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 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 301 361
Rank change year-on-year -61 +60 +4
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 82 36 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.34% 0.28% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.15% 0.88% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 28 18
10th Percentile £313 £358 £425
25th Percentile £354 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.69% -14.79%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £566
90th Percentile £650 £641 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £630 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +26.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.75 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.63 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 7,142 4,085 5,292
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.49% 31.93% 25.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,790 2,874 3,757
10th Percentile £289 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £384 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £582 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -3.29% -1.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 386 158 260
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £21.39 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year +110.38% +20.81% -29.18%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £83.00 £69.50 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +43.64% +28.69% -38.94%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -53 32 £530 +6.00% 27
North West -34 17 £650 +62.50% 12
Scotland +6 16 £323 -38.86% 1
Midlands -44 12 £475 -11.89% 3
West Midlands -53 12 £475 -11.89% 2
South West -23 10 £461 +17.67% 6
Yorkshire -47 10 £500 -31.03% 11
South East -54 8 £530 -7.83% 18
North East -14 5 £530 - 4
East of England - 3 £550 - 3
Wales - 2 £363 -
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 13 (15.85%) Confluence
2 8 (9.76%) Apache Spark
3 6 (7.32%) Apache
3 6 (7.32%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.44%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 78 (95.12%) AWS
2 69 (84.15%) Serverless
3 67 (81.71%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (54.88%) Amazon S3
5 44 (53.66%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (37.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (37.80%) GitHub
7 29 (35.37%) GitHub Actions
8 28 (34.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 28 (34.15%) Amazon EC2
9 19 (23.17%) AWS CodePipeline
10 16 (19.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 15 (18.29%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (13.41%) AWS Step Functions
13 10 (12.20%) AWS Fargate
14 7 (8.54%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (7.32%) Datadog
16 5 (6.10%) Amazon ECR
16 5 (6.10%) AWS KMS
17 4 (4.88%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) HTTP
2 3 (3.66%) DNS
2 3 (3.66%) Firewall
3 2 (2.44%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.22%) SSL
4 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (26.83%) DynamoDB
2 17 (20.73%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (10.98%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.76%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (9.76%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.32%) Flink
6 4 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.66%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.44%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.44%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.44%) Metadata
8 2 (2.44%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (28.05%) Jenkins
2 18 (21.95%) GitLab
3 17 (20.73%) Git
4 16 (19.51%) JIRA
5 12 (14.63%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.32%) MLflow
7 5 (6.10%) Maven
8 4 (4.88%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.88%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (3.66%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.66%) Gradle
10 2 (2.44%) Selenium
10 2 (2.44%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.22%) git-flow
11 1 (1.22%) Mockito
General
1 18 (21.95%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.51%) Public Sector
3 5 (6.10%) Finance
4 3 (3.66%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.44%) Retail
6 1 (1.22%) Banking
6 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (20.73%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (18.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (15.85%) AWS DevOps
3 13 (15.85%) Developer
4 11 (13.41%) Scrum Master
5 9 (10.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 9 (10.98%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.76%) Lead
6 8 (9.76%) Senior
7 6 (7.32%) Architect
8 5 (6.10%) Backend Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Python Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Technical Leader
9 4 (4.88%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Senior Java Engineer
10 3 (3.66%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.17%) Spring
2 18 (21.95%) Spring Boot
3 14 (17.07%) AWS CDK
3 14 (17.07%) Kafka
4 13 (15.85%) Node.js
5 12 (14.63%) OAuth
6 10 (12.20%) JWT
7 9 (10.98%) React
8 8 (9.76%) GraphQL
8 8 (9.76%) RESTful
9 7 (8.54%) OAuth2
9 7 (8.54%) REST
10 6 (7.32%) FastAPI
11 5 (6.10%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (6.10%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (4.88%) boto
12 4 (4.88%) Loki
12 4 (4.88%) OpenCV
12 4 (4.88%) Pandas
12 4 (4.88%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 24 (29.27%) Cloud Native
2 15 (18.29%) Product Ownership
3 10 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.32%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.88%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.66%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.66%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.66%) NHS
6 3 (3.66%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (2.44%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.22%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.22%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.22%) PMI
8 1 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.73%) Linux
2 1 (1.22%) Android
2 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.22%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (73.17%) CI/CD
2 43 (52.44%) DevOps
3 41 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (42.68%) Containerisation
5 27 (32.93%) Agile
6 23 (28.05%) Microservices
7 22 (26.83%) Observability
8 21 (25.61%) Scrum
8 21 (25.61%) Test Automation
9 16 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (15.85%) Data Pipeline
10 13 (15.85%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (14.63%) AI
11 12 (14.63%) DevSecOps
11 12 (14.63%) Machine Learning
11 12 (14.63%) Software Engineering
12 11 (13.41%) Backlog Refinement
12 11 (13.41%) Code Quality
13 10 (12.20%) Conflict Resolution
13 10 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.34%) Python
2 28 (34.15%) Java
3 14 (17.07%) SQL
4 11 (13.41%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.76%) Bash
5 8 (9.76%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.54%) Ruby
7 3 (3.66%) C#
7 3 (3.66%) Go
7 3 (3.66%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (3.66%) Scala
7 3 (3.66%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (2.44%) Groovy
8 2 (2.44%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.44%) Perl
8 2 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.98%) SAFe Agilist
4 7 (8.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (7.32%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.66%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.22%) Degree
7 1 (1.22%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.88%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.44%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (51.22%) Docker
2 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (46.34%) Terraform
2 30 (36.59%) Kubernetes
3 16 (19.51%) Prometheus
4 15 (18.29%) Grafana
5 12 (14.63%) Ansible
6 5 (6.10%) Puppet
7 2 (2.44%) Argo
7 2 (2.44%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.22%) Consul
8 1 (1.22%) Packer
8 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (12.20%) Databricks
2 5 (6.10%) Splunk
3 3 (3.66%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.66%) Oracle
4 1 (1.22%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.22%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.22%) Confluent
4 1 (1.22%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.22%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.22%) Pega
4 1 (1.22%) UiPath