Amazon ECS Contracts in England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Amazon ECS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 472 497
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 -41
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 81 181 309
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.22% 0.37% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 1.01% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 144 189
10th Percentile £406 £463 £450
25th Percentile £425 £536 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £566 £675 £650
90th Percentile £621 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
England

Amazon ECS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,742 17,981 26,997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.93% 36.55% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,473 13,174 19,938
10th Percentile £300 £325 £332
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 304 346
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.28
Median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.98% +50.23% -
75th Percentile £33.25 £65.81 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £74.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 12 May 2024.

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 12 May 2024. 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 +51 62 £489 -18.50% 32
North of England -6 9 £485 -19.17% 9
South East +13 7 £600 -1.64% 4
North West +18 5 £447 -22.26% 4
Yorkshire -5 4 £495 -20.80% 4
Midlands +18 2 £450 -35.71% 3
East Midlands +13 2 £450 -35.71% 3
South West +7 1 - - 2
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 5 (6.17%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.94%) nginx
3 3 (3.70%) Apache
3 3 (3.70%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.47%) Confluence
5 1 (1.23%) JBoss
5 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 81 (100.00%) AWS
2 54 (66.67%) Serverless
3 42 (51.85%) AWS Lambda
4 37 (45.68%) Amazon S3
5 32 (39.51%) Amazon EC2
6 25 (30.86%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (20.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 15 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (16.05%) Amazon Kinesis
10 12 (14.81%) Azure
10 12 (14.81%) CloudFront
11 11 (13.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (12.35%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
13 9 (11.11%) GitHub
14 8 (9.88%) GitHub Actions
15 7 (8.64%) Amazon SageMaker
15 7 (8.64%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (8.64%) Route 53
16 6 (7.41%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.41%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) Firewall
3 3 (3.70%) DHCP
3 3 (3.70%) LAN
3 3 (3.70%) SMTP
3 3 (3.70%) WLAN
4 2 (2.47%) Network Security
4 2 (2.47%) SMS
5 1 (1.23%) HTTP
5 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (29.63%) Amazon RDS
2 17 (20.99%) DynamoDB
3 11 (13.58%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (8.64%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (8.64%) MongoDB
4 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.70%) MySQL
8 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.47%) Parquet
9 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.23%) DB2
9 1 (1.23%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.23%) Redis
9 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 20 (24.69%) Git
3 13 (16.05%) GitLab
4 10 (12.35%) Cypress.io
4 10 (12.35%) Maven
5 8 (9.88%) Protractor
6 4 (4.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (4.94%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.70%) JUnit
7 3 (3.70%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.47%) Mocha
8 2 (2.47%) Selenium
8 2 (2.47%) webpack
9 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.23%) Gradle
9 1 (1.23%) JIRA
9 1 (1.23%) JMeter
9 1 (1.23%) Mockito
9 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.28%) Public Sector
3 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.17%) Finance
5 4 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.70%) Law
6 3 (3.70%) Retail
7 2 (2.47%) Banking
7 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (38.27%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (37.04%) AWS Engineer
3 23 (28.40%) AWS DevOps
4 22 (27.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 22 (27.16%) Developer
5 10 (12.35%) Java Developer
5 10 (12.35%) Senior
6 6 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Full Stack Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Lead
7 5 (6.17%) AWS Developer
7 5 (6.17%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Consultant
8 4 (4.94%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Node.js Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (25.93%) Node.js
2 12 (14.81%) AngularJS
2 12 (14.81%) REST
3 9 (11.11%) Jest
3 9 (11.11%) React
3 9 (11.11%) RESTful
4 8 (9.88%) Web Services
5 7 (8.64%) Lambda Expressions
5 7 (8.64%) Spring
6 6 (7.41%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.17%) AWS CDK
7 5 (6.17%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.94%) Django
8 4 (4.94%) JSON
8 4 (4.94%) Kafka
8 4 (4.94%) SOAP
9 3 (3.70%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.70%) OAuth
10 2 (2.47%) Flask
10 2 (2.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.17%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.70%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.70%) PKI
4 2 (2.47%) IoT
4 2 (2.47%) Life Science
4 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Linux
2 3 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.23%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (61.73%) DevOps
2 41 (50.62%) CI/CD
3 30 (37.04%) Agile
4 17 (20.99%) Microservices
5 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (16.05%) Containerisation
7 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (11.11%) Migration
8 9 (11.11%) Test Automation
9 8 (9.88%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (8.64%) Scrum
10 7 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.64%) TDD
11 6 (7.41%) BDD
11 6 (7.41%) Software Engineering
11 6 (7.41%) Technical Leadership
12 5 (6.17%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (6.17%) End-to-End Testing
12 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (6.17%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.98%) Python
2 26 (32.10%) Java
3 18 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 12 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 11 (13.58%) Bash
6 8 (9.88%) SQL
7 6 (7.41%) Go
7 6 (7.41%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.94%) PHP
9 3 (3.70%) Perl
9 3 (3.70%) Scala
10 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.23%) Groovy
11 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (37.04%) SC Cleared
1 30 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
2 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (4.94%) Degree
3 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.47%) GDPR
1 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.23%) NCSC
2 1 (1.23%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (34.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 31 (38.27%) Kubernetes
2 30 (37.04%) Terraform
3 11 (13.58%) Ansible
4 4 (4.94%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.94%) Puppet
5 2 (2.47%) Grafana
5 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.23%) Consul
6 1 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.23%) Kibana
6 1 (1.23%) Packer
6 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (4.94%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.70%) F5
2 3 (3.70%) Oracle
2 3 (3.70%) Splunk
3 2 (2.47%) Google
3 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.47%) SAP
4 1 (1.23%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.23%) WSO2
4 1 (1.23%) Zscaler