Amazon ECS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 123 148
Rank change year-on-year +18 +25 +18
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 11 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.68% 0.27% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 0.81% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 12
10th Percentile £409 £508 £489
25th Percentile £419 £510 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -13.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £552 £538 -
90th Percentile £564 £583 -
UK median daily rate £650 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +27.45% -15.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 1 May 2025. 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 +7 5 £530 +1.92%
Glasgow +6 5 £409 -27.09% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Serverless
2 10 (90.91%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (63.64%) Amazon S3
3 7 (63.64%) AWS Fargate
4 6 (54.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 6 (54.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (45.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 5 (45.45%) AWS CodeBuild
5 5 (45.45%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 5 (45.45%) AWS CodePipeline
5 5 (45.45%) OpenShift
5 5 (45.45%) PaaS
5 5 (45.45%) Route 53
5 5 (45.45%) SaaS
6 2 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) FTP
2 1 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (9.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (18.18%) Big Data
2 2 (18.18%) InfluxDB
2 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
3 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (27.27%) Artifactory
3 3 (27.27%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) Mockito
4 1 (9.09%) Toad
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Developer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Python Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) AWS CDK
2 3 (27.27%) React
3 2 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (9.09%) Apache Camel
4 1 (9.09%) JWT
4 1 (9.09%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (9.09%) Loki
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
4 1 (9.09%) OpenID
4 1 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) SAML
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Batch
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Cloud Native
2 4 (36.36%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (18.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 4 (36.36%) Kanban
3 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
3 4 (36.36%) Scrum
3 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) Human-Centred Design
5 2 (18.18%) Inclusive Design
5 2 (18.18%) Microservices
5 2 (18.18%) Software Delivery
6 1 (9.09%) Batch Processing
6 1 (9.09%) Design Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Patterns
6 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
6 1 (9.09%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) Groovy
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Java
4 1 (9.09%) PL/SQL
4 1 (9.09%) SQL
4 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) OCP
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (9.09%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Grafana
3 3 (27.27%) Kibana
4 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
5 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
5 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Imperva
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian
2 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
2 1 (9.09%) Okta
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Talend