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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 584 675
Rank change year-on-year +105 +91 -276
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 237 346 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.43% 0.34% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.59% 0.97% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 177 209 209
10th Percentile £50,766 £53,750 £51,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £102,500 £80,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% +3.23% +3.33%
75th Percentile £115,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £138,750 £112,500 £109,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +7.69% -

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 14,918 35,635 42,324
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.36% 34.98% 43.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,817 26,777 27,798
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,751 £76,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,400 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +145 227 £105,000 +31.25% 1,482
London +126 167 £110,000 +23.94% 223
Work from Home +125 126 £110,000 +37.50% 1,080
UK excluding London +78 102 £60,000 -14.29% 1,447
South East +49 37 £27,500 -66.67% 370
West Midlands +90 27 £60,000 -11.11% 150
Midlands +75 27 £60,000 -7.69% 274
North of England +33 22 £69,692 +21.20% 344
Yorkshire +69 11 £70,000 +64.71% 135
North West -8 8 £75,000 +30.43% 170
Scotland +44 5 £75,000 +15.38% 64
East of England +38 5 £42,500 -19.05% 212
Wales +48 4 £57,500 -4.17% 36
South West +107 3 £51,058 -14.90% 162
North East +35 3 £69,384 +26.15% 41

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 78 (32.91%) Apache Airflow
2 77 (32.49%) Apache
3 59 (24.89%) Apache Spark
4 13 (5.49%) JBoss
4 13 (5.49%) Red Hat Fuse
5 6 (2.53%) Confluence
5 6 (2.53%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.84%) nginx
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (3.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 237 (100.00%) AWS
2 157 (66.24%) Serverless
3 123 (51.90%) AWS Lambda
4 88 (37.13%) dbt
5 75 (31.65%) Amazon EKS
6 62 (26.16%) Amazon EC2
7 61 (25.74%) OpenShift
8 50 (21.10%) Azure
9 48 (20.25%) Amazon S3
10 40 (16.88%) GCP
11 33 (13.92%) Amazon SQS
12 32 (13.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 24 (10.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 22 (9.28%) GitHub
15 19 (8.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (8.02%) GitHub Actions
16 18 (7.59%) Dagster
16 18 (7.59%) Snowflake
17 16 (6.75%) Amazon ECR
18 13 (5.49%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.64%) TCP/IP
2 9 (3.80%) Firewall
3 7 (2.95%) SSL
4 6 (2.53%) VPN
5 5 (2.11%) MQTT
5 5 (2.11%) SMS
6 3 (1.27%) DNS
6 3 (1.27%) Internet
7 2 (0.84%) FTP
7 2 (0.84%) HTTP
7 2 (0.84%) IMAP
7 2 (0.84%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (0.84%) SMTP
7 2 (0.84%) SSH
8 1 (0.42%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (35.44%) Amazon Athena
2 77 (32.49%) Apache Arrow
2 77 (32.49%) Apache Iceberg
2 77 (32.49%) Apache Ignite
2 77 (32.49%) Dremio
3 58 (24.47%) PostgreSQL
4 38 (16.03%) Amazon RDS
5 37 (15.61%) Relational Database
6 23 (9.70%) MySQL
7 21 (8.86%) Data Lake
8 17 (7.17%) Elasticsearch
8 17 (7.17%) RDBMS
9 14 (5.91%) Redis
10 13 (5.49%) DynamoDB
11 11 (4.64%) Amazon Aurora
12 9 (3.80%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (3.80%) MongoDB
13 6 (2.53%) NoSQL
14 4 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
15 2 (0.84%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 63 (26.58%) Artifactory
2 59 (24.89%) Jenkins
3 31 (13.08%) Git
4 28 (11.81%) JUnit
5 13 (5.49%) JMeter
5 13 (5.49%) Mockito
6 10 (4.22%) GitLab
7 7 (2.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (2.95%) JIRA
8 5 (2.11%) Spinnaker
8 5 (2.11%) Vagrant
9 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.84%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.84%) Locust
10 2 (0.84%) Maven
10 2 (0.84%) Selenium
10 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.42%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
11 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
General
1 105 (44.30%) Finance
2 85 (35.86%) Front Office
3 38 (16.03%) Banking
4 33 (13.92%) Social Skills
5 30 (12.66%) Public Sector
6 21 (8.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (8.86%) Investment Banking
7 13 (5.49%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.64%) Analytical Skills
9 10 (4.22%) Law
9 10 (4.22%) Retail
10 7 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.53%) Marketing
12 4 (1.69%) Games
13 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 94 (39.66%) AWS Engineer
2 87 (36.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 75 (31.65%) AWS DevOps
4 73 (30.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 70 (29.54%) Python Engineer
6 60 (25.32%) Data Engineer
7 56 (23.63%) Developer
8 42 (17.72%) Senior
9 31 (13.08%) Java Developer
9 31 (13.08%) Software Engineer
10 24 (10.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 22 (9.28%) Site Engineer
12 19 (8.02%) AWS Software Engineer
13 18 (7.59%) Java Engineer
14 17 (7.17%) Java Software Engineer
14 17 (7.17%) Senior Software Engineer
15 15 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
16 11 (4.64%) Lead
17 9 (3.80%) Applications Engineer
17 9 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (34.18%) PySpark
2 78 (32.91%) Kafka
3 74 (31.22%) J2EE
4 38 (16.03%) REST
4 38 (16.03%) Spring
5 36 (15.19%) Spring Boot
6 32 (13.50%) Web Services
7 28 (11.81%) .NET
8 26 (10.97%) Apache Camel
9 25 (10.55%) React
9 25 (10.55%) RESTful
10 23 (9.70%) gRPC
11 20 (8.44%) HTML
11 20 (8.44%) Pandas
12 18 (7.59%) NumPy
12 18 (7.59%) Protocol Buffers
12 18 (7.59%) SciPy
13 16 (6.75%) Node.js
14 14 (5.91%) jQuery
15 13 (5.49%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (18.14%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (10.55%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.44%) Fixed Income
4 19 (8.02%) Equities
5 18 (7.59%) Derivative
5 18 (7.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 18 (7.59%) Hedge funds
6 9 (3.80%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.84%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.84%) Replication
9 2 (0.84%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.84%) Tandem
10 1 (0.42%) AI Agents
10 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 37 (15.61%) Linux
2 12 (5.06%) Unix
3 9 (3.80%) Ubuntu
4 8 (3.38%) Windows
5 5 (2.11%) VMS
6 4 (1.69%) CentOS
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.42%) Android
8 1 (0.42%) Debian
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (63.71%) Agile
2 147 (62.03%) CI/CD
3 144 (60.76%) DevOps
4 114 (48.10%) Software Engineering
5 94 (39.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 86 (36.29%) Asset Management
7 76 (32.07%) Open Source
8 60 (25.32%) Data Engineering
9 53 (22.36%) Microservices
10 41 (17.30%) TDD
11 31 (13.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (13.08%) Scrum
12 30 (12.66%) BDD
13 27 (11.39%) Full-Stack Development
14 23 (9.70%) Kanban
15 22 (9.28%) Containerisation
15 22 (9.28%) Migration
16 18 (7.59%) Continuous Delivery
17 17 (7.17%) Computer Science
18 15 (6.33%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 170 (71.73%) Python
2 136 (57.38%) Java
3 68 (28.69%) Go
4 61 (25.74%) JavaScript
5 47 (19.83%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.28%) SQL
7 21 (8.86%) Shell Script
8 16 (6.75%) Bash
8 16 (6.75%) C#
9 6 (2.53%) Groovy
10 5 (2.11%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.69%) Perl
11 4 (1.69%) PHP
12 3 (1.27%) Ruby
13 2 (0.84%) F#
13 2 (0.84%) Haskell
13 2 (0.84%) Lua
14 1 (0.42%) Lisp
14 1 (0.42%) Rust
14 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 42 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 40 (16.88%) SC Cleared
3 28 (11.81%) Degree
4 15 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.49%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.84%) CISM
7 2 (0.84%) CISSP
7 2 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.75%) SLA
2 11 (4.64%) PCI DSS
3 10 (4.22%) QA
4 9 (3.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.84%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) NCSC
System Software
1 157 (66.24%) Docker
2 7 (2.95%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.95%) Virtual Desktop
2 7 (2.95%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.84%) DFS Replication
3 2 (0.84%) Dovecot
3 2 (0.84%) Postfix
3 2 (0.84%) Squid
Systems Management
1 148 (62.45%) Kubernetes
2 138 (58.23%) Terraform
3 32 (13.50%) Ansible
4 28 (11.81%) Grafana
5 23 (9.70%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.49%) Kibana
7 11 (4.64%) AWS Copilot
8 9 (3.80%) Nessus
8 9 (3.80%) Proxmox
9 7 (2.95%) Nagios
10 1 (0.42%) Istio
10 1 (0.42%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (9.28%) Splunk
2 19 (8.02%) Google
3 15 (6.33%) Dynatrace
4 10 (4.22%) Microsoft
5 7 (2.95%) Juniper
6 6 (2.53%) Databricks
7 5 (2.11%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.69%) Rapid7
9 2 (0.84%) Jaspersoft
9 2 (0.84%) MKS
9 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.84%) Oracle
9 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.42%) BigPanda
10 1 (0.42%) IBM
10 1 (0.42%) IBM Sterling
10 1 (0.42%) New Relic
10 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.42%) YouTube