Amazon ECS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 485 468 508
Rank change year-on-year -17 +40 -26
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 105 247 387
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.42% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 1.13% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 191 225
10th Percentile £405 £463 £450
25th Percentile £425 £508 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £671
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -13.96% +9.09% +7.32%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,016 21,833 34,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.31% 36.85% 38.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,964 15,782 24,942
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 343 349 421
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.95 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.07%
75th Percentile £34.38 £66.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.00 £78.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
% change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 3 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
England +21 84 £489 -18.50% 54
London +51 66 £495 -17.58% 29
Work from Home +49 52 £498 -17.08% 30
UK excluding London +1 27 £516 -13.96% 25
South East +12 9 £600 -4.00% 3
North of England -1 9 £485 -19.17% 11
Scotland +28 6 £521 -13.17%
North West +14 6 £450 -21.74% 6
Yorkshire -6 3 £495 -20.80% 3
Midlands +17 2 £450 -35.71% 4
East Midlands +12 2 £450 -35.71% 1
South West +13 1 - - 3

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (7.62%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.81%) nginx
3 3 (2.86%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) Confluence
3 3 (2.86%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.95%) JBoss
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 104 (99.05%) AWS
2 71 (67.62%) Serverless
3 55 (52.38%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (46.67%) Amazon S3
5 43 (40.95%) Amazon EC2
6 37 (35.24%) Amazon EKS
7 21 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 21 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (15.24%) Azure
8 16 (15.24%) OpenShift
9 15 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
9 15 (14.29%) CloudFront
10 14 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
10 14 (13.33%) AWS Fargate
11 12 (11.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 9 (8.57%) Amazon SageMaker
12 9 (8.57%) AWS CodePipeline
12 9 (8.57%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (8.57%) GCP
12 9 (8.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) DNS
2 4 (3.81%) Firewall
3 3 (2.86%) DHCP
3 3 (2.86%) LAN
3 3 (2.86%) SMTP
3 3 (2.86%) WLAN
4 2 (1.90%) Network Security
4 2 (1.90%) SMS
5 1 (0.95%) HTTP
5 1 (0.95%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (29.52%) Amazon RDS
2 19 (18.10%) DynamoDB
3 17 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (9.52%) Relational Database
5 9 (8.57%) Amazon Athena
6 7 (6.67%) MongoDB
7 6 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.86%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.86%) MySQL
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (1.90%) Amazon QuickSight
10 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.90%) Parquet
11 1 (0.95%) DB2
11 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.95%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (38.10%) Jenkins
2 29 (27.62%) Git
3 26 (24.76%) GitLab
4 10 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (9.52%) Cypress.io
4 10 (9.52%) Maven
5 8 (7.62%) Protractor
6 6 (5.71%) Artifactory
7 5 (4.76%) JUnit
8 4 (3.81%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.86%) SonarQube
10 2 (1.90%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.90%) JIRA
10 2 (1.90%) Mocha
10 2 (1.90%) Selenium
10 2 (1.90%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.90%) webpack
11 1 (0.95%) Gradle
11 1 (0.95%) JMeter
11 1 (0.95%) Mockito
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (5.71%) Finance
5 4 (3.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.86%) Law
6 3 (2.86%) Retail
7 2 (1.90%) Banking
7 2 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.95%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (37.14%) AWS Engineer
3 31 (29.52%) AWS DevOps
4 30 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 26 (24.76%) Developer
6 12 (11.43%) Java Developer
7 10 (9.52%) Senior
8 8 (7.62%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Lead
10 6 (5.71%) Consultant
10 6 (5.71%) Data Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) AWS Developer
11 5 (4.76%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.81%) AWS Architect
12 4 (3.81%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.86%) Node.js
2 15 (14.29%) REST
3 14 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 11 (10.48%) RESTful
4 11 (10.48%) Web Services
5 10 (9.52%) AWS CDK
5 10 (9.52%) React
5 10 (9.52%) Spring
6 9 (8.57%) Jest
6 9 (8.57%) Spring Boot
7 8 (7.62%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
9 6 (5.71%) SOAP
10 5 (4.76%) Kafka
11 4 (3.81%) Django
11 4 (3.81%) JSON
12 3 (2.86%) J2EE
12 3 (2.86%) Mustache
12 3 (2.86%) OAuth
12 3 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 5 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.86%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.86%) PKI
4 2 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (1.90%) IoT
4 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.90%) Life Science
4 2 (1.90%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.95%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (21.90%) Linux
2 8 (7.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (4.76%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.90%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (1.90%) CentOS
4 2 (1.90%) Windows
5 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (65.71%) DevOps
2 57 (54.29%) CI/CD
3 40 (38.10%) Agile
4 23 (21.90%) Containerisation
5 22 (20.95%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (19.05%) Microservices
7 13 (12.38%) Migration
7 13 (12.38%) Test Automation
8 12 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (10.48%) Scrum
10 10 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
11 9 (8.57%) Kanban
11 9 (8.57%) Task Automation
11 9 (8.57%) TDD
11 9 (8.57%) Translating Business Requirements
12 8 (7.62%) BDD
12 8 (7.62%) Computer Science
12 8 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (6.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 46 (43.81%) Python
2 29 (27.62%) Java
3 22 (20.95%) Bash
4 21 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (11.43%) Go
5 12 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 9 (8.57%) Perl
7 8 (7.62%) Shell Script
7 8 (7.62%) SQL
8 7 (6.67%) Groovy
9 6 (5.71%) PHP
10 2 (1.90%) R
10 2 (1.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.95%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (30.48%) SC Cleared
1 32 (30.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (7.62%) Degree
3 7 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (1.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
1 2 (1.90%) GDPR
1 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.95%) NCSC
2 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (45.71%) Kubernetes
2 39 (37.14%) Terraform
3 19 (18.10%) Ansible
4 7 (6.67%) Grafana
5 6 (5.71%) Kibana
6 4 (3.81%) Puppet
7 3 (2.86%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.95%) Consul
8 1 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.95%) Knative
8 1 (0.95%) Packer
8 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (2.86%) Dynatrace
1 3 (2.86%) F5
1 3 (2.86%) Oracle
1 3 (2.86%) Splunk
2 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
2 2 (1.90%) SAP
3 1 (0.95%) ForgeRock
3 1 (0.95%) Google
3 1 (0.95%) WSO2
3 1 (0.95%) Zscaler