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

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 342 383
Rank change year-on-year +66 +41 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 74 55 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.61% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.42% 0.81% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 39 74
10th Percentile £400 £407 £463
25th Percentile £519 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -16.67% -
75th Percentile £838 £581 £650
90th Percentile - £630 £688
England median daily rate £625 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +26.26% -17.50% -

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 5,218 6,809 9,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.88% 38.95% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,553 5,027 7,267
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £695
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 64 78
10th Percentile £22.27 £16.70 £19.68
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £24.63
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -50.48% +31.25%
75th Percentile £45.63 £38.13 £78.75
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.75 £90.00
England median hourly rate £25.26 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -38.94% +62.79%

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 30 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 30 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 - 3
Central London +7 1 - - 13
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 29 (39.19%) Apache Airflow
2 27 (36.49%) Apache
3 23 (31.08%) Apache Spark
4 6 (8.11%) Confluence
5 1 (1.35%) nginx
5 1 (1.35%) Traefik
Cloud Services
1 71 (95.95%) AWS
2 51 (68.92%) Serverless
3 44 (59.46%) AWS Lambda
4 28 (37.84%) dbt
5 26 (35.14%) Amazon EC2
6 24 (32.43%) Amazon EKS
7 23 (31.08%) OpenShift
8 18 (24.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 16 (21.62%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (18.92%) Amazon S3
11 11 (14.86%) GitHub
12 8 (10.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 8 (10.81%) AWS Fargate
13 7 (9.46%) Datadog
13 7 (9.46%) Snowflake
13 7 (9.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (8.11%) Dagster
15 5 (6.76%) GCP
16 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudTrail
17 3 (4.05%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.05%) HTTP
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) Firewall
2 1 (1.35%) IPsec
2 1 (1.35%) IPv4
2 1 (1.35%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.35%) Multicast
2 1 (1.35%) SMS
2 1 (1.35%) SSL
2 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (37.84%) Amazon Athena
2 27 (36.49%) Apache Arrow
2 27 (36.49%) Apache Iceberg
2 27 (36.49%) Apache Ignite
2 27 (36.49%) Dremio
3 13 (17.57%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (14.86%) DynamoDB
5 8 (10.81%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (8.11%) Data Lake
7 3 (4.05%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.70%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.35%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) Artifactory
2 13 (17.57%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.46%) Git
3 7 (9.46%) GitLab
4 6 (8.11%) JIRA
4 6 (8.11%) JUnit
5 5 (6.76%) Maven
6 4 (5.41%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.05%) git-flow
7 3 (4.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.70%) JMeter
8 2 (2.70%) Mockito
General
1 31 (41.89%) Finance
2 27 (36.49%) Front Office
3 11 (14.86%) Banking
4 7 (9.46%) Investment Banking
4 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.05%) Social Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Aviation
6 1 (1.35%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Marketing
6 1 (1.35%) Military
6 1 (1.35%) Retail
6 1 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (48.65%) AWS Engineer
2 30 (40.54%) DevOps Engineer
3 26 (35.14%) AWS DevOps
3 26 (35.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 24 (32.43%) Data Engineer
5 22 (29.73%) Python Engineer
6 16 (21.62%) Senior
7 15 (20.27%) Developer
8 11 (14.86%) Software Engineer
9 8 (10.81%) Java Engineer
10 7 (9.46%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (8.11%) Site Engineer
11 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 5 (6.76%) Architect
12 5 (6.76%) AWS Developer
12 5 (6.76%) AWS Software Engineer
12 5 (6.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (6.76%) Java Software Engineer
13 4 (5.41%) Applications Developer
13 4 (5.41%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (36.49%) PySpark
2 24 (32.43%) Kafka
3 22 (29.73%) J2EE
4 15 (20.27%) Node.js
5 14 (18.92%) Spring
6 8 (10.81%) AWS CDK
6 8 (10.81%) React
7 7 (9.46%) Jest
7 7 (9.46%) Spring Boot
8 6 (8.11%) Web Services
9 5 (6.76%) gRPC
9 5 (6.76%) HTML
9 5 (6.76%) JSON
9 5 (6.76%) NumPy
9 5 (6.76%) Pandas
9 5 (6.76%) Protocol Buffers
9 5 (6.76%) SciPy
10 4 (5.41%) Redux
10 4 (5.41%) RESTful
11 3 (4.05%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.76%) Derivative
1 5 (6.76%) Equities
1 5 (6.76%) Fixed Income
1 5 (6.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (6.76%) Hedge funds
2 4 (5.41%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Android
2 2 (2.70%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.35%) CentOS
3 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (58.11%) CI/CD
2 42 (56.76%) DevOps
3 39 (52.70%) Agile
4 37 (50.00%) Software Engineering
5 28 (37.84%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 27 (36.49%) Asset Management
7 24 (32.43%) Data Engineering
8 22 (29.73%) Open Source
9 15 (20.27%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (17.57%) Containerisation
11 10 (13.51%) Clean Code
11 10 (13.51%) Observability
12 9 (12.16%) Microservices
12 9 (12.16%) Test Automation
13 8 (10.81%) Architectural Patterns
14 6 (8.11%) Migration
14 6 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
15 5 (6.76%) Continuous Integration
15 5 (6.76%) Mentoring
15 5 (6.76%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 47 (63.51%) Python
2 43 (58.11%) Java
3 25 (33.78%) Go
4 17 (22.97%) TypeScript
5 16 (21.62%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.11%) SQL
7 5 (6.76%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.41%) Bash
8 4 (5.41%) Kotlin
8 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.41%) T-SQL
9 3 (4.05%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.46%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.35%) OCP
7 1 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) GDPR
3 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.70%) NCSC
4 1 (1.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 42 (56.76%) Docker
2 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.35%) RACF
Systems Management
1 42 (56.76%) Terraform
2 39 (52.70%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.81%) Grafana
4 5 (6.76%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.05%) Ansible
6 2 (2.70%) Kibana
6 2 (2.70%) Packer
7 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.35%) Consul
7 1 (1.35%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.35%) Istio
7 1 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.35%) linkerd
7 1 (1.35%) Puppet
7 1 (1.35%) Rancher
7 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (8.11%) Splunk
2 5 (6.76%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.41%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.05%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.35%) Apple
5 1 (1.35%) Databricks
5 1 (1.35%) ESET
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) Okta
5 1 (1.35%) Rollbar