Amazon ECS Jobs

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Amazon ECS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Amazon ECS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 417 558 655
Rank change year-on-year +141 +97 -240
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 287 352 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.55% 0.36% 0.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.90% 1.00% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 234 225 237
10th Percentile £58,025 £52,500 £51,250
25th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +34.38% +3.23% +6.90%
75th Percentile £135,000 £102,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £136,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.57% +7.69% -3.70%

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 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Amazon ECS in the UK

Amazon ECS
Top 15 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 30 April 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 +186 279 £110,000 +37.50% 148
London +160 228 £110,000 +15.79% 90
Work from Home +229 182 £110,000 +41.94% 91
UK excluding London +83 95 £67,500 -3.57% 65
South East +78 41 £62,500 -24.24% 6
North of England +72 24 £69,384 +20.67% 37
West Midlands +67 21 £60,000 -11.11% 4
Midlands +63 21 £60,000 -7.69% 4
Yorkshire +74 10 £66,250 +55.88% 7
North West +30 10 £72,192 +25.55% 28
Scotland +56 5 £75,000 +15.38% 5
North East +39 4 £69,384 +26.15% 3
South West +112 2 £51,058 -7.17% 8
Wales +41 2 £57,467 -4.22%
East of England +53 1 £55,000 -15.38% 2

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
1 106 (36.93%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (36.59%) Apache
3 71 (24.74%) Apache Spark
4 12 (4.18%) JBoss
4 12 (4.18%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (2.09%) OpenStack
6 5 (1.74%) Confluence
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 287 (100.00%) AWS
2 188 (65.51%) Serverless
3 148 (51.57%) AWS Lambda
4 116 (40.42%) dbt
5 107 (37.28%) Amazon EC2
6 90 (31.36%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (28.22%) OpenShift
8 69 (24.04%) Amazon S3
9 58 (20.21%) Amazon SQS
9 58 (20.21%) AWS CloudFormation
10 56 (19.51%) GCP
11 36 (12.54%) Azure
12 34 (11.85%) Dagster
12 34 (11.85%) Snowflake
13 21 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 17 (5.92%) GitHub
15 16 (5.57%) Amazon ECR
16 13 (4.53%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (4.53%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.83%) TCP/IP
2 7 (2.44%) Firewall
2 7 (2.44%) SSL
3 5 (1.74%) MQTT
3 5 (1.74%) SMS
3 5 (1.74%) VPN
4 3 (1.05%) Internet
5 1 (0.35%) BGP
5 1 (0.35%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (39.02%) Amazon Athena
2 105 (36.59%) Apache Arrow
2 105 (36.59%) Apache Iceberg
2 105 (36.59%) Apache Ignite
2 105 (36.59%) Dremio
3 61 (21.25%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (20.91%) PostgreSQL
5 39 (13.59%) Relational Database
6 37 (12.89%) Amazon Redshift
7 36 (12.54%) Data Lake
8 27 (9.41%) MySQL
9 21 (7.32%) RDBMS
10 18 (6.27%) Redis
11 16 (5.57%) DynamoDB
11 16 (5.57%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (2.79%) Amazon Aurora
12 8 (2.79%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.44%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.39%) Big Data
15 2 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 82 (28.57%) Artifactory
2 61 (21.25%) Jenkins
3 32 (11.15%) JUnit
4 29 (10.10%) Git
5 18 (6.27%) JMeter
5 18 (6.27%) Mockito
6 11 (3.83%) GitLab
7 7 (2.44%) Bitbucket Server
8 6 (2.09%) JIRA
9 4 (1.39%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 3 (1.05%) Vagrant
11 2 (0.70%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.70%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.70%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.35%) Maven
General
1 151 (52.61%) Finance
2 141 (49.13%) Front Office
3 72 (25.09%) Banking
4 38 (13.24%) Investment Banking
5 32 (11.15%) Social Skills
6 30 (10.45%) Public Sector
7 13 (4.53%) Manufacturing
8 12 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (2.79%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (2.79%) Games
10 5 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.70%) Retail
13 1 (0.35%) Law
13 1 (0.35%) Marketing
13 1 (0.35%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 143 (49.83%) AWS Engineer
2 119 (41.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 111 (38.68%) AWS DevOps
4 108 (37.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 108 (37.63%) Python Engineer
5 71 (24.74%) Data Engineer
6 61 (21.25%) Developer
6 61 (21.25%) Senior
7 46 (16.03%) Software Engineer
8 36 (12.54%) Java Developer
9 35 (12.20%) AWS Software Engineer
10 33 (11.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 27 (9.41%) DevOps Manager
12 26 (9.06%) Finance Manager
12 26 (9.06%) Java Engineer
13 25 (8.71%) Java Software Engineer
14 24 (8.36%) Senior Software Engineer
15 22 (7.67%) Site Engineer
16 16 (5.57%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (5.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (37.98%) PySpark
2 95 (33.10%) Kafka
3 93 (32.40%) J2EE
4 43 (14.98%) REST
5 40 (13.94%) Spring
6 39 (13.59%) gRPC
6 39 (13.59%) Spring Boot
7 36 (12.54%) Web Services
8 35 (12.20%) Pandas
9 34 (11.85%) NumPy
9 34 (11.85%) Protocol Buffers
9 34 (11.85%) SciPy
10 30 (10.45%) Apache Camel
11 28 (9.76%) React
12 26 (9.06%) HTML
13 25 (8.71%) RESTful
14 20 (6.97%) .NET
15 18 (6.27%) ActiveMQ
15 18 (6.27%) Hibernate
15 18 (6.27%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 46 (16.03%) Distributed Systems
2 36 (12.54%) Fixed Income
3 35 (12.20%) Equities
3 35 (12.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (11.85%) Derivative
4 34 (11.85%) Hedge funds
5 22 (7.67%) Cloud Native
6 14 (4.88%) Greenfield Project
7 10 (3.48%) Tandem
8 7 (2.44%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.70%) Legacy Code
10 2 (0.70%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.70%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.35%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.35%) Hackathon
11 1 (0.35%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (11.15%) Linux
2 12 (4.18%) Unix
3 7 (2.44%) Ubuntu
4 6 (2.09%) Windows
5 4 (1.39%) CentOS
6 3 (1.05%) VMS
7 1 (0.35%) Debian
7 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (73.52%) Agile
2 182 (63.41%) CI/CD
3 177 (61.67%) DevOps
4 164 (57.14%) Software Engineering
5 142 (49.48%) Asset Management
6 134 (46.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 95 (33.10%) Open Source
8 71 (24.74%) Data Engineering
9 54 (18.82%) Microservices
10 41 (14.29%) TDD
11 37 (12.89%) Migration
12 33 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
12 33 (11.50%) Scrum
13 32 (11.15%) BDD
14 30 (10.45%) Fintech
15 28 (9.76%) Infrastructure as Code
16 25 (8.71%) Kanban
17 19 (6.62%) Workflow
18 18 (6.27%) Containerisation
18 18 (6.27%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 214 (74.56%) Python
2 168 (58.54%) Java
3 100 (34.84%) JavaScript
4 84 (29.27%) Go
5 67 (23.34%) TypeScript
6 26 (9.06%) Shell Script
7 21 (7.32%) C#
8 16 (5.57%) Bash
9 14 (4.88%) SQL
10 6 (2.09%) PHP
11 4 (1.39%) Perl
12 3 (1.05%) Groovy
12 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.05%) Ruby
13 2 (0.70%) F#
13 2 (0.70%) Haskell
14 1 (0.35%) Erlang
14 1 (0.35%) Lisp
14 1 (0.35%) Scala
14 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (14.63%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.45%) Degree
4 16 (5.57%) AWS Certification
5 13 (4.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.09%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.70%) CISM
7 2 (0.70%) CISSP
7 2 (0.70%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.35%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.88%) SLA
2 6 (2.09%) QA
3 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.35%) GDPR
3 1 (0.35%) NCSC
3 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 196 (68.29%) Docker
2 7 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 191 (66.55%) Kubernetes
2 172 (59.93%) Terraform
3 35 (12.20%) Ansible
4 21 (7.32%) Grafana
5 18 (6.27%) Kibana
6 17 (5.92%) Prometheus
7 11 (3.83%) AWS Copilot
8 7 (2.44%) Nagios
8 7 (2.44%) Nessus
8 7 (2.44%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.35%) Istio
9 1 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 26 (9.06%) Splunk
2 19 (6.62%) Dynatrace
3 18 (6.27%) Google
4 7 (2.44%) Juniper
5 5 (1.74%) Red Hat
6 4 (1.39%) Databricks
6 4 (1.39%) Rapid7
7 1 (0.35%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.35%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.35%) BigPanda
7 1 (0.35%) IBM
7 1 (0.35%) New Relic
7 1 (0.35%) Oracle
7 1 (0.35%) YouTube