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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 313 362
Rank change year-on-year +7 +49 +60
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 104 53 53
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.32% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.80% 1.06% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 30 31
10th Percentile £363 £398 £463
25th Percentile £423 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £556 £541 £619
90th Percentile £636 £739 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £550
% change year-on-year -27.59% +31.82% -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 5,766 4,977 6,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.66% 29.89% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,964 3,180 4,712
10th Percentile £230 £254 £219
25th Percentile £375 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 134 220
10th Percentile £13.65 £16.83 £14.23
25th Percentile £16.58 £21.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +25.00% +15.30%
75th Percentile £44.78 £53.56 £47.81
90th Percentile £76.35 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.30 £29.86
% change year-on-year -14.18% +1.46% +35.73%

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 22 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 22 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 £518 -20.38% 60
North West -6 27 £550 +37.50% 36
Yorkshire -26 21 £500 -31.03% 19
Scotland -3 20 £418 -16.50% 6
West Midlands -9 17 £475 -5.94% 3
Midlands -20 17 £475 +4.97% 6
South East +3 7 £530 +6.00% 21
South West +2 5 £625 +59.44% 4
East of England -10 5 £475 -5.00% 12
North East -3 2 £425 -43.33% 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 16 (15.38%) Confluence
2 13 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (11.54%) nginx
4 6 (5.77%) Apache
5 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (11.54%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (1.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 101 (97.12%) AWS
2 69 (66.35%) Serverless
3 67 (64.42%) AWS Lambda
4 55 (52.88%) Amazon S3
5 41 (39.42%) Amazon EC2
5 41 (39.42%) Amazon EKS
6 40 (38.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 32 (30.77%) GitHub
8 30 (28.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (27.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 22 (21.15%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (21.15%) Route 53
11 19 (18.27%) Azure
11 19 (18.27%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (14.42%) AWS KMS
13 14 (13.46%) Amazon ELB
13 14 (13.46%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (11.54%) Amazon MSK
14 12 (11.54%) AWS Fargate
14 12 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (23.08%) Firewall
2 15 (14.42%) DNS
3 13 (12.50%) HTTP
4 12 (11.54%) IMAP
4 12 (11.54%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (11.54%) SMTP
5 10 (9.62%) FTP
5 10 (9.62%) SSH
6 2 (1.92%) VPN
7 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.96%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (42.31%) Amazon RDS
2 32 (30.77%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (24.04%) DynamoDB
4 24 (23.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 10 (9.62%) Amazon Athena
6 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
7 6 (5.77%) Redis
8 5 (4.81%) Big Data
8 5 (4.81%) BigQuery
8 5 (4.81%) MySQL
8 5 (4.81%) RDBMS
9 4 (3.85%) DocumentDB
9 4 (3.85%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.92%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.92%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.92%) Power BI
11 1 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 49 (47.12%) Jenkins
2 34 (32.69%) Git
3 31 (29.81%) GitLab
4 28 (26.92%) JIRA
5 12 (11.54%) Vagrant
6 10 (9.62%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (8.65%) Bitbucket
7 9 (8.65%) MLflow
8 7 (6.73%) SonarQube
9 5 (4.81%) Gradle
9 5 (4.81%) Maven
9 5 (4.81%) SonarLint
10 1 (0.96%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 34 (32.69%) Social Skills
2 30 (28.85%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.46%) Finance
4 10 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.73%) Banking
6 5 (4.81%) Aerospace
7 4 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.96%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (33.65%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
3 16 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 14 (13.46%) AWS DevOps
4 14 (13.46%) Senior
5 13 (12.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 12 (11.54%) Lead
7 11 (10.58%) Architect
8 10 (9.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
9 8 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (7.69%) Technical Architect
10 7 (6.73%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Data Engineer
10 7 (6.73%) Developer
10 7 (6.73%) Java Architect
10 7 (6.73%) Java Technical Architect
10 7 (6.73%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (25.00%) Node.js
2 20 (19.23%) RESTful
3 17 (16.35%) React
4 13 (12.50%) JWT
4 13 (12.50%) LDAP
4 13 (12.50%) REST
5 11 (10.58%) FastAPI
6 9 (8.65%) AWS CDK
6 9 (8.65%) OAuth
6 9 (8.65%) PySpark
7 8 (7.69%) Flask
7 8 (7.69%) OpenCV
7 8 (7.69%) Pandas
7 8 (7.69%) PyTorch
7 8 (7.69%) Spring Boot
7 8 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
8 7 (6.73%) Hugging Face
8 7 (6.73%) NumPy
9 6 (5.77%) GraphQL
9 6 (5.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.62%) Replication
3 8 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.77%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.81%) Algorithms
5 5 (4.81%) N-Tier
6 4 (3.85%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.85%) NHS
7 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.96%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.00%) Linux
2 15 (14.42%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (11.54%) VMS
4 11 (10.58%) Windows
5 10 (9.62%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (70.19%) CI/CD
2 61 (58.65%) DevOps
3 45 (43.27%) Containerisation
3 45 (43.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (41.35%) Agile
5 33 (31.73%) Microservices
6 28 (26.92%) AI
7 23 (22.12%) Software Engineering
8 22 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
9 18 (17.31%) Cloud Security
9 18 (17.31%) Configuration Management
9 18 (17.31%) Event-Driven
9 18 (17.31%) Full-Stack Development
9 18 (17.31%) Machine Learning
9 18 (17.31%) Mentoring
10 17 (16.35%) TDD
11 16 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
11 16 (15.38%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (14.42%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (13.46%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 72 (69.23%) Python
2 23 (22.12%) Java
3 22 (21.15%) PowerShell
3 22 (21.15%) SQL
4 16 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 13 (12.50%) Groovy
6 9 (8.65%) Ruby
7 8 (7.69%) JavaScript
7 8 (7.69%) Perl
8 7 (6.73%) Bash
9 4 (3.85%) Go
10 3 (2.88%) C
11 1 (0.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 28 (26.92%) AWS Certification
3 21 (20.19%) SC Cleared
4 18 (17.31%) Degree
5 10 (9.62%) Azure Certification
6 9 (8.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (4.81%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.73%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.88%) NIST
2 3 (2.88%) QA
3 2 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.96%) GDPR
4 1 (0.96%) HL7
4 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 71 (68.27%) Docker
2 12 (11.54%) Dovecot
2 12 (11.54%) Postfix
2 12 (11.54%) Squid
3 10 (9.62%) DFS Replication
4 6 (5.77%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (59.62%) Terraform
2 45 (43.27%) Kubernetes
3 22 (21.15%) Grafana
4 18 (17.31%) Prometheus
5 12 (11.54%) Nessus
6 10 (9.62%) Proxmox
7 8 (7.69%) Ansible
8 5 (4.81%) Puppet
9 4 (3.85%) Packer
10 3 (2.88%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.96%) Argo
11 1 (0.96%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (11.54%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (11.54%) ServiceNow
2 7 (6.73%) Oracle
3 6 (5.77%) Gigya
4 5 (4.81%) IBM
5 4 (3.85%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.85%) Splunk
6 3 (2.88%) Databricks
6 3 (2.88%) Ping Identity
7 1 (0.96%) Brio
7 1 (0.96%) CloudEndure
7 1 (0.96%) JDA
7 1 (0.96%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.96%) Pega
7 1 (0.96%) SaltStack