Amazon ECS Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 247 461 485
Rank change year-on-year +214 +24 -141
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 178 125 176
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.15% 0.37% 0.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.98% 0.86% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 173 105 130
10th Percentile £64,509 £51,000 £54,750
25th Percentile £85,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £110,000 £77,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.94% +10.71% -
75th Percentile £138,750 £85,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £97,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £107,500 £80,000 £76,500
% change year-on-year +34.38% +4.58% +5.52%

All Cloud 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 5,972 14,615 20,197
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.73% 43.25% 47.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,609 11,957 14,815
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,636 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £83,750 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,743 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.64% -11.54% +4.00%

Amazon ECS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon ECS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Amazon ECS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Amazon ECS
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Amazon ECS.

Amazon ECS salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon ECS
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Amazon ECS over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Amazon ECS salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Amazon ECS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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
1 106 (59.55%) Apache Airflow
2 105 (58.99%) Apache
3 71 (39.89%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 178 (100.00%) AWS
2 116 (65.17%) dbt
3 115 (64.61%) Serverless
4 112 (62.92%) AWS Lambda
5 71 (39.89%) OpenShift
6 66 (37.08%) Amazon EC2
7 48 (26.97%) GCP
8 42 (23.60%) Amazon EKS
9 38 (21.35%) AWS CloudFormation
10 34 (19.10%) Dagster
10 34 (19.10%) Snowflake
11 31 (17.42%) Amazon S3
12 28 (15.73%) Amazon SQS
13 16 (8.99%) Azure
14 14 (7.87%) Amazon ECR
15 12 (6.74%) Amazon ElastiCache
15 12 (6.74%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (6.18%) AWS CodeBuild
16 11 (6.18%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.18%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (62.36%) Amazon Athena
2 105 (58.99%) Apache Arrow
2 105 (58.99%) Apache Iceberg
2 105 (58.99%) Apache Ignite
2 105 (58.99%) Dremio
3 38 (21.35%) Amazon RDS
4 35 (19.66%) Data Lake
5 25 (14.04%) Amazon Redshift
6 18 (10.11%) Redis
7 17 (9.55%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (8.43%) MySQL
9 13 (7.30%) Elasticsearch
10 8 (4.49%) DynamoDB
11 6 (3.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (2.25%) Big Data
12 4 (2.25%) NoSQL
13 1 (0.56%) Couchbase
13 1 (0.56%) Mixpanel
13 1 (0.56%) MongoDB
13 1 (0.56%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 71 (39.89%) Artifactory
2 7 (3.93%) Git
3 5 (2.81%) GitLab
4 4 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.12%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.12%) JIRA
6 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.56%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.56%) SonarQube
General
1 134 (75.28%) Finance
2 129 (72.47%) Front Office
3 63 (35.39%) Banking
4 34 (19.10%) Investment Banking
5 14 (7.87%) Social Skills
6 12 (6.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (4.49%) Games
8 2 (1.12%) Retail
9 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Marketing
9 1 (0.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 130 (73.03%) AWS Engineer
2 106 (59.55%) Python Engineer
3 100 (56.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 95 (53.37%) AWS DevOps
4 95 (53.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 71 (39.89%) Data Engineer
6 53 (29.78%) Senior
7 45 (25.28%) Software Engineer
8 35 (19.66%) AWS Software Engineer
9 24 (13.48%) DevOps Manager
9 24 (13.48%) Finance Manager
9 24 (13.48%) Java Engineer
9 24 (13.48%) Java Software Engineer
10 23 (12.92%) Senior Software Engineer
11 13 (7.30%) Senior DevOps
11 13 (7.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 12 (6.74%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
12 12 (6.74%) Senior Java Engineer
12 12 (6.74%) Senior Java Software Engineer
12 12 (6.74%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (58.99%) PySpark
2 84 (47.19%) Kafka
3 71 (39.89%) J2EE
4 35 (19.66%) Pandas
5 34 (19.10%) gRPC
5 34 (19.10%) NumPy
5 34 (19.10%) Protocol Buffers
5 34 (19.10%) SciPy
6 12 (6.74%) Django
7 11 (6.18%) React
8 7 (3.93%) CSS
9 6 (3.37%) .NET
9 6 (3.37%) HTML
9 6 (3.37%) Lambda Expressions
10 5 (2.81%) Next.js
11 4 (2.25%) RESTful
11 4 (2.25%) Vue
12 3 (1.69%) Laravel
12 3 (1.69%) REST
12 3 (1.69%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 34 (19.10%) Derivative
2 34 (19.10%) Equities
2 34 (19.10%) Fixed Income
2 34 (19.10%) Hedge funds
3 12 (6.74%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (3.37%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.81%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.12%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.56%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.56%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.56%) IoT
8 1 (0.56%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.56%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.56%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (9.55%) Linux
2 11 (6.18%) Unix
3 2 (1.12%) CentOS
3 2 (1.12%) Windows
4 1 (0.56%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (82.58%) Software Engineering
2 144 (80.90%) Agile
3 130 (73.03%) Asset Management
4 120 (67.42%) CI/CD
5 117 (65.73%) DevOps
6 107 (60.11%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 83 (46.63%) Open Source
8 71 (39.89%) Data Engineering
9 35 (19.66%) Migration
10 25 (14.04%) Fintech
11 13 (7.30%) Continuous Integration
12 12 (6.74%) Clean Code
12 12 (6.74%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (6.18%) Application Performance Monitoring
13 11 (6.18%) Performance Monitoring
13 11 (6.18%) Prototyping
14 10 (5.62%) Observability
15 9 (5.06%) Containerisation
15 9 (5.06%) Mentoring
15 9 (5.06%) Service-Level Objective
Programming Languages
1 155 (87.08%) Python
2 110 (61.80%) Java
3 74 (41.57%) Go
4 65 (36.52%) JavaScript
5 42 (23.60%) TypeScript
6 10 (5.62%) SQL
7 9 (5.06%) C#
8 6 (3.37%) Bash
9 3 (1.69%) PHP
10 2 (1.12%) F#
10 2 (1.12%) Haskell
10 2 (1.12%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.56%) Elixir
11 1 (0.56%) Elm
11 1 (0.56%) Erlang
11 1 (0.56%) Lisp
11 1 (0.56%) PureScript
11 1 (0.56%) Scala
11 1 (0.56%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (7.87%) SC Cleared
1 14 (7.87%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.62%) Degree
3 7 (3.93%) AWS Certification
4 6 (3.37%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.12%) CISM
5 2 (1.12%) CISSP
5 2 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.12%) QA
2 1 (0.56%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.56%) NCSC
System Software
1 119 (66.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 119 (66.85%) Terraform
2 111 (62.36%) Kubernetes
3 11 (6.18%) AWS Copilot
4 5 (2.81%) Grafana
5 3 (1.69%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.12%) Ansible
6 2 (1.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (6.18%) Google
2 3 (1.69%) Red Hat
2 3 (1.69%) Splunk
3 2 (1.12%) Rapid7
4 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.56%) New Relic
4 1 (0.56%) YouTube