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 remote or hybrid contract work 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 353 415
Rank change year-on-year +69 +62 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 57 104 215
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.44% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.06% 1.10% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 80 134
10th Percentile £405 £500 £433
25th Percentile £438 £550 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +1.27% +7.73%
75th Percentile £568 £688 £675
90th Percentile £875 £700 £736
UK median daily rate £509 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -15.17% - +6.67%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,402 9,416 18,029
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.61% 39.44% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 7,013 13,524
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 131 149
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.28 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.00% +25.00% +41.02%
75th Percentile £50.19 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.19 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 June 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 9 (15.79%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (14.04%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.75%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 56 (98.25%) AWS
2 30 (52.63%) Amazon EC2
3 29 (50.88%) Serverless
4 27 (47.37%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (42.11%) Amazon EKS
6 20 (35.09%) Amazon S3
7 16 (28.07%) GCP
8 15 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
9 13 (22.81%) AWS Fargate
10 12 (21.05%) OpenShift
11 11 (19.30%) Snowflake
12 10 (17.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 9 (15.79%) Azure
14 8 (14.04%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (14.04%) dbt
15 6 (10.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 6 (10.53%) AWS KMS
15 6 (10.53%) Route 53
16 5 (8.77%) AWS CloudTrail
16 5 (8.77%) AWS Control Tower
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.02%) Firewall
2 3 (5.26%) DHCP
2 3 (5.26%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) LAN
2 3 (5.26%) WLAN
3 2 (3.51%) Network Security
4 1 (1.75%) HTTP
4 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (35.09%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (21.05%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (14.04%) Apache Arrow
3 8 (14.04%) Apache Ignite
3 8 (14.04%) Data Lake
3 8 (14.04%) Dremio
4 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon QuickSight
5 4 (7.02%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (7.02%) DynamoDB
5 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (5.26%) InfluxDB
7 2 (3.51%) MariaDB
7 2 (3.51%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.75%) Redis
Development Applications
1 24 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 17 (29.82%) GitLab
3 10 (17.54%) Git
4 7 (12.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (7.02%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.51%) Maven
7 1 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.75%) Gradle
7 1 (1.75%) JIRA
7 1 (1.75%) JMeter
7 1 (1.75%) JUnit
7 1 (1.75%) Mockito
7 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 11 (19.30%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Banking
2 8 (14.04%) Finance
2 8 (14.04%) Front Office
2 8 (14.04%) Investment Banking
2 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.51%) Retail
4 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 29 (50.88%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (40.35%) AWS Engineer
3 15 (26.32%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (26.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Software Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Architect
6 6 (10.53%) Lead
6 6 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (8.77%) AWS Developer
8 4 (7.02%) AWS Consultant
8 4 (7.02%) AWS Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Consultant
8 4 (7.02%) Developer/Software Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Lead Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Software Developer
8 4 (7.02%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.04%) gRPC
1 8 (14.04%) NumPy
1 8 (14.04%) Pandas
1 8 (14.04%) Protocol Buffers
1 8 (14.04%) SciPy
2 6 (10.53%) AWS CDK
2 6 (10.53%) PySpark
3 4 (7.02%) React
4 3 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.26%) REST
4 3 (5.26%) Web Services
5 2 (3.51%) CodeIgniter
5 2 (3.51%) Django
5 2 (3.51%) Laravel
5 2 (3.51%) OAuth
5 2 (3.51%) Spring
5 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.75%) Lambda Expressions
6 1 (1.75%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.04%) Derivative
1 8 (14.04%) Equities
1 8 (14.04%) Fixed Income
1 8 (14.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 8 (14.04%) Hedge funds
2 4 (7.02%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.51%) IoT
3 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.51%) Life Science
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.81%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.51%) Amazon Linux
4 2 (3.51%) CentOS
5 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (63.16%) DevOps
2 31 (54.39%) CI/CD
3 25 (43.86%) Agile
4 18 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 17 (29.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (28.07%) Migration
7 11 (19.30%) Software Engineering
8 8 (14.04%) Asset Management
8 8 (14.04%) Line Management
8 8 (14.04%) Observability
8 8 (14.04%) Test Automation
9 7 (12.28%) Computer Science
9 7 (12.28%) Task Automation
10 6 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (8.77%) Microservices
11 5 (8.77%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (8.77%) Translating Business Requirements
11 5 (8.77%) Use Case
12 4 (7.02%) Performance Optimisation
12 4 (7.02%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 33 (57.89%) Python
2 16 (28.07%) Bash
2 16 (28.07%) Java
3 14 (24.56%) JavaScript
4 12 (21.05%) TypeScript
5 11 (19.30%) SQL
6 10 (17.54%) Go
7 7 (12.28%) Perl
8 4 (7.02%) Groovy
8 4 (7.02%) Scala
9 3 (5.26%) PHP
10 2 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) SC Cleared
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
3 6 (10.53%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.51%) GDPR
1 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (43.86%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (56.14%) Kubernetes
2 24 (42.11%) Terraform
3 7 (12.28%) Ansible
4 5 (8.77%) Grafana
4 5 (8.77%) Kibana
4 5 (8.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.51%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.75%) Puppet
6 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Bloomberg
1 8 (14.04%) Reuters
2 5 (8.77%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.51%) Google
3 2 (3.51%) Splunk
4 1 (1.75%) Databricks
4 1 (1.75%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.75%) Oracle
4 1 (1.75%) Zscaler