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 18 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 316 357
Rank change year-on-year +28 +41 +74
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 103 52 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.32% 0.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.81% 1.06% 0.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 29 31
10th Percentile £363 £400 £463
25th Percentile £425 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £556 £544 £619
90th Percentile £636 £740 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -22.22% +22.73% -8.33%

All Cloud 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 5,682 4,902 6,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.74% 29.93% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,913 3,145 4,749
10th Percentile £225 £254 £219
25th Percentile £375 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 120 220
10th Percentile £13.22 £18.09 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.94 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.12% +37.50% +18.73%
75th Percentile £43.75 £59.66 £49.06
90th Percentile £69.37 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.27 £31.00
% change year-on-year -24.41% +7.32% +40.91%

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 18 November 2025.

Daily 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 18 November 2025. 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 -5 50 £509 -21.73% 52
North West -2 27 £550 +37.50% 33
Yorkshire -24 21 £500 -31.03% 17
Scotland 0 18 £402 -19.60% 6
West Midlands -11 18 £463 -8.42% 4
Midlands -17 18 £463 +2.21% 5
South East +6 7 £530 +6.00% 21
East of England -14 5 £475 -5.00% 13
South West - 5 £625 - 7
North East -6 2 £425 -43.33% 2
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 16 (15.53%) Confluence
2 12 (11.65%) nginx
3 11 (10.68%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (3.88%) Apache
5 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (11.65%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.94%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 100 (97.09%) AWS
2 68 (66.02%) Serverless
3 66 (64.08%) AWS Lambda
4 53 (51.46%) Amazon S3
5 43 (41.75%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (40.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 42 (40.78%) Amazon EC2
7 34 (33.01%) GitHub
8 29 (28.16%) AWS CloudFormation
9 28 (27.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (22.33%) Amazon SQS
11 22 (21.36%) Route 53
12 21 (20.39%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (18.45%) Azure
14 16 (15.53%) AWS KMS
15 14 (13.59%) Amazon ELB
15 14 (13.59%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (12.62%) AWS Fargate
17 12 (11.65%) Amazon MSK
17 12 (11.65%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (24.27%) Firewall
2 16 (15.53%) DNS
3 13 (12.62%) HTTP
4 12 (11.65%) IMAP
4 12 (11.65%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (11.65%) SMTP
5 10 (9.71%) FTP
5 10 (9.71%) SSH
6 3 (2.91%) VPN
7 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.97%) Network Security
7 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (0.97%) SSL
7 1 (0.97%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (43.69%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (31.07%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (25.24%) DynamoDB
4 24 (23.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (12.62%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.71%) Relational Database
7 8 (7.77%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (5.83%) Redis
9 5 (4.85%) Big Data
9 5 (4.85%) BigQuery
9 5 (4.85%) MySQL
9 5 (4.85%) RDBMS
10 4 (3.88%) DocumentDB
10 4 (3.88%) MongoDB
11 2 (1.94%) Power BI
12 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 51 (49.51%) Jenkins
2 35 (33.98%) Git
3 30 (29.13%) GitLab
4 28 (27.18%) JIRA
5 12 (11.65%) Vagrant
6 10 (9.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (8.74%) Bitbucket
8 7 (6.80%) MLflow
8 7 (6.80%) SonarQube
9 5 (4.85%) Gradle
9 5 (4.85%) Maven
9 5 (4.85%) SonarLint
10 1 (0.97%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 34 (33.01%) Social Skills
2 28 (27.18%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.59%) Finance
4 10 (9.71%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.80%) Banking
6 5 (4.85%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.97%) Military
Job Titles
1 37 (35.92%) AWS Engineer
2 28 (27.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.53%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (15.53%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 16 (15.53%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (15.53%) Platform Engineer
3 16 (15.53%) Software Engineer
4 15 (14.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 12 (11.65%) Senior
6 11 (10.68%) Architect
6 11 (10.68%) Lead
7 10 (9.71%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (7.77%) Technical Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.80%) Java Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Java Technical Architect
9 7 (6.80%) Python Engineer
10 6 (5.83%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.24%) Node.js
2 20 (19.42%) RESTful
3 17 (16.50%) React
4 13 (12.62%) JWT
4 13 (12.62%) LDAP
4 13 (12.62%) REST
5 10 (9.71%) FastAPI
6 9 (8.74%) AWS CDK
6 9 (8.74%) OAuth
7 8 (7.77%) OpenCV
7 8 (7.77%) Pandas
7 8 (7.77%) PyTorch
7 8 (7.77%) Spring Boot
7 8 (7.77%) SQLAlchemy
8 7 (6.80%) Flask
8 7 (6.80%) Hugging Face
8 7 (6.80%) NumPy
8 7 (6.80%) PySpark
9 6 (5.83%) HTML
9 6 (5.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.71%) Replication
3 8 (7.77%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.85%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.88%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.91%) Algorithms
7 3 (2.91%) NHS
8 2 (1.94%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.24%) Linux
2 15 (14.56%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (11.65%) VMS
4 11 (10.68%) Windows
5 10 (9.71%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (71.84%) CI/CD
2 63 (61.17%) DevOps
3 46 (44.66%) Containerisation
4 45 (43.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (40.78%) Agile
6 33 (32.04%) Microservices
7 27 (26.21%) AI
8 23 (22.33%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (22.33%) Software Engineering
9 19 (18.45%) Cloud Security
9 19 (18.45%) Configuration Management
10 18 (17.48%) Event-Driven
10 18 (17.48%) Mentoring
11 17 (16.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 17 (16.50%) TDD
12 16 (15.53%) Machine Learning
12 16 (15.53%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (13.59%) OOP
14 13 (12.62%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 71 (68.93%) Python
2 23 (22.33%) Java
3 22 (21.36%) PowerShell
4 20 (19.42%) SQL
5 16 (15.53%) TypeScript
6 13 (12.62%) Groovy
7 9 (8.74%) Ruby
8 8 (7.77%) Bash
8 8 (7.77%) Perl
9 7 (6.80%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.88%) Go
11 3 (2.91%) C
12 1 (0.97%) C#
12 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (29.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (28.16%) AWS Certification
3 22 (21.36%) SC Cleared
4 18 (17.48%) Degree
5 10 (9.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (9.71%) Azure Certification
6 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (4.85%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.94%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.88%) NIST
3 3 (2.91%) QA
4 2 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.94%) GDPR
5 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.97%) HL7
5 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.97%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.97%) WCAG
System Software
1 72 (69.90%) Docker
2 12 (11.65%) Dovecot
2 12 (11.65%) Postfix
2 12 (11.65%) Squid
3 10 (9.71%) DFS Replication
4 6 (5.83%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (60.19%) Terraform
2 46 (44.66%) Kubernetes
3 23 (22.33%) Grafana
4 19 (18.45%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.65%) Nessus
6 10 (9.71%) Proxmox
7 9 (8.74%) Ansible
8 6 (5.83%) Puppet
9 4 (3.88%) Packer
10 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.97%) Argo
11 1 (0.97%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.97%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (11.65%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (11.65%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.80%) Oracle
3 6 (5.83%) Gigya
4 5 (4.85%) IBM
4 5 (4.85%) Splunk
5 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.91%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.97%) Brio
7 1 (0.97%) CloudEndure
7 1 (0.97%) Databricks
7 1 (0.97%) JDA
7 1 (0.97%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.97%) Pega
7 1 (0.97%) SaltStack