Amazon ECS Job Trends

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 495 519
Rank change year-on-year +36 +24 +11
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 206 270 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 1.22% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 111 229 168
10th Percentile £43,000 £64,471 £51,716
25th Percentile £56,250 £82,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £107,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.35% +65.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £79,395 £142,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £147,500 £93,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.61% +6.63% -7.14%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17,739 22,088 22,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.49% 32.50% 42.92%
Number of salaries quoted 11,314 13,300 18,918
10th Percentile £28,560 £35,000 £32,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the UK

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 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
England +32 179 £70,500 -34.42% 210
UK excluding London +151 120 £67,500 -2.61% 106
London -56 98 £75,000 -31.82% 116
Work from Home -50 70 £67,500 -37.21% 134
North of England +59 33 £73,801 +6.48% 47
South East +33 27 £62,500 -7.41% 25
Midlands +72 22 £57,500 -17.04% 4
West Midlands +54 21 £62,500 -9.82% 3
Yorkshire - 18 £70,500 - 13
South West +48 15 £57,500 -14.81% 8
North West +51 12 £73,801 +6.48% 32
Scotland +7 12 £73,801 +6.48% 7
East of England +29 7 £42,500 -66.00% 13
Wales +8 4 £73,801 +6.48% 2
North East +8 3 £73,801 +6.48% 2
Northern Ireland +3 2 £73,801 +6.48% 3
East Midlands - 1 £46,000 - 1

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (4.37%) Headless CMS
2 8 (3.88%) Confluence
2 8 (3.88%) nginx
3 6 (2.91%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.94%) JBoss
4 4 (1.94%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (3.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.49%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 8 (3.88%) Shopify
2 2 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (0.49%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 206 (100.00%) AWS
2 122 (59.22%) Serverless
3 86 (41.75%) AWS Lambda
4 81 (39.32%) Amazon EKS
5 76 (36.89%) Amazon S3
6 66 (32.04%) Amazon EC2
7 58 (28.16%) Azure
8 52 (25.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 29 (14.08%) Amazon SQS
10 27 (13.11%) GCP
11 26 (12.62%) Amazon ECR
11 26 (12.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 25 (12.14%) GitHub
13 21 (10.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 21 (10.19%) Pulumi
14 20 (9.71%) dbt
15 19 (9.22%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (8.25%) Amazon SageMaker
16 17 (8.25%) Datadog
17 15 (7.28%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 25 (12.14%) TCP/IP
2 11 (5.34%) DNS
3 9 (4.37%) Firewall
3 9 (4.37%) HTTP
4 8 (3.88%) FTP
4 8 (3.88%) IMAP
4 8 (3.88%) OpenLDAP
4 8 (3.88%) SMTP
4 8 (3.88%) SSH
5 7 (3.40%) VPN
6 3 (1.46%) BGP
6 3 (1.46%) VLAN
7 2 (0.97%) MQTT
7 2 (0.97%) SMS
8 1 (0.49%) Broadband
8 1 (0.49%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (36.89%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (30.10%) Amazon RDS
3 38 (18.45%) Relational Database
4 27 (13.11%) Elasticsearch
5 24 (11.65%) RDBMS
5 24 (11.65%) Redis
6 19 (9.22%) DynamoDB
7 17 (8.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (6.31%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (6.31%) MongoDB
9 10 (4.85%) NoSQL
10 9 (4.37%) Electronic Patient Records
11 8 (3.88%) MySQL
12 4 (1.94%) Apache Cassandra
13 2 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.97%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.97%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.97%) OLAP
13 2 (0.97%) OLTP
13 2 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 85 (41.26%) Jenkins
2 35 (16.99%) Git
3 26 (12.62%) JUnit
4 23 (11.17%) GitLab
5 22 (10.68%) JMeter
5 22 (10.68%) Mockito
6 11 (5.34%) JIRA
7 9 (4.37%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.88%) Vagrant
9 7 (3.40%) Locust
9 7 (3.40%) Selenium
10 4 (1.94%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.94%) Maven
10 4 (1.94%) Spinnaker
11 1 (0.49%) Mocha
11 1 (0.49%) Sinon.JS
General
1 49 (23.79%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.33%) Finance
2 46 (22.33%) Public Sector
3 41 (19.90%) Law
4 39 (18.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 24 (11.65%) Banking
6 21 (10.19%) Marketing
7 20 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
8 12 (5.83%) Retail
9 10 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.43%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.46%) Back Office
11 3 (1.46%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.46%) Games
12 2 (0.97%) Advertising
12 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.49%) Front Office
13 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (28.64%) Developer
2 54 (26.21%) Senior
3 43 (20.87%) Software Engineer
4 39 (18.93%) Java Developer
5 37 (17.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 35 (16.99%) DevOps Engineer
7 31 (15.05%) AWS Engineer
8 23 (11.17%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 22 (10.68%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (7.28%) Mid-Level Java Developer
10 15 (7.28%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 14 (6.80%) Lead
11 14 (6.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 13 (6.31%) AWS DevOps
12 13 (6.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 13 (6.31%) Senior Developer
13 12 (5.83%) Site Engineer
14 10 (4.85%) AWS Platform Engineer
14 10 (4.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 9 (4.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (26.70%) Spring
2 52 (25.24%) Spring Boot
3 37 (17.96%) REST
4 36 (17.48%) HTML
4 36 (17.48%) RESTful
5 33 (16.02%) Node.js
6 30 (14.56%) Apache Camel
6 30 (14.56%) React
6 30 (14.56%) Web Services
7 26 (12.62%) jQuery
8 22 (10.68%) ActiveMQ
8 22 (10.68%) Hibernate
8 22 (10.68%) WireMock
9 21 (10.19%) Django
9 21 (10.19%) JSON
9 21 (10.19%) XML
10 17 (8.25%) AngularJS
10 17 (8.25%) AWS CDK
11 16 (7.77%) Playwright
12 15 (7.28%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 47 (22.82%) Distributed Systems
2 44 (21.36%) Cloud Native
3 12 (5.83%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (4.37%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.88%) Replication
6 7 (3.40%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.91%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.43%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.46%) Cloud Security Posture
10 3 (1.46%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.46%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.97%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.97%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.49%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.49%) Hackathon
12 1 (0.49%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 51 (24.76%) Linux
2 20 (9.71%) Unix
3 14 (6.80%) Windows
4 8 (3.88%) Amazon Linux
4 8 (3.88%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.88%) VMS
5 3 (1.46%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (75.73%) CI/CD
2 108 (52.43%) DevOps
3 81 (39.32%) Agile
4 73 (35.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 69 (33.50%) Software Engineering
6 67 (32.52%) Microservices
7 55 (26.70%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (25.73%) Full-Stack Development
9 45 (21.84%) TDD
10 43 (20.87%) Observability
11 38 (18.45%) AI
11 38 (18.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 35 (16.99%) Machine Learning
13 34 (16.50%) BDD
14 32 (15.53%) Containerisation
14 32 (15.53%) SDLC
15 29 (14.08%) Clean Code
16 28 (13.59%) Platform Engineering
17 26 (12.62%) Workflow
18 24 (11.65%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (59.71%) Python
2 80 (38.83%) Java
3 62 (30.10%) JavaScript
4 38 (18.45%) SQL
5 37 (17.96%) TypeScript
6 24 (11.65%) Shell Script
7 21 (10.19%) Bash
8 19 (9.22%) Go
9 17 (8.25%) PowerShell
10 9 (4.37%) Groovy
10 9 (4.37%) Lua
11 6 (2.91%) C#
12 4 (1.94%) Rust
13 1 (0.49%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.49%) Perl
13 1 (0.49%) PHP
13 1 (0.49%) Ruby
13 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 71 (34.47%) Security Cleared
2 54 (26.21%) SC Cleared
3 25 (12.14%) AWS Certification
4 22 (10.68%) Degree
5 9 (4.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 8 (3.88%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.46%) CISM
7 3 (1.46%) CISSP
7 3 (1.46%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (0.97%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.97%) SnowPro
9 1 (0.49%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.49%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.49%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.77%) PCI DSS
2 8 (3.88%) Accessibility
2 8 (3.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (3.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (3.40%) QA
3 7 (3.40%) SOC 2
4 6 (2.91%) SLA
5 3 (1.46%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 111 (53.88%) Docker
2 8 (3.88%) DFS Replication
2 8 (3.88%) Dovecot
2 8 (3.88%) Postfix
2 8 (3.88%) Squid
3 1 (0.49%) iptables
Systems Management
1 105 (50.97%) Kubernetes
2 89 (43.20%) Terraform
3 36 (17.48%) Grafana
4 30 (14.56%) Prometheus
5 25 (12.14%) Ansible
6 24 (11.65%) Kibana
7 12 (5.83%) AWS Copilot
8 8 (3.88%) Nessus
8 8 (3.88%) Proxmox
9 6 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.97%) Argo
10 2 (0.97%) logstash
11 1 (0.49%) Istio
11 1 (0.49%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (15.53%) Splunk
2 27 (13.11%) Dynatrace
3 25 (12.14%) Google
4 10 (4.85%) Databricks
5 9 (4.37%) Microsoft
5 9 (4.37%) MKS
5 9 (4.37%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.88%) Apple
6 8 (3.88%) Jaspersoft
6 8 (3.88%) ServiceNow
7 5 (2.43%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.94%) Oracle
8 4 (1.94%) Pega
8 4 (1.94%) WSO2
9 3 (1.46%) AppDynamics
10 1 (0.49%) Bloomberg
10 1 (0.49%) Charles River