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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 396 469
Rank change year-on-year +47 +73 +55
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 188 117 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.37% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.63% 1.05% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 98 84
10th Percentile £361 £458 £393
25th Percentile £428 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £888 £645
90th Percentile £675 - £734
UK median daily rate £525 £630 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.55% -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 11,555 11,164 14,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.85% 35.71% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,838 7,414 10,287
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £528
Median % change year-on-year -6.45% +1.33% -4.09%
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 292 143 290
10th Percentile £14.80 £19.41 £14.49
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.73 £58.75
90th Percentile £71.25 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +35.87%

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 7 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 7 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 +7 101 £525 -27.59% 175
North of England +5 49 £500 +25.00% 93
North West -6 27 £539 +34.69% 66
Yorkshire -11 20 £500 +10.19% 24
Midlands -4 19 £463 +2.21% 11
West Midlands -12 19 £463 -8.42% 5
South East +7 6 £550 +10.00% 136
South West - 5 £625 - 10
East of England -11 4 £475 -13.64% 17
North East - 2 £425 - 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 21 (11.17%) Confluence
2 12 (6.38%) nginx
3 8 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.66%) CMS
4 5 (2.66%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.60%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.53%) CICS
6 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (6.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 185 (98.40%) AWS
2 110 (58.51%) Serverless
3 104 (55.32%) AWS Lambda
4 94 (50.00%) Amazon S3
5 73 (38.83%) GitHub
6 67 (35.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 67 (35.64%) AWS CloudFormation
7 64 (34.04%) Amazon EC2
8 58 (30.85%) Amazon EKS
9 47 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
10 42 (22.34%) GitHub Actions
11 40 (21.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 32 (17.02%) Azure
13 28 (14.89%) Amazon SQS
14 25 (13.30%) Route 53
15 21 (11.17%) AWS KMS
15 21 (11.17%) Datadog
16 16 (8.51%) Amazon ELB
17 15 (7.98%) Amazon EventBridge
18 14 (7.45%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 27 (14.36%) DNS
2 22 (11.70%) Firewall
3 12 (6.38%) IMAP
3 12 (6.38%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (6.38%) SMTP
4 10 (5.32%) FTP
4 10 (5.32%) HTTP
4 10 (5.32%) SSH
5 7 (3.72%) VPN
6 4 (2.13%) SSL
7 3 (1.60%) Network Security
8 2 (1.06%) TCP/IP
9 1 (0.53%) Broadband
9 1 (0.53%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.53%) NAS
9 1 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 1 (0.53%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (37.23%) Amazon RDS
2 57 (30.32%) DynamoDB
3 46 (24.47%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (13.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (10.64%) Relational Database
6 14 (7.45%) MongoDB
6 14 (7.45%) NoSQL
7 13 (6.91%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (5.32%) RDBMS
9 8 (4.26%) MySQL
10 7 (3.72%) Redis
11 6 (3.19%) Big Data
12 5 (2.66%) BigQuery
12 5 (2.66%) DB2
13 4 (2.13%) DocumentDB
14 3 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (1.60%) Metadata
15 2 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
15 2 (1.06%) Data Lake
15 2 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 73 (38.83%) Jenkins
2 45 (23.94%) GitLab
3 44 (23.40%) Git
4 31 (16.49%) JIRA
5 13 (6.91%) Maven
6 12 (6.38%) Vagrant
7 11 (5.85%) JUnit
8 8 (4.26%) SonarQube
8 8 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (3.72%) Bitbucket
10 6 (3.19%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.66%) Gradle
11 5 (2.66%) MLflow
11 5 (2.66%) SonarLint
12 4 (2.13%) Cypress.io
12 4 (2.13%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.60%) RStudio
14 1 (0.53%) Artifactory
14 1 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 62 (32.98%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.21%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (5.85%) Finance
4 11 (5.85%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (3.72%) Aerospace
6 6 (3.19%) Banking
6 6 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.06%) Publishing
8 1 (0.53%) Aviation
8 1 (0.53%) Games
8 1 (0.53%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.53%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.53%) Military
8 1 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 60 (31.91%) AWS Engineer
2 53 (28.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 30 (15.96%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (15.43%) Developer
4 29 (15.43%) Platform Engineer
4 29 (15.43%) Senior
5 28 (14.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 25 (13.30%) Software Engineer
7 24 (12.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 24 (12.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 23 (12.23%) Lead
9 15 (7.98%) Architect
9 15 (7.98%) AWS Developer
10 12 (6.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (5.32%) Java Developer
12 9 (4.79%) Lead DevOps
12 9 (4.79%) Lead DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.79%) Technical Architect
13 8 (4.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (18.62%) Node.js
2 27 (14.36%) Kafka
3 25 (13.30%) React
4 24 (12.77%) RESTful
5 20 (10.64%) Spring
6 19 (10.11%) AWS CDK
7 16 (8.51%) Spring Boot
8 15 (7.98%) OAuth
9 13 (6.91%) JWT
9 13 (6.91%) LDAP
9 13 (6.91%) REST
10 10 (5.32%) FastAPI
10 10 (5.32%) Jest
11 9 (4.79%) OAuth2
12 8 (4.26%) .NET
12 8 (4.26%) Flask
13 7 (3.72%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (3.72%) HTML
13 7 (3.72%) Keycloak
13 7 (3.72%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 38 (20.21%) Cloud Native
2 13 (6.91%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (6.38%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (6.38%) Replication
4 7 (3.72%) PKI
4 7 (3.72%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.66%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.66%) N-Tier
6 3 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.60%) NHS
7 2 (1.06%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.06%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.53%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.53%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.15%) Linux
2 15 (7.98%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (6.91%) VMS
4 12 (6.38%) Windows
5 10 (5.32%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.79%) Unix
7 7 (3.72%) CentOS
7 7 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.53%) AIX
8 1 (0.53%) Android
8 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.53%) Solaris
8 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (73.94%) CI/CD
2 111 (59.04%) DevOps
3 87 (46.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 81 (43.09%) Containerisation
5 59 (31.38%) Agile
5 59 (31.38%) Microservices
6 48 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (19.68%) Software Engineering
8 31 (16.49%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (15.96%) Event-Driven
10 28 (14.89%) Mentoring
10 28 (14.89%) Observability
11 27 (14.36%) AI
11 27 (14.36%) Configuration Management
12 26 (13.83%) Cloud Security
12 26 (13.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 22 (11.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 21 (11.17%) Machine Learning
15 20 (10.64%) Clean Code
16 19 (10.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 108 (57.45%) Python
2 40 (21.28%) Java
3 28 (14.89%) SQL
4 25 (13.30%) TypeScript
5 23 (12.23%) PowerShell
6 22 (11.70%) Bash
7 16 (8.51%) Go
7 16 (8.51%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.98%) Groovy
9 13 (6.91%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.72%) Ruby
11 4 (2.13%) C#
11 4 (2.13%) Perl
12 3 (1.60%) C
12 3 (1.60%) CodeQL
13 1 (0.53%) C++
13 1 (0.53%) COBOL
13 1 (0.53%) PHP
13 1 (0.53%) R
13 1 (0.53%) Scala
Qualifications
1 65 (34.57%) Security Cleared
2 51 (27.13%) SC Cleared
3 43 (22.87%) AWS Certification
4 24 (12.77%) Degree
5 18 (9.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 14 (7.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (5.32%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.79%) DV Cleared
9 5 (2.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (2.66%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.53%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.98%) QA
2 8 (4.26%) NCSC
3 6 (3.19%) GDPR
3 6 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.66%) NIST
5 2 (1.06%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.06%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.06%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.53%) HL7
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (60.11%) Docker
2 12 (6.38%) Dovecot
2 12 (6.38%) Postfix
2 12 (6.38%) Squid
3 10 (5.32%) DFS Replication
4 4 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.53%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 119 (63.30%) Terraform
2 68 (36.17%) Kubernetes
3 29 (15.43%) Grafana
4 27 (14.36%) Ansible
5 24 (12.77%) Prometheus
6 12 (6.38%) Nessus
7 11 (5.85%) Packer
8 10 (5.32%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.79%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.72%) Jamf Pro
10 7 (3.72%) Puppet
11 2 (1.06%) Kustomize
11 2 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.53%) Argo
12 1 (0.53%) Kibana
12 1 (0.53%) Nagios
Vendors
1 19 (10.11%) ServiceNow
2 15 (7.98%) Splunk
3 12 (6.38%) Jaspersoft
4 9 (4.79%) CA Agile Central
4 9 (4.79%) IBM
5 7 (3.72%) Okta
6 6 (3.19%) Gigya
7 5 (2.66%) Sybase
8 4 (2.13%) Microsoft
8 4 (2.13%) Oracle
9 3 (1.60%) Google
10 2 (1.06%) Cisco
10 2 (1.06%) CloudEndure
10 2 (1.06%) Confluent
10 2 (1.06%) Ping Identity
11 1 (0.53%) Brio
11 1 (0.53%) Databricks
11 1 (0.53%) JDA
11 1 (0.53%) NetApp
11 1 (0.53%) SaltStack