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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 340 470
Rank change year-on-year +9 +130 +45
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 214 165 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.54% 0.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.48% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 142 83
10th Percentile £365 £477 £415
25th Percentile £440 £613 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.90% +31.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £888 £638
90th Percentile £700 - £735
UK median daily rate £530 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -26.90% +31.82% -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 11,904 11,137 13,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.20% 36.28% 35.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,167 7,430 9,768
10th Percentile £305 £313 £293
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 147 269
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% +26.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £51.25 £56.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £25.38
% change year-on-year -12.33% +18.20% +13.66%

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 5 December 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 5 December 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 -11 120 £525 -30.00% 21
North of England -5 56 £525 -25.00% 36
North West -2 28 £550 +37.50% 17
Yorkshire -13 24 £500 -31.03% 16
West Midlands -12 15 £475 -5.94% 7
Midlands -15 15 £475 +4.97% 13
South East -3 8 £530 +6.00% 33
South West -2 6 £625 +59.44% 11
East of England -13 5 £475 -5.00% 18
North East -3 4 £538 -28.33% 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 (9.81%) Confluence
2 11 (5.14%) nginx
3 10 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.40%) Apache
4 3 (1.40%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.40%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.47%) CICS
5 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (5.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (0.93%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.47%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 211 (98.60%) AWS
2 127 (59.35%) Serverless
3 121 (56.54%) AWS Lambda
4 106 (49.53%) Amazon S3
5 88 (41.12%) AWS CloudFormation
6 79 (36.92%) GitHub
7 73 (34.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 70 (32.71%) Amazon EKS
9 68 (31.78%) Amazon EC2
10 52 (24.30%) GitHub Actions
11 46 (21.50%) AWS Fargate
12 40 (18.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 36 (16.82%) Azure
14 25 (11.68%) Route 53
15 24 (11.21%) Datadog
16 22 (10.28%) Amazon SQS
17 20 (9.35%) AWS CodePipeline
17 20 (9.35%) AWS KMS
18 17 (7.94%) Apigee
19 16 (7.48%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (14.02%) DNS
2 20 (9.35%) Firewall
3 11 (5.14%) IMAP
3 11 (5.14%) OpenLDAP
3 11 (5.14%) SMTP
4 10 (4.67%) FTP
4 10 (4.67%) HTTP
4 10 (4.67%) SSH
5 5 (2.34%) VPN
6 4 (1.87%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.93%) SSL
8 1 (0.47%) Broadband
8 1 (0.47%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.47%) NAS
8 1 (0.47%) Network Security
8 1 (0.47%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (34.58%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (25.23%) DynamoDB
3 47 (21.96%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (12.15%) Amazon Aurora
5 20 (9.35%) Relational Database
6 16 (7.48%) NoSQL
7 15 (7.01%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.14%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (4.67%) RDBMS
10 9 (4.21%) SQL Server
11 8 (3.74%) MySQL
12 7 (3.27%) Big Data
12 7 (3.27%) Redis
13 5 (2.34%) BigQuery
13 5 (2.34%) Data Hub
13 5 (2.34%) DB2
14 4 (1.87%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (1.87%) DocumentDB
15 3 (1.40%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 75 (35.05%) Jenkins
2 51 (23.83%) Git
3 48 (22.43%) GitLab
4 30 (14.02%) JIRA
5 11 (5.14%) Maven
5 11 (5.14%) Vagrant
6 10 (4.67%) SonarQube
7 9 (4.21%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.27%) JUnit
9 6 (2.80%) Cypress.io
9 6 (2.80%) MLflow
10 5 (2.34%) Gradle
10 5 (2.34%) SonarLint
10 5 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.87%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.87%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.40%) RStudio
13 2 (0.93%) Selenium
14 1 (0.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.47%) Mocha
General
1 63 (29.44%) Social Skills
2 53 (24.77%) Public Sector
3 19 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.41%) Finance
5 11 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (4.21%) Banking
7 7 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.87%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.40%) Front Office
10 2 (0.93%) Military
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Police
11 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 61 (28.50%) AWS Engineer
2 54 (25.23%) DevOps Engineer
3 34 (15.89%) Senior
4 31 (14.49%) AWS DevOps
5 29 (13.55%) Developer
6 28 (13.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 28 (13.08%) Platform Engineer
7 27 (12.62%) Software Engineer
8 26 (12.15%) Lead
9 23 (10.75%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 23 (10.75%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 21 (9.81%) Architect
11 15 (7.01%) Site Engineer
11 15 (7.01%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 12 (5.61%) Technical Architect
13 11 (5.14%) AWS Developer
13 11 (5.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
13 11 (5.14%) Lead DevOps
14 10 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (4.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (19.63%) Node.js
2 34 (15.89%) Kafka
3 27 (12.62%) RESTful
4 25 (11.68%) React
5 22 (10.28%) Spring
6 21 (9.81%) AWS CDK
6 21 (9.81%) Spring Boot
7 15 (7.01%) JWT
7 15 (7.01%) REST
8 12 (5.61%) FastAPI
8 12 (5.61%) LDAP
8 12 (5.61%) OAuth
9 10 (4.67%) Flask
10 9 (4.21%) .NET
10 9 (4.21%) Jest
11 7 (3.27%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.27%) cloud-init
11 7 (3.27%) HTML
11 7 (3.27%) Keycloak
12 6 (2.80%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 50 (23.36%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.88%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.61%) Replication
4 11 (5.14%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.27%) PKI
7 6 (2.80%) NHS
8 5 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (2.34%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.40%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.40%) Equities
10 3 (1.40%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.93%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.93%) Derivative
11 2 (0.93%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (0.93%) Mobile App
11 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.93%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (24.77%) Linux
2 14 (6.54%) Amazon Linux
3 13 (6.07%) VMS
4 12 (5.61%) Windows
5 10 (4.67%) Ubuntu
6 9 (4.21%) Unix
7 7 (3.27%) CentOS
7 7 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.47%) AIX
8 1 (0.47%) Android
8 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.47%) Solaris
8 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (80.37%) CI/CD
2 123 (57.48%) DevOps
3 116 (54.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 93 (43.46%) Containerisation
5 74 (34.58%) Microservices
6 71 (33.18%) Agile
7 51 (23.83%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (21.03%) Software Engineering
9 36 (16.82%) Event-Driven
10 35 (16.36%) Platform Engineering
11 34 (15.89%) Configuration Management
12 33 (15.42%) Observability
13 32 (14.95%) AI
14 27 (12.62%) Mentoring
15 26 (12.15%) Machine Learning
16 24 (11.21%) Full-Stack Development
17 23 (10.75%) Analytics
17 23 (10.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
18 22 (10.28%) Cloud Security
18 22 (10.28%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 131 (61.21%) Python
2 48 (22.43%) Java
3 32 (14.95%) Bash
3 32 (14.95%) SQL
4 26 (12.15%) TypeScript
5 20 (9.35%) JavaScript
6 18 (8.41%) PowerShell
7 17 (7.94%) Go
8 15 (7.01%) Groovy
8 15 (7.01%) Ruby
9 8 (3.74%) Shell Script
10 6 (2.80%) C#
11 4 (1.87%) Perl
12 3 (1.40%) C
12 3 (1.40%) C++
12 3 (1.40%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.47%) COBOL
13 1 (0.47%) PHP
13 1 (0.47%) Rust
13 1 (0.47%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (34.11%) Security Cleared
2 59 (27.57%) SC Cleared
3 37 (17.29%) AWS Certification
4 30 (14.02%) Degree
5 17 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (7.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.14%) DV Cleared
8 10 (4.67%) Azure Certification
9 9 (4.21%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 5 (2.34%) Master's Degree
11 4 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.40%) AWS Certified Developer
13 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 2 (0.93%) PhD
14 1 (0.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 1 (0.47%) CCSP
14 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
14 1 (0.47%) CISSP
14 1 (0.47%) SANS
14 1 (0.47%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.61%) QA
2 10 (4.67%) NCSC
3 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.34%) GDPR
5 4 (1.87%) NIST
6 2 (0.93%) HIPAA
6 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) HL7
7 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 127 (59.35%) Docker
2 11 (5.14%) Dovecot
2 11 (5.14%) Postfix
2 11 (5.14%) Squid
3 10 (4.67%) DFS Replication
4 4 (1.87%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.87%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 144 (67.29%) Terraform
2 80 (37.38%) Kubernetes
3 37 (17.29%) Grafana
4 32 (14.95%) Ansible
5 23 (10.75%) Prometheus
6 13 (6.07%) Puppet
7 11 (5.14%) Nessus
7 11 (5.14%) Packer
8 10 (4.67%) Proxmox
9 9 (4.21%) Progress Chef
10 7 (3.27%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (1.40%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.93%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.93%) Opsgenie
12 2 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.47%) Argo
13 1 (0.47%) Kibana
13 1 (0.47%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (7.01%) ServiceNow
2 14 (6.54%) Splunk
3 11 (5.14%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (5.14%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.74%) PagerDuty
5 7 (3.27%) Okta
6 6 (2.80%) Gigya
6 6 (2.80%) IBM
7 5 (2.34%) CA Agile Central
7 5 (2.34%) Sybase
8 4 (1.87%) Google
8 4 (1.87%) Oracle
9 3 (1.40%) Databricks
9 3 (1.40%) Ping Identity
10 2 (0.93%) Cisco
10 2 (0.93%) CloudEndure
10 2 (0.93%) Confluent
11 1 (0.47%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.47%) JDA
11 1 (0.47%) NetApp