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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 315 357 363
Rank change year-on-year +42 +6 +52
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 40 29 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.14% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% 0.53% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 60
10th Percentile £358 £408 £507
25th Percentile £400 £446 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -15.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £549 £566 £675
90th Percentile £591 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £536 £522 £600
% change year-on-year +2.65% -13.00% -

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 4,507 5,512 7,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.85% 26.02% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,050 3,800 5,430
10th Percentile £250 £225 £240
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £694
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 276 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.85 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £25.73
Median % change year-on-year -10.08% -18.43% +33.64%
75th Percentile £33.95 £43.75 £61.11
90th Percentile £61.69 £70.00 £75.25
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +16 22 £425 -10.53% 141
North West +12 12 £384 -14.09% 90
Midlands +18 7 £491 +9.17% 45
West Midlands +14 7 £491 -2.72% 30
Yorkshire +6 7 £500 +1.01% 41
South East +41 6 £575 -4.17% 105
Scotland -3 3 £563 +8.17% 59
North East - 3 £425 - 10
South West - 2 £513 - 47
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 5 (12.50%) nginx
2 4 (10.00%) Confluence
3 3 (7.50%) Apache
3 3 (7.50%) Tomcat
4 2 (5.00%) Camunda
5 1 (2.50%) CMS
5 1 (2.50%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.50%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 38 (95.00%) AWS
2 22 (55.00%) Serverless
3 19 (47.50%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (45.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 18 (45.00%) Amazon S3
5 15 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
5 15 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (35.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (35.00%) GitHub
7 12 (30.00%) Amazon SQS
8 10 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (17.50%) AWS Fargate
9 7 (17.50%) AWS KMS
9 7 (17.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (12.50%) Azure
11 4 (10.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
11 4 (10.00%) PaaS
11 4 (10.00%) SaaS
12 3 (7.50%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) Network Security
2 3 (7.50%) SSL
3 2 (5.00%) IMAP
3 2 (5.00%) OpenLDAP
3 2 (5.00%) SMTP
3 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.00%) VPN
4 1 (2.50%) FTP
4 1 (2.50%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 7 (17.50%) DynamoDB
4 4 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (10.00%) NoSQL
4 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
5 3 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.00%) DocumentDB
6 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.50%) InfluxDB
7 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (57.50%) Jenkins
2 12 (30.00%) GitLab
3 6 (15.00%) Git
4 4 (10.00%) JIRA
5 3 (7.50%) Mockito
6 2 (5.00%) Artifactory
6 2 (5.00%) JMeter
6 2 (5.00%) JUnit
6 2 (5.00%) Terragrunt
6 2 (5.00%) Vagrant
7 1 (2.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.50%) Maven
7 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.50%) Toad
General
1 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
2 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Military
4 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (27.50%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (20.00%) Lead
4 7 (17.50%) Developer
4 7 (17.50%) Senior
5 6 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 5 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) Architect
7 4 (10.00%) Java Developer
8 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Java Technical Architect
9 2 (5.00%) Security Engineer
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) Node.js
2 7 (17.50%) React
2 7 (17.50%) Spring
2 7 (17.50%) Spring Boot
3 6 (15.00%) Kafka
4 5 (12.50%) .NET
4 5 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (10.00%) Apache Camel
5 4 (10.00%) AWS CDK
5 4 (10.00%) OAuth
5 4 (10.00%) REST
5 4 (10.00%) RESTful
6 3 (7.50%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (7.50%) JSON
6 3 (7.50%) Web Services
7 2 (5.00%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.00%) HTML
7 2 (5.00%) jQuery
7 2 (5.00%) LDAP
7 2 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 23 (57.50%) DevOps
3 16 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 15 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (35.00%) Agile
5 14 (35.00%) Microservices
6 8 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) TDD
7 7 (17.50%) Cloud Security
7 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (15.00%) DevSecOps
8 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (15.00%) Secrets Management
9 5 (12.50%) Configuration Management
10 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven
10 4 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (10.00%) SDLC
11 3 (7.50%) Blue-Green Deployment
11 3 (7.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) Python
2 13 (32.50%) Java
3 8 (20.00%) SQL
4 6 (15.00%) Bash
4 6 (15.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (12.50%) Groovy
5 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 5 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.50%) Go
7 1 (2.50%) PHP
7 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (32.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (22.50%) AWS Certification
4 8 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (15.00%) Degree
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.50%) CCSP
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.50%) CISSP
8 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.50%) OCP
8 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (2.50%) OSCP
8 1 (2.50%) SANS
8 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) GDPR
1 3 (7.50%) QA
2 2 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.00%) NCSC
2 2 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (5.00%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
3 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (52.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) Dovecot
2 2 (5.00%) Postfix
2 2 (5.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 20 (50.00%) Terraform
2 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (20.00%) Ansible
3 8 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 7 (17.50%) Grafana
5 6 (15.00%) Kibana
6 4 (10.00%) Puppet
7 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
8 2 (5.00%) Kustomize
8 2 (5.00%) Nessus
8 2 (5.00%) Packer
9 1 (2.50%) Graylog
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Splunk
2 3 (7.50%) AppDynamics
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.00%) IBM
3 2 (5.00%) Jaspersoft
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.50%) New Relic
4 1 (2.50%) Okta
4 1 (2.50%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.50%) Talend