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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 377 300 345
Rank change year-on-year -77 +45 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 89 63 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.41% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.09% 1.33% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 41 23
10th Percentile £365 £363 £400
25th Percentile £409 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £607 £550 £554
90th Percentile £650 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - -
Median hourly rate £72.00 - -
75th Percentile £73.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.00 - -

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 8,163 4,736 4,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.61% 30.92% 26.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,246 3,166 3,358
10th Percentile £281 £251 £250
25th Percentile £404 £385 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £645 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 483 190 183
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.87 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +80.13% -11.70% -16.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £37.13 £53.38
90th Percentile £84.75 £67.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.52% -28.15%

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 August 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
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 August 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 -76 35 £525 +5.00% 20
North West -40 25 £600 +23.08% 8
Midlands -43 24 £463 -2.63% 3
West Midlands -38 23 £475 - 2
South East -73 10 £600 +6.67% 12
Scotland -5 9 £475 -7.32% 7
East of England -16 8 £550 +22.22% 2
North East -34 8 £413 -2.94% 4
South West -42 3 £380 -39.20% 11
Yorkshire -53 2 £500 - 8
East Midlands - 1 £358 - 1
Wales - 1 £550 - 1
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 (15.73%) Confluence
2 3 (3.37%) Apache
2 3 (3.37%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.37%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.37%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 84 (94.38%) AWS
2 73 (82.02%) Serverless
3 70 (78.65%) AWS Lambda
4 63 (70.79%) Amazon EKS
5 51 (57.30%) Amazon S3
6 49 (55.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 35 (39.33%) GitHub
8 34 (38.20%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (34.83%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (31.46%) Amazon SQS
10 28 (31.46%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (24.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (16.85%) AWS CodePipeline
13 8 (8.99%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (8.99%) AWS Fargate
13 8 (8.99%) Azure
14 7 (7.87%) AWS KMS
14 7 (7.87%) GCP
15 6 (6.74%) Amazon ECR
15 6 (6.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) HTTP
2 3 (3.37%) Firewall
2 3 (3.37%) Network Security
2 3 (3.37%) SSL
3 2 (2.25%) DNS
3 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.35%) DynamoDB
2 14 (15.73%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (11.24%) NoSQL
3 10 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.74%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.37%) Data Lake
6 3 (3.37%) DocumentDB
6 3 (3.37%) MySQL
6 3 (3.37%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.25%) Flink
7 2 (2.25%) Pinecone
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.12%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.12%) Apache Iceberg
8 1 (1.12%) Big Data
8 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 35 (39.33%) Jenkins
2 23 (25.84%) GitLab
3 14 (15.73%) Git
3 14 (15.73%) JIRA
4 12 (13.48%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.49%) Mockito
6 3 (3.37%) JUnit
7 2 (2.25%) MLflow
7 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.12%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.12%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.12%) Maven
8 1 (1.12%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Public Sector
3 8 (8.99%) Finance
4 5 (5.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (4.49%) Retail
6 3 (3.37%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Banking
7 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Scrum Master
2 17 (19.10%) AWS Engineer
3 14 (15.73%) Developer
4 12 (13.48%) AWS DevOps
5 10 (11.24%) Java Developer
6 9 (10.11%) Architect
6 9 (10.11%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Security Engineer
7 8 (8.99%) Senior
7 8 (8.99%) Software Engineer
8 7 (7.87%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) AWS Architect
9 5 (5.62%) AWS Software Engineer
9 5 (5.62%) Java Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) AWS Developer
10 4 (4.49%) Cloud Security Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) Java Software Engineer
10 4 (4.49%) SOC Engineer
11 3 (3.37%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (29.21%) Spring
1 26 (29.21%) Spring Boot
2 20 (22.47%) Kafka
2 20 (22.47%) RESTful
3 16 (17.98%) REST
4 13 (14.61%) AWS CDK
5 12 (13.48%) Node.js
6 9 (10.11%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (8.99%) JWT
7 8 (8.99%) OAuth
8 7 (7.87%) GraphQL
8 7 (7.87%) React
9 6 (6.74%) OAuth2
10 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
11 4 (4.49%) .NET
11 4 (4.49%) OpenID
11 4 (4.49%) SOAP
11 4 (4.49%) Web Services
12 3 (3.37%) SAML
12 3 (3.37%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 43 (48.31%) Cloud Native
2 29 (32.58%) Product Ownership
3 16 (17.98%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (7.87%) Security Posture
5 6 (6.74%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.49%) Cloud Security Posture
6 4 (4.49%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.49%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.25%) AI Agents
8 2 (2.25%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.25%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
9 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.85%) Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Unix
4 1 (1.12%) Android
4 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (79.78%) CI/CD
2 56 (62.92%) DevOps
3 54 (60.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (55.06%) Agile
5 44 (49.44%) Microservices
6 38 (42.70%) Test Automation
7 35 (39.33%) Containerisation
8 32 (35.96%) Scrum
9 31 (34.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (34.83%) Observability
10 25 (28.09%) DevSecOps
11 21 (23.60%) Backlog Refinement
11 21 (23.60%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (22.47%) Code Quality
12 20 (22.47%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 19 (21.35%) Event-Driven
14 18 (20.22%) Clean Code
15 17 (19.10%) Software Engineering
16 16 (17.98%) Technical Leadership
17 15 (16.85%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 38 (42.70%) Java
2 18 (20.22%) Python
3 13 (14.61%) Bash
4 12 (13.48%) SQL
5 9 (10.11%) JavaScript
6 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.74%) Bicep
7 6 (6.74%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.62%) Kusto Query Language
8 5 (5.62%) Search Processing Language
9 3 (3.37%) C#
9 3 (3.37%) Scala
9 3 (3.37%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.25%) Go
10 2 (2.25%) Groovy
11 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 35 (39.33%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.21%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.98%) AWS Certification
4 11 (12.36%) SAFe Agilist
5 9 (10.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.74%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.62%) CISSP
8 3 (3.37%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.25%) Degree
9 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.37%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.25%) NCSC
4 1 (1.12%) HL7
4 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (64.04%) Docker
2 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (50.56%) Terraform
2 32 (35.96%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.24%) Ansible
4 9 (10.11%) Grafana
5 7 (7.87%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.62%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.25%) Consul
7 2 (2.25%) Packer
7 2 (2.25%) Puppet
7 2 (2.25%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.25%) ZABBIX
8 1 (1.12%) Istio
8 1 (1.12%) linkerd
Vendors
1 9 (10.11%) Splunk
2 8 (8.99%) Dynatrace
3 6 (6.74%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.62%) Databricks
5 4 (4.49%) Microsoft
6 3 (3.37%) Confluent
6 3 (3.37%) Google
7 1 (1.12%) Informatica
7 1 (1.12%) New Relic
7 1 (1.12%) Talend