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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 182 203
Rank change year-on-year +20 +21 +48
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Amazon ECS 7 6 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.13% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.68% 0.52% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £480 £500 £550
25th Percentile £525 £538 £605
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £610
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -1.64% +7.02%
75th Percentile £609 - £638
90th Percentile £649 - £675
England median daily rate £525 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% -

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,034 1,157 1,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.11% 24.28% 28.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 820 1,136
10th Percentile £208 £299 £206
25th Percentile £375 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £706
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 30 54
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.69 £16.43
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.98 £19.81
Median hourly rate £18.82 £31.75 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% +14.09% +39.15%
75th Percentile £32.42 £53.56 £60.78
90th Percentile £48.55 £61.11 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.58 £25.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +2.30% -24.24% +53.49%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the South East over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the South East

Amazon ECS
DemandTrendContract 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 23 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +12 7 £563 -6.25% 5
Berkshire +16 5 £500 -16.67% 1
Buckinghamshire - 2 £613 -
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 1 (14.29%) Camunda
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
4 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (14.29%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (14.29%) OCI
5 1 (14.29%) PaaS
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (28.57%) RDBMS
3 2 (28.57%) Relational Database
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) JUnit
2 2 (28.57%) Mockito
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Java Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Java Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Java Technical Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (28.57%) Apache Camel
2 2 (28.57%) Hibernate
2 2 (28.57%) HTML
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
2 2 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (28.57%) REST
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) WireMock
2 2 (28.57%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Keycloak
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) OpenJDK
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
4 2 (28.57%) Event-Driven
4 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Process Management
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
5 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (14.29%) CCSP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) OSCP
2 1 (14.29%) SANS
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 2 (28.57%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Dynatrace
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) JDA
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Rapid7