Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 128 139
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +35
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 6 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.26% 0.047% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.90% 0.16% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 7
10th Percentile £491 - £523
25th Percentile £575 £384 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £392 £600
Median % change year-on-year +59.44% -34.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £695 £401 £638
90th Percentile £714 - £658
England median daily rate £528 £725 £538
% change year-on-year -27.24% +34.88% -10.42%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 668 628 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 28.76% 29.65% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 419 676
10th Percentile £253 £231 £232
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 34
10th Percentile - £13.70 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.54 £14.61
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +46.34% -64.50%
75th Percentile £36.00 £69.38 £33.00
90th Percentile £70.71 £70.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £30.88 £23.24
% change year-on-year -14.17% +32.85% +3.29%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the South West over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the South West

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Bristol - 3 £693 -
Gloucestershire - 3 £625 -
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (66.67%) GitHub
2 4 (66.67%) Serverless
3 3 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
4 2 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (16.67%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) GitLab
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible