Amazon ECS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 495 465
Rank change year-on-year +153 -30 +38
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 183 105 252
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.63% 0.24% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.66% 0.74% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 81 192
10th Percentile £407 £405 £463
25th Percentile £515 £425 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £510 £600
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £838 £588 £663
90th Percentile £875 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £520 £600
% change year-on-year +1.92% -13.33% +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +125 147 £725 +48.26% 148
Work from Home +106 109 £725 +45.00% 91
London +78 109 £775 +55.00% 90
UK excluding London +72 45 £530 +1.92% 65
North of England +43 23 £563 +18.42% 37
North West +17 12 £400 -11.11% 28
Scotland +13 11 £525 +0.77% 5
Yorkshire +21 8 £725 +39.76% 7
South East +40 6 £575 -4.17% 6
North East - 3 £750 - 3
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 3
South West +45 1 £392 - 8
Midlands +23 1 £539 +19.80% 4
West Midlands - 1 £539 - 4

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 52 (28.42%) Apache
2 47 (25.68%) Apache Airflow
3 29 (15.85%) Apache Spark
4 17 (9.29%) nginx
5 12 (6.56%) Traefik
6 11 (6.01%) Confluence
7 7 (3.83%) Tomcat
8 6 (3.28%) CMS
8 6 (3.28%) WordPress
9 2 (1.09%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 176 (96.17%) AWS
2 101 (55.19%) Serverless
3 89 (48.63%) AWS Lambda
4 72 (39.34%) Amazon EC2
5 64 (34.97%) AWS CloudFormation
6 60 (32.79%) Amazon EKS
7 51 (27.87%) Amazon S3
8 46 (25.14%) dbt
9 43 (23.50%) OpenShift
10 37 (20.22%) Amazon SQS
10 37 (20.22%) AWS Fargate
11 36 (19.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (13.66%) GitHub
13 22 (12.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (10.93%) GCP
15 19 (10.38%) Snowflake
16 18 (9.84%) Dagster
17 14 (7.65%) Entra ID
18 13 (7.10%) AWS CodePipeline
19 12 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.48%) DNS
2 14 (7.65%) TCP/IP
3 7 (3.83%) Firewall
3 7 (3.83%) SSL
4 5 (2.73%) HTTP
5 3 (1.64%) IPsec
5 3 (1.64%) Kerberos
5 3 (1.64%) SMTP
6 1 (0.55%) FTP
6 1 (0.55%) IPv4
6 1 (0.55%) Multicast
6 1 (0.55%) Network Security
6 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (25.14%) Amazon Athena
2 45 (24.59%) Apache Arrow
2 45 (24.59%) Apache Iceberg
2 45 (24.59%) Apache Ignite
2 45 (24.59%) Dremio
3 36 (19.67%) Amazon RDS
4 27 (14.75%) MongoDB
5 22 (12.02%) Data Lake
5 22 (12.02%) PostgreSQL
6 18 (9.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 12 (6.56%) NoSQL
8 11 (6.01%) DynamoDB
9 7 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (3.83%) MySQL
10 6 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (2.19%) Relational Database
11 4 (2.19%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.64%) Flink
12 3 (1.64%) InfluxDB
13 2 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 50 (27.32%) Jenkins
2 39 (21.31%) Artifactory
3 30 (16.39%) GitLab
4 14 (7.65%) Git
5 11 (6.01%) JIRA
6 5 (2.73%) git-flow
7 4 (2.19%) Maven
8 3 (1.64%) Mockito
9 2 (1.09%) JMeter
9 2 (1.09%) JUnit
9 2 (1.09%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.55%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.55%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.55%) Toad
General
1 68 (37.16%) Finance
2 59 (32.24%) Front Office
3 35 (19.13%) Banking
4 21 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 20 (10.93%) Investment Banking
6 13 (7.10%) Social Skills
7 6 (3.28%) Military
8 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.64%) Law
10 2 (1.09%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.55%) German Language
11 1 (0.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Retail
11 1 (0.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (47.54%) AWS Engineer
2 79 (43.17%) DevOps Engineer
3 57 (31.15%) AWS DevOps
3 57 (31.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 46 (25.14%) Python Engineer
5 43 (23.50%) Senior
6 34 (18.58%) Data Engineer
7 29 (15.85%) Developer
7 29 (15.85%) Software Engineer
8 23 (12.57%) Senior DevOps
9 18 (9.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 17 (9.29%) AWS Software Engineer
11 16 (8.74%) Architect
11 16 (8.74%) Senior Software Engineer
12 15 (8.20%) Java Engineer
13 11 (6.01%) Java Software Engineer
14 9 (4.92%) DevOps Manager
14 9 (4.92%) Finance Manager
14 9 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (4.92%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (30.60%) Kafka
2 45 (24.59%) PySpark
3 33 (18.03%) J2EE
4 27 (14.75%) Node.js
5 18 (9.84%) gRPC
6 17 (9.29%) AWS CDK
6 17 (9.29%) NumPy
6 17 (9.29%) Pandas
6 17 (9.29%) Protocol Buffers
6 17 (9.29%) React
6 17 (9.29%) SciPy
6 17 (9.29%) Spring
7 16 (8.74%) cloud-init
7 16 (8.74%) Keycloak
8 14 (7.65%) Spring Boot
9 10 (5.46%) Web Services
10 9 (4.92%) HTML
11 8 (4.37%) OAuth
12 7 (3.83%) REST
12 7 (3.83%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.93%) Equities
1 20 (10.93%) Fixed Income
2 17 (9.29%) Derivative
2 17 (9.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (9.29%) Hedge funds
3 15 (8.20%) Cloud Native
4 14 (7.65%) PKI
5 8 (4.37%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.73%) Tandem
8 4 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.64%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 1 (0.55%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.55%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.55%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.55%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.94%) Linux
2 25 (13.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (8.74%) CentOS
3 16 (8.74%) Unix
4 3 (1.64%) Android
4 3 (1.64%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.64%) Windows
5 2 (1.09%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.55%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (62.84%) CI/CD
2 108 (59.02%) DevOps
3 91 (49.73%) Agile
4 76 (41.53%) Software Engineering
5 59 (32.24%) Asset Management
6 50 (27.32%) Infrastructure as Code
7 45 (24.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 35 (19.13%) Open Source
9 31 (16.94%) Containerisation
10 30 (16.39%) Data Engineering
11 29 (15.85%) Microservices
12 23 (12.57%) Continuous Integration
12 23 (12.57%) Migration
13 21 (11.48%) Secrets Management
14 20 (10.93%) Observability
15 16 (8.74%) Cloud Security
16 15 (8.20%) Fintech
17 14 (7.65%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
17 14 (7.65%) Identity Management
17 14 (7.65%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 115 (62.84%) Python
2 76 (41.53%) Java
3 51 (27.87%) Go
4 48 (26.23%) JavaScript
5 34 (18.58%) Bash
6 31 (16.94%) TypeScript
7 26 (14.21%) SQL
8 9 (4.92%) PHP
9 6 (3.28%) Kotlin
9 6 (3.28%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.73%) Groovy
10 5 (2.73%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.64%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.55%) C#
12 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 24 (13.11%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.83%) Degree
5 5 (2.73%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 5 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.09%) OCP
7 2 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (0.55%) CCSP
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) OSCP
8 1 (0.55%) SANS
8 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.29%) NCSC
2 4 (2.19%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.19%) GDPR
3 2 (1.09%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.55%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.55%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.55%) QA
4 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 83 (45.36%) Docker
2 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.64%) RACF
Systems Management
1 103 (56.28%) Kubernetes
1 103 (56.28%) Terraform
2 29 (15.85%) Grafana
3 26 (14.21%) Prometheus
4 20 (10.93%) Packer
5 15 (8.20%) Ansible
6 14 (7.65%) Consul
6 14 (7.65%) Istio
6 14 (7.65%) Jamf Pro
6 14 (7.65%) linkerd
6 14 (7.65%) Rancher
6 14 (7.65%) ZABBIX
7 12 (6.56%) HAProxy
8 11 (6.01%) Kibana
9 3 (1.64%) Progress Chef
9 3 (1.64%) Puppet
9 3 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.55%) Argo
11 1 (0.55%) logstash
Vendors
1 19 (10.38%) Splunk
2 15 (8.20%) Okta
3 12 (6.56%) Apple
3 12 (6.56%) ESET
4 6 (3.28%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.19%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.64%) F5
7 3 (1.64%) Imperva
7 3 (1.64%) Oracle
8 1 (0.55%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.55%) Databricks
8 1 (0.55%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.55%) New Relic
8 1 (0.55%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.55%) Rollbar
8 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.55%) SAP
8 1 (0.55%) Talend