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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 367 297 364
Rank change year-on-year -70 +67 -10
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 77 37 23
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.31% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 0.90% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 28 18
10th Percentile £313 £358 £425
25th Percentile £381 £419 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +0.24% -14.79%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £566
90th Percentile £650 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £530 £589 £500
% change year-on-year -9.94% +17.70% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.75 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.63 - -
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 7,258 4,097 5,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.39% 32.09% 25.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,814 2,869 3,752
10th Percentile £300 £236 £213
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £672 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.46% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 152 260
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.80 £16.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £20.24 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +85.32% +14.19% -33.08%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.50 £32.69
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.94 £66.05
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £27.88 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.96% +30.46% -40.64%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 -72 28 £534 +6.75% 23
North West -39 17 £650 +62.50% 11
Midlands -52 13 £488 -1.43% 1
West Midlands -53 13 £488 -1.43% 1
Scotland +4 12 £313 -40.92%
South East -55 10 £600 +4.35% 9
South West - 8 £369 - 6
Yorkshire -60 6 £500 -2.44% 10
North East -21 5 £530 - 2
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
Wales - 2 £363 -
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 13 (16.88%) Confluence
2 6 (7.79%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.19%) Apache
3 4 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.60%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 72 (93.51%) AWS
2 63 (81.82%) Serverless
3 61 (79.22%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (55.84%) Amazon EKS
4 43 (55.84%) Amazon S3
5 31 (40.26%) GitHub
6 29 (37.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 29 (37.66%) GitHub Actions
7 27 (35.06%) Amazon EC2
8 24 (31.17%) AWS CloudFormation
9 20 (25.97%) AWS CodePipeline
10 15 (19.48%) Amazon SQS
10 15 (19.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 9 (11.69%) AWS Fargate
12 8 (10.39%) AWS Step Functions
13 7 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (7.79%) Datadog
15 5 (6.49%) AWS KMS
16 4 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 4 (5.19%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (1.30%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) SSL
2 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (28.57%) DynamoDB
2 15 (19.48%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (14.29%) NoSQL
4 8 (10.39%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.79%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.79%) Flink
6 4 (5.19%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.60%) Metadata
8 2 (2.60%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (29.87%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.78%) GitLab
3 15 (19.48%) JIRA
4 13 (16.88%) Git
5 11 (14.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (5.19%) Maven
6 4 (5.19%) MLflow
7 3 (3.90%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.90%) Gradle
8 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.30%) git-flow
9 1 (1.30%) Mockito
9 1 (1.30%) Selenium
9 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
2 14 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.19%) Finance
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.60%) Retail
5 1 (1.30%) Banking
5 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (16.88%) AWS DevOps
2 13 (16.88%) Developer
2 13 (16.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (15.58%) Scrum Master
4 10 (12.99%) Java Developer
5 9 (11.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Senior
7 5 (6.49%) Backend Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Lead
7 5 (6.49%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Java Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) SOC Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Java Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) Spring
2 17 (22.08%) Spring Boot
3 15 (19.48%) AWS CDK
4 14 (18.18%) Kafka
5 13 (16.88%) OAuth
6 11 (14.29%) JWT
7 10 (12.99%) GraphQL
7 10 (12.99%) Node.js
7 10 (12.99%) RESTful
8 9 (11.69%) OAuth2
8 9 (11.69%) React
9 7 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (9.09%) REST
10 5 (6.49%) FastAPI
10 5 (6.49%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (5.19%) Hugging Face
11 4 (5.19%) Loki
11 4 (5.19%) OpenCV
11 4 (5.19%) Pandas
11 4 (5.19%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.47%) Cloud Native
2 18 (23.38%) Product Ownership
3 9 (11.69%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.19%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.19%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.19%) Security Operations Centre
5 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.60%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.60%) NHS
7 1 (1.30%) Clustering
7 1 (1.30%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.30%) PMI
7 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.88%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Android
2 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.30%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (76.62%) CI/CD
2 43 (55.84%) DevOps
3 38 (49.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 34 (44.16%) Containerisation
5 28 (36.36%) Agile
6 23 (29.87%) Observability
7 22 (28.57%) Microservices
7 22 (28.57%) Test Automation
8 21 (27.27%) Scrum
9 18 (23.38%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (20.78%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (16.88%) Code Quality
12 12 (15.58%) Backlog Refinement
12 12 (15.58%) DevSecOps
13 11 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
13 11 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
14 10 (12.99%) ITIL
14 10 (12.99%) Machine Learning
14 10 (12.99%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (40.26%) Python
2 27 (35.06%) Java
3 13 (16.88%) SQL
4 9 (11.69%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.09%) Bash
5 7 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.49%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (6.49%) Search Processing Language
7 4 (5.19%) Ruby
8 3 (3.90%) C#
8 3 (3.90%) Go
8 3 (3.90%) Scala
9 1 (1.30%) Groovy
9 1 (1.30%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.30%) Perl
9 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.30%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.99%) SAFe Agilist
4 8 (10.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.30%) Degree
8 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 39 (50.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 36 (46.75%) Terraform
2 24 (31.17%) Kubernetes
3 16 (20.78%) Prometheus
4 15 (19.48%) Grafana
5 13 (16.88%) Ansible
6 5 (6.49%) Puppet
7 2 (2.60%) Argo
8 1 (1.30%) Consul
8 1 (1.30%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.30%) Packer
8 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) Databricks
2 7 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.30%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.30%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.30%) Confluent
4 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle
4 1 (1.30%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.30%) UiPath