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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 80 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 -15 +11
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 10 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.92% 0.14% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.48% 0.38% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £370 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £555 - -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £513 £516
% change year-on-year -17.07% -0.73% +3.25%

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 403 265 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 37.11% 36.20% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 175 152
10th Percentile £320 £313 £200
25th Percentile £400 £408 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £475 £439
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +8.26% -12.25%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £513
90th Percentile £644 £637 £587
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - £15.09 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year - -20.58% -66.96%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £15.09 £18.69
% change year-on-year +4.77% -19.25% -57.29%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 26 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in Glasgow

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Amazon EKS
3 6 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (60.00%) Serverless
4 5 (50.00%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (40.00%) Kong
6 3 (30.00%) Apigee
6 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (20.00%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
8 1 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (10.00%) Boomi
8 1 (10.00%) dbt
8 1 (10.00%) SaaS
8 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) git-flow
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Maven
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
2 1 (10.00%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Leader
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 5 (50.00%) RESTful
3 4 (40.00%) OpenAPI
3 4 (40.00%) Swagger
4 3 (30.00%) JWT
5 2 (20.00%) REST
5 2 (20.00%) SOAP
5 2 (20.00%) Spring
5 2 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (20.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) boto
6 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
6 1 (10.00%) Kafka
6 1 (10.00%) Node.js
6 1 (10.00%) OAuth
6 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
6 1 (10.00%) OpenID
6 1 (10.00%) PySpark
6 1 (10.00%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) API Management
2 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 4 (40.00%) Operational Stability
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (30.00%) Microservices
4 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 2 (20.00%) API Development
5 2 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (20.00%) Validation
6 1 (10.00%) API Design
6 1 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
6 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
6 1 (10.00%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (10.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Go
1 4 (40.00%) Lua
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks