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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 306 362
Rank change year-on-year -49 +56 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 81 34 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.33% 0.27% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.13% 0.83% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 26 19
10th Percentile £313 £358 £425
25th Percentile £383 £400 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% -14.58%
75th Percentile £581 £558 £581
90th Percentile £650 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £628 £500
% change year-on-year -16.33% +25.50% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £71.75 - -
25th Percentile £72.88 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £90.63 - -
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 7,166 4,073 5,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.52% 31.90% 25.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,785 2,846 3,731
10th Percentile £300 £235 £213
25th Percentile £400 £381 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £586 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.97% -1.97% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 398 158 260
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.80 £15.00
Median hourly rate £41.87 £21.39 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +95.76% +20.71% -29.12%
75th Percentile £67.75 £34.38 £26.75
90th Percentile £82.25 £68.75 £65.75
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +36.51% +28.69% -38.94%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -50 30 £534 +18.61% 19
North West -30 17 £650 +62.50% 9
Scotland +8 14 £365 -31.06%
West Midlands -49 13 £488 -9.57% 1
Midlands -54 13 £488 -9.57% 2
South West -21 10 £461 +17.67% 5
Yorkshire -51 8 £500 -20.00% 8
South East -55 8 £530 -7.83% 13
North East -15 5 £530 - 2
East of England - 5 £550 - 2
Wales - 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 13 (16.05%) Confluence
2 8 (9.88%) Apache Spark
3 6 (7.41%) Apache
3 6 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.47%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 76 (93.83%) AWS
2 67 (82.72%) Serverless
3 65 (80.25%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (55.56%) Amazon S3
5 43 (53.09%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (38.27%) GitHub
7 30 (37.04%) AWS CloudFormation
8 29 (35.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 29 (35.80%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (24.69%) AWS CodePipeline
11 17 (20.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 15 (18.52%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (13.58%) AWS Step Functions
14 9 (11.11%) AWS Fargate
15 7 (8.64%) Amazon EventBridge
16 6 (7.41%) Datadog
17 5 (6.17%) AWS KMS
18 4 (4.94%) Amazon ECR
18 4 (4.94%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.64%) HTTP
2 3 (3.70%) DNS
3 2 (2.47%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.23%) Firewall
4 1 (1.23%) SSL
4 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.93%) DynamoDB
2 15 (18.52%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.88%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (9.88%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.41%) Flink
6 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.47%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.47%) Metadata
8 2 (2.47%) Pinecone
8 2 (2.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (27.16%) Jenkins
2 19 (23.46%) GitLab
3 15 (18.52%) Git
3 15 (18.52%) JIRA
4 11 (13.58%) Bitbucket
5 6 (7.41%) MLflow
6 5 (6.17%) Maven
7 4 (4.94%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.70%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.70%) Gradle
9 2 (2.47%) Selenium
9 2 (2.47%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (1.23%) git-flow
10 1 (1.23%) Mockito
General
1 19 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.75%) Public Sector
3 4 (4.94%) Finance
4 2 (2.47%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (2.47%) Retail
5 1 (1.23%) Banking
5 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (20.99%) AWS Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) AWS DevOps
2 13 (16.05%) Developer
2 13 (16.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (14.81%) Scrum Master
4 9 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 8 (9.88%) Senior
6 7 (8.64%) Lead
7 5 (6.17%) Architect
7 5 (6.17%) Backend Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.94%) Java Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) SOC Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (23.46%) Spring
2 18 (22.22%) Spring Boot
3 15 (18.52%) AWS CDK
4 14 (17.28%) Kafka
5 11 (13.58%) Node.js
5 11 (13.58%) OAuth
6 9 (11.11%) JWT
6 9 (11.11%) React
7 8 (9.88%) GraphQL
7 8 (9.88%) RESTful
8 7 (8.64%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (8.64%) OAuth2
8 7 (8.64%) REST
9 6 (7.41%) FastAPI
10 5 (6.17%) Java Concurrency
11 4 (4.94%) boto
11 4 (4.94%) Loki
11 4 (4.94%) OpenCV
11 4 (4.94%) Pandas
11 4 (4.94%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.40%) Cloud Native
2 16 (19.75%) Product Ownership
3 9 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (7.41%) Algorithms
5 4 (4.94%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (4.94%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.94%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (4.94%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.70%) NHS
7 2 (2.47%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.23%) Clustering
8 1 (1.23%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.23%) PMI
8 1 (1.23%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.52%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Android
2 1 (1.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (74.07%) CI/CD
2 42 (51.85%) Infrastructure as Code
3 41 (50.62%) DevOps
4 34 (41.98%) Containerisation
5 27 (33.33%) Agile
6 22 (27.16%) Scrum
7 21 (25.93%) Observability
7 21 (25.93%) Test Automation
8 20 (24.69%) Microservices
9 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (17.28%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (16.05%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (14.81%) Backlog Refinement
12 12 (14.81%) DevSecOps
12 12 (14.81%) Machine Learning
12 12 (14.81%) Software Engineering
13 11 (13.58%) Code Quality
13 11 (13.58%) Conflict Resolution
13 11 (13.58%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 10 (12.35%) Impact Analysis
Programming Languages
1 36 (44.44%) Python
2 26 (32.10%) Java
3 13 (16.05%) SQL
4 11 (13.58%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.88%) Bash
5 8 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.41%) Ruby
7 5 (6.17%) Kusto Query Language
7 5 (6.17%) Search Processing Language
8 3 (3.70%) C#
8 3 (3.70%) Go
8 3 (3.70%) Scala
9 2 (2.47%) Groovy
9 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.23%) Perl
10 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 14 (17.28%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.35%) SAFe Agilist
4 8 (9.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 8 (9.88%) DV Cleared
5 6 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.23%) Degree
7 1 (1.23%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.94%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.94%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (50.62%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (49.38%) Terraform
2 27 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 16 (19.75%) Prometheus
4 15 (18.52%) Grafana
5 13 (16.05%) Ansible
6 5 (6.17%) Puppet
7 2 (2.47%) Argo
7 2 (2.47%) HP Fortify
8 1 (1.23%) Consul
8 1 (1.23%) Packer
8 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Databricks
2 7 (8.64%) Splunk
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.23%) AVEVA
4 1 (1.23%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.23%) Confluent
4 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle
4 1 (1.23%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.23%) UiPath