Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon ECS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 589 661 394
Rank change year-on-year +72 -267 +58
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 340 301 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.31% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.95% 0.72% 1.95%
Number of salaries quoted 203 205 441
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £53,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £108,750 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -7.14%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS.

Salary trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +46 258 £80,000 +6.67% 67
UK excluding London +35 209 £70,000 +7.69% 29
London +147 146 £85,000 -5.56% 38
Work from Home +39 128 £80,000 +14.29% 47
Scotland +15 74 £65,000 +42.07%
South East -8 70 £82,500 +26.92% 2
North of England +61 36 £57,500 -4.17% 15
Midlands +5 19 £65,000 +4.84% 3
North East +9 16 £60,000 -20.00% 1
North West +12 14 £57,500 -2.13% 8
East Midlands -3 14 £65,000 +58.05% 3
Yorkshire +71 6 £42,500 -29.17% 6
West Midlands +8 5 £67,500 +8.87%
South West -42 4 £60,000 -7.69% 7
East of England -15 3 £52,500 -19.23%
Northern Ireland +20 2 £85,000 +6.25% 2
Wales +2 1 £60,000 -5.36%

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 64 (18.82%) Apache
2 57 (16.76%) Apache Spark
3 40 (11.76%) OpenStack
4 17 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.65%) JBoss
5 9 (2.65%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.59%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 333 (97.94%) AWS
2 229 (67.35%) Serverless
3 169 (49.71%) AWS Lambda
4 168 (49.41%) Amazon EKS
5 122 (35.88%) Amazon EC2
6 117 (34.41%) Amazon SQS
7 107 (31.47%) Amazon S3
8 95 (27.94%) Azure
9 73 (21.47%) AWS CloudFormation
10 63 (18.53%) Amazon EMR
11 42 (12.35%) GitHub
12 34 (10.00%) Datadog
13 32 (9.41%) AWS Fargate
14 30 (8.82%) Azure AKS
15 27 (7.94%) CloudFront
15 27 (7.94%) OpenShift
16 24 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 24 (7.06%) Cloudflare
17 23 (6.76%) Akamai
18 22 (6.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.53%) Firewall
2 5 (1.47%) Network Security
3 3 (0.88%) HTTP
3 3 (0.88%) MQTT
4 2 (0.59%) Internet
4 2 (0.59%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.59%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (30.00%) NoSQL
2 80 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
3 62 (18.24%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (17.65%) Relational Database
5 51 (15.00%) Electronic Patient Records
6 50 (14.71%) Big Data
6 50 (14.71%) Hadoop
7 47 (13.82%) DynamoDB
8 32 (9.41%) Amazon Redshift
9 18 (5.29%) MySQL
10 13 (3.82%) SQL Server
11 11 (3.24%) RDBMS
12 10 (2.94%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.94%) Redis
13 8 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.35%) Couchbase
13 8 (2.35%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (2.35%) Flink
14 6 (1.76%) Metadata
14 6 (1.76%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 128 (37.65%) Jenkins
2 100 (29.41%) Git
3 58 (17.06%) GitLab
4 28 (8.24%) Artifactory
5 15 (4.41%) JUnit
6 9 (2.65%) Maven
7 8 (2.35%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.76%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.47%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.47%) Sourcetree
10 4 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.18%) JMeter
10 4 (1.18%) Mockito
10 4 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.18%) Subversion
11 3 (0.88%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.59%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.29%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.29%) JIRA
13 1 (0.29%) Mocha
General
1 140 (41.18%) Finance
2 96 (28.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 94 (27.65%) Law
4 59 (17.35%) Social Skills
5 51 (15.00%) Legal
6 34 (10.00%) Public Sector
7 26 (7.65%) Front Office
8 21 (6.18%) Games
8 21 (6.18%) Marketing
9 16 (4.71%) Automotive
10 11 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.65%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.76%) Retail
13 5 (1.47%) Retail Finance
14 1 (0.29%) Banking
14 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
14 1 (0.29%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 104 (30.59%) AWS Engineer
2 89 (26.18%) Lead
3 88 (25.88%) Developer
4 86 (25.29%) DevOps Engineer
5 81 (23.82%) Software Engineer
6 60 (17.65%) Java Developer
7 53 (15.59%) AWS DevOps
8 52 (15.29%) AWS Software Engineer
9 50 (14.71%) Big Data Engineer
9 50 (14.71%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 50 (14.71%) Scala Engineer
9 50 (14.71%) Scala Software Engineer
10 49 (14.41%) Senior
11 44 (12.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 30 (8.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 29 (8.53%) Lead DevOps
14 26 (7.65%) Full Stack Developer
14 26 (7.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
15 23 (6.76%) Full Stack Java Developer
15 23 (6.76%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (22.65%) Spring
2 73 (21.47%) Spring Boot
3 71 (20.88%) Node.js
4 60 (17.65%) .NET
5 59 (17.35%) AngularJS
5 59 (17.35%) REST
6 51 (15.00%) Web Services
7 45 (13.24%) Apache Camel
8 43 (12.65%) JSON
9 41 (12.06%) Elastic Stack
10 38 (11.18%) XML
11 32 (9.41%) J2EE
12 26 (7.65%) Kafka
13 23 (6.76%) RESTful
14 21 (6.18%) AWS CDK
15 17 (5.00%) HTML
16 16 (4.71%) Lambda Expressions
16 16 (4.71%) React
17 13 (3.82%) CSS
18 12 (3.53%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 65 (19.12%) Algorithms
2 44 (12.94%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (7.65%) Tandem
4 23 (6.76%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.71%) Mobile App
6 15 (4.41%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (3.24%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.94%) Client/Server
11 9 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.88%) IoT
13 3 (0.88%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.59%) Blockchain
14 2 (0.59%) Equities
15 1 (0.29%) Cyber Defence
15 1 (0.29%) Digital Currency
15 1 (0.29%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 34 (10.00%) Linux
2 10 (2.94%) Windows
3 3 (0.88%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.88%) Unix
3 3 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) CentOS
4 1 (0.29%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (61.76%) CI/CD
2 205 (60.29%) Agile
3 181 (53.24%) DevOps
4 147 (43.24%) Software Engineering
5 111 (32.65%) Microservices
6 76 (22.35%) SDLC
7 74 (21.76%) Scrum
8 72 (21.18%) Containerisation
9 63 (18.53%) Kanban
10 62 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
11 61 (17.94%) TDD
12 56 (16.47%) BDD
12 56 (16.47%) Visualisation
13 53 (15.59%) Operational Stability
14 51 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
15 50 (14.71%) Mentoring
15 50 (14.71%) Risk Management
16 49 (14.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 45 (13.24%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 196 (57.65%) Java
2 153 (45.00%) Python
3 117 (34.41%) SQL
4 90 (26.47%) JavaScript
5 50 (14.71%) Scala
6 42 (12.35%) Go
7 19 (5.59%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.71%) C#
9 15 (4.41%) Shell Script
10 12 (3.53%) PHP
11 9 (2.65%) Rust
12 8 (2.35%) Bash
12 8 (2.35%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.35%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.47%) VBA
14 4 (1.18%) Ruby
15 3 (0.88%) Swift
16 2 (0.59%) Groovy
17 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 62 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 53 (15.59%) SC Cleared
3 49 (14.41%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 14 (4.12%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.18%) Degree
7 4 (1.18%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.29%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 183 (53.82%) Docker
2 30 (8.82%) Hyper-V
3 19 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) etcd
Systems Management
1 188 (55.29%) Kubernetes
2 163 (47.94%) Terraform
3 77 (22.65%) Ansible
4 27 (7.94%) Puppet
5 24 (7.06%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.29%) Grafana
7 16 (4.71%) Progress Chef
8 15 (4.41%) Consul
9 7 (2.06%) Kibana
9 7 (2.06%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.88%) Argo
11 2 (0.59%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.29%) logstash
12 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 40 (11.76%) WSO2
2 28 (8.24%) Splunk
3 23 (6.76%) ForgeRock
4 22 (6.47%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.71%) Google
5 16 (4.71%) Sitecore
6 15 (4.41%) Microsoft
7 12 (3.53%) Oracle
8 7 (2.06%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.88%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.59%) VMware
11 1 (0.29%) Databricks
11 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.29%) Wallstreet Suite