Amazon ECS Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 424 410 519
Rank change year-on-year -14 +109 +30
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 150 102 219
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.35% 0.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.83% 1.14% 0.97%
Number of salaries quoted 84 55 107
10th Percentile £48,750 £42,130 £48,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £54,375 £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £81,563 £74,629 £83,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £78,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £107,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -34.88% +34.38% +6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,129 8,961 22,686
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.71% 31.10% 33.01%
Number of salaries quoted 9,364 6,250 17,433
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -11.54%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK excluding London

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +38 112 £75,000 +7.14% 29
Yorkshire +24 91 £75,000 +7.14% 13
South East -40 22 £62,500 - 15
North West +1 17 £90,000 +20.00% 12
Midlands -50 10 £50,000 -16.67% 3
West Midlands -40 9 £50,000 -16.67% 2
South West -44 7 £52,500 +2.82% 6
North East -43 4 £67,500 -2.71% 4
Scotland -5 3 £76,783 +2.38% 1
East of England -15 1 £80,150 +88.59% 3
Wales -29 1 £73,801 +28.42%
Northern Ireland - 1 £73,801 -
East Midlands - 1 £52,500 - 1
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (7.33%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.67%) JBoss
3 3 (2.00%) IIS
4 2 (1.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.67%) Confluence
5 1 (0.67%) Drupal
5 1 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.67%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 150 (100.00%) AWS
2 131 (87.33%) Serverless
3 108 (72.00%) AWS Lambda
4 96 (64.00%) Amazon S3
5 93 (62.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 69 (46.00%) AWS Step Functions
7 56 (37.33%) Amazon ECR
8 48 (32.00%) Apigee
9 41 (27.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 38 (25.33%) Amazon EKS
10 38 (25.33%) Amazon SQS
11 29 (19.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 26 (17.33%) GitHub
13 23 (15.33%) Azure
14 19 (12.67%) Datadog
15 17 (11.33%) GCP
15 17 (11.33%) GitHub Actions
16 16 (10.67%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (7.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 10 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.33%) Firewall
3 4 (2.67%) Network Security
4 2 (1.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (54.67%) DynamoDB
2 31 (20.67%) Amazon RDS
3 29 (19.33%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
5 21 (14.00%) Relational Database
6 20 (13.33%) NoSQL
7 7 (4.67%) RDBMS
8 5 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (3.33%) Redis
9 4 (2.67%) MongoDB
9 4 (2.67%) MySQL
10 3 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.00%) GIS
10 3 (2.00%) SQL Server
11 2 (1.33%) Data Lake
12 1 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.67%) InterSystems Cache
12 1 (0.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 85 (56.67%) Jenkins
2 48 (32.00%) GitLab
3 42 (28.00%) Cypress.io
4 40 (26.67%) Maven
4 40 (26.67%) SonarQube
5 35 (23.33%) Git
6 6 (4.00%) JUnit
7 5 (3.33%) JMeter
8 4 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 4 (2.67%) Cucumber
8 4 (2.67%) Mockito
8 4 (2.67%) Selenium
9 3 (2.00%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (1.33%) JIRA
11 1 (0.67%) Gatling
11 1 (0.67%) MLflow
11 1 (0.67%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.67%) Vagrant
General
1 19 (12.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (11.33%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.67%) Finance
5 6 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.00%) Advertising
6 3 (2.00%) Legal
7 2 (1.33%) Health Technology
8 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (64.00%) Developer
2 69 (46.00%) Java Developer
3 36 (24.00%) Senior
4 24 (16.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 24 (16.00%) Senior Developer
5 22 (14.67%) AWS Developer
6 21 (14.00%) Lead
7 13 (8.67%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 11 (7.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 10 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (6.00%) Lead Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.67%) Technical Leader
12 6 (4.00%) Integration Developer
12 6 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (4.00%) Python Engineer
13 4 (2.67%) Backend Developer
13 4 (2.67%) Senior DevOps
13 4 (2.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (50.67%) AngularJS
2 74 (49.33%) Spring Boot
3 49 (32.67%) Node.js
4 45 (30.00%) Spring
5 42 (28.00%) Gherkin
6 40 (26.67%) Jest
7 25 (16.67%) React
8 24 (16.00%) REST
9 18 (12.00%) Web Services
10 16 (10.67%) Kafka
11 15 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (7.33%) AWS CDK
13 9 (6.00%) Mustache
13 9 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (5.33%) Django
14 8 (5.33%) HTML
14 8 (5.33%) XML
15 7 (4.67%) Apache Camel
15 7 (4.67%) jQuery
16 6 (4.00%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 34 (22.67%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (9.33%) Cloud Native
3 7 (4.67%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.00%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.33%) NHS
8 1 (0.67%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.67%) Linux
2 7 (4.67%) Windows
3 4 (2.67%) Unix
4 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (72.00%) DevOps
2 104 (69.33%) CI/CD
3 71 (47.33%) Agile
4 42 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 39 (26.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 37 (24.67%) Microservices
7 34 (22.67%) SDLC
8 28 (18.67%) Containerisation
8 28 (18.67%) Secure Coding
9 27 (18.00%) TDD
10 24 (16.00%) Observability
10 24 (16.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
11 23 (15.33%) ITIL
11 23 (15.33%) Mentoring
12 22 (14.67%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (14.00%) Clean Code
13 21 (14.00%) Scrum
14 20 (13.33%) DevSecOps
15 18 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
15 18 (12.00%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 99 (66.00%) Java
2 71 (47.33%) TypeScript
3 46 (30.67%) Bash
4 41 (27.33%) Groovy
4 41 (27.33%) Python
5 34 (22.67%) JavaScript
6 30 (20.00%) SQL
7 27 (18.00%) Kotlin
8 9 (6.00%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.00%) PHP
10 4 (2.67%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.67%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.00%) Go
12 2 (1.33%) Bicep
13 1 (0.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 38 (25.33%) AWS Certification
2 23 (15.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 23 (15.33%) ITIL Certification
3 19 (12.67%) Security Cleared
4 17 (11.33%) SC Cleared
5 9 (6.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (5.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.33%) Degree
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.67%) QA
2 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 111 (74.00%) Docker
2 4 (2.67%) iptables
3 1 (0.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (29.33%) Terraform
2 42 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 40 (26.67%) HP Fortify
4 17 (11.33%) Ansible
5 9 (6.00%) Grafana
6 8 (5.33%) Kibana
7 7 (4.67%) Prometheus
8 5 (3.33%) Progress Chef
8 5 (3.33%) Puppet
9 4 (2.67%) AWS Copilot
10 3 (2.00%) Scalr
11 2 (1.33%) Nagios
12 1 (0.67%) Consul
12 1 (0.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 6 (4.00%) HubSpot
2 5 (3.33%) Google
3 4 (2.67%) AppDynamics
3 4 (2.67%) Dynatrace
3 4 (2.67%) IBM
3 4 (2.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.67%) Oracle
3 4 (2.67%) Splunk
4 2 (1.33%) Databricks
4 2 (1.33%) Pega
4 2 (1.33%) WSO2
5 1 (0.67%) New Relic
5 1 (0.67%) TOWER Software