Amazon ECS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 367 419
Rank change year-on-year +7 +52 -13
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 25 79 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.47% 1.04% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 67 48
10th Percentile £425 £500 £423
25th Percentile £456 £575 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £581 £675 £630
90th Percentile £600 £700 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,269 7,610 9,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.93% 33.12% 32.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,741 5,614 7,256
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 220 282
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.26
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +35.26% -4.39%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.63 £30.60
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.92
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England -3 9 £485 -19.17% 8
Scotland +38 6 £521 -13.17% 1
South East +8 6 £600 -1.64% 4
North West +13 5 £447 -22.26% 2
Yorkshire -13 4 £495 -20.80% 4
Midlands +19 2 £450 -35.71% 2
East Midlands +4 2 £450 -35.71% 1
South West -5 1 - - 1
East of England -5 1 £600 -14.29%
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (12.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) JBoss
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (80.00%) Serverless
3 14 (56.00%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (48.00%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (40.00%) Amazon S3
6 8 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (28.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (24.00%) AWS Fargate
8 6 (24.00%) OpenShift
9 5 (20.00%) Amazon Kinesis
9 5 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 3 (12.00%) Azure
10 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (8.00%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (4.00%) Akamai
12 1 (4.00%) GCP
12 1 (4.00%) GitHub
12 1 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) Network Security
2 1 (4.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (16.00%) DynamoDB
3 4 (16.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (12.00%) InfluxDB
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (4.00%) Parquet
5 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (28.00%) GitLab
3 5 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 4 (16.00%) Git
5 2 (8.00%) JUnit
6 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.00%) JIRA
6 1 (4.00%) JMeter
6 1 (4.00%) Maven
6 1 (4.00%) Mockito
6 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Banking
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Retail
3 1 (4.00%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (28.00%) AWS DevOps
3 7 (28.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Developer
4 5 (20.00%) Lead
4 5 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Architect
7 1 (4.00%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
7 1 (4.00%) Principal Data Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) AWS CDK
2 5 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) Node.js
3 4 (16.00%) Spring
3 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (16.00%) Web Services
4 3 (12.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (12.00%) Kafka
4 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (8.00%) Apache Camel
5 2 (8.00%) JSON
5 2 (8.00%) Mustache
5 2 (8.00%) React
5 2 (8.00%) RESTful
6 1 (4.00%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (4.00%) HTML
6 1 (4.00%) jQuery
6 1 (4.00%) OAuth
6 1 (4.00%) SOAP
6 1 (4.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (84.00%) DevOps
2 12 (48.00%) Agile
2 12 (48.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (44.00%) Containerisation
4 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (28.00%) Observability
5 7 (28.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.00%) Kanban
6 5 (20.00%) Microservices
7 4 (16.00%) ITIL
7 4 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (16.00%) TDD
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (12.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (12.00%) DevSecOps
8 3 (12.00%) Full Stack Development
8 3 (12.00%) Software Delivery
9 2 (8.00%) BDD
9 2 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Java
2 6 (24.00%) Python
3 5 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (20.00%) Groovy
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (12.00%) Scala
5 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (44.00%) Terraform
3 7 (28.00%) Ansible
4 6 (24.00%) Kibana
5 5 (20.00%) Grafana
6 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
7 1 (4.00%) Knative
7 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (4.00%) Puppet
7 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk
2 1 (4.00%) Zscaler