Amazon ECS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 291 373 380
Rank change year-on-year +82 +7 +48
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 45 26 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.13% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 0.48% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 17 69
10th Percentile £371 £425 £498
25th Percentile £409 £450 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £748 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +27.45% -15.00% -

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 4,086 5,443 8,022
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.01% 26.20% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,896 3,840 5,946
10th Percentile £236 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 259 231
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.52 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

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 May 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 1 May 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 +34 23 £563 +18.42% 96
North West +23 12 £400 -11.11% 57
Scotland +18 11 £525 +0.77% 16
Yorkshire +14 8 £725 +39.76% 30
South East +43 6 £575 -4.17% 73
North East - 3 £750 - 13
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 5
South West +46 1 £392 - 36
Midlands +21 1 £539 +19.80% 50
West Midlands - 1 £539 - 28
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (22.22%) nginx
2 7 (15.56%) Traefik
3 3 (6.67%) Apache
3 3 (6.67%) Confluence
3 3 (6.67%) Tomcat
4 2 (4.44%) Camunda
5 1 (2.22%) CMS
5 1 (2.22%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 41 (91.11%) AWS
2 24 (53.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 22 (48.89%) Serverless
4 20 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 20 (44.44%) AWS Fargate
5 19 (42.22%) AWS Lambda
6 15 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
7 14 (31.11%) Amazon S3
8 13 (28.89%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 9 (20.00%) Entra ID
11 8 (17.78%) OpenShift
12 7 (15.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 7 (15.56%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (15.56%) GitHub
12 7 (15.56%) PaaS
12 7 (15.56%) SaaS
13 6 (13.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (11.11%) AWS CodeBuild
14 5 (11.11%) AWS CodeDeploy
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.67%) DNS
2 9 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.89%) Firewall
4 1 (2.22%) FTP
4 1 (2.22%) Network Security
4 1 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (2.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (40.00%) MongoDB
2 8 (17.78%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.89%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (6.67%) DynamoDB
4 3 (6.67%) Flink
4 3 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 3 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.44%) Big Data
5 2 (4.44%) InfluxDB
5 2 (4.44%) MySQL
5 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.22%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 26 (57.78%) Jenkins
2 14 (31.11%) GitLab
3 6 (13.33%) Git
4 4 (8.89%) Artifactory
5 3 (6.67%) JIRA
5 3 (6.67%) Mockito
6 2 (4.44%) JMeter
6 2 (4.44%) JUnit
6 2 (4.44%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.22%) Maven
7 1 (2.22%) Toad
General
1 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
2 5 (11.11%) Finance
2 5 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (6.67%) Law
3 3 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.22%) Banking
4 1 (2.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (28.89%) Senior
3 11 (24.44%) AWS Engineer
3 11 (24.44%) Developer
4 9 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 6 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Architect
6 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Lead
7 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (35.56%) Kafka
2 11 (24.44%) Keycloak
3 10 (22.22%) cloud-init
4 7 (15.56%) AWS CDK
4 7 (15.56%) React
5 5 (11.11%) .NET
5 5 (11.11%) Node.js
5 5 (11.11%) Spring Boot
6 4 (8.89%) OAuth
6 4 (8.89%) Spring
7 3 (6.67%) Apache Camel
7 3 (6.67%) REST
8 2 (4.44%) ActiveMQ
8 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
8 2 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (4.44%) jQuery
8 2 (4.44%) JSON
8 2 (4.44%) OpenJDK
8 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (4.44%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 9 (20.00%) PKI
2 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 3 (6.67%) Equities
3 3 (6.67%) Fixed Income
3 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 17 (37.78%) Linux
2 15 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (22.22%) CentOS
3 10 (22.22%) Unix
4 2 (4.44%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (71.11%) CI/CD
2 23 (51.11%) DevOps
3 19 (42.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (40.00%) Agile
5 16 (35.56%) Microservices
6 14 (31.11%) Secrets Management
7 11 (24.44%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (22.22%) Cloud Security
9 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 9 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 9 (20.00%) Identity Management
9 9 (20.00%) Observability
9 9 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
10 7 (15.56%) Mobile Device Management
11 6 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (11.11%) Kanban
12 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 5 (11.11%) Scrum
13 4 (8.89%) TDD
13 4 (8.89%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 29 (64.44%) Python
2 19 (42.22%) Bash
3 11 (24.44%) Java
4 10 (22.22%) Go
5 8 (17.78%) SQL
6 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.89%) Groovy
8 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
8 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.22%) PHP
9 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) AWS Certification
1 14 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Degree
4 3 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.22%) CCSP
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.22%) CISSP
6 1 (2.22%) OCP
6 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.22%) OSCP
6 1 (2.22%) SANS
6 1 (2.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (24.44%) NCSC
2 2 (4.44%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) QA
3 1 (2.22%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (22.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 20 (44.44%) Terraform
3 15 (33.33%) Grafana
4 13 (28.89%) Prometheus
5 11 (24.44%) Packer
6 9 (20.00%) Consul
6 9 (20.00%) Istio
6 9 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
6 9 (20.00%) linkerd
6 9 (20.00%) Rancher
6 9 (20.00%) ZABBIX
7 8 (17.78%) Kibana
8 7 (15.56%) HAProxy
9 6 (13.33%) Ansible
10 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
11 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (2.22%) Graylog
11 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Splunk
2 10 (22.22%) Okta
3 7 (15.56%) Apple
3 7 (15.56%) ESET
4 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
5 3 (6.67%) AppDynamics
6 2 (4.44%) Dynatrace
6 2 (4.44%) Imperva
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.22%) MuleSoft
7 1 (2.22%) New Relic
7 1 (2.22%) Rapid7
7 1 (2.22%) Talend