Amazon ECS Contracts

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 493 483
Rank change year-on-year +101 -10 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 138 101 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.23% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.23% 0.72% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 80 161
10th Percentile £374 £405 £475
25th Percentile £481 £439 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £511 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.58% -14.79% -
75th Percentile £713 £591 £663
90th Percentile £838 £763 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £508 £600
% change year-on-year -1.48% -15.42% +13.21%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,236 14,108 20,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.79% 32.36% 36.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,590 9,936 14,638
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £620 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 356 327
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £21.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.67% -38.57% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.41 £43.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £19.95 £27.10
% change year-on-year -5.41% -26.38% +41.96%

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 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 13 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 17 June 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
England +104 114 £575 +12.20% 1,448
Work from Home +59 74 £600 +17.36% 691
London +55 72 £650 +22.35% 485
UK excluding London +41 36 £500 -1.48% 1,151
North of England +16 21 £500 +5.26% 274
North West +23 14 £400 -10.51% 132
South East +42 6 £575 -4.17% 320
West Midlands +15 5 £491 -2.72% 94
Midlands +12 5 £491 +9.17% 163
Yorkshire +7 5 £500 +1.01% 114
Scotland -1 2 £563 +8.17% 73
South West - 2 £513 - 113
North East - 2 - - 28

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 26 (18.84%) Apache
2 24 (17.39%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (13.04%) Apache Spark
4 11 (7.97%) CMS
5 8 (5.80%) Confluence
6 6 (4.35%) nginx
6 6 (4.35%) WordPress
7 5 (3.62%) Headless CMS
8 4 (2.90%) Tomcat
9 2 (1.45%) Camunda
10 1 (0.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 133 (96.38%) AWS
2 90 (65.22%) Serverless
3 78 (56.52%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (36.23%) Amazon S3
5 48 (34.78%) Amazon EKS
6 47 (34.06%) Amazon EC2
7 40 (28.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 35 (25.36%) Amazon SQS
9 33 (23.91%) GitHub
10 29 (21.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (16.67%) AWS Fargate
11 23 (16.67%) dbt
12 20 (14.49%) OpenShift
13 17 (12.32%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (9.42%) AWS KMS
14 13 (9.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (7.25%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (6.52%) AWS CloudTrail
16 9 (6.52%) SaaS
17 8 (5.80%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.35%) SSL
2 5 (3.62%) DNS
2 5 (3.62%) HTTP
3 4 (2.90%) Firewall
4 3 (2.17%) IPsec
4 3 (2.17%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.17%) Network Security
5 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.45%) VPN
6 1 (0.72%) FTP
6 1 (0.72%) IMAP
6 1 (0.72%) IPv4
6 1 (0.72%) Multicast
6 1 (0.72%) OpenLDAP
6 1 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.72%) SMS
6 1 (0.72%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (21.01%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (20.29%) Amazon Athena
2 28 (20.29%) DynamoDB
2 28 (20.29%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (15.94%) Apache Arrow
3 22 (15.94%) Apache Iceberg
3 22 (15.94%) Apache Ignite
3 22 (15.94%) Dremio
4 13 (9.42%) MongoDB
4 13 (9.42%) NoSQL
5 10 (7.25%) Data Lake
6 7 (5.07%) MySQL
7 6 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.62%) Relational Database
9 4 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.90%) SQL Server
10 3 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (2.17%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.45%) DocumentDB
11 2 (1.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (28.26%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.67%) GitLab
3 20 (14.49%) Artifactory
4 17 (12.32%) Git
5 8 (5.80%) JIRA
5 8 (5.80%) Maven
6 6 (4.35%) JUnit
7 5 (3.62%) git-flow
8 4 (2.90%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.17%) Bitbucket
9 3 (2.17%) Mockito
9 3 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (1.45%) JMeter
10 2 (1.45%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.72%) Toad
11 1 (0.72%) Vagrant
General
1 28 (20.29%) Finance
2 22 (15.94%) Front Office
3 18 (13.04%) Social Skills
4 14 (10.14%) Banking
5 13 (9.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.80%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.17%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.45%) Publishing
8 2 (1.45%) Spanish Language
9 1 (0.72%) Aviation
9 1 (0.72%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Marketing
9 1 (0.72%) Military
9 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.72%) Retail
9 1 (0.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 47 (34.06%) AWS Engineer
2 41 (29.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 29 (21.01%) AWS DevOps
3 29 (21.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 27 (19.57%) Developer
5 23 (16.67%) Data Engineer
6 22 (15.94%) Senior
7 18 (13.04%) Software Engineer
8 17 (12.32%) Python Engineer
9 16 (11.59%) Lead
10 15 (10.87%) Architect
11 10 (7.25%) Java Engineer
11 10 (7.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 9 (6.52%) Technical Architect
13 8 (5.80%) AWS Platform Engineer
13 8 (5.80%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 8 (5.80%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (5.07%) Full-Stack Developer
14 7 (5.07%) Java Developer
14 7 (5.07%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (24.64%) Node.js
2 28 (20.29%) Kafka
3 22 (15.94%) PySpark
4 20 (14.49%) Spring
5 19 (13.77%) React
6 17 (12.32%) J2EE
7 14 (10.14%) AWS CDK
7 14 (10.14%) OAuth
8 12 (8.70%) Spring Boot
9 11 (7.97%) RESTful
9 11 (7.97%) Web Services
10 10 (7.25%) OpenID
11 9 (6.52%) Jest
11 9 (6.52%) SAML
12 8 (5.80%) HTML
12 8 (5.80%) OAuth2
12 8 (5.80%) REST
13 7 (5.07%) .NET
13 7 (5.07%) JSON
14 6 (4.35%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 8 (5.80%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (5.07%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (3.62%) Derivative
4 5 (3.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (3.62%) Equities
4 5 (3.62%) Fixed Income
4 5 (3.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.62%) Hedge funds
5 4 (2.90%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.45%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.45%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.72%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.72%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.72%) PKI
7 1 (0.72%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.70%) Linux
2 6 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (2.17%) Android
4 1 (0.72%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.72%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (57.25%) CI/CD
2 71 (51.45%) DevOps
3 51 (36.96%) Agile
4 41 (29.71%) Software Engineering
5 40 (28.99%) Containerisation
6 37 (26.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 33 (23.91%) Microservices
8 23 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 22 (15.94%) Asset Management
9 22 (15.94%) Open Source
10 21 (15.22%) Mentoring
11 20 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
12 19 (13.77%) Data Engineering
13 16 (11.59%) Clean Code
14 14 (10.14%) Migration
15 13 (9.42%) Event-Driven
15 13 (9.42%) Test Automation
16 12 (8.70%) Architectural Patterns
16 12 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 12 (8.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 61 (44.20%) Python
2 53 (38.41%) Java
3 25 (18.12%) JavaScript
3 25 (18.12%) SQL
3 25 (18.12%) TypeScript
4 19 (13.77%) Go
5 13 (9.42%) Bash
6 8 (5.80%) Shell Script
7 7 (5.07%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.35%) PHP
8 6 (4.35%) T-SQL
9 4 (2.90%) Groovy
10 3 (2.17%) CodeQL
11 2 (1.45%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.72%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.72%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 28 (20.29%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.39%) AWS Certification
2 24 (17.39%) SC Cleared
3 14 (10.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 6 (4.35%) Degree
5 5 (3.62%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.90%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.17%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.45%) OCP
8 2 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.72%) CCSP
9 1 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.72%) CISSP
9 1 (0.72%) OSCP
9 1 (0.72%) SANS
9 1 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.80%) QA
2 6 (4.35%) GDPR
3 4 (2.90%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.17%) NCSC
5 2 (1.45%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.45%) NIST
5 2 (1.45%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.72%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.72%) SLA
6 1 (0.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 69 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (2.17%) RACF
3 1 (0.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.72%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.72%) Postfix
3 1 (0.72%) Squid
Systems Management
1 70 (50.72%) Terraform
2 55 (39.86%) Kubernetes
3 15 (10.87%) Ansible
3 15 (10.87%) Grafana
4 11 (7.97%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.80%) Kibana
6 5 (3.62%) Puppet
7 4 (2.90%) Packer
7 4 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.45%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.72%) Graylog
10 1 (0.72%) Nessus
Vendors
1 7 (5.07%) Splunk
2 5 (3.62%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.90%) AppDynamics
3 4 (2.90%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (2.90%) IBM
3 4 (2.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.45%) Oracle
5 1 (0.72%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.72%) Databricks
5 1 (0.72%) Imperva
5 1 (0.72%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.72%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.72%) New Relic
5 1 (0.72%) Okta
5 1 (0.72%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.72%) Rollbar
5 1 (0.72%) Talend
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