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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 423 505
Rank change year-on-year -56 +82 +91
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 164 297 226
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.28% 0.55% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.81% 1.53% 1.00%
Number of salaries quoted 109 249 169
10th Percentile £50,000 £64,471 £49,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £77,500 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £107,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.35% +48.28% -9.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £128,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,000 £147,500 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £72,500 £69,308 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.61% +6.63% -7.14%

All Cloud Computing 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 20,367 19,394 22,516
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.33% 36.11% 40.26%
Number of salaries quoted 11,129 11,407 18,508
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,250 £46,597 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +7.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

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 11 January 2026.

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 11 January 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
England -50 134 £73,801 -31.35% 234
UK excluding London +85 109 £72,500 +4.61% 218
Work from Home -50 66 £65,000 -39.53% 138
North of England +62 55 £73,801 +6.48% 48
Yorkshire - 44 £75,000 - 24
London -133 43 £75,000 -31.82% 38
South East +17 19 £62,500 -3.85% 66
Midlands +30 17 £50,000 -27.86% 21
West Midlands +42 16 £56,250 -18.84% 9
South West +14 10 £62,500 -10.71% 25
North West +24 8 £73,801 +6.48% 18
Scotland +1 5 £73,801 +6.48% 6
East of England +19 3 £60,000 -52.00% 38
North East +5 3 £73,801 +6.48% 6
Wales -3 3 £73,801 +6.48% 13
Northern Ireland -9 2 £73,801 +6.48% 7
East Midlands - 1 £46,000 - 12

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 13 (7.93%) OpenStack
2 4 (2.44%) Confluence
2 4 (2.44%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg AIM
1 1 (0.61%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 164 (100.00%) AWS
2 111 (67.68%) Serverless
3 80 (48.78%) AWS Lambda
4 77 (46.95%) Amazon S3
5 70 (42.68%) AWS CloudFormation
6 59 (35.98%) Amazon EKS
7 45 (27.44%) Amazon EC2
8 43 (26.22%) Amazon ECR
9 38 (23.17%) Azure
10 30 (18.29%) Amazon SQS
11 27 (16.46%) GCP
12 25 (15.24%) GitHub
13 24 (14.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 22 (13.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (12.80%) Pulumi
16 20 (12.20%) dbt
17 19 (11.59%) Apigee
18 17 (10.37%) Amazon OpenSearch
18 17 (10.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 16 (9.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.24%) TCP/IP
2 7 (4.27%) DNS
3 5 (3.05%) Firewall
3 5 (3.05%) HTTP
3 5 (3.05%) VPN
4 4 (2.44%) FTP
4 4 (2.44%) IMAP
4 4 (2.44%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (2.44%) SMTP
4 4 (2.44%) SSH
5 3 (1.83%) BGP
5 3 (1.83%) VLAN
6 1 (0.61%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (40.85%) PostgreSQL
2 50 (30.49%) Amazon RDS
3 30 (18.29%) DynamoDB
4 29 (17.68%) Relational Database
5 23 (14.02%) Elasticsearch
6 21 (12.80%) Redis
7 15 (9.15%) MongoDB
8 13 (7.93%) RDBMS
9 6 (3.66%) NoSQL
10 5 (3.05%) Amazon Aurora
10 5 (3.05%) MySQL
11 4 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
14 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 73 (44.51%) Jenkins
2 37 (22.56%) GitLab
3 34 (20.73%) Git
4 26 (15.85%) Cypress.io
5 17 (10.37%) Maven
5 17 (10.37%) SonarQube
6 14 (8.54%) JUnit
7 13 (7.93%) JMeter
7 13 (7.93%) Mockito
8 4 (2.44%) JIRA
8 4 (2.44%) Vagrant
9 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.61%) NUnit
10 1 (0.61%) Selenium
General
1 33 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 30 (18.29%) Public Sector
3 14 (8.54%) Finance
4 11 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (3.66%) Banking
5 6 (3.66%) Law
6 5 (3.05%) Retail
7 4 (2.44%) Advertising
7 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.83%) Back Office
8 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.22%) Games
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Front Office
10 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Marketing
10 1 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 57 (34.76%) Developer
2 40 (24.39%) Java Developer
3 36 (21.95%) Senior
4 34 (20.73%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (15.24%) DevOps Engineer
6 22 (13.41%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 17 (10.37%) Lead
7 17 (10.37%) Software Engineer
8 16 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
10 13 (7.93%) Senior Platform Engineer
11 12 (7.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (6.71%) Mid-Level Java Developer
13 10 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (6.10%) Site Engineer
14 9 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 9 (5.49%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
15 7 (4.27%) AWS DevOps
15 7 (4.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 7 (4.27%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (34.15%) Spring Boot
2 51 (31.10%) Spring
3 45 (27.44%) Node.js
4 35 (21.34%) React
4 35 (21.34%) REST
5 33 (20.12%) AngularJS
6 27 (16.46%) Jest
7 23 (14.02%) Web Services
8 21 (12.80%) Django
8 21 (12.80%) Elastic Stack
9 17 (10.37%) Apache Camel
9 17 (10.37%) Gherkin
10 15 (9.15%) AWS CDK
10 15 (9.15%) HTML
10 15 (9.15%) JSON
10 15 (9.15%) XML
11 13 (7.93%) ActiveMQ
11 13 (7.93%) Hibernate
11 13 (7.93%) jQuery
11 13 (7.93%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.05%) Distributed Systems
2 29 (17.68%) Cloud Native
3 12 (7.32%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.44%) Replication
5 3 (1.83%) Data Centre
5 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.22%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (1.22%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.61%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.61%) Blog
7 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.61%) Equities
7 1 (0.61%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.61%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (24.39%) Linux
2 20 (12.20%) Unix
3 7 (4.27%) Windows
4 4 (2.44%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (2.44%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.44%) VMS
5 1 (0.61%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (77.44%) CI/CD
2 110 (67.07%) DevOps
3 73 (44.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (38.41%) Microservices
5 60 (36.59%) Full-Stack Development
6 55 (33.54%) Agile
7 40 (24.39%) Observability
8 36 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (19.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 30 (18.29%) Clean Code
11 29 (17.68%) Software Engineering
11 29 (17.68%) TDD
12 25 (15.24%) Scrum
12 25 (15.24%) SDLC
13 23 (14.02%) Platform Engineering
14 22 (13.41%) BDD
15 21 (12.80%) Containerisation
15 21 (12.80%) Workflow
16 20 (12.20%) Service-Level Objective
17 18 (10.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 77 (46.95%) Python
2 74 (45.12%) Java
3 54 (32.93%) JavaScript
4 49 (29.88%) TypeScript
5 35 (21.34%) Bash
6 20 (12.20%) Groovy
7 13 (7.93%) Shell Script
7 13 (7.93%) SQL
8 12 (7.32%) PowerShell
9 9 (5.49%) Ruby
10 8 (4.88%) Go
11 4 (2.44%) C#
11 4 (2.44%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.83%) PHP
13 1 (0.61%) Perl
Qualifications
1 57 (34.76%) Security Cleared
2 43 (26.22%) SC Cleared
3 27 (16.46%) AWS Certification
4 7 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 6 (3.66%) Degree
6 5 (3.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (2.44%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.22%) SnowPro
10 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.61%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.61%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.27%) QA
2 5 (3.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.05%) SOC 2
3 4 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.22%) NIST
5 1 (0.61%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
System Software
1 96 (58.54%) Docker
2 4 (2.44%) DFS Replication
2 4 (2.44%) Dovecot
2 4 (2.44%) Postfix
2 4 (2.44%) Squid
3 1 (0.61%) iptables
Systems Management
1 72 (43.90%) Terraform
2 69 (42.07%) Kubernetes
3 22 (13.41%) Ansible
4 21 (12.80%) Grafana
5 17 (10.37%) HP Fortify
6 16 (9.76%) Prometheus
7 13 (7.93%) Kibana
8 12 (7.32%) AWS Copilot
9 4 (2.44%) Nessus
9 4 (2.44%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.22%) Argo
11 1 (0.61%) Istio
11 1 (0.61%) Nagios
11 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.61%) Puppet
11 1 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (12.20%) Google
2 15 (9.15%) Splunk
3 13 (7.93%) Dynatrace
4 4 (2.44%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (2.44%) Pega
4 4 (2.44%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.44%) WSO2
5 2 (1.22%) Microsoft
6 1 (0.61%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.61%) Charles River
6 1 (0.61%) Mercator
6 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.61%) Rapid7
6 1 (0.61%) Red Hat