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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 287 372
Rank change year-on-year -59 +85 +17
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 88 48 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.38% 0.38% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.25% 1.16% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 35 17
10th Percentile £313 £374 £425
25th Percentile £375 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.10% +0.96% -13.33%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £540
90th Percentile £650 £745 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £650 £505
% change year-on-year -19.23% +28.71% -15.83%
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 7,013 4,136 5,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.97% 32.38% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,801 2,942 3,896
10th Percentile £275 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +0.21% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £666 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 156 254
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.37 £16.95 £15.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -24.03%
75th Percentile £68.75 £34.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.13 £59.95
UK median hourly rate £40.50 £27.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +46.58% +31.57% -35.38%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -43 43 £544 -3.33% 22
North West -37 20 £625 +56.25% 12
Scotland +6 19 £358 -30.15% 6
Yorkshire -46 19 £500 -31.03% 7
South West -19 10 £461 +17.67% 3
South East -52 7 £530 -7.83% 7
West Midlands -57 7 £463 -14.21% 2
Midlands -62 7 £463 -14.21% 3
North East -16 4 £534 -28.83% 3
Wales -7 2 £363 - 2
East of England - 1 - - 4
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 8 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.95%) Confluence
3 6 (6.82%) Apache
3 6 (6.82%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.27%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 87 (98.86%) AWS
2 78 (88.64%) Serverless
3 74 (84.09%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (53.41%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (53.41%) Amazon S3
5 37 (42.05%) AWS CloudFormation
6 31 (35.23%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (31.82%) GitHub
8 26 (29.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 23 (26.14%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (19.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 14 (15.91%) Amazon SQS
11 14 (15.91%) AWS CodePipeline
12 13 (14.77%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
14 10 (11.36%) AWS Fargate
15 8 (9.09%) Datadog
16 7 (7.95%) Amazon SageMaker
16 7 (7.95%) AWS KMS
17 6 (6.82%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.09%) Firewall
2 5 (5.68%) DNS
2 5 (5.68%) HTTP
3 2 (2.27%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (29.55%) DynamoDB
2 22 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
3 12 (13.64%) Relational Database
4 11 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 10 (11.36%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (6.82%) Flink
8 5 (5.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 5 (5.68%) MongoDB
9 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.27%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.27%) DocumentDB
10 2 (2.27%) Metadata
10 2 (2.27%) Pinecone
11 1 (1.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 24 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 22 (25.00%) Git
3 16 (18.18%) GitLab
4 12 (13.64%) JIRA
5 9 (10.23%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.68%) Maven
6 5 (5.68%) MLflow
6 5 (5.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (4.55%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.41%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.41%) Gradle
9 2 (2.27%) Selenium
9 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.14%) git-flow
10 1 (1.14%) Mockito
General
1 19 (21.59%) Public Sector
2 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.50%) Finance
4 3 (3.41%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.14%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (18.18%) Developer
3 15 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
4 13 (14.77%) Senior
5 10 (11.36%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.36%) Lead
6 9 (10.23%) AWS DevOps
7 8 (9.09%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (6.82%) Architect
9 6 (6.82%) Technical Leader
10 5 (5.68%) Backend Developer
10 5 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.68%) Scrum Master
11 4 (4.55%) AWS Data Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Java Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Principal Engineer
11 4 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (21.59%) Spring
2 18 (20.45%) Node.js
2 18 (20.45%) Spring Boot
3 13 (14.77%) Kafka
4 12 (13.64%) React
5 11 (12.50%) OAuth
5 11 (12.50%) RESTful
6 10 (11.36%) AWS CDK
6 10 (11.36%) REST
7 9 (10.23%) JWT
8 7 (7.95%) OAuth2
9 6 (6.82%) FastAPI
9 6 (6.82%) GraphQL
9 6 (6.82%) PySpark
9 6 (6.82%) Web Services
10 5 (5.68%) .NET
10 5 (5.68%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (4.55%) NestJS
12 3 (3.41%) Jest
12 3 (3.41%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.41%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.23%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (10.23%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.82%) NHS
4 5 (5.68%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.41%) Data Structures
6 3 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.14%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.14%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.14%) PMI
8 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.59%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Android
3 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (67.05%) CI/CD
2 45 (51.14%) DevOps
3 41 (46.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (38.64%) Containerisation
5 30 (34.09%) Agile
6 29 (32.95%) Microservices
7 20 (22.73%) Observability
8 17 (19.32%) Data Pipeline
8 17 (19.32%) Test Automation
9 16 (18.18%) Scrum
10 15 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (17.05%) Software Engineering
11 14 (15.91%) Code Quality
11 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Automation
12 13 (14.77%) AI
12 13 (14.77%) Data Engineering
13 12 (13.64%) Analytics
13 12 (13.64%) Machine Learning
14 11 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (11.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 50 (56.82%) Python
2 28 (31.82%) Java
3 16 (18.18%) SQL
4 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
5 11 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.23%) Ruby
7 8 (9.09%) Bash
8 5 (5.68%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.55%) Perl
10 3 (3.41%) C#
10 3 (3.41%) Go
11 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.14%) C
12 1 (1.14%) Groovy
12 1 (1.14%) Scala
12 1 (1.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 18 (20.45%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.64%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) AWS Certification
3 6 (6.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.55%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.55%) SAFe Agilist
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Degree
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.82%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.14%) HL7
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.14%) NIST
4 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 47 (53.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (47.73%) Terraform
2 34 (38.64%) Kubernetes
3 15 (17.05%) Prometheus
4 12 (13.64%) Grafana
5 8 (9.09%) Ansible
6 4 (4.55%) Puppet
7 3 (3.41%) Packer
8 2 (2.27%) Argo
8 2 (2.27%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 11 (12.50%) Databricks
2 5 (5.68%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.68%) Splunk
3 4 (4.55%) Oracle
4 3 (3.41%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.27%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.14%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.14%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.14%) Brio
6 1 (1.14%) Confluent
6 1 (1.14%) Pega
6 1 (1.14%) UiPath