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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 77 72
Rank change year-on-year +21 -5 +13
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 18 8 4
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 2.49% 0.98% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.12% 2.54% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 2
10th Percentile £306 - £517
25th Percentile £311 - £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £342 £409 £561
Median % change year-on-year -16.50% -27.09% -6.50%
75th Percentile £400 £475 £602
90th Percentile £432 £565 £616
Scotland median daily rate £400 £500 £522
% change year-on-year -20.00% -4.21% -8.82%

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 294 315 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.66% 38.56% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 222 203
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £382 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -4.23%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 £25.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.50 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +60.38% +71.85% -55.94%
75th Percentile £46.25 £27.75 £34.59
90th Percentile £48.50 - £46.08
Scotland median hourly rate £42.50 £24.18 £17.00
% change year-on-year +75.77% +42.24% -28.70%

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 5 March 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 2 (11.11%) Apache
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 18 (100.00%) AWS
1 18 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 18 (100.00%) Serverless
2 17 (94.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (72.22%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 9 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (38.89%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (38.89%) Amazon S3
6 5 (27.78%) AWS KMS
7 4 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (22.22%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (16.67%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (16.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 2 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (11.11%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (5.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (27.78%) DynamoDB
4 2 (11.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (11.11%) Delta Lake
4 2 (11.11%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) GitLab
2 8 (44.44%) Bitbucket
2 8 (44.44%) Git
2 8 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 8 (44.44%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (11.11%) MLflow
General
1 9 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) AWS Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Senior
4 4 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) AWS Data Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Lead
5 2 (11.11%) Technical Leader
6 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Migration Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (38.89%) Node.js
2 6 (33.33%) OAuth
2 6 (33.33%) PySpark
3 5 (27.78%) OAuth2
4 4 (22.22%) JWT
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CDK
5 1 (5.56%) boto
5 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
5 1 (5.56%) NumPy
5 1 (5.56%) OpenCV
5 1 (5.56%) Pandas
5 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) CI/CD
1 11 (61.11%) DevOps
2 9 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 8 (44.44%) Microservices
4 7 (38.89%) Containerisation
5 6 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 6 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (33.33%) Migration
5 6 (33.33%) Observability
6 5 (27.78%) AI
6 5 (27.78%) ETL
7 4 (22.22%) Data Science
7 4 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
8 3 (16.67%) Identity Management
8 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
9 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (11.11%) ETL Development
9 2 (11.11%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (94.44%) Python
2 8 (44.44%) Java
3 7 (38.89%) Perl
3 7 (38.89%) PowerShell
3 7 (38.89%) Ruby
4 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) AWS Certification
2 3 (16.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Docker
2 4 (22.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (22.22%) Grafana
3 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (5.56%) Ansible
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 3 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft