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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 337 395
Rank change year-on-year +57 +58 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 74 63 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.36% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.91% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 47 70
10th Percentile £377 £407 £411
25th Percentile £475 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £838 £875 £650
90th Percentile - £888 £715
England median daily rate £539 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +2.69% -12.50% -

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 5,522 6,939 10,001
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.82% 39.71% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,737 5,097 7,373
10th Percentile £350 £350 £370
25th Percentile £425 £450 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £788 £788
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 63 74
10th Percentile £22.70 £18.22 £19.25
25th Percentile £25.08 £22.04 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.00 £26.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -53.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.44 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £57.00 £89.49
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

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 July 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 July 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
Central London +3 2 - - 45
South London -2 2 - - 1
East London - 2 £250 - 18
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 22 (29.73%) Apache Airflow
2 20 (27.03%) Apache
3 16 (21.62%) Apache Spark
4 5 (6.76%) CMS
4 5 (6.76%) Headless CMS
5 1 (1.35%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 71 (95.95%) AWS
2 54 (72.97%) Serverless
3 47 (63.51%) AWS Lambda
4 26 (35.14%) Amazon EC2
5 24 (32.43%) Amazon S3
6 23 (31.08%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (28.38%) dbt
8 20 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (25.68%) Amazon SQS
10 17 (22.97%) OpenShift
11 10 (13.51%) AWS Fargate
12 9 (12.16%) GitHub
13 8 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (9.46%) Amazon Kinesis
14 7 (9.46%) Datadog
14 7 (9.46%) Snowflake
15 6 (8.11%) Dagster
15 6 (8.11%) GCP
16 5 (6.76%) Amazon Cognito
16 5 (6.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) HTTP
2 1 (1.35%) Firewall
2 1 (1.35%) IPv4
2 1 (1.35%) Multicast
2 1 (1.35%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (31.08%) Amazon Athena
2 21 (28.38%) DynamoDB
3 20 (27.03%) Apache Arrow
3 20 (27.03%) Apache Iceberg
3 20 (27.03%) Apache Ignite
3 20 (27.03%) Dremio
4 17 (22.97%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (16.22%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (8.11%) Data Lake
6 6 (8.11%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.41%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.70%) DB2
9 1 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.35%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (20.27%) Artifactory
2 12 (16.22%) Jenkins
3 10 (13.51%) JUnit
4 8 (10.81%) GitLab
5 7 (9.46%) Git
6 6 (8.11%) Cucumber
6 6 (8.11%) Maven
7 3 (4.05%) git-flow
7 3 (4.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.70%) JMeter
8 2 (2.70%) Mockito
9 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.35%) JIRA
General
1 24 (32.43%) Finance
2 20 (27.03%) Front Office
3 12 (16.22%) Banking
4 10 (13.51%) Social Skills
5 8 (10.81%) Investment Banking
6 4 (5.41%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Publishing
9 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.35%) Aviation
9 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.35%) Marketing
9 1 (1.35%) Retail
9 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) AWS Engineer
2 22 (29.73%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (24.32%) Senior
4 17 (22.97%) AWS DevOps
4 17 (22.97%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 17 (22.97%) Data Engineer
4 17 (22.97%) Developer
5 15 (20.27%) Python Engineer
6 11 (14.86%) Software Engineer
7 9 (12.16%) Java Engineer
8 8 (10.81%) AWS Developer
9 7 (9.46%) Lead
9 7 (9.46%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Java Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Senior Developer
10 6 (8.11%) Site Engineer
10 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (6.76%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (6.76%) Designer
11 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (27.03%) PySpark
2 18 (24.32%) Kafka
3 15 (20.27%) J2EE
3 15 (20.27%) Node.js
4 13 (17.57%) Spring
5 9 (12.16%) AWS CDK
5 9 (12.16%) Jest
6 8 (10.81%) React
7 5 (6.76%) gRPC
7 5 (6.76%) HTML
7 5 (6.76%) NumPy
7 5 (6.76%) OAuth
7 5 (6.76%) OAuth2
7 5 (6.76%) OpenID
7 5 (6.76%) Pandas
7 5 (6.76%) Protocol Buffers
7 5 (6.76%) SAML
7 5 (6.76%) SciPy
7 5 (6.76%) Spring Boot
7 5 (6.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.76%) Derivative
2 5 (6.76%) Equities
2 5 (6.76%) Fixed Income
2 5 (6.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (6.76%) Hedge funds
3 4 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Android
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
3 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 35 (47.30%) Agile
3 30 (40.54%) Software Engineering
4 29 (39.19%) DevOps
5 21 (28.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 20 (27.03%) Asset Management
7 18 (24.32%) Containerisation
8 17 (22.97%) Data Engineering
9 16 (21.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (20.27%) Open Source
11 13 (17.57%) Mentoring
12 12 (16.22%) Clean Code
12 12 (16.22%) Microservices
13 11 (14.86%) Test Automation
14 10 (13.51%) Migration
15 9 (12.16%) Problem-Solving
16 8 (10.81%) Observability
17 7 (9.46%) Architectural Patterns
17 7 (9.46%) Integration Testing
18 6 (8.11%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 42 (56.76%) Python
2 37 (50.00%) Java
3 20 (27.03%) TypeScript
4 16 (21.62%) Go
5 15 (20.27%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.46%) SQL
7 5 (6.76%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.41%) Bash
8 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.41%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.05%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) AWS Certification
2 10 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.70%) Degree
5 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.35%) OCP
6 1 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) QA
2 2 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (45.95%) Terraform
2 30 (40.54%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.76%) Grafana
4 3 (4.05%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.70%) Ansible
5 2 (2.70%) Kibana
6 1 (1.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (9.46%) CA Agile Central
2 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.76%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.76%) Splunk
4 2 (2.70%) IBM
4 2 (2.70%) Sybase
5 1 (1.35%) Databricks
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) Rollbar