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

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 320 297 382
Rank change year-on-year -23 +85 +25
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 101 42 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.32% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% 0.97% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 27 16
10th Percentile £313 £405 £439
25th Percentile £366 £409 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £524
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +2.20% -10.21%
75th Percentile £557 £731 £552
90th Percentile £650 £750 £594
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 6,629 4,341 5,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.32% 33.26% 27.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,582 3,009 4,138
10th Percentile £255 £232 £213
25th Percentile £381 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +1.12% -3.07%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 128 266
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.06 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £24.09 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +77.19% +35.34% -19.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £34.36 £32.50
90th Percentile £80.12 £68.75 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.23% +21.67% -14.52%

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 8 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 8 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 8 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 -29 46 £534 -26.38% 28
Scotland +19 27 £400 -15.79% 3
North West -16 24 £550 +10.00% 12
Yorkshire -48 19 £500 -31.03% 15
South West -6 11 £438 +11.61% 9
South East -37 9 £530 -7.83% 12
East of England - 4 £538 - 2
North East -8 3 £538 -28.33% 1
Midlands - 3 - - 4
West Midlands - 3 - - 4
Wales -8 2 £363 - 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 11 (10.89%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.92%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.93%) Apache
4 5 (4.95%) Confluence
5 2 (1.98%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (99.01%) AWS
2 85 (84.16%) Serverless
3 81 (80.20%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (56.44%) Amazon EKS
5 49 (48.51%) Amazon S3
6 39 (38.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (31.68%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (25.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 26 (25.74%) GitHub
9 21 (20.79%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (17.82%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (17.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 13 (12.87%) Amazon MSK
11 13 (12.87%) AWS Fargate
12 12 (11.88%) Amazon EventBridge
12 12 (11.88%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (10.89%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (9.90%) Amazon SageMaker
15 8 (7.92%) AWS KMS
15 8 (7.92%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.86%) Firewall
2 6 (5.94%) DNS
2 6 (5.94%) HTTP
3 2 (1.98%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.98%) VPN
4 1 (0.99%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (27.72%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (24.75%) DynamoDB
3 13 (12.87%) Relational Database
4 12 (11.88%) NoSQL
5 10 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (8.91%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (5.94%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (5.94%) Flink
7 6 (5.94%) MongoDB
8 4 (3.96%) DocumentDB
9 3 (2.97%) SQL Server
10 2 (1.98%) Big Data
10 2 (1.98%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.98%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.98%) Metadata
10 2 (1.98%) Pinecone
10 2 (1.98%) Power BI
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 29 (28.71%) Jenkins
2 27 (26.73%) Git
3 21 (20.79%) GitLab
4 15 (14.85%) JIRA
5 10 (9.90%) Bitbucket
5 10 (9.90%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (7.92%) MLflow
7 5 (4.95%) Maven
8 4 (3.96%) 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 23 (22.77%) Public Sector
2 16 (15.84%) Finance
3 14 (13.86%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.92%) Banking
5 4 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.99%) Military
7 1 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (23.76%) AWS Engineer
2 22 (21.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (16.83%) Senior
4 16 (15.84%) Developer
5 13 (12.87%) Lead
6 11 (10.89%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.90%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.91%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (7.92%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.92%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.93%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (5.94%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (5.94%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.95%) Architect
12 5 (4.95%) Python Developer
12 5 (4.95%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (4.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.75%) Node.js
2 17 (16.83%) Spring
3 16 (15.84%) Spring Boot
4 15 (14.85%) Kafka
4 15 (14.85%) RESTful
5 14 (13.86%) OAuth
6 13 (12.87%) FastAPI
6 13 (12.87%) React
7 12 (11.88%) AWS CDK
7 12 (11.88%) REST
8 11 (10.89%) JWT
9 9 (8.91%) OpenCV
9 9 (8.91%) Pandas
9 9 (8.91%) PyTorch
9 9 (8.91%) SQLAlchemy
10 8 (7.92%) Hugging Face
10 8 (7.92%) NumPy
10 8 (7.92%) PySpark
11 7 (6.93%) OAuth2
11 7 (6.93%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.76%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.92%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.94%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.94%) NHS
3 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.95%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.96%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.98%) AI Agents
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 23 (22.77%) Linux
2 3 (2.97%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Windows
3 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (66.34%) CI/CD
2 56 (55.45%) DevOps
3 48 (47.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (38.61%) Containerisation
5 34 (33.66%) Agile
6 33 (32.67%) Microservices
7 25 (24.75%) AI
8 22 (21.78%) Data Pipeline
9 21 (20.79%) Machine Learning
10 20 (19.80%) Software Engineering
11 19 (18.81%) Observability
12 17 (16.83%) Code Quality
13 16 (15.84%) Data Engineering
13 16 (15.84%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (15.84%) TDD
14 15 (14.85%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (14.85%) Scrum
15 13 (12.87%) LLM
15 13 (12.87%) Mentoring
16 12 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 69 (68.32%) Python
2 30 (29.70%) Java
3 18 (17.82%) SQL
4 15 (14.85%) Ruby
5 13 (12.87%) JavaScript
6 11 (10.89%) PowerShell
6 11 (10.89%) TypeScript
7 9 (8.91%) Bash
7 9 (8.91%) Perl
8 5 (4.95%) Go
9 1 (0.99%) C
9 1 (0.99%) C#
9 1 (0.99%) Groovy
9 1 (0.99%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (17.82%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.88%) AWS Certification
3 11 (10.89%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.95%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.98%) Degree
9 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%) Data Quality
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 55 (54.46%) Docker
2 6 (5.94%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (45.54%) Kubernetes
2 44 (43.56%) Terraform
3 17 (16.83%) Grafana
4 16 (15.84%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.89%) Ansible
6 7 (6.93%) Puppet
7 3 (2.97%) Argo
7 3 (2.97%) Packer
8 2 (1.98%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.99%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (10.89%) Databricks
2 8 (7.92%) Oracle
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.96%) Splunk
4 3 (2.97%) Ping Identity
5 2 (1.98%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.99%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.99%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.99%) Brio
6 1 (0.99%) CloudEndure
6 1 (0.99%) Confluent
6 1 (0.99%) Pega
6 1 (0.99%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.99%) UiPath