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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 298 379
Rank change year-on-year -32 +81 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 96 41 31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.32% 0.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.44% 0.96% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 27 16
10th Percentile £313 £405 £439
25th Percentile £358 £409 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £524
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +2.20% -11.12%
75th Percentile £572 £731 £552
90th Percentile £650 £750 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £725 £524
% change year-on-year -27.59% +38.49% -10.67%
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 6,647 4,251 5,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.07% 33.36% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,563 2,986 4,136
10th Percentile £256 £231 £213
25th Percentile £388 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £489
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +0.20% -3.74%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £663 £663 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 310 127 263
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.05 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.93 £17.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.15 £24.18 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +78.44% +35.84% -19.24%
75th Percentile £61.81 £34.58 £32.50
90th Percentile £81.00 £68.75 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +44.38% +21.67% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -33 46 £534 -26.38% 43
North West -19 24 £550 +10.00% 18
Scotland +13 22 £358 -24.63% 6
Yorkshire -51 19 £500 -31.03% 23
South West -10 11 £438 +11.61% 19
South East -39 9 £530 -7.83% 33
East of England - 4 £538 - 13
North East -12 3 £538 -28.33% 2
West Midlands - 3 - - 10
Midlands - 3 - - 18
Wales -7 2 £363 - 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 8 (8.33%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (8.33%) Apache Spark
2 6 (6.25%) Apache
3 5 (5.21%) Confluence
4 2 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 95 (98.96%) AWS
2 80 (83.33%) Serverless
3 76 (79.17%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (54.17%) Amazon EKS
5 44 (45.83%) Amazon S3
6 39 (40.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
8 26 (27.08%) GitHub
9 23 (23.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 21 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (18.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (14.58%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (13.54%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (13.54%) AWS Fargate
14 12 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
14 12 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
15 11 (11.46%) AWS CodePipeline
16 10 (10.42%) Amazon SageMaker
17 8 (8.33%) AWS KMS
17 8 (8.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.58%) Firewall
2 6 (6.25%) DNS
3 5 (5.21%) HTTP
4 2 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (2.08%) VPN
5 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.04%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (29.17%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (26.04%) DynamoDB
3 13 (13.54%) Relational Database
4 12 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 10 (10.42%) PostgreSQL
6 9 (9.38%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (6.25%) Flink
7 6 (6.25%) MongoDB
8 4 (4.17%) DocumentDB
9 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.08%) Big Data
10 2 (2.08%) Data Lake
10 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (2.08%) Delta Lake
10 2 (2.08%) Metadata
10 2 (2.08%) Pinecone
10 2 (2.08%) Power BI
11 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 29 (30.21%) Jenkins
2 27 (28.13%) Git
3 21 (21.88%) GitLab
4 15 (15.63%) JIRA
5 10 (10.42%) Bitbucket
5 10 (10.42%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (6.25%) MLflow
7 5 (5.21%) Maven
8 4 (4.17%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.13%) Gradle
10 2 (2.08%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.08%) Selenium
10 2 (2.08%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.04%) git-flow
11 1 (1.04%) Mockito
11 1 (1.04%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 22 (22.92%) Public Sector
2 16 (16.67%) Finance
3 14 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Banking
5 4 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.04%) Military
7 1 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 22 (22.92%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (17.71%) Senior
4 16 (16.67%) Developer
5 13 (13.54%) Lead
6 11 (11.46%) Software Engineer
7 10 (10.42%) Java Developer
8 9 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
9 8 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Data Engineer
10 7 (7.29%) Technical Leader
11 6 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Backend Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Architect
12 5 (5.21%) Python Developer
12 5 (5.21%) Python Engineer
12 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (5.21%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 4 (4.17%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (26.04%) Node.js
2 17 (17.71%) Spring
3 16 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 15 (15.63%) Kafka
4 15 (15.63%) RESTful
5 13 (13.54%) React
6 12 (12.50%) OAuth
7 10 (10.42%) REST
8 9 (9.38%) JWT
9 8 (8.33%) FastAPI
9 8 (8.33%) PySpark
10 7 (7.29%) AWS CDK
10 7 (7.29%) OAuth2
10 7 (7.29%) Web Services
11 6 (6.25%) Flask
12 5 (5.21%) .NET
12 5 (5.21%) GraphQL
12 5 (5.21%) Java Concurrency
13 4 (4.17%) OpenCV
13 4 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.96%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.25%) NHS
4 5 (5.21%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.21%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.04%) Digital Wallet
8 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.04%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.96%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (67.71%) CI/CD
2 55 (57.29%) DevOps
3 44 (45.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (38.54%) Containerisation
5 33 (34.38%) Microservices
6 29 (30.21%) Agile
7 20 (20.83%) AI
7 20 (20.83%) Data Pipeline
8 19 (19.79%) Observability
8 19 (19.79%) Software Engineering
9 16 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 16 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
9 16 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 15 (15.63%) Code Quality
10 15 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (13.54%) Mentoring
11 13 (13.54%) Scrum
12 12 (12.50%) Analytics
12 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (12.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 64 (66.67%) Python
2 30 (31.25%) Java
3 18 (18.75%) SQL
4 15 (15.63%) Ruby
5 13 (13.54%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.46%) PowerShell
6 11 (11.46%) TypeScript
7 9 (9.38%) Bash
7 9 (9.38%) Perl
8 5 (5.21%) Go
9 1 (1.04%) C
9 1 (1.04%) C#
9 1 (1.04%) Groovy
9 1 (1.04%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 18 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.50%) AWS Certification
3 11 (11.46%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.08%) Degree
9 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.29%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.13%) NIST
2 3 (3.13%) QA
3 2 (2.08%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) HL7
System Software
1 55 (57.29%) Docker
2 6 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (45.83%) Terraform
2 43 (44.79%) Kubernetes
3 16 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 14 (14.58%) Grafana
5 11 (11.46%) Ansible
6 7 (7.29%) Puppet
7 3 (3.13%) Argo
7 3 (3.13%) Packer
8 2 (2.08%) HP Fortify
8 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.04%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (11.46%) Databricks
2 8 (8.33%) Oracle
3 4 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.17%) Splunk
4 3 (3.13%) Ping Identity
5 2 (2.08%) PagerDuty
6 1 (1.04%) AVEVA
6 1 (1.04%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.04%) Brio
6 1 (1.04%) CloudEndure
6 1 (1.04%) Confluent
6 1 (1.04%) Pega
6 1 (1.04%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.04%) UiPath