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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 302 369
Rank change year-on-year -26 +67 +37
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 97 40 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.44% 0.32% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.43% 0.95% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 27 16
10th Percentile £313 £405 £439
25th Percentile £358 £409 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £524
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +5.06% -12.75%
75th Percentile £569 £731 £591
90th Percentile £650 £750 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £521
% change year-on-year -27.59% +39.16% -13.17%
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 £75.00 - -

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 6,788 4,210 5,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.09% 33.19% 27.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,693 2,976 4,049
10th Percentile £263 £230 £213
25th Percentile £394 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -1.33% -3.47%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £661 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 142 263
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.96 £15.42
Median hourly rate £42.69 £24.09 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +77.19% +35.34% -20.73%
75th Percentile £61.63 £34.38 £27.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £72.13 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +42.31% +21.67% -17.26%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -41 47 £525 -27.59% 27
North West -16 24 £550 +10.00% 11
Scotland +14 20 £358 -28.40% 3
Yorkshire -47 19 £500 -31.03% 16
South West -16 11 £438 +11.61% 7
South East -54 7 £530 -7.83% 14
Midlands - 7 £463 - 1
West Midlands - 7 £463 - 1
North East -12 4 £534 -28.83%
East of England - 4 £538 - 3
Wales -10 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 9 (9.28%) Confluence
2 8 (8.25%) Apache Spark
3 7 (7.22%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (5.15%) Apache
5 2 (2.06%) OpenStack
6 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 96 (98.97%) AWS
2 83 (85.57%) Serverless
3 79 (81.44%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (52.58%) Amazon EKS
5 47 (48.45%) Amazon S3
6 43 (44.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (37.11%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (31.96%) GitHub
9 26 (26.80%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (25.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (21.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (14.43%) AWS CodePipeline
13 13 (13.40%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (13.40%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (13.40%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (12.37%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (12.37%) AWS Fargate
15 9 (9.28%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (8.25%) AWS KMS
16 8 (8.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.43%) Firewall
2 6 (6.19%) DNS
3 4 (4.12%) HTTP
4 2 (2.06%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.06%) VPN
5 1 (1.03%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.03%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.87%) Amazon RDS
2 26 (26.80%) DynamoDB
3 13 (13.40%) Relational Database
4 11 (11.34%) NoSQL
5 10 (10.31%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.19%) Flink
6 6 (6.19%) MongoDB
7 5 (5.15%) Amazon Aurora
8 4 (4.12%) DocumentDB
9 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.06%) Big Data
10 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.06%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.06%) Metadata
10 2 (2.06%) Pinecone
11 1 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (35.05%) Jenkins
2 30 (30.93%) Git
3 24 (24.74%) GitLab
4 19 (19.59%) JIRA
5 13 (13.40%) Bitbucket
6 10 (10.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (6.19%) MLflow
8 5 (5.15%) Maven
9 4 (4.12%) Cucumber
10 3 (3.09%) Cypress.io
10 3 (3.09%) Gradle
11 2 (2.06%) Selenium
11 2 (2.06%) SonarQube
12 1 (1.03%) git-flow
12 1 (1.03%) Mockito
12 1 (1.03%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 21 (21.65%) Public Sector
2 16 (16.49%) Finance
2 16 (16.49%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.25%) Banking
4 3 (3.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.03%) Military
6 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (23.71%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (20.62%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (17.53%) Developer
3 17 (17.53%) Senior
4 12 (12.37%) Lead
5 11 (11.34%) Software Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Java Developer
7 9 (9.28%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (7.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (7.22%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Architect
9 6 (6.19%) AWS Data Engineer
9 6 (6.19%) Backend Developer
9 6 (6.19%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.15%) Python Developer
10 5 (5.15%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (5.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.74%) Node.js
2 18 (18.56%) Spring
3 17 (17.53%) Spring Boot
4 15 (15.46%) Kafka
4 15 (15.46%) RESTful
5 13 (13.40%) React
6 11 (11.34%) OAuth
7 10 (10.31%) REST
8 8 (8.25%) AWS CDK
8 8 (8.25%) JWT
8 8 (8.25%) OAuth2
8 8 (8.25%) PySpark
9 7 (7.22%) Web Services
10 6 (6.19%) FastAPI
10 6 (6.19%) Flask
11 5 (5.15%) .NET
11 5 (5.15%) GraphQL
11 5 (5.15%) Java Concurrency
12 4 (4.12%) Django
12 4 (4.12%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (25.77%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.25%) Distributed Systems
2 8 (8.25%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.19%) NHS
4 4 (4.12%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.03%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.03%) PMI
7 1 (1.03%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.71%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Android
3 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.03%) Windows
3 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (69.07%) CI/CD
2 56 (57.73%) DevOps
3 44 (45.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (39.18%) Containerisation
5 35 (36.08%) Microservices
6 31 (31.96%) Agile
7 20 (20.62%) Observability
8 19 (19.59%) Data Pipeline
9 18 (18.56%) Software Engineering
10 17 (17.53%) AI
10 17 (17.53%) Test Automation
11 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure Automation
12 15 (15.46%) Code Quality
12 15 (15.46%) Data Engineering
12 15 (15.46%) Scrum
13 14 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (13.40%) Machine Learning
15 12 (12.37%) Analytics
15 12 (12.37%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 61 (62.89%) Python
2 32 (32.99%) Java
3 17 (17.53%) SQL
4 15 (15.46%) Ruby
5 14 (14.43%) JavaScript
6 12 (12.37%) TypeScript
7 11 (11.34%) PowerShell
8 9 (9.28%) Perl
9 8 (8.25%) Bash
10 5 (5.15%) Go
11 2 (2.06%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.03%) C
12 1 (1.03%) C#
12 1 (1.03%) Groovy
12 1 (1.03%) Scala
12 1 (1.03%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.37%) AWS Certification
2 12 (12.37%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.19%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 3 (3.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.09%) SAFe Agilist
7 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.06%) Degree
8 1 (1.03%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.19%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.12%) QA
3 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.09%) NIST
4 2 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.06%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.03%) GDPR
5 1 (1.03%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (59.79%) Docker
2 6 (6.19%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.06%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 47 (48.45%) Terraform
2 42 (43.30%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.49%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.37%) Grafana
5 9 (9.28%) Ansible
6 5 (5.15%) Puppet
7 3 (3.09%) Argo
7 3 (3.09%) Packer
8 2 (2.06%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.03%) Nagios
9 1 (1.03%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) Databricks
2 8 (8.25%) Oracle
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.15%) Splunk
4 3 (3.09%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.06%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.03%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.03%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.03%) Brio
6 1 (1.03%) CloudEndure
6 1 (1.03%) Confluent
6 1 (1.03%) Pega
6 1 (1.03%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.03%) UiPath