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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 487 484 489
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 100 228 386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.40% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.72% 1.08% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 179 224
10th Percentile £405 £473 £450
25th Percentile £425 £525 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £652
90th Percentile £625 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £600 £540
% change year-on-year -14.58% +11.11% +5.37%

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 13,842 21,188 33,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.76% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 15,319 24,772
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 £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 340 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.63
% change year-on-year -29.12% +27.39% -1.88%

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 14 May 2024.

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 14 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 +16 79 £489 -18.50% 53
London +41 59 £489 -18.50% 30
Work from Home +49 52 £495 -17.50% 34
UK excluding London +11 25 £513 -14.58% 23
North of England -5 9 £485 -19.17% 8
Scotland +30 6 £521 -13.17% 1
South East +14 6 £600 -1.64% 5
North West +24 5 £447 -22.26% 2
Yorkshire -5 4 £495 -20.80% 4
Midlands +13 2 £450 -35.71% 4
East Midlands +9 2 £450 -35.71% 3
South West +4 1 - - 3
East of England -1 1 £600 -14.29%

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 5 (5.00%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.00%) nginx
3 3 (3.00%) Apache
3 3 (3.00%) Confluence
3 3 (3.00%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.00%) JBoss
4 1 (1.00%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 99 (99.00%) AWS
2 64 (64.00%) Serverless
3 51 (51.00%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (45.00%) Amazon S3
5 40 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
6 35 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
7 22 (22.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (21.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (18.00%) Azure
10 16 (16.00%) OpenShift
11 15 (15.00%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (14.00%) AWS Fargate
13 13 (13.00%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (13.00%) CloudFront
14 11 (11.00%) GCP
14 11 (11.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (10.00%) GitHub
16 9 (9.00%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (9.00%) AWS CodePipeline
16 9 (9.00%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) DNS
2 4 (4.00%) Firewall
3 3 (3.00%) DHCP
3 3 (3.00%) LAN
3 3 (3.00%) SMTP
3 3 (3.00%) WLAN
4 2 (2.00%) Network Security
4 2 (2.00%) SMS
5 1 (1.00%) HTTP
5 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (29.00%) Amazon RDS
2 18 (18.00%) DynamoDB
3 14 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (9.00%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (7.00%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.00%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (5.00%) NoSQL
8 3 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (3.00%) InfluxDB
8 3 (3.00%) MySQL
9 2 (2.00%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
9 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.00%) MariaDB
9 2 (2.00%) Parquet
10 1 (1.00%) DB2
10 1 (1.00%) Redis
10 1 (1.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (36.00%) Jenkins
2 26 (26.00%) Git
3 25 (25.00%) GitLab
4 10 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (9.00%) Cypress.io
5 9 (9.00%) Maven
6 7 (7.00%) Protractor
7 6 (6.00%) Artifactory
8 4 (4.00%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.00%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.00%) Cucumber
10 2 (2.00%) JIRA
10 2 (2.00%) JUnit
10 2 (2.00%) Mocha
10 2 (2.00%) Selenium
10 2 (2.00%) webpack
11 1 (1.00%) Gradle
11 1 (1.00%) JMeter
11 1 (1.00%) Mockito
11 1 (1.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 28 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.00%) Public Sector
3 7 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Finance
5 4 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.00%) Law
7 2 (2.00%) Banking
7 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.00%) Retail
8 1 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 44 (44.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (38.00%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (30.00%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (29.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 22 (22.00%) Developer
6 10 (10.00%) Senior
7 9 (9.00%) Java Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Lead
9 6 (6.00%) Consultant
9 6 (6.00%) Data Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Architect
10 5 (5.00%) AWS Developer
10 5 (5.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Full Stack Developer
10 5 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.00%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
11 4 (4.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (20.00%) Node.js
2 12 (12.00%) REST
3 10 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 10 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 10 (10.00%) React
4 8 (8.00%) Jest
4 8 (8.00%) RESTful
4 8 (8.00%) Web Services
5 7 (7.00%) Lambda Expressions
5 7 (7.00%) Spring
6 6 (6.00%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (5.00%) Kafka
8 4 (4.00%) Django
8 4 (4.00%) JSON
9 3 (3.00%) Apache Camel
9 3 (3.00%) Mustache
9 3 (3.00%) OAuth
9 3 (3.00%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.00%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (3.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.00%) PKI
5 2 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.00%) IoT
5 2 (2.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.00%) Life Science
6 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.00%) Linux
2 8 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.00%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (2.00%) CentOS
5 1 (1.00%) Unix
5 1 (1.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (65.00%) DevOps
2 57 (57.00%) CI/CD
3 37 (37.00%) Agile
4 25 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 23 (23.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (17.00%) Microservices
7 14 (14.00%) Migration
8 13 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (13.00%) Test Automation
9 9 (9.00%) Computer Science
9 9 (9.00%) Task Automation
9 9 (9.00%) Translating Business Requirements
10 8 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (8.00%) Scrum
11 7 (7.00%) Full Stack Development
11 7 (7.00%) Observability
11 7 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (7.00%) Use Case
12 6 (6.00%) Kanban
12 6 (6.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 46 (46.00%) Python
2 25 (25.00%) Java
3 22 (22.00%) Bash
4 18 (18.00%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.00%) Go
7 9 (9.00%) Perl
8 8 (8.00%) Shell Script
8 8 (8.00%) SQL
9 6 (6.00%) Groovy
9 6 (6.00%) PHP
10 3 (3.00%) Scala
11 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.00%) R
12 1 (1.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 29 (29.00%) SC Cleared
1 29 (29.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (9.00%) Degree
3 6 (6.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.00%) GDPR
1 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.00%) NCSC
2 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (33.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (47.00%) Kubernetes
2 37 (37.00%) Terraform
3 14 (14.00%) Ansible
4 7 (7.00%) Grafana
5 6 (6.00%) Kibana
6 4 (4.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.00%) Puppet
7 2 (2.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.00%) Consul
8 1 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (1.00%) Knative
8 1 (1.00%) Packer
8 1 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (4.00%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.00%) F5
2 3 (3.00%) Oracle
2 3 (3.00%) Splunk
3 2 (2.00%) Google
3 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.00%) SAP
4 1 (1.00%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.00%) WSO2
4 1 (1.00%) Zscaler