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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 136 133 166
Rank change year-on-year -3 +33 +57
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 5 9 18
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.18% 0.33% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.71% 0.93% 1.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £57,235 -
25th Percentile £68,813 £64,471 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% +42.07%
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,786 £69,800
90th Percentile - £75,000 £72,920
UK median annual salary £73,801 £107,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -31.35% +53.57% -12.50%

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 700 968 1,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.51% 35.19% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 266 473 679
10th Percentile £26,375 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% - -
75th Percentile £70,938 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,875 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.61% -4.62%

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 24 December 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
Edinburgh -4 5 £73,801 +6.48% 4
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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon ECR
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) dbt
2 4 (80.00%) GCP
2 4 (80.00%) Pulumi
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 3 (60.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 3 (60.00%) Sentry
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (80.00%) Redis
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (20.00%) NestJS
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) Clean Code
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Observability
1 4 (80.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 4 (80.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) API Development
3 1 (20.00%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Copilot
3 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Google