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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 285 375
Rank change year-on-year -56 +90 +10
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 92 45 24
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.35% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 1.08% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 34 14
10th Percentile £313 £373 £433
25th Percentile £364 £409 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £521
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +1.25% -13.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £539
90th Percentile £650 £746 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -19.23% +26.83% -14.58%
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 £75.00 - -

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 6,936 4,185 5,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.43% 33.00% 26.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,765 2,994 3,953
10th Percentile £263 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.31% -2.76% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £586 £588
90th Percentile £663 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 148 252
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +29.83% -21.27%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.47 £26.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.25 £59.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.81 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.18% +27.68% -25.43%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -51 44 £534 -11.04% 26
Scotland +14 21 £358 -30.15% 3
North West -31 21 £575 +43.75% 13
Yorkshire -41 19 £500 -31.03% 13
South West -14 10 £461 +17.67% 6
West Midlands -50 7 £463 -14.21% 1
Midlands -62 7 £463 -14.21% 2
South East -53 6 £530 -7.83% 17
North East -13 4 £534 -28.83%
East of England - 3 £538 - 2
Wales -11 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 8 (8.70%) Apache Spark
1 8 (8.70%) Confluence
2 7 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (6.52%) Apache
4 2 (2.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 91 (98.91%) AWS
2 81 (88.04%) Serverless
3 77 (83.70%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (53.26%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (50.00%) Amazon S3
6 39 (42.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (34.78%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (31.52%) GitHub
9 26 (28.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 24 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (19.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (15.22%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (15.22%) AWS CodePipeline
13 13 (14.13%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (13.04%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (13.04%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (9.78%) Amazon MSK
16 8 (8.70%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (8.70%) Datadog
17 7 (7.61%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.04%) Firewall
2 6 (6.52%) DNS
3 5 (5.43%) HTTP
4 2 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.17%) VPN
5 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (28.26%) Amazon RDS
1 26 (28.26%) DynamoDB
2 12 (13.04%) Relational Database
3 11 (11.96%) NoSQL
4 10 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.52%) Flink
7 5 (5.43%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.35%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.17%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.17%) DocumentDB
10 2 (2.17%) Metadata
10 2 (2.17%) Pinecone
11 1 (1.09%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.09%) Big Data
11 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (32.61%) Jenkins
2 27 (29.35%) Git
3 20 (21.74%) GitLab
4 16 (17.39%) JIRA
5 11 (11.96%) Bitbucket
6 8 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (6.52%) MLflow
8 5 (5.43%) Maven
9 4 (4.35%) Cucumber
10 3 (3.26%) Cypress.io
10 3 (3.26%) Gradle
11 2 (2.17%) Selenium
11 2 (2.17%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.09%) git-flow
12 1 (1.09%) Mockito
12 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (21.74%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.22%) Finance
2 14 (15.22%) Social Skills
3 6 (6.52%) Banking
4 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.09%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.09%) Military
6 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (17.39%) Developer
4 15 (16.30%) Senior
5 11 (11.96%) Lead
6 10 (10.87%) Java Developer
7 9 (9.78%) AWS DevOps
8 8 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Architect
10 6 (6.52%) Data Engineer
10 6 (6.52%) Technical Leader
11 5 (5.43%) AWS Data Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Backend Developer
11 5 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Python Engineer
11 5 (5.43%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (5.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.91%) Node.js
2 18 (19.57%) Spring
3 17 (18.48%) Spring Boot
4 13 (14.13%) Kafka
4 13 (14.13%) RESTful
5 12 (13.04%) React
6 11 (11.96%) OAuth
7 10 (10.87%) REST
8 9 (9.78%) AWS CDK
8 9 (9.78%) JWT
9 7 (7.61%) OAuth2
9 7 (7.61%) PySpark
9 7 (7.61%) Web Services
10 6 (6.52%) FastAPI
11 5 (5.43%) .NET
11 5 (5.43%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.43%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (4.35%) Flask
12 4 (4.35%) NestJS
13 3 (3.26%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 26 (28.26%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.52%) NHS
5 5 (5.43%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.26%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.09%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.09%) PMI
8 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.26%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.09%) Android
3 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.09%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (68.48%) CI/CD
2 51 (55.43%) DevOps
3 43 (46.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (40.22%) Containerisation
5 32 (34.78%) Microservices
6 30 (32.61%) Agile
7 20 (21.74%) Observability
8 18 (19.57%) Data Pipeline
9 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
9 16 (17.39%) Scrum
9 16 (17.39%) Test Automation
10 15 (16.30%) Software Engineering
11 14 (15.22%) AI
11 14 (15.22%) Code Quality
11 14 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (15.22%) Data Engineering
12 13 (14.13%) Machine Learning
13 12 (13.04%) Analytics
14 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (61.96%) Python
2 30 (32.61%) Java
3 16 (17.39%) SQL
4 13 (14.13%) JavaScript
4 13 (14.13%) Ruby
5 12 (13.04%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.70%) Bash
8 7 (7.61%) Perl
9 5 (5.43%) Go
10 3 (3.26%) C#
11 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.09%) C
12 1 (1.09%) Groovy
12 1 (1.09%) Scala
12 1 (1.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.96%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.87%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (3.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.26%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.17%) Degree
8 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.35%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.17%) NIST
3 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.09%) HL7
System Software
1 52 (56.52%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (48.91%) Terraform
2 39 (42.39%) Kubernetes
3 15 (16.30%) Prometheus
4 12 (13.04%) Grafana
5 9 (9.78%) Ansible
6 5 (5.43%) Puppet
7 3 (3.26%) Packer
8 2 (2.17%) Argo
8 2 (2.17%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.09%) Nagios
9 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (11.96%) Databricks
2 6 (6.52%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.43%) Splunk
4 3 (3.26%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.17%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.09%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.09%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.09%) Brio
6 1 (1.09%) CloudEndure
6 1 (1.09%) Confluent
6 1 (1.09%) Pega
6 1 (1.09%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.09%) UiPath