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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 324 354
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 +69
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 85 40 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.24% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% 0.81% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 22 47
10th Percentile £366 £400 £478
25th Percentile £428 £456 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% +5.50%
75th Percentile £550 £524 £638
90th Percentile £638 £582 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -16.67% +9.57% -4.17%

All Cloud 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 5,424 4,928 6,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.28% 29.06% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,658 3,147 4,877
10th Percentile £235 £250 £221
25th Percentile £375 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 123 233
10th Percentile £13.25 £16.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.15 £16.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.43% +55.56% +16.79%
75th Percentile £40.65 £69.22 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +34.59%

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 25 October 2025.

Daily 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 25 October 2025. 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 -6 39 £500 +21.21% 45
North West -5 24 £500 +25.00% 33
West Midlands -5 19 £463 -8.42% 2
Midlands -14 19 £463 +2.21% 5
Yorkshire -14 13 £500 +1.01% 12
Scotland -7 12 £500 -2.44% 4
South East +11 6 £550 +10.00% 35
South West - 5 £625 - 5
East of England -14 4 £475 -13.64% 4
North East - 2 £425 -
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 15 (17.65%) Confluence
2 12 (14.12%) nginx
3 10 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.53%) Apache
5 1 (1.18%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (14.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 83 (97.65%) AWS
2 52 (61.18%) Serverless
3 51 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
4 44 (51.76%) Amazon S3
5 36 (42.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 34 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
7 32 (37.65%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (35.29%) GitHub
9 25 (29.41%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (25.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (23.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 20 (23.53%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (22.35%) Route 53
13 17 (20.00%) Azure
14 15 (17.65%) AWS KMS
15 13 (15.29%) Amazon ELB
16 12 (14.12%) AWS Fargate
16 12 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
17 11 (12.94%) Amazon EventBridge
18 9 (10.59%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.35%) Firewall
2 14 (16.47%) DNS
3 13 (15.29%) HTTP
4 12 (14.12%) IMAP
4 12 (14.12%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (14.12%) SMTP
5 10 (11.76%) FTP
5 10 (11.76%) SSH
6 4 (4.71%) VPN
7 2 (2.35%) Network Security
7 2 (2.35%) SSL
7 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.18%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (43.53%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (32.94%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (27.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 22 (25.88%) DynamoDB
5 12 (14.12%) NoSQL
6 7 (8.24%) Relational Database
7 6 (7.06%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (7.06%) Redis
8 5 (5.88%) Big Data
8 5 (5.88%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.88%) MySQL
8 5 (5.88%) RDBMS
9 4 (4.71%) DocumentDB
9 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.18%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (52.94%) Jenkins
2 30 (35.29%) Git
3 28 (32.94%) GitLab
4 24 (28.24%) JIRA
5 12 (14.12%) Vagrant
6 7 (8.24%) MLflow
6 7 (8.24%) SonarQube
7 6 (7.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.88%) Gradle
8 5 (5.88%) Maven
8 5 (5.88%) SonarLint
9 1 (1.18%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 32 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.24%) Public Sector
3 11 (12.94%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (7.06%) Finance
5 5 (5.88%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.88%) Banking
6 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.18%) Military
7 1 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (35.29%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (29.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (18.82%) AWS DevOps
4 15 (17.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 14 (16.47%) Software Engineer
6 13 (15.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 13 (15.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (15.29%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (12.94%) Lead
8 10 (11.76%) Architect
8 10 (11.76%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (9.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (9.41%) Senior
9 8 (9.41%) Technical Architect
10 7 (8.24%) Java Architect
10 7 (8.24%) Java Technical Architect
11 6 (7.06%) Developer
11 6 (7.06%) Python Engineer
12 5 (5.88%) Data Engineer
12 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) Node.js
1 18 (21.18%) RESTful
2 15 (17.65%) React
3 13 (15.29%) LDAP
4 12 (14.12%) JWT
5 10 (11.76%) REST
6 9 (10.59%) AWS CDK
6 9 (10.59%) FastAPI
7 8 (9.41%) OAuth
7 8 (9.41%) OpenCV
7 8 (9.41%) Pandas
7 8 (9.41%) PyTorch
7 8 (9.41%) Spring Boot
7 8 (9.41%) SQLAlchemy
8 7 (8.24%) Hugging Face
8 7 (8.24%) NumPy
9 6 (7.06%) Flask
9 6 (7.06%) GraphQL
9 6 (7.06%) J2EE
9 6 (7.06%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.76%) Replication
3 7 (8.24%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.88%) N-Tier
6 4 (4.71%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.53%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.18%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.35%) Linux
2 12 (14.12%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (14.12%) VMS
3 11 (12.94%) Windows
4 10 (11.76%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 53 (62.35%) DevOps
3 41 (48.24%) Containerisation
4 35 (41.18%) Agile
5 33 (38.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 24 (28.24%) AI
6 24 (28.24%) Microservices
7 21 (24.71%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (23.53%) Software Engineering
9 19 (22.35%) Configuration Management
9 19 (22.35%) TDD
10 18 (21.18%) Event-Driven
11 17 (20.00%) Cloud Security
11 17 (20.00%) Mentoring
12 15 (17.65%) Machine Learning
12 15 (17.65%) OOP
12 15 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (16.47%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (15.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 13 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (64.71%) Python
2 20 (23.53%) Java
3 18 (21.18%) PowerShell
3 18 (21.18%) SQL
4 13 (15.29%) Groovy
5 12 (14.12%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.06%) Ruby
7 5 (5.88%) Bash
7 5 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.88%) Perl
8 3 (3.53%) Go
9 2 (2.35%) C
9 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (31.76%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.59%) AWS Certification
3 19 (22.35%) SC Cleared
4 17 (20.00%) Degree
5 10 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (11.76%) Azure Certification
6 6 (7.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (4.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.71%) NIST
2 3 (3.53%) GDPR
2 3 (3.53%) QA
3 2 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.35%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.35%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 62 (72.94%) Docker
2 12 (14.12%) Dovecot
2 12 (14.12%) Postfix
2 12 (14.12%) Squid
3 10 (11.76%) DFS Replication
4 4 (4.71%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (61.18%) Terraform
2 39 (45.88%) Kubernetes
3 23 (27.06%) Grafana
4 18 (21.18%) Prometheus
5 12 (14.12%) Nessus
6 10 (11.76%) Proxmox
7 8 (9.41%) Ansible
8 6 (7.06%) Puppet
9 4 (4.71%) Progress Chef
10 2 (2.35%) Kustomize
11 1 (1.18%) Argo
11 1 (1.18%) Nagios
11 1 (1.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 12 (14.12%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (14.12%) ServiceNow
2 6 (7.06%) Gigya
3 5 (5.88%) IBM
4 4 (4.71%) Oracle
5 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.35%) Splunk
6 1 (1.18%) CloudEndure
6 1 (1.18%) JDA
6 1 (1.18%) SaltStack