Amazon ECS Contracts in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 96 136 141
Rank change year-on-year +40 +5 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 6 9 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.40% 0.34% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.17% 1.19% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile £553 - £575
25th Percentile £556 - £584
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £588 - £666
90th Percentile - - £675
South East median daily rate £575 £600 £625
% change year-on-year -4.17% -4.00% +19.05%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the Thames Valley

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the Thames Valley

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +26 4 £550 -8.33% 7
Buckinghamshire - 2 £575 - 7
Amazon ECS
South East

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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