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

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 328 364
Rank change year-on-year -59 +36 +3
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 80 45 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.30% 0.30% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 0.96% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 21
10th Percentile £313 £358 £406
25th Percentile £367 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £495 £510
Median % change year-on-year +6.06% -2.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £575
90th Percentile £650 £599 £600
UK median daily rate £543 £533 £525
% change year-on-year +1.88% +1.43% -12.50%
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 8,024 4,690 5,448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.78% 31.56% 26.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 3,162 3,757
10th Percentile £291 £250 £231
25th Percentile £402 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £518 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 486 194 268
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.88
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.94 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.05% -9.83% -20.75%
75th Percentile £70.00 £35.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £85.00 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £27.76 £22.30
% change year-on-year +33.50% +24.48% -36.29%

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 13 July 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 13 July 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 13 July 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 -74 24 £525 +23.53% 26
Midlands -41 17 £488 +8.33% 3
North West -47 17 £650 +69.27% 14
West Midlands -57 17 £488 +8.33% 1
Scotland -3 14 £375 -33.33% 4
South East -72 10 £600 +4.35% 8
East of England -15 7 £550 +22.22%
South West -27 7 £350 -31.71% 21
North East -33 4 £469 +10.29% 8
Yorkshire -56 3 - - 4
Wales - 2 £400 -
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 (17.50%) Confluence
2 7 (8.75%) Apache Spark
3 5 (6.25%) Apache
3 5 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 75 (93.75%) AWS
2 67 (83.75%) Serverless
3 65 (81.25%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (60.00%) Amazon S3
5 47 (58.75%) Amazon EKS
6 34 (42.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 30 (37.50%) Amazon EC2
7 30 (37.50%) GitHub
8 29 (36.25%) GitHub Actions
9 21 (26.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 20 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (22.50%) AWS CodePipeline
11 18 (22.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
13 8 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (7.50%) Datadog
15 5 (6.25%) AWS KMS
16 4 (5.00%) Amazon ECR
16 4 (5.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) HTTP
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) SSL
2 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (26.25%) DynamoDB
2 16 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (12.50%) NoSQL
4 9 (11.25%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.50%) Flink
5 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.75%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.50%) Metadata
8 2 (2.50%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.25%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.25%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 15 (18.75%) GitLab
2 15 (18.75%) JIRA
3 12 (15.00%) Bitbucket
4 8 (10.00%) Git
5 4 (5.00%) MLflow
6 3 (3.75%) Gradle
6 3 (3.75%) Maven
7 2 (2.50%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.25%) git-flow
8 1 (1.25%) Mockito
8 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (27.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
3 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (3.75%) Finance
4 2 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.50%) Retail
5 1 (1.25%) Banking
5 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (20.00%) Scrum Master
2 15 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
3 13 (16.25%) Developer
4 11 (13.75%) Java Developer
5 10 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (11.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Senior
8 7 (8.75%) Software Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Architect
10 5 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Backend Developer
10 5 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (6.25%) Python Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Data Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) Java Engineer
11 4 (5.00%) SOC Engineer
12 3 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
12 3 (3.75%) Senior Java Engineer
12 3 (3.75%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (26.25%) Spring
1 21 (26.25%) Spring Boot
2 17 (21.25%) Kafka
3 15 (18.75%) AWS CDK
3 15 (18.75%) OAuth
4 13 (16.25%) RESTful
5 12 (15.00%) JWT
6 11 (13.75%) OAuth2
7 10 (12.50%) GraphQL
7 10 (12.50%) Node.js
7 10 (12.50%) React
8 9 (11.25%) REST
9 7 (8.75%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (6.25%) boto
10 5 (6.25%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (5.00%) FastAPI
11 4 (5.00%) Hugging Face
11 4 (5.00%) OpenCV
11 4 (5.00%) Pandas
11 4 (5.00%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 29 (36.25%) Cloud Native
2 22 (27.50%) Product Ownership
3 12 (15.00%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.00%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.50%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.25%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Android
2 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 45 (56.25%) DevOps
3 38 (47.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (41.25%) Containerisation
5 31 (38.75%) Microservices
6 29 (36.25%) Agile
7 27 (33.75%) Test Automation
8 25 (31.25%) Observability
9 23 (28.75%) Scrum
10 22 (27.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (23.75%) Platform Engineering
12 17 (21.25%) Code Quality
13 16 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
13 16 (20.00%) DevSecOps
14 14 (17.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 13 (16.25%) Migration
16 12 (15.00%) Conflict Resolution
16 12 (15.00%) Event-Driven
16 12 (15.00%) Software Engineering
16 12 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (35.00%) Java
2 23 (28.75%) Python
3 13 (16.25%) SQL
4 7 (8.75%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.50%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.25%) Bash
6 5 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (6.25%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (3.75%) C#
7 3 (3.75%) Scala
8 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.25%) Go
9 1 (1.25%) Groovy
9 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.25%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 11 (13.75%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (11.25%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.00%) AWS Certification
6 4 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (38.75%) Terraform
2 20 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 13 (16.25%) Prometheus
4 10 (12.50%) Grafana
5 8 (10.00%) Ansible
6 2 (2.50%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) Consul
7 1 (1.25%) Packer
7 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Databricks
2 8 (10.00%) Splunk
3 4 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.50%) Confluent
5 1 (1.25%) AVEVA
5 1 (1.25%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.25%) New Relic