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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 384 325 345
Rank change year-on-year -59 +20 -5
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 88 51 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.33% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.07% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 22
10th Percentile £321 £359 £400
25th Percentile £385 £431 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.48% -15.42%
75th Percentile £600 £548 £566
90th Percentile £650 £596 £600
UK median daily rate £536 £533 £538
% change year-on-year +0.70% -0.93% -10.42%
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 8,100 4,751 4,977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.82% 31.15% 27.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,193 3,182 3,427
10th Percentile £288 £250 £242
25th Percentile £403 £380 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £589 £569 £600
90th Percentile £675 £645 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 191 201
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.75 £14.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +85.48% -11.70% -20.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.67 £51.91
90th Percentile £86.30 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.50 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.09% +14.70% -31.50%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -64 30 £525 +10.53% 30
Midlands -36 22 £475 -3.06% 3
North West -41 22 £607 +57.94% 15
West Midlands -49 22 £475 -3.06% 2
Scotland +3 12 £344 -34.45% 7
South East -69 10 £600 +4.35% 12
East of England -9 7 £550 +22.22% 7
North East -34 7 £406 -4.41% 6
South West -34 6 £350 -31.71% 12
Wales - 2 £400 -
Yorkshire -54 1 - - 9
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 14 (15.91%) Confluence
2 6 (6.82%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.41%) Apache
3 3 (3.41%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (3.41%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 83 (94.32%) AWS
2 72 (81.82%) Serverless
3 69 (78.41%) AWS Lambda
4 60 (68.18%) Amazon EKS
5 51 (57.95%) Amazon S3
6 45 (51.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 33 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (36.36%) GitHub
9 31 (35.23%) GitHub Actions
10 28 (31.82%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (28.41%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (20.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 17 (19.32%) AWS CodePipeline
14 9 (10.23%) AWS KMS
15 8 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (9.09%) AWS Fargate
16 6 (6.82%) Amazon ECR
16 6 (6.82%) AWS Step Functions
16 6 (6.82%) Azure
17 5 (5.68%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) HTTP
2 2 (2.27%) Firewall
2 2 (2.27%) Network Security
3 1 (1.14%) DNS
3 1 (1.14%) SSL
3 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 13 (14.77%) NoSQL
3 11 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.23%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.68%) Flink
6 5 (5.68%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.41%) DocumentDB
8 3 (3.41%) MySQL
9 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.27%) Metadata
9 2 (2.27%) Pinecone
9 2 (2.27%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.14%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (1.14%) Big Data
10 1 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (35.23%) Jenkins
2 19 (21.59%) GitLab
3 14 (15.91%) JIRA
4 12 (13.64%) Bitbucket
4 12 (13.64%) Git
5 3 (3.41%) JUnit
5 3 (3.41%) Mockito
6 2 (2.27%) MLflow
7 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.14%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.14%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.82%) Finance
4 4 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Retail
6 2 (2.27%) Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (22.73%) Scrum Master
2 18 (20.45%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (18.18%) Developer
4 12 (13.64%) Java Developer
5 11 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (10.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Architect
7 7 (7.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) Senior
7 7 (7.95%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.68%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) AWS Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.55%) SOC Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.68%) Spring
1 27 (30.68%) Spring Boot
2 23 (26.14%) Kafka
3 20 (22.73%) RESTful
4 14 (15.91%) REST
5 13 (14.77%) OAuth
6 12 (13.64%) AWS CDK
6 12 (13.64%) Node.js
7 11 (12.50%) OAuth2
8 10 (11.36%) JWT
9 9 (10.23%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (7.95%) React
11 6 (6.82%) GraphQL
12 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
13 4 (4.55%) .NET
13 4 (4.55%) Java Concurrency
14 3 (3.41%) OpenID
14 3 (3.41%) SOAP
14 3 (3.41%) Spring MVC
14 3 (3.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 42 (47.73%) Cloud Native
2 28 (31.82%) Product Ownership
3 18 (20.45%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.68%) Security Posture
5 4 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.27%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.27%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Clustering
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (4.55%) Windows
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
4 1 (1.14%) Android
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (80.68%) CI/CD
2 55 (62.50%) DevOps
3 47 (53.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 44 (50.00%) Agile
5 43 (48.86%) Microservices
6 35 (39.77%) Test Automation
7 34 (38.64%) Containerisation
8 33 (37.50%) Observability
9 30 (34.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (34.09%) Scrum
10 23 (26.14%) DevSecOps
11 22 (25.00%) Code Quality
11 22 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (22.73%) Backlog Refinement
13 19 (21.59%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 17 (19.32%) Clean Code
15 16 (18.18%) Event-Driven
15 16 (18.18%) Migration
16 15 (17.05%) Deployment Automation
16 15 (17.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 38 (43.18%) Java
2 23 (26.14%) Python
3 15 (17.05%) SQL
4 9 (10.23%) Bash
4 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 6 (6.82%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.68%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (5.68%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (4.55%) Bicep
8 3 (3.41%) C#
8 3 (3.41%) Scala
9 1 (1.14%) Go
9 1 (1.14%) Groovy
9 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 24 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.77%) AWS Certification
4 11 (12.50%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (10.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (6.82%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 4 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (3.41%) CISSP
9 1 (1.14%) Degree
9 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.23%) QA
2 4 (4.55%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.27%) NCSC
5 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (57.95%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (45.45%) Terraform
2 28 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 13 (14.77%) Prometheus
4 9 (10.23%) Ansible
4 9 (10.23%) Grafana
5 3 (3.41%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.27%) Puppet
7 1 (1.14%) Consul
7 1 (1.14%) Packer
7 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (9.09%) Databricks
1 8 (9.09%) Splunk
2 6 (6.82%) Dynatrace
3 4 (4.55%) Confluent
3 4 (4.55%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) Informatica
6 1 (1.14%) New Relic
6 1 (1.14%) Talend