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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 326 348
Rank change year-on-year +26 +22 +69
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 76 43 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.49% 0.24% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.55% 0.87% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 26 50
10th Percentile £363 £400 £498
25th Percentile £450 £446 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -14.89% +7.80%
75th Percentile £545 £531 £663
90th Percentile £593 £593 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £575
% change year-on-year -3.49% -5.39% -4.17%

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 4,904 4,949 6,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.70% 27.62% 31.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,294 3,261 4,869
10th Percentile £250 £243 £225
25th Percentile £380 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 139 236
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.16 £14.14
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.17 £16.45
Median hourly rate £18.94 £30.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.88% +14.29% +36.36%
75th Percentile £36.00 £66.74 £62.03
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +3 36 £495 +11.49% 17
North West -9 20 £405 -1.22% 13
West Midlands +8 19 £475 -5.94% 2
Midlands +1 19 £475 +4.97% 2
Yorkshire -7 13 £500 +1.01% 3
Scotland -6 10 £525 +2.19% 13
South East +21 6 £550 - 19
South West - 4 £625 - 8
North East - 3 £425 - 1
East of England +3 1 £450 -18.18% 1
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 15 (19.74%) nginx
2 12 (15.79%) Confluence
3 7 (9.21%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (6.58%) Apache
5 3 (3.95%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.32%) CMS
6 1 (1.32%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 73 (96.05%) AWS
2 45 (59.21%) Amazon S3
3 44 (57.89%) Serverless
4 41 (53.95%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (51.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (38.16%) Amazon EC2
7 24 (31.58%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (31.58%) GitHub
8 23 (30.26%) Amazon SQS
9 19 (25.00%) Route 53
10 18 (23.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 17 (22.37%) AWS KMS
11 17 (22.37%) Azure
12 16 (21.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (18.42%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (17.11%) Amazon ELB
15 12 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
16 10 (13.16%) AWS Fargate
17 9 (11.84%) GCP
18 8 (10.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.42%) DNS
2 13 (17.11%) Firewall
2 13 (17.11%) HTTP
3 12 (15.79%) IMAP
3 12 (15.79%) OpenLDAP
3 12 (15.79%) SMTP
4 10 (13.16%) FTP
4 10 (13.16%) SSH
5 3 (3.95%) Network Security
6 2 (2.63%) SSL
6 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
6 2 (2.63%) VPN
7 1 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (38.16%) Amazon RDS
1 29 (38.16%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (26.32%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (23.68%) DynamoDB
4 9 (11.84%) NoSQL
5 8 (10.53%) Relational Database
6 7 (9.21%) RDBMS
7 6 (7.89%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (7.89%) MySQL
7 6 (7.89%) Redis
8 5 (6.58%) BigQuery
8 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.95%) Big Data
9 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.63%) DocumentDB
11 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (1.32%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 41 (53.95%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.95%) Git
3 20 (26.32%) GitLab
4 16 (21.05%) JIRA
5 12 (15.79%) Vagrant
6 7 (9.21%) SonarQube
7 5 (6.58%) Gradle
7 5 (6.58%) Maven
7 5 (6.58%) MLflow
7 5 (6.58%) SonarLint
8 2 (2.63%) JMeter
8 2 (2.63%) JUnit
8 2 (2.63%) Mockito
9 1 (1.32%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.63%) Public Sector
3 11 (14.47%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (6.58%) Aerospace
5 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Finance
6 1 (1.32%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (38.16%) AWS Engineer
2 23 (30.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (22.37%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (22.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 12 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (14.47%) Software Engineer
6 10 (13.16%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 9 (11.84%) Architect
7 9 (11.84%) Lead
8 8 (10.53%) Developer
8 8 (10.53%) Technical Architect
9 7 (9.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (9.21%) Java Architect
9 7 (9.21%) Java Technical Architect
10 6 (7.89%) Python Engineer
11 5 (6.58%) Senior
12 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 4 (5.26%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (19.74%) RESTful
2 13 (17.11%) React
3 12 (15.79%) JWT
3 12 (15.79%) LDAP
3 12 (15.79%) Node.js
4 11 (14.47%) REST
5 10 (13.16%) AWS CDK
5 10 (13.16%) OAuth
5 10 (13.16%) Spring Boot
6 8 (10.53%) FastAPI
6 8 (10.53%) OpenCV
6 8 (10.53%) Pandas
6 8 (10.53%) PyTorch
6 8 (10.53%) Spring
6 8 (10.53%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (9.21%) Hugging Face
7 7 (9.21%) NumPy
8 6 (7.89%) GraphQL
8 6 (7.89%) J2EE
9 5 (6.58%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.68%) Cloud Native
2 10 (13.16%) Replication
3 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.58%) Data Structures
4 5 (6.58%) N-Tier
5 3 (3.95%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.95%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.37%) Linux
2 12 (15.79%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (15.79%) VMS
3 10 (13.16%) Ubuntu
3 10 (13.16%) Windows
4 3 (3.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (76.32%) CI/CD
2 43 (56.58%) DevOps
3 34 (44.74%) Agile
3 34 (44.74%) Containerisation
4 30 (39.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (26.32%) TDD
6 18 (23.68%) Artificial Intelligence
6 18 (23.68%) Cloud Security
6 18 (23.68%) Microservices
7 16 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (19.74%) Configuration Management
8 15 (19.74%) Event-Driven
8 15 (19.74%) Mentoring
8 15 (19.74%) OOP
8 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
9 14 (18.42%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (15.79%) Change Management
10 12 (15.79%) Machine Learning
10 12 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 43 (56.58%) Python
2 19 (25.00%) Java
3 17 (22.37%) SQL
4 15 (19.74%) Groovy
5 12 (15.79%) PowerShell
6 11 (14.47%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.58%) Bash
7 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.26%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.63%) C
10 1 (1.32%) Go
10 1 (1.32%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 21 (27.63%) AWS Certification
3 18 (23.68%) SC Cleared
4 17 (22.37%) Degree
5 10 (13.16%) Azure Certification
6 8 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.95%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.32%) CCSP
10 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (1.32%) CISSP
10 1 (1.32%) OCP
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (1.32%) OSCP
10 1 (1.32%) SANS
10 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (3.95%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.63%) GDPR
3 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.63%) NIST
3 2 (2.63%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (64.47%) Docker
2 12 (15.79%) Dovecot
2 12 (15.79%) Postfix
2 12 (15.79%) Squid
3 10 (13.16%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 44 (57.89%) Terraform
2 34 (44.74%) Kubernetes
3 23 (30.26%) Grafana
4 18 (23.68%) Prometheus
5 12 (15.79%) Nessus
6 10 (13.16%) Proxmox
7 6 (7.89%) Ansible
7 6 (7.89%) Kibana
8 3 (3.95%) Progress Chef
8 3 (3.95%) Puppet
9 2 (2.63%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.32%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (15.79%) ServiceNow
2 6 (7.89%) Gigya
3 5 (6.58%) IBM
4 4 (5.26%) Splunk
5 3 (3.95%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.63%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.32%) JDA
7 1 (1.32%) Rapid7