Amazon ECS Contracts in London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 324 382
Rank change year-on-year +79 +58 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 108 67 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.86% 0.38% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.03% 0.99% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 47 79
10th Percentile £500 £407 £463
25th Percentile £625 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +55.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £838 £588 £663
90th Percentile £888 £655 £700
England median daily rate £725 £489 £600
% change year-on-year +48.26% -18.50% +2.39%

All Cloud Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,314 6,744 10,546
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.35% 37.82% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,693 4,977 7,700
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £440 £445 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £775 £782
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 71 90
10th Percentile £22.40 £17.78 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.44 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £58.75 £88.30
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in London

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in London

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in London

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South London +3 4 £685 -1.79%
East London - 2 £250 - 1
Central London 0 1 - - 12
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 48 (44.44%) Apache
2 47 (43.52%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (26.85%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.56%) Confluence
5 5 (4.63%) nginx
5 5 (4.63%) Traefik
6 3 (2.78%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 105 (97.22%) AWS
2 63 (58.33%) Serverless
3 56 (51.85%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (43.52%) Amazon EC2
5 46 (42.59%) dbt
6 39 (36.11%) Amazon EKS
7 34 (31.48%) OpenShift
8 30 (27.78%) AWS CloudFormation
9 25 (23.15%) Amazon SQS
10 23 (21.30%) Amazon S3
11 19 (17.59%) Snowflake
12 18 (16.67%) Dagster
13 17 (15.74%) GCP
14 9 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (7.41%) AWS Fargate
15 8 (7.41%) GitHub
16 5 (4.63%) Entra ID
17 4 (3.70%) Datadog
18 3 (2.78%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.41%) DNS
2 5 (4.63%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.70%) SSL
4 3 (2.78%) HTTP
4 3 (2.78%) SMTP
5 1 (0.93%) Firewall
5 1 (0.93%) IPsec
5 1 (0.93%) IPv4
5 1 (0.93%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.93%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (42.59%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (41.67%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (41.67%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (41.67%) Apache Ignite
2 45 (41.67%) Dremio
3 20 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 18 (16.67%) Data Lake
5 10 (9.26%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (5.56%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
8 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.85%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.85%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (30.56%) Artifactory
2 17 (15.74%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.26%) GitLab
4 6 (5.56%) JIRA
5 5 (4.63%) Git
6 3 (2.78%) git-flow
7 2 (1.85%) JMeter
7 2 (1.85%) JUnit
7 2 (1.85%) Mockito
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
General
1 62 (57.41%) Finance
2 59 (54.63%) Front Office
3 32 (29.63%) Banking
4 19 (17.59%) Investment Banking
5 10 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.70%) Social Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Military
8 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.93%) German Language
8 1 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 69 (63.89%) AWS Engineer
2 56 (51.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 49 (45.37%) AWS DevOps
3 49 (45.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 43 (39.81%) Python Engineer
5 30 (27.78%) Data Engineer
6 29 (26.85%) Senior
7 23 (21.30%) Software Engineer
8 17 (15.74%) AWS Software Engineer
9 14 (12.96%) Java Engineer
10 13 (12.04%) Developer
10 13 (12.04%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (12.04%) Senior Software Engineer
11 11 (10.19%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (10.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (8.33%) DevOps Manager
12 9 (8.33%) Finance Manager
13 8 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 7 (6.48%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
15 6 (5.56%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (41.67%) PySpark
2 35 (32.41%) Kafka
3 33 (30.56%) J2EE
4 17 (15.74%) gRPC
4 17 (15.74%) NumPy
4 17 (15.74%) Pandas
4 17 (15.74%) Protocol Buffers
4 17 (15.74%) SciPy
5 12 (11.11%) Node.js
6 10 (9.26%) Spring
7 8 (7.41%) React
8 7 (6.48%) AWS CDK
8 7 (6.48%) Spring Boot
9 6 (5.56%) HTML
9 6 (5.56%) Web Services
10 5 (4.63%) cloud-init
10 5 (4.63%) JSON
10 5 (4.63%) Keycloak
11 4 (3.70%) CSS
11 4 (3.70%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.74%) Derivative
1 17 (15.74%) Equities
1 17 (15.74%) Fixed Income
1 17 (15.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 17 (15.74%) Hedge funds
2 5 (4.63%) PKI
2 5 (4.63%) Tandem
3 4 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.33%) Linux
2 6 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.63%) CentOS
3 5 (4.63%) Unix
4 3 (2.78%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (63.89%) Agile
2 68 (62.96%) Software Engineering
3 67 (62.04%) CI/CD
4 64 (59.26%) DevOps
5 59 (54.63%) Asset Management
6 45 (41.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 33 (30.56%) Open Source
8 30 (27.78%) Data Engineering
9 20 (18.52%) Migration
10 19 (17.59%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (11.11%) Fintech
12 10 (9.26%) Containerisation
12 10 (9.26%) Observability
13 9 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (7.41%) Microservices
15 7 (6.48%) Architectural Patterns
15 7 (6.48%) Decision-Making
15 7 (6.48%) Deployment Automation
16 6 (5.56%) Cloud Security
16 6 (5.56%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (70.37%) Python
2 61 (56.48%) Java
3 40 (37.04%) Go
4 38 (35.19%) JavaScript
5 26 (24.07%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.33%) Bash
7 6 (5.56%) SQL
8 4 (3.70%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.70%) T-SQL
9 3 (2.78%) PHP
10 2 (1.85%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.93%) C#
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 18 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.85%) Degree
6 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) OCP
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) NCSC
2 3 (2.78%) GDPR
3 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
System Software
1 58 (53.70%) Docker
2 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) RACF
Systems Management
1 66 (61.11%) Kubernetes
2 64 (59.26%) Terraform
3 11 (10.19%) Grafana
3 11 (10.19%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.56%) Packer
5 5 (4.63%) Consul
5 5 (4.63%) HAProxy
5 5 (4.63%) Istio
5 5 (4.63%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (4.63%) linkerd
5 5 (4.63%) Rancher
5 5 (4.63%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.85%) Ansible
6 2 (1.85%) Kibana
7 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.93%) Puppet
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (9.26%) Splunk
2 5 (4.63%) Apple
2 5 (4.63%) Dynatrace
2 5 (4.63%) ESET
2 5 (4.63%) Okta
3 3 (2.78%) F5
4 1 (0.93%) Databricks
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.93%) Rollbar