Amazon ECS Contracts in the North East

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 35 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.94% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
England median daily rate £725 £489 £600
% change year-on-year +48.26% -18.50% +2.39%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 107 63 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 33.44% 18.64% 45.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 32 147
10th Percentile £321 £161 £350
25th Percentile £411 £190 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £453 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -19.82% +13.00%
75th Percentile £605 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - £11.44 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £13.77 £48.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%
75th Percentile £13.50 - £49.50
90th Percentile - £33.48 -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the North East

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the North East

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear - 3 £750 - 6
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (66.67%) nginx
1 2 (66.67%) Traefik
2 1 (33.33%) CMS
2 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Lightsail
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) cloud-init
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
1 2 (66.67%) Keycloak
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Cloud Security
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (66.67%) Observability
2 2 (66.67%) Secrets Management
2 2 (66.67%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Go
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Certification
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Consul
1 2 (66.67%) Grafana
1 2 (66.67%) HAProxy
1 2 (66.67%) Istio
1 2 (66.67%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) linkerd
1 2 (66.67%) Packer
1 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 2 (66.67%) Rancher
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
1 2 (66.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Apple
1 2 (66.67%) ESET
1 2 (66.67%) Okta
1 2 (66.67%) Splunk