Amazon ECS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Amazon ECS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 149 169
Rank change year-on-year +29 +20 -16
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 6 18 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.28% 0.64% 0.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.84% 1.75% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 4
10th Percentile £508 £493 £498
25th Percentile £510 £503 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% -6.67% +9.76%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £609
90th Percentile £583 - £649
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +9.09%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Amazon ECS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 717 1,026 1,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.01% 36.53% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 772 789
10th Percentile £250 £250 £300
25th Percentile £371 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +8.57%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £647 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 20
10th Percentile £15.36 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.42 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.50 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £28.06 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.72%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in Scotland

Amazon ECS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Amazon ECS in Scotland

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +35 3 £520 +2.46%
Glasgow -4 2 £561 -6.50%
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 6 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon S3
2 5 (83.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (83.33%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (16.67%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (50.00%) InfluxDB
2 3 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Artifactory
1 5 (83.33%) GitLab
1 5 (83.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) AWS DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) AWS CDK
2 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (83.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Observability
3 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) Kanban
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
6 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
6 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (16.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
6 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Bash
1 5 (83.33%) Groovy
1 5 (83.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (83.33%) Ansible
2 5 (83.33%) Grafana
2 5 (83.33%) Kibana
3 4 (66.67%) Terraform
4 1 (16.67%) Knative