Amazon ECS Contracts in the West Midlands

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 111 118
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 +64
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 10 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 0.051% 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% 0.20% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 8
10th Percentile £443 - £663
25th Percentile £450 £498 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £505 £700
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% -27.86% +60.00%
75th Percentile £546 £513 -
90th Percentile £557 - -
England median daily rate £528 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.09% -8.33% -

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 502 490 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.05% 24.90% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 363 591
10th Percentile £263 £207 £210
25th Percentile £400 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -4.04%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £17.36 £14.08 £15.74
25th Percentile £25.03 £14.25 £16.55
Median hourly rate £34.98 £22.50 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +55.47% +20.00% +5.63%
75th Percentile £50.11 £26.50 £22.94
90th Percentile £59.20 £38.14 £24.94
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.98% -38.57% +59.89%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the West Midlands

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the West Midlands

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Birmingham - 4 £450 - 3
Shropshire +1 3 £533 +5.45% 4
Solihull - 2 £450 - 1
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 1
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (30.00%) Confluence
1 3 (30.00%) nginx
2 1 (10.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ELB
4 3 (30.00%) AWS KMS
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (30.00%) Route 53
4 3 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (20.00%) Serverless
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) IMAP
1 3 (30.00%) OpenLDAP
1 3 (30.00%) SMTP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) FTP
3 1 (10.00%) HTTP
3 1 (10.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) Git
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) Vagrant
4 2 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (20.00%) Java Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Lead Java Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) React
1 4 (40.00%) Spring
2 3 (30.00%) LDAP
3 1 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (10.00%) Kafka
3 1 (10.00%) Mustache
3 1 (10.00%) Node.js
3 1 (10.00%) REST
3 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) VMS
2 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (60.00%) DevOps
2 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) Architectural Design
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
3 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (30.00%) Front End Development
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 1 (10.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) TDD
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) Java
3 3 (30.00%) Groovy
3 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) Bash
5 1 (10.00%) Go
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
2 3 (30.00%) Dovecot
2 3 (30.00%) Postfix
2 3 (30.00%) Squid
3 1 (10.00%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 3 (30.00%) Grafana
3 3 (30.00%) Nessus
3 3 (30.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (10.00%) Ansible
4 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (10.00%) Proxmox
4 1 (10.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (30.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) IBM