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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 243 406 431
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.45% 15.14% 12.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.75% 41.18% 37.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 306 334
10th Percentile £400 £415 £413
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -3.41% +10.22%
75th Percentile £535 £554 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £650
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 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -24.14% +10.62% +10.15%

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 720 986 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.91% 36.78% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 730 846
10th Percentile £213 £250 £314
25th Percentile £369 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £623 £620 £659
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 17
10th Percentile £16.08 £17.72 £17.74
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +49.51% -44.90%
75th Percentile £22.28 £66.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £33.05 £76.00 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £37.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year -42.28% +69.32% +0.64%

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 9 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 9 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 -1 121 £468 -14.22% 31
Edinburgh -2 97 £470 -4.67% 54
Lanarkshire +2 3 £460 -3.16% 11
Perthshire +9 2 £700 +3.70%
Midlothian +1 1 - - 12
Renfrewshire -3 1 £600 +11.39%
Aberdeenshire - 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 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (6.58%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.82%) Confluence
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 71 (29.22%) Amazon S3
2 63 (25.93%) Serverless
3 60 (24.69%) AWS CloudFormation
3 60 (24.69%) Azure
4 58 (23.87%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (16.05%) OpenShift
6 26 (10.70%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (8.23%) GCP
8 18 (7.41%) AWS CodePipeline
9 17 (7.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
11 14 (5.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 12 (4.94%) Snowflake
13 11 (4.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 10 (4.12%) AWS CodeBuild
15 9 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (3.29%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
17 7 (2.88%) npm
18 6 (2.47%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.47%) Firewall
2 2 (0.82%) Network Security
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 56 (23.05%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (13.58%) Amazon Aurora
3 30 (12.35%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (10.70%) Oracle Database
5 21 (8.64%) MongoDB
6 16 (6.58%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (4.12%) Big Data
7 10 (4.12%) MySQL
7 10 (4.12%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.29%) Informix
9 7 (2.88%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.88%) InfluxDB
10 6 (2.47%) MariaDB
11 5 (2.06%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.06%) GIS
12 4 (1.65%) Impala
12 4 (1.65%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 30 (12.35%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.41%) Git
3 15 (6.17%) GitLab
4 10 (4.12%) JIRA
5 8 (3.29%) Maven
6 7 (2.88%) Gradle
7 6 (2.47%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.06%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.06%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.06%) Selenium
9 4 (1.65%) 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 62 (25.51%) Public Sector
2 38 (15.64%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.11%) Finance
4 22 (9.05%) Banking
5 13 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.29%) Back Office
7 8 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.06%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 108 (44.44%) Developer
2 48 (19.75%) Java Developer
3 24 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (7.82%) Data Engineer
5 17 (7.00%) Senior
6 16 (6.58%) Architect
7 14 (5.76%) Full Stack Developer
7 14 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.53%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.12%) Analyst
11 10 (4.12%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.12%) Full Stack Java Developer
11 10 (4.12%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (3.70%) Automation Developer
12 9 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.69%) AWS CDK
1 60 (24.69%) Spring
2 48 (19.75%) Spring Boot
3 47 (19.34%) REST
4 37 (15.23%) React
5 36 (14.81%) CSS
6 31 (12.76%) HTML
6 31 (12.76%) Kafka
7 21 (8.64%) RESTful
8 19 (7.82%) AngularJS
8 19 (7.82%) Node.js
9 10 (4.12%) JPA
10 8 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (3.29%) OpenTracing
10 8 (3.29%) PySpark
10 8 (3.29%) SOAP
11 7 (2.88%) OAuth
11 7 (2.88%) PostGIS
11 7 (2.88%) SpaCy
12 6 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.64%) Cloud Native
1 21 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (6.17%) Public Cloud
4 14 (5.76%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.29%) Replication
7 6 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.06%) PKI
8 5 (2.06%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.65%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.65%) SCADA
9 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.65%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
11 2 (0.82%) IoT
11 2 (0.82%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.99%) Linux
2 21 (8.64%) Unix
3 14 (5.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.35%) Windows
5 7 (2.88%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.23%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (48.15%) Agile
2 78 (32.10%) CI/CD
3 64 (26.34%) Microservices
4 58 (23.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 57 (23.46%) DevOps
6 43 (17.70%) Scrum
7 35 (14.40%) SDLC
8 31 (12.76%) Machine Learning
8 31 (12.76%) Software Engineering
9 29 (11.93%) Roadmaps
9 29 (11.93%) Test Automation
10 28 (11.52%) Full Stack Development
11 27 (11.11%) Kanban
12 26 (10.70%) Artificial Intelligence
12 26 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (9.88%) Migration
14 22 (9.05%) TDD
15 21 (8.64%) Community of Practice
16 19 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 19 (7.82%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 103 (42.39%) Java
2 86 (35.39%) Python
3 64 (26.34%) SQL
4 61 (25.10%) TypeScript
5 32 (13.17%) JavaScript
6 26 (10.70%) Bash
7 22 (9.05%) Shell Script
8 20 (8.23%) Scala
9 13 (5.35%) Groovy
10 9 (3.70%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.88%) Ruby
12 5 (2.06%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.65%) Perl
13 4 (1.65%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 11 (4.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.88%) Azure Certification
2 7 (2.88%) Degree
3 6 (2.47%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.06%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.65%) 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 (9.88%) Accessibility
2 18 (7.41%) 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%) QA
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (21.81%) Docker
2 5 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.41%) KVM
3 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (21.81%) Kubernetes
2 45 (18.52%) Terraform
3 41 (16.87%) Grafana
4 35 (14.40%) Ansible
5 8 (3.29%) Kibana
5 8 (3.29%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.29%) Zipkin
6 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.23%) Packer
6 3 (1.23%) SCCM
7 1 (0.41%) Argo
7 1 (0.41%) CASB
7 1 (0.41%) Istio
7 1 (0.41%) Nagios
7 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.41%) Puppet
7 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (20.99%) Oracle
2 15 (6.17%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.53%) Databricks
4 7 (2.88%) Splunk
5 5 (2.06%) Google
6 4 (1.65%) Commvault
6 4 (1.65%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.23%) IBM
8 2 (0.82%) Sage
9 1 (0.41%) Cisco
9 1 (0.41%) Confluent
9 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.41%) Informatica
9 1 (0.41%) Meraki
9 1 (0.41%) StreamSets
9 1 (0.41%) VMware