Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 78 71
Rank change year-on-year +2 -7 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.74% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.70% 0.36% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £303 - -
25th Percentile £306 - £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £600 £522
Median % change year-on-year -48.40% +14.94% -13.00%
75th Percentile £313 - £533
90th Percentile £313 - -
Scotland median daily rate £313 £533 £520
% change year-on-year -41.17% +2.40% -0.95%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Glasgow

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 requiring cloud computing skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 353 275 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 43.31% 37.01% 36.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 187 218
10th Percentile £313 £313 £209
25th Percentile £363 £403 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.08% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £512
90th Percentile £675 £589 £588
Scotland median daily rate £475 £471 £453
% change year-on-year +0.84% +3.98% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £15.09 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +131.94% -71.26% +50.00%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £14.44 £21.22 £17.00
% change year-on-year -31.95% +24.82% -71.92%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon ECS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Step Functions
3 4 (66.67%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (50.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (50.00%) AWS KMS
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (16.67%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (83.33%) DynamoDB
2 2 (33.33%) Metadata
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) AWS Data Engineer
4 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Automation Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Senior
5 1 (16.67%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth
1 5 (83.33%) OAuth2
2 3 (50.00%) JWT
3 2 (33.33%) PySpark
4 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
3 4 (66.67%) DevOps
4 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Identity Management
4 3 (50.00%) Migration
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (33.33%) ETL
5 2 (33.33%) ETL Development
5 2 (33.33%) Metadata Management
5 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Validation
6 1 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 1 (16.67%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Grafana
1 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle