Hybrid/Remote Amazon ECS Job Trends

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 319 252 441
Rank change year-on-year -67 +189 +38
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 77 174 132
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.42% 1.19% 0.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.10% 2.77% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 69 169 106
10th Percentile - £64,509 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £85,000 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £110,000 £78,750
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% +39.68% +12.50%
75th Percentile £81,250 £138,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £140,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £107,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -34.88% +34.38% +6.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,993 6,289 13,977
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.93% 43.03% 42.95%
Number of salaries quoted 4,803 4,612 11,959
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,076 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,000 £79,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year +3.73% +4.78% -11.54%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Amazon ECS and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon ECS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Amazon ECS salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (3.90%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.60%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Drupal
3 1 (1.30%) IIS
3 1 (1.30%) JBoss
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Fuse
3 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) AWS
2 59 (76.62%) Serverless
3 48 (62.34%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (61.04%) Amazon S3
5 31 (40.26%) Amazon SQS
6 29 (37.66%) Amazon EC2
6 29 (37.66%) AWS CloudFormation
7 17 (22.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 17 (22.08%) Amazon EKS
7 17 (22.08%) GitHub
8 14 (18.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 14 (18.18%) AWS Step Functions
8 14 (18.18%) GCP
9 11 (14.29%) Amazon ECR
9 11 (14.29%) Azure
10 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (7.79%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 6 (7.79%) Apigee
12 5 (6.49%) Datadog
12 5 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.99%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.90%) BGP
2 3 (3.90%) VLAN
2 3 (3.90%) VPN
3 2 (2.60%) DNS
3 2 (2.60%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (46.75%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (35.06%) MongoDB
3 19 (24.68%) DynamoDB
4 16 (20.78%) Amazon RDS
5 11 (14.29%) NoSQL
6 10 (12.99%) Amazon Athena
7 6 (7.79%) Redis
8 5 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.60%) MySQL
9 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 1 (1.30%) InterSystems Cache
10 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
10 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (36.36%) Cypress.io
2 25 (32.47%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.29%) Git
4 8 (10.39%) GitLab
5 6 (7.79%) Maven
6 5 (6.49%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.30%) Gatling
7 1 (1.30%) git-flow
7 1 (1.30%) JIRA
7 1 (1.30%) JMeter
7 1 (1.30%) JUnit
7 1 (1.30%) MLflow
7 1 (1.30%) Selenium
7 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.30%) Vagrant
General
1 9 (11.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (10.39%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.79%) Finance
4 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.19%) Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Law
5 4 (5.19%) Retail
6 3 (3.90%) Back Office
6 3 (3.90%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.60%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.30%) Advertising
8 1 (1.30%) Games
8 1 (1.30%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 48 (62.34%) Developer
2 29 (37.66%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (20.78%) Java Developer
4 12 (15.58%) Senior
5 9 (11.69%) Lead
6 6 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.79%) Lead Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Integration Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Senior Python Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (59.74%) Node.js
2 33 (42.86%) React
3 28 (36.36%) Jest
4 23 (29.87%) Ruby on Rails
5 17 (22.08%) AngularJS
6 16 (20.78%) Spring
7 15 (19.48%) Spring Boot
8 9 (11.69%) Django
9 7 (9.09%) Kafka
10 5 (6.49%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (6.49%) FastAPI
10 5 (6.49%) Gherkin
10 5 (6.49%) REST
11 4 (5.19%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (5.19%) RESTful
11 4 (5.19%) Web Services
12 3 (3.90%) AWS CDK
12 3 (3.90%) Mustache
13 2 (2.60%) Vue
13 2 (2.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 6 (7.79%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (5.19%) Blog
5 3 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.60%) NHS
6 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.30%) PKI
7 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.99%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (51.95%) DevOps
2 38 (49.35%) CI/CD
3 35 (45.45%) Full-Stack Development
4 33 (42.86%) Microservices
5 27 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (29.87%) Containerisation
6 23 (29.87%) Mob Programming
7 21 (27.27%) Observability
8 17 (22.08%) Agile
9 14 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (16.88%) Event-Driven
10 13 (16.88%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 13 (16.88%) TDD
11 12 (15.58%) Mentoring
12 10 (12.99%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (11.69%) Clean Code
13 9 (11.69%) DevSecOps
14 8 (10.39%) Incident Response
15 6 (7.79%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 35 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 30 (38.96%) Java
3 26 (33.77%) Python
4 23 (29.87%) Ruby
5 14 (18.18%) TypeScript
6 11 (14.29%) SQL
7 9 (11.69%) Kotlin
8 8 (10.39%) Go
9 5 (6.49%) Groovy
10 4 (5.19%) Bash
11 1 (1.30%) C#
11 1 (1.30%) PHP
11 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.39%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.30%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.90%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.90%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.30%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.30%) NCSC
2 1 (1.30%) QA
System Software
1 35 (45.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (33.77%) Terraform
2 25 (32.47%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.39%) Ansible
4 5 (6.49%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (6.49%) HP Fortify
5 2 (2.60%) Grafana
5 2 (2.60%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.30%) Consul
6 1 (1.30%) Kibana
6 1 (1.30%) Packer
6 1 (1.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (7.79%) Google
2 4 (5.19%) HubSpot
3 2 (2.60%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.30%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.30%) IBM
4 1 (1.30%) Mercator
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle
4 1 (1.30%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.30%) TOWER Software