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

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 300 328
Rank change year-on-year -73 +28 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 100 69 42
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.36% 0.45% 0.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.22% 1.45% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 43 27
10th Percentile £363 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £581 £547 £539
90th Percentile £650 £628 £600
UK median daily rate £543 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.33% -4.55% -8.33%
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 8,210 4,752 4,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.48% 31.28% 27.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,287 3,165 3,252
10th Percentile £265 £250 £250
25th Percentile £405 £380 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £644 £670
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 168 145
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.92 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.48 £16.95 £17.69
Median hourly rate £32.50 £19.89 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.44% -33.72% +11.11%
75th Percentile £69.82 £42.03 £64.73
90th Percentile £83.47 £67.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.31 £30.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +11.03% - -14.29%

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 8 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 8 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 -72 37 £500 +1.01% 41
North West -47 27 £600 +48.15% 25
Midlands -50 25 £463 -2.63% 15
West Midlands -42 23 £475 - 4
Scotland -11 18 £423 -17.46% 30
South East -69 9 £600 +9.09% 18
East of England -16 8 £550 +22.22% 8
North East -37 8 £400 -5.88% 7
South West -47 2 £403 -35.60% 28
Yorkshire -51 2 £500 - 9
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 11
Wales - 1 £550 - 2
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 (13.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) Apache
2 3 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.00%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.00%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 95 (95.00%) AWS
2 76 (76.00%) Serverless
3 75 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
4 69 (69.00%) Amazon EKS
5 51 (51.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 51 (51.00%) Amazon S3
6 36 (36.00%) GitHub
7 34 (34.00%) GitHub Actions
8 33 (33.00%) Amazon EC2
9 31 (31.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (26.00%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (22.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (14.00%) AWS CodePipeline
13 13 (13.00%) Kong
14 10 (10.00%) Azure
15 9 (9.00%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (9.00%) GCP
16 8 (8.00%) AWS Fargate
16 8 (8.00%) AWS KMS
17 7 (7.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.00%) SSL
2 4 (4.00%) Firewall
2 4 (4.00%) HTTP
2 4 (4.00%) Network Security
3 3 (3.00%) DNS
4 2 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.00%) DynamoDB
2 15 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (9.00%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 4 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
6 4 (4.00%) DocumentDB
7 3 (3.00%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.00%) MySQL
7 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.00%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.00%) Big Data
9 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.00%) Flink
9 1 (1.00%) Redis
9 1 (1.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (34.00%) Jenkins
2 27 (27.00%) GitLab
3 13 (13.00%) Git
3 13 (13.00%) JIRA
4 12 (12.00%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.00%) Mockito
6 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.00%) JUnit
6 3 (3.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.00%) git-flow
7 2 (2.00%) Maven
7 2 (2.00%) MLflow
8 1 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Public Sector
3 16 (16.00%) Finance
4 6 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.00%) Banking
6 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.00%) Retail
8 2 (2.00%) Military
9 1 (1.00%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 21 (21.00%) Scrum Master
2 18 (18.00%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (15.00%) Developer
4 14 (14.00%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (11.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Architect
6 9 (9.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Java Developer
6 9 (9.00%) Security Engineer
6 9 (9.00%) Senior
7 8 (8.00%) Lead
7 8 (8.00%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.00%) Java Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) AWS Architect
9 5 (5.00%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 4 (4.00%) AWS Developer
10 4 (4.00%) Java Scrum Master
10 4 (4.00%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (57.00%) Terraform
2 28 (28.00%) Spring
2 28 (28.00%) Spring Boot
3 26 (26.00%) RESTful
4 20 (20.00%) REST
5 19 (19.00%) Kafka
6 13 (13.00%) AWS CDK
7 10 (10.00%) JWT
7 10 (10.00%) Node.js
8 8 (8.00%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.00%) OAuth
9 7 (7.00%) Elastic Stack
10 6 (6.00%) GraphQL
10 6 (6.00%) OAuth2
10 6 (6.00%) OpenAPI
10 6 (6.00%) Swagger
11 5 (5.00%) OpenID
11 5 (5.00%) React
11 5 (5.00%) SOAP
12 4 (4.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (52.00%) Cloud Native
2 29 (29.00%) Product Ownership
3 13 (13.00%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (8.00%) Security Posture
5 7 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (4.00%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (4.00%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (3.00%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (3.00%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.00%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (2.00%) NHS
9 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.00%) Linux
2 7 (7.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (7.00%) Windows
3 3 (3.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 65 (65.00%) DevOps
3 57 (57.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 52 (52.00%) Agile
5 42 (42.00%) Microservices
6 40 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 38 (38.00%) Containerisation
8 31 (31.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (31.00%) Observability
8 31 (31.00%) Scrum
9 26 (26.00%) DevSecOps
10 24 (24.00%) Platform Engineering
11 21 (21.00%) Backlog Refinement
12 20 (20.00%) Event-Driven
12 20 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 19 (19.00%) Clean Code
13 19 (19.00%) Code Quality
13 19 (19.00%) Technical Leadership
14 17 (17.00%) Software Engineering
15 16 (16.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (40.00%) Java
2 21 (21.00%) Python
3 15 (15.00%) Bash
4 11 (11.00%) SQL
5 10 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.00%) PowerShell
5 10 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.00%) Go
7 7 (7.00%) Bicep
8 6 (6.00%) Lua
9 5 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (5.00%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (3.00%) C#
10 3 (3.00%) Scala
10 3 (3.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (2.00%) Groovy
12 1 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 39 (39.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (29.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (20.00%) AWS Certification
4 11 (11.00%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (9.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
7 6 (6.00%) CISSP
7 6 (6.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.00%) Degree
8 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (14.00%) QA
2 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.00%) NCSC
4 1 (1.00%) HL7
4 1 (1.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 60 (60.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 40 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.00%) Ansible
3 9 (9.00%) Grafana
4 6 (6.00%) Progress Chef
4 6 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.00%) Consul
5 2 (2.00%) Packer
5 2 (2.00%) Puppet
5 2 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.00%) ZABBIX
6 1 (1.00%) Istio
6 1 (1.00%) linkerd
Vendors
1 9 (9.00%) Dynatrace
1 9 (9.00%) Splunk
2 7 (7.00%) Red Hat
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.00%) MuleSoft
4 4 (4.00%) Confluent
4 4 (4.00%) Google
5 2 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (1.00%) Informatica
6 1 (1.00%) New Relic
6 1 (1.00%) Talend