Amazon ECS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 195 294 343
Rank change year-on-year +99 +49 +64
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 109 51 135
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.10% 0.33% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.77% 0.92% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 47 96
10th Percentile £466 £405 £481
25th Percentile £566 £425 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -16.67% +1.18%
75th Percentile £838 £547 £675
90th Percentile £888 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £650 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +27.45% -15.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Amazon ECS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon ECS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon ECS.

Amazon ECS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Amazon ECS daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 47 (43.12%) Apache
2 45 (41.28%) Apache Airflow
3 28 (25.69%) Apache Spark
4 6 (5.50%) nginx
5 5 (4.59%) Traefik
6 3 (2.75%) CMS
6 3 (2.75%) Confluence
6 3 (2.75%) WordPress
7 2 (1.83%) Camunda
7 2 (1.83%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 109 (100.00%) AWS
2 70 (64.22%) Serverless
3 63 (57.80%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (41.28%) dbt
5 43 (39.45%) Amazon EC2
6 36 (33.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 32 (29.36%) OpenShift
8 28 (25.69%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (23.85%) Amazon SQS
10 22 (20.18%) AWS Fargate
11 21 (19.27%) Amazon S3
12 19 (17.43%) GCP
13 17 (15.60%) Dagster
13 17 (15.60%) Snowflake
14 13 (11.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (11.93%) GitHub
15 9 (8.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (7.34%) AWS CodePipeline
17 7 (6.42%) AWS CodeBuild
17 7 (6.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.17%) DNS
2 7 (6.42%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.50%) Firewall
3 6 (5.50%) SSL
4 5 (4.59%) HTTP
5 3 (2.75%) IPsec
5 3 (2.75%) Kerberos
6 2 (1.83%) SMTP
7 1 (0.92%) FTP
7 1 (0.92%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (41.28%) Amazon Athena
1 45 (41.28%) Apache Arrow
1 45 (41.28%) Apache Iceberg
1 45 (41.28%) Apache Ignite
1 45 (41.28%) Dremio
2 22 (20.18%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (17.43%) Data Lake
4 14 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (10.09%) MongoDB
6 9 (8.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (6.42%) DynamoDB
8 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
9 4 (3.67%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.75%) MySQL
11 2 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (1.83%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.92%) Redis
Development Applications
1 32 (29.36%) Artifactory
2 19 (17.43%) Jenkins
3 15 (13.76%) GitLab
4 10 (9.17%) Git
5 5 (4.59%) git-flow
6 3 (2.75%) JIRA
6 3 (2.75%) Maven
7 2 (1.83%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.92%) Mockito
8 1 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.92%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.92%) Toad
General
1 55 (50.46%) Finance
2 54 (49.54%) Front Office
3 33 (30.28%) Banking
4 18 (16.51%) Investment Banking
5 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.83%) Social Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.92%) German Language
7 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.92%) Retail
7 1 (0.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 64 (58.72%) AWS Engineer
2 49 (44.95%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (40.37%) Python Engineer
4 42 (38.53%) AWS DevOps
4 42 (38.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 30 (27.52%) Data Engineer
5 30 (27.52%) Senior
6 25 (22.94%) Software Engineer
7 17 (15.60%) AWS Software Engineer
8 15 (13.76%) Senior Software Engineer
9 14 (12.84%) Senior DevOps
10 13 (11.93%) Developer
11 11 (10.09%) Java Engineer
11 11 (10.09%) Java Software Engineer
11 11 (10.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (9.17%) Architect
13 9 (8.26%) DevOps Manager
13 9 (8.26%) Finance Manager
13 9 (8.26%) Technical Architect
14 8 (7.34%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (41.28%) PySpark
2 41 (37.61%) Kafka
3 28 (25.69%) J2EE
4 22 (20.18%) Node.js
5 18 (16.51%) gRPC
6 17 (15.60%) NumPy
6 17 (15.60%) Pandas
6 17 (15.60%) Protocol Buffers
6 17 (15.60%) SciPy
7 14 (12.84%) AWS CDK
8 13 (11.93%) React
9 9 (8.26%) Keycloak
10 8 (7.34%) cloud-init
10 8 (7.34%) Web Services
11 7 (6.42%) RESTful
12 6 (5.50%) CSS
12 6 (5.50%) HTML
12 6 (5.50%) Redux
12 6 (5.50%) Spring Boot
12 6 (5.50%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (15.60%) Derivative
1 17 (15.60%) Equities
1 17 (15.60%) Fixed Income
1 17 (15.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 17 (15.60%) Hedge funds
2 7 (6.42%) Cloud Native
2 7 (6.42%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.42%) PKI
3 3 (2.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.68%) Linux
2 12 (11.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (7.34%) CentOS
3 8 (7.34%) Unix
4 3 (2.75%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (0.92%) Windows
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (64.22%) CI/CD
2 67 (61.47%) Agile
3 63 (57.80%) Software Engineering
4 62 (56.88%) DevOps
5 54 (49.54%) Asset Management
6 37 (33.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 30 (27.52%) Open Source
8 28 (25.69%) Data Engineering
9 20 (18.35%) Migration
10 19 (17.43%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (13.76%) Fintech
12 13 (11.93%) Containerisation
13 12 (11.01%) Microservices
14 11 (10.09%) Continuous Integration
15 10 (9.17%) Observability
16 9 (8.26%) Architectural Patterns
17 8 (7.34%) Cloud Security
17 8 (7.34%) Secrets Management
18 7 (6.42%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
18 7 (6.42%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (69.72%) Python
2 54 (49.54%) Java
3 43 (39.45%) JavaScript
4 38 (34.86%) Go
5 30 (27.52%) TypeScript
6 15 (13.76%) Bash
7 12 (11.01%) SQL
8 6 (5.50%) T-SQL
9 5 (4.59%) PHP
10 3 (2.75%) Groovy
11 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.92%) C#
12 1 (0.92%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (15.60%) Security Cleared
2 16 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.17%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.75%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.83%) Degree
6 1 (0.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (0.92%) CCSP
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.92%) CISSP
6 1 (0.92%) OSCP
6 1 (0.92%) SANS
6 1 (0.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.26%) NCSC
2 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.83%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.92%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (47.71%) Docker
2 3 (2.75%) RACF
Systems Management
1 66 (60.55%) Terraform
2 62 (56.88%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.84%) Grafana
4 11 (10.09%) Packer
5 9 (8.26%) Ansible
5 9 (8.26%) Prometheus
6 7 (6.42%) Consul
6 7 (6.42%) Istio
6 7 (6.42%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (6.42%) linkerd
6 7 (6.42%) Rancher
6 7 (6.42%) ZABBIX
7 5 (4.59%) HAProxy
8 4 (3.67%) Kibana
9 3 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.92%) Argo
11 1 (0.92%) logstash
11 1 (0.92%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (7.34%) Okta
2 7 (6.42%) Splunk
3 5 (4.59%) Apple
3 5 (4.59%) ESET
4 3 (2.75%) Imperva
5 2 (1.83%) F5
5 2 (1.83%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle
6 1 (0.92%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.92%) Talend