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 1 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 306 338
Rank change year-on-year -67 +32 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 96 67 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.44% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.18% 1.40% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 41 23
10th Percentile £369 £363 £400
25th Percentile £405 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £581 £549 £554
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £543 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 8,153 4,772 4,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.50% 31.13% 27.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,231 3,177 3,285
10th Percentile £268 £250 £246
25th Percentile £404 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £639 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 484 182 155
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.99 £13.97
25th Percentile £17.50 £16.95 £16.50
Median hourly rate £31.13 £19.14 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +62.66% -20.86% -10.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £41.25 £60.83
90th Percentile £83.71 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% -14.29%

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 1 September 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
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 1 September 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 -70 33 £500 - 46
Midlands -46 26 £463 -2.63% 11
West Midlands -43 24 £475 - 4
North West -51 23 £600 +26.32% 28
Scotland -6 17 £424 -17.27% 28
South East -57 10 £600 +9.09% 19
East of England -15 8 £550 +22.22% 12
North East -41 7 £406 -4.41% 9
Yorkshire -46 3 £500 - 9
South West -40 2 £403 -35.60% 29
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 2
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 13 (13.54%) Confluence
2 3 (3.13%) Apache
2 3 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.13%) OpenStack
3 2 (2.08%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 91 (94.79%) AWS
2 74 (77.08%) Serverless
3 71 (73.96%) AWS Lambda
4 67 (69.79%) Amazon EKS
5 50 (52.08%) Amazon S3
6 49 (51.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 35 (36.46%) GitHub
8 34 (35.42%) GitHub Actions
9 32 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
10 30 (31.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 27 (28.13%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (22.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (14.58%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (10.42%) Kong
15 9 (9.38%) Azure
16 8 (8.33%) GCP
17 7 (7.29%) Amazon MSK
17 7 (7.29%) AWS Fargate
18 6 (6.25%) Amazon EventBridge
18 6 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) SSL
2 4 (4.17%) HTTP
3 3 (3.13%) DNS
3 3 (3.13%) Firewall
3 3 (3.13%) Network Security
4 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.71%) DynamoDB
2 15 (15.63%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (9.38%) NoSQL
5 7 (7.29%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.17%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.13%) DocumentDB
7 3 (3.13%) MySQL
7 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.08%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.04%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.04%) Big Data
9 1 (1.04%) Flink
9 1 (1.04%) Redis
9 1 (1.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (36.46%) Jenkins
2 25 (26.04%) GitLab
3 14 (14.58%) Git
4 13 (13.54%) JIRA
5 12 (12.50%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.17%) Mockito
7 3 (3.13%) JUnit
8 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.08%) git-flow
8 2 (2.08%) MLflow
8 2 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.04%) Maven
9 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (26.04%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 13 (13.54%) Finance
4 5 (5.21%) Banking
4 5 (5.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.04%) Military
7 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Scrum Master
2 17 (17.71%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (16.67%) Developer
4 13 (13.54%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (11.46%) Java Developer
6 10 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.38%) Architect
8 8 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) Security Engineer
8 8 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 7 (7.29%) Lead
9 7 (7.29%) Senior
10 5 (5.21%) AWS Architect
10 5 (5.21%) AWS Software Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) AWS Developer
11 4 (4.17%) Java Software Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) SOC Engineer
11 4 (4.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (55.21%) Terraform
2 28 (29.17%) Spring
2 28 (29.17%) Spring Boot
3 24 (25.00%) RESTful
4 19 (19.79%) Kafka
4 19 (19.79%) REST
5 13 (13.54%) AWS CDK
6 11 (11.46%) Node.js
7 10 (10.42%) JWT
8 9 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (8.33%) OAuth
10 7 (7.29%) React
11 6 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 6 (6.25%) GraphQL
11 6 (6.25%) OAuth2
11 6 (6.25%) Web Services
12 5 (5.21%) OpenAPI
12 5 (5.21%) OpenID
12 5 (5.21%) SOAP
12 5 (5.21%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 49 (51.04%) Cloud Native
2 28 (29.17%) Product Ownership
3 15 (15.63%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.29%) Security Posture
5 6 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.08%) NHS
8 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.63%) Linux
2 6 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (6.25%) Windows
3 3 (3.13%) Unix
4 1 (1.04%) Android
4 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (80.21%) CI/CD
2 61 (63.54%) DevOps
3 55 (57.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (53.13%) Agile
5 44 (45.83%) Microservices
6 38 (39.58%) Test Automation
7 36 (37.50%) Containerisation
8 32 (33.33%) Scrum
9 31 (32.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (31.25%) Observability
11 25 (26.04%) DevSecOps
12 24 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
13 21 (21.88%) Backlog Refinement
14 20 (20.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 19 (19.79%) Code Quality
15 19 (19.79%) Event-Driven
16 18 (18.75%) Clean Code
16 18 (18.75%) Technical Leadership
17 17 (17.71%) Software Engineering
18 16 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (40.63%) Java
2 20 (20.83%) Python
3 14 (14.58%) Bash
4 11 (11.46%) SQL
5 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.38%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 7 (7.29%) Go
9 6 (6.25%) Bicep
10 5 (5.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 5 (5.21%) Lua
10 5 (5.21%) Search Processing Language
11 3 (3.13%) C#
11 3 (3.13%) Scala
11 3 (3.13%) Shell Script
12 2 (2.08%) Groovy
13 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
13 1 (1.04%) Swift
Qualifications
1 37 (38.54%) Security Cleared
2 27 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 19 (19.79%) AWS Certification
4 11 (11.46%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (9.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 7 (7.29%) Azure Certification
7 6 (6.25%) DV Cleared
8 5 (5.21%) CISSP
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.08%) Degree
9 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.08%) NCSC
4 1 (1.04%) HL7
4 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 59 (61.46%) Docker
2 3 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (40.63%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.42%) Ansible
3 9 (9.38%) Grafana
4 6 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.21%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.08%) Consul
6 2 (2.08%) Packer
6 2 (2.08%) Puppet
6 2 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (2.08%) ZABBIX
7 1 (1.04%) Istio
7 1 (1.04%) linkerd
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Splunk
2 8 (8.33%) Dynatrace
3 6 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.13%) Confluent
5 3 (3.13%) Google
6 2 (2.08%) Databricks
7 1 (1.04%) Informatica
7 1 (1.04%) New Relic
7 1 (1.04%) Talend