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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 370 460
Rank change year-on-year -24 +90 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 204 114 79
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.47% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.23% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 92 60
10th Percentile £385 £363 £406
25th Percentile £470 £475 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +13.52% -15.58%
75th Percentile £650 £836 £591
90th Percentile £738 £838 £663
UK median daily rate £529 £550 £505
% change year-on-year -3.82% +8.91% -15.83%
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 14,924 9,236 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.04% 37.75% 31.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,132 6,296 8,585
10th Percentile £325 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £738 £744
UK median daily rate £510 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 520 225 331
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £41.78 £25.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +67.12% +16.50% -38.69%
75th Percentile £68.75 £37.75 £41.63
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.31 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +33.25% +30.23% -41.89%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -14 135 £563 -13.46% 30
North of England -72 24 £513 +2.50% 17
North West -41 16 £650 +62.50% 7
West Midlands -50 14 £488 -0.76%
Midlands -56 14 £488 -0.76%
South East -53 12 £600 +4.35% 10
South West -18 7 £350 -31.71% 5
East of England - 6 £550 - 1
North East -25 4 £469 - 2
Yorkshire -52 4 £500 - 8
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 (9.80%) Confluence
2 12 (5.88%) Apache Spark
3 7 (3.43%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.98%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.49%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Bloomberg AIM
1 3 (1.47%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.49%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 199 (97.55%) AWS
2 140 (68.63%) Serverless
3 138 (67.65%) AWS Lambda
4 127 (62.25%) Amazon S3
5 106 (51.96%) Amazon EKS
6 78 (38.24%) GitHub
7 73 (35.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 71 (34.80%) GitHub Actions
9 70 (34.31%) AWS CloudFormation
10 52 (25.49%) Amazon EC2
11 40 (19.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 38 (18.63%) AWS CodePipeline
13 35 (17.16%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (7.84%) AWS Fargate
15 15 (7.35%) AWS Step Functions
16 14 (6.86%) Datadog
17 12 (5.88%) Azure
18 11 (5.39%) Amazon ECR
19 10 (4.90%) Amazon EventBridge
19 10 (4.90%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.45%) DNS
1 5 (2.45%) Network Security
2 2 (0.98%) HTTP
3 1 (0.49%) Firewall
3 1 (0.49%) SSL
3 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
2 48 (23.53%) DynamoDB
3 31 (15.20%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (12.25%) NoSQL
5 18 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (7.84%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (6.37%) MongoDB
8 10 (4.90%) Relational Database
9 9 (4.41%) Big Data
10 8 (3.92%) Redis
11 6 (2.94%) Flink
12 5 (2.45%) DocumentDB
12 5 (2.45%) Presto
13 4 (1.96%) Apache Hudi
13 4 (1.96%) Db2
13 4 (1.96%) MySQL
14 3 (1.47%) Amazon Redshift
15 2 (0.98%) Metadata
15 2 (0.98%) Pinecone
16 1 (0.49%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 60 (29.41%) Jenkins
2 42 (20.59%) GitLab
3 25 (12.25%) Git
4 21 (10.29%) JIRA
5 17 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.43%) Cypress.io
7 4 (1.96%) JUnit
8 3 (1.47%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.47%) Gradle
8 3 (1.47%) Maven
8 3 (1.47%) Snyk
8 3 (1.47%) Vite
9 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.49%) Gatling
9 1 (0.49%) MLflow
9 1 (0.49%) Mockito
9 1 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.49%) Selenium
9 1 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (29.90%) Social Skills
2 33 (16.18%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.33%) Finance
4 16 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.90%) Banking
6 9 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.45%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.45%) Law
9 4 (1.96%) Front Office
10 3 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.98%) Retail
12 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 42 (20.59%) Developer
2 40 (19.61%) AWS Engineer
3 34 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 31 (15.20%) Senior
5 25 (12.25%) Lead
6 23 (11.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 21 (10.29%) Architect
7 21 (10.29%) AWS DevOps
8 17 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 17 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 16 (7.84%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 15 (7.35%) AWS Developer
11 13 (6.37%) Python Developer
11 13 (6.37%) Scrum Master
12 12 (5.88%) Senior Developer
13 11 (5.39%) AWS Architect
13 11 (5.39%) Lead DevOps
13 11 (5.39%) Python Engineer
14 10 (4.90%) Data Engineer
15 8 (3.92%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (20.10%) Kafka
2 40 (19.61%) React
3 32 (15.69%) Spring
3 32 (15.69%) Spring Boot
4 28 (13.73%) RESTful
5 20 (9.80%) OAuth
5 20 (9.80%) REST
6 19 (9.31%) AWS CDK
6 19 (9.31%) Node.js
7 17 (8.33%) OAuth2
8 15 (7.35%) FastAPI
9 11 (5.39%) .NET
9 11 (5.39%) GraphQL
9 11 (5.39%) JWT
9 11 (5.39%) OpenID
10 10 (4.90%) Elastic Stack
10 10 (4.90%) Flask
11 9 (4.41%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.41%) Next.js
12 7 (3.43%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 75 (36.76%) Cloud Native
2 25 (12.25%) Product Ownership
3 24 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.96%) AI Agents
5 4 (1.96%) Algorithms
5 4 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.96%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (1.96%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.96%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.47%) Equities
6 3 (1.47%) Fixed Income
6 3 (1.47%) NHS
7 2 (0.98%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (0.98%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.24%) Linux
2 6 (2.94%) Unix
3 4 (1.96%) Windows
4 1 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.49%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (77.94%) CI/CD
2 123 (60.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 108 (52.94%) DevOps
4 89 (43.63%) Containerisation
5 72 (35.29%) Microservices
6 70 (34.31%) Agile
7 53 (25.98%) Test Automation
8 50 (24.51%) Observability
9 36 (17.65%) Software Engineering
10 35 (17.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (15.69%) DevSecOps
12 31 (15.20%) Event-Driven
13 30 (14.71%) AI
14 29 (14.22%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (12.75%) Full-Stack Development
16 25 (12.25%) Scrum
17 22 (10.78%) Cloud Security
17 22 (10.78%) Technical Leadership
18 21 (10.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 21 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 95 (46.57%) Python
2 67 (32.84%) Java
3 35 (17.16%) SQL
4 31 (15.20%) JavaScript
5 29 (14.22%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.29%) Bash
7 9 (4.41%) Scala
8 7 (3.43%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.94%) C#
10 5 (2.45%) Go
10 5 (2.45%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (2.45%) Search Processing Language
11 4 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.49%) Groovy
13 1 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 69 (33.82%) Security Cleared
2 54 (26.47%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.25%) AWS Certification
4 17 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 11 (5.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 11 (5.39%) SAFe Agilist
6 9 (4.41%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 9 (4.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (3.92%) Degree
8 7 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.96%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.47%) AWS Certified Developer
10 3 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.98%) CCSP
11 2 (0.98%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.98%) CISSP
11 2 (0.98%) OSCP
11 2 (0.98%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.33%) QA
2 11 (5.39%) NIST
3 8 (3.92%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.96%) GDPR
6 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.98%) NCSC
7 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.49%) GRC
System Software
1 108 (52.94%) Docker
2 1 (0.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 126 (61.76%) Terraform
2 68 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 28 (13.73%) Prometheus
4 21 (10.29%) Grafana
5 20 (9.80%) Ansible
6 8 (3.92%) Puppet
7 6 (2.94%) Kibana
7 6 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.47%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.98%) Argo
9 2 (0.98%) Istio
10 1 (0.49%) Consul
10 1 (0.49%) Packer
10 1 (0.49%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 24 (11.76%) Splunk
2 9 (4.41%) Databricks
3 6 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 5 (2.45%) Microsoft
5 4 (1.96%) AVEVA
5 4 (1.96%) Google
5 4 (1.96%) New Relic
5 4 (1.96%) Rapid7
5 4 (1.96%) Sybase
6 3 (1.47%) Amplitude
6 3 (1.47%) AppDynamics
6 3 (1.47%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.47%) Charles River
6 3 (1.47%) Qualys
6 3 (1.47%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.47%) Tenable
7 1 (0.49%) Confluent
7 1 (0.49%) ServiceNow