Amazon ECS Contracts in Reading

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 56 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +28 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 4 7 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.67% 0.59% 0.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 1.90% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £583
25th Percentile - - £594
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
75th Percentile - - £656
90th Percentile - - £668
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +19.05%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 201 369 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 33.67% 30.96% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 275 247
10th Percentile £343 £381 £413
25th Percentile £444 £484 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 7
10th Percentile £33.82 £56.50 £38.59
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.58 £53.00
Median hourly rate £53.10 £58.30 £75.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.93% -22.78% +211.34%
75th Percentile £65.14 £59.95 £79.19
90th Percentile £72.37 £60.61 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
% change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in Reading

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in Reading

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
2 2 (50.00%) JUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Mockito
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) jQuery
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) Web Services
1 2 (50.00%) WireMock
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 2 (50.00%) Process Management
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) OSCP
1 1 (25.00%) SANS
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (50.00%) Kibana
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) New Relic
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid7