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 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 399 497
Rank change year-on-year -63 +98 +77
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 140 281 188
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.26% 0.58% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.75% 1.59% 0.95%
Number of salaries quoted 86 234 152
10th Percentile £50,000 £64,471 £50,125
25th Percentile £56,250 £85,000 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,151 £107,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.95% +43.33% -4.76%
75th Percentile £80,000 £136,250 £90,313
90th Percentile £109,375 £147,500 £112,500
UK median annual salary £73,151 £107,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -31.95% +48.28% -9.38%

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 18,614 17,629 19,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 35.06% 36.56% 40.41%
Number of salaries quoted 10,405 10,454 16,588
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,331 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £103,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +60 60 £73,801 +6.48% 39
Yorkshire - 48 £73,750 - 22
London -118 43 £75,000 -31.82% 34
South East +12 19 £62,500 - 56
Midlands +29 17 £50,000 -27.86% 14
West Midlands +27 16 £56,250 -18.84% 7
South West +10 11 £62,500 -10.71% 18
North West +23 9 £73,801 +2.28% 12
East of England +28 3 £60,000 -52.00% 32
North East +10 3 £73,801 +6.48% 5
East Midlands - 1 £46,000 - 7
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 13 (9.29%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.86%) Confluence
2 4 (2.86%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.71%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 140 (100.00%) AWS
2 98 (70.00%) Serverless
3 66 (47.14%) AWS Lambda
4 65 (46.43%) Amazon S3
5 59 (42.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 49 (35.00%) Amazon EKS
7 38 (27.14%) Amazon ECR
8 31 (22.14%) Amazon EC2
9 28 (20.00%) Azure
10 27 (19.29%) AWS Step Functions
11 23 (16.43%) Amazon SQS
12 22 (15.71%) Apigee
13 19 (13.57%) GCP
13 19 (13.57%) GitHub
14 17 (12.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (9.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (8.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (8.57%) Pulumi
17 11 (7.86%) dbt
18 10 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (11.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (5.00%) DNS
3 5 (3.57%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) HTTP
3 5 (3.57%) VPN
4 4 (2.86%) FTP
4 4 (2.86%) IMAP
4 4 (2.86%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (2.86%) SMTP
4 4 (2.86%) SSH
5 3 (2.14%) BGP
5 3 (2.14%) VLAN
6 2 (1.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (35.00%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (25.71%) Amazon RDS
3 33 (23.57%) DynamoDB
4 28 (20.00%) Relational Database
5 13 (9.29%) Elasticsearch
5 13 (9.29%) RDBMS
6 12 (8.57%) Redis
7 7 (5.00%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.00%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.86%) MySQL
10 2 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
11 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 73 (52.14%) Jenkins
2 34 (24.29%) GitLab
3 30 (21.43%) Git
4 20 (14.29%) Cypress.io
4 20 (14.29%) Maven
4 20 (14.29%) SonarQube
5 14 (10.00%) JUnit
6 13 (9.29%) JMeter
6 13 (9.29%) Mockito
7 4 (2.86%) JIRA
7 4 (2.86%) Vagrant
8 3 (2.14%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.71%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.71%) Selenium
General
1 30 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 26 (18.57%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.57%) Finance
4 11 (7.86%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Banking
5 6 (4.29%) Law
6 4 (2.86%) Advertising
6 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.86%) Retail
7 3 (2.14%) Back Office
7 3 (2.14%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.43%) Games
9 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Front Office
9 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (37.14%) Developer
2 44 (31.43%) Java Developer
3 29 (20.71%) Senior
4 25 (17.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 22 (15.71%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 20 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (12.14%) Lead
8 16 (11.43%) Software Engineer
9 13 (9.29%) AWS Engineer
10 11 (7.86%) Mid-Level Java Developer
11 10 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
12 9 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 9 (6.43%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 9 (6.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 7 (5.00%) AWS Developer
13 7 (5.00%) AWS DevOps
13 7 (5.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 7 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
13 7 (5.00%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (42.14%) Spring Boot
2 51 (36.43%) Spring
3 37 (26.43%) AngularJS
4 35 (25.00%) Node.js
5 34 (24.29%) REST
6 25 (17.86%) React
7 23 (16.43%) Web Services
8 21 (15.00%) Jest
9 20 (14.29%) Gherkin
10 17 (12.14%) Apache Camel
11 15 (10.71%) Elastic Stack
11 15 (10.71%) HTML
11 15 (10.71%) JSON
11 15 (10.71%) XML
12 13 (9.29%) ActiveMQ
12 13 (9.29%) AWS CDK
12 13 (9.29%) Django
12 13 (9.29%) Hibernate
12 13 (9.29%) jQuery
12 13 (9.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.29%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (20.71%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.86%) Replication
5 3 (2.14%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.14%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.71%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.71%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.71%) Blog
7 1 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.71%) Equities
7 1 (0.71%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.71%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.57%) Linux
2 11 (7.86%) Unix
3 8 (5.71%) Windows
4 4 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (2.86%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.86%) VMS
5 1 (0.71%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (81.43%) CI/CD
2 99 (70.71%) DevOps
3 57 (40.71%) Agile
4 56 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 52 (37.14%) Microservices
6 51 (36.43%) Full-Stack Development
7 30 (21.43%) TDD
8 29 (20.71%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (20.00%) Observability
9 28 (20.00%) SDLC
10 27 (19.29%) Software Engineering
11 24 (17.14%) Scrum
12 23 (16.43%) Clean Code
13 22 (15.71%) BDD
13 22 (15.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 19 (13.57%) Workflow
15 16 (11.43%) Containerisation
15 16 (11.43%) Platform Engineering
16 15 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (10.71%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 78 (55.71%) Java
2 62 (44.29%) Python
3 50 (35.71%) TypeScript
4 45 (32.14%) JavaScript
5 34 (24.29%) Bash
6 23 (16.43%) Groovy
7 14 (10.00%) SQL
8 13 (9.29%) PowerShell
8 13 (9.29%) Shell Script
9 8 (5.71%) Go
10 5 (3.57%) Kotlin
11 3 (2.14%) PHP
12 2 (1.43%) C#
13 1 (0.71%) Perl
Qualifications
1 43 (30.71%) Security Cleared
2 31 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 29 (20.71%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 8 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (4.29%) Degree
8 5 (3.57%) AWS Certified Developer
9 4 (2.86%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.43%) SnowPro
11 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.71%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.29%) QA
2 4 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.86%) SOC 2
3 3 (2.14%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) GDPR
System Software
1 86 (61.43%) Docker
2 4 (2.86%) DFS Replication
2 4 (2.86%) Dovecot
2 4 (2.86%) Postfix
2 4 (2.86%) Squid
3 2 (1.43%) iptables
Systems Management
1 63 (45.00%) Kubernetes
2 56 (40.00%) Terraform
3 22 (15.71%) Ansible
4 20 (14.29%) HP Fortify
5 15 (10.71%) Grafana
6 13 (9.29%) Kibana
7 11 (7.86%) Prometheus
8 6 (4.29%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (2.86%) Nessus
9 4 (2.86%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.43%) Argo
10 2 (1.43%) Progress Chef
10 2 (1.43%) Puppet
11 1 (0.71%) Istio
11 1 (0.71%) Nagios
11 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (10.71%) Splunk
2 13 (9.29%) Dynatrace
3 11 (7.86%) Google
4 4 (2.86%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (2.86%) Pega
4 4 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.86%) WSO2
5 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.71%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.71%) Charles River
5 1 (0.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (0.71%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.71%) Rapid7
5 1 (0.71%) Red Hat