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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 291 328
Rank change year-on-year -82 +37 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 104 76 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.50% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.27% 1.58% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 50 26
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £531
90th Percentile £650 £593 £593
UK median daily rate £543 £525 £544
% change year-on-year +3.33% -3.49% -9.33%
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 8,212 4,822 4,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.24% 31.65% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,277 3,228 3,248
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £403 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £573 £600
90th Percentile £675 £644 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 487 162 142
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.81
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.64 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -34.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £69.13 £37.13 £64.73
90th Percentile £83.40 £66.95 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.25 £30.88
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -11.79%

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 15 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 15 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 36 £500 +1.01% 58
North West -38 27 £607 +49.75% 35
Midlands -37 26 £463 -2.63% 20
West Midlands -46 24 £463 -2.63% 8
Scotland -6 21 £402 -23.43% 35
South East -61 9 £600 +9.09% 31
East of England -22 8 £550 +22.22% 10
North East -34 7 £400 -5.88% 10
South West -50 3 £380 -39.20% 30
Yorkshire -43 2 £500 - 13
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 12
Wales - 1 £550 - 5
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 12 (11.54%) Confluence
2 6 (5.77%) Apache
3 5 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.96%) nginx
5 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.96%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 99 (95.19%) AWS
2 78 (75.00%) Serverless
3 77 (74.04%) AWS Lambda
4 72 (69.23%) Amazon EKS
5 54 (51.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 53 (50.96%) Amazon S3
7 36 (34.62%) GitHub
8 34 (32.69%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (32.69%) GitHub Actions
9 33 (31.73%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
10 26 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (13.46%) AWS CodePipeline
11 14 (13.46%) Kong
12 10 (9.62%) Amazon MSK
12 10 (9.62%) Azure
13 9 (8.65%) AWS Fargate
13 9 (8.65%) AWS KMS
13 9 (8.65%) GCP
14 7 (6.73%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.81%) SSL
2 4 (3.85%) DNS
2 4 (3.85%) Firewall
2 4 (3.85%) HTTP
2 4 (3.85%) Network Security
3 3 (2.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.42%) Amazon RDS
1 15 (14.42%) DynamoDB
2 9 (8.65%) NoSQL
2 9 (8.65%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.81%) Data Lake
4 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.85%) DocumentDB
5 4 (3.85%) MySQL
5 4 (3.85%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.88%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (1.92%) Flink
7 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.96%) Big Data
8 1 (0.96%) Redis
8 1 (0.96%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 30 (28.85%) GitLab
3 13 (12.50%) JIRA
4 12 (11.54%) Bitbucket
5 11 (10.58%) Git
6 4 (3.85%) Mockito
7 3 (2.88%) JUnit
7 3 (2.88%) Maven
7 3 (2.88%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.92%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.92%) git-flow
8 2 (1.92%) MLflow
8 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 28 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.31%) Finance
3 17 (16.35%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.77%) Banking
4 6 (5.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Military
6 3 (2.88%) Retail
7 1 (0.96%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 23 (22.12%) Scrum Master
2 19 (18.27%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (14.42%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (14.42%) Developer
4 12 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.58%) Lead
6 10 (9.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.62%) Java Developer
6 10 (9.62%) Senior
7 9 (8.65%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.65%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.69%) Architect
8 8 (7.69%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.73%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.77%) Java Scrum Master
10 6 (5.77%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.81%) AWS Architect
11 5 (4.81%) AWS Software Engineer
11 5 (4.81%) Cloud Security Engineer
12 4 (3.85%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (54.81%) Terraform
2 30 (28.85%) RESTful
2 30 (28.85%) Spring
2 30 (28.85%) Spring Boot
3 22 (21.15%) Kafka
4 20 (19.23%) REST
5 13 (12.50%) AWS CDK
6 10 (9.62%) Node.js
7 9 (8.65%) AngularJS
7 9 (8.65%) JWT
8 7 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.73%) OAuth
8 7 (6.73%) OpenAPI
8 7 (6.73%) Swagger
9 6 (5.77%) GraphQL
9 6 (5.77%) SOAP
10 5 (4.81%) OAuth2
10 5 (4.81%) React
11 4 (3.85%) Express.js
11 4 (3.85%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 54 (51.92%) Cloud Native
2 31 (29.81%) Product Ownership
3 13 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.69%) Security Posture
5 7 (6.73%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.81%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.88%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) NHS
9 2 (1.92%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.92%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.96%) Clustering
10 1 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (16.35%) Linux
2 8 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.73%) Windows
4 4 (3.85%) Unix
5 1 (0.96%) CentOS
5 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (82.69%) CI/CD
2 71 (68.27%) DevOps
3 61 (58.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (51.92%) Agile
5 43 (41.35%) Microservices
6 40 (38.46%) Test Automation
7 39 (37.50%) Containerisation
8 33 (31.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (31.73%) Observability
8 33 (31.73%) Scrum
9 28 (26.92%) DevSecOps
10 24 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
11 23 (22.12%) Backlog Refinement
12 22 (21.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 21 (20.19%) Clean Code
13 21 (20.19%) Code Quality
13 21 (20.19%) Technical Leadership
14 20 (19.23%) Event-Driven
15 19 (18.27%) Migration
15 19 (18.27%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 41 (39.42%) Java
2 23 (22.12%) Python
3 16 (15.38%) Bash
4 14 (13.46%) SQL
5 10 (9.62%) Go
5 10 (9.62%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.62%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
6 7 (6.73%) Bicep
6 7 (6.73%) Lua
7 5 (4.81%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (4.81%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (2.88%) C#
8 3 (2.88%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.92%) Groovy
9 2 (1.92%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (39.42%) Security Cleared
2 31 (29.81%) SC Cleared
3 24 (23.08%) AWS Certification
4 11 (10.58%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (8.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (7.69%) Azure Certification
7 6 (5.77%) CISSP
7 6 (5.77%) DV Cleared
8 4 (3.85%) Degree
9 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.38%) QA
2 5 (4.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.88%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.88%) NCSC
5 1 (0.96%) HL7
5 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (58.65%) Docker
2 4 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (41.35%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.62%) Ansible
2 10 (9.62%) Grafana
3 7 (6.73%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.77%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.88%) Consul
5 3 (2.88%) Packer
5 3 (2.88%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.92%) Istio
6 2 (1.92%) linkerd
6 2 (1.92%) Puppet
6 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.96%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.96%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (8.65%) Dynatrace
1 9 (8.65%) Splunk
2 7 (6.73%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.77%) MuleSoft
4 4 (3.85%) Confluent
4 4 (3.85%) Databricks
4 4 (3.85%) Google
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.96%) Apple
5 1 (0.96%) ESET
5 1 (0.96%) Informatica
5 1 (0.96%) New Relic
5 1 (0.96%) Okta
5 1 (0.96%) Oracle
5 1 (0.96%) Talend
5 1 (0.96%) webMethods