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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 243 414 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.36% 15.34% 10.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.33% 42.20% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 307 278
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £424 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -5.29% +14.92%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £586
90th Percentile £634 £662 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - £41.38 £42.65
25th Percentile - £50.94 £44.01
Median hourly rate - £66.75 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year - +40.13% -
75th Percentile - £78.25 £49.89
90th Percentile - £82.30 £50.42
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -26.67% +14.43% +52.42%

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 729 981 1,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.07% 36.36% 31.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 726 777
10th Percentile £226 £250 £305
25th Percentile £369 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +6.74%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £634 £636 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 17
10th Percentile £15.94 £17.72 £18.87
25th Percentile £16.50 £26.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -55.10%
75th Percentile £19.57 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £34.48 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.19
% change year-on-year -38.94% +57.73% -1.38%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +1 122 £475 -13.64% 36
Edinburgh 0 94 £475 -3.06% 69
Lanarkshire +2 3 £460 -3.66% 11
Perthshire +9 2 £700 +3.70%
Midlothian +1 1 - - 13
Renfrewshire 0 1 £600 +11.39%
South Lanarkshire - 1 £700 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 2
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 13 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.65%) SAS
4 3 (1.23%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.82%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (0.82%) Confluence
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 67 (27.57%) Serverless
2 65 (26.75%) Amazon S3
3 62 (25.51%) AWS Lambda
3 62 (25.51%) Azure
4 59 (24.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 41 (16.87%) OpenShift
6 21 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
6 21 (8.64%) GCP
7 17 (7.00%) AWS CodePipeline
8 16 (6.58%) Amazon EKS
9 13 (5.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 12 (4.94%) Snowflake
11 11 (4.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 11 (4.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 10 (4.12%) Amazon SageMaker
13 9 (3.70%) AWS CodeBuild
13 9 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
14 8 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (3.29%) Textract
15 7 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.88%) Firewall
2 4 (1.65%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (1.65%) iSCSI
2 4 (1.65%) SAN
3 2 (0.82%) DNS
3 2 (0.82%) Network Security
3 2 (0.82%) SSL
3 2 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.41%) DHCP
4 1 (0.41%) Internet
4 1 (0.41%) LAN
4 1 (0.41%) MPLS
4 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.41%) VLAN
4 1 (0.41%) VSAN
4 1 (0.41%) WAN
4 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (23.46%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (14.40%) Amazon Aurora
3 23 (9.47%) Amazon RDS
3 23 (9.47%) Oracle Database
4 18 (7.41%) MongoDB
5 14 (5.76%) Elasticsearch
6 10 (4.12%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.29%) MySQL
8 7 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.47%) Big Data
9 6 (2.47%) InfluxDB
9 6 (2.47%) Informix
9 6 (2.47%) MariaDB
10 5 (2.06%) GIS
11 4 (1.65%) DB2
12 3 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.82%) Apache Hive
13 2 (0.82%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (10.70%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.41%) Git
3 15 (6.17%) GitLab
4 11 (4.53%) 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%) Selenium
9 4 (1.65%) webpack
10 3 (1.23%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
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 57 (23.46%) Public Sector
2 40 (16.46%) Social Skills
3 31 (12.76%) Finance
4 23 (9.47%) Banking
5 13 (5.35%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.29%) Back Office
7 8 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.47%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Automotive
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
1 102 (41.98%) Developer
2 46 (18.93%) Java Developer
3 26 (10.70%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (8.23%) Data Engineer
5 17 (7.00%) Architect
5 17 (7.00%) Senior
6 15 (6.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.76%) Platform Engineer
8 13 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) Software Developer
10 11 (4.53%) Automation Developer
10 11 (4.53%) AWS Developer
10 11 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.53%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.12%) Analyst
11 10 (4.12%) Systems Analyst
12 9 (3.70%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.70%) Senior Java Developer
12 9 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (25.10%) AWS CDK
2 58 (23.87%) Spring
3 48 (19.75%) Spring Boot
4 44 (18.11%) REST
5 35 (14.40%) CSS
6 33 (13.58%) React
7 30 (12.35%) HTML
8 29 (11.93%) Kafka
9 22 (9.05%) RESTful
10 20 (8.23%) AngularJS
11 19 (7.82%) Node.js
12 11 (4.53%) JPA
13 8 (3.29%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (3.29%) OpenTracing
13 8 (3.29%) SOAP
14 7 (2.88%) PostGIS
14 7 (2.88%) PySpark
14 7 (2.88%) SpaCy
15 6 (2.47%) OAuth
15 6 (2.47%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.47%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.64%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (7.00%) Public Cloud
5 14 (5.76%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.29%) Replication
8 6 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.65%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.65%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.65%) NVMe
9 4 (1.65%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.65%) PKI
9 4 (1.65%) SCADA
9 4 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.23%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.23%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.05%) Linux
2 18 (7.41%) Unix
2 18 (7.41%) Windows
3 17 (7.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.88%) Ubuntu
5 6 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (1.23%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.41%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (48.56%) Agile
2 74 (30.45%) CI/CD
3 63 (25.93%) Microservices
4 60 (24.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (23.05%) DevOps
6 46 (18.93%) Scrum
7 40 (16.46%) SDLC
8 35 (14.40%) Machine Learning
9 31 (12.76%) Kanban
9 31 (12.76%) Software Engineering
10 29 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
11 28 (11.52%) Roadmaps
11 28 (11.52%) Test Automation
12 25 (10.29%) Full Stack Development
12 25 (10.29%) Migration
12 25 (10.29%) Problem-Solving
13 21 (8.64%) Community of Practice
14 20 (8.23%) TDD
15 19 (7.82%) Operational Stability
16 18 (7.41%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 105 (43.21%) Java
2 98 (40.33%) Python
3 63 (25.93%) TypeScript
4 58 (23.87%) SQL
5 31 (12.76%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.11%) Bash
7 20 (8.23%) Scala
8 19 (7.82%) Shell Script
9 13 (5.35%) Groovy
10 10 (4.12%) Perl
11 9 (3.70%) Kotlin
12 8 (3.29%) Ruby
13 5 (2.06%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.41%) C
14 1 (0.41%) C#
14 1 (0.41%) Elixir
14 1 (0.41%) Go
14 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.41%) Rust
Qualifications
1 9 (3.70%) 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%) SLA
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 57 (23.46%) Docker
2 6 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.65%) GPFS
3 4 (1.65%) NFS
4 3 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.41%) KVM
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 63 (25.93%) Kubernetes
2 49 (20.16%) Terraform
3 39 (16.05%) Grafana
4 31 (12.76%) Ansible
5 9 (3.70%) Kibana
6 8 (3.29%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.29%) Zipkin
7 4 (1.65%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.23%) Packer
8 3 (1.23%) SCCM
9 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.82%) Puppet
9 2 (0.82%) vRealize
10 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.41%) Argo
10 1 (0.41%) CASB
10 1 (0.41%) Istio
10 1 (0.41%) Knative
10 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (17.70%) Oracle
2 17 (7.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.53%) Databricks
4 7 (2.88%) Google
4 7 (2.88%) IBM
4 7 (2.88%) Splunk
5 4 (1.65%) Brocade
5 4 (1.65%) Commvault
5 4 (1.65%) EMC
5 4 (1.65%) NetApp
5 4 (1.65%) Sybase
5 4 (1.65%) Veritas
5 4 (1.65%) VMware
6 3 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.82%) Sage
8 1 (0.41%) Cisco
8 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.41%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.41%) Informatica
8 1 (0.41%) Meraki