Amazon ECS Job Trends in the South East

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 267 227 312
Rank change year-on-year -40 +85 -25
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 22 43 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.15% 0.56% 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% 2.02% 1.46%
Number of salaries quoted 8 6 44
10th Percentile £56,000 £43,125 £75,000
25th Percentile £57,500 £60,313 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - -24.24% +26.92%
75th Percentile £71,563 £67,500 £87,188
90th Percentile £84,125 £68,750 £102,500
England median annual salary £72,500 £107,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -32.56% +34.38% +6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,705 2,124 5,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 25.79% 27.49% 30.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2,214 1,367 4,019
10th Percentile £30,500 £29,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% -11.54%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the South East

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in the South East

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Thames Valley -16 16 £83,750 +34.00%
Berkshire -23 16 £83,750 +34.00%
Hampshire - 5 £60,000 - 5
Surrey - 1 £55,000 - 4
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (31.82%) OpenStack
2 2 (9.09%) IIS
3 1 (4.55%) JBoss
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (86.36%) Serverless
3 15 (68.18%) Amazon EKS
4 10 (45.45%) Amazon S3
5 8 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (31.82%) Azure
7 6 (27.27%) Amazon SQS
7 6 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (13.64%) Datadog
9 3 (13.64%) Entra ID
9 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (9.09%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (63.64%) Relational Database
2 11 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
4 3 (13.64%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.55%) MySQL
6 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (68.18%) Jenkins
2 13 (59.09%) Git
3 6 (27.27%) JUnit
4 4 (18.18%) JMeter
4 4 (18.18%) Mockito
5 3 (13.64%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (4.55%) JIRA
6 1 (4.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 9 (40.91%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
2 3 (13.64%) Legal
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
2 12 (54.55%) Java Developer
3 5 (22.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Backend Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Senior
5 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (9.09%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 1 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (68.18%) REST
1 15 (68.18%) Spring
1 15 (68.18%) Spring Boot
2 14 (63.64%) Web Services
3 12 (54.55%) React
4 11 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (31.82%) Mustache
5 7 (31.82%) Node.js
6 6 (27.27%) Kafka
7 5 (22.73%) AngularJS
7 5 (22.73%) Apache Camel
7 5 (22.73%) HTML
8 4 (18.18%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
8 4 (18.18%) Java EE
8 4 (18.18%) JMS
8 4 (18.18%) JPA
8 4 (18.18%) jQuery
8 4 (18.18%) JSON
8 4 (18.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (9.09%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
1 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Agile
2 18 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 16 (72.73%) Microservices
4 15 (68.18%) TDD
5 12 (54.55%) DevOps
5 12 (54.55%) Scrum
6 10 (45.45%) SDLC
7 8 (36.36%) BDD
8 7 (31.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (22.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (22.73%) Kanban
10 4 (18.18%) Biometrics
10 4 (18.18%) Design Patterns
10 4 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
10 4 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (18.18%) Process Management
10 4 (18.18%) Workflow
11 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure Automation
11 3 (13.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) Java
2 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 8 (36.36%) Python
4 7 (31.82%) SQL
5 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
5 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
6 3 (13.64%) Bash
6 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
7 2 (9.09%) PHP
8 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.09%) PCI DSS
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 21 (95.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 8 (36.36%) Kibana
4 7 (31.82%) Ansible
5 3 (13.64%) Grafana
5 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
5 3 (13.64%) Scalr
6 2 (9.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) AppDynamics
1 4 (18.18%) Dynatrace
1 4 (18.18%) IBM
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle
1 4 (18.18%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft