Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 105 139
Rank change year-on-year +1 +34 +21
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 3 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.19% 0.64% 0.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 1.95% 1.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile £501 £488 £450
25th Percentile £503 £497 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £528 £528 £538
90th Percentile £534 £537 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -

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 560 615 854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.20% 32.96% 33.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 404 610
10th Percentile £315 £213 £299
25th Percentile £420 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £547
90th Percentile £625 £610 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 4
10th Percentile £19.58 £15.84 £14.53
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.19 £16.58
Median hourly rate £37.55 £20.29 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +85.09% -14.98% +30.85%
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £39.06
90th Percentile £55.51 - £50.88
UK median hourly rate £28.88 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -3.75% -14.29% +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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Amazon ECS

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 September 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 0 2 £513 -0.97% 8
Glasgow -15 1 - - 2
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 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
3 1 (33.33%) CloudFront
3 1 (33.33%) Dagster
3 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (33.33%) PaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Route 53
3 1 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Camel
2 1 (33.33%) boto
2 1 (33.33%) Hugging Face
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) Loki
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) OAuth
2 1 (33.33%) OpenCV
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PyTorch
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
2 1 (33.33%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) OOP
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Code Coverage
3 1 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (33.33%) Deep Learning
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) OCP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Kibana
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform