Amazon ECS Contracts in the Midlands

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 127 147
Rank change year-on-year +11 +20 +44
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 3 2 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.15% 0.073% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% 0.30% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 13
10th Percentile £436 - £600
25th Percentile £454 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.90% -35.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £523 £475 -
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £640 £495 £600
% change year-on-year +29.29% -17.50% -

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 618 669 1,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.96% 24.53% 34.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 498 798
10th Percentile £213 £197 £227
25th Percentile £375 £319 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £559 £595 £588
90th Percentile £644 £688 £688
England median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 15
10th Percentile £15.13 - £14.71
25th Percentile £15.99 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.23 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.10% +6.13% +5.96%
75th Percentile £21.39 £26.50 £26.18
90th Percentile £36.28 £31.53 £28.59
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +19.33% -38.94% +62.79%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the Midlands

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the Midlands

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
West Midlands - 3 £495 - 161
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) React
1 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Mustache
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Design
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes