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 23 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 79 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 -17 -
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 17 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.43% 0.28% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.00% 0.72% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £543 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.34% +20.67% -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile £465 - -
Scotland median daily rate £402 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -23.43% +2.44% +2.50%

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 425 277 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.80% 38.47% 30.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 180 141
10th Percentile £320 £347 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £496 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% +10.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £549 £575 £538
90th Percentile £643 £640 £614
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -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% -46.22%
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
% change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% -11.39%

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 23 September 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 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (17.65%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 12 (70.59%) Amazon EKS
3 10 (58.82%) AWS Lambda
3 10 (58.82%) Serverless
4 8 (47.06%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (41.18%) Kong
6 6 (35.29%) Apigee
7 5 (29.41%) Amazon S3
7 5 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (29.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (23.53%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (17.65%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (11.76%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (11.76%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (5.88%) AWS KMS
11 1 (5.88%) Boomi
11 1 (5.88%) Route 53
11 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SSL
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Delta Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (5.88%) Flink
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) git-flow
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Mockito
3 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Lead
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Integration Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (5.88%) webMethods Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Terraform
2 8 (47.06%) RESTful
3 7 (41.18%) OpenAPI
3 7 (41.18%) Swagger
4 3 (17.65%) JWT
4 3 (17.65%) Kafka
4 3 (17.65%) PySpark
4 3 (17.65%) REST
4 3 (17.65%) SOAP
4 3 (17.65%) Spring
4 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
6 1 (5.88%) .NET
6 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
6 1 (5.88%) EDI
6 1 (5.88%) EDIFACT
6 1 (5.88%) Hibernate
6 1 (5.88%) OAuth
6 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
6 1 (5.88%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 12 (70.59%) DevOps
3 8 (47.06%) API Management
4 7 (41.18%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (41.18%) Operational Stability
5 4 (23.53%) Microservices
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) AI
6 3 (17.65%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (17.65%) ETL
6 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) API Development
7 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Data Science
7 2 (11.76%) MLOps
7 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Go
1 7 (41.18%) Lua
2 4 (23.53%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C#
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) MuleSoft
2 3 (17.65%) Databricks
3 1 (5.88%) webMethods