Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 309 289 299
Rank change year-on-year -20 +10 +64
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 133 80 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.66% 0.59% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.60% 1.38% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 60 67
10th Percentile £404 £324 £438
25th Percentile £481 £444 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £675
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £888
90th Percentile £775 £750 -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 - -
Median hourly rate £67.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.00 - -

All Cloud Computing 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 8,327 5,801 6,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.44% 43.09% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,683 3,974 4,771
10th Percentile £363 £338 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.75% -2.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 88 49
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.85 £20.40
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.77 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +7.54% -50.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.94 £38.75
90th Percentile £76.93 £68.85 £59.20
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +36.54% +4.00% -22.65%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in London

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

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 18 August 2026. 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
West London -5 16 £725 +141.67% 3
Central London 0 11 £625 -7.41% 4
South London -13 4 - - 1
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (6.77%) Confluence
2 8 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (4.51%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.51%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.26%) Apache
5 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.75%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 133 (100.00%) AWS
2 92 (69.17%) AWS Lambda
2 92 (69.17%) Serverless
3 80 (60.15%) Amazon S3
4 72 (54.14%) Amazon EKS
5 38 (28.57%) GitHub
6 37 (27.82%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (24.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (21.80%) AWS CloudFormation
9 28 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (21.05%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (13.53%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (10.53%) Amazon EventBridge
12 13 (9.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (8.27%) Datadog
14 10 (7.52%) Amazon Bedrock
14 10 (7.52%) Amazon EMR
15 9 (6.77%) Snowflake
16 8 (6.02%) Azure
17 7 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.50%) Network Security
2 1 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (31.58%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (24.81%) DynamoDB
3 24 (18.05%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (9.77%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (7.52%) Big Data
5 10 (7.52%) NoSQL
6 9 (6.77%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (3.01%) Apache Hudi
8 4 (3.01%) Presto
9 3 (2.26%) Metadata
9 3 (2.26%) Redis
9 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.50%) Apache Iceberg
10 2 (1.50%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.50%) Db2
10 2 (1.50%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.50%) Power BI
10 2 (1.50%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.75%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 35 (26.32%) Jenkins
2 25 (18.80%) GitLab
3 11 (8.27%) Git
3 11 (8.27%) JIRA
4 7 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 5 (3.76%) Bitbucket
6 2 (1.50%) JUnit
6 2 (1.50%) MLflow
7 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.75%) Gatling
7 1 (0.75%) git-flow
7 1 (0.75%) JMeter
7 1 (0.75%) Maven
7 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (0.75%) RhodeCode
7 1 (0.75%) Selenium
7 1 (0.75%) Snyk
7 1 (0.75%) SonarQube
General
1 32 (24.06%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.80%) Finance
3 19 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.53%) Banking
5 12 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.51%) Law
7 5 (3.76%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.75%) Front Office
10 1 (0.75%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.75%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (22.56%) Senior
2 28 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (21.05%) Lead
3 27 (20.30%) Developer
4 19 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
5 17 (12.78%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (9.77%) Architect
6 13 (9.77%) Software Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Data Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Lead DevOps
8 11 (8.27%) Python Engineer
8 11 (8.27%) Technical Leader
9 10 (7.52%) AWS Developer
10 9 (6.77%) Python Developer
11 8 (6.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (6.02%) AWS Software Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Lead DevOps Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Python Software Engineer
11 8 (6.02%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.06%) React
2 24 (18.05%) REST
3 22 (16.54%) FastAPI
4 15 (11.28%) Kafka
4 15 (11.28%) Spring
5 14 (10.53%) Node.js
6 13 (9.77%) Spring Boot
7 11 (8.27%) Flask
7 11 (8.27%) RESTful
8 6 (4.51%) AngularJS
8 6 (4.51%) Jest
8 6 (4.51%) Next.js
9 5 (3.76%) .NET
9 5 (3.76%) AWS CDK
9 5 (3.76%) CSS
9 5 (3.76%) HTML
9 5 (3.76%) Langfuse
9 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Graph
9 5 (3.76%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (3.76%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 56 (42.11%) Cloud Native
2 24 (18.05%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (11.28%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.26%) Virtual Team
5 6 (4.51%) Security Posture
6 5 (3.76%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.01%) Fixed Income
7 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.50%) Autonomous Agent
8 2 (1.50%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.50%) NHS
8 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.75%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.28%) Linux
2 5 (3.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (64.66%) CI/CD
2 71 (53.38%) Infrastructure as Code
3 66 (49.62%) DevOps
4 53 (39.85%) Agile
5 50 (37.59%) Containerisation
5 50 (37.59%) Microservices
6 39 (29.32%) Observability
7 33 (24.81%) Software Engineering
8 32 (24.06%) AI
8 32 (24.06%) Test Automation
9 27 (20.30%) Event-Driven
10 25 (18.80%) Technical Leadership
11 23 (17.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 21 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (15.04%) Deployment Automation
13 20 (15.04%) DevSecOps
13 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Development
14 18 (13.53%) Cloud Security
14 18 (13.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 16 (12.03%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 84 (63.16%) Python
2 37 (27.82%) Java
3 33 (24.81%) TypeScript
4 19 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.78%) Bash
6 16 (12.03%) SQL
7 7 (5.26%) PowerShell
7 7 (5.26%) Scala
8 2 (1.50%) C#
8 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.75%) C
9 1 (0.75%) Cypher
9 1 (0.75%) Go
9 1 (0.75%) Gremlin
9 1 (0.75%) Groovy
9 1 (0.75%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.75%) SHACL
9 1 (0.75%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 40 (30.08%) Security Cleared
2 35 (26.32%) SC Cleared
3 20 (15.04%) AWS Certification
4 14 (10.53%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 7 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.01%) Degree
8 2 (1.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.75%) SAFe Agilist
9 1 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.02%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) NCSC
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (41.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (54.14%) Terraform
2 44 (33.08%) Kubernetes
3 12 (9.02%) Grafana
4 9 (6.77%) Ansible
4 9 (6.77%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.76%) Kibana
6 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.75%) Argo
7 1 (0.75%) HP Fortify
7 1 (0.75%) Istio
7 1 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.75%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (7.52%) Splunk
2 5 (3.76%) Amplitude
2 5 (3.76%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
2 5 (3.76%) ServiceNow
3 2 (1.50%) Databricks
3 2 (1.50%) OpenAI
3 2 (1.50%) Oracle
3 2 (1.50%) Sybase
4 1 (0.75%) New Relic
4 1 (0.75%) NVIDIA
4 1 (0.75%) Qualys
4 1 (0.75%) Tenable