Amazon ECS Job Trends in London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 206 347
Rank change year-on-year -125 +141 +104
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 43 250 96
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 1.61% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.74% 3.56% 1.13%
Number of salaries quoted 24 210 71
10th Percentile £56,625 £65,000 £60,200
25th Percentile £68,484 £95,000 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £110,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £111,250 £138,750 £112,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £147,500 £138,750
England median annual salary £73,151 £107,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -31.95% +43.33% -4.76%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,795 7,025 8,513
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 41.09% 45.28% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3,764 4,482 7,052
10th Percentile £37,375 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £120,000 £115,000
England 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 London

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in London

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in London

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South London +25 12 £70,000 +12.00% 5
Central London +31 6 £75,000 -11.76% 9
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (2.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (2.33%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 43 (100.00%) AWS
2 27 (62.79%) Serverless
3 23 (53.49%) Amazon EKS
4 21 (48.84%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (30.23%) Amazon S3
5 13 (30.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 13 (30.23%) AWS Lambda
6 9 (20.93%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (18.60%) Azure
8 7 (16.28%) GCP
8 7 (16.28%) GitHub
9 6 (13.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (11.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (11.63%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (11.63%) Datadog
11 4 (9.30%) AWS Fargate
11 4 (9.30%) dbt
11 4 (9.30%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (9.30%) Pulumi
11 4 (9.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.60%) TCP/IP
2 4 (9.30%) VPN
3 3 (6.98%) BGP
3 3 (6.98%) VLAN
4 1 (2.33%) DNS
4 1 (2.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (44.19%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (30.23%) Relational Database
3 12 (27.91%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (25.58%) RDBMS
5 5 (11.63%) DynamoDB
5 5 (11.63%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (11.63%) MongoDB
5 5 (11.63%) Redis
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.33%) MySQL
7 1 (2.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (41.86%) Jenkins
2 13 (30.23%) JMeter
2 13 (30.23%) JUnit
2 13 (30.23%) Mockito
3 5 (11.63%) Git
4 3 (6.98%) GitLab
General
1 13 (30.23%) Public Sector
2 11 (25.58%) Social Skills
3 9 (20.93%) Finance
4 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.95%) Banking
5 4 (9.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (9.30%) Law
5 4 (9.30%) Retail
6 3 (6.98%) Back Office
6 3 (6.98%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.65%) Advertising
8 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Front Office
8 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (34.88%) Developer
2 14 (32.56%) Java Developer
3 13 (30.23%) Full-Stack Developer
4 12 (27.91%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 11 (25.58%) Mid-Level Java Developer
6 8 (18.60%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (18.60%) Senior
7 6 (13.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (11.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (9.30%) Engineering Manager
9 4 (9.30%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (6.98%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (6.98%) Lead
10 3 (6.98%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 2 (4.65%) Cloud Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (34.88%) REST
1 15 (34.88%) Spring
1 15 (34.88%) Spring Boot
2 14 (32.56%) JSON
2 14 (32.56%) XML
3 13 (30.23%) ActiveMQ
3 13 (30.23%) Apache Camel
3 13 (30.23%) Hibernate
3 13 (30.23%) HTML
3 13 (30.23%) jQuery
3 13 (30.23%) WireMock
4 12 (27.91%) Web Services
5 7 (16.28%) Node.js
6 6 (13.95%) AWS CDK
6 6 (13.95%) RESTful
7 4 (9.30%) Django
8 3 (6.98%) Mustache
9 2 (4.65%) JWT
9 2 (4.65%) OAuth
9 2 (4.65%) React
Miscellaneous
1 19 (44.19%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (25.58%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.98%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.98%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (2.33%) Blog
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.33%) Equities
6 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.95%) Linux
2 4 (9.30%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (79.07%) CI/CD
2 20 (46.51%) Microservices
3 19 (44.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (41.86%) DevOps
5 17 (39.53%) Agile
6 14 (32.56%) BDD
6 14 (32.56%) Full-Stack Development
6 14 (32.56%) Observability
6 14 (32.56%) SDLC
6 14 (32.56%) TDD
7 13 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (30.23%) Workflow
8 11 (25.58%) Process Management
9 8 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
10 7 (16.28%) Clean Code
10 7 (16.28%) Containerisation
10 7 (16.28%) Software Engineering
11 6 (13.95%) Roadmaps
12 5 (11.63%) Scrum
12 5 (11.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (81.40%) Python
2 19 (44.19%) Java
3 18 (41.86%) JavaScript
4 13 (30.23%) Shell Script
5 6 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.63%) Go
7 4 (9.30%) Bash
8 3 (6.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (46.51%) Security Cleared
2 8 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) AWS Certification
4 2 (4.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.65%) Degree
4 2 (4.65%) SnowPro
5 1 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (9.30%) SOC 2
2 3 (6.98%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.33%) GDPR
3 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 26 (60.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (58.14%) Kubernetes
2 22 (51.16%) Terraform
3 13 (30.23%) Kibana
4 6 (13.95%) Grafana
5 5 (11.63%) Ansible
6 2 (4.65%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
7 1 (2.33%) Argo
7 1 (2.33%) Nagios
7 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (34.88%) Splunk
2 13 (30.23%) Dynatrace
3 4 (9.30%) Google
4 1 (2.33%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.33%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.33%) Charles River
4 1 (2.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.33%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.33%) Red Hat