Amazon ECS Contracts in the North West

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 108 131 148
Rank change year-on-year +23 +17 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 12 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.22% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 0.68% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 7
10th Percentile £353 £421 £505
25th Percentile £361 £444 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -21.74% +19.79%
75th Percentile £519 £538 £631
90th Percentile £615 £560 £675
England median daily rate £725 £489 £600
% change year-on-year +48.26% -18.50% +2.39%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 884 1,198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.47% 32.09% 37.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 640 887
10th Percentile £244 £284 £311
25th Percentile £400 £391 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £487 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
75th Percentile £558 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £638 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 65 32
10th Percentile - £13.00 £16.19
25th Percentile £26.88 - £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%
75th Percentile £50.66 £20.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.88 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the North West

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the North West

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the North West

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +23 8 £500 +4.17% 24
Cheshire +1 4 £358 -19.91% 7
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (25.00%) Apache
1 3 (25.00%) nginx
1 3 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (58.33%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (58.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 6 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (50.00%) Serverless
4 5 (41.67%) Amazon S3
4 5 (41.67%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (33.33%) GitHub
5 4 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (25.00%) AWS KMS
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon EventBridge
7 2 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon Cognito
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (16.67%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (16.67%) DynamoDB
3 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) DocumentDB
4 1 (8.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (8.33%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
General
1 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior
4 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Lead
6 1 (8.33%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Software Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js
3 3 (25.00%) OAuth
3 3 (25.00%) React
4 2 (16.67%) Kafka
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (8.33%) cloud-init
5 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (8.33%) Keycloak
5 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (8.33%) CentOS
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 9 (75.00%) DevOps
3 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (41.67%) Microservices
5 4 (33.33%) Agile
5 4 (33.33%) Secrets Management
6 3 (25.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
6 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (16.67%) Event-Driven
7 2 (16.67%) Load Balancing
7 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 2 (16.67%) TDD
8 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (8.33%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (8.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 1 (8.33%) High Availability
8 1 (8.33%) Kanban
8 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Bash
1 4 (33.33%) Python
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) Go
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) Kibana
2 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Grafana
3 2 (16.67%) Packer
3 2 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (8.33%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Consul
4 1 (8.33%) Graylog
4 1 (8.33%) Istio
4 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (8.33%) linkerd
4 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
4 1 (8.33%) Rancher
4 1 (8.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (8.33%) Okta
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk