Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in the North East

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.60% - 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.31% - 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
England median daily rate £516 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -23.52% +22.73% -8.33%

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 153 85 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 45.67% 30.69% 37.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 40 56
10th Percentile £290 £266 £205
25th Percentile £400 £344 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £433 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.72% +8.13% -28.09%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £529
90th Percentile £700 £611 £594
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £37.70 - £15.95
25th Percentile £40.25 - £23.75
Median hourly rate £48.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% +42.09% +44.44%
75th Percentile £53.25 - £46.18
90th Percentile £54.30 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £28.61
% change year-on-year -28.14% +22.33% +27.16%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon ECS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the North East

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Amazon ECS

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 3 November 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 - 2 £425 - 1
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Packer