Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 123 137
Rank change year-on-year +12 +14 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 5 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.29% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 0.57% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £494 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £619 £525 -
90th Percentile £653 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% -11.54%

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 690 696 783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.61% 31.87% 28.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 463 552
10th Percentile £245 £363 £234
25th Percentile £400 £425 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £650
90th Percentile £663 £660 £725
South East median daily rate £475 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -7.32% -2.38% +3.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 20 18
10th Percentile £14.45 £18.50 £17.13
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.13 £18.69
Median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £27.40
Median % change year-on-year -55.60% +55.11% +30.48%
75th Percentile £32.18 £60.72 £34.33
90th Percentile £42.02 £64.73 £62.66
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £42.50 £23.95
% change year-on-year -55.72% +77.45% +14.05%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 3 October 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 +13 4 £450 -10.00% 1
Buckinghamshire - 1 £650 -
Amazon ECS
South East

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (60.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (40.00%) GitHub
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) RDBMS
2 2 (40.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JMeter
1 2 (40.00%) JUnit
1 2 (40.00%) Mockito
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (40.00%) Apache Camel
1 2 (40.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (40.00%) HTML
1 2 (40.00%) jQuery
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) REST
1 2 (40.00%) Spring
1 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (40.00%) Web Services
1 2 (40.00%) WireMock
1 2 (40.00%) XML
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Containerisation
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Process Management
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) API Design
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kibana
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) JDA