AWS Contracts in Glasgow

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 6 5 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 121 153 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 15.16% 17.02% 11.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.16% 48.42% 35.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 100 90
10th Percentile £377 £413 £424
25th Percentile £413 £457 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -14.22% +3.81% +7.42%
75th Percentile £512 £618 £613
90th Percentile £584 £676 £651
Scotland median daily rate £472 £495 £513
% change year-on-year -4.60% -3.41% +10.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £46.25 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £66.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 294 316 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.84% 35.15% 31.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 217 233
10th Percentile £204 £363 £213
25th Percentile £363 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £509 £590 £556
90th Percentile £587 £667 £638
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £15.20 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £18.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +59.09% -70.07%
75th Percentile £53.75 £58.75 £23.00
90th Percentile - £59.83 -
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

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

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 16 (13.22%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (11.57%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.65%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.83%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (34.71%) Azure
2 18 (14.88%) Amazon S3
3 14 (11.57%) GCP
4 12 (9.92%) AWS Lambda
4 12 (9.92%) Serverless
5 10 (8.26%) Snowflake
6 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (6.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 8 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.79%) npm
9 6 (4.96%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (4.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.96%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (2.48%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.48%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (2.48%) CloudFront
11 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.40%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (9.92%) Oracle Database
3 10 (8.26%) MySQL
4 9 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (6.61%) Big Data
5 8 (6.61%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
6 6 (4.96%) Amazon Aurora
6 6 (4.96%) MariaDB
7 4 (3.31%) Apache Hive
7 4 (3.31%) Impala
7 4 (3.31%) Spark SQL
8 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.65%) GIS
9 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.83%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.83%) Power BI
9 1 (0.83%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 10 (8.26%) JIRA
2 9 (7.44%) Git
3 6 (4.96%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.13%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.13%) Selenium
5 4 (3.31%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.31%) webpack
6 3 (2.48%) Burp Suite
6 3 (2.48%) JUnit
6 3 (2.48%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.65%) Subversion
8 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.83%) Gatling
8 1 (0.83%) GitLab
8 1 (0.83%) JMeter
8 1 (0.83%) Maven
8 1 (0.83%) Mockito
8 1 (0.83%) Terragrunt
General
1 19 (15.70%) Banking
2 14 (11.57%) Finance
2 14 (11.57%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.74%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (59.50%) Developer
2 44 (36.36%) Java Developer
3 13 (10.74%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (9.92%) Senior
5 9 (7.44%) Full Stack Developer
5 9 (7.44%) Full Stack Java Developer
5 9 (7.44%) Platform Engineer
5 9 (7.44%) Senior Developer
5 9 (7.44%) Senior Java Developer
6 8 (6.61%) Java Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Snowflake Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Full Stack Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) AWS Developer
8 6 (4.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 6 (4.96%) Database Developer
8 6 (4.96%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Lead
10 4 (3.31%) AWS Specialist
10 4 (3.31%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (42.15%) Spring
2 41 (33.88%) Spring Boot
3 27 (22.31%) Kafka
4 26 (21.49%) REST
5 23 (19.01%) CSS
6 21 (17.36%) RESTful
7 19 (15.70%) AngularJS
7 19 (15.70%) React
8 18 (14.88%) HTML
9 10 (8.26%) JPA
10 8 (6.61%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.61%) OpenTracing
10 8 (6.61%) PySpark
11 7 (5.79%) Node.js
12 6 (4.96%) AWS CDK
13 4 (3.31%) OAuth
14 3 (2.48%) Gherkin
14 3 (2.48%) GraphQL
14 3 (2.48%) JSON
14 3 (2.48%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.88%) Distributed Systems
2 13 (10.74%) Public Cloud
3 12 (9.92%) Data Structures
4 8 (6.61%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.31%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (3.31%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.40%) Linux
2 13 (10.74%) Unix
3 5 (4.13%) Windows
4 4 (3.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.48%) Kali Linux
6 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (49.59%) Agile
2 48 (39.67%) Microservices
3 38 (31.40%) CI/CD
4 32 (26.45%) SDLC
5 26 (21.49%) Software Engineering
6 22 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
7 21 (17.36%) DevOps
8 19 (15.70%) Operational Stability
9 18 (14.88%) Test Automation
10 16 (13.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (13.22%) Machine Learning
11 14 (11.57%) Artificial Intelligence
11 14 (11.57%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.74%) Scrum
13 11 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
13 11 (9.09%) GitOps
13 11 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (9.09%) TDD
14 10 (8.26%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 75 (61.98%) Java
2 41 (33.88%) SQL
3 36 (29.75%) Python
4 19 (15.70%) Scala
4 19 (15.70%) TypeScript
5 12 (9.92%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.44%) Kotlin
7 6 (4.96%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.13%) PL/SQL
9 4 (3.31%) Bash
9 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.83%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (6.61%) Security Cleared
2 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.48%) OSCP
6 2 (1.65%) Degree
6 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) Accessibility
1 6 (4.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (22.31%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (25.62%) Kubernetes
2 21 (17.36%) Terraform
3 8 (6.61%) Grafana
3 8 (6.61%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.61%) Zipkin
4 4 (3.31%) Ansible
5 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.48%) SCCM
6 2 (1.65%) Packer
7 1 (0.83%) Argo
7 1 (0.83%) Istio
7 1 (0.83%) Kibana
7 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (23.97%) Oracle
2 12 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.26%) Databricks
4 6 (4.96%) Splunk
5 5 (4.13%) Google
6 2 (1.65%) IBM
6 2 (1.65%) Sage
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco
7 1 (0.83%) Meraki