Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in South London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South London requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 33 41
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.56% 0.49% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.36% 1.47% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
London median daily rate £525 £725 £538
% change year-on-year -27.59% +34.88% -10.42%

All Cloud Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 88 68 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 48.89% 33.33% 45.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 50 106
10th Percentile £263 £200 £231
25th Percentile £431 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £528
Median % change year-on-year +14.23% -17.06% -4.09%
75th Percentile £550 £548 £625
90th Percentile £697 £689 £674
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £16.89
25th Percentile - - £17.29
Median hourly rate - - £19.07
75th Percentile - - £20.97
90th Percentile - - £21.44
London median hourly rate £26.15 £35.00 £38.38
% change year-on-year -25.29% -8.79% +26.34%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon ECS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in South London

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Croydon +5 10 £475 -
Amazon ECS
London

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) Confluence
1 10 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
1 10 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 10 (100.00%) Azure
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 10 (100.00%) Route 53
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) Firewall
1 10 (100.00%) FTP
1 10 (100.00%) HTTP
1 10 (100.00%) IMAP
1 10 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
1 10 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (100.00%) Git
1 10 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 10 (100.00%) JIRA
1 10 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (90.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 10 (100.00%) VMS
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Change Management
1 10 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 10 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 10 (100.00%) DevOps
1 10 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 10 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Agile
2 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (10.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (10.00%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Groovy
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (90.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 10 (100.00%) Docker
1 10 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 10 (100.00%) Postfix
1 10 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Grafana
1 10 (100.00%) Nessus
1 10 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 10 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 10 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (100.00%) ServiceNow