Amazon ECS Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 152 155
Rank change year-on-year +15 +3 +85
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 12 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.45% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.79% 0.48% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile - £54,341 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £60,853 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -14.75%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £72,400
90th Percentile - £74,144 £73,960
UK median annual salary £73,801 £106,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -30.54% +63.46% -13.33%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 671 1,047 894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.23% 31.54% 36.46%
Number of salaries quoted 236 489 745
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,587 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,625 £80,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Scotland

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 October 2025. 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
Glasgow +15 8 - - 2
Edinburgh +11 4 £73,801 +6.48% 1
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (66.67%) Amazon S3
2 8 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 8 (66.67%) Serverless
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon EMR
3 4 (33.33%) Amazon MSK
3 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (33.33%) dbt
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 4 (33.33%) Pulumi
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
4 3 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 3 (25.00%) PaaS
4 3 (25.00%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
1 8 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (33.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 4 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 4 (33.33%) Redis
2 4 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 4 (33.33%) Maven
General
1 8 (66.67%) Banking
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
1 8 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 8 (66.67%) Law
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Java Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Java Software Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 4 (33.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 4 (33.33%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
2 4 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Java Software Developer
2 4 (33.33%) React Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (66.67%) Spring
1 8 (66.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 4 (33.33%) Django
2 4 (33.33%) HTML
2 4 (33.33%) jQuery
2 4 (33.33%) Kafka
2 4 (33.33%) React
2 4 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 4 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
1 4 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 8 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 8 (66.67%) TDD
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 4 (33.33%) Community of Practice
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (33.33%) Kanban
3 4 (33.33%) Observability
3 4 (33.33%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Service-Level Objective
3 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 3 (25.00%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
1 4 (33.33%) Oracle