Amazon ECS Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 462 461
Rank change year-on-year +108 -1 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 117 75 172
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.21% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% 0.64% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 57 139
10th Percentile £397 £406 £463
25th Percentile £500 £425 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +29.29% -17.50% -
75th Percentile £838 £575 £675
90th Percentile - £622 £700
UK median daily rate £589 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +17.70% -16.67% -

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 8,965 11,697 17,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.35% 32.12% 36.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,199 8,453 12,744
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 320 288
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.44
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.37 £34.40
Median % change year-on-year +19.33% -37.87% +59.99%
75th Percentile £36.75 £35.00 £69.63
90th Percentile £68.75 £67.18 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.90% -38.94% +59.09%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in England.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in England over the 6 months to 24 May 2025.

Daily 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 24 May 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 +85 80 £725 +46.61% 237
North of England +24 20 £500 +3.09% 329
North West +19 14 £400 -10.51% 165
South East +45 6 £575 -4.17% 353
Yorkshire +11 5 £513 +3.54% 127
Midlands +10 3 £495 +9.90% 261
West Midlands - 3 £495 - 144
North East - 1 - - 39
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (31.62%) Apache
2 35 (29.91%) Apache Airflow
3 25 (21.37%) Apache Spark
4 9 (7.69%) Confluence
5 7 (5.98%) nginx
6 4 (3.42%) Tomcat
7 3 (2.56%) Traefik
8 2 (1.71%) Camunda
8 2 (1.71%) CMS
8 2 (1.71%) WordPress
9 1 (0.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 113 (96.58%) AWS
2 71 (60.68%) Serverless
3 62 (52.99%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (36.75%) Amazon EC2
5 40 (34.19%) Amazon EKS
6 36 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
7 34 (29.06%) dbt
8 29 (24.79%) Amazon SQS
9 27 (23.08%) Amazon S3
10 26 (22.22%) OpenShift
11 24 (20.51%) GitHub
12 22 (18.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (11.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
15 11 (9.40%) AWS KMS
15 11 (9.40%) GCP
15 11 (9.40%) Snowflake
16 10 (8.55%) Dagster
16 10 (8.55%) GitHub Actions
17 9 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.84%) DNS
2 6 (5.13%) TCP/IP
3 5 (4.27%) HTTP
4 4 (3.42%) SSL
5 3 (2.56%) Firewall
5 3 (2.56%) Network Security
6 2 (1.71%) IPsec
6 2 (1.71%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.71%) VPN
7 1 (0.85%) IPv4
7 1 (0.85%) Multicast
7 1 (0.85%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (29.06%) Amazon Athena
2 33 (28.21%) Apache Arrow
2 33 (28.21%) Apache Iceberg
2 33 (28.21%) Apache Ignite
2 33 (28.21%) Dremio
3 17 (14.53%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (12.82%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (12.82%) DynamoDB
4 15 (12.82%) MongoDB
5 10 (8.55%) Data Lake
6 7 (5.98%) NoSQL
7 6 (5.13%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
9 4 (3.42%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 3 (2.56%) MySQL
11 2 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.71%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.71%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (28.21%) Jenkins
2 26 (22.22%) Artifactory
3 16 (13.68%) GitLab
4 13 (11.11%) Git
5 9 (7.69%) JIRA
6 5 (4.27%) git-flow
7 3 (2.56%) Maven
7 3 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.71%) JMeter
8 2 (1.71%) JUnit
8 2 (1.71%) Mockito
8 2 (1.71%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 42 (35.90%) Finance
2 36 (30.77%) Front Office
3 19 (16.24%) Banking
4 13 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.40%) Investment Banking
6 9 (7.69%) Social Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Military
8 2 (1.71%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Marketing
9 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 57 (48.72%) AWS Engineer
2 50 (42.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 39 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 28 (23.93%) Python Engineer
5 26 (22.22%) Data Engineer
5 26 (22.22%) Senior
6 19 (16.24%) Software Engineer
7 18 (15.38%) Developer
8 11 (9.40%) Architect
8 11 (9.40%) Senior Software Engineer
9 10 (8.55%) Java Engineer
9 10 (8.55%) Senior DevOps
10 9 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) Lead
10 9 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Java Software Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (5.13%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (29.06%) Kafka
2 33 (28.21%) PySpark
3 25 (21.37%) J2EE
4 24 (20.51%) Node.js
5 15 (12.82%) React
6 14 (11.97%) Spring
7 11 (9.40%) AWS CDK
7 11 (9.40%) Spring Boot
8 10 (8.55%) Web Services
9 9 (7.69%) gRPC
9 9 (7.69%) NumPy
9 9 (7.69%) Pandas
9 9 (7.69%) Protocol Buffers
9 9 (7.69%) SciPy
10 8 (6.84%) HTML
10 8 (6.84%) RESTful
11 7 (5.98%) .NET
11 7 (5.98%) JSON
11 7 (5.98%) OAuth
12 6 (5.13%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 9 (7.69%) Derivative
1 9 (7.69%) Equities
1 9 (7.69%) Fixed Income
1 9 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 9 (7.69%) Hedge funds
2 7 (5.98%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.27%) PKI
4 4 (3.42%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.85%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.85%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.26%) Linux
2 9 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.42%) CentOS
3 4 (3.42%) Unix
4 3 (2.56%) Android
5 2 (1.71%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.39%) CI/CD
2 70 (59.83%) DevOps
3 53 (45.30%) Agile
4 51 (43.59%) Software Engineering
5 36 (30.77%) Asset Management
6 33 (28.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 31 (26.50%) Infrastructure as Code
8 28 (23.93%) Open Source
9 26 (22.22%) Data Engineering
10 22 (18.80%) Microservices
11 18 (15.38%) Containerisation
12 15 (12.82%) Observability
13 12 (10.26%) Migration
14 11 (9.40%) Architectural Patterns
14 11 (9.40%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (9.40%) Secrets Management
15 10 (8.55%) Cloud Security
16 9 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
16 9 (7.69%) Mentoring
16 9 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 62 (52.99%) Python
2 56 (47.86%) Java
3 31 (26.50%) Go
4 29 (24.79%) JavaScript
5 21 (17.95%) TypeScript
6 17 (14.53%) SQL
7 12 (10.26%) Bash
8 8 (6.84%) Shell Script
9 6 (5.13%) T-SQL
10 4 (3.42%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.56%) CodeQL
12 2 (1.71%) PHP
13 1 (0.85%) Groovy
13 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 26 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.66%) SC Cleared
3 18 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 8 (6.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (5.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.71%) Degree
6 2 (1.71%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.85%) CCSP
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.85%) CISSP
7 1 (0.85%) OCP
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.85%) OSCP
7 1 (0.85%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.98%) NCSC
2 5 (4.27%) GDPR
3 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.42%) QA
4 2 (1.71%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.71%) NIST
4 2 (1.71%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
System Software
1 59 (50.43%) Docker
2 3 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.71%) RACF
Systems Management
1 68 (58.12%) Terraform
2 57 (48.72%) Kubernetes
3 14 (11.97%) Grafana
4 11 (9.40%) Prometheus
5 10 (8.55%) Ansible
6 7 (5.98%) Packer
7 6 (5.13%) Kibana
8 4 (3.42%) Consul
8 4 (3.42%) Istio
8 4 (3.42%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (3.42%) linkerd
8 4 (3.42%) Puppet
8 4 (3.42%) Rancher
8 4 (3.42%) ZABBIX
9 3 (2.56%) HAProxy
9 3 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.71%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.85%) Graylog
Vendors
1 11 (9.40%) Splunk
2 5 (4.27%) Dynatrace
3 4 (3.42%) AppDynamics
3 4 (3.42%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.42%) Okta
4 3 (2.56%) Apple
4 3 (2.56%) ESET
5 1 (0.85%) Databricks
5 1 (0.85%) New Relic
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle
5 1 (0.85%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.85%) Rollbar