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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 350 291 361
Rank change year-on-year -59 +70 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 92 45 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.35% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.28% 1.10% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 34 18
10th Percentile £313 £373 £425
25th Percentile £358 £409 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £528 £516
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +2.18% -13.96%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £566
90th Percentile £650 £746 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -19.23% +30.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.75 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.63 - -
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 7,160 4,087 5,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.55% 31.97% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,830 2,887 3,775
10th Percentile £290 £243 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 372 162 258
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £21.53 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +120.67% +21.68% -28.15%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £83.60 £68.75 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.64 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.78% +30.95% -40.00%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -47 37 £538 +2.38% 27
Scotland +9 20 £358 -31.81% 1
North West -35 20 £638 +59.38% 11
Yorkshire -53 12 £500 -31.03% 9
West Midlands -46 11 £475 -11.89% 2
Midlands -60 11 £475 -11.89% 3
South West -25 10 £461 +17.67% 4
South East -48 9 £530 -7.83% 11
North East -17 5 £530 -29.33% 7
East of England - 4 £550 - 2
Wales - 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 12 (13.04%) Confluence
2 8 (8.70%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.61%) Apache
3 7 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.17%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 88 (95.65%) AWS
2 78 (84.78%) Serverless
3 75 (81.52%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (54.35%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (53.26%) Amazon S3
6 38 (41.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (33.70%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (32.61%) GitHub
9 29 (31.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (30.43%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (20.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (19.57%) AWS CodePipeline
13 15 (16.30%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (14.13%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (11.96%) AWS Fargate
16 8 (8.70%) Datadog
17 7 (7.61%) Amazon EventBridge
17 7 (7.61%) Amazon SageMaker
17 7 (7.61%) AWS KMS
18 5 (5.43%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.61%) HTTP
2 5 (5.43%) Firewall
3 3 (3.26%) DNS
4 2 (2.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.09%) SSL
5 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 21 (22.83%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (10.87%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (10.87%) NoSQL
4 8 (8.70%) Relational Database
5 6 (6.52%) Flink
6 5 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.17%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.17%) Metadata
9 2 (2.17%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.83%) GitLab
3 20 (21.74%) Git
4 17 (18.48%) JIRA
5 13 (14.13%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.52%) MLflow
6 6 (6.52%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (5.43%) Maven
8 4 (4.35%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.26%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.26%) Gradle
10 2 (2.17%) Selenium
10 2 (2.17%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.09%) git-flow
11 1 (1.09%) Mockito
General
1 18 (19.57%) Public Sector
1 18 (19.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.04%) Finance
3 4 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.26%) Banking
5 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.17%) Retail
6 1 (1.09%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (18.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (15.22%) Developer
4 13 (14.13%) AWS DevOps
5 11 (11.96%) Senior
6 10 (10.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 10 (10.87%) Scrum Master
7 9 (9.78%) Java Developer
7 9 (9.78%) Lead
8 6 (6.52%) Architect
8 6 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.43%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Python Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.35%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.65%) Node.js
1 19 (20.65%) Spring
2 18 (19.57%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.22%) Kafka
4 13 (14.13%) AWS CDK
5 12 (13.04%) OAuth
6 11 (11.96%) React
6 11 (11.96%) RESTful
7 10 (10.87%) JWT
7 10 (10.87%) REST
8 8 (8.70%) GraphQL
9 7 (7.61%) FastAPI
9 7 (7.61%) OAuth2
10 6 (6.52%) PySpark
11 5 (5.43%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (5.43%) Java Concurrency
11 5 (5.43%) Web Services
12 4 (4.35%) Loki
12 4 (4.35%) NumPy
12 4 (4.35%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.22%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.87%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.52%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.43%) NHS
6 4 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.26%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.17%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (1.09%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.09%) PMI
9 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.74%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Android
2 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (71.74%) CI/CD
2 47 (51.09%) DevOps
2 47 (51.09%) Infrastructure as Code
3 38 (41.30%) Containerisation
4 33 (35.87%) Agile
5 29 (31.52%) Microservices
6 24 (26.09%) Observability
7 23 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 22 (23.91%) Scrum
9 18 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (18.48%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (16.30%) Software Engineering
12 14 (15.22%) AI
13 13 (14.13%) Code Quality
13 13 (14.13%) Data Engineering
13 13 (14.13%) DevSecOps
13 13 (14.13%) Infrastructure Automation
13 13 (14.13%) Machine Learning
14 12 (13.04%) Analytics
14 12 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (51.09%) Python
2 30 (32.61%) Java
3 15 (16.30%) SQL
4 12 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.96%) Bash
5 11 (11.96%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.78%) Ruby
7 4 (4.35%) C#
7 4 (4.35%) Perl
7 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.26%) Go
8 3 (3.26%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (3.26%) Scala
8 3 (3.26%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (2.17%) Groovy
9 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.09%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 13 (14.13%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) SAFe Agilist
4 6 (6.52%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (6.52%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.52%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.17%) Degree
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.35%) QA
3 3 (3.26%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.09%) HL7
5 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 48 (52.17%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (45.65%) Terraform
2 35 (38.04%) Kubernetes
3 18 (19.57%) Prometheus
4 16 (17.39%) Grafana
5 13 (14.13%) Ansible
6 6 (6.52%) Puppet
7 2 (2.17%) Argo
7 2 (2.17%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.09%) Consul
8 1 (1.09%) Packer
8 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.09%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (11.96%) Databricks
2 5 (5.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.43%) Splunk
3 4 (4.35%) Oracle
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%) Confluent
6 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.09%) Pega
6 1 (1.09%) UiPath