Amazon ECS Job Trends in the South West

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

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 153 210
Rank change year-on-year -72 +57 -3
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 15 14 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.14% 0.39% 0.030%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.77% 1.45% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 11 10 2
10th Percentile - - £63,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £48,165 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £53,029 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +32.00% -21.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £112,500 £66,563 £71,250
90th Percentile £120,000 £74,625 £72,000
England median annual salary £72,500 £67,500 £107,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% -37.21% +53.57%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,954 963 1,789
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.39% 26.85% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,410 696 1,040
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,500 £31,225
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,272 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.49% -17.69% -
75th Percentile £76,063 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,740 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.57% -7.69% +4.00%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the South West

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in the South West

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

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

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the South West over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in the South West

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Gloucestershire -61 8 £105,000 +71.43% 9
Bristol - 6 £65,000 - 3
Devon -27 1 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
1 2 (13.33%) nginx
2 1 (6.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (46.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 7 (46.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (26.67%) Azure
4 4 (26.67%) GitHub
5 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (20.00%) Azure AKS
5 3 (20.00%) OpenShift
5 3 (20.00%) SaaS
5 3 (20.00%) Serverless
6 2 (13.33%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (13.33%) Route 53
6 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (13.33%) Flink
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) GitLab
2 5 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (13.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (13.33%) git-flow
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Claude Code
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) AWS CDK
3 2 (13.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
1 14 (93.33%) Containerisation
2 13 (86.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (80.00%) DevOps
4 9 (60.00%) Agile
4 9 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (53.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (53.33%) Observability
6 7 (46.67%) Test Automation
7 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (40.00%) Secrets Management
7 6 (40.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (33.33%) AI
8 5 (33.33%) Business Continuity
8 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
8 5 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
8 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
9 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (26.67%) Scrum
9 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Bash
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) Ansible
2 9 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (26.67%) Grafana
3 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 3 (20.00%) Puppet
5 2 (13.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Atlassian
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft