Amazon ECS Contracts in Manchester

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 71 94 109
Rank change year-on-year +23 +15 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 8 2 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.86% 0.13% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 0.36% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £400 £417 £505
25th Percentile £419 £435 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -16.52% +19.79%
75th Percentile £581 £535 £631
90th Percentile £675 £559 £675
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £575
% change year-on-year -11.11% -21.74% +19.79%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in Manchester

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in Manchester

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in Manchester

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 2
Amazon ECS
North West

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon SQS
2 5 (62.50%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (62.50%) Serverless
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (50.00%) GitHub
3 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (37.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) MongoDB
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) DocumentDB
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Node.js
2 3 (37.50%) React
3 2 (25.00%) .NET
3 2 (25.00%) Kafka
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Amplify
4 1 (12.50%) cloud-init
4 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (12.50%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) CentOS
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
6 1 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
6 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Observability
6 1 (12.50%) RBAC
6 1 (12.50%) Secrets Management
6 1 (12.50%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Packer
3 2 (25.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (12.50%) Consul
4 1 (12.50%) Graylog
4 1 (12.50%) Istio
4 1 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (12.50%) linkerd
4 1 (12.50%) Puppet
4 1 (12.50%) Rancher
4 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Okta
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk