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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 287 384
Rank change year-on-year -24 +97 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 101 54 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.40% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 1.23% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 35 16
10th Percentile £313 £409 £425
25th Percentile £386 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £588
90th Percentile £639 £745 £594
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £529
% change year-on-year -27.59% +37.18% -9.81%
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 6,339 4,381 5,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.97% 32.58% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,419 2,944 4,279
10th Percentile £244 £235 £216
25th Percentile £375 £380 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -0.77% -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £595
90th Percentile £664 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 104 231
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.69 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £24.18 £20.77
Median % change year-on-year +53.02% +16.42% +3.85%
75th Percentile £60.00 £37.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.21% +21.89% -10.00%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -28 47 £525 -27.59% 30
Scotland +9 25 £401 -19.80% 1
North West -11 24 £550 +10.00% 11
Yorkshire -43 21 £500 -31.03% 18
South West -14 8 £486 +24.04% 12
Midlands - 8 £475 - 2
West Midlands - 8 £475 - 2
South East -33 7 £530 -1.40% 13
East of England -18 4 £538 +7.50% 1
Wales -1 2 £363 - 2
North East -13 2 £644 -14.17% 1
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 (13.86%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (9.90%) Confluence
3 7 (6.93%) Apache
4 6 (5.94%) nginx
5 5 (4.95%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (99.01%) AWS
2 76 (75.25%) Serverless
3 74 (73.27%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (48.51%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (45.54%) Amazon S3
6 37 (36.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 36 (35.64%) Amazon EC2
8 31 (30.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (25.74%) GitHub
10 24 (23.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 21 (20.79%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (14.85%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (12.87%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (12.87%) AWS KMS
14 12 (11.88%) AWS Fargate
15 11 (10.89%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (10.89%) Route 53
16 10 (9.90%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (9.90%) AWS Step Functions
16 10 (9.90%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 20 (19.80%) Firewall
2 12 (11.88%) DNS
2 12 (11.88%) HTTP
3 6 (5.94%) FTP
3 6 (5.94%) IMAP
3 6 (5.94%) OpenLDAP
3 6 (5.94%) SMTP
3 6 (5.94%) SSH
4 2 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.98%) VPN
5 1 (0.99%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (33.66%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (21.78%) DynamoDB
3 14 (13.86%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (11.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 10 (9.90%) NoSQL
6 8 (7.92%) Relational Database
7 7 (6.93%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
9 5 (4.95%) Big Data
10 4 (3.96%) DocumentDB
11 3 (2.97%) Flink
11 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
12 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
12 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (1.98%) Delta Lake
12 2 (1.98%) Power BI
13 1 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 35 (34.65%) Jenkins
2 31 (30.69%) Git
3 24 (23.76%) GitLab
4 21 (20.79%) JIRA
5 11 (10.89%) MLflow
6 10 (9.90%) Bitbucket
6 10 (9.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (5.94%) Vagrant
8 5 (4.95%) Maven
9 3 (2.97%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.97%) Gradle
10 2 (1.98%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.98%) Selenium
10 2 (1.98%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.99%) git-flow
11 1 (0.99%) Mockito
11 1 (0.99%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 29 (28.71%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.82%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.85%) Finance
4 8 (7.92%) Banking
5 6 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (4.95%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (28.71%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (25.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.84%) Senior
4 14 (13.86%) Software Engineer
5 13 (12.87%) AWS DevOps
6 12 (11.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 12 (11.88%) Lead
7 11 (10.89%) Developer
8 10 (9.90%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 10 (9.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (9.90%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.92%) Data Engineer
9 8 (7.92%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (5.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (5.94%) Technical Leader
12 5 (4.95%) Architect
12 5 (4.95%) Java Developer
12 5 (4.95%) Python Developer
12 5 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.77%) Node.js
2 14 (13.86%) RESTful
3 13 (12.87%) FastAPI
3 13 (12.87%) React
4 12 (11.88%) AWS CDK
5 11 (10.89%) OAuth
5 11 (10.89%) REST
5 11 (10.89%) Spring
6 10 (9.90%) JWT
6 10 (9.90%) Kafka
6 10 (9.90%) Spring Boot
7 9 (8.91%) Flask
7 9 (8.91%) OpenCV
7 9 (8.91%) Pandas
7 9 (8.91%) PySpark
7 9 (8.91%) PyTorch
7 9 (8.91%) SQLAlchemy
8 8 (7.92%) Hugging Face
8 8 (7.92%) NumPy
9 7 (6.93%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
2 6 (5.94%) NHS
2 6 (5.94%) Replication
3 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.99%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (28.71%) Linux
2 9 (8.91%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (6.93%) Windows
4 6 (5.94%) Ubuntu
4 6 (5.94%) VMS
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (69.31%) CI/CD
2 60 (59.41%) DevOps
3 50 (49.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (36.63%) Containerisation
5 35 (34.65%) Agile
6 26 (25.74%) Microservices
7 25 (24.75%) AI
8 22 (21.78%) Machine Learning
8 22 (21.78%) Software Engineering
9 20 (19.80%) Data Pipeline
10 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure Automation
10 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (13.86%) Configuration Management
11 14 (13.86%) TDD
12 13 (12.87%) Code Quality
12 13 (12.87%) Data Engineering
12 13 (12.87%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (12.87%) Mentoring
12 13 (12.87%) Observability
13 12 (11.88%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 75 (74.26%) Python
2 23 (22.77%) Java
3 21 (20.79%) SQL
4 17 (16.83%) PowerShell
5 15 (14.85%) Ruby
6 13 (12.87%) TypeScript
7 11 (10.89%) JavaScript
8 9 (8.91%) Bash
8 9 (8.91%) Perl
9 7 (6.93%) Groovy
10 5 (4.95%) Go
11 1 (0.99%) C
11 1 (0.99%) C#
11 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 23 (22.77%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.82%) AWS Certification
3 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.92%) Degree
5 6 (5.94%) Azure Certification
6 5 (4.95%) DV Cleared
7 4 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.92%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.97%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.97%) NIST
2 3 (2.97%) QA
3 2 (1.98%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.99%) GDPR
4 1 (0.99%) HL7
System Software
1 59 (58.42%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) DFS Replication
2 6 (5.94%) Dovecot
2 6 (5.94%) Postfix
2 6 (5.94%) Squid
2 6 (5.94%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 53 (52.48%) Terraform
2 46 (45.54%) Kubernetes
3 21 (20.79%) Grafana
4 17 (16.83%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.89%) Ansible
6 7 (6.93%) Puppet
7 6 (5.94%) Nessus
7 6 (5.94%) Proxmox
8 3 (2.97%) Argo
8 3 (2.97%) Packer
9 2 (1.98%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.99%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (7.92%) Oracle
2 6 (5.94%) Databricks
2 6 (5.94%) Jaspersoft
2 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.95%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.96%) Splunk
5 3 (2.97%) Ping Identity
6 2 (1.98%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.99%) AVEVA
7 1 (0.99%) Blue Prism
7 1 (0.99%) Brio
7 1 (0.99%) CloudEndure
7 1 (0.99%) Confluent
7 1 (0.99%) Pega
7 1 (0.99%) SaltStack
7 1 (0.99%) UiPath