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 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 301 366
Rank change year-on-year -41 +65 +16
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 90 45 26
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.35% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.10% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 33 16
10th Percentile £313 £371 £425
25th Percentile £382 £409 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £530 £516
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% +2.66% -13.96%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £549
90th Percentile £650 £748 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 7,058 4,092 5,493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.72% 32.09% 26.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,816 2,912 3,868
10th Percentile £281 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 158 259
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.63 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +111.11% +26.98% -27.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £71.63 £60.26
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.42% +30.95% -40.00%

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 27 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Hourly 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 27 April 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 -43 43 £544 -3.33% 25
Scotland +15 20 £358 -31.81% 1
North West -29 20 £625 +56.25% 13
Yorkshire -53 18 £500 -31.03% 8
South West -19 10 £461 +17.67% 4
West Midlands -52 7 £463 -14.21% 1
Midlands -53 7 £463 -14.21% 3
South East -61 7 £530 -7.83% 7
North East -16 5 £530 -29.33% 4
Wales - 2 £363 -
East of England - 2 £550 - 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 8 (8.89%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.78%) Apache
2 7 (7.78%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (7.78%) Confluence
3 2 (2.22%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (97.78%) AWS
2 79 (87.78%) Serverless
3 75 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (54.44%) Amazon S3
5 48 (53.33%) Amazon EKS
6 37 (41.11%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (34.44%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (32.22%) GitHub
9 27 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (26.67%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (17.78%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (15.56%) AWS CodePipeline
14 13 (14.44%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (12.22%) Amazon EventBridge
16 10 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
17 8 (8.89%) Datadog
18 7 (7.78%) Amazon SageMaker
18 7 (7.78%) AWS KMS
19 5 (5.56%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) Firewall
2 7 (7.78%) HTTP
3 6 (6.67%) DNS
4 2 (2.22%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.11%) SSL
5 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.89%) DynamoDB
2 23 (25.56%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 11 (12.22%) NoSQL
5 10 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (6.67%) Flink
8 5 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
10 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
11 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
11 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (2.22%) Delta Lake
11 2 (2.22%) Metadata
11 2 (2.22%) Pinecone
12 1 (1.11%) DocumentDB
12 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (27.78%) Jenkins
2 22 (24.44%) Git
3 17 (18.89%) GitLab
4 12 (13.33%) JIRA
5 9 (10.00%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.67%) MLflow
6 6 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (5.56%) Maven
8 4 (4.44%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.33%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.33%) Gradle
10 2 (2.22%) Selenium
10 2 (2.22%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.11%) git-flow
11 1 (1.11%) Mockito
General
1 19 (21.11%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Finance
4 3 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.33%) Banking
5 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (25.56%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (16.67%) Developer
4 13 (14.44%) Senior
5 10 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (11.11%) Java Developer
6 9 (10.00%) Lead
7 8 (8.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Software Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Architect
9 6 (6.67%) Python Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.56%) Backend Developer
10 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (5.56%) Scrum Master
11 4 (4.44%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Site Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.11%) Spring
2 18 (20.00%) Node.js
2 18 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 13 (14.44%) Kafka
4 12 (13.33%) OAuth
5 11 (12.22%) AWS CDK
5 11 (12.22%) React
5 11 (12.22%) REST
5 11 (12.22%) RESTful
6 10 (11.11%) JWT
7 7 (7.78%) FastAPI
7 7 (7.78%) OAuth2
8 6 (6.67%) GraphQL
8 6 (6.67%) PySpark
8 6 (6.67%) Web Services
9 5 (5.56%) .NET
9 5 (5.56%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (4.44%) NumPy
10 4 (4.44%) OpenCV
10 4 (4.44%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (27.78%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 6 (6.67%) NHS
5 4 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.44%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.11%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.11%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.11%) PMI
7 1 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (23.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Android
3 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 44 (48.89%) DevOps
3 43 (47.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (37.78%) Containerisation
5 29 (32.22%) Agile
5 29 (32.22%) Microservices
6 21 (23.33%) Observability
7 18 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 17 (18.89%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (18.89%) Scrum
9 15 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (15.56%) AI
10 14 (15.56%) Code Quality
10 14 (15.56%) Infrastructure Automation
10 14 (15.56%) Software Engineering
11 13 (14.44%) Data Engineering
11 13 (14.44%) Machine Learning
12 12 (13.33%) Analytics
13 11 (12.22%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 51 (56.67%) Python
2 28 (31.11%) Java
3 16 (17.78%) SQL
4 12 (13.33%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.00%) Bash
6 9 (10.00%) Ruby
7 5 (5.56%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.44%) C#
8 4 (4.44%) Go
8 4 (4.44%) Perl
9 2 (2.22%) Groovy
9 2 (2.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.11%) C
10 1 (1.11%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (1.11%) Scala
10 1 (1.11%) Search Processing Language
10 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.11%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.44%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) AWS Certification
3 6 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (4.44%) SAFe Agilist
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.22%) Degree
7 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.44%) QA
3 3 (3.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.11%) HL7
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.11%) NIST
5 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (53.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 43 (47.78%) Terraform
2 35 (38.89%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.78%) Prometheus
4 14 (15.56%) Grafana
5 10 (11.11%) Ansible
6 4 (4.44%) Packer
6 4 (4.44%) Puppet
7 2 (2.22%) Argo
7 2 (2.22%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.11%) Consul
8 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (12.22%) Databricks
2 7 (7.78%) Splunk
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.44%) Oracle
5 3 (3.33%) Ping Identity
6 2 (2.22%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.11%) AVEVA
7 1 (1.11%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.11%) Brio
7 1 (1.11%) Confluent
7 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.11%) Pega
7 1 (1.11%) UiPath