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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 484 503
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +15
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 96 203 383
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.36% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.69% 0.99% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 160 226
10th Percentile £405 £474 £455
25th Percentile £425 £521 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £563 £663 £671
90th Percentile £616 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £600 £528
% change year-on-year -14.79% +13.74% +2.93%

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 13,969 20,420 33,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.43% 38.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,924 14,777 24,579
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 £746 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 332 392
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.06 £19.00 £15.47
Median hourly rate £21.46 £38.78 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -44.66% +73.10% +2.47%
75th Percentile £42.50 £68.94 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.80 £78.00 £69.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.80 £27.83 £19.25
% change year-on-year -36.04% +44.57% -3.75%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -3 76 £495 -17.50% 72
London +53 56 £504 -16.00% 36
Work from Home +58 50 £495 -17.50% 47
UK excluding London -10 24 £511 -14.79% 32
North of England -3 10 £485 -22.40% 16
South East +5 6 £600 +1.27% 1
Scotland +31 5 £520 -6.73% 1
North West +18 5 £447 -20.53% 9
Yorkshire -5 5 £495 -20.80% 6
Midlands +12 2 £450 -35.71% 5
East Midlands +3 2 £450 -35.71% 3
East of England -10 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 (5.21%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.17%) nginx
3 3 (3.13%) Apache
3 3 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (3.13%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.04%) JBoss
4 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 95 (98.96%) AWS
2 59 (61.46%) Serverless
3 47 (48.96%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (43.75%) Amazon EC2
5 40 (41.67%) Amazon S3
6 35 (36.46%) Amazon EKS
7 24 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (21.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (18.75%) Amazon SQS
9 18 (18.75%) Azure
10 15 (15.63%) AWS Fargate
10 15 (15.63%) OpenShift
11 13 (13.54%) Amazon Kinesis
12 11 (11.46%) GCP
12 11 (11.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (10.42%) GitHub
14 9 (9.38%) AWS CloudTrail
14 9 (9.38%) AWS Control Tower
14 9 (9.38%) AWS KMS
15 8 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.25%) DNS
2 4 (4.17%) Firewall
3 3 (3.13%) DHCP
3 3 (3.13%) LAN
3 3 (3.13%) SMTP
3 3 (3.13%) WLAN
4 2 (2.08%) Network Security
4 2 (2.08%) SMS
5 1 (1.04%) HTTP
5 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (34.38%) Amazon RDS
2 14 (14.58%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (12.50%) DynamoDB
4 11 (11.46%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (7.29%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.29%) Relational Database
6 6 (6.25%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 5 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
9 3 (3.13%) InfluxDB
9 3 (3.13%) MySQL
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (2.08%) DB2
10 2 (2.08%) MariaDB
11 1 (1.04%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.04%) Parquet
11 1 (1.04%) Redis
11 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 37 (38.54%) Jenkins
2 27 (28.13%) GitLab
3 26 (27.08%) Git
4 10 (10.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (6.25%) Artifactory
6 4 (4.17%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.13%) Maven
7 3 (3.13%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.08%) JIRA
8 2 (2.08%) JUnit
8 2 (2.08%) Mocha
8 2 (2.08%) Selenium
8 2 (2.08%) webpack
9 1 (1.04%) Gradle
9 1 (1.04%) JMeter
9 1 (1.04%) Mockito
9 1 (1.04%) Protractor
9 1 (1.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.21%) Finance
4 4 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.13%) Law
5 3 (3.13%) Retail
6 2 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Banking
7 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.04%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 45 (46.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 38 (39.58%) AWS Engineer
3 30 (31.25%) AWS DevOps
4 29 (30.21%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 18 (18.75%) Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Lead
7 6 (6.25%) Architect
7 6 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.25%) Senior
8 5 (5.21%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Consultant
8 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Full Stack Developer
9 4 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (4.17%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.54%) Node.js
2 11 (11.46%) REST
3 10 (10.42%) AWS CDK
4 9 (9.38%) React
5 8 (8.33%) RESTful
5 8 (8.33%) Spring
5 8 (8.33%) Web Services
6 7 (7.29%) Lambda Expressions
7 6 (6.25%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.21%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (5.21%) Kafka
9 4 (4.17%) AngularJS
9 4 (4.17%) Django
10 3 (3.13%) Apache Camel
10 3 (3.13%) JSON
10 3 (3.13%) Mustache
10 3 (3.13%) OAuth
10 3 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.13%) SOAP
11 2 (2.08%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.21%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.13%) PKI
5 2 (2.08%) IoT
5 2 (2.08%) Life Science
5 2 (2.08%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (22.92%) Linux
2 8 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (5.21%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (2.08%) CentOS
5 1 (1.04%) Unix
5 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (66.67%) DevOps
2 53 (55.21%) CI/CD
3 32 (33.33%) Agile
4 26 (27.08%) Containerisation
5 25 (26.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (18.75%) Microservices
7 17 (17.71%) Migration
8 14 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.54%) Test Automation
10 9 (9.38%) Computer Science
10 9 (9.38%) Task Automation
10 9 (9.38%) Translating Business Requirements
11 8 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.33%) Observability
11 8 (8.33%) Scrum
11 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.29%) Use Case
13 6 (6.25%) Kanban
13 6 (6.25%) Software Engineering
13 6 (6.25%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 46 (47.92%) Python
2 22 (22.92%) Bash
3 21 (21.88%) Java
4 17 (17.71%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.50%) Go
6 11 (11.46%) TypeScript
7 9 (9.38%) Perl
7 9 (9.38%) SQL
8 6 (6.25%) Groovy
8 6 (6.25%) PHP
8 6 (6.25%) Shell Script
9 4 (4.17%) Scala
10 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 32 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 9 (9.38%) Degree
3 7 (7.29%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.08%) GDPR
1 2 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.04%) NCSC
2 1 (1.04%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (37.50%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 50 (52.08%) Kubernetes
2 42 (43.75%) Terraform
3 15 (15.63%) Ansible
4 7 (7.29%) Grafana
5 6 (6.25%) Kibana
6 5 (5.21%) Prometheus
7 4 (4.17%) Puppet
8 2 (2.08%) Progress Chef
9 1 (1.04%) Consul
9 1 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (1.04%) Packer
9 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (5.21%) Dynatrace
2 3 (3.13%) F5
2 3 (3.13%) Oracle
2 3 (3.13%) SAP
2 3 (3.13%) Splunk
3 2 (2.08%) Google
3 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.04%) Databricks
4 1 (1.04%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.04%) WSO2
4 1 (1.04%) Zscaler