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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 313 354
Rank change year-on-year +23 +41 +66
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 106 51 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.86% 1.03% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 29 33
10th Percentile £363 £400 £465
25th Percentile £425 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +0.46%
75th Percentile £550 £544 £638
90th Percentile £634 £740 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -8.33%

All Cloud 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 5,708 4,972 6,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.80% 29.81% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,924 3,199 4,774
10th Percentile £227 £255 £219
25th Percentile £375 £397 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £652 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 121 224
10th Percentile £13.09 £18.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +37.78% +19.05%
75th Percentile £43.65 £59.95 £49.06
90th Percentile £69.31 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.00
% change year-on-year -25.45% +5.42% +45.45%

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 November 2025.

Daily 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 15 November 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
North of England -6 52 £500 -23.08% 46
North West -1 27 £550 +37.50% 32
Yorkshire -16 23 £500 -31.03% 12
West Midlands -9 19 £463 -8.42% 3
Midlands -12 19 £463 +2.21% 4
Scotland -7 18 £402 -19.60% 7
South East +8 7 £530 +6.00% 25
East of England -17 5 £475 -5.00% 12
South West - 5 £625 - 8
North East -10 2 £425 -43.33% 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 16 (15.09%) Confluence
2 12 (11.32%) nginx
3 11 (10.38%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.77%) Apache
5 1 (0.94%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.94%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (11.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.89%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (97.17%) AWS
2 70 (66.04%) Serverless
3 67 (63.21%) AWS Lambda
4 54 (50.94%) Amazon S3
5 46 (43.40%) Amazon EKS
6 43 (40.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 42 (39.62%) Amazon EC2
8 35 (33.02%) GitHub
9 30 (28.30%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (27.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 25 (23.58%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (20.75%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (20.75%) Route 53
13 19 (17.92%) Azure
14 17 (16.04%) AWS KMS
15 14 (13.21%) Amazon ELB
15 14 (13.21%) Amazon EventBridge
15 14 (13.21%) AWS Fargate
16 12 (11.32%) Amazon MSK
16 12 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (24.53%) Firewall
2 17 (16.04%) DNS
3 13 (12.26%) HTTP
4 12 (11.32%) IMAP
4 12 (11.32%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (11.32%) SMTP
5 10 (9.43%) FTP
5 10 (9.43%) SSH
6 4 (3.77%) VPN
7 2 (1.89%) Network Security
7 2 (1.89%) SSL
7 2 (1.89%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.94%) Kerberos
8 1 (0.94%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (43.40%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (31.13%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (25.47%) DynamoDB
4 24 (22.64%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (12.26%) NoSQL
6 11 (10.38%) Relational Database
7 8 (7.55%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.66%) Redis
9 5 (4.72%) Big Data
9 5 (4.72%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.72%) MySQL
9 5 (4.72%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.77%) DocumentDB
10 4 (3.77%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.89%) Power BI
12 1 (0.94%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 54 (50.94%) Jenkins
2 37 (34.91%) Git
3 32 (30.19%) GitLab
4 28 (26.42%) JIRA
5 12 (11.32%) Vagrant
6 10 (9.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (8.49%) Bitbucket
8 7 (6.60%) MLflow
8 7 (6.60%) SonarQube
9 5 (4.72%) Gradle
9 5 (4.72%) Maven
9 5 (4.72%) SonarLint
10 1 (0.94%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.94%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 35 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.42%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.21%) Finance
4 11 (10.38%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.60%) Banking
6 5 (4.72%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.77%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.94%) Military
9 1 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (35.85%) AWS Engineer
2 30 (28.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (16.04%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (15.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) Platform Engineer
4 16 (15.09%) Software Engineer
5 13 (12.26%) Senior
6 12 (11.32%) Lead
7 11 (10.38%) Architect
8 10 (9.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (7.55%) Technical Architect
10 7 (6.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (6.60%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.60%) Developer
10 7 (6.60%) Java Architect
10 7 (6.60%) Java Technical Architect
10 7 (6.60%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.47%) Node.js
2 20 (18.87%) RESTful
3 18 (16.98%) React
4 14 (13.21%) REST
5 13 (12.26%) JWT
5 13 (12.26%) LDAP
6 10 (9.43%) FastAPI
7 9 (8.49%) AWS CDK
7 9 (8.49%) OAuth
7 9 (8.49%) Spring Boot
8 8 (7.55%) OpenCV
8 8 (7.55%) Pandas
8 8 (7.55%) PyTorch
8 8 (7.55%) SQLAlchemy
9 7 (6.60%) Flask
9 7 (6.60%) Hugging Face
9 7 (6.60%) Kafka
9 7 (6.60%) NumPy
9 7 (6.60%) PySpark
10 6 (5.66%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.81%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.43%) Replication
3 8 (7.55%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.66%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.72%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.77%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.83%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.83%) NHS
8 2 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.94%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (24.53%) Linux
2 15 (14.15%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (11.32%) VMS
4 11 (10.38%) Windows
5 10 (9.43%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (72.64%) CI/CD
2 65 (61.32%) DevOps
3 48 (45.28%) Containerisation
4 47 (44.34%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (40.57%) Agile
6 34 (32.08%) Microservices
7 28 (26.42%) AI
8 24 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
9 23 (21.70%) Software Engineering
10 20 (18.87%) Cloud Security
10 20 (18.87%) Configuration Management
11 18 (16.98%) Event-Driven
11 18 (16.98%) Mentoring
11 18 (16.98%) TDD
12 17 (16.04%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (15.09%) Machine Learning
13 16 (15.09%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (15.09%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (13.21%) OOP
15 13 (12.26%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (67.92%) Python
2 24 (22.64%) Java
3 22 (20.75%) PowerShell
4 20 (18.87%) SQL
5 16 (15.09%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.26%) Groovy
7 9 (8.49%) Ruby
8 8 (7.55%) Bash
8 8 (7.55%) JavaScript
8 8 (7.55%) Perl
9 4 (3.77%) Go
10 3 (2.83%) C
11 2 (1.89%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (30.19%) Security Cleared
2 30 (28.30%) AWS Certification
3 24 (22.64%) SC Cleared
4 18 (16.98%) Degree
5 11 (10.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (9.43%) Azure Certification
7 7 (6.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.72%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (1.89%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
11 1 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.66%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.72%) NIST
3 3 (2.83%) GDPR
3 3 (2.83%) QA
4 2 (1.89%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.89%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.89%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.94%) HL7
5 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.94%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (70.75%) Docker
2 12 (11.32%) Dovecot
2 12 (11.32%) Postfix
2 12 (11.32%) Squid
3 10 (9.43%) DFS Replication
4 6 (5.66%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (60.38%) Terraform
2 49 (46.23%) Kubernetes
3 24 (22.64%) Grafana
4 20 (18.87%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.32%) Nessus
6 11 (10.38%) Ansible
7 10 (9.43%) Proxmox
8 7 (6.60%) Puppet
9 4 (3.77%) Packer
10 3 (2.83%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.89%) Kustomize
12 1 (0.94%) Argo
12 1 (0.94%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (11.32%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (11.32%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.60%) Oracle
3 6 (5.66%) Gigya
3 6 (5.66%) Splunk
4 5 (4.72%) IBM
5 4 (3.77%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.83%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.94%) Brio
7 1 (0.94%) CloudEndure
7 1 (0.94%) Databricks
7 1 (0.94%) JDA
7 1 (0.94%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.94%) Pega
7 1 (0.94%) SaltStack