Amazon ECS Contracts in the South East

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 153 196 207
Rank change year-on-year +43 +11 +40
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 6 9 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.66% 0.66% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £553 - £559
25th Percentile £556 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £588 - £675
90th Percentile - - £704
England median daily rate £725 £489 £600
% change year-on-year +48.26% -18.50% +2.39%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the South East

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the South East

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East 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
Thames Valley +40 6 £575 -4.17% 3
Berkshire +26 4 £550 -8.33% 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 £575 - 1
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (33.33%) Camunda
1 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
2 3 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
3 2 (33.33%) PaaS
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (16.67%) OCI
4 1 (16.67%) SonarCloud
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
3 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) JMeter
2 2 (33.33%) JUnit
2 2 (33.33%) Mockito
2 2 (33.33%) Terragrunt
3 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
3 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Java Technical Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 2 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) jQuery
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (33.33%) Keycloak
2 2 (33.33%) OpenJDK
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) WireMock
2 2 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
3 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) BDD
4 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (33.33%) Open Source
4 2 (33.33%) Process Management
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
4 2 (33.33%) Workflow
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) CCSP
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) OSCP
2 1 (16.67%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Kibana
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) New Relic
2 1 (16.67%) Rapid7