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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 645 409
Rank change year-on-year +81 -236 +50
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 355 346 1,396
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.34% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 0.80% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 218 235 433
10th Percentile £53,750 £51,250 £52,750
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £98,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £109,500 £128,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% 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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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 +54 269 £80,000 +6.67% 60
UK excluding London +39 219 £70,000 +7.69% 22
London +103 152 £92,500 +2.78% 36
Work from Home +35 132 £78,750 +12.50% 34
Scotland +9 77 £65,000 +42.07%
South East -24 74 £82,500 +26.92% 4
North of England +68 37 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Midlands -5 19 £65,000 +4.84% 4
North East +12 17 £55,000 -26.67% 1
North West +19 14 £57,500 -4.17% 6
East Midlands -4 14 £65,000 +24.40% 1
Yorkshire +83 6 £42,500 -29.17% 3
East of England +10 5 £65,000 -
West Midlands +5 5 £67,500 +8.87% 3
South West -41 4 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Northern Ireland +27 2 £85,000 +6.25% 2
Wales +3 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 65 (18.31%) Apache
2 58 (16.34%) Apache Spark
3 42 (11.83%) OpenStack
4 17 (4.79%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.82%) JBoss
5 10 (2.82%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.56%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 349 (98.31%) AWS
2 241 (67.89%) Serverless
3 178 (50.14%) AWS Lambda
4 171 (48.17%) Amazon EKS
5 130 (36.62%) Amazon EC2
6 123 (34.65%) Amazon SQS
7 111 (31.27%) Amazon S3
8 99 (27.89%) Azure
9 79 (22.25%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (18.03%) Amazon EMR
11 43 (12.11%) GitHub
12 36 (10.14%) Datadog
13 34 (9.58%) AWS Fargate
14 33 (9.30%) OpenShift
15 29 (8.17%) Azure AKS
16 28 (7.89%) CloudFront
17 24 (6.76%) Cloudflare
18 23 (6.48%) SaaS
19 22 (6.20%) Akamai
19 22 (6.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.94%) Firewall
2 6 (1.69%) Network Security
3 3 (0.85%) HTTP
3 3 (0.85%) Internet
3 3 (0.85%) MQTT
4 2 (0.56%) BGP
4 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.56%) VPN
4 2 (0.56%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.28%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (29.01%) NoSQL
2 80 (22.54%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (18.31%) Amazon RDS
4 63 (17.75%) Relational Database
5 52 (14.65%) Big Data
5 52 (14.65%) Electronic Patient Records
6 51 (14.37%) Hadoop
7 50 (14.08%) DynamoDB
8 38 (10.70%) Amazon Redshift
9 20 (5.63%) MySQL
10 12 (3.38%) SQL Server
11 11 (3.10%) RDBMS
12 10 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.82%) Redis
13 8 (2.25%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.25%) Couchbase
13 8 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (2.25%) Flink
14 6 (1.69%) Metadata
14 6 (1.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 140 (39.44%) Jenkins
2 104 (29.30%) Git
3 59 (16.62%) GitLab
4 34 (9.58%) Artifactory
5 16 (4.51%) JUnit
6 9 (2.54%) Maven
7 7 (1.97%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.69%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.41%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.41%) Sourcetree
10 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.13%) JMeter
10 4 (1.13%) Mockito
10 4 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.13%) Subversion
11 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.56%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.28%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.28%) Mocha
13 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 147 (41.41%) Finance
2 98 (27.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 96 (27.04%) Law
4 60 (16.90%) Social Skills
5 52 (14.65%) Legal
6 37 (10.42%) Public Sector
7 32 (9.01%) Front Office
8 22 (6.20%) Games
9 20 (5.63%) Marketing
10 16 (4.51%) Automotive
11 10 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.54%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.69%) Retail
14 5 (1.41%) Retail Finance
15 2 (0.56%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.28%) Advertising
16 1 (0.28%) Banking
16 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.28%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 111 (31.27%) AWS Engineer
2 99 (27.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 91 (25.63%) Developer
4 87 (24.51%) Lead
5 81 (22.82%) Software Engineer
6 63 (17.75%) Java Developer
7 60 (16.90%) AWS DevOps
8 53 (14.93%) AWS Software Engineer
8 53 (14.93%) Senior
9 51 (14.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 51 (14.37%) Big Data Engineer
9 51 (14.37%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 51 (14.37%) Scala Engineer
9 51 (14.37%) Scala Software Engineer
10 36 (10.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 33 (9.30%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 28 (7.89%) Lead DevOps
13 26 (7.32%) Full Stack Developer
14 23 (6.48%) Full Stack Java Developer
15 22 (6.20%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (22.54%) Spring
2 76 (21.41%) Spring Boot
3 75 (21.13%) Node.js
4 63 (17.75%) .NET
5 62 (17.46%) AngularJS
5 62 (17.46%) REST
6 53 (14.93%) Web Services
7 47 (13.24%) Apache Camel
8 45 (12.68%) JSON
9 43 (12.11%) Elastic Stack
10 40 (11.27%) J2EE
10 40 (11.27%) XML
11 25 (7.04%) Kafka
11 25 (7.04%) RESTful
12 23 (6.48%) AWS CDK
13 18 (5.07%) React
14 17 (4.79%) HTML
14 17 (4.79%) Lambda Expressions
15 13 (3.66%) CSS
16 12 (3.38%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 66 (18.59%) Algorithms
2 46 (12.96%) Distributed Systems
3 32 (9.01%) Tandem
4 22 (6.20%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.51%) Mobile App
6 15 (4.23%) Data Structures
7 13 (3.66%) Greenfield Project
8 11 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.82%) Client/Server
9 10 (2.82%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (2.25%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
13 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (0.85%) IoT
14 2 (0.56%) Blockchain
14 2 (0.56%) Data Centre
14 2 (0.56%) Equities
15 1 (0.28%) Cyber Defence
15 1 (0.28%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.42%) Linux
2 9 (2.54%) Windows
3 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.85%) Unix
4 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) CentOS
5 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (63.66%) CI/CD
2 214 (60.28%) Agile
3 196 (55.21%) DevOps
4 150 (42.25%) Software Engineering
5 113 (31.83%) Microservices
6 77 (21.69%) SDLC
7 76 (21.41%) Scrum
8 75 (21.13%) Containerisation
9 66 (18.59%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (18.31%) Kanban
11 64 (18.03%) TDD
12 59 (16.62%) BDD
13 57 (16.06%) Visualisation
14 54 (15.21%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (15.21%) Operational Stability
15 52 (14.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (14.65%) Performance Tuning
16 51 (14.37%) Risk Management
17 50 (14.08%) Mentoring
18 49 (13.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 205 (57.75%) Java
2 162 (45.63%) Python
3 120 (33.80%) SQL
4 95 (26.76%) JavaScript
5 51 (14.37%) Scala
6 49 (13.80%) Go
7 20 (5.63%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.79%) C#
9 16 (4.51%) Shell Script
10 13 (3.66%) PHP
11 11 (3.10%) Bash
12 9 (2.54%) Rust
13 8 (2.25%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.25%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.41%) VBA
15 4 (1.13%) Ruby
16 3 (0.85%) Swift
17 2 (0.56%) Groovy
18 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 64 (18.03%) Security Cleared
2 54 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 52 (14.65%) AWS Certification
4 20 (5.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 15 (4.23%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.13%) Degree
7 4 (1.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.28%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 199 (56.06%) Docker
2 31 (8.73%) Hyper-V
3 19 (5.35%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) etcd
Systems Management
1 200 (56.34%) Kubernetes
2 178 (50.14%) Terraform
3 81 (22.82%) Ansible
4 28 (7.89%) Puppet
5 23 (6.48%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.07%) Grafana
7 17 (4.79%) Consul
8 15 (4.23%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.97%) Kibana
10 6 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.85%) Argo
12 2 (0.56%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.28%) logstash
13 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 42 (11.83%) WSO2
2 28 (7.89%) Splunk
3 22 (6.20%) Dynatrace
3 22 (6.20%) ForgeRock
4 16 (4.51%) Google
4 16 (4.51%) Sitecore
5 15 (4.23%) Microsoft
6 11 (3.10%) Oracle
7 6 (1.69%) Zscaler
8 3 (0.85%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.56%) VMware
10 1 (0.28%) Databricks
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.28%) Wallstreet Suite