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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 653 411
Rank change year-on-year +84 -242 +48
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 353 333 1,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.33% 0.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.00% 0.77% 1.86%
Number of salaries quoted 216 227 428
10th Percentile £53,125 £51,250 £53,375
25th Percentile £65,000 £62,500 £58,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £98,750 £97,500 £100,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £109,250 £130,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +7.69% -1.89% -5.36%

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 35,306 43,046 77,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.65% 42.90% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 28,295 41,613
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 14 May 2024.

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 May 2024. 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 +37 268 £80,000 +6.67% 54
UK excluding London +31 217 £70,000 +7.69% 21
London +129 151 £90,000 - 32
Work from Home +39 129 £80,000 +14.29% 35
Scotland +19 76 £65,000 +42.07% 1
South East -15 74 £82,500 +26.92% 5
North of England +48 37 £57,500 -4.17% 8
Midlands +10 19 £65,000 +4.84% 3
North East +10 17 £55,000 -26.67% 2
North West +8 14 £57,500 -2.13% 2
East Midlands -5 14 £65,000 +24.40% 3
Yorkshire +82 6 £42,500 -29.17% 4
West Midlands -1 5 £67,500 +8.87%
East of England -7 4 £58,750 -9.62%
South West -42 4 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Northern Ireland +30 2 £85,000 +6.25% 1
Wales +12 1 £60,000 -5.36% 1

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 65 (18.41%) Apache
2 58 (16.43%) Apache Spark
3 41 (11.61%) OpenStack
4 17 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (2.55%) JBoss
5 9 (2.55%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.28%) Confluence
7 1 (0.28%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 346 (98.02%) AWS
2 238 (67.42%) Serverless
3 176 (49.86%) AWS Lambda
4 170 (48.16%) Amazon EKS
5 127 (35.98%) Amazon EC2
6 123 (34.84%) Amazon SQS
7 110 (31.16%) Amazon S3
8 100 (28.33%) Azure
9 77 (21.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 64 (18.13%) Amazon EMR
11 43 (12.18%) GitHub
12 36 (10.20%) Datadog
13 34 (9.63%) AWS Fargate
14 31 (8.78%) OpenShift
15 30 (8.50%) Azure AKS
16 28 (7.93%) CloudFront
17 24 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 24 (6.80%) Cloudflare
18 23 (6.52%) Akamai
18 23 (6.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.97%) Firewall
2 6 (1.70%) Network Security
3 3 (0.85%) HTTP
3 3 (0.85%) Internet
3 3 (0.85%) MQTT
4 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.57%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.28%) BGP
5 1 (0.28%) SMS
5 1 (0.28%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (29.75%) NoSQL
2 80 (22.66%) PostgreSQL
3 64 (18.13%) Amazon RDS
4 62 (17.56%) Relational Database
5 52 (14.73%) Big Data
5 52 (14.73%) Electronic Patient Records
6 51 (14.45%) Hadoop
7 50 (14.16%) DynamoDB
8 36 (10.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 19 (5.38%) MySQL
10 13 (3.68%) SQL Server
11 11 (3.12%) RDBMS
12 10 (2.83%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.83%) Redis
13 8 (2.27%) Amazon Athena
13 8 (2.27%) Couchbase
13 8 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (2.27%) Flink
14 6 (1.70%) Metadata
14 6 (1.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 138 (39.09%) Jenkins
2 103 (29.18%) Git
3 60 (17.00%) GitLab
4 32 (9.07%) Artifactory
5 15 (4.25%) JUnit
6 9 (2.55%) Maven
7 8 (2.27%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.70%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.42%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.42%) Sourcetree
10 4 (1.13%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.13%) JMeter
10 4 (1.13%) Mockito
10 4 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.13%) Subversion
11 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.28%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.28%) JIRA
13 1 (0.28%) Mocha
General
1 146 (41.36%) Finance
2 98 (27.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 96 (27.20%) Law
4 61 (17.28%) Social Skills
5 52 (14.73%) Legal
6 36 (10.20%) Public Sector
7 30 (8.50%) Front Office
8 22 (6.23%) Games
9 21 (5.95%) Marketing
10 16 (4.53%) Automotive
11 11 (3.12%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (2.55%) Analytical Skills
13 6 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.70%) Retail
14 5 (1.42%) Retail Finance
15 2 (0.57%) Tech for Good
16 1 (0.28%) Banking
16 1 (0.28%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.28%) Music Industry
16 1 (0.28%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 109 (30.88%) AWS Engineer
2 95 (26.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (25.50%) Developer
4 88 (24.93%) Lead
5 82 (23.23%) Software Engineer
6 62 (17.56%) Java Developer
7 57 (16.15%) AWS DevOps
8 53 (15.01%) AWS Software Engineer
9 52 (14.73%) Senior
10 51 (14.45%) Big Data Engineer
10 51 (14.45%) Big Data Software Engineer
10 51 (14.45%) Scala Engineer
10 51 (14.45%) Scala Software Engineer
11 48 (13.60%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 34 (9.63%) Kubernetes Engineer
13 30 (8.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 28 (7.93%) Lead DevOps
15 26 (7.37%) Full Stack Developer
16 23 (6.52%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 23 (6.52%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (22.38%) Spring
2 75 (21.25%) Spring Boot
3 74 (20.96%) Node.js
4 63 (17.85%) .NET
5 61 (17.28%) AngularJS
5 61 (17.28%) REST
6 52 (14.73%) Web Services
7 46 (13.03%) Apache Camel
8 45 (12.75%) JSON
9 42 (11.90%) Elastic Stack
10 40 (11.33%) XML
11 37 (10.48%) J2EE
12 25 (7.08%) Kafka
13 24 (6.80%) RESTful
14 23 (6.52%) AWS CDK
15 17 (4.82%) HTML
15 17 (4.82%) Lambda Expressions
15 17 (4.82%) React
16 13 (3.68%) CSS
17 12 (3.40%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 66 (18.70%) Algorithms
2 45 (12.75%) Distributed Systems
3 30 (8.50%) Tandem
4 23 (6.52%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.53%) Mobile App
6 15 (4.25%) Data Structures
7 14 (3.97%) Greenfield Project
8 13 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (3.12%) Cloud Native
10 10 (2.83%) Client/Server
11 9 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.13%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.85%) IoT
15 2 (0.57%) Blockchain
15 2 (0.57%) Equities
16 1 (0.28%) Cyber Defence
16 1 (0.28%) Data Centre
16 1 (0.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 37 (10.48%) Linux
2 10 (2.83%) Windows
3 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 3 (0.85%) Unix
4 3 (0.85%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.28%) Android
5 1 (0.28%) CentOS
5 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.28%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (62.89%) CI/CD
2 214 (60.62%) Agile
3 192 (54.39%) DevOps
4 150 (42.49%) Software Engineering
5 112 (31.73%) Microservices
6 77 (21.81%) SDLC
7 76 (21.53%) Scrum
8 75 (21.25%) Containerisation
9 66 (18.70%) Problem-Solving
10 65 (18.41%) Kanban
11 63 (17.85%) TDD
12 58 (16.43%) BDD
13 57 (16.15%) Visualisation
14 54 (15.30%) Infrastructure as Code
14 54 (15.30%) Operational Stability
15 52 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 52 (14.73%) Performance Tuning
16 51 (14.45%) Mentoring
16 51 (14.45%) Risk Management
17 46 (13.03%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 203 (57.51%) Java
2 161 (45.61%) Python
3 121 (34.28%) SQL
4 93 (26.35%) JavaScript
5 51 (14.45%) Scala
6 47 (13.31%) Go
7 20 (5.67%) TypeScript
8 17 (4.82%) C#
9 16 (4.53%) Shell Script
10 13 (3.68%) PHP
11 10 (2.83%) Bash
12 9 (2.55%) Rust
13 8 (2.27%) PowerShell
13 8 (2.27%) T-SQL
14 5 (1.42%) VBA
15 4 (1.13%) Ruby
16 3 (0.85%) Swift
17 2 (0.57%) Groovy
18 1 (0.28%) R
Qualifications
1 64 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 55 (15.58%) SC Cleared
3 52 (14.73%) AWS Certification
4 20 (5.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 15 (4.25%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.13%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.13%) Degree
7 4 (1.13%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.28%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.28%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) SEPA
System Software
1 195 (55.24%) Docker
2 31 (8.78%) Hyper-V
3 19 (5.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.28%) etcd
Systems Management
1 197 (55.81%) Kubernetes
2 175 (49.58%) Terraform
3 80 (22.66%) Ansible
4 29 (8.22%) Puppet
5 24 (6.80%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.10%) Grafana
7 17 (4.82%) Consul
8 16 (4.53%) Progress Chef
9 7 (1.98%) Kibana
9 7 (1.98%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.85%) Argo
11 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.28%) logstash
12 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 41 (11.61%) WSO2
2 28 (7.93%) Splunk
3 23 (6.52%) ForgeRock
4 22 (6.23%) Dynatrace
5 16 (4.53%) Google
5 16 (4.53%) Sitecore
6 15 (4.25%) Microsoft
7 12 (3.40%) Oracle
8 7 (1.98%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.85%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.57%) VMware
11 1 (0.28%) Databricks
11 1 (0.28%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.28%) Wallstreet Suite