Amazon EC2 Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 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 88 133 154
Rank change year-on-year +45 +21 -12
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 27 31 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.26% 1.16% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 3.15% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 18
10th Percentile £409 £463 £421
25th Percentile £422 £493 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% -3.43% +5.53%
75th Percentile £506 £622 £566
90th Percentile £524 £688 £590
UK median daily rate £520 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -13.33% +4.35% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Amazon EC2 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%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in Scotland

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Scotland

Amazon EC2
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 Amazon EC2 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
Edinburgh +27 19 £450 -12.54% 4
Glasgow +17 6 £511 +2.20% 1
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
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 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 27 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (70.37%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (62.96%) Serverless
4 15 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
4 15 (55.56%) OpenShift
5 13 (48.15%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 12 (44.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (18.52%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (14.81%) AWS CodeBuild
8 4 (14.81%) AWS CodeCommit
8 4 (14.81%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (14.81%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (3.70%) Azure
9 1 (3.70%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (55.56%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (48.15%) MongoDB
3 12 (44.44%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (29.63%) Informix
5 7 (25.93%) Elasticsearch
5 7 (25.93%) InfluxDB
6 4 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (11.11%) Relational Database
8 2 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (3.70%) Apache Hive
9 1 (3.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) GitLab
1 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (18.52%) Artifactory
3 2 (7.41%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) JIRA
3 2 (7.41%) JUnit
4 1 (3.70%) Gradle
General
1 11 (40.74%) Public Sector
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Database Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Developer
3 6 (22.22%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Data Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
4 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (14.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 4 (14.81%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Development Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Development Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Test Automation Specialist
7 1 (3.70%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 8 (29.63%) Spring
3 5 (18.52%) Kafka
4 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (11.11%) React
5 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
6 1 (3.70%) Guice
6 1 (3.70%) Java EE
6 1 (3.70%) Node.js
6 1 (3.70%) RESTful
6 1 (3.70%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Replication
2 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.41%) Data Structures
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Code
4 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (40.74%) Linux
2 9 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (22.22%) Ubuntu
4 3 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (66.67%) Agile
2 14 (51.85%) Scrum
3 12 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (40.74%) Kanban
5 9 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 9 (33.33%) Migration
6 8 (29.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (29.63%) High Availability
7 6 (22.22%) Containerisation
7 6 (22.22%) DevOps
7 6 (22.22%) Roadmaps
8 5 (18.52%) Software Delivery
8 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
9 4 (14.81%) Community of Practice
9 4 (14.81%) Microservices
9 4 (14.81%) Observability
10 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 2 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (7.41%) Customer-Centricity
11 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) TypeScript
2 12 (44.44%) SQL
3 10 (37.04%) Java
4 8 (29.63%) Python
5 6 (22.22%) Bash
5 6 (22.22%) Groovy
6 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.41%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 1 (3.70%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.70%) QA
Systems Management
1 17 (62.96%) Ansible
1 17 (62.96%) Grafana
2 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 5 (18.52%) Kibana
4 4 (14.81%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) Packer
Vendors
1 9 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (14.81%) Commvault
2 4 (14.81%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Confluent
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) Informatica
3 1 (3.70%) StreamSets