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

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 340 462
Rank change year-on-year +9 +122 +36
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 228 153 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.58% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.82% 1.55% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 131 69
10th Percentile £368 £475 £425
25th Percentile £450 £613 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +38.10% -10.41%
75th Percentile £638 £838 £588
90th Percentile £688 £888 £694
UK median daily rate £525 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -22.22% +28.57% -10.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 12,502 9,845 12,664
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.81% 37.11% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,670 6,527 9,244
10th Percentile £304 £313 £273
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 311 141 298
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.44 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £33.00 £27.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +20.88% -9.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £46.18 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.25 £68.75 £66.29
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -19 138 £525 -27.59% 38
North of England -13 58 £525 -27.59% 17
North West -5 33 £550 +10.00% 4
Yorkshire -31 23 £500 -31.03% 13
West Midlands - 9 £475 - 2
Midlands - 9 £475 - 2
South West -12 8 £600 +53.06% 9
South East -19 8 £530 +6.00% 14
East of England -12 4 £538 +7.50% 1
North East -16 2 £644 -14.17%
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 (7.02%) Confluence
2 9 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.07%) nginx
4 4 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.32%) Apache
5 3 (1.32%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.07%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (1.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg AIM
1 2 (0.88%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 226 (99.12%) AWS
2 146 (64.04%) Serverless
3 141 (61.84%) AWS Lambda
4 109 (47.81%) Amazon S3
5 100 (43.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 91 (39.91%) GitHub
7 89 (39.04%) Amazon EKS
8 85 (37.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 69 (30.26%) Amazon EC2
10 66 (28.95%) GitHub Actions
11 44 (19.30%) AWS Fargate
12 43 (18.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 33 (14.47%) Azure
14 31 (13.60%) AWS CodePipeline
15 28 (12.28%) Route 53
16 24 (10.53%) Datadog
17 23 (10.09%) Amazon SQS
18 17 (7.46%) Amazon ECR
18 17 (7.46%) Apigee
18 17 (7.46%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (12.28%) DNS
2 16 (7.02%) Firewall
3 9 (3.95%) HTTP
4 7 (3.07%) FTP
4 7 (3.07%) IMAP
4 7 (3.07%) OpenLDAP
4 7 (3.07%) SMTP
4 7 (3.07%) SSH
5 5 (2.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 5 (2.19%) VPN
6 2 (0.88%) Network Security
6 2 (0.88%) SSL
7 1 (0.44%) Broadband
7 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (34.65%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (22.81%) DynamoDB
3 42 (18.42%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (11.40%) Amazon Aurora
5 22 (9.65%) NoSQL
6 18 (7.89%) Relational Database
7 14 (6.14%) MongoDB
8 13 (5.70%) Redis
9 12 (5.26%) MySQL
10 8 (3.51%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (3.51%) DocumentDB
10 8 (3.51%) RDBMS
10 8 (3.51%) SQL Server
11 7 (3.07%) Big Data
12 5 (2.19%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.19%) Data Hub
12 5 (2.19%) DB2
13 4 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.32%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 80 (35.09%) Jenkins
2 59 (25.88%) Git
3 50 (21.93%) GitLab
4 25 (10.96%) JIRA
5 12 (5.26%) Maven
6 9 (3.95%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.51%) Gradle
8 7 (3.07%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.07%) Vagrant
9 6 (2.63%) MLflow
10 5 (2.19%) JUnit
10 5 (2.19%) SonarLint
11 4 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.75%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.32%) Cypress.io
12 3 (1.32%) RStudio
13 2 (0.88%) Selenium
13 2 (0.88%) Snyk
13 2 (0.88%) Vite
General
1 57 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 52 (22.81%) Public Sector
3 23 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (7.89%) Finance
5 15 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (3.95%) Banking
7 8 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.19%) Front Office
9 2 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Games
10 1 (0.44%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.44%) Police
10 1 (0.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (23.68%) DevOps Engineer
2 53 (23.25%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (13.16%) Developer
4 29 (12.72%) Software Engineer
5 28 (12.28%) AWS DevOps
6 27 (11.84%) Senior
7 26 (11.40%) Architect
8 25 (10.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 23 (10.09%) Lead
10 18 (7.89%) Platform Engineer
11 17 (7.46%) Cloud Engineer
12 15 (6.58%) Site Engineer
12 15 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 13 (5.70%) Java Engineer
14 11 (4.82%) Java Architect
14 11 (4.82%) Lead DevOps
14 11 (4.82%) Security Engineer
14 11 (4.82%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (18.42%) Kafka
2 37 (16.23%) RESTful
3 34 (14.91%) Node.js
4 31 (13.60%) Spring Boot
5 30 (13.16%) Spring
6 27 (11.84%) React
7 18 (7.89%) OAuth
7 18 (7.89%) REST
8 17 (7.46%) JWT
9 14 (6.14%) .NET
9 14 (6.14%) AWS CDK
9 14 (6.14%) Flask
10 12 (5.26%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.39%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.95%) GraphQL
13 8 (3.51%) Django
13 8 (3.51%) LDAP
13 8 (3.51%) OAuth2
14 7 (3.07%) HTML
15 6 (2.63%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 66 (28.95%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.77%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.95%) Replication
4 7 (3.07%) NHS
4 7 (3.07%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.19%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.19%) Equities
5 5 (2.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.19%) N-Tier
6 4 (1.75%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (1.75%) PKI
7 3 (1.32%) Derivative
7 3 (1.32%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.32%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.88%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.44%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 55 (24.12%) Linux
2 12 (5.26%) Windows
3 10 (4.39%) Amazon Linux
4 9 (3.95%) VMS
5 7 (3.07%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.63%) Unix
7 4 (1.75%) CentOS
7 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.44%) Android
8 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 131 (57.46%) DevOps
3 123 (53.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 99 (43.42%) Containerisation
5 83 (36.40%) Microservices
6 66 (28.95%) Agile
7 47 (20.61%) Software Engineering
8 43 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
9 40 (17.54%) Event-Driven
9 40 (17.54%) Observability
10 34 (14.91%) AI
11 32 (14.04%) Configuration Management
12 29 (12.72%) Platform Engineering
13 28 (12.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 27 (11.84%) Mentoring
15 26 (11.40%) Analytics
15 26 (11.40%) Cloud Security
15 26 (11.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 25 (10.96%) Technical Leadership
17 24 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 132 (57.89%) Python
2 62 (27.19%) Java
3 35 (15.35%) Bash
3 35 (15.35%) SQL
4 23 (10.09%) JavaScript
5 21 (9.21%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.46%) PowerShell
6 17 (7.46%) Ruby
7 13 (5.70%) Go
8 10 (4.39%) Groovy
9 8 (3.51%) C#
10 6 (2.63%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.75%) C++
11 4 (1.75%) Perl
12 3 (1.32%) C
12 3 (1.32%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) R
13 1 (0.44%) Rust
13 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 75 (32.89%) Security Cleared
2 59 (25.88%) SC Cleared
3 33 (14.47%) AWS Certification
4 24 (10.53%) Degree
5 15 (6.58%) DV Cleared
6 12 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (3.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 9 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 9 (3.95%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.07%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (1.32%) CCSP
10 3 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.32%) CISSP
10 3 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.32%) OSCP
10 3 (1.32%) PhD
10 3 (1.32%) SANS
11 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.33%) QA
2 14 (6.14%) NIST
3 11 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (4.39%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.51%) GDPR
5 8 (3.51%) NCSC
6 6 (2.63%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.88%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.44%) HL7
System Software
1 144 (63.16%) Docker
2 7 (3.07%) DFS Replication
2 7 (3.07%) Dovecot
2 7 (3.07%) Postfix
2 7 (3.07%) Squid
3 5 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 149 (65.35%) Terraform
2 100 (43.86%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.91%) Ansible
4 28 (12.28%) Grafana
5 26 (11.40%) Prometheus
6 16 (7.02%) Puppet
7 8 (3.51%) Progress Chef
8 7 (3.07%) Nessus
8 7 (3.07%) Packer
8 7 (3.07%) Proxmox
9 4 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (1.32%) Argo
10 3 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
10 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.88%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.88%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.44%) Kibana
12 1 (0.44%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (6.14%) Splunk
2 11 (4.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.51%) Google
3 8 (3.51%) PagerDuty
3 8 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.07%) Jaspersoft
5 6 (2.63%) Gigya
6 5 (2.19%) Rapid7
6 5 (2.19%) Sybase
7 4 (1.75%) AVEVA
7 4 (1.75%) Databricks
7 4 (1.75%) Okta
7 4 (1.75%) Oracle
8 3 (1.32%) New Relic
8 3 (1.32%) Ping Identity
9 2 (0.88%) AppDynamics
9 2 (0.88%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.88%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.88%) CloudEndure
9 2 (0.88%) Dynatrace