AWS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 244 423 411
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.38% 15.69% 12.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.38% 43.03% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 313 313
10th Percentile £400 £416 £416
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -4.81% +12.43%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £575
90th Percentile £614 £650 £648
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £41.38 £40.55
25th Percentile - £50.94 £41.00
Median hourly rate - £66.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -
75th Percentile - £78.25 £49.01
90th Percentile - £82.30 £50.07
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £74.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -25.68% +12.91% +11.56%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 731 983 1,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.10% 36.46% 32.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 723 830
10th Percentile £225 £250 £313
25th Percentile £370 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -2.86% +8.67%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £652
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 16
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.72 £17.70
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +82.11% -54.76%
75th Percentile £22.28 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £33.05 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow 0 124 £475 -13.64% 31
Edinburgh -2 94 £472 -4.11% 60
Lanarkshire +1 3 £460 -3.16% 10
Perthshire +10 2 £700 +3.70%
Midlothian +1 1 - - 12
Renfrewshire -3 1 £600 +11.39%
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 1
Fife - 1 - -
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 18 (7.38%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (6.15%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) SAS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 69 (28.28%) Amazon S3
2 62 (25.41%) Serverless
3 60 (24.59%) Azure
4 58 (23.77%) AWS CloudFormation
4 58 (23.77%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (15.98%) OpenShift
6 24 (9.84%) Amazon EC2
7 19 (7.79%) GCP
8 17 (6.97%) AWS CodePipeline
9 15 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 15 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
10 12 (4.92%) Snowflake
11 11 (4.51%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 11 (4.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 9 (3.69%) AWS CodeBuild
12 9 (3.69%) Azure Sentinel
13 8 (3.28%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (3.28%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
14 6 (2.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.46%) Firewall
2 2 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (0.82%) iSCSI
2 2 (0.82%) Network Security
2 2 (0.82%) SAN
2 2 (0.82%) SSL
3 1 (0.41%) Internet
3 1 (0.41%) LAN
3 1 (0.41%) MPLS
3 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.41%) WAN
3 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (22.54%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (13.11%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (11.89%) Amazon RDS
4 28 (11.48%) Oracle Database
5 19 (7.79%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.74%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (4.10%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.69%) MySQL
9 8 (3.28%) Big Data
10 7 (2.87%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.46%) InfluxDB
11 6 (2.46%) Informix
11 6 (2.46%) MariaDB
12 5 (2.05%) GIS
13 4 (1.64%) Apache Hive
14 3 (1.23%) Impala
14 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
14 3 (1.23%) Spark SQL
15 2 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (12.30%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.38%) Git
3 15 (6.15%) GitLab
4 10 (4.10%) JIRA
5 8 (3.28%) Maven
6 7 (2.87%) Gradle
7 6 (2.46%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.05%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.05%) Selenium
9 4 (1.64%) Cypress.io
9 4 (1.64%) webpack
10 3 (1.23%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.23%) JUnit
10 3 (1.23%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.82%) Subversion
12 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.41%) Gatling
12 1 (0.41%) JMeter
12 1 (0.41%) Mockito
12 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 60 (24.59%) Public Sector
2 39 (15.98%) Social Skills
3 28 (11.48%) Finance
4 22 (9.02%) Banking
5 13 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.28%) Back Office
7 8 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.05%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Publishing
9 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 106 (43.44%) Developer
2 47 (19.26%) Java Developer
3 26 (10.66%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (8.20%) Data Engineer
5 17 (6.97%) Senior
6 16 (6.56%) Architect
7 14 (5.74%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (5.33%) Full Stack Developer
9 12 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.92%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.51%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.10%) Analyst
11 10 (4.10%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.10%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (3.69%) Automation Developer
12 9 (3.69%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.69%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.69%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.00%) Spring
2 59 (24.18%) AWS CDK
3 50 (20.49%) Spring Boot
4 48 (19.67%) REST
5 37 (15.16%) CSS
5 37 (15.16%) React
6 32 (13.11%) HTML
7 31 (12.70%) Kafka
8 22 (9.02%) RESTful
9 20 (8.20%) AngularJS
10 19 (7.79%) Node.js
11 11 (4.51%) JPA
12 8 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
12 8 (3.28%) OpenTracing
12 8 (3.28%) PySpark
12 8 (3.28%) SOAP
13 7 (2.87%) OAuth
13 7 (2.87%) PostGIS
13 7 (2.87%) SpaCy
14 6 (2.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.02%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.61%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.38%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (6.56%) Public Cloud
5 14 (5.74%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.28%) Replication
7 5 (2.05%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (2.05%) PKI
7 5 (2.05%) Product Ownership
8 4 (1.64%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.64%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.64%) SCADA
8 4 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
9 3 (1.23%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.82%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.82%) IoT
10 2 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (14.75%) Linux
2 22 (9.02%) Unix
3 15 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (6.15%) Windows
4 7 (2.87%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.23%) Kali Linux
5 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.82%) Data ONTAP
6 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (47.95%) Agile
2 78 (31.97%) CI/CD
3 65 (26.64%) Microservices
4 58 (23.77%) DevOps
4 58 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (17.21%) Scrum
6 37 (15.16%) SDLC
7 31 (12.70%) Machine Learning
7 31 (12.70%) Software Engineering
8 29 (11.89%) Full Stack Development
8 29 (11.89%) Roadmaps
8 29 (11.89%) Test Automation
9 26 (10.66%) Artificial Intelligence
9 26 (10.66%) Kanban
9 26 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (10.25%) Migration
11 22 (9.02%) TDD
12 20 (8.20%) Community of Practice
13 19 (7.79%) Operational Stability
14 18 (7.38%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 106 (43.44%) Java
2 91 (37.30%) Python
3 65 (26.64%) SQL
4 61 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 33 (13.52%) JavaScript
6 26 (10.66%) Bash
7 21 (8.61%) Shell Script
8 20 (8.20%) Scala
9 13 (5.33%) Groovy
10 9 (3.69%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.87%) Perl
11 7 (2.87%) Ruby
12 5 (2.05%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.64%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.41%) C
14 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (4.10%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.87%) Azure Certification
2 7 (2.87%) Degree
3 6 (2.46%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.64%) SC Cleared
6 3 (1.23%) OSCP
7 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.84%) Accessibility
2 18 (7.38%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.23%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.82%) NCSC
5 1 (0.41%) GDPR
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.41%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.41%) PMO
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 55 (22.54%) Docker
2 5 (2.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) GPFS
3 2 (0.82%) NFS
4 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.41%) KVM
4 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (22.54%) Kubernetes
2 45 (18.44%) Terraform
3 39 (15.98%) Grafana
4 33 (13.52%) Ansible
5 9 (3.69%) Kibana
6 8 (3.28%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.28%) Zipkin
7 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.23%) Packer
7 3 (1.23%) SCCM
8 2 (0.82%) Veritas Storage Foundation
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) CASB
9 1 (0.41%) Istio
9 1 (0.41%) Nagios
9 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 49 (20.08%) Oracle
2 15 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.51%) Databricks
4 7 (2.87%) Splunk
5 6 (2.46%) Google
6 5 (2.05%) IBM
7 4 (1.64%) Commvault
8 3 (1.23%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.82%) Brocade
9 2 (0.82%) EMC
9 2 (0.82%) NetApp
9 2 (0.82%) Sage
9 2 (0.82%) Sybase
9 2 (0.82%) Veritas
10 1 (0.41%) Cisco
10 1 (0.41%) Confluent
10 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.41%) Informatica
10 1 (0.41%) StreamSets
10 1 (0.41%) VMware