Amazon ECS Job Trends in Wales

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 62 108
Rank change year-on-year -42 +46 +7
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 7 3 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Wales 0.31% 0.44% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.16% 2.01% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £75,525 £53,500 -
25th Percentile - £55,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% - -6.72%
75th Percentile - £67,061 £62,500
90th Percentile - £69,798 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £88,750
% change year-on-year -3.33% -15.49% +18.33%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 606 149 562
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wales 26.53% 21.75% 27.88%
Number of salaries quoted 381 133 485
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,170 £28,290
25th Percentile £38,841 £46,486 £37,101
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +8.20%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £63,250
90th Percentile £76,201 £78,750 £70,150
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.00%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in Wales

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend in Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the Wales region over the 6 months to 11 July 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
West Wales - 6 £80,000 - 1
South Wales -37 1 £73,801 +23.00%
Amazon ECS
UK

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (85.71%) Amazon S3
2 6 (85.71%) AWS Lambda
2 6 (85.71%) CloudFront
2 6 (85.71%) GitHub
2 6 (85.71%) GitHub Actions
2 6 (85.71%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (14.29%) dbt
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Pulumi
3 1 (14.29%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Architect
1 6 (85.71%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) AWS CDK
1 6 (85.71%) GraphQL
1 6 (85.71%) Node.js
1 6 (85.71%) REST
1 6 (85.71%) Ruby on Rails
1 6 (85.71%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Cloud Native
1 6 (85.71%) Digital Wallet
1 6 (85.71%) Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 7 (100.00%) Migration
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) AI
2 6 (85.71%) Architectural Patterns
2 6 (85.71%) Biometrics
2 6 (85.71%) Cloud Security
2 6 (85.71%) Data Protection
2 6 (85.71%) Digital Identity
2 6 (85.71%) Domain-Driven Design
2 6 (85.71%) Event-Driven
2 6 (85.71%) Impact Assessments
2 6 (85.71%) Information Assurance
2 6 (85.71%) Software Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Technical Leadership
2 6 (85.71%) TOGAF
2 6 (85.71%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (85.71%) COBOL
2 6 (85.71%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Certification
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 6 (85.71%) TOGAF Certification
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) Government Security Classifications
1 6 (85.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google