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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 114 141
Rank change year-on-year +4 +27 +31
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 18 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.81% 0.46% 0.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.62% 1.49% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 11
10th Percentile £352 £361 £506
25th Percentile £361 £400 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £575
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -28.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £567 £450 £675
90th Percentile £586 £585 £738
England median daily rate £529 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -11.88% - -

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 687 740 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.10% 31.21% 37.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 500 840
10th Percentile £313 £306 £270
25th Percentile £388 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 36 53
10th Percentile £12.82 - £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 - £16.62
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +13.20%
75th Percentile £47.12 £33.38 £46.18
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.63 £61.68
England median hourly rate £25.15 £24.15 £32.32
% change year-on-year +4.14% -25.28% +50.33%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +7 13 £528 +9.90% 11
Cheshire -18 5 £358 -10.50% 3
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 (16.67%) Apache
1 3 (16.67%) nginx
1 3 (16.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
2 14 (77.78%) AWS Lambda
2 14 (77.78%) Serverless
3 10 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (55.56%) Amazon SQS
3 10 (55.56%) GitHub
4 9 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 8 (44.44%) Amazon EventBridge
6 7 (38.89%) GCP
7 6 (33.33%) Amazon S3
7 6 (33.33%) Apigee
7 6 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
7 6 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
7 6 (33.33%) Datadog
8 5 (27.78%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (27.78%) Loggly
8 5 (27.78%) Route 53
9 4 (22.22%) Azure
9 4 (22.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (55.56%) DynamoDB
1 10 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (50.00%) NoSQL
3 8 (44.44%) Amazon Aurora
4 6 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (33.33%) MongoDB
4 6 (33.33%) Redis
5 5 (27.78%) BigQuery
5 5 (27.78%) MySQL
5 5 (27.78%) RDBMS
5 5 (27.78%) Relational Database
6 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 2 (11.11%) DocumentDB
8 1 (5.56%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Jenkins
2 7 (38.89%) Git
3 6 (33.33%) SonarQube
4 5 (27.78%) Gradle
4 5 (27.78%) Maven
4 5 (27.78%) SonarLint
5 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 11 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Architect
1 7 (38.89%) Java Architect
1 7 (38.89%) Java Technical Architect
1 7 (38.89%) Technical Architect
2 5 (27.78%) AWS Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Python Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior JavaScript Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (50.00%) RESTful
2 7 (38.89%) JWT
3 6 (33.33%) Spring Boot
4 5 (27.78%) .NET
4 5 (27.78%) Dropwizard
4 5 (27.78%) GraphQL
4 5 (27.78%) J2EE
4 5 (27.78%) Micronaut
4 5 (27.78%) OAuth
5 4 (22.22%) Celery
6 2 (11.11%) Kafka
6 2 (11.11%) Next.js
6 2 (11.11%) Node.js
6 2 (11.11%) OAuth2
6 2 (11.11%) React
7 1 (5.56%) AWS Amplify
7 1 (5.56%) Jest
7 1 (5.56%) Playwright
7 1 (5.56%) REST
7 1 (5.56%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Cloud Native
2 6 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 5 (27.78%) N-Tier
4 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) CI/CD
2 10 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 10 (55.56%) Microservices
3 9 (50.00%) Agile
3 9 (50.00%) Event-Driven
3 9 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (50.00%) TDD
4 8 (44.44%) Design Patterns
4 8 (44.44%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 8 (44.44%) SOLID
4 8 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (38.89%) Clean Code
5 7 (38.89%) DevOps
5 7 (38.89%) OOP
5 7 (38.89%) TOGAF
6 6 (33.33%) API Design
6 6 (33.33%) Asynchronous Programming
6 6 (33.33%) CQRS
7 5 (27.78%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.56%) Bash
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.56%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 11 (61.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 7 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 3 (16.67%) Kibana
4 2 (11.11%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Gigya
2 3 (16.67%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft