AWS Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 9 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 97 175 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.15% 14.81% 14.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.39% 36.84% 41.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 145 200
10th Percentile £410 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £456 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £493 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -3.90% +11.41%
75th Percentile £588 £530 £575
90th Percentile £634 £590 £625
Scotland median daily rate £472 £495 £513
% change year-on-year -4.60% -3.41% +10.22%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 309 475 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.52% 40.19% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 366 469
10th Percentile £213 £213 £363
25th Percentile £410 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £663 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile £15.80 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £17.80
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -22.96% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £42.75
90th Percentile £20.84 - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £40.50
% change year-on-year -71.92% +49.51% -44.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.06%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.03%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 43 (44.33%) Amazon S3
2 41 (42.27%) Serverless
3 40 (41.24%) AWS CloudFormation
4 35 (36.08%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (27.84%) OpenShift
6 18 (18.56%) Amazon EC2
7 15 (15.46%) AWS CodePipeline
8 14 (14.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (11.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 10 (10.31%) Amazon EKS
10 10 (10.31%) Azure
11 9 (9.28%) AWS CodeBuild
12 6 (6.19%) AWS CodeDeploy
13 5 (5.15%) GCP
14 4 (4.12%) IaaS
15 3 (3.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 3 (3.09%) Amazon SageMaker
15 3 (3.09%) Azure Sentinel
15 3 (3.09%) SaaS
15 3 (3.09%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.19%) Firewall
2 2 (2.06%) Network Security
3 1 (1.03%) Internet
3 1 (1.03%) LAN
3 1 (1.03%) MPLS
3 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.03%) WAN
3 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (35.05%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (18.56%) Amazon Aurora
2 18 (18.56%) MongoDB
3 13 (13.40%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (11.34%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (11.34%) Oracle Database
5 7 (7.22%) Informix
6 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.12%) InfluxDB
8 3 (3.09%) GIS
9 2 (2.06%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.03%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.03%) Big Data
10 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (20.62%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.34%) GitLab
3 9 (9.28%) Git
4 7 (7.22%) Gradle
4 7 (7.22%) Maven
5 4 (4.12%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
General
1 42 (43.30%) Public Sector
2 21 (21.65%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.34%) Finance
4 8 (8.25%) Back Office
4 8 (8.25%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.09%) Banking
6 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (26.80%) Developer
2 13 (13.40%) Data Engineer
3 10 (10.31%) Architect
3 10 (10.31%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (7.22%) AWS Architect
5 7 (7.22%) Database Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Analyst
6 6 (6.19%) Automation Developer
6 6 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.19%) Site Manager
6 6 (6.19%) Site Reliability Manager
6 6 (6.19%) Systems Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (5.15%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (5.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.15%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (43.30%) AWS CDK
2 16 (16.49%) REST
3 14 (14.43%) React
4 9 (9.28%) CSS
4 9 (9.28%) HTML
4 9 (9.28%) Node.js
5 8 (8.25%) SOAP
6 6 (6.19%) Spring
7 5 (5.15%) PostGIS
7 5 (5.15%) SpaCy
7 5 (5.15%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.12%) Kafka
9 3 (3.09%) PyTorch
9 3 (3.09%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.06%) .NET
10 2 (2.06%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.06%) OAuth
10 2 (2.06%) OAuth2
10 2 (2.06%) Spring Security
11 1 (1.03%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.34%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (8.25%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (7.22%) Replication
5 4 (4.12%) PKI
5 4 (4.12%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.06%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.03%) BYOD
8 1 (1.03%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.03%) IoT
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.49%) Linux
2 8 (8.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (8.25%) Unix
2 8 (8.25%) Windows
3 5 (5.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.30%) Agile
2 34 (35.05%) CI/CD
2 34 (35.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (28.87%) DevOps
4 22 (22.68%) Scrum
5 21 (21.65%) Migration
6 19 (19.59%) Kanban
6 19 (19.59%) Roadmaps
7 16 (16.49%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (15.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (12.37%) Containerisation
9 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (11.34%) Microservices
11 10 (10.31%) Machine Learning
12 9 (9.28%) Cloud Security
13 8 (8.25%) API Management
13 8 (8.25%) Data Protection
13 8 (8.25%) High Availability
13 8 (8.25%) Mentoring
13 8 (8.25%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.30%) Python
2 34 (35.05%) TypeScript
3 23 (23.71%) Java
4 19 (19.59%) SQL
5 18 (18.56%) Bash
6 15 (15.46%) JavaScript
7 13 (13.40%) Shell Script
8 11 (11.34%) Groovy
9 7 (7.22%) Ruby
10 2 (2.06%) Perl
11 1 (1.03%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
1 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (3.09%) Degree
2 2 (2.06%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.37%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (10.31%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.06%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.03%) QA
System Software
1 18 (18.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (28.87%) Ansible
2 25 (25.77%) Grafana
3 23 (23.71%) Terraform
4 18 (18.56%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.15%) Kibana
6 1 (1.03%) CASB
6 1 (1.03%) Packer
Vendors
1 18 (18.56%) Oracle
2 3 (3.09%) Commvault
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.03%) Confluent
3 1 (1.03%) Databricks
3 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.03%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.03%) IBM
3 1 (1.03%) Informatica
3 1 (1.03%) Splunk
3 1 (1.03%) StreamSets