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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 176 179 177
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +95
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 36 17 19
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.91% 0.35% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 1.28% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £61,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £82,500 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £85,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% +36.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £87,500 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £65,750
South East median annual salary £62,500 £100,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -37.50% +53.85% -7.14%

All Cloud 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 1,096 1,326 1,435
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.74% 27.23% 37.29%
Number of salaries quoted 480 740 1,178
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £42,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,625 £90,000
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,050
% change year-on-year -9.09% -0.09% -0.81%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS 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 12 September 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
Berkshire +12 36 £62,500 -26.47% 3
Amazon ECS
South East

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (19.44%) JBoss
1 7 (19.44%) Red Hat Fuse
2 3 (8.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 36 (100.00%) AWS
1 36 (100.00%) Serverless
2 34 (94.44%) Amazon EKS
3 24 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (2.78%) AWS KMS
7 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (94.44%) PostgreSQL
1 34 (94.44%) Relational Database
2 24 (66.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 35 (97.22%) Jenkins
2 31 (86.11%) JUnit
3 24 (66.67%) JMeter
3 24 (66.67%) Mockito
4 10 (27.78%) Git
5 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 32 (88.89%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Games
Job Titles
1 32 (88.89%) Developer
1 32 (88.89%) Java Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 15 (41.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Mid-Level Java Developer
4 1 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (97.22%) Spring
1 35 (97.22%) Spring Boot
2 34 (94.44%) REST
2 34 (94.44%) Web Services
3 31 (86.11%) Apache Camel
4 24 (66.67%) ActiveMQ
4 24 (66.67%) Hibernate
4 24 (66.67%) HTML
4 24 (66.67%) jQuery
4 24 (66.67%) WireMock
5 17 (47.22%) JSON
5 17 (47.22%) XML
6 7 (19.44%) J2EE
6 7 (19.44%) RESTful
6 7 (19.44%) SOAP
7 4 (11.11%) Mustache
7 4 (11.11%) React
8 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (8.33%) Kafka
8 3 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (94.44%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Linux
1 1 (2.78%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) Agile
2 35 (97.22%) Microservices
3 34 (94.44%) TDD
4 31 (86.11%) BDD
5 28 (77.78%) CI/CD
6 24 (66.67%) Process Management
6 24 (66.67%) Workflow
7 17 (47.22%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (47.22%) Scrum
8 14 (38.89%) Kanban
9 10 (27.78%) SDLC
10 9 (25.00%) DevOps
11 7 (19.44%) Architectural Design
11 7 (19.44%) Collaborative Working
12 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
12 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
13 1 (2.78%) Artificial Intelligence
13 1 (2.78%) Capacity Management
13 1 (2.78%) Machine Learning
13 1 (2.78%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) Java
2 27 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 25 (69.44%) Python
3 25 (69.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) Security Cleared
2 15 (41.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) SLA
System Software
1 35 (97.22%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (97.22%) Kubernetes
2 24 (66.67%) Kibana
3 8 (22.22%) Ansible
4 1 (2.78%) Nessus
4 1 (2.78%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (66.67%) Dynatrace
1 24 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (2.78%) Juniper