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

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 375 303 322
Rank change year-on-year -72 +19 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 107 77 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.50% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.30% 1.58% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 49 26
10th Percentile £358 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -14.89%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £524
90th Percentile £650 £608 £581
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.55% -4.35%
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 8,220 4,874 4,891
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.17% 31.93% 27.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,248 3,264 3,196
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £403 £380 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 494 157 137
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.00 £19.27 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +66.06% -37.59% +20.02%
75th Percentile £69.80 £37.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £82.81 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £28.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +16.07% -13.85% -7.14%

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 22 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 22 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 -69 36 £500 - 45
North West -44 27 £607 +27.68% 27
Scotland -10 24 £402 -23.43% 24
Midlands -46 23 £475 - 13
West Midlands -46 21 £488 +2.63% 6
South East -60 10 £600 +9.09% 17
East of England -24 9 £550 +22.22% 8
North East -31 7 £400 -5.88% 9
South West -37 4 £365 -41.60% 28
Yorkshire -55 2 £500 - 9
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 7
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 9 (8.41%) Confluence
2 8 (7.48%) Apache
3 5 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.93%) nginx
5 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 102 (95.33%) AWS
2 79 (73.83%) Serverless
3 78 (72.90%) AWS Lambda
4 74 (69.16%) Amazon EKS
5 55 (51.40%) Amazon S3
6 52 (48.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 34 (31.78%) Amazon EC2
8 33 (30.84%) GitHub
9 31 (28.97%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (28.04%) Amazon SQS
10 30 (28.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (23.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (13.08%) Kong
13 11 (10.28%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (9.35%) Amazon MSK
14 10 (9.35%) AWS Fargate
14 10 (9.35%) Azure
15 9 (8.41%) AWS KMS
15 9 (8.41%) GCP
16 7 (6.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) SSL
2 4 (3.74%) DNS
2 4 (3.74%) Firewall
2 4 (3.74%) HTTP
2 4 (3.74%) Network Security
3 3 (2.80%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (18.69%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (14.95%) DynamoDB
3 10 (9.35%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.41%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.61%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.67%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.67%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (3.74%) DocumentDB
7 4 (3.74%) Flink
7 4 (3.74%) MySQL
7 4 (3.74%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.80%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.87%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.87%) Redis
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.93%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.93%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 35 (32.71%) Jenkins
2 28 (26.17%) GitLab
3 13 (12.15%) Git
4 10 (9.35%) JIRA
5 9 (8.41%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.74%) Mockito
7 3 (2.80%) JUnit
7 3 (2.80%) Maven
7 3 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (1.87%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.87%) git-flow
8 2 (1.87%) MLflow
8 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 25 (23.36%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.69%) Finance
3 17 (15.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (7.48%) Banking
5 6 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.80%) Military
7 3 (2.80%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 20 (18.69%) AWS Engineer
1 20 (18.69%) Scrum Master
2 17 (15.89%) Developer
3 15 (14.02%) AWS DevOps
4 13 (12.15%) DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.21%) Java Developer
6 11 (10.28%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 11 (10.28%) Lead
6 11 (10.28%) Senior
7 9 (8.41%) Architect
7 9 (8.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (8.41%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.48%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.54%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.61%) AWS Architect
10 6 (5.61%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.61%) Java Scrum Master
10 6 (5.61%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.67%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (52.34%) Terraform
2 32 (29.91%) Spring
2 32 (29.91%) Spring Boot
3 31 (28.97%) RESTful
4 23 (21.50%) Kafka
4 23 (21.50%) REST
5 11 (10.28%) AngularJS
5 11 (10.28%) AWS CDK
6 10 (9.35%) Node.js
7 9 (8.41%) JWT
8 8 (7.48%) SOAP
9 7 (6.54%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (6.54%) GraphQL
9 7 (6.54%) OAuth
9 7 (6.54%) OpenAPI
9 7 (6.54%) React
9 7 (6.54%) Swagger
10 5 (4.67%) .NET
10 5 (4.67%) OAuth2
11 4 (3.74%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 55 (51.40%) Cloud Native
2 28 (26.17%) Product Ownership
3 13 (12.15%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.48%) Security Posture
5 7 (6.54%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (4.67%) Cloud Security Posture
6 5 (4.67%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (3.74%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.74%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.80%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.80%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.87%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) NHS
9 2 (1.87%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (15.89%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.54%) Windows
4 4 (3.74%) Unix
5 1 (0.93%) CentOS
5 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (81.31%) CI/CD
2 72 (67.29%) DevOps
3 61 (57.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (49.53%) Agile
5 46 (42.99%) Microservices
6 37 (34.58%) Containerisation
6 37 (34.58%) Test Automation
7 35 (32.71%) Observability
8 32 (29.91%) Scrum
9 31 (28.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (23.36%) DevSecOps
11 22 (20.56%) Migration
12 21 (19.63%) Clean Code
12 21 (19.63%) Code Quality
12 21 (19.63%) Event-Driven
12 21 (19.63%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (19.63%) Technical Leadership
13 20 (18.69%) Backlog Refinement
14 19 (17.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 19 (17.76%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.19%) Java
2 24 (22.43%) Python
3 16 (14.95%) Bash
3 16 (14.95%) SQL
4 10 (9.35%) Go
4 10 (9.35%) JavaScript
4 10 (9.35%) PowerShell
4 10 (9.35%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.54%) Bicep
5 7 (6.54%) Lua
6 5 (4.67%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (4.67%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (3.74%) C#
8 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.87%) Groovy
9 2 (1.87%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (35.51%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.17%) SC Cleared
3 26 (24.30%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.48%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.48%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (5.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.61%) CISSP
5 6 (5.61%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.67%) Degree
7 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.87%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (16.82%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.80%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.80%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) HL7
5 1 (0.93%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (57.01%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (42.99%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.35%) Ansible
2 10 (9.35%) Grafana
3 7 (6.54%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.61%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.80%) Consul
5 3 (2.80%) Packer
5 3 (2.80%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.87%) Istio
6 2 (1.87%) linkerd
6 2 (1.87%) Puppet
6 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.93%) Rancher
Vendors
1 9 (8.41%) Dynatrace
1 9 (8.41%) Splunk
2 7 (6.54%) Red Hat
3 6 (5.61%) MuleSoft
4 4 (3.74%) Confluent
4 4 (3.74%) Databricks
4 4 (3.74%) Google
4 4 (3.74%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.80%) webMethods
6 1 (0.93%) Apple
6 1 (0.93%) ESET
6 1 (0.93%) Informatica
6 1 (0.93%) New Relic
6 1 (0.93%) Okta
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Talend