Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Knutsford

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Knutsford requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 26 -
Rank change year-on-year -20 - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 7 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Knutsford 2.43% 5.17% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.30% 11.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 0
10th Percentile £355 £384 -
25th Percentile £360 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £399 £444 -
90th Percentile £420 £448 -
Cheshire median daily rate £375 £400 -
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -

All Cloud Skills
Knutsford

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 Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 132 77 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 45.83% 44.25% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 65 6
10th Percentile £313 £344 -
25th Percentile £358 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £445 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% -10.10% +16.47%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £499
90th Percentile £500 £600 £519
Cheshire median daily rate £428 £455 £450
% change year-on-year -6.04% +1.11% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £16.00 £24.18 £33.00
% change year-on-year -33.83% -26.73% +51.52%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon ECS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Knutsford

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Knutsford citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Knutsford 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 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (42.86%) Serverless
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
4 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) GitLab
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (57.14%) MLflow
3 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Data Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) Flask
2 4 (57.14%) HTML
2 4 (57.14%) PySpark
3 2 (28.57%) Node.js
3 2 (28.57%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 4 (57.14%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Machine Learning
2 4 (57.14%) MLOps
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Front End Development
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
5 1 (14.29%) API Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) OOP
5 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Secure Coding
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) SOLID
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle