Amazon ECS Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 212 276 351
Rank change year-on-year +64 +75 +31
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 124 26 36
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.62% 0.32% 0.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.51% 1.09% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 69 25 32
10th Percentile £56,250 £43,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £63,630 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +21.74% -11.54%
75th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £98,000 £88,250 £72,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £87,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year -17.14% +6.06% +10.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,948 2,381 6,424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 24.78% 29.11% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,350 1,602 5,170
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £69,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
Yorkshire +34 90 £75,000 +7.14% 10
North West +14 26 £90,000 +20.00% 15
North East -42 8 £67,500 -2.71% 8
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 4 (3.23%) OpenStack
2 3 (2.42%) JBoss
3 2 (1.61%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 124 (100.00%) AWS
2 109 (87.90%) Serverless
3 99 (79.84%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (70.97%) Amazon S3
5 84 (67.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 72 (58.06%) AWS Step Functions
7 42 (33.87%) Amazon ECR
8 41 (33.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 39 (31.45%) Amazon SQS
9 39 (31.45%) Apigee
10 32 (25.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 32 (25.81%) GitHub
11 20 (16.13%) Datadog
12 18 (14.52%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (13.71%) Amazon EKS
14 14 (11.29%) Azure
15 10 (8.06%) GCP
16 8 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
17 7 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
17 7 (5.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) DNS
1 4 (3.23%) Firewall
1 4 (3.23%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (66.13%) DynamoDB
2 30 (24.19%) Amazon Athena
3 26 (20.97%) NoSQL
4 19 (15.32%) PostgreSQL
5 15 (12.10%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (10.48%) Relational Database
7 7 (5.65%) MongoDB
8 5 (4.03%) GIS
9 4 (3.23%) RDBMS
10 3 (2.42%) MySQL
10 3 (2.42%) Redis
11 2 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
12 1 (0.81%) DocumentDB
12 1 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 62 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 37 (29.84%) GitLab
3 34 (27.42%) Cypress.io
4 30 (24.19%) Maven
5 29 (23.39%) SonarQube
6 28 (22.58%) Git
7 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.42%) Selenium
8 2 (1.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.61%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.61%) JIRA
8 2 (1.61%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.81%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (15.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.84%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.42%) Finance
4 3 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.61%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 98 (79.03%) Developer
2 67 (54.03%) Java Developer
3 33 (26.61%) Senior
4 32 (25.81%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (21.77%) Senior Developer
6 25 (20.16%) AWS Developer
7 14 (11.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 12 (9.68%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (8.87%) Lead
9 11 (8.87%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (7.26%) Lead Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Integration Developer
11 7 (5.65%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (5.65%) Python Engineer
12 5 (4.03%) Cloud Engineer
13 4 (3.23%) Angular Developer
13 4 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
13 4 (3.23%) Full-Stack Python Developer
13 4 (3.23%) Python Developer
13 4 (3.23%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (61.29%) AngularJS
2 59 (47.58%) Spring Boot
3 54 (43.55%) Node.js
4 37 (29.84%) Gherkin
5 32 (25.81%) Spring
6 31 (25.00%) Jest
7 20 (16.13%) React
8 12 (9.68%) REST
9 10 (8.06%) Kafka
10 9 (7.26%) Flask
11 8 (6.45%) FastAPI
12 7 (5.65%) Django
12 7 (5.65%) OpenTelemetry
13 6 (4.84%) .NET
13 6 (4.84%) Elastic Stack
13 6 (4.84%) Vue
13 6 (4.84%) Web Services
14 5 (4.03%) Ajax
14 5 (4.03%) CSS
14 5 (4.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.55%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (4.84%) Algorithms
4 5 (4.03%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (3.23%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.42%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (2.42%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.61%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.61%) NHS
7 2 (1.61%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.23%) Linux
2 2 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (64.52%) DevOps
2 78 (62.90%) CI/CD
3 45 (36.29%) Agile
4 39 (31.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 26 (20.97%) Infrastructure as Code
5 26 (20.97%) SDLC
6 25 (20.16%) Continuous Integration
6 25 (20.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 24 (19.35%) DevSecOps
8 23 (18.55%) Containerisation
8 23 (18.55%) ITIL
9 22 (17.74%) Secure Coding
10 21 (16.94%) Microservices
11 20 (16.13%) Clean Code
11 20 (16.13%) Observability
12 19 (15.32%) Mentoring
13 16 (12.90%) Event-Driven
14 15 (12.10%) Prototyping
14 15 (12.10%) RBAC
14 15 (12.10%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 85 (68.55%) Java
2 68 (54.84%) TypeScript
3 38 (30.65%) Groovy
4 32 (25.81%) Kotlin
4 32 (25.81%) SQL
5 30 (24.19%) Bash
5 30 (24.19%) Python
6 27 (21.77%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.23%) Go
8 2 (1.61%) PHP
8 2 (1.61%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.81%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (25.81%) AWS Certification
2 22 (17.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 22 (17.74%) ITIL Certification
3 16 (12.90%) Security Cleared
4 15 (12.10%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.03%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (3.23%) Degree
7 3 (2.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (1.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.81%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.81%) QA
System Software
1 84 (67.74%) Docker
2 2 (1.61%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (27.42%) Terraform
2 29 (23.39%) HP Fortify
2 29 (23.39%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.84%) Ansible
4 2 (1.61%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (1.61%) Kibana
4 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (5.65%) HubSpot
2 2 (1.61%) AppDynamics
2 2 (1.61%) Google
2 2 (1.61%) IBM
2 2 (1.61%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.61%) Oracle
2 2 (1.61%) Pega
2 2 (1.61%) Splunk
2 2 (1.61%) WSO2
3 1 (0.81%) Confluent
3 1 (0.81%) Dynatrace