Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Amazon ECS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 524 584 425
Rank change year-on-year +60 -159 +51
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 212 574 981
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.47% 0.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.94% 1.09% 1.64%
Number of salaries quoted 180 306 637
10th Percentile £51,716 £52,500 £49,000
25th Percentile £60,200 £60,000 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £77,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% -3.75% +10.34%
75th Percentile £83,750 £95,000 £102,500
90th Percentile £104,625 £132,500 £132,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -7.14% +3.70% +3.85%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Amazon ECS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 22,612 52,646 59,920
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.68% 42.86% 46.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17,789 35,410 42,532
10th Percentile £32,750 £34,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +5.00%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Amazon ECS.

Salary trend for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 17 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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
England +51 176 £72,500 -3.33% 71
Work from Home +135 129 £65,000 -13.33% 52
UK excluding London +127 113 £65,000 -7.14% 46
London +93 87 £80,000 -15.79% 40
South East +103 43 £70,000 +7.69% 16
North of England +121 25 £65,000 -7.14% 14
Yorkshire +102 12 £80,000 +45.45% 3
South West +54 12 £57,500 - 4
Scotland +45 11 £65,000 -0.57% 5
East of England +123 9 £75,000 -6.25% 3
North West +109 7 £60,000 -11.11% 7
North East +32 6 £65,000 -13.33% 4
Wales - 6 £65,000 - 1
Midlands +76 5 £64,500 -9.15% 1
West Midlands +102 4 £64,500 -14.00% 1
Northern Ireland +40 4 £65,000 -18.75% 2
East Midlands +22 1 £85,000 +21.43%

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (8.02%) OpenStack
2 9 (4.25%) JBoss
2 9 (4.25%) Red Hat Fuse
3 6 (2.83%) Apache
4 5 (2.36%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.42%) Tornado
6 2 (0.94%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.94%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.94%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.47%) CMS
7 1 (0.47%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 204 (96.23%) AWS
2 137 (64.62%) Serverless
3 98 (46.23%) AWS Lambda
4 79 (37.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 70 (33.02%) Amazon EKS
6 69 (32.55%) Azure
7 65 (30.66%) Amazon EC2
8 61 (28.77%) Amazon S3
9 41 (19.34%) GCP
10 38 (17.92%) Amazon SQS
11 32 (15.09%) dbt
12 25 (11.79%) Cloud Computing
12 25 (11.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 18 (8.49%) Pulumi
14 16 (7.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (7.55%) CloudFront
15 15 (7.08%) Route 53
16 14 (6.60%) OpenShift
17 13 (6.13%) Amazon EMR
18 12 (5.66%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.21%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.77%) DNS
3 6 (2.83%) Firewall
4 3 (1.42%) BGP
4 3 (1.42%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (1.42%) VPN
5 2 (0.94%) HTTP
6 1 (0.47%) Internet
6 1 (0.47%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (33.49%) PostgreSQL
2 54 (25.47%) Amazon RDS
3 42 (19.81%) DynamoDB
4 41 (19.34%) Elasticsearch
5 37 (17.45%) Relational Database
6 36 (16.98%) Redis
7 28 (13.21%) MySQL
8 20 (9.43%) NoSQL
9 19 (8.96%) MongoDB
10 17 (8.02%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (4.25%) SQL Server
12 8 (3.77%) Big Data
13 4 (1.89%) Amazon Athena
13 4 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
13 4 (1.89%) Electronic Patient Records
13 4 (1.89%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
14 3 (1.42%) Flink
15 2 (0.94%) BigQuery
15 2 (0.94%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 92 (43.40%) Jenkins
2 70 (33.02%) Git
3 19 (8.96%) JUnit
4 16 (7.55%) GitLab
5 14 (6.60%) Artifactory
5 14 (6.60%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.19%) JIRA
7 10 (4.72%) Maven
8 9 (4.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (4.25%) Cucumber
9 8 (3.77%) TeamCity
10 5 (2.36%) CircleCI
10 5 (2.36%) SonarQube
10 5 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.94%) git-flow
12 1 (0.47%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.47%) Snyk
12 1 (0.47%) Terragrunt
General
1 46 (21.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 36 (16.98%) Finance
3 22 (10.38%) Social Skills
4 19 (8.96%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.60%) Law
6 12 (5.66%) Front Office
7 6 (2.83%) Legal
7 6 (2.83%) Retail
8 5 (2.36%) Banking
8 5 (2.36%) Health Technology
8 5 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.42%) Analytical Skills
10 2 (0.94%) Billing
10 2 (0.94%) Electronics
10 2 (0.94%) Public Speaking
10 2 (0.94%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.47%) Advertising
11 1 (0.47%) Games
11 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.47%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (34.91%) Developer
2 64 (30.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (23.58%) Senior
4 37 (17.45%) Java Developer
5 35 (16.51%) AWS Engineer
6 27 (12.74%) AWS DevOps
7 26 (12.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 26 (12.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 19 (8.96%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 17 (8.02%) Python Developer
10 16 (7.55%) Software Engineer
11 14 (6.60%) Site Engineer
12 13 (6.13%) Senior Developer
13 12 (5.66%) Architect
13 12 (5.66%) AWS Developer
14 11 (5.19%) Lead
15 10 (4.72%) Cloud Engineer
15 10 (4.72%) Senior DevOps
15 10 (4.72%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 10 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (20.28%) REST
2 40 (18.87%) Django
2 40 (18.87%) Spring
3 38 (17.92%) Node.js
4 28 (13.21%) AngularJS
5 27 (12.74%) Kafka
5 27 (12.74%) Spring Boot
6 22 (10.38%) React
6 22 (10.38%) Web Services
7 21 (9.91%) J2EE
8 20 (9.43%) Elastic Stack
9 19 (8.96%) Lambda Expressions
10 17 (8.02%) Apache Camel
11 16 (7.55%) RESTful
12 15 (7.08%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (5.66%) .NET
13 12 (5.66%) AWS SAM
14 11 (5.19%) GraphQL
14 11 (5.19%) JSON
14 11 (5.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (22.17%) Distributed Systems
2 20 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 14 (6.60%) Tandem
4 9 (4.25%) Blog
5 8 (3.77%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.83%) Data Centre
7 5 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.89%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.94%) BBC
10 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.94%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Blockchain
11 1 (0.47%) Derivative
11 1 (0.47%) e-Learning
11 1 (0.47%) NHS
11 1 (0.47%) Private Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 61 (28.77%) Linux
2 29 (13.68%) Unix
3 12 (5.66%) Windows
4 6 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.89%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.94%) Debian
6 2 (0.94%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (67.92%) DevOps
2 134 (63.21%) CI/CD
3 105 (49.53%) Agile
4 71 (33.49%) Microservices
5 58 (27.36%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (25.47%) Scrum
7 49 (23.11%) TDD
8 47 (22.17%) Software Engineering
9 45 (21.23%) Kanban
10 42 (19.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 40 (18.87%) Open Source
12 38 (17.92%) Continuous Delivery
13 35 (16.51%) Continuous Integration
14 34 (16.04%) Containerisation
14 34 (16.04%) Observability
15 32 (15.09%) Prototyping
16 26 (12.26%) BDD
16 26 (12.26%) Performance Monitoring
17 24 (11.32%) Application Performance Monitoring
17 24 (11.32%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 115 (54.25%) Python
2 66 (31.13%) Java
3 47 (22.17%) JavaScript
4 39 (18.40%) SQL
5 25 (11.79%) Go
6 17 (8.02%) C#
7 15 (7.08%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.60%) Bash
9 12 (5.66%) PHP
10 8 (3.77%) Shell Script
11 7 (3.30%) PowerShell
12 6 (2.83%) Scala
13 5 (2.36%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.89%) Ruby
15 3 (1.42%) Bicep
15 3 (1.42%) R
16 2 (0.94%) C++
16 2 (0.94%) Groovy
16 2 (0.94%) Rust
16 2 (0.94%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (28.30%) Security Cleared
2 53 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.38%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.72%) Azure Certification
5 7 (3.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (2.83%) Degree
7 3 (1.42%) MCITP
7 3 (1.42%) MCSA
7 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.47%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.47%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.47%) OCP
9 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.47%) Accessibility
1 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (0.47%) NIST
1 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 104 (49.06%) Docker
2 11 (5.19%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.89%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 136 (64.15%) Terraform
2 127 (59.91%) Kubernetes
3 48 (22.64%) Ansible
4 8 (3.77%) Puppet
5 6 (2.83%) Grafana
6 5 (2.36%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.89%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (1.89%) Kibana
8 3 (1.42%) Consul
8 3 (1.42%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.94%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.94%) Istio
9 2 (0.94%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.47%) logstash
10 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
10 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 27 (12.74%) Google
2 17 (8.02%) WSO2
3 12 (5.66%) Atlassian
4 11 (5.19%) Oracle
5 4 (1.89%) Microsoft
6 3 (1.42%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.42%) VMware
7 2 (0.94%) New Relic
7 2 (0.94%) Synopsys
7 2 (0.94%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.47%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.47%) Darktrace
8 1 (0.47%) IBM
8 1 (0.47%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.47%) Splunk
8 1 (0.47%) WooCommerce