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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 301 317
Rank change year-on-year -55 +16 +42
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 113 81 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.51% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.56% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 51 26
10th Percentile £358 £381 £400
25th Percentile £400 £446 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £524
90th Percentile £653 £638 £581
UK median daily rate £535 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +1.90% -12.50% +4.35%
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 8,249 5,204 4,923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.95% 28.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,213 3,501 3,144
10th Percentile £263 £235 £250
25th Percentile £402 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 514 167 127
10th Percentile £15.26 £14.65 £15.79
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.00 £20.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -45.71% +55.42%
75th Percentile £69.96 £35.16 £69.72
90th Percentile £79.00 £65.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 -54 41 £500 - 37
North West -42 30 £513 +5.13% 23
Midlands -39 23 £475 +2.70% 16
Scotland -13 22 £401 -23.62% 18
West Midlands -47 21 £488 +5.41% 6
South East -61 13 £613 +11.36% 22
East of England -18 9 £550 +18.92% 8
North East -35 8 £400 -5.88% 4
South West -33 4 £365 -41.60% 19
Yorkshire -43 3 £500 - 10
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 10
Wales - 1 £550 - 4
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 9 (7.96%) Confluence
2 8 (7.08%) Apache
3 4 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.88%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 108 (95.58%) AWS
2 83 (73.45%) Serverless
3 82 (72.57%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (68.14%) Amazon EKS
5 61 (53.98%) Amazon S3
6 57 (50.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 37 (32.74%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (30.09%) GitHub
9 33 (29.20%) AWS CloudFormation
10 31 (27.43%) Amazon SQS
11 30 (26.55%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (24.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (13.27%) Kong
14 12 (10.62%) AWS CodePipeline
15 11 (9.73%) Amazon MSK
15 11 (9.73%) AWS KMS
15 11 (9.73%) Azure
16 10 (8.85%) AWS Fargate
16 10 (8.85%) GCP
17 8 (7.08%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) DNS
1 5 (4.42%) Network Security
1 5 (4.42%) SSL
2 4 (3.54%) Firewall
3 3 (2.65%) HTTP
3 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.47%) Amazon RDS
2 16 (14.16%) DynamoDB
3 10 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.96%) MongoDB
5 8 (7.08%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.42%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.42%) DocumentDB
8 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.54%) Flink
8 4 (3.54%) MySQL
8 4 (3.54%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.65%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.77%) Redis
11 1 (0.88%) Big Data
11 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 38 (33.63%) Jenkins
2 32 (28.32%) GitLab
3 15 (13.27%) Git
4 10 (8.85%) JIRA
5 9 (7.96%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.54%) Maven
6 4 (3.54%) Mockito
6 4 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.65%) git-flow
7 3 (2.65%) JUnit
8 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.88%) Gatling
9 1 (0.88%) MLflow
9 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 27 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Finance
2 21 (18.58%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.96%) Banking
4 7 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.54%) Military
7 3 (2.65%) Retail
8 2 (1.77%) iGaming
9 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 21 (18.58%) Developer
2 20 (17.70%) Scrum Master
3 19 (16.81%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (15.04%) AWS DevOps
5 15 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (13.27%) Java Developer
6 14 (12.39%) Senior
7 13 (11.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 11 (9.73%) Lead
9 9 (7.96%) Architect
9 9 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
10 8 (7.08%) Security Engineer
10 8 (7.08%) Software Engineer
11 7 (6.19%) AWS Developer
11 7 (6.19%) Java Engineer
12 6 (5.31%) AWS Architect
12 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (5.31%) Java Scrum Master
12 6 (5.31%) Technical Leader
13 5 (4.42%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (53.98%) Terraform
2 34 (30.09%) RESTful
2 34 (30.09%) Spring Boot
3 33 (29.20%) Spring
4 27 (23.89%) Kafka
5 24 (21.24%) REST
6 12 (10.62%) AngularJS
7 11 (9.73%) AWS CDK
7 11 (9.73%) Node.js
8 9 (7.96%) JWT
8 9 (7.96%) SOAP
9 8 (7.08%) GraphQL
9 8 (7.08%) React
10 7 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (6.19%) OAuth
10 7 (6.19%) OpenAPI
10 7 (6.19%) Swagger
11 6 (5.31%) OAuth2
12 5 (4.42%) Express.js
12 5 (4.42%) MEAN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 57 (50.44%) Cloud Native
2 29 (25.66%) Product Ownership
3 13 (11.50%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (7.08%) Security Posture
5 5 (4.42%) Cloud Security Posture
5 5 (4.42%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (3.54%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) NHS
8 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.27%) Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.19%) Windows
4 4 (3.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (84.07%) CI/CD
2 80 (70.80%) DevOps
3 66 (58.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (49.56%) Agile
5 47 (41.59%) Microservices
6 43 (38.05%) Test Automation
7 41 (36.28%) Containerisation
8 39 (34.51%) Observability
9 33 (29.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (28.32%) Scrum
11 27 (23.89%) DevSecOps
12 22 (19.47%) Clean Code
12 22 (19.47%) Event-Driven
12 22 (19.47%) Migration
13 21 (18.58%) Code Quality
13 21 (18.58%) Platform Engineering
14 20 (17.70%) Backlog Refinement
14 20 (17.70%) Deployment Automation
14 20 (17.70%) Root Cause Analysis
14 20 (17.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (41.59%) Java
2 23 (20.35%) Python
3 16 (14.16%) Bash
4 15 (13.27%) SQL
5 12 (10.62%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.73%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.85%) Go
7 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.19%) Bicep
8 7 (6.19%) Lua
9 5 (4.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (4.42%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.77%) C#
11 2 (1.77%) Groovy
11 2 (1.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (38.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (30.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (23.89%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.08%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.08%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (5.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.31%) CISSP
5 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.42%) Degree
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.58%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.65%) NCSC
5 2 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.88%) HL7
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (57.52%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (45.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.73%) Grafana
3 10 (8.85%) Ansible
4 9 (7.96%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.31%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.65%) Consul
6 3 (2.65%) Packer
6 3 (2.65%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.77%) Istio
7 2 (1.77%) linkerd
7 2 (1.77%) Puppet
7 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (8.85%) Dynatrace
2 9 (7.96%) Splunk
3 7 (6.19%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.31%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.42%) Confluent
6 4 (3.54%) Databricks
6 4 (3.54%) Google
6 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.65%) webMethods
8 1 (0.88%) Apple
8 1 (0.88%) ESET
8 1 (0.88%) Informatica
8 1 (0.88%) New Relic
8 1 (0.88%) Okta
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle
8 1 (0.88%) Talend