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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 293 283 351
Rank change year-on-year -10 +68 +55
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 103 57 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 0.41% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.78% 1.30% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 35 23
10th Percentile £358 £404 £455
25th Percentile £423 £430 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £575 £580 £613
90th Percentile £638 £745 £643
UK median daily rate £530 £688 £550
% change year-on-year -22.91% +25.00% -7.56%

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 5,776 4,375 5,813
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.06% 31.50% 29.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,038 2,884 4,206
10th Percentile £240 £243 £214
25th Percentile £375 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -0.89%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 107 178
10th Percentile £13.18 £15.96 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.24 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.96 £24.18 £20.64
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% +17.18% +7.70%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.25 £46.18
90th Percentile £74.33 £64.73 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £22.75
% change year-on-year - +20.88% +1.11%

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 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 -5 53 £525 -27.59% 48
North West -6 29 £550 +22.22% 18
Yorkshire -31 22 £500 -31.03% 24
Scotland -5 20 £410 -18.05% 6
Midlands -29 11 £503 +25.63% 21
West Midlands - 11 £503 - 9
South East -1 8 £530 +6.00% 66
South West -10 6 £625 +59.44% 25
East of England -15 4 £538 +7.50% 38
North East -8 2 £644 -14.17% 6
Wales -1 1 £475 - 13
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 13 (12.62%) Apache Airflow
1 13 (12.62%) Confluence
2 9 (8.74%) nginx
3 6 (5.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 101 (98.06%) AWS
2 75 (72.82%) Serverless
3 73 (70.87%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (46.60%) Amazon S3
5 45 (43.69%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (37.86%) Amazon EC2
7 37 (35.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 35 (33.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 32 (31.07%) GitHub
10 26 (25.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 23 (22.33%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (19.42%) Amazon SQS
13 19 (18.45%) Route 53
14 17 (16.50%) Azure
15 14 (13.59%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (12.62%) Amazon MSK
16 13 (12.62%) AWS Fargate
16 13 (12.62%) AWS KMS
16 13 (12.62%) AWS Step Functions
17 11 (10.68%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 23 (22.33%) Firewall
2 15 (14.56%) DNS
3 13 (12.62%) HTTP
4 9 (8.74%) FTP
4 9 (8.74%) IMAP
4 9 (8.74%) OpenLDAP
4 9 (8.74%) SMTP
4 9 (8.74%) SSH
5 2 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.94%) VPN
6 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (36.89%) Amazon RDS
2 27 (26.21%) DynamoDB
3 25 (24.27%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (20.39%) Amazon Aurora
5 14 (13.59%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.71%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.83%) Redis
8 5 (4.85%) Big Data
8 5 (4.85%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.85%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.85%) MySQL
8 5 (4.85%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.88%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.88%) DocumentDB
10 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.94%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.94%) Power BI
10 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 47 (45.63%) Jenkins
2 38 (36.89%) Git
3 27 (26.21%) GitLab
4 26 (25.24%) JIRA
5 10 (9.71%) Bitbucket
5 10 (9.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (8.74%) MLflow
6 9 (8.74%) Vagrant
7 8 (7.77%) SonarQube
8 7 (6.80%) Maven
9 5 (4.85%) Gradle
9 5 (4.85%) SonarLint
10 3 (2.91%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.94%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.94%) Selenium
12 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 33 (32.04%) Public Sector
2 28 (27.18%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.53%) Finance
4 9 (8.74%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (7.77%) Banking
6 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 32 (31.07%) AWS Engineer
2 25 (24.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (14.56%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (13.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 14 (13.59%) Senior
4 14 (13.59%) Software Engineer
5 13 (12.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 13 (12.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 13 (12.62%) Lead
5 13 (12.62%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (11.65%) Architect
7 9 (8.74%) Developer
7 9 (8.74%) Technical Architect
8 7 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Java Architect
8 7 (6.80%) Java Technical Architect
9 6 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.83%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (27.18%) Node.js
2 18 (17.48%) RESTful
3 14 (13.59%) React
4 13 (12.62%) JWT
4 13 (12.62%) REST
5 12 (11.65%) FastAPI
6 10 (9.71%) AWS CDK
6 10 (9.71%) LDAP
7 9 (8.74%) Flask
7 9 (8.74%) OAuth
7 9 (8.74%) PySpark
7 9 (8.74%) Spring Boot
8 8 (7.77%) OpenCV
8 8 (7.77%) Pandas
8 8 (7.77%) PyTorch
8 8 (7.77%) SQLAlchemy
9 7 (6.80%) Hugging Face
9 7 (6.80%) NumPy
10 6 (5.83%) Kafka
10 6 (5.83%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.36%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.74%) Replication
3 7 (6.80%) Product Ownership
4 6 (5.83%) NHS
5 5 (4.85%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.85%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.91%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (31.07%) Linux
2 12 (11.65%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (9.71%) Windows
4 9 (8.74%) Ubuntu
4 9 (8.74%) VMS
5 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (71.84%) CI/CD
2 56 (54.37%) DevOps
3 50 (48.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (41.75%) Agile
5 42 (40.78%) Containerisation
6 32 (31.07%) Microservices
7 29 (28.16%) AI
8 23 (22.33%) Software Engineering
9 19 (18.45%) Mentoring
9 19 (18.45%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (17.48%) Machine Learning
11 17 (16.50%) Configuration Management
11 17 (16.50%) Data Pipeline
11 17 (16.50%) Event-Driven
11 17 (16.50%) TDD
12 15 (14.56%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (13.59%) Cloud Security
13 14 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (12.62%) OOP
15 12 (11.65%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 76 (73.79%) Python
2 25 (24.27%) Java
3 20 (19.42%) PowerShell
3 20 (19.42%) SQL
4 17 (16.50%) TypeScript
5 15 (14.56%) Ruby
6 11 (10.68%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.71%) Bash
7 10 (9.71%) Groovy
8 9 (8.74%) Perl
9 5 (4.85%) Go
10 3 (2.91%) C
11 1 (0.97%) C#
11 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.36%) AWS Certification
3 19 (18.45%) SC Cleared
4 11 (10.68%) Degree
5 9 (8.74%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.80%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.91%) NIST
2 3 (2.91%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) HL7
System Software
1 69 (66.99%) Docker
2 9 (8.74%) DFS Replication
2 9 (8.74%) Dovecot
2 9 (8.74%) Postfix
2 9 (8.74%) Squid
3 6 (5.83%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 64 (62.14%) Terraform
2 50 (48.54%) Kubernetes
3 23 (22.33%) Grafana
4 16 (15.53%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.68%) Ansible
6 9 (8.74%) Nessus
6 9 (8.74%) Proxmox
7 7 (6.80%) Puppet
8 3 (2.91%) Argo
8 3 (2.91%) Packer
9 2 (1.94%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.97%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (8.74%) Jaspersoft
1 9 (8.74%) ServiceNow
2 8 (7.77%) Oracle
3 6 (5.83%) Gigya
4 5 (4.85%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.88%) Splunk
6 3 (2.91%) Databricks
6 3 (2.91%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.94%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.97%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.97%) Brio
8 1 (0.97%) CloudEndure
8 1 (0.97%) Pega
8 1 (0.97%) SaltStack
8 1 (0.97%) UiPath