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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 638 426
Rank change year-on-year +72 -212 +24
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 350 358 1,306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.34% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 0.79% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 224 237 452
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% +6.90% -3.33%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £96,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £136,250 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - -3.70%

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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £102,500 £100,000
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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +48 262 £80,000 +4.58% 65
UK excluding London +51 222 £70,000 +7.69% 27
London +116 143 £95,000 +2.70% 36
Work from Home +38 123 £76,250 +8.93% 40
Scotland +11 77 £65,000 +42.07%
South East +12 76 £82,500 +26.92% 4
North of England +60 36 £57,500 -4.17% 9
Midlands +12 19 £65,000 +4.84% 4
North East +14 17 £55,000 -26.67% 2
East Midlands -3 14 £65,000 +24.40% 2
North West +16 13 £57,500 -11.54% 4
Yorkshire +82 6 £42,500 -29.17% 3
West Midlands +19 5 £67,500 +8.87% 2
East of England +1 5 £65,000 - 1
South West -22 5 £55,000 -12.00% 6
Northern Ireland +32 3 £75,000 -6.25% 3
Wales +12 1 £60,000 -5.36% 1

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 61 (17.43%) Apache
2 58 (16.57%) Apache Spark
3 42 (12.00%) OpenStack
4 11 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.86%) JBoss
5 10 (2.86%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 344 (98.29%) AWS
2 246 (70.29%) Serverless
3 183 (52.29%) AWS Lambda
4 170 (48.57%) Amazon EKS
5 135 (38.57%) Amazon EC2
6 126 (36.00%) Amazon SQS
7 114 (32.57%) Amazon S3
8 99 (28.29%) Azure
9 82 (23.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 58 (16.57%) Amazon EMR
11 39 (11.14%) GitHub
12 37 (10.57%) OpenShift
13 34 (9.71%) Datadog
14 31 (8.86%) AWS Fargate
15 28 (8.00%) CloudFront
16 27 (7.71%) Azure AKS
17 24 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 22 (6.29%) Cloudflare
19 21 (6.00%) SaaS
20 20 (5.71%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 15 (4.29%) Firewall
2 6 (1.71%) Network Security
3 3 (0.86%) BGP
3 3 (0.86%) HTTP
3 3 (0.86%) MQTT
3 3 (0.86%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) Internet
4 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.29%) SMS
5 1 (0.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (29.14%) NoSQL
2 77 (22.00%) PostgreSQL
3 67 (19.14%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (17.14%) Relational Database
5 52 (14.86%) Big Data
5 52 (14.86%) Electronic Patient Records
6 51 (14.57%) Hadoop
7 47 (13.43%) DynamoDB
8 42 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (6.29%) MySQL
10 11 (3.14%) SQL Server
11 10 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.86%) Redis
12 9 (2.57%) Flink
13 8 (2.29%) Couchbase
14 7 (2.00%) MongoDB
14 7 (2.00%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.43%) Power BI
16 4 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 142 (40.57%) Jenkins
2 104 (29.71%) Git
3 57 (16.29%) GitLab
4 38 (10.86%) Artifactory
5 16 (4.57%) JUnit
6 9 (2.57%) Maven
7 7 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.71%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.43%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.43%) Sourcetree
10 4 (1.14%) JMeter
10 4 (1.14%) Mockito
10 4 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.14%) Subversion
11 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.29%) Jasmine
12 1 (0.29%) JIRA
12 1 (0.29%) Mocha
12 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 143 (40.86%) Finance
2 90 (25.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 87 (24.86%) Law
4 58 (16.57%) Social Skills
5 52 (14.86%) Legal
6 37 (10.57%) Public Sector
7 36 (10.29%) Front Office
8 22 (6.29%) Games
9 20 (5.71%) Marketing
10 14 (4.00%) Automotive
11 10 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.71%) Retail
13 5 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (1.43%) Retail Finance
14 3 (0.86%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.57%) Banking
16 1 (0.29%) Advertising
16 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
16 1 (0.29%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 114 (32.57%) AWS Engineer
2 102 (29.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 93 (26.57%) Developer
4 81 (23.14%) Lead
5 76 (21.71%) Software Engineer
6 63 (18.00%) Java Developer
7 61 (17.43%) AWS DevOps
8 54 (15.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 53 (15.14%) AWS Software Engineer
10 51 (14.57%) Big Data Engineer
10 51 (14.57%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 51 (14.57%) Scala Engineer
10 51 (14.57%) Scala Software Engineer
11 48 (13.71%) Senior
12 40 (11.43%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 38 (10.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 27 (7.71%) Full Stack Developer
15 24 (6.86%) Lead DevOps
16 23 (6.57%) Full Stack Java Developer
17 21 (6.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (22.86%) Spring
2 76 (21.71%) Spring Boot
3 72 (20.57%) Node.js
4 62 (17.71%) AngularJS
4 62 (17.71%) REST
5 58 (16.57%) .NET
6 53 (15.14%) Web Services
7 47 (13.43%) Apache Camel
8 45 (12.86%) JSON
9 44 (12.57%) J2EE
10 43 (12.29%) Elastic Stack
11 40 (11.43%) XML
12 25 (7.14%) Kafka
13 24 (6.86%) RESTful
14 23 (6.57%) AWS CDK
15 18 (5.14%) HTML
16 15 (4.29%) React
17 14 (4.00%) CSS
17 14 (4.00%) Lambda Expressions
18 12 (3.43%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 67 (19.14%) Algorithms
2 46 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 36 (10.29%) Tandem
4 22 (6.29%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.57%) Data Structures
6 14 (4.00%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.43%) Cloud Native
9 11 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.86%) Client/Server
11 9 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.86%) Data Centre
14 3 (0.86%) IoT
15 2 (0.57%) Blockchain
16 1 (0.29%) Digital Currency
16 1 (0.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 1 (0.29%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 40 (11.43%) Linux
2 9 (2.57%) Windows
3 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.14%) Unix
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) CentOS
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (65.43%) CI/CD
2 213 (60.86%) Agile
3 198 (56.57%) DevOps
4 149 (42.57%) Software Engineering
5 108 (30.86%) Microservices
6 77 (22.00%) SDLC
7 75 (21.43%) Scrum
8 72 (20.57%) Containerisation
9 65 (18.57%) Kanban
9 65 (18.57%) TDD
10 62 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (16.86%) BDD
12 57 (16.29%) Visualisation
13 55 (15.71%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (15.43%) Operational Stability
14 54 (15.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 52 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (14.86%) Performance Tuning
16 51 (14.57%) Risk Management
17 50 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 201 (57.43%) Java
2 158 (45.14%) Python
3 119 (34.00%) SQL
4 92 (26.29%) JavaScript
5 55 (15.71%) Go
6 51 (14.57%) Scala
7 19 (5.43%) C#
7 19 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.57%) Shell Script
9 14 (4.00%) PHP
10 12 (3.43%) Bash
11 10 (2.86%) Rust
12 8 (2.29%) T-SQL
13 7 (2.00%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.43%) VBA
15 4 (1.14%) Ruby
16 3 (0.86%) R
16 3 (0.86%) Swift
17 2 (0.57%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 65 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 54 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 49 (14.00%) AWS Certification
4 17 (4.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 15 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.14%) Degree
7 4 (1.14%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.57%) 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
1 202 (57.71%) Docker
2 31 (8.86%) Hyper-V
3 17 (4.86%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) etcd
Systems Management
1 203 (58.00%) Kubernetes
2 183 (52.29%) Terraform
3 82 (23.43%) Ansible
4 26 (7.43%) Puppet
5 24 (6.86%) Prometheus
6 19 (5.43%) Grafana
7 15 (4.29%) Consul
7 15 (4.29%) Progress Chef
8 7 (2.00%) Kibana
9 6 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.86%) Argo
11 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.29%) logstash
12 1 (0.29%) Opsgenie
12 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 42 (12.00%) WSO2
2 28 (8.00%) Splunk
3 22 (6.29%) Dynatrace
4 20 (5.71%) ForgeRock
5 18 (5.14%) Google
6 15 (4.29%) Microsoft
7 14 (4.00%) Sitecore
8 11 (3.14%) Oracle
9 6 (1.71%) Zscaler
10 3 (0.86%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.57%) VMware
12 1 (0.29%) Databricks
12 1 (0.29%) PagerDuty
12 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
12 1 (0.29%) Wallstreet Suite
12 1 (0.29%) WooCommerce