AWS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 241 402 429
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.25% 15.04% 12.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.52% 40.90% 37.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 303 332
10th Percentile £400 £415 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -3.56% +8.34%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £575
90th Percentile £614 £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 £50.59 £72.50 £65.54
% change year-on-year -30.22% +10.62% +10.15%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 719 983 1,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.55% 36.79% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 729 843
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £369 £409 £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 £627 £621 £661
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 17
10th Percentile £16.22 £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% -40.66%
75th Percentile £21.64 £66.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £30.09 £76.00 £49.56
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

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 12 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 12 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 -1 116 £460 -15.60% 33
Edinburgh -1 100 £475 -3.55% 60
Lanarkshire +1 3 £460 -3.16% 9
Perthshire +9 2 £700 +3.70%
Midlothian +1 1 - - 16
Renfrewshire -2 1 £600 +11.39%
Fife - 1 - -
Aberdeenshire - 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 (7.47%) Apache Airflow
2 16 (6.64%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.24%) GeoServer
4 2 (0.83%) Cloud Foundry
4 2 (0.83%) 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 (29.46%) Amazon S3
2 62 (25.73%) Serverless
3 60 (24.90%) AWS CloudFormation
4 59 (24.48%) Azure
5 56 (23.24%) AWS Lambda
6 39 (16.18%) OpenShift
7 27 (11.20%) Amazon EC2
8 20 (8.30%) GCP
9 18 (7.47%) AWS CodePipeline
10 17 (7.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (6.22%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (5.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 12 (4.98%) Snowflake
14 11 (4.56%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 10 (4.15%) AWS CodeBuild
16 9 (3.73%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (3.32%) Amazon SageMaker
17 8 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
18 6 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
18 6 (2.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.49%) Firewall
2 2 (0.83%) Network Security
2 2 (0.83%) 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 (22.82%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (13.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 29 (12.03%) Amazon RDS
4 26 (10.79%) Oracle Database
5 21 (8.71%) MongoDB
6 16 (6.64%) Elasticsearch
7 10 (4.15%) Big Data
7 10 (4.15%) MySQL
7 10 (4.15%) Relational Database
8 8 (3.32%) Informix
9 7 (2.90%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.90%) InfluxDB
10 6 (2.49%) MariaDB
11 5 (2.07%) Apache Hive
11 5 (2.07%) GIS
12 4 (1.66%) Impala
12 4 (1.66%) Spark SQL
13 3 (1.24%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 31 (12.86%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.47%) Git
3 15 (6.22%) GitLab
4 10 (4.15%) JIRA
5 8 (3.32%) Gradle
5 8 (3.32%) Maven
6 6 (2.49%) Artifactory
7 5 (2.07%) Cucumber
7 5 (2.07%) Cypress.io
7 5 (2.07%) Selenium
8 4 (1.66%) JUnit
9 3 (1.24%) WebDriver
9 3 (1.24%) webpack
10 2 (0.83%) Subversion
11 1 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.41%) Gatling
11 1 (0.41%) JMeter
11 1 (0.41%) Mockito
11 1 (0.41%) Terragrunt
General
1 62 (25.73%) Public Sector
2 35 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 27 (11.20%) Finance
4 23 (9.54%) Banking
5 11 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (4.15%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (3.32%) Back Office
7 8 (3.32%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.07%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Legal
9 1 (0.41%) Publishing
9 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (43.98%) Developer
2 46 (19.09%) Java Developer
3 25 (10.37%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (7.88%) Data Engineer
5 17 (7.05%) Architect
5 17 (7.05%) Senior
6 14 (5.81%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.81%) Full Stack Developer
6 14 (5.81%) Platform Engineer
7 13 (5.39%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (4.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (4.56%) Software Developer
10 10 (4.15%) Analyst
10 10 (4.15%) AWS Developer
10 10 (4.15%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 10 (4.15%) Systems Analyst
11 9 (3.73%) Automation Developer
11 9 (3.73%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (3.73%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.73%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.90%) AWS CDK
2 59 (24.48%) Spring
3 48 (19.92%) Spring Boot
4 45 (18.67%) REST
5 36 (14.94%) React
6 35 (14.52%) CSS
7 32 (13.28%) Kafka
8 30 (12.45%) HTML
9 21 (8.71%) RESTful
10 19 (7.88%) AngularJS
11 18 (7.47%) Node.js
12 10 (4.15%) JPA
13 8 (3.32%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (3.32%) OpenTracing
13 8 (3.32%) PySpark
13 8 (3.32%) SOAP
14 7 (2.90%) PostGIS
14 7 (2.90%) SpaCy
15 6 (2.49%) OAuth
15 6 (2.49%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.71%) Cloud Native
1 21 (8.71%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (7.47%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (6.22%) Public Cloud
4 14 (5.81%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.15%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.32%) Replication
7 6 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (2.07%) PKI
8 5 (2.07%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.66%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.66%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.66%) SCADA
9 4 (1.66%) Security Posture
9 4 (1.66%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.24%) Algorithms
11 2 (0.83%) IoT
11 2 (0.83%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.86%) Linux
2 21 (8.71%) Unix
3 14 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (5.39%) Windows
5 7 (2.90%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (47.30%) Agile
2 78 (32.37%) CI/CD
3 62 (25.73%) Microservices
4 58 (24.07%) DevOps
5 55 (22.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (17.43%) Scrum
7 35 (14.52%) SDLC
8 32 (13.28%) Software Engineering
9 31 (12.86%) Machine Learning
10 30 (12.45%) Roadmaps
11 29 (12.03%) Test Automation
12 27 (11.20%) Full Stack Development
12 27 (11.20%) Kanban
13 26 (10.79%) Artificial Intelligence
13 26 (10.79%) Problem-Solving
14 24 (9.96%) Migration
15 22 (9.13%) TDD
16 21 (8.71%) Community of Practice
17 19 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 19 (7.88%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 102 (42.32%) Java
2 83 (34.44%) Python
3 63 (26.14%) SQL
4 60 (24.90%) TypeScript
5 31 (12.86%) JavaScript
6 26 (10.79%) Bash
7 22 (9.13%) Shell Script
8 21 (8.71%) Scala
9 14 (5.81%) Groovy
10 9 (3.73%) Kotlin
11 7 (2.90%) Ruby
12 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.66%) Perl
13 4 (1.66%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (3.32%) Security Cleared
2 7 (2.90%) Azure Certification
2 7 (2.90%) Degree
3 6 (2.49%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 4 (1.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.24%) SC Cleared
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 23 (9.54%) Accessibility
2 18 (7.47%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) 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 (21.99%) Docker
2 5 (2.07%) 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 55 (22.82%) Kubernetes
2 43 (17.84%) Terraform
3 41 (17.01%) Grafana
4 35 (14.52%) Ansible
5 8 (3.32%) Kibana
5 8 (3.32%) Prometheus
5 8 (3.32%) Zipkin
6 4 (1.66%) Packer
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.24%) SCCM
8 1 (0.41%) Argo
8 1 (0.41%) CASB
8 1 (0.41%) Istio
8 1 (0.41%) Nagios
8 1 (0.41%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.41%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 51 (21.16%) Oracle
2 15 (6.22%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.56%) Databricks
4 7 (2.90%) Splunk
5 5 (2.07%) Google
6 4 (1.66%) Commvault
6 4 (1.66%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.24%) IBM
8 2 (0.83%) 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