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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 382 312 368
Rank change year-on-year -70 +56 -3
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 74 39 29
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.28% 0.28% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.96% 0.89% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 28 22
10th Percentile £313 £358 £408
25th Percentile £358 £400 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.48% -15.42%
75th Percentile £575 £549 £566
90th Percentile £650 £591 £600
UK median daily rate £540 £540 £513
% change year-on-year +0.08% +5.28% -14.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £71.00 - -
25th Percentile £71.75 - -
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
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 7,737 4,401 5,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.60% 32.01% 26.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,039 2,987 3,811
10th Percentile £300 £250 £225
25th Percentile £402 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £594
90th Percentile £675 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.77% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 475 180 276
10th Percentile £15.60 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £16.30 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.87
Median % change year-on-year +98.73% -9.58% -18.87%
75th Percentile £69.10 £34.47 £43.75
90th Percentile £84.50 £61.69 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +33.93% +27.27% -37.14%

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 29 June 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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -68 23 £528 +24.12% 19
North West -38 16 £650 +69.27% 9
Midlands -48 15 £488 -0.76% 2
West Midlands -50 15 £488 -0.76% 1
Scotland +2 12 £368 -34.56%
South East -57 10 £600 +4.35% 9
South West -30 7 £350 -31.71% 7
East of England - 6 £550 -
North East -35 4 £469 +10.29% 3
Yorkshire -52 3 - - 7
Wales - 2 £400 -
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 14 (18.92%) Confluence
2 6 (8.11%) Apache Spark
3 4 (5.41%) Apache
3 4 (5.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 69 (93.24%) AWS
2 62 (83.78%) Serverless
3 60 (81.08%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (60.81%) Amazon S3
5 43 (58.11%) Amazon EKS
6 32 (43.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (37.84%) Amazon EC2
7 28 (37.84%) GitHub
8 27 (36.49%) GitHub Actions
9 20 (27.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 18 (24.32%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (24.32%) AWS CodePipeline
11 17 (22.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 10 (13.51%) AWS Fargate
13 7 (9.46%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (8.11%) Datadog
15 5 (6.76%) AWS KMS
16 4 (5.41%) Amazon ECR
16 4 (5.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.11%) HTTP
2 1 (1.35%) DNS
2 1 (1.35%) SSL
2 1 (1.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.03%) DynamoDB
2 16 (21.62%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (13.51%) NoSQL
4 9 (12.16%) Relational Database
5 6 (8.11%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (8.11%) Flink
6 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (4.05%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.70%) Metadata
9 2 (2.70%) Pinecone
9 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.35%) DocumentDB
10 1 (1.35%) Redis
Development Applications
1 22 (29.73%) Jenkins
2 15 (20.27%) JIRA
3 14 (18.92%) GitLab
4 12 (16.22%) Bitbucket
5 8 (10.81%) Git
6 4 (5.41%) MLflow
7 3 (4.05%) Gradle
7 3 (4.05%) Maven
8 2 (2.70%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (1.35%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.35%) git-flow
9 1 (1.35%) Mockito
9 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
3 3 (4.05%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.70%) Finance
4 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.70%) Retail
5 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (18.92%) Scrum Master
2 13 (17.57%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (17.57%) Developer
3 11 (14.86%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.51%) AWS DevOps
5 9 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Senior
7 6 (8.11%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Architect
8 5 (6.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Backend Developer
8 5 (6.76%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Python Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Java Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) SOC Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) AWS Architect
10 3 (4.05%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (25.68%) Spring
1 19 (25.68%) Spring Boot
2 16 (21.62%) Kafka
3 15 (20.27%) AWS CDK
3 15 (20.27%) OAuth
4 12 (16.22%) JWT
5 11 (14.86%) OAuth2
5 11 (14.86%) RESTful
6 10 (13.51%) GraphQL
6 10 (13.51%) React
7 9 (12.16%) Node.js
7 9 (12.16%) REST
8 7 (9.46%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (6.76%) Java Concurrency
10 4 (5.41%) FastAPI
10 4 (5.41%) Hugging Face
10 4 (5.41%) NumPy
10 4 (5.41%) Pandas
10 4 (5.41%) PyTorch
10 4 (5.41%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 25 (33.78%) Cloud Native
2 20 (27.03%) Product Ownership
3 11 (14.86%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.41%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.41%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.41%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.41%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.41%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.35%) Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) PMI
6 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.11%) Linux
2 1 (1.35%) Android
2 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (77.03%) CI/CD
2 42 (56.76%) DevOps
3 35 (47.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (43.24%) Containerisation
5 27 (36.49%) Agile
6 26 (35.14%) Microservices
7 24 (32.43%) Test Automation
8 23 (31.08%) Observability
9 21 (28.38%) Scrum
10 20 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (24.32%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (20.27%) Code Quality
13 14 (18.92%) Backlog Refinement
13 14 (18.92%) DevSecOps
14 12 (16.22%) Conflict Resolution
14 12 (16.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 11 (14.86%) Impact Analysis
15 11 (14.86%) ITIL
15 11 (14.86%) Problem Management
16 10 (13.51%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 26 (35.14%) Java
2 22 (29.73%) Python
3 12 (16.22%) SQL
4 7 (9.46%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.11%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.76%) Bash
6 5 (6.76%) Kusto Query Language
6 5 (6.76%) Search Processing Language
7 3 (4.05%) C#
7 3 (4.05%) Scala
8 2 (2.70%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.35%) Go
9 1 (1.35%) Groovy
9 1 (1.35%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 22 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 11 (14.86%) SAFe Agilist
4 9 (12.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (6.76%) DV Cleared
6 4 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.35%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) QA
2 3 (4.05%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.05%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.35%) NCSC
System Software
1 38 (51.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (39.19%) Terraform
2 19 (25.68%) Kubernetes
3 13 (17.57%) Prometheus
4 10 (13.51%) Grafana
5 8 (10.81%) Ansible
6 2 (2.70%) Puppet
7 1 (1.35%) Consul
7 1 (1.35%) Packer
7 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (10.81%) Databricks
1 8 (10.81%) Splunk
2 4 (5.41%) Dynatrace
3 2 (2.70%) Confluent
4 1 (1.35%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.35%) New Relic