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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 650 418
Rank change year-on-year +76 -232 +34
Permanent jobs citing Amazon ECS 350 352 1,363
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.34% 0.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.99% 0.79% 1.80%
Number of salaries quoted 222 238 441
10th Percentile £52,625 £51,250 £52,500
25th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +4.48% -3.33%
75th Percentile £102,500 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £112,500 £117,875 £122,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% -

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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 +36 262 £80,000 +6.67% 54
UK excluding London +58 222 £70,000 +7.69% 25
London +105 143 £95,000 +5.56% 29
Work from Home +45 126 £77,500 +10.71% 30
Scotland +10 77 £65,000 +42.07%
South East -11 76 £82,500 +26.92% 3
North of England +63 37 £57,500 -4.17% 11
Midlands +19 19 £65,000 +4.84% 4
North East +12 17 £55,000 -26.67% 2
North West +12 14 £57,500 -4.17% 6
East Midlands +7 14 £65,000 +24.40% 1
Yorkshire +70 6 £42,500 -29.17% 3
West Midlands +10 5 £67,500 +8.87% 3
East of England +5 5 £65,000 -
South West -42 4 £55,000 -12.00% 3
Northern Ireland +30 3 £75,000 -6.25% 4
Wales +6 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 61 (17.43%) Apache
2 58 (16.57%) Apache Spark
3 42 (12.00%) OpenStack
4 11 (3.14%) Apache Airflow
5 10 (2.86%) JBoss
5 10 (2.86%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.57%) nginx
7 1 (0.29%) CMS
7 1 (0.29%) Confluence
7 1 (0.29%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.29%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 344 (98.29%) AWS
2 245 (70.00%) Serverless
3 182 (52.00%) AWS Lambda
4 172 (49.14%) Amazon EKS
5 131 (37.43%) Amazon EC2
6 126 (36.00%) Amazon SQS
7 111 (31.71%) Amazon S3
8 99 (28.29%) Azure
9 80 (22.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 58 (16.57%) Amazon EMR
11 42 (12.00%) GitHub
12 35 (10.00%) Datadog
12 35 (10.00%) OpenShift
13 32 (9.14%) AWS Fargate
14 28 (8.00%) Azure AKS
14 28 (8.00%) CloudFront
15 23 (6.57%) Cloudflare
16 22 (6.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 22 (6.29%) SaaS
17 21 (6.00%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 14 (4.00%) Firewall
2 6 (1.71%) Network Security
3 3 (0.86%) HTTP
3 3 (0.86%) Internet
3 3 (0.86%) MQTT
4 2 (0.57%) BGP
4 2 (0.57%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.57%) VPN
4 2 (0.57%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.29%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (29.14%) NoSQL
2 78 (22.29%) PostgreSQL
3 65 (18.57%) Amazon RDS
4 60 (17.14%) Relational Database
5 52 (14.86%) Big Data
5 52 (14.86%) Electronic Patient Records
6 51 (14.57%) Hadoop
7 48 (13.71%) DynamoDB
8 40 (11.43%) Amazon Redshift
9 22 (6.29%) MySQL
10 12 (3.43%) SQL Server
11 11 (3.14%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
12 10 (2.86%) Redis
13 9 (2.57%) Flink
14 8 (2.29%) Couchbase
15 7 (2.00%) MongoDB
15 7 (2.00%) RDBMS
16 5 (1.43%) Power BI
17 4 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 141 (40.29%) Jenkins
2 104 (29.71%) Git
3 58 (16.57%) GitLab
4 36 (10.29%) Artifactory
5 16 (4.57%) JUnit
6 9 (2.57%) Maven
7 7 (2.00%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.71%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.43%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.43%) Sourcetree
10 4 (1.14%) JMeter
10 4 (1.14%) Mockito
10 4 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.14%) Subversion
11 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
13 1 (0.29%) Jasmine
13 1 (0.29%) JIRA
13 1 (0.29%) Mocha
13 1 (0.29%) TeamCity
General
1 141 (40.29%) Finance
2 90 (25.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 87 (24.86%) Law
4 60 (17.14%) Social Skills
5 52 (14.86%) Legal
6 37 (10.57%) Public Sector
7 34 (9.71%) Front Office
8 22 (6.29%) Games
9 20 (5.71%) Marketing
10 15 (4.29%) Automotive
11 10 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.71%) Retail
13 5 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
13 5 (1.43%) Retail Finance
14 2 (0.57%) Tech for Good
15 1 (0.29%) Banking
15 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.29%) Music Industry
15 1 (0.29%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 113 (32.29%) AWS Engineer
2 100 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 94 (26.86%) Developer
4 83 (23.71%) Lead
5 76 (21.71%) Software Engineer
6 63 (18.00%) Java Developer
7 61 (17.43%) AWS DevOps
8 53 (15.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 53 (15.14%) AWS Software Engineer
9 51 (14.57%) Big Data Engineer
9 51 (14.57%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 51 (14.57%) Scala Engineer
9 51 (14.57%) Scala Software Engineer
10 50 (14.29%) Senior
11 38 (10.86%) Kubernetes Engineer
12 35 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 27 (7.71%) Full Stack Developer
14 26 (7.43%) Lead DevOps
15 23 (6.57%) Full Stack Java Developer
16 21 (6.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (22.86%) Spring
2 76 (21.71%) Spring Boot
3 72 (20.57%) Node.js
4 62 (17.71%) .NET
4 62 (17.71%) AngularJS
4 62 (17.71%) REST
5 53 (15.14%) Web Services
6 47 (13.43%) Apache Camel
7 45 (12.86%) JSON
8 43 (12.29%) Elastic Stack
9 42 (12.00%) J2EE
10 40 (11.43%) XML
11 26 (7.43%) Kafka
12 24 (6.86%) RESTful
13 23 (6.57%) AWS CDK
14 18 (5.14%) HTML
15 16 (4.57%) React
16 14 (4.00%) CSS
16 14 (4.00%) Lambda Expressions
17 12 (3.43%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 67 (19.14%) Algorithms
2 46 (13.14%) Distributed Systems
3 34 (9.71%) Tandem
4 22 (6.29%) Public Cloud
5 16 (4.57%) Data Structures
6 15 (4.29%) Mobile App
7 13 (3.71%) Greenfield Project
8 12 (3.43%) Cloud Native
9 11 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (2.86%) Client/Server
11 9 (2.57%) Legacy Systems
12 8 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.14%) Private Cloud
14 3 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 3 (0.86%) IoT
15 2 (0.57%) Blockchain
15 2 (0.57%) Data Centre
16 1 (0.29%) Cyber Defence
16 1 (0.29%) Digital Currency
16 1 (0.29%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 39 (11.14%) Linux
2 9 (2.57%) Windows
3 4 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 4 (1.14%) Unix
4 3 (0.86%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) CentOS
6 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (65.14%) CI/CD
2 212 (60.57%) Agile
3 198 (56.57%) DevOps
4 148 (42.29%) Software Engineering
5 111 (31.71%) Microservices
6 77 (22.00%) SDLC
7 75 (21.43%) Scrum
8 74 (21.14%) Containerisation
9 65 (18.57%) Kanban
9 65 (18.57%) TDD
10 63 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
11 59 (16.86%) BDD
12 57 (16.29%) Visualisation
13 54 (15.43%) Infrastructure as Code
13 54 (15.43%) Operational Stability
14 52 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
14 52 (14.86%) Performance Tuning
15 51 (14.57%) Risk Management
15 51 (14.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 49 (14.00%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 200 (57.14%) Java
2 156 (44.57%) Python
3 119 (34.00%) SQL
4 93 (26.57%) JavaScript
5 52 (14.86%) Go
6 51 (14.57%) Scala
7 19 (5.43%) C#
7 19 (5.43%) TypeScript
8 16 (4.57%) Shell Script
9 14 (4.00%) PHP
10 11 (3.14%) Bash
11 10 (2.86%) Rust
12 8 (2.29%) PowerShell
12 8 (2.29%) T-SQL
13 5 (1.43%) VBA
14 4 (1.14%) Ruby
15 3 (0.86%) Swift
16 2 (0.57%) Groovy
16 2 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 64 (18.29%) Security Cleared
2 54 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 51 (14.57%) AWS Certification
4 19 (5.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 15 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 8 (2.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.14%) Degree
7 4 (1.14%) 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 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.29%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) SEPA
System Software
1 201 (57.43%) Docker
2 31 (8.86%) Hyper-V
3 18 (5.14%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.29%) etcd
Systems Management
1 202 (57.71%) Kubernetes
2 180 (51.43%) Terraform
3 81 (23.14%) Ansible
4 27 (7.71%) Puppet
5 23 (6.57%) Prometheus
6 18 (5.14%) Grafana
7 16 (4.57%) Consul
8 15 (4.29%) Progress Chef
9 7 (2.00%) Kibana
10 6 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.86%) Argo
12 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
13 1 (0.29%) logstash
13 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 42 (12.00%) WSO2
2 28 (8.00%) Splunk
3 22 (6.29%) Dynatrace
4 21 (6.00%) ForgeRock
5 18 (5.14%) Google
6 15 (4.29%) Microsoft
6 15 (4.29%) Sitecore
7 11 (3.14%) Oracle
8 6 (1.71%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.86%) Palo Alto
10 2 (0.57%) VMware
11 1 (0.29%) Databricks
11 1 (0.29%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.29%) Wallstreet Suite
11 1 (0.29%) WooCommerce