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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 293 318
Rank change year-on-year -70 +25 +39
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 113 78 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.50% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.37% 1.54% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 49 26
10th Percentile £358 £379 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -13.04%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £524
90th Percentile £650 £638 £581
UK median daily rate £536 £525 £557
% change year-on-year +2.14% -5.66% -3.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 8,219 5,068 4,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.15% 32.45% 28.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,197 3,423 3,114
10th Percentile £263 £250 £250
25th Percentile £402 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 513 165 133
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.68% -41.61% +42.00%
75th Percentile £69.75 £35.34 £68.75
90th Percentile £81.60 £66.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +15.38% -24.56% +4.44%

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 6 October 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
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 6 October 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 -67 41 £500 - 41
North West -38 30 £513 +5.13% 24
Scotland -9 23 £401 -23.62% 31
Midlands -36 23 £475 +2.70% 12
West Midlands -43 21 £488 +5.41% 5
South East -52 12 £600 +9.09% 31
East of England -18 9 £550 +22.22% 11
North East -31 8 £400 -5.88% 6
South West -36 4 £365 -41.60% 27
Yorkshire -46 3 £500 - 11
East Midlands - 2 £358 - 7
Wales - 1 £550 - 5
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 9 (7.96%) Confluence
2 8 (7.08%) Apache
3 4 (3.54%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.88%) nginx
4 1 (0.88%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.88%) Traefik
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 108 (95.58%) AWS
2 83 (73.45%) Serverless
3 82 (72.57%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (68.14%) Amazon EKS
5 60 (53.10%) Amazon S3
6 57 (50.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 38 (33.63%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (30.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 33 (29.20%) GitHub
10 31 (27.43%) Amazon SQS
11 29 (25.66%) GitHub Actions
12 28 (24.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 15 (13.27%) Kong
14 11 (9.73%) Amazon MSK
14 11 (9.73%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (9.73%) AWS Fargate
14 11 (9.73%) AWS KMS
14 11 (9.73%) Azure
15 10 (8.85%) GCP
16 8 (7.08%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) DNS
1 5 (4.42%) Network Security
1 5 (4.42%) SSL
2 4 (3.54%) Firewall
3 3 (2.65%) HTTP
3 3 (2.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (19.47%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (13.27%) DynamoDB
3 10 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.96%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.19%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.31%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.42%) Data Lake
7 5 (4.42%) DocumentDB
8 4 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.54%) Flink
8 4 (3.54%) MySQL
8 4 (3.54%) SQL Server
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon Aurora
9 3 (2.65%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.77%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.77%) Redis
11 1 (0.88%) Big Data
11 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (32.74%) Jenkins
2 32 (28.32%) GitLab
3 15 (13.27%) Git
4 10 (8.85%) JIRA
5 9 (7.96%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.54%) Maven
6 4 (3.54%) Mockito
6 4 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (2.65%) git-flow
7 3 (2.65%) JUnit
8 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.77%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.77%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.88%) Gatling
9 1 (0.88%) MLflow
9 1 (0.88%) Selenium
General
1 27 (23.89%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.58%) Finance
2 21 (18.58%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.96%) Banking
4 7 (6.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.54%) Military
7 3 (2.65%) Retail
8 2 (1.77%) iGaming
9 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.88%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 20 (17.70%) AWS Engineer
1 20 (17.70%) Developer
1 20 (17.70%) Scrum Master
2 17 (15.04%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (13.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 14 (12.39%) Java Developer
5 13 (11.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.50%) Senior
6 11 (9.73%) Lead
7 9 (7.96%) Architect
7 9 (7.96%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.96%) Security Engineer
8 8 (7.08%) Software Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Java Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) AWS Architect
10 6 (5.31%) AWS Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (5.31%) Java Scrum Master
10 6 (5.31%) Technical Leader
11 5 (4.42%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (53.98%) Terraform
2 34 (30.09%) Spring Boot
3 33 (29.20%) RESTful
3 33 (29.20%) Spring
4 27 (23.89%) Kafka
5 24 (21.24%) REST
6 12 (10.62%) AngularJS
7 11 (9.73%) AWS CDK
7 11 (9.73%) Node.js
8 8 (7.08%) JWT
8 8 (7.08%) React
8 8 (7.08%) SOAP
9 7 (6.19%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (6.19%) GraphQL
9 7 (6.19%) OpenAPI
9 7 (6.19%) Swagger
10 6 (5.31%) OAuth
11 5 (4.42%) Express.js
11 5 (4.42%) Nunjucks
11 5 (4.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 56 (49.56%) Cloud Native
2 29 (25.66%) Product Ownership
3 13 (11.50%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (7.08%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (7.08%) Security Posture
5 6 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (4.42%) Cloud Security Posture
7 4 (3.54%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.54%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.65%) Enterprise Cloud
8 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (1.77%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.77%) NHS
9 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.27%) Linux
2 8 (7.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.19%) Windows
4 4 (3.54%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) CentOS
5 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (83.19%) CI/CD
2 79 (69.91%) DevOps
3 66 (58.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (49.56%) Agile
5 46 (40.71%) Microservices
6 42 (37.17%) Test Automation
7 41 (36.28%) Containerisation
8 38 (33.63%) Observability
9 33 (29.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (28.32%) Scrum
11 27 (23.89%) DevSecOps
12 23 (20.35%) Migration
13 22 (19.47%) Clean Code
14 21 (18.58%) Code Quality
14 21 (18.58%) Event-Driven
14 21 (18.58%) Platform Engineering
15 20 (17.70%) Backlog Refinement
15 20 (17.70%) Deployment Automation
15 20 (17.70%) Root Cause Analysis
15 20 (17.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (40.71%) Java
2 23 (20.35%) Python
3 16 (14.16%) Bash
4 14 (12.39%) SQL
5 12 (10.62%) TypeScript
6 11 (9.73%) JavaScript
7 10 (8.85%) Go
7 10 (8.85%) PowerShell
8 7 (6.19%) Bicep
8 7 (6.19%) Lua
9 5 (4.42%) Kusto Query Language
9 5 (4.42%) Search Processing Language
10 3 (2.65%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.77%) C#
11 2 (1.77%) Groovy
11 2 (1.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (38.94%) Security Cleared
2 34 (30.09%) SC Cleared
3 27 (23.89%) AWS Certification
4 8 (7.08%) Azure Certification
4 8 (7.08%) SAFe Agilist
5 6 (5.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.31%) CISSP
5 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
6 5 (4.42%) Degree
7 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.77%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (17.70%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.65%) NCSC
5 2 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.88%) HL7
6 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 65 (57.52%) Docker
2 4 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (45.13%) Kubernetes
2 11 (9.73%) Grafana
3 10 (8.85%) Ansible
4 9 (7.96%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.31%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.65%) Consul
6 3 (2.65%) Packer
6 3 (2.65%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.77%) Istio
7 2 (1.77%) linkerd
7 2 (1.77%) Puppet
7 2 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.88%) Rancher
Vendors
1 10 (8.85%) Dynatrace
2 9 (7.96%) Splunk
3 7 (6.19%) Red Hat
4 6 (5.31%) MuleSoft
5 5 (4.42%) Confluent
6 4 (3.54%) Databricks
6 4 (3.54%) Google
6 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.65%) webMethods
8 1 (0.88%) Apple
8 1 (0.88%) ESET
8 1 (0.88%) Informatica
8 1 (0.88%) New Relic
8 1 (0.88%) Okta
8 1 (0.88%) Oracle
8 1 (0.88%) Talend