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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 85 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 -17 +12
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 7 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.68% 0.24% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 0.65% 0.38%
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 £344 - -
Scotland median daily rate £375 £563 £520
% change year-on-year -33.33% +8.17% +0.97%

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 401 306 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.12% 37.32% 34.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 211 195
10th Percentile £313 £350 £200
25th Percentile £365 £408 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £472 £440
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% +7.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £500
90th Percentile £663 £650 £591
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
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% +13.51%
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £17.00
% change year-on-year -25.49% +24.82% -70.43%

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 6 (85.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (71.43%) AWS Step Functions
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (42.86%) Amazon S3
4 3 (42.86%) AWS CodeBuild
4 3 (42.86%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 3 (42.86%) AWS CodePipeline
4 3 (42.86%) AWS KMS
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (28.57%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (14.29%) dbt
6 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
6 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Amazon Athena
1 5 (71.43%) DynamoDB
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Iceberg
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Data Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Data Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) OAuth
1 5 (71.43%) OAuth2
2 3 (42.86%) JWT
2 3 (42.86%) PySpark
3 1 (14.29%) boto
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (14.29%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Automation
1 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
3 3 (42.86%) Data Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
3 3 (42.86%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) ETL Development
4 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
5 1 (14.29%) AI
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Grafana
1 3 (42.86%) Prometheus
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks