Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 85 105
Rank change year-on-year -24 +20 +32
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 24 8 5
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.32% 0.63% 0.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.22% 1.62% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 4
10th Percentile £478 £568 £482
25th Percentile £493 £694 £526
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +31.82% -
75th Percentile £513 £744 £550
90th Percentile £538 £750 £551
England median daily rate £530 £725 £544
% change year-on-year -26.90% +33.33% -9.38%

All Cloud Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 746 493 595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.08% 38.67% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 326 440
10th Percentile £205 £292 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £613 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 3
10th Percentile - £18.86 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £20.88 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.09% +37.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £31.08 £96.64 £41.00
90th Percentile £115.93 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon ECS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in Yorkshire

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Yorkshire +1 23 £500 -31.03% 17
South Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 2
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 1 (4.17%) Confluence
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (95.83%) AWS
2 22 (91.67%) Serverless
3 20 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
4 14 (58.33%) Amazon S3
5 13 (54.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (41.67%) GitHub
7 7 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (20.83%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (16.67%) Route 53
11 3 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
11 3 (12.50%) Amazon EventBridge
11 3 (12.50%) Apigee
11 3 (12.50%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (12.50%) Slack
11 3 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (8.33%) AWS CodePipeline
13 1 (4.17%) Amazon GuardDuty
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) DynamoDB
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (12.50%) JIRA
4 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.33%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) Maven
4 2 (8.33%) Selenium
4 2 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (37.50%) Software Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Software Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Python Developer
6 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Lead
6 2 (8.33%) Python Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Python Software Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) Node.js
1 8 (33.33%) React
2 4 (16.67%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 3 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
3 3 (12.50%) Spring
3 3 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.33%) AWS CDK
4 2 (8.33%) Django
4 2 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 2 (8.33%) Flask
4 2 (8.33%) Gherkin
4 2 (8.33%) Jest
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Vue
5 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.17%) FHIR
5 1 (4.17%) JWT
5 1 (4.17%) Kafka
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (20.83%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 15 (62.50%) Agile
3 15 (62.50%) DevOps
4 11 (45.83%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (45.83%) Software Engineering
5 9 (37.50%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (12.50%) Auto-Scaling
8 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
8 3 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
8 3 (12.50%) Load Balancing
8 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 3 (12.50%) Microservices
8 3 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (8.33%) Data Security
9 2 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Python
2 10 (41.67%) TypeScript
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.50%) Java
5 2 (8.33%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) C
6 1 (4.17%) C#
6 1 (4.17%) Groovy
6 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.17%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) HL7
2 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.17%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (87.50%) Terraform
2 9 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (12.50%) Grafana
3 3 (12.50%) Packer
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) HP Fortify
4 2 (8.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) Brio
2 1 (4.17%) Pega