Amazon ECS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 373 359
Rank change year-on-year +73 -14 +61
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 35 24 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.12% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 0.45% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 61
10th Percentile £358 £425 £500
25th Percentile £406 £453 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £511 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -14.79% +11.11%
75th Percentile £552 £566 £675
90th Percentile £594 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £568 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +13.50% -16.67% -

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 4,114 5,316 7,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.98% 25.80% 32.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,880 3,760 5,529
10th Percentile £250 £213 £250
25th Percentile £380 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 264 217
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £15.12 £16.54
Median hourly rate £19.62 £17.72 £26.48
Median % change year-on-year +10.72% -33.08% +34.93%
75th Percentile £34.38 £34.20 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.06 £67.85 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.37 £36.50
% change year-on-year +30.46% -41.45% +64.41%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +18 19 £500 +3.09% 339
North West +13 13 £400 -10.51% 159
Scotland +12 7 £533 +2.40% 62
South East +43 6 £575 -4.17% 390
Yorkshire +10 5 £513 +3.54% 137
Midlands +13 3 £495 +9.90% 294
West Midlands - 3 £495 - 160
North East - 1 - - 45
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (11.43%) nginx
2 3 (8.57%) Apache
2 3 (8.57%) Confluence
2 3 (8.57%) Tomcat
3 2 (5.71%) Camunda
4 1 (2.86%) CMS
4 1 (2.86%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.86%) Traefik
4 1 (2.86%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 34 (97.14%) AWS
2 23 (65.71%) Serverless
3 19 (54.29%) AWS Lambda
4 18 (51.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (45.71%) Amazon EC2
6 15 (42.86%) Amazon S3
7 14 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
8 13 (37.14%) AWS Fargate
9 11 (31.43%) Amazon SQS
9 11 (31.43%) GitHub
10 9 (25.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 9 (25.71%) GitHub Actions
11 7 (20.00%) PaaS
11 7 (20.00%) SaaS
12 6 (17.14%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 5 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
13 5 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (14.29%) AWS CodeDeploy
13 5 (14.29%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) DNS
1 6 (17.14%) Firewall
2 3 (8.57%) Network Security
2 3 (8.57%) SSL
2 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.71%) VPN
4 1 (2.86%) FTP
4 1 (2.86%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (28.57%) MongoDB
2 9 (25.71%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (17.14%) DynamoDB
4 5 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (11.43%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (11.43%) NoSQL
5 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.57%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.71%) DocumentDB
7 2 (5.71%) InfluxDB
7 2 (5.71%) MySQL
7 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 21 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (25.71%) Git
3 7 (20.00%) GitLab
4 4 (11.43%) Artifactory
5 3 (8.57%) JIRA
5 3 (8.57%) Mockito
6 2 (5.71%) JMeter
6 2 (5.71%) JUnit
6 2 (5.71%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (2.86%) Maven
7 1 (2.86%) Toad
General
1 9 (25.71%) Public Sector
2 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Military
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (34.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (22.86%) Developer
3 7 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Senior
4 5 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Lead
5 4 (11.43%) Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Java Developer
5 4 (11.43%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (8.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) AWS Developer
7 2 (5.71%) Java Architect
7 2 (5.71%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Lead Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.86%) React
2 7 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 6 (17.14%) .NET
3 6 (17.14%) Kafka
3 6 (17.14%) Node.js
3 6 (17.14%) Spring Boot
4 5 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
4 5 (14.29%) Spring
5 4 (11.43%) OAuth
5 4 (11.43%) REST
6 3 (8.57%) Apache Camel
6 3 (8.57%) Keycloak
6 3 (8.57%) Web Services
7 2 (5.71%) ActiveMQ
7 2 (5.71%) Hibernate
7 2 (5.71%) HTML
7 2 (5.71%) jQuery
7 2 (5.71%) JSON
7 2 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (5.71%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Cloud Native
2 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.86%) PKI
5 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Linux
2 6 (17.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.86%) CentOS
4 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.86%) Unix
4 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) CI/CD
2 18 (51.43%) DevOps
3 15 (42.86%) Agile
4 14 (40.00%) Microservices
5 13 (37.14%) Containerisation
6 12 (34.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (20.00%) Secrets Management
7 7 (20.00%) TDD
8 6 (17.14%) DevSecOps
8 6 (17.14%) Scrum
9 5 (14.29%) Kanban
9 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
10 4 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (11.43%) SDLC
10 4 (11.43%) Test Automation
11 3 (8.57%) Cost Optimisation
11 3 (8.57%) Event-Driven
11 3 (8.57%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 15 (42.86%) Python
2 11 (31.43%) Bash
3 10 (28.57%) Java
4 8 (22.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (17.14%) SQL
6 5 (14.29%) Shell Script
7 4 (11.43%) Groovy
8 3 (8.57%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.86%) Go
9 1 (2.86%) PHP
9 1 (2.86%) PL/SQL
9 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) SC Cleared
1 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (22.86%) AWS Certification
3 5 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (11.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Degree
6 1 (2.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (2.86%) CCSP
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.86%) CISSP
6 1 (2.86%) OCP
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.86%) OSCP
6 1 (2.86%) SANS
6 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) GDPR
1 3 (8.57%) NCSC
2 2 (5.71%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.71%) NIST
2 2 (5.71%) SOC 2
3 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Docker
2 1 (2.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (54.29%) Kubernetes
2 14 (40.00%) Terraform
3 8 (22.86%) Ansible
3 8 (22.86%) Kibana
4 7 (20.00%) Grafana
5 5 (14.29%) Prometheus
6 3 (8.57%) Puppet
7 2 (5.71%) Kustomize
7 2 (5.71%) Packer
7 2 (5.71%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.86%) Consul
8 1 (2.86%) Graylog
8 1 (2.86%) HAProxy
8 1 (2.86%) Istio
8 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (2.86%) linkerd
8 1 (2.86%) Rancher
8 1 (2.86%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (14.29%) Splunk
2 3 (8.57%) AppDynamics
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.71%) Dynatrace
3 2 (5.71%) Imperva
3 2 (5.71%) Okta
3 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Apple
4 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.86%) ESET
4 1 (2.86%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.86%) New Relic
4 1 (2.86%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.86%) Talend