Hybrid/Remote Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 223 197 319
Rank change year-on-year -26 +122 +65
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 85 132 54
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.84% 1.12% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.95% 2.89% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 108 52
10th Percentile £359 £488 £365
25th Percentile £431 £613 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £725 £498
Median % change year-on-year -24.14% +45.73% -12.72%
75th Percentile £650 £888 £550
90th Percentile £723 - £638
UK median daily rate £529 £725 £538
% change year-on-year -27.07% +34.88% -10.42%

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 4,357 4,566 6,617
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.86% 38.77% 38.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,961 3,067 4,791
10th Percentile £330 £329 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £732 £750 £717
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 49 81
10th Percentile £17.88 £20.86 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £37.00 £37.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.11% +35.71%
75th Percentile £65.69 £64.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.34 £81.50 £88.75
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon ECS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Amazon ECS daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.71%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.71%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Apache
2 1 (1.18%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.18%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 85 (100.00%) AWS
2 60 (70.59%) Serverless
3 59 (69.41%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (55.29%) GitHub
5 44 (51.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 44 (51.76%) Amazon EKS
6 42 (49.41%) Amazon S3
7 37 (43.53%) GitHub Actions
8 36 (42.35%) AWS CloudFormation
9 34 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
11 17 (20.00%) Route 53
12 13 (15.29%) AWS CodePipeline
13 12 (14.12%) AWS Fargate
14 11 (12.94%) Datadog
14 11 (12.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
15 10 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
16 9 (10.59%) Apigee
17 8 (9.41%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) DNS
2 5 (5.88%) Reverse Proxy
3 4 (4.71%) Firewall
4 2 (2.35%) HTTP
5 1 (1.18%) FTP
5 1 (1.18%) IMAP
5 1 (1.18%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (1.18%) SMTP
5 1 (1.18%) SSH
5 1 (1.18%) SSL
5 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (38.82%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (22.35%) DynamoDB
3 12 (14.12%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (10.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
5 8 (9.41%) Relational Database
6 7 (8.24%) MongoDB
7 6 (7.06%) MySQL
7 6 (7.06%) RDBMS
8 4 (4.71%) DocumentDB
9 3 (3.53%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (3.53%) Data Hub
9 3 (3.53%) Redis
10 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.35%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.35%) DB2
10 2 (2.35%) Power BI
10 2 (2.35%) Sisense
10 2 (2.35%) Tableau
11 1 (1.18%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 39 (45.88%) Jenkins
2 28 (32.94%) GitLab
3 21 (24.71%) Git
4 8 (9.41%) Maven
5 6 (7.06%) JIRA
5 6 (7.06%) SonarQube
6 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.53%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.35%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.35%) Gradle
8 2 (2.35%) JUnit
8 2 (2.35%) MLflow
8 2 (2.35%) Selenium
8 2 (2.35%) SonarLint
8 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.18%) NUnit
9 1 (1.18%) RStudio
9 1 (1.18%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (22.35%) Public Sector
2 17 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Finance
4 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (38.82%) AWS Engineer
2 23 (27.06%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (21.18%) Platform Engineer
4 17 (20.00%) Senior
5 15 (17.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 15 (17.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 13 (15.29%) AWS DevOps
6 13 (15.29%) Developer
6 13 (15.29%) Lead
7 12 (14.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 6 (7.06%) AWS Developer
9 6 (7.06%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Architect
10 5 (5.88%) Java Developer
10 5 (5.88%) Site Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 5 (5.88%) Technical Architect
11 4 (4.71%) Lead DevOps
11 4 (4.71%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (23.53%) AWS CDK
2 14 (16.47%) Kafka
3 13 (15.29%) Node.js
4 9 (10.59%) .NET
4 9 (10.59%) FastAPI
5 8 (9.41%) JWT
5 8 (9.41%) Spring
5 8 (9.41%) Spring Boot
6 7 (8.24%) OAuth
7 6 (7.06%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (7.06%) Jest
7 6 (7.06%) Lambda Expressions
8 5 (5.88%) Hugging Face
8 5 (5.88%) OpenCV
8 5 (5.88%) Pandas
8 5 (5.88%) PyTorch
8 5 (5.88%) RESTful
8 5 (5.88%) SQLAlchemy
9 4 (4.71%) NumPy
9 4 (4.71%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.94%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.06%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (4.71%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.35%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.35%) Replication
6 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.35%) Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
3 1 (1.18%) Android
3 1 (1.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.18%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.18%) VMS
3 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (75.29%) CI/CD
2 56 (65.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 52 (61.18%) DevOps
4 37 (43.53%) Containerisation
5 27 (31.76%) Agile
6 25 (29.41%) Microservices
7 23 (27.06%) Platform Engineering
8 19 (22.35%) AI
8 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (20.00%) Observability
10 15 (17.65%) TDD
11 14 (16.47%) Event-Driven
11 14 (16.47%) Software Engineering
12 13 (15.29%) Mentoring
12 13 (15.29%) Technical Leadership
13 11 (12.94%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (12.94%) Machine Learning
13 11 (12.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 10 (11.76%) Configuration Management
15 9 (10.59%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (61.18%) Python
2 19 (22.35%) Java
3 16 (18.82%) Bash
4 10 (11.76%) SQL
5 9 (10.59%) Go
5 9 (10.59%) Ruby
6 8 (9.41%) PowerShell
6 8 (9.41%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.06%) C#
8 5 (5.88%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.71%) Groovy
9 4 (4.71%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.35%) Perl
11 1 (1.18%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.18%) PHP
11 1 (1.18%) R
Qualifications
1 23 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.18%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.47%) AWS Certification
4 8 (9.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (7.06%) Degree
6 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.53%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.53%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.35%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (61.18%) Docker
2 5 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.35%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.18%) DFS Replication
4 1 (1.18%) Dovecot
4 1 (1.18%) Postfix
4 1 (1.18%) Squid
Systems Management
1 66 (77.65%) Terraform
2 40 (47.06%) Kubernetes
3 22 (25.88%) Grafana
4 16 (18.82%) Prometheus
5 10 (11.76%) Ansible
6 6 (7.06%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.35%) Argo
7 2 (2.35%) HP Fortify
7 2 (2.35%) Packer
7 2 (2.35%) Puppet
7 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.18%) Consul
8 1 (1.18%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (1.18%) Nessus
8 1 (1.18%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 3 (3.53%) Splunk
2 2 (2.35%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (2.35%) Confluent
2 2 (2.35%) Dynatrace
2 2 (2.35%) Gigya
2 2 (2.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.35%) Sybase
3 1 (1.18%) Ariba
3 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.18%) Blue Prism
3 1 (1.18%) Cisco
3 1 (1.18%) Google
3 1 (1.18%) IBM
3 1 (1.18%) Jaspersoft
3 1 (1.18%) JDA
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle
3 1 (1.18%) SAP
3 1 (1.18%) UiPath