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

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 325 364
Rank change year-on-year +22 +39 +64
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 96 43 55
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.26% 0.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 0.86% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 24 33
10th Percentile £373 £400 £465
25th Percentile £450 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £575 £521 £638
90th Percentile £630 £541 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £663 £550
% change year-on-year -20.75% +20.45% -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 5,623 4,973 6,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.97% 29.73% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,835 3,199 4,796
10th Percentile £225 £260 £225
25th Percentile £375 £400 £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 186 116 232
10th Percentile £13.01 £18.17 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £33.27 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.88% +47.87% +15.38%
75th Percentile £40.49 £64.73 £49.06
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £77.95
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%

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 8 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 8 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 +6 49 £500 +25.00% 92
North West +1 27 £539 +34.69% 66
Yorkshire -15 20 £500 +10.19% 23
Midlands -12 19 £463 +2.21% 13
West Midlands -12 19 £463 -8.42% 5
Scotland 0 12 £500 - 9
South East +7 7 £530 +6.00% 153
South West - 5 £625 - 7
East of England -9 4 £475 -13.64% 17
North East - 2 £425 - 3
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 15 (15.63%) Confluence
2 12 (12.50%) nginx
3 10 (10.42%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.13%) Apache
5 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 94 (97.92%) AWS
2 61 (63.54%) Serverless
3 58 (60.42%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (51.04%) Amazon S3
5 43 (44.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 40 (41.67%) Amazon EKS
7 37 (38.54%) Amazon EC2
8 34 (35.42%) GitHub
9 25 (26.04%) Amazon SQS
9 25 (26.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 24 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 22 (22.92%) Route 53
12 21 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (18.75%) Azure
14 15 (15.63%) AWS KMS
15 14 (14.58%) Amazon EventBridge
16 13 (13.54%) Amazon ELB
17 12 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
17 12 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
18 10 (10.42%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 22 (22.92%) Firewall
2 17 (17.71%) DNS
3 13 (13.54%) HTTP
4 12 (12.50%) IMAP
4 12 (12.50%) OpenLDAP
4 12 (12.50%) SMTP
5 10 (10.42%) FTP
5 10 (10.42%) SSH
6 4 (4.17%) VPN
7 2 (2.08%) Network Security
7 2 (2.08%) SSL
7 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
8 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (42.71%) Amazon RDS
2 33 (34.38%) PostgreSQL
3 25 (26.04%) DynamoDB
4 23 (23.96%) Amazon Aurora
5 12 (12.50%) NoSQL
6 11 (11.46%) Relational Database
7 6 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (6.25%) Redis
8 5 (5.21%) Big Data
8 5 (5.21%) BigQuery
8 5 (5.21%) MySQL
8 5 (5.21%) RDBMS
9 4 (4.17%) DocumentDB
9 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
10 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.04%) Power BI
10 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 50 (52.08%) Jenkins
2 33 (34.38%) Git
3 28 (29.17%) GitLab
4 24 (25.00%) JIRA
5 12 (12.50%) Vagrant
6 7 (7.29%) MLflow
6 7 (7.29%) SonarQube
7 6 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (5.21%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.21%) Gradle
8 5 (5.21%) Maven
8 5 (5.21%) SonarLint
9 1 (1.04%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 34 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 27 (28.13%) Public Sector
3 11 (11.46%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Finance
5 5 (5.21%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.21%) Banking
6 2 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Military
7 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (35.42%) AWS Engineer
2 26 (27.08%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 16 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
3 16 (16.67%) Software Engineer
4 15 (15.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 13 (13.54%) Senior
6 10 (10.42%) Architect
6 10 (10.42%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 10 (10.42%) Lead
7 8 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Technical Architect
8 7 (7.29%) Developer
8 7 (7.29%) Java Architect
8 7 (7.29%) Java Technical Architect
8 7 (7.29%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (21.88%) Node.js
1 21 (21.88%) RESTful
2 17 (17.71%) React
3 13 (13.54%) LDAP
3 13 (13.54%) REST
4 12 (12.50%) JWT
5 9 (9.38%) AWS CDK
5 9 (9.38%) FastAPI
5 9 (9.38%) Spring Boot
6 8 (8.33%) OAuth
6 8 (8.33%) OpenCV
6 8 (8.33%) Pandas
6 8 (8.33%) PyTorch
6 8 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
7 7 (7.29%) Hugging Face
7 7 (7.29%) NumPy
8 6 (6.25%) Flask
8 6 (6.25%) HTML
8 6 (6.25%) Kafka
8 6 (6.25%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.79%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.42%) Replication
3 7 (7.29%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
5 5 (5.21%) N-Tier
6 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (2.08%) NHS
9 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.96%) Linux
2 15 (15.63%) Amazon Linux
3 12 (12.50%) VMS
4 11 (11.46%) Windows
5 10 (10.42%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 59 (61.46%) DevOps
3 44 (45.83%) Containerisation
4 42 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (40.63%) Agile
6 28 (29.17%) Microservices
7 24 (25.00%) AI
8 23 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (23.96%) Software Engineering
9 20 (20.83%) Configuration Management
10 19 (19.79%) Cloud Security
10 19 (19.79%) TDD
11 18 (18.75%) Event-Driven
12 17 (17.71%) Mentoring
13 16 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (15.63%) Machine Learning
14 15 (15.63%) OOP
15 13 (13.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 64 (66.67%) Python
2 21 (21.88%) Java
3 19 (19.79%) PowerShell
4 18 (18.75%) SQL
5 16 (16.67%) TypeScript
6 13 (13.54%) Groovy
7 8 (8.33%) Bash
8 7 (7.29%) JavaScript
9 6 (6.25%) Ruby
10 5 (5.21%) Perl
11 4 (4.17%) Go
12 3 (3.13%) C
13 2 (2.08%) Shell Script
14 1 (1.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 31 (32.29%) Security Cleared
2 26 (27.08%) AWS Certification
3 23 (23.96%) SC Cleared
4 18 (18.75%) Degree
5 10 (10.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (10.42%) Azure Certification
6 7 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.08%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.21%) NIST
2 4 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.13%) GDPR
3 3 (3.13%) QA
4 2 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.08%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.04%) HL7
5 1 (1.04%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (72.92%) Docker
2 12 (12.50%) Dovecot
2 12 (12.50%) Postfix
2 12 (12.50%) Squid
3 10 (10.42%) DFS Replication
4 4 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (64.58%) Terraform
2 43 (44.79%) Kubernetes
3 24 (25.00%) Grafana
4 20 (20.83%) Prometheus
5 12 (12.50%) Nessus
6 10 (10.42%) Ansible
6 10 (10.42%) Proxmox
7 7 (7.29%) Puppet
8 4 (4.17%) Packer
8 4 (4.17%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.08%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.04%) Argo
10 1 (1.04%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
1 12 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 6 (6.25%) Gigya
2 6 (6.25%) Splunk
3 5 (5.21%) IBM
4 4 (4.17%) Oracle
5 3 (3.13%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.08%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.04%) Brio
7 1 (1.04%) CloudEndure
7 1 (1.04%) JDA
7 1 (1.04%) PagerDuty
7 1 (1.04%) SaltStack