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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 4 0 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.21% - 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% - 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 12
10th Percentile £438 - £529
25th Percentile £550 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.04%
75th Percentile £641 - £700
90th Percentile £646 - £738
England median daily rate £525 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -22.22% +12.50% -

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 558 700 994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.40% 26.37% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 475 767
10th Percentile £213 £239 £300
25th Percentile £350 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £669
90th Percentile £679 £675 £725
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 45 58
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.19 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £33.00 £19.15
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £37.28
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% +87.79% +86.38%
75th Percentile £34.50 - £78.00
90th Percentile £37.50 - £78.60
England median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% -9.09% +53.49%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 - 2 £513 - 1
Gloucestershire - 2 £625 - 3
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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%) Amazon S3
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (25.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Clean Code
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) SOLID
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM