Amazon ECS Job Trends in South Wales

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Wales > South Wales

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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 61 66
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 -
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 3 5 3
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.39% 0.78% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.67% 2.11% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £68,813 £43,449 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -
75th Percentile £78,790 £74,144 £69,800
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median annual salary £73,801 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.48% +6.63% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 180 237 217
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 23.26% 37.15% 35.63%
Number of salaries quoted 99 153 189
10th Percentile £28,200 £30,650 £34,687
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £75,000
Wales median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in South Wales

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 11 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
Cardiff +12 3 £73,801 +6.48% 6
Amazon ECS
Wales

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECR
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) dbt
1 3 (100.00%) GCP
1 3 (100.00%) Pulumi
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon ElastiCache
2 2 (66.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
2 2 (66.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (100.00%) Redis
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Service-Level Objective
1 3 (100.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Prototyping
3 1 (33.33%) Application Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Google