Amazon ECS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon ECS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 474 521
Rank change year-on-year -10 +47 -38
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 102 231 384
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.73% 1.08% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 181 222
10th Percentile £405 £463 £450
25th Percentile £425 £525 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £566 £663 £655
90th Percentile £625 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -14.79% +11.11% +5.37%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon ECS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,931 21,394 33,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.39% 36.78% 38.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,904 15,475 24,618
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.81 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.64% +24.05% -

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 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 12 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 12 May 2024. 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 +11 81 £489 -18.50% 54
London +51 62 £489 -18.50% 32
Work from Home +49 53 £495 -17.50% 37
UK excluding London +11 25 £511 -14.79% 20
North of England -6 9 £485 -19.17% 9
South East +13 7 £600 -1.64% 4
Scotland +35 6 £521 -13.17%
North West +18 5 £447 -22.26% 4
Yorkshire -5 4 £495 -20.80% 4
Midlands +18 2 £450 -35.71% 4
East Midlands +13 2 £450 -35.71% 4
South West +7 1 - - 2

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 6 (5.88%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.92%) nginx
3 3 (2.94%) Apache
3 3 (2.94%) Confluence
3 3 (2.94%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.98%) JBoss
4 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 101 (99.02%) AWS
2 67 (65.69%) Serverless
3 53 (51.96%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (46.08%) Amazon S3
5 40 (39.22%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (34.31%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (21.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (20.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (16.67%) Azure
10 16 (15.69%) OpenShift
11 15 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (13.73%) AWS Fargate
12 14 (13.73%) CloudFront
13 13 (12.75%) Amazon Kinesis
14 11 (10.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (9.80%) GCP
16 9 (8.82%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (8.82%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (8.82%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (8.82%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) DNS
2 4 (3.92%) Firewall
3 3 (2.94%) DHCP
3 3 (2.94%) LAN
3 3 (2.94%) SMTP
3 3 (2.94%) WLAN
4 2 (1.96%) Network Security
4 2 (1.96%) SMS
5 1 (0.98%) HTTP
5 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (29.41%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (18.63%) DynamoDB
3 15 (14.71%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (8.82%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (7.84%) Relational Database
6 7 (6.86%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.90%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (4.90%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.94%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.94%) MySQL
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.96%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.96%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.96%) Parquet
11 1 (0.98%) DB2
11 1 (0.98%) Redis
11 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 38 (37.25%) Jenkins
2 27 (26.47%) Git
3 26 (25.49%) GitLab
4 10 (9.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (9.80%) Cypress.io
4 10 (9.80%) Maven
5 8 (7.84%) Protractor
6 6 (5.88%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket
8 3 (2.94%) JUnit
8 3 (2.94%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.96%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.96%) JIRA
9 2 (1.96%) Mocha
9 2 (1.96%) Selenium
9 2 (1.96%) webpack
10 1 (0.98%) Gradle
10 1 (0.98%) JMeter
10 1 (0.98%) Mockito
10 1 (0.98%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (28.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.90%) Finance
5 4 (3.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.94%) Law
6 3 (2.94%) Retail
7 2 (1.96%) Banking
7 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (44.12%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (38.24%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (30.39%) AWS DevOps
4 30 (29.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 24 (23.53%) Developer
6 10 (9.80%) Java Developer
6 10 (9.80%) Senior
7 7 (6.86%) Lead
8 6 (5.88%) Consultant
8 6 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (4.90%) AWS Developer
9 5 (4.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.90%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Architect
10 4 (3.92%) Python Engineer
10 4 (3.92%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.57%) Node.js
2 13 (12.75%) REST
3 12 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 10 (9.80%) AWS CDK
4 10 (9.80%) React
5 9 (8.82%) Jest
5 9 (8.82%) RESTful
5 9 (8.82%) Web Services
6 8 (7.84%) Spring
7 7 (6.86%) Lambda Expressions
7 7 (6.86%) Spring Boot
8 6 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (4.90%) Kafka
10 4 (3.92%) Django
10 4 (3.92%) JSON
10 4 (3.92%) SOAP
11 3 (2.94%) Apache Camel
11 3 (2.94%) Mustache
11 3 (2.94%) OAuth
11 3 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.86%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.90%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.90%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.94%) PKI
4 2 (1.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.96%) IoT
4 2 (1.96%) Life Science
4 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.96%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.57%) Linux
2 8 (7.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.90%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.96%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.96%) CentOS
5 1 (0.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.98%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (65.69%) DevOps
2 59 (57.84%) CI/CD
3 39 (38.24%) Agile
4 25 (24.51%) Containerisation
5 23 (22.55%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (17.65%) Microservices
7 13 (12.75%) Migration
7 13 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.75%) Test Automation
8 9 (8.82%) Computer Science
8 9 (8.82%) Scrum
8 9 (8.82%) Task Automation
8 9 (8.82%) Translating Business Requirements
9 8 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (7.84%) Full Stack Development
10 7 (6.86%) Kanban
10 7 (6.86%) Observability
10 7 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (6.86%) TDD
10 7 (6.86%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 47 (46.08%) Python
2 27 (26.47%) Java
3 22 (21.57%) Bash
4 19 (18.63%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.76%) Go
5 12 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.82%) Perl
7 8 (7.84%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.84%) SQL
8 6 (5.88%) Groovy
8 6 (5.88%) PHP
9 3 (2.94%) Scala
10 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.96%) R
11 1 (0.98%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 31 (30.39%) SC Cleared
1 31 (30.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (8.82%) Degree
3 6 (5.88%) AWS Certification
4 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.96%) GDPR
1 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.98%) NCSC
2 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (34.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 38 (37.25%) Terraform
3 16 (15.69%) Ansible
4 7 (6.86%) Grafana
5 6 (5.88%) Kibana
6 4 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.92%) Puppet
7 2 (1.96%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.98%) Consul
8 1 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.98%) Knative
8 1 (0.98%) Packer
8 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (3.92%) Dynatrace
2 3 (2.94%) F5
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle
2 3 (2.94%) Splunk
3 2 (1.96%) Google
3 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (0.98%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.98%) WSO2
4 1 (0.98%) Zscaler