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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 289 366
Rank change year-on-year -52 +77 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 94 45 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.35% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.32% 1.10% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 33 17
10th Percentile £313 £371 £425
25th Percentile £375 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £530 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.01% +1.92% -13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £748 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £510
% change year-on-year -19.23% +27.45% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £74.50 - -

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 7,112 4,085 5,471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.67% 32.09% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,839 2,906 3,857
10th Percentile £287 £238 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £669 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 158 260
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.31 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £21.53 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +120.67% +21.47% -28.03%
75th Percentile £68.52 £33.80 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £69.50 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £40.78 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.70% +30.60% -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 30 April 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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -58 41 £534 -5.11% 18
Scotland +8 20 £358 -31.81% 1
North West -30 20 £625 +56.25% 9
Yorkshire -49 16 £500 -31.03% 5
South West -22 10 £461 +17.67% 2
West Midlands -50 10 £475 -11.89%
Midlands -60 10 £475 -11.89% 1
South East -47 9 £530 -7.83% 9
North East -15 5 £530 -29.33% 4
East of England - 3 £550 - 3
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 11 (11.70%) Confluence
2 8 (8.51%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.45%) Apache
3 7 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.13%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 91 (96.81%) AWS
2 80 (85.11%) Serverless
3 77 (81.91%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (55.32%) Amazon S3
5 51 (54.26%) Amazon EKS
6 39 (41.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 34 (36.17%) Amazon EC2
8 33 (35.11%) GitHub
9 32 (34.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 28 (29.79%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (22.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 17 (18.09%) AWS CodePipeline
13 15 (15.96%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (13.83%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (10.64%) Amazon EventBridge
15 10 (10.64%) AWS Fargate
16 8 (8.51%) Datadog
17 7 (7.45%) Amazon SageMaker
17 7 (7.45%) AWS KMS
18 5 (5.32%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.51%) Firewall
2 7 (7.45%) HTTP
3 6 (6.38%) DNS
4 2 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.06%) SSL
5 1 (1.06%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (27.66%) DynamoDB
2 23 (24.47%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (11.70%) Relational Database
4 10 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (10.64%) NoSQL
5 8 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.38%) Flink
7 4 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.19%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.13%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.13%) Metadata
9 2 (2.13%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (28.72%) Jenkins
2 21 (22.34%) Git
3 20 (21.28%) GitLab
4 16 (17.02%) JIRA
5 12 (12.77%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.38%) MLflow
6 6 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (5.32%) Maven
8 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.19%) Gradle
10 2 (2.13%) Selenium
10 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.06%) git-flow
11 1 (1.06%) Mockito
General
1 19 (20.21%) Public Sector
2 17 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.77%) Finance
4 4 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Banking
6 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (19.15%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (14.89%) Developer
4 13 (13.83%) AWS DevOps
5 12 (12.77%) Senior
6 10 (10.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.57%) Java Developer
7 9 (9.57%) Lead
7 9 (9.57%) Scrum Master
8 6 (6.38%) Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.32%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Data Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.21%) Node.js
2 18 (19.15%) Spring
3 17 (18.09%) Spring Boot
4 13 (13.83%) AWS CDK
4 13 (13.83%) Kafka
5 12 (12.77%) OAuth
6 11 (11.70%) RESTful
7 10 (10.64%) JWT
7 10 (10.64%) React
7 10 (10.64%) REST
8 8 (8.51%) GraphQL
9 7 (7.45%) FastAPI
9 7 (7.45%) OAuth2
10 6 (6.38%) PySpark
10 6 (6.38%) Web Services
11 5 (5.32%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (4.26%) boto
12 4 (4.26%) NumPy
12 4 (4.26%) OpenCV
12 4 (4.26%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.72%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.83%) Product Ownership
3 10 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.38%) Algorithms
4 6 (6.38%) NHS
5 4 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (4.26%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.13%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.06%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.06%) PMI
7 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.47%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Android
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.06%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (69.15%) CI/CD
2 49 (52.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 47 (50.00%) DevOps
4 38 (40.43%) Containerisation
5 32 (34.04%) Agile
6 28 (29.79%) Microservices
7 24 (25.53%) Observability
8 22 (23.40%) Test Automation
9 21 (22.34%) Scrum
10 18 (19.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (18.09%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (14.89%) AI
12 14 (14.89%) Infrastructure Automation
12 14 (14.89%) Platform Engineering
12 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
13 13 (13.83%) Code Quality
13 13 (13.83%) Data Engineering
13 13 (13.83%) Machine Learning
14 12 (12.77%) Analytics
14 12 (12.77%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 52 (55.32%) Python
2 29 (30.85%) Java
3 15 (15.96%) SQL
4 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.70%) Bash
5 11 (11.70%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.57%) Ruby
7 5 (5.32%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.26%) C#
8 4 (4.26%) Go
8 4 (4.26%) Perl
9 3 (3.19%) Scala
10 2 (2.13%) Groovy
10 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (1.06%) C
11 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.06%) Swift
Qualifications
1 24 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 16 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.45%) SAFe Agilist
4 6 (6.38%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 6 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.13%) Degree
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.26%) QA
3 3 (3.19%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.06%) HL7
5 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 50 (53.19%) Docker
2 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (48.94%) Terraform
2 36 (38.30%) Kubernetes
3 18 (19.15%) Prometheus
4 16 (17.02%) Grafana
5 12 (12.77%) Ansible
6 6 (6.38%) Puppet
7 4 (4.26%) Packer
8 2 (2.13%) Argo
8 2 (2.13%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.06%) Consul
9 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.06%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Databricks
2 8 (8.51%) Splunk
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.26%) Oracle
5 3 (3.19%) Ping Identity
6 2 (2.13%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.06%) AVEVA
7 1 (1.06%) Blue Prism
7 1 (1.06%) Brio
7 1 (1.06%) Confluent
7 1 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.06%) Pega
7 1 (1.06%) UiPath