Amazon ECS Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 293 351 403
Rank change year-on-year +58 +52 -21
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 50 115 232
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.34% 0.47% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.93% 1.18% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 87 139
10th Percentile £405 £500 £424
25th Percentile £425 £550 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £600 £586
Median % change year-on-year -17.08% +2.39% +11.62%
75th Percentile £547 £675 £656
90th Percentile £600 £700 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,717 18,221
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.48% 39.48% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,889 7,207 13,616
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% +1.27%
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

Amazon ECS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon ECS trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

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 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 49 (98.00%) AWS
2 33 (66.00%) Serverless
3 30 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (44.00%) Amazon EC2
4 22 (44.00%) Amazon S3
5 16 (32.00%) Amazon EKS
6 15 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 13 (26.00%) AWS Fargate
7 13 (26.00%) OpenShift
8 12 (24.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (18.00%) Azure
10 8 (16.00%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (16.00%) GCP
11 6 (12.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 6 (12.00%) AWS KMS
11 6 (12.00%) CloudFront
11 6 (12.00%) Route 53
12 5 (10.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
13 4 (8.00%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
2 3 (6.00%) DHCP
2 3 (6.00%) DNS
2 3 (6.00%) LAN
2 3 (6.00%) WLAN
3 2 (4.00%) Network Security
4 1 (2.00%) HTTP
4 1 (2.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.00%) Amazon RDS
2 7 (14.00%) DynamoDB
3 6 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon Athena
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon QuickSight
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.00%) InfluxDB
6 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.00%) MariaDB
6 2 (4.00%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.00%) MySQL
6 2 (4.00%) Relational Database
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.00%) Redis
7 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (46.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (30.00%) GitLab
3 10 (20.00%) Git
4 7 (14.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (10.00%) Maven
6 4 (8.00%) Artifactory
7 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (6.00%) Cypress.io
7 3 (6.00%) Protractor
8 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.00%) Selenium
9 1 (2.00%) Gradle
9 1 (2.00%) JIRA
9 1 (2.00%) JMeter
9 1 (2.00%) JUnit
9 1 (2.00%) Mockito
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (56.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (36.00%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (30.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) Consultant
4 6 (12.00%) Developer
5 4 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
6 3 (6.00%) AWS Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Senior
6 3 (6.00%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Lead
7 2 (4.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) PHP Developer
7 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (8.00%) Node.js
2 4 (8.00%) React
2 4 (8.00%) REST
2 4 (8.00%) Web Services
3 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.00%) Jest
3 3 (6.00%) OAuth
3 3 (6.00%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.00%) CodeIgniter
4 2 (4.00%) Django
4 2 (4.00%) Laravel
4 2 (4.00%) Spring
4 2 (4.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.00%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (2.00%) Hibernate
5 1 (2.00%) HTML
5 1 (2.00%) jQuery
5 1 (2.00%) Kafka
5 1 (2.00%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Data Structures
1 3 (6.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (4.00%) IoT
2 2 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.00%) Life Science
3 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (4.00%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (4.00%) CentOS
5 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (72.00%) DevOps
2 33 (66.00%) CI/CD
3 19 (38.00%) Agile
4 17 (34.00%) Containerisation
4 17 (34.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 7 (14.00%) Computer Science
6 7 (14.00%) Migration
6 7 (14.00%) Observability
6 7 (14.00%) Task Automation
7 6 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (12.00%) Microservices
8 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 5 (10.00%) Use Case
9 4 (8.00%) Kanban
9 4 (8.00%) Performance Optimisation
9 4 (8.00%) Scrum
10 3 (6.00%) ETL
10 3 (6.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Python
2 16 (32.00%) Bash
3 11 (22.00%) Java
4 9 (18.00%) Go
5 7 (14.00%) Perl
6 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.00%) Groovy
7 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
7 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 3 (6.00%) PHP
8 3 (6.00%) Scala
9 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.00%) R
9 2 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (14.00%) Degree
3 5 (10.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) GDPR
1 2 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (44.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 30 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (42.00%) Terraform
3 6 (12.00%) Ansible
3 6 (12.00%) Grafana
4 5 (10.00%) Kibana
5 4 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.00%) Knative
7 1 (2.00%) Puppet
7 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (6.00%) Splunk
3 2 (4.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle
4 1 (2.00%) Zscaler