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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 275 249
Rank change year-on-year +67 -26 +135
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 55 12 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.52% 0.13% 0.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.34% 0.40% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 29 12 23
10th Percentile £51,750 £45,822 £41,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £64,471 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +15.51% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,790 £80,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,625 £80,500
England median annual salary £73,801 £107,500 £73,750
% change year-on-year -31.35% +45.76% -6.35%

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 4,117 2,973 3,177
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 39.02% 32.14% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,852 1,648 2,695
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £42,238 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.44% -6.92%

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 5 January 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 5 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
Yorkshire - 44 £75,000 - 30
North West +20 8 £73,801 +6.48% 17
North East +7 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
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 11 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 55 (100.00%) AWS
2 41 (74.55%) Serverless
3 32 (58.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 28 (50.91%) Amazon S3
5 25 (45.45%) AWS Lambda
6 22 (40.00%) Amazon ECR
7 21 (38.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 17 (30.91%) Apigee
9 14 (25.45%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (21.82%) Azure
11 10 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
12 9 (16.36%) GCP
13 7 (12.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 6 (10.91%) Pulumi
15 5 (9.09%) dbt
15 5 (9.09%) GitHub
16 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 4 (7.27%) Datadog
17 3 (5.45%) Amazon ElastiCache
17 3 (5.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (40.00%) DynamoDB
2 20 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (25.45%) Relational Database
4 7 (12.73%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 5 (9.09%) Redis
6 4 (7.27%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (5.45%) MySQL
8 2 (3.64%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.82%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
9 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 40 (72.73%) Jenkins
2 23 (41.82%) GitLab
3 19 (34.55%) Git
4 17 (30.91%) Cypress.io
4 17 (30.91%) Maven
4 17 (30.91%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.82%) JUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Selenium
General
1 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 4 (7.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (54.55%) Developer
2 25 (45.45%) Java Developer
3 14 (25.45%) Lead
4 11 (20.00%) Senior
5 10 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 10 (18.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 6 (10.91%) AWS Developer
6 6 (10.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (10.91%) Technical Leader
7 5 (9.09%) Senior Developer
8 4 (7.27%) CloudOps Manager
8 4 (7.27%) Operations Manager
8 4 (7.27%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (7.27%) Site Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Lead Developer
9 3 (5.45%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Senior Platform Engineer
9 3 (5.45%) Software Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Lead Java Developer
10 2 (3.64%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (56.36%) Spring Boot
2 29 (52.73%) AngularJS
3 23 (41.82%) Spring
4 22 (40.00%) Node.js
5 17 (30.91%) Gherkin
5 17 (30.91%) Jest
5 17 (30.91%) REST
6 11 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
7 10 (18.18%) React
7 10 (18.18%) Web Services
8 7 (12.73%) Kafka
8 7 (12.73%) Mustache
9 6 (10.91%) Django
10 4 (7.27%) Apache Camel
11 2 (3.64%) Laravel
11 2 (3.64%) OpenTelemetry
11 2 (3.64%) Symfony
12 1 (1.82%) FastAPI
12 1 (1.82%) NestJS
12 1 (1.82%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.73%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.91%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.82%) Hackathon
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Linux
2 5 (9.09%) Unix
3 2 (3.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 43 (78.18%) DevOps
3 30 (54.55%) Agile
4 22 (40.00%) Microservices
5 21 (38.18%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (29.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (29.09%) Scrum
7 13 (23.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 13 (23.64%) TDD
8 10 (18.18%) SDLC
9 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.55%) Clean Code
10 8 (14.55%) Observability
10 8 (14.55%) Secure Coding
11 7 (12.73%) BDD
11 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (12.73%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (10.91%) Kanban
12 6 (10.91%) Workflow
13 5 (9.09%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 41 (74.55%) Java
2 31 (56.36%) TypeScript
3 22 (40.00%) Bash
3 22 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 16 (29.09%) Groovy
5 13 (23.64%) Python
6 6 (10.91%) PowerShell
6 6 (10.91%) SQL
7 4 (7.27%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.64%) PHP
9 1 (1.82%) C#
9 1 (1.82%) Go
9 1 (1.82%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (27.27%) AWS Certification
2 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared
2 8 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) AWS Certified Developer
4 4 (7.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (7.27%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (5.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.82%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) QA
System Software
1 40 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (34.55%) Kubernetes
2 17 (30.91%) HP Fortify
3 14 (25.45%) Terraform
4 13 (23.64%) Ansible
5 3 (5.45%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (3.64%) Grafana
6 2 (3.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Google
2 4 (7.27%) Pega
2 4 (7.27%) WSO2