engineer
2 37 (17.37%) Senior
3 29 (13.62%) Lead
4 28 (13.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (11.74%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (10.80%) Architect
7 18 (8.45%) AWS DevOps
7 18 (8.45%) Java Developer
8 17 (7.98%) Scrum Master
8 17 (7.98%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 12 (5.63%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.63%) Lead DevOps
10 11 (5.16%) AWS Developer
10 11 (5.16%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.69%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.69%) Technical Leader
12 9 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (21.13%) React
2 33 (15.49%) Kafka
3 31 (14.55%) Spring Boot
4 30 (14.08%) Spring
5 26 (12.21%) Node.js
6 24 (11.27%) REST
6 24 (11.27%) RESTful
7 18 (8.45%) AWS CDK
7 18 (8.45%) FastAPI
8 16 (7.51%) OAuth
9 13 (6.10%) OAuth2
10 11 (5.16%) GraphQL
10 11 (5.16%) JWT
11 10 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
12 9 (4.23%) .NET
12 9 (4.23%) Flask
12 9 (4.23%) Jest
13 7 (3.29%) AngularJS
13 7 (3.29%) OpenID
13 7 (3.29%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 79 (37.09%) Cloud Native
2 30 (14.08%) Distributed Systems
3 29 (13.62%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.76%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.29%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.35%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.35%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.88%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.88%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.88%) Distributed Architecture
7 4 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.41%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.41%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.74%) Linux
2 6 (2.82%) Unix
3 5 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.41%) Windows
5 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Android
5 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (70.89%) CI/CD
2 118 (55.40%) Infrastructure as Code
3 112 (52.58%) DevOps
4 85 (39.91%) Containerisation
5 80 (37.56%) Microservices
6 76 (35.68%) Agile
7 56 (26.29%) Test Automation
8 53 (24.88%) Observability
9 39 (18.31%) Software Engineering
10 38 (17.84%) AI
11 36 (16.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (15.96%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (15.49%) DevSecOps
14 32 (15.02%) Event-Driven
15 31 (14.55%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (13.62%) Full-Stack Development
17 28 (13.15%) Scrum
18 25 (11.74%) Code Quality
18 25 (11.74%) Event-Driven Architecture
19 21 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 99 (46.48%) Python
2 63 (29.58%) Java
3 37 (17.37%) TypeScript
4 32 (15.02%) JavaScript
5 27 (12.68%) SQL
6 20 (9.39%) Bash
7 11 (5.16%) Scala
8 9 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.35%) Go
9 5 (2.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (2.35%) Search Processing Language
10 4 (1.88%) C#
10 4 (1.88%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.94%) Groovy
11 2 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Cypher
12 1 (0.47%) Gremlin
12 1 (0.47%) SHACL
12 1 (0.47%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 73 (34.27%) Security Cleared
2 61 (28.64%) SC Cleared
3 24 (11.27%) AWS Certification
4 15 (7.04%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.16%) SAFe Agilist
6 10 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 9 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 6 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.82%) Degree
9 3 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.41%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.94%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.29%) QA
2 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.94%) NIST
3 1 (0.47%) GDPR
3 1 (0.47%) GRC
3 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.47%) NCSC
3 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 104 (48.83%) Docker
2 2 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 115 (53.99%) Terraform
2 54 (25.35%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.80%) Prometheus
4 17 (7.98%) Ansible
4 17 (7.98%) Grafana
5 6 (2.82%) Kibana
6 5 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.88%) Puppet
8 2 (0.94%) Istio
8 2 (0.94%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.47%) Consul
9 1 (0.47%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.47%) Packer
9 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 21 (9.86%) Splunk
2 9 (4.23%) Databricks
3 8 (3.76%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.35%) Amplitude
4 5 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.88%) AVEVA
5 4 (1.88%) Dynatrace
5 4 (1.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.94%) AppDynamics
6 2 (0.94%) Bloomberg
6 2 (0.94%) Charles River
6 2 (0.94%) Google
6 2 (0.94%) New Relic
6 2 (0.94%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.94%) Sybase
7 1 (0.47%) Confluent
7 1 (0.47%) Qualys
7 1 (0.47%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.47%) Tenable