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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 79 78
Rank change year-on-year +14 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 14 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.88% 0.63% 0.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.07% 1.64% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 2
10th Percentile £306 - £517
25th Percentile £311 - £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £323 £409 £561
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% -27.09% -6.50%
75th Percentile £390 £550 £602
90th Percentile £419 £580 £616
Scotland median daily rate £358 £525 £521
% change year-on-year -31.81% +0.77% -13.17%

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 344 304 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 46.24% 38.38% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 210 223
10th Percentile £313 £313 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year - -2.17% -7.63%
75th Percentile £570 £550 £516
90th Percentile £675 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £465 £463
% change year-on-year +2.15% +0.54% -2.63%
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% -66.66%
75th Percentile £46.25 £27.75 £34.59
90th Percentile £48.50 - £46.08
Scotland median hourly rate £14.44 £24.09 £17.00
% change year-on-year -40.06% +41.71% -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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
1 14 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 14 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 14 (100.00%) Serverless
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (64.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 7 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (42.86%) Amazon S3
6 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (35.71%) AWS KMS
7 4 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (28.57%) Amazon SageMaker
7 4 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (21.43%) AWS CodeBuild
8 3 (21.43%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 2 (14.29%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (14.29%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (64.29%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (35.71%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (35.71%) DynamoDB
3 2 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) GitLab
2 5 (35.71%) Bitbucket
2 5 (35.71%) Git
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 5 (35.71%) JIRA
2 5 (35.71%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 6 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Data Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) PySpark
2 5 (35.71%) OAuth
2 5 (35.71%) OAuth2
3 4 (28.57%) Node.js
4 3 (21.43%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) Data Engineering
4 6 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (42.86%) Migration
4 6 (42.86%) Observability
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
5 5 (35.71%) Microservices
6 4 (28.57%) AI
6 4 (28.57%) Data Science
6 4 (28.57%) ETL
6 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (21.43%) Identity Management
7 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (14.29%) Data Modelling
8 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Java
3 4 (28.57%) Perl
3 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 4 (28.57%) Ruby
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (21.43%) Grafana
2 3 (21.43%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Databricks
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft