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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 303 368
Rank change year-on-year -46 +65 +23
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 94 41 27
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.43% 0.33% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.38% 0.98% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 28 16
10th Percentile £313 £400 £439
25th Percentile £370 £409 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £543 £524
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +3.63% -12.75%
75th Percentile £575 £728 £591
90th Percentile £650 £750 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £516
% change year-on-year -27.59% +40.44% -13.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £73.10 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 6,790 4,192 5,699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.74% 33.29% 27.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,675 2,996 4,025
10th Percentile £263 £232 £213
25th Percentile £400 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £490
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -2.19% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £660 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 146 261
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.19 £16.95 £15.13
Median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%
75th Percentile £67.50 £34.49 £26.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £70.63 £61.60
UK median hourly rate £39.47 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.93% +23.69% -18.64%

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 26 March 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 26 March 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 26 March 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 -36 45 £538 -25.86% 26
North West -24 22 £563 +25.00% 13
Scotland +16 20 £358 -28.40% 3
Yorkshire -41 19 £500 -31.03% 13
South West -15 11 £438 +11.61% 6
South East -49 7 £530 -7.83% 17
Midlands - 7 £463 - 2
West Midlands - 7 £463 - 1
North East -10 4 £534 -28.83%
East of England - 3 £538 - 2
Wales -12 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 8 (8.51%) Apache Spark
1 8 (8.51%) Confluence
2 6 (6.38%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.32%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 93 (98.94%) AWS
2 81 (86.17%) Serverless
3 77 (81.91%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (53.19%) Amazon EKS
5 46 (48.94%) Amazon S3
6 41 (43.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (35.11%) Amazon EC2
8 32 (34.04%) GitHub
9 27 (28.72%) GitHub Actions
10 25 (26.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (20.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (14.89%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (14.89%) AWS CodePipeline
13 13 (13.83%) Amazon EventBridge
13 13 (13.83%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (12.77%) AWS Fargate
15 11 (11.70%) Amazon MSK
16 8 (8.51%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (8.51%) AWS KMS
16 8 (8.51%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) Firewall
2 6 (6.38%) DNS
3 4 (4.26%) HTTP
4 2 (2.13%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.13%) VPN
5 1 (1.06%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.06%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.72%) DynamoDB
2 26 (27.66%) Amazon RDS
3 13 (13.83%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.77%) NoSQL
5 10 (10.64%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (6.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (6.38%) Flink
6 6 (6.38%) MongoDB
7 4 (4.26%) DocumentDB
8 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.13%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.13%) Delta Lake
9 2 (2.13%) Metadata
9 2 (2.13%) Pinecone
10 1 (1.06%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.06%) Big Data
10 1 (1.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 31 (32.98%) Jenkins
2 28 (29.79%) Git
3 21 (22.34%) GitLab
4 16 (17.02%) JIRA
5 11 (11.70%) Bitbucket
6 8 (8.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 5 (5.32%) Maven
7 5 (5.32%) MLflow
8 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.19%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.19%) Gradle
10 2 (2.13%) Selenium
10 2 (2.13%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.06%) git-flow
11 1 (1.06%) Mockito
11 1 (1.06%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 20 (21.28%) Public Sector
2 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.89%) Finance
4 6 (6.38%) Banking
5 3 (3.19%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.06%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.06%) Military
7 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) AWS Engineer
2 20 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (18.09%) Developer
3 17 (18.09%) Senior
4 12 (12.77%) Lead
5 10 (10.64%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.64%) Software Engineer
6 9 (9.57%) AWS DevOps
7 7 (7.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Backend Developer
8 6 (6.38%) Data Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.32%) AWS Data Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Python Developer
9 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (5.32%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.40%) Node.js
2 18 (19.15%) Spring
3 17 (18.09%) Spring Boot
4 15 (15.96%) Kafka
5 14 (14.89%) RESTful
6 12 (12.77%) React
7 11 (11.70%) OAuth
8 10 (10.64%) REST
9 8 (8.51%) AWS CDK
9 8 (8.51%) JWT
9 8 (8.51%) OAuth2
10 7 (7.45%) PySpark
10 7 (7.45%) Web Services
11 6 (6.38%) .NET
11 6 (6.38%) FastAPI
12 5 (5.32%) Flask
12 5 (5.32%) GraphQL
12 5 (5.32%) Java Concurrency
13 4 (4.26%) Django
13 4 (4.26%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 9 (9.57%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 6 (6.38%) NHS
5 4 (4.26%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.06%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.06%) PMI
7 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.40%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.06%) Android
3 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.06%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (70.21%) CI/CD
2 54 (57.45%) DevOps
3 44 (46.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (40.43%) Containerisation
5 33 (35.11%) Microservices
6 31 (32.98%) Agile
7 20 (21.28%) Observability
8 18 (19.15%) Data Pipeline
9 17 (18.09%) Software Engineering
10 16 (17.02%) Infrastructure Automation
10 16 (17.02%) Test Automation
11 15 (15.96%) AI
11 15 (15.96%) Code Quality
11 15 (15.96%) Scrum
12 14 (14.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (14.89%) Data Engineering
12 14 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (12.77%) Analytics
13 12 (12.77%) Machine Learning
13 12 (12.77%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 57 (60.64%) Python
2 30 (31.91%) Java
3 17 (18.09%) SQL
4 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
4 13 (13.83%) Ruby
5 12 (12.77%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.57%) PowerShell
7 8 (8.51%) Bash
8 7 (7.45%) Perl
9 5 (5.32%) Go
10 2 (2.13%) C#
10 2 (2.13%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.06%) C
11 1 (1.06%) Groovy
11 1 (1.06%) Scala
11 1 (1.06%) Swift
Qualifications
1 19 (20.21%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.77%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.64%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.19%) SAFe Agilist
8 2 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.13%) Degree
9 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (1.06%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.38%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.26%) QA
3 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.19%) NIST
4 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.06%) GDPR
5 1 (1.06%) HL7
System Software
1 55 (58.51%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.13%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (51.06%) Terraform
2 38 (40.43%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.02%) Prometheus
4 12 (12.77%) Grafana
5 9 (9.57%) Ansible
6 5 (5.32%) Puppet
7 3 (3.19%) Argo
7 3 (3.19%) Packer
8 2 (2.13%) HP Fortify
9 1 (1.06%) Nagios
9 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 11 (11.70%) Databricks
2 6 (6.38%) Oracle
3 5 (5.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.32%) Splunk
4 3 (3.19%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.13%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.06%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.06%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.06%) Brio
6 1 (1.06%) CloudEndure
6 1 (1.06%) Confluent
6 1 (1.06%) Pega
6 1 (1.06%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.06%) UiPath