Amazon ECS Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 143 177 183
Rank change year-on-year +34 +6 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 23 8 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.70% 0.17% 0.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.07% 0.57% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 33
10th Percentile £358 £428 £525
25th Percentile £400 £447 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £738 £556 £700
90th Percentile £750 £580 -
England median daily rate £725 £489 £600
% change year-on-year +48.26% -18.50% +2.39%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +23 12 £400 -11.11% 35
Yorkshire +14 8 £725 +39.76% 8
North East - 3 £750 - 7
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 10 (43.48%) nginx
2 7 (30.43%) Traefik
3 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 3 (13.04%) Tomcat
4 1 (4.35%) CMS
4 1 (4.35%) Confluence
4 1 (4.35%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 17 (73.91%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (65.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 11 (47.83%) AWS Fargate
5 9 (39.13%) Entra ID
5 9 (39.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 7 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (30.43%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (30.43%) Serverless
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon S3
7 6 (26.09%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (17.39%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (17.39%) GitHub
8 4 (17.39%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (13.04%) AWS KMS
10 2 (8.70%) Amazon EventBridge
10 2 (8.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (8.70%) AWS CloudTrail
11 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
11 1 (4.35%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (47.83%) DNS
2 9 (39.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (73.91%) MongoDB
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (8.70%) DynamoDB
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
3 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
3 2 (8.70%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (4.35%) DocumentDB
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (73.91%) Jenkins
2 11 (47.83%) GitLab
3 1 (4.35%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) Maven
General
1 3 (13.04%) Military
1 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.70%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (47.83%) Senior
3 9 (39.13%) Senior DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
8 2 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (8.70%) Lead
8 2 (8.70%) Senior Software Engineer
9 1 (4.35%) Architect
9 1 (4.35%) Developer
9 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps
9 1 (4.35%) Lead DevOps Engineer
9 1 (4.35%) Lead Software Engineer
9 1 (4.35%) Software Architect
9 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
9 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (47.83%) Kafka
2 10 (43.48%) cloud-init
3 9 (39.13%) Keycloak
4 5 (21.74%) .NET
4 5 (21.74%) Node.js
5 3 (13.04%) OAuth
5 3 (13.04%) React
6 1 (4.35%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (39.13%) PKI
2 3 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (13.04%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (65.22%) Linux
2 13 (56.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (43.48%) CentOS
3 10 (43.48%) Unix
4 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
4 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) DevOps
2 19 (82.61%) CI/CD
3 18 (78.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (56.52%) Secrets Management
5 10 (43.48%) Continuous Integration
6 9 (39.13%) Cloud Security
6 9 (39.13%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 9 (39.13%) Identity Management
6 9 (39.13%) Observability
6 9 (39.13%) Static Application Security Testing
7 7 (30.43%) Agile
7 7 (30.43%) Mobile Device Management
8 5 (21.74%) Microservices
9 3 (13.04%) Blue-Green Deployment
9 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.04%) Service Catalogue
9 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
9 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
10 2 (8.70%) Event-Driven
10 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Bash
1 13 (56.52%) Python
2 10 (43.48%) Go
3 4 (17.39%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Java
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) PHP
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) AWS Certification
1 12 (52.17%) Security Cleared
2 11 (47.83%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (39.13%) NCSC
2 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (69.57%) Terraform
2 12 (52.17%) Kubernetes
3 11 (47.83%) Grafana
3 11 (47.83%) Packer
3 11 (47.83%) Prometheus
4 9 (39.13%) Consul
4 9 (39.13%) Istio
4 9 (39.13%) Jamf Pro
4 9 (39.13%) linkerd
4 9 (39.13%) Rancher
4 9 (39.13%) ZABBIX
5 7 (30.43%) HAProxy
6 3 (13.04%) Kibana
7 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (4.35%) Ansible
7 1 (4.35%) Graylog
7 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Okta
1 9 (39.13%) Splunk
2 7 (30.43%) Apple
2 7 (30.43%) ESET
3 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle