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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 67 76
Rank change year-on-year +1 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 13 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.69% 0.95% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 3.23% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 1
10th Percentile £310 - -
25th Percentile £347 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £379 £409 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% -31.83% -
75th Percentile £408 - £625
90th Percentile £445 £430 -
Scotland median daily rate £418 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -16.50% -4.76% -

All Cloud 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 305 217 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 39.71% 29.40% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 142 189
10th Percentile £316 £313 £350
25th Percentile £408 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £637
90th Percentile £648 £618 £717
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Median hourly rate - £22.75 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year - +47.54% +17.17%
Scotland median hourly rate £36.95 £23.50 £16.57
% change year-on-year +57.24% +41.82% -6.49%

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 27 November 2025.

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 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
1 13 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 13 (100.00%) Serverless
2 12 (92.31%) AWS CloudFormation
3 9 (69.23%) Amazon EKS
3 9 (69.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 8 (61.54%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (46.15%) Amazon MSK
5 6 (46.15%) Amazon S3
6 4 (30.77%) Amazon SageMaker
6 4 (30.77%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (7.69%) Datadog
8 1 (7.69%) GitHub
8 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (15.38%) Data Lake
3 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (15.38%) Delta Lake
4 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (69.23%) GitLab
2 8 (61.54%) Jenkins
3 7 (53.85%) Bitbucket
3 7 (53.85%) Git
3 7 (53.85%) JIRA
3 7 (53.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (15.38%) MLflow
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 5 (38.46%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Senior
3 4 (30.77%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) AWS Data Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) Lead
5 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
6 1 (7.69%) Architect
6 1 (7.69%) AWS Architect
6 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Migration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) Node.js
2 4 (30.77%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (7.69%) Apache Camel
3 1 (7.69%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.69%) boto
3 1 (7.69%) JSON
3 1 (7.69%) JWT
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) NumPy
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OpenCV
3 1 (7.69%) Pandas
3 1 (7.69%) PyTorch
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Spring Boot
3 1 (7.69%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
1 8 (61.54%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) Containerisation
3 5 (38.46%) AI
4 4 (30.77%) Data Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (30.77%) Data Science
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Unit Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) ETL
5 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Machine Learning
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
6 2 (15.38%) Kanban
6 2 (15.38%) OOP
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 8 (61.54%) Java
3 6 (46.15%) Perl
3 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
3 6 (46.15%) Ruby
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) Docker
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) Databricks
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft