Amazon ECS Job Trends in England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 505 347 557
Rank change year-on-year -158 +210 +73
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 179 292 265
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.80% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 2.13% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 104 244 215
10th Percentile £50,000 £60,000 £53,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £71,875 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £108,750 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.14% +35.94% +6.67%
75th Percentile £85,231 £130,313 £102,500
90th Percentile £102,625 £138,750 £112,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £107,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -32.56% +34.38% +6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Amazon ECS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23,809 13,694 29,113
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.16% 37.47% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 12,861 10,202 24,177
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon ECS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in England

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in England over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in England

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the England region over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +9 109 £75,000 +8.09% 26
Yorkshire +22 88 £72,500 +16.00% 13
London -177 41 £82,838 -24.69% 40
South East -50 19 £62,500 - 17
North West -25 18 £90,000 +29.71% 13
South West - 10 £52,500 - 6
Midlands -62 9 £50,000 -16.67% 2
West Midlands -29 8 £50,000 -16.67% 1
North East -32 3 £73,801 +6.37%
East of England -39 1 £80,150 -10.94% 2
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 15 (8.38%) OpenStack
2 3 (1.68%) JBoss
3 2 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.12%) Confluence
3 2 (1.12%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) Drupal
4 1 (0.56%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.56%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.56%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 179 (100.00%) AWS
2 143 (79.89%) Serverless
3 111 (62.01%) AWS Lambda
4 107 (59.78%) Amazon S3
5 94 (52.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 66 (36.87%) Amazon ECR
7 62 (34.64%) AWS Step Functions
8 51 (28.49%) Amazon EKS
9 48 (26.82%) Apigee
10 45 (25.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 38 (21.23%) Amazon SQS
12 37 (20.67%) Azure
13 31 (17.32%) GitHub
14 29 (16.20%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 28 (15.64%) GCP
16 23 (12.85%) Amazon EC2
17 20 (11.17%) Datadog
18 18 (10.06%) GitHub Actions
19 17 (9.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 11 (6.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.06%) TCP/IP
2 6 (3.35%) BGP
2 6 (3.35%) VLAN
2 6 (3.35%) VPN
3 4 (2.23%) Network Security
4 3 (1.68%) Firewall
5 2 (1.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (44.13%) DynamoDB
2 40 (22.35%) Amazon RDS
3 37 (20.67%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (13.97%) Relational Database
5 24 (13.41%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (10.61%) NoSQL
7 14 (7.82%) Elasticsearch
8 12 (6.70%) Redis
9 11 (6.15%) MySQL
10 7 (3.91%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.91%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
13 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
13 1 (0.56%) InterSystems Cache
13 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 90 (50.28%) Jenkins
2 51 (28.49%) GitLab
3 41 (22.91%) Maven
4 40 (22.35%) Cypress.io
4 40 (22.35%) Git
4 40 (22.35%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.79%) JMeter
5 5 (2.79%) JUnit
6 4 (2.23%) Bitbucket
6 4 (2.23%) Cucumber
6 4 (2.23%) Mockito
6 4 (2.23%) Selenium
7 3 (1.68%) JIRA
7 3 (1.68%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.56%) Gatling
8 1 (0.56%) git-flow
8 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.56%) Vagrant
General
1 37 (20.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (12.85%) Public Sector
3 22 (12.29%) Finance
4 17 (9.50%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (7.82%) Banking
6 11 (6.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.47%) Law
7 8 (4.47%) Retail
8 7 (3.91%) Advertising
9 6 (3.35%) Back Office
9 6 (3.35%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.68%) Legal
11 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.12%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.56%) Front Office
12 1 (0.56%) Games
12 1 (0.56%) iGaming
12 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 97 (54.19%) Developer
2 75 (41.90%) Java Developer
3 40 (22.35%) Senior
4 30 (16.76%) Full-Stack Developer
5 21 (11.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 20 (11.17%) Lead
6 20 (11.17%) Senior Developer
7 19 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (9.50%) AWS Developer
9 14 (7.82%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (7.26%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (6.15%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (5.03%) Software Engineer
13 8 (4.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 7 (3.91%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.91%) Platform Engineer
14 7 (3.91%) Technical Leader
15 6 (3.35%) Lead Developer
15 6 (3.35%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (43.58%) Spring Boot
2 77 (43.02%) AngularJS
3 59 (32.96%) Node.js
4 50 (27.93%) Spring
5 40 (22.35%) Gherkin
5 40 (22.35%) Jest
6 32 (17.88%) REST
7 29 (16.20%) React
8 22 (12.29%) Web Services
9 19 (10.61%) Elastic Stack
10 15 (8.38%) Django
10 15 (8.38%) Kafka
11 11 (6.15%) AWS CDK
12 10 (5.59%) Apache Camel
13 9 (5.03%) Mustache
13 9 (5.03%) RESTful
13 9 (5.03%) XML
14 8 (4.47%) OpenTelemetry
15 6 (3.35%) JSON
16 5 (2.79%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (28.49%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (12.85%) Cloud Native
3 9 (5.03%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.79%) Blog
4 5 (2.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.23%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.68%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.12%) NHS
8 1 (0.56%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.56%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.56%) Hackathon
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.56%) PKI
8 1 (0.56%) Web3
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.08%) Linux
2 10 (5.59%) Unix
3 6 (3.35%) Windows
4 4 (2.23%) CentOS
5 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (72.07%) CI/CD
1 129 (72.07%) DevOps
2 78 (43.58%) Agile
3 66 (36.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 47 (26.26%) Full-Stack Development
5 45 (25.14%) Microservices
6 38 (21.23%) Observability
7 34 (18.99%) Containerisation
7 34 (18.99%) SDLC
8 33 (18.44%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (17.88%) TDD
10 29 (16.20%) Secure Coding
11 28 (15.64%) Clean Code
12 25 (13.97%) Scrum
13 24 (13.41%) ITIL
14 23 (12.85%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 21 (11.73%) BDD
15 21 (11.73%) Mentoring
16 20 (11.17%) Continuous Integration
16 20 (11.17%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 109 (60.89%) Java
2 73 (40.78%) TypeScript
3 58 (32.40%) Python
4 53 (29.61%) Bash
5 40 (22.35%) Groovy
5 40 (22.35%) JavaScript
6 29 (16.20%) SQL
7 26 (14.53%) Kotlin
8 13 (7.26%) Go
9 9 (5.03%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.79%) PHP
11 4 (2.23%) PL/SQL
11 4 (2.23%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.56%) C#
12 1 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 40 (22.35%) AWS Certification
2 36 (20.11%) Security Cleared
3 30 (16.76%) SC Cleared
4 24 (13.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 23 (12.85%) ITIL Certification
6 9 (5.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (5.03%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (2.23%) Degree
8 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 1 (0.56%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.56%) PhD
9 1 (0.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.03%) QA
2 7 (3.91%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.35%) SOC 2
4 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 122 (68.16%) Docker
2 4 (2.23%) iptables
3 1 (0.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 73 (40.78%) Terraform
2 54 (30.17%) Kubernetes
3 40 (22.35%) HP Fortify
4 30 (16.76%) Ansible
5 15 (8.38%) Grafana
6 9 (5.03%) Prometheus
7 8 (4.47%) Kibana
8 6 (3.35%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.79%) AWS Copilot
9 5 (2.79%) Nagios
9 5 (2.79%) Puppet
10 3 (1.68%) Scalr
11 1 (0.56%) Argo
11 1 (0.56%) Consul
11 1 (0.56%) Packer
11 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 11 (6.15%) Google
2 9 (5.03%) Splunk
3 6 (3.35%) Pega
3 6 (3.35%) Red Hat
3 6 (3.35%) WSO2
4 5 (2.79%) AppDynamics
5 4 (2.23%) Dynatrace
5 4 (2.23%) IBM
5 4 (2.23%) Microsoft
5 4 (2.23%) Oracle
5 4 (2.23%) Rapid7
6 3 (1.68%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.56%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.56%) Charles River
7 1 (0.56%) New Relic
7 1 (0.56%) TOWER Software