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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 312 375
Rank change year-on-year -44 +63 -10
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 79 35 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 0.84% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 18
10th Percentile £313 £358 £425
25th Percentile £381 £406 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +0.24% -14.79%
75th Percentile £575 £552 £566
90th Percentile £650 £594 £600
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -7.83% +15.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
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 7,360 4,182 5,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.49% 32.16% 25.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,866 2,917 3,789
10th Percentile £300 £250 £215
25th Percentile £400 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £573 £588
90th Percentile £674 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £509 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.34% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 167 261
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.93 £16.30 £15.13
Median hourly rate £37.06 £19.97 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +85.58% +12.19% -35.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.48 £35.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £63.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.76 £21.46
% change year-on-year +29.36% +29.36% -43.15%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -66 26 £534 +6.75% 12
North West -39 18 £650 +62.50% 4
Scotland +4 13 £313 -41.17%
Midlands -43 13 £488 -1.43% 1
West Midlands -45 13 £488 -1.43% 1
South East -55 12 £600 +4.35% 10
South West - 8 £369 - 3
East of England - 5 £550 - 3
North East -23 4 £528 - 2
Yorkshire -60 4 £500 -2.44% 6
Wales - 3 £475 - 1
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 (16.46%) Confluence
2 6 (7.59%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.06%) Apache
3 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.53%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 74 (93.67%) AWS
2 64 (81.01%) Serverless
3 62 (78.48%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (56.96%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (55.70%) Amazon S3
6 31 (39.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 29 (36.71%) Amazon EC2
7 29 (36.71%) GitHub
8 27 (34.18%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (32.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (22.78%) AWS CodePipeline
11 17 (21.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 16 (20.25%) Amazon SQS
13 9 (11.39%) AWS Fargate
14 7 (8.86%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (7.59%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (7.59%) Datadog
16 5 (6.33%) AWS KMS
17 4 (5.06%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 4 (5.06%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.86%) HTTP
2 1 (1.27%) DNS
2 1 (1.27%) Firewall
2 1 (1.27%) SSL
2 1 (1.27%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.58%) DynamoDB
2 18 (22.78%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (13.92%) NoSQL
4 8 (10.13%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.59%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.59%) Flink
6 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.80%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.80%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.53%) Metadata
8 2 (2.53%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 22 (27.85%) Jenkins
2 15 (18.99%) GitLab
2 15 (18.99%) JIRA
3 13 (16.46%) Git
4 12 (15.19%) Bitbucket
5 4 (5.06%) MLflow
6 3 (3.80%) Gradle
6 3 (3.80%) Maven
7 2 (2.53%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.27%) git-flow
8 1 (1.27%) Mockito
General
1 22 (27.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.06%) Finance
4 2 (2.53%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.53%) Retail
5 1 (1.27%) Banking
5 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (20.25%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (16.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.19%) AWS DevOps
3 12 (15.19%) Developer
3 12 (15.19%) Scrum Master
4 10 (12.66%) Java Developer
5 8 (10.13%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 8 (10.13%) Senior
6 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Backend Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Architect
8 4 (5.06%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) SOC Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) AWS Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (22.78%) Spring
2 17 (21.52%) Spring Boot
3 14 (17.72%) AWS CDK
3 14 (17.72%) Kafka
4 13 (16.46%) OAuth
5 11 (13.92%) JWT
6 10 (12.66%) GraphQL
6 10 (12.66%) React
6 10 (12.66%) RESTful
7 9 (11.39%) OAuth2
8 8 (10.13%) Node.js
9 7 (8.86%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (8.86%) REST
10 5 (6.33%) FastAPI
10 5 (6.33%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (5.06%) Hugging Face
11 4 (5.06%) Loki
11 4 (5.06%) Pandas
11 4 (5.06%) PyTorch
11 4 (5.06%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (32.91%) Cloud Native
2 18 (22.78%) Product Ownership
3 11 (13.92%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.06%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.06%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.06%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.53%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.27%) Clustering
6 1 (1.27%) Digital Wallet
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.27%) NHS
6 1 (1.27%) PMI
6 1 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.46%) Linux
2 1 (1.27%) Android
2 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (79.75%) CI/CD
2 44 (55.70%) DevOps
3 40 (50.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (46.84%) Containerisation
5 28 (35.44%) Agile
6 25 (31.65%) Observability
7 24 (30.38%) Microservices
8 22 (27.85%) Test Automation
9 21 (26.58%) Scrum
10 19 (24.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (21.52%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (16.46%) Code Quality
13 12 (15.19%) Backlog Refinement
13 12 (15.19%) DevSecOps
13 12 (15.19%) Software Engineering
14 11 (13.92%) Conflict Resolution
14 11 (13.92%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 10 (12.66%) Impact Analysis
15 10 (12.66%) ITIL
15 10 (12.66%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (36.71%) Python
2 26 (32.91%) Java
3 12 (15.19%) SQL
4 8 (10.13%) Bash
4 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.33%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (6.33%) Search Processing Language
5 5 (6.33%) TypeScript
6 4 (5.06%) Ruby
7 3 (3.80%) C#
7 3 (3.80%) Scala
8 2 (2.53%) Go
8 2 (2.53%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.27%) Groovy
9 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.27%) Perl
9 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.27%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.66%) SAFe Agilist
4 8 (10.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (7.59%) DV Cleared
6 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.27%) Degree
8 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.80%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) NCSC
4 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (51.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (45.57%) Terraform
2 26 (32.91%) Kubernetes
3 15 (18.99%) Prometheus
4 13 (16.46%) Ansible
4 13 (16.46%) Grafana
5 5 (6.33%) Puppet
6 2 (2.53%) Argo
7 1 (1.27%) Consul
7 1 (1.27%) Packer
7 1 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.27%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) Databricks
1 8 (10.13%) Splunk
2 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.27%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.27%) Confluent
4 1 (1.27%) New Relic
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle
4 1 (1.27%) PagerDuty