Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 294 386
Rank change year-on-year -56 +92 -6
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 89 46 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.36% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.11% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 35 13
10th Percentile £313 £374 £433
25th Percentile £358 £409 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £522
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.57% -13.00%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £540
90th Percentile £650 £745 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -19.23% +26.83% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,999 4,130 5,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.18% 32.51% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,820 2,945 3,933
10th Percentile £275 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £391 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £581 £588
90th Percentile £663 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 349 152 253
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.01 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.46 £23.00 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +97.65% +30.02% -26.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.13 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.87
% change year-on-year +45.45% +31.77% -33.54%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 April 2026. 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
North of England -50 42 £544 -3.33% 21
Scotland +13 22 £358 -30.15% 2
North West -31 19 £625 +56.25% 12
Yorkshire -48 19 £500 -31.03% 8
South West -20 10 £461 +17.67% 4
South East -48 6 £530 -7.83% 13
Midlands -61 6 £463 -14.21%
West Midlands -62 6 £463 -14.21%
North East -15 4 £534 -28.83% 1
Wales -10 2 £363 -
East of England - 2 £600 - 3
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (8.99%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.87%) Confluence
3 6 (6.74%) Apache
3 6 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (98.88%) AWS
2 80 (89.89%) Serverless
3 76 (85.39%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (53.93%) Amazon EKS
5 45 (50.56%) Amazon S3
6 40 (44.94%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (37.08%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (31.46%) GitHub
9 26 (29.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 23 (25.84%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (20.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (15.73%) AWS CodePipeline
13 13 (14.61%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (14.61%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (12.36%) Amazon EventBridge
14 11 (12.36%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (10.11%) Amazon MSK
16 8 (8.99%) Datadog
17 7 (7.87%) Amazon SageMaker
17 7 (7.87%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.48%) Firewall
2 5 (5.62%) DNS
2 5 (5.62%) HTTP
3 2 (2.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (28.09%) Amazon RDS
1 25 (28.09%) DynamoDB
2 12 (13.48%) Relational Database
3 11 (12.36%) NoSQL
4 10 (11.24%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.74%) Flink
7 5 (5.62%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.25%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.25%) DocumentDB
10 2 (2.25%) Metadata
10 2 (2.25%) Pinecone
11 1 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (30.34%) Jenkins
2 25 (28.09%) Git
3 18 (20.22%) GitLab
4 15 (16.85%) JIRA
5 11 (12.36%) Bitbucket
6 8 (8.99%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (5.62%) Maven
7 5 (5.62%) MLflow
8 4 (4.49%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.37%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.37%) Gradle
10 2 (2.25%) Selenium
10 2 (2.25%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.12%) git-flow
11 1 (1.12%) Mockito
General
1 19 (21.35%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.73%) Finance
3 13 (14.61%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Banking
5 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (24.72%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (20.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) Developer
4 15 (16.85%) Senior
5 10 (11.24%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.24%) Lead
6 9 (10.11%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (8.99%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.74%) Architect
9 6 (6.74%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.62%) Backend Developer
10 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.62%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) AWS Data Engineer
11 4 (4.49%) Python Developer
11 4 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.60%) Node.js
2 18 (20.22%) Spring
3 17 (19.10%) Spring Boot
4 13 (14.61%) Kafka
5 12 (13.48%) React
6 11 (12.36%) OAuth
6 11 (12.36%) RESTful
7 10 (11.24%) REST
8 9 (10.11%) AWS CDK
8 9 (10.11%) JWT
9 7 (7.87%) OAuth2
10 6 (6.74%) FastAPI
10 6 (6.74%) PySpark
10 6 (6.74%) Web Services
11 5 (5.62%) .NET
11 5 (5.62%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.62%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (4.49%) NestJS
13 3 (3.37%) Lambda Expressions
13 3 (3.37%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.09%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.11%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.99%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.74%) NHS
5 5 (5.62%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.12%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.12%) PMI
8 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (24.72%) Linux
2 3 (3.37%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.12%) Android
3 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (67.42%) CI/CD
2 48 (53.93%) DevOps
3 41 (46.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (39.33%) Containerisation
5 31 (34.83%) Microservices
6 29 (32.58%) Agile
7 20 (22.47%) Observability
8 17 (19.10%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (17.98%) Test Automation
10 15 (16.85%) Scrum
10 15 (16.85%) Software Engineering
11 14 (15.73%) Code Quality
11 14 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (15.73%) Infrastructure Automation
12 13 (14.61%) AI
12 13 (14.61%) Data Engineering
13 12 (13.48%) Analytics
13 12 (13.48%) Machine Learning
14 10 (11.24%) Mentoring
14 10 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (59.55%) Python
2 30 (33.71%) Java
3 16 (17.98%) SQL
4 12 (13.48%) JavaScript
4 12 (13.48%) Ruby
5 11 (12.36%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.99%) Bash
6 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
7 7 (7.87%) Perl
8 3 (3.37%) C#
8 3 (3.37%) Go
9 2 (2.25%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.12%) C
10 1 (1.12%) Groovy
10 1 (1.12%) Scala
10 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.36%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.11%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.49%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (3.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.37%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.25%) Degree
8 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.49%) QA
3 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.12%) HL7
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.12%) NIST
4 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 49 (55.06%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 42 (47.19%) Terraform
2 37 (41.57%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.85%) Prometheus
4 12 (13.48%) Grafana
5 8 (8.99%) Ansible
6 4 (4.49%) Puppet
7 3 (3.37%) Packer
8 2 (2.25%) Argo
8 2 (2.25%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 11 (12.36%) Databricks
2 6 (6.74%) Oracle
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.62%) Splunk
4 3 (3.37%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.25%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.12%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.12%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.12%) Brio
6 1 (1.12%) CloudEndure
6 1 (1.12%) Confluent
6 1 (1.12%) Pega
6 1 (1.12%) UiPath