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

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 305 362
Rank change year-on-year +15 +57 +64
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 109 55 50
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.61% 0.35% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.88% 1.13% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 33 30
10th Percentile £365 £400 £462
25th Percentile £435 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -9.20% +0.12%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £634
90th Percentile £645 £748 £676
UK median daily rate £530 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -26.90% +31.82% -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 5,798 4,883 6,328
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.47% 30.82% 31.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,979 3,159 4,587
10th Percentile £225 £250 £222
25th Percentile £375 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.10%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £657 £675 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 121 213
10th Percentile £13.95 £16.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.30 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +28.86% +9.27%
75th Percentile £48.34 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £75.23 £69.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

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 9 December 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 9 December 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 -4 56 £525 -26.32% 36
North West +3 28 £550 +37.50% 13
Yorkshire -24 24 £500 -31.03% 19
Scotland +2 20 £418 -16.50% 8
West Midlands -12 15 £475 -5.94% 10
Midlands -19 15 £475 +4.97% 21
South East -8 8 £530 +6.00% 44
South West -8 5 £625 +59.44% 10
East of England -10 5 £475 -5.00% 23
North East -1 4 £538 -28.33% 4
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 15 (13.76%) Confluence
2 13 (11.93%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (10.09%) nginx
4 6 (5.50%) Apache
5 2 (1.83%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (10.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.83%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 107 (98.17%) AWS
2 77 (70.64%) Serverless
3 75 (68.81%) AWS Lambda
4 55 (50.46%) Amazon S3
5 44 (40.37%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (38.53%) Amazon EC2
7 41 (37.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 37 (33.94%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (31.19%) GitHub
10 29 (26.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (21.10%) GitHub Actions
12 22 (20.18%) Amazon SQS
13 21 (19.27%) Route 53
14 18 (16.51%) Azure
15 15 (13.76%) AWS KMS
16 14 (12.84%) Amazon EventBridge
17 13 (11.93%) Amazon ELB
17 13 (11.93%) AWS Fargate
17 13 (11.93%) AWS Step Functions
18 12 (11.01%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 24 (22.02%) Firewall
2 17 (15.60%) DNS
3 13 (11.93%) HTTP
4 11 (10.09%) IMAP
4 11 (10.09%) OpenLDAP
4 11 (10.09%) SMTP
5 10 (9.17%) FTP
5 10 (9.17%) SSH
6 2 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
6 2 (1.83%) VPN
7 1 (0.92%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.92%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (39.45%) Amazon RDS
2 30 (27.52%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (25.69%) DynamoDB
4 23 (21.10%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (12.84%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.17%) Relational Database
7 8 (7.34%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.50%) Redis
9 5 (4.59%) Big Data
9 5 (4.59%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.59%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.59%) MySQL
9 5 (4.59%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.67%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.83%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.83%) Power BI
11 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.92%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 51 (46.79%) Jenkins
2 37 (33.94%) Git
3 33 (30.28%) GitLab
4 27 (24.77%) JIRA
5 11 (10.09%) Vagrant
6 10 (9.17%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (8.26%) Bitbucket
7 9 (8.26%) MLflow
7 9 (8.26%) SonarQube
8 7 (6.42%) Maven
9 5 (4.59%) Gradle
9 5 (4.59%) SonarLint
10 3 (2.75%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.83%) Selenium
12 1 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 35 (32.11%) Public Sector
2 32 (29.36%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.84%) Finance
4 10 (9.17%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.42%) Banking
6 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (32.11%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (23.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (14.68%) Software Engineer
4 15 (13.76%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 15 (13.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 15 (13.76%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (12.84%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (11.93%) Architect
6 13 (11.93%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 13 (11.93%) Senior
7 12 (11.01%) Lead
8 10 (9.17%) Technical Architect
9 9 (8.26%) Developer
9 9 (8.26%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Java Architect
10 7 (6.42%) Java Technical Architect
10 7 (6.42%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (26.61%) Node.js
2 20 (18.35%) RESTful
3 15 (13.76%) React
4 13 (11.93%) JWT
4 13 (11.93%) REST
5 12 (11.01%) LDAP
6 11 (10.09%) AWS CDK
6 11 (10.09%) FastAPI
7 10 (9.17%) Spring Boot
8 9 (8.26%) OAuth
8 9 (8.26%) PySpark
9 8 (7.34%) Flask
9 8 (7.34%) OpenCV
9 8 (7.34%) Pandas
9 8 (7.34%) PyTorch
9 8 (7.34%) SQLAlchemy
10 7 (6.42%) Hugging Face
10 7 (6.42%) Kafka
10 7 (6.42%) NumPy
10 7 (6.42%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 23 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.17%) Replication
3 7 (6.42%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.50%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (4.59%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.59%) NHS
5 5 (4.59%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.67%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.92%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.92%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.52%) Linux
2 14 (12.84%) Amazon Linux
3 11 (10.09%) VMS
3 11 (10.09%) Windows
4 10 (9.17%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (71.56%) CI/CD
2 62 (56.88%) DevOps
3 54 (49.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (42.20%) Containerisation
5 45 (41.28%) Agile
6 32 (29.36%) Microservices
7 29 (26.61%) AI
8 25 (22.94%) Software Engineering
9 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
10 19 (17.43%) Event-Driven
10 19 (17.43%) Machine Learning
10 19 (17.43%) Mentoring
11 18 (16.51%) Configuration Management
12 17 (15.60%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (15.60%) TDD
13 16 (14.68%) Cloud Security
13 16 (14.68%) Data Pipeline
13 16 (14.68%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (13.76%) Performance Tuning
15 14 (12.84%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 78 (71.56%) Python
2 26 (23.85%) Java
3 22 (20.18%) SQL
4 21 (19.27%) PowerShell
5 18 (16.51%) TypeScript
6 13 (11.93%) Groovy
6 13 (11.93%) Ruby
7 10 (9.17%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.26%) Bash
9 8 (7.34%) Perl
10 5 (4.59%) Go
11 3 (2.75%) C
12 1 (0.92%) C#
12 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 32 (29.36%) Security Cleared
2 26 (23.85%) AWS Certification
3 23 (21.10%) SC Cleared
4 17 (15.60%) Degree
5 10 (9.17%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (6.42%) DV Cleared
7 6 (5.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.75%) NIST
3 2 (1.83%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.83%) QA
4 1 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.92%) GDPR
4 1 (0.92%) HL7
4 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 74 (67.89%) Docker
2 11 (10.09%) Dovecot
2 11 (10.09%) Postfix
2 11 (10.09%) Squid
3 10 (9.17%) DFS Replication
4 6 (5.50%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (1.83%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 70 (64.22%) Terraform
2 48 (44.04%) Kubernetes
3 24 (22.02%) Grafana
4 18 (16.51%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.09%) Nessus
6 10 (9.17%) Proxmox
7 9 (8.26%) Ansible
8 6 (5.50%) Puppet
9 4 (3.67%) Packer
10 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.83%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.92%) Argo
12 1 (0.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (10.09%) Jaspersoft
1 11 (10.09%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.42%) Oracle
3 6 (5.50%) Gigya
4 5 (4.59%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.67%) Splunk
6 3 (2.75%) Databricks
6 3 (2.75%) IBM
6 3 (2.75%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.83%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.92%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.92%) Brio
8 1 (0.92%) CloudEndure
8 1 (0.92%) JDA
8 1 (0.92%) Pega
8 1 (0.92%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.92%) UiPath