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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 385 311 371
Rank change year-on-year -74 +60 -19
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 86 46 28
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.31% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 0.98% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 33 21
10th Percentile £313 £359 £406
25th Percentile £375 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -15.00%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £575
90th Percentile £650 £598 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £530 £525
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.95% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile £95.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.00 - -

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 8,038 4,687 5,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.77% 31.36% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,192 3,145 3,697
10th Percentile £300 £250 £239
25th Percentile £402 £381 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £666
UK median daily rate £519 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.64% -4.62% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 197 246
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.89 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £16.06
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.89
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -9.65% -21.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £34.98 £45.57
90th Percentile £86.94 £66.70 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +34.98% +25.00% -37.14%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -71 27 £528 +24.12% 21
Midlands -33 20 £475 -3.06% 4
West Midlands -51 20 £475 -3.06% 3
North West -42 19 £632 +64.45% 10
Scotland -5 14 £375 -33.33% 4
South East -67 10 £600 +4.35% 13
East of England -9 7 £550 +22.22% 1
South West -31 7 £350 -31.71% 11
North East -34 5 £469 +10.29% 7
Yorkshire -56 3 - - 4
Wales - 2 £400 -
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 (16.28%) Confluence
2 7 (8.14%) Apache Spark
3 5 (5.81%) Apache
3 5 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.49%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 81 (94.19%) AWS
2 72 (83.72%) Serverless
3 69 (80.23%) AWS Lambda
4 53 (61.63%) Amazon EKS
5 51 (59.30%) Amazon S3
6 38 (44.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (37.21%) Amazon EC2
7 32 (37.21%) GitHub
8 30 (34.88%) GitHub Actions
9 24 (27.91%) AWS CloudFormation
10 21 (24.42%) Amazon SQS
11 19 (22.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (20.93%) AWS CodePipeline
13 10 (11.63%) AWS Fargate
14 8 (9.30%) Amazon EventBridge
15 6 (6.98%) AWS KMS
15 6 (6.98%) AWS Step Functions
15 6 (6.98%) Datadog
16 4 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 4 (4.65%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.98%) HTTP
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (1.16%) Network Security
2 1 (1.16%) SSL
2 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.42%) DynamoDB
2 16 (18.60%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (11.63%) NoSQL
3 10 (11.63%) Relational Database
4 7 (8.14%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (6.98%) Flink
6 4 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.33%) Metadata
8 2 (2.33%) Pinecone
9 1 (1.16%) Apache Iceberg
9 1 (1.16%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.16%) DocumentDB
9 1 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 28 (32.56%) Jenkins
2 15 (17.44%) GitLab
2 15 (17.44%) JIRA
3 12 (13.95%) Bitbucket
4 10 (11.63%) Git
5 4 (4.65%) MLflow
6 3 (3.49%) Gradle
6 3 (3.49%) Maven
7 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.16%) git-flow
8 1 (1.16%) Mockito
8 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (26.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.65%) Finance
4 3 (3.49%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.33%) Retail
6 1 (1.16%) Banking
6 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Scrum Master
2 15 (17.44%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (16.28%) Developer
4 12 (13.95%) Java Developer
5 10 (11.63%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (11.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (10.47%) Senior
7 7 (8.14%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Architect
8 6 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Backend Developer
9 5 (5.81%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Python Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) SOC Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (3.49%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (27.91%) Spring
1 24 (27.91%) Spring Boot
2 19 (22.09%) Kafka
3 15 (17.44%) AWS CDK
3 15 (17.44%) OAuth
3 15 (17.44%) RESTful
4 12 (13.95%) JWT
4 12 (13.95%) React
5 11 (12.79%) Node.js
5 11 (12.79%) OAuth2
6 10 (11.63%) GraphQL
6 10 (11.63%) REST
7 8 (9.30%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.81%) boto
8 5 (5.81%) Java Concurrency
9 4 (4.65%) NumPy
9 4 (4.65%) OpenCV
9 4 (4.65%) Pandas
9 4 (4.65%) SQLAlchemy
9 4 (4.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (38.37%) Cloud Native
2 24 (27.91%) Product Ownership
3 14 (16.28%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.65%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (4.65%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.65%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.65%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.16%) Clustering
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.16%) PMI
7 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.47%) Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (2.33%) Unix
2 2 (2.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.16%) Android
3 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.16%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (76.74%) CI/CD
2 50 (58.14%) DevOps
3 41 (47.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (40.70%) Agile
4 35 (40.70%) Containerisation
4 35 (40.70%) Microservices
5 29 (33.72%) Test Automation
6 28 (32.56%) Observability
6 28 (32.56%) Scrum
7 24 (27.91%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (22.09%) Code Quality
8 19 (22.09%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (20.93%) DevSecOps
10 17 (19.77%) Backlog Refinement
11 16 (18.60%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 14 (16.28%) Technical Leadership
13 13 (15.12%) Event-Driven
13 13 (15.12%) Migration
13 13 (15.12%) Software Engineering
14 12 (13.95%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (38.37%) Java
2 25 (29.07%) Python
3 13 (15.12%) SQL
4 8 (9.30%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.14%) Bash
6 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.81%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (5.81%) Search Processing Language
8 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.49%) C#
9 3 (3.49%) Scala
10 2 (2.33%) Bicep
11 1 (1.16%) Go
11 1 (1.16%) Groovy
11 1 (1.16%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.16%) Swift
Qualifications
1 28 (32.56%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.26%) SC Cleared
3 11 (12.79%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (10.47%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (9.30%) AWS Certification
6 5 (5.81%) DV Cleared
7 4 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.16%) CISSP
9 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) QA
2 4 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.16%) NCSC
4 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (53.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 34 (39.53%) Terraform
2 24 (27.91%) Kubernetes
3 14 (16.28%) Prometheus
4 11 (12.79%) Grafana
5 9 (10.47%) Ansible
6 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.33%) Puppet
7 1 (1.16%) Consul
7 1 (1.16%) Packer
7 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.16%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Databricks
2 8 (9.30%) Splunk
3 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.33%) Confluent
4 2 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.16%) AVEVA
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) New Relic