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

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 318 299 376
Rank change year-on-year -19 +77 +29
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 104 48 35
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.36% 0.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.09% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 31 20
10th Percentile £313 £409 £425
25th Percentile £367 £430 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £524
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.24% -10.21%
75th Percentile £551 £663 £552
90th Percentile £649 £750 £589
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £525
% change year-on-year -27.59% +38.10% -10.41%
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 6,560 4,399 5,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.88% 33.12% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,547 2,994 4,186
10th Percentile £250 £238 £213
25th Percentile £375 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -1.10% -1.48%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £663 £674 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 108 248
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.20 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.95 £19.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.61 £24.18 £18.98
Median % change year-on-year +80.36% +27.43% -8.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.65% +27.91% -14.00%

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 25 February 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 25 February 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 25 February 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 -29 48 £525 -27.59% 24
Scotland +16 27 £400 -20.00% 1
North West -18 26 £550 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire -46 20 £500 -31.03% 10
South West -15 11 £438 +11.61% 8
South East -32 7 £530 -7.83% 14
Midlands - 5 - - 4
West Midlands - 5 - - 4
East of England - 4 £538 - 1
Wales -3 2 £363 - 1
North East -15 2 £644 -14.17% 2
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 14 (13.46%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.69%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.73%) Apache
3 7 (6.73%) Confluence
4 3 (2.88%) nginx
5 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (99.04%) AWS
2 82 (78.85%) Serverless
3 80 (76.92%) AWS Lambda
4 54 (51.92%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (47.12%) Amazon S3
6 39 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 35 (33.65%) Amazon EC2
8 30 (28.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (24.04%) GitHub
10 21 (20.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 20 (19.23%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (14.42%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (12.50%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
14 12 (11.54%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (11.54%) AWS Fargate
14 12 (11.54%) AWS Step Functions
15 10 (9.62%) AWS CodePipeline
15 10 (9.62%) AWS KMS
16 8 (7.69%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.35%) Firewall
2 9 (8.65%) DNS
2 9 (8.65%) HTTP
3 3 (2.88%) FTP
3 3 (2.88%) IMAP
3 3 (2.88%) OpenLDAP
3 3 (2.88%) SMTP
3 3 (2.88%) SSH
4 2 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.92%) VPN
5 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.81%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (22.12%) DynamoDB
3 12 (11.54%) NoSQL
4 11 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (10.58%) Relational Database
5 9 (8.65%) Amazon Athena
5 9 (8.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (5.77%) Flink
6 6 (5.77%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.81%) Big Data
8 4 (3.85%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.88%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.92%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.92%) Metadata
10 2 (1.92%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.92%) Power BI
11 1 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 32 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 28 (26.92%) Git
3 24 (23.08%) GitLab
4 17 (16.35%) JIRA
5 11 (10.58%) MLflow
6 10 (9.62%) Bitbucket
6 10 (9.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (4.81%) Maven
8 3 (2.88%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.88%) Gradle
8 3 (2.88%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.92%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.92%) Selenium
9 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.96%) git-flow
10 1 (0.96%) Mockito
10 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 26 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 15 (14.42%) Finance
2 15 (14.42%) Social Skills
3 8 (7.69%) Banking
4 5 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 27 (25.96%) AWS Engineer
2 24 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) Senior
4 14 (13.46%) Developer
5 13 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 12 (11.54%) Lead
7 11 (10.58%) AWS DevOps
8 10 (9.62%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 10 (9.62%) Data Engineer
9 8 (7.69%) Java Developer
9 8 (7.69%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) AWS Data Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (5.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (5.77%) Backend Developer
11 6 (5.77%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.81%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.15%) Node.js
2 17 (16.35%) RESTful
3 14 (13.46%) Spring
4 13 (12.50%) FastAPI
4 13 (12.50%) Kafka
4 13 (12.50%) OAuth
4 13 (12.50%) Spring Boot
5 12 (11.54%) AWS CDK
5 12 (11.54%) React
6 11 (10.58%) PySpark
7 10 (9.62%) JWT
7 10 (9.62%) REST
8 9 (8.65%) Flask
8 9 (8.65%) OpenCV
8 9 (8.65%) Pandas
8 9 (8.65%) PyTorch
8 9 (8.65%) SQLAlchemy
9 8 (7.69%) Hugging Face
9 8 (7.69%) NumPy
10 6 (5.77%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.12%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.77%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.77%) NHS
3 5 (4.81%) Data Structures
3 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.88%) Replication
6 2 (1.92%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.96%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.00%) Linux
2 6 (5.77%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (3.85%) Windows
4 3 (2.88%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.88%) VMS
5 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (68.27%) CI/CD
2 59 (56.73%) DevOps
3 49 (47.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 40 (38.46%) Containerisation
5 34 (32.69%) Agile
6 29 (27.88%) Microservices
7 27 (25.96%) AI
8 25 (24.04%) Data Pipeline
9 24 (23.08%) Machine Learning
10 21 (20.19%) Software Engineering
11 18 (17.31%) Data Engineering
11 18 (17.31%) Observability
12 17 (16.35%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (15.38%) Code Quality
14 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
15 14 (13.46%) TDD
16 13 (12.50%) Analytics
16 13 (12.50%) LLM
16 13 (12.50%) Mentoring
17 12 (11.54%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 77 (74.04%) Python
2 26 (25.00%) Java
3 21 (20.19%) SQL
4 15 (14.42%) Ruby
5 14 (13.46%) PowerShell
6 12 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.58%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.65%) Bash
8 9 (8.65%) Perl
9 5 (4.81%) Go
10 4 (3.85%) Groovy
11 1 (0.96%) C
11 1 (0.96%) C#
11 1 (0.96%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (19.23%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.42%) AWS Certification
3 13 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (4.81%) Degree
4 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.88%) NIST
2 3 (2.88%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) HL7
System Software
1 58 (55.77%) Docker
2 6 (5.77%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (2.88%) DFS Replication
3 3 (2.88%) Dovecot
3 3 (2.88%) Postfix
3 3 (2.88%) Squid
4 2 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (47.12%) Kubernetes
1 49 (47.12%) Terraform
2 20 (19.23%) Grafana
3 19 (18.27%) Prometheus
4 11 (10.58%) Ansible
5 7 (6.73%) Puppet
6 3 (2.88%) Argo
6 3 (2.88%) Nessus
6 3 (2.88%) Packer
6 3 (2.88%) Proxmox
7 2 (1.92%) HP Fortify
7 2 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.96%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (10.58%) Databricks
2 8 (7.69%) Oracle
3 5 (4.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.85%) Splunk
5 3 (2.88%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (2.88%) Ping Identity
5 3 (2.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.92%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.96%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.96%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.96%) Brio
7 1 (0.96%) CloudEndure
7 1 (0.96%) Confluent
7 1 (0.96%) Pega
7 1 (0.96%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.96%) UiPath