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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 303 381
Rank change year-on-year -18 +78 +20
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 103 44 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.33% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.54% 0.99% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 29 17
10th Percentile £313 £407 £442
25th Percentile £368 £409 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £522
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +1.53% -10.46%
75th Percentile £553 £725 £540
90th Percentile £650 £750 £593
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £524
% change year-on-year -27.59% +38.49% -10.59%
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 6,696 4,429 5,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.43% 33.17% 27.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,624 3,056 4,223
10th Percentile £255 £232 £213
25th Percentile £381 £379 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £495
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +0.20% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £595
90th Percentile £663 £666 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 123 267
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.10 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £18.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £42.69 £24.18 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.53% +34.33% -18.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £34.13
90th Percentile £80.12 £68.75 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £26.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +41.51% +24.01% -14.52%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -34 47 £530 -26.90% 28
Scotland +21 27 £400 -20.00% 2
North West -17 25 £550 +10.00% 14
Yorkshire -48 19 £500 -31.03% 13
South West -15 11 £438 +11.61% 13
South East -28 9 £530 -7.83% 17
Midlands - 4 - - 7
East of England - 4 £538 - 3
West Midlands - 4 - - 5
North East -10 3 £538 -28.33% 1
Wales -2 2 £363 - 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 12 (11.65%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.77%) Apache Spark
3 7 (6.80%) Apache
4 6 (5.83%) Confluence
5 2 (1.94%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.97%) nginx
6 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 102 (99.03%) AWS
2 85 (82.52%) Serverless
3 81 (78.64%) AWS Lambda
4 57 (55.34%) Amazon EKS
5 50 (48.54%) Amazon S3
6 39 (37.86%) AWS CloudFormation
7 33 (32.04%) Amazon EC2
8 27 (26.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (25.24%) GitHub
10 21 (20.39%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (18.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 18 (17.48%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (12.62%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (12.62%) AWS Fargate
14 12 (11.65%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (11.65%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (10.68%) Amazon SageMaker
15 11 (10.68%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (8.74%) AWS KMS
17 8 (7.77%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.56%) Firewall
2 7 (6.80%) DNS
2 7 (6.80%) HTTP
3 2 (1.94%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (1.94%) VPN
4 1 (0.97%) FTP
4 1 (0.97%) IMAP
4 1 (0.97%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.97%) SMTP
4 1 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.97%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (28.16%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (24.27%) DynamoDB
3 13 (12.62%) Relational Database
4 12 (11.65%) NoSQL
5 11 (10.68%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (8.74%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (6.80%) Amazon Aurora
8 6 (5.83%) Flink
8 6 (5.83%) MongoDB
9 4 (3.88%) DocumentDB
10 3 (2.91%) Big Data
10 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.94%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.94%) Delta Lake
11 2 (1.94%) Metadata
11 2 (1.94%) Pinecone
11 2 (1.94%) Power BI
12 1 (0.97%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 31 (30.10%) Jenkins
2 28 (27.18%) Git
3 22 (21.36%) GitLab
4 16 (15.53%) JIRA
5 10 (9.71%) Bitbucket
5 10 (9.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (8.74%) MLflow
7 5 (4.85%) Maven
8 4 (3.88%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.91%) Gradle
10 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.94%) Selenium
10 2 (1.94%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.97%) git-flow
11 1 (0.97%) Mockito
11 1 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.97%) Vagrant
General
1 24 (23.30%) Public Sector
2 16 (15.53%) Finance
3 15 (14.56%) Social Skills
4 8 (7.77%) Banking
5 4 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Health Technology
7 1 (0.97%) Military
7 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (24.27%) AWS Engineer
2 23 (22.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (16.50%) Senior
4 16 (15.53%) Developer
5 13 (12.62%) Lead
6 11 (10.68%) Software Engineer
7 10 (9.71%) AWS DevOps
7 10 (9.71%) Java Developer
8 9 (8.74%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) Data Engineer
9 8 (7.77%) Python Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (6.80%) Technical Leader
11 6 (5.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (5.83%) Backend Developer
12 5 (4.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (4.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.27%) Node.js
2 17 (16.50%) Spring
3 16 (15.53%) RESTful
3 16 (15.53%) Spring Boot
4 15 (14.56%) Kafka
5 14 (13.59%) OAuth
6 13 (12.62%) FastAPI
6 13 (12.62%) React
7 12 (11.65%) AWS CDK
7 12 (11.65%) REST
8 11 (10.68%) JWT
9 9 (8.74%) OpenCV
9 9 (8.74%) Pandas
9 9 (8.74%) PySpark
9 9 (8.74%) PyTorch
9 9 (8.74%) SQLAlchemy
10 8 (7.77%) Hugging Face
10 8 (7.77%) NumPy
11 7 (6.80%) Flask
11 7 (6.80%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 25 (24.27%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.77%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.83%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.83%) NHS
3 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.85%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.94%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Digital Wallet
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.97%) Replication
7 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.30%) Linux
2 4 (3.88%) Amazon Linux
3 2 (1.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.97%) VMS
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (66.99%) CI/CD
2 57 (55.34%) DevOps
3 48 (46.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (37.86%) Containerisation
5 34 (33.01%) Agile
6 33 (32.04%) Microservices
7 26 (25.24%) AI
8 23 (22.33%) Data Pipeline
9 22 (21.36%) Machine Learning
10 20 (19.42%) Software Engineering
11 19 (18.45%) Observability
12 17 (16.50%) Code Quality
12 17 (16.50%) Infrastructure Automation
13 16 (15.53%) Data Engineering
13 16 (15.53%) TDD
14 15 (14.56%) Problem-Solving
14 15 (14.56%) Scrum
15 13 (12.62%) LLM
15 13 (12.62%) Mentoring
16 12 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 71 (68.93%) Python
2 30 (29.13%) Java
3 19 (18.45%) SQL
4 15 (14.56%) Ruby
5 13 (12.62%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.65%) PowerShell
7 11 (10.68%) TypeScript
8 9 (8.74%) Bash
8 9 (8.74%) Perl
9 5 (4.85%) Go
10 2 (1.94%) Groovy
11 1 (0.97%) C
11 1 (0.97%) C#
11 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (18.45%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.62%) AWS Certification
3 12 (11.65%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (4.85%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.91%) Degree
8 2 (1.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.97%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.91%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.91%) NIST
2 3 (2.91%) QA
3 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.94%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.97%) GDPR
4 1 (0.97%) HL7
System Software
1 57 (55.34%) Docker
2 6 (5.83%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.94%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.97%) DFS Replication
4 1 (0.97%) Dovecot
4 1 (0.97%) Postfix
4 1 (0.97%) Squid
Systems Management
1 47 (45.63%) Kubernetes
2 45 (43.69%) Terraform
3 18 (17.48%) Grafana
4 17 (16.50%) Prometheus
5 11 (10.68%) Ansible
6 7 (6.80%) Puppet
7 3 (2.91%) Argo
7 3 (2.91%) Packer
8 2 (1.94%) HP Fortify
8 2 (1.94%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.97%) Nagios
9 1 (0.97%) Nessus
9 1 (0.97%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 11 (10.68%) Databricks
2 8 (7.77%) Oracle
3 4 (3.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.88%) Splunk
4 3 (2.91%) Ping Identity
5 2 (1.94%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.97%) AVEVA
6 1 (0.97%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.97%) Brio
6 1 (0.97%) CloudEndure
6 1 (0.97%) Confluent
6 1 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
6 1 (0.97%) Pega
6 1 (0.97%) SaltStack
6 1 (0.97%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.97%) UiPath