Amazon ECS Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 157 218
Rank change year-on-year -12 +61 -5
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 16 40 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.26% 1.11% 0.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.08% 4.14% 1.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £81,625 - £79,000
25th Percentile £82,188 - £79,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £83,750 - £82,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +32.00%
75th Percentile £84,688 - £85,625
90th Percentile £84,875 - £86,000
South East median annual salary £65,000 £27,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +136.36% -66.67% +26.92%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,483 967 1,854
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 24.20% 26.90% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 478 1,365
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £39,063 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £77,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -13.04%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
Berkshire -7 16 £83,750 -
Amazon ECS
South East

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (12.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.25%) JBoss
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 16 (100.00%) AWS
1 16 (100.00%) Serverless
2 13 (81.25%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (31.25%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (25.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (25.00%) Azure
6 2 (12.50%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (12.50%) Apigee
6 2 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 9 (56.25%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (31.25%) RDBMS
4 2 (12.50%) DynamoDB
5 1 (6.25%) MySQL
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 15 (93.75%) Jenkins
2 8 (50.00%) JUnit
3 7 (43.75%) Git
3 7 (43.75%) JMeter
3 7 (43.75%) Mockito
4 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 2 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (12.50%) Maven
4 2 (12.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 11 (68.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Java Engineer
3 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (93.75%) Spring Boot
2 13 (81.25%) Spring
3 11 (68.75%) REST
3 11 (68.75%) Web Services
4 8 (50.00%) Apache Camel
4 8 (50.00%) Hibernate
5 7 (43.75%) ActiveMQ
5 7 (43.75%) AngularJS
5 7 (43.75%) HTML
5 7 (43.75%) jQuery
5 7 (43.75%) WireMock
6 6 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (37.50%) JPA
6 6 (37.50%) React
7 5 (31.25%) JSON
7 5 (31.25%) RESTful
7 5 (31.25%) XML
8 4 (25.00%) Java EE
8 4 (25.00%) JMS
8 4 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (37.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 2 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) Agile
2 14 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 14 (87.50%) Microservices
3 13 (81.25%) TDD
4 11 (68.75%) BDD
5 10 (62.50%) DevOps
6 9 (56.25%) Scrum
7 8 (50.00%) SDLC
8 7 (43.75%) Kanban
8 7 (43.75%) Workflow
9 5 (31.25%) Clean Code
9 5 (31.25%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (31.25%) Process Management
10 4 (25.00%) Biometrics
10 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
10 4 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
11 3 (18.75%) Containerisation
11 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
12 2 (12.50%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) Java
2 9 (56.25%) JavaScript
3 7 (43.75%) Python
3 7 (43.75%) Shell Script
4 4 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 4 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (12.50%) Bash
5 2 (12.50%) Groovy
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 16 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (81.25%) Kubernetes
2 11 (68.75%) Kibana
3 5 (31.25%) Ansible
4 4 (25.00%) Terraform
5 2 (12.50%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Dynatrace
1 7 (43.75%) Splunk
2 4 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 4 (25.00%) IBM
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle