AWS Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 148 135
Rank change year-on-year +58 -13 -8
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 25 16 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 0.60% 1.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.23% 0.63% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 30
10th Percentile £440 £429 £425
25th Percentile £452 £477 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.48% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £523 £673 £575
90th Percentile £553 £675 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,029 2,543 3,259
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 95.17% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,767 2,315
10th Percentile £200 £230 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £632 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 50 52
10th Percentile £12.31 £12.71 £16.35
25th Percentile £15.73 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.84 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -49.67% +16.97%
75th Percentile £57.50 £57.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £66.78 £55.98
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer 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 +22 13 £453 -29.77% 1
Edinburgh +32 11 £510 -0.10% 3
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 19 (76.00%) Python
3 18 (72.00%) DevOps
4 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
5 12 (48.00%) Terraform
5 12 (48.00%) Java
6 11 (44.00%) Agile
6 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (36.00%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (36.00%) Docker
8 8 (32.00%) OpenShift
8 8 (32.00%) Scala
8 8 (32.00%) Azure
8 8 (32.00%) Computer Science
8 8 (32.00%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (32.00%) Databricks
8 8 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 8 (32.00%) Ansible
8 8 (32.00%) Data Engineering
8 8 (32.00%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (32.00%) AWS CDK
8 8 (32.00%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (32.00%) GitOps
8 8 (32.00%) DataOps
8 8 (32.00%) MLOps
8 8 (32.00%) Snowflake
9 7 (28.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 7 (28.00%) GitLab
9 7 (28.00%) Grafana
9 7 (28.00%) Serverless

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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 8 (32.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (32.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 8 (32.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) OpenShift
2 8 (32.00%) Snowflake
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 7 (28.00%) Amazon S3
3 7 (28.00%) Serverless
4 6 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
4 6 (24.00%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.00%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (4.00%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (4.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (16.00%) InfluxDB
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (4.00%) Informix
4 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) GitLab
1 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (24.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) Maven
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) AWS CDK
2 5 (20.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (16.00%) CSS
3 4 (16.00%) HTML
3 4 (16.00%) JPA
3 4 (16.00%) Spring
3 4 (16.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
1 7 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) DevOps
2 11 (44.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (36.00%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (32.00%) Computer Science
4 8 (32.00%) Data Engineering
4 8 (32.00%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (32.00%) DataOps
4 8 (32.00%) GitOps
4 8 (32.00%) MLOps
5 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (16.00%) Kanban
7 4 (16.00%) SDLC
7 4 (16.00%) Software Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 19 (76.00%) Python
2 12 (48.00%) Java
3 8 (32.00%) Scala
4 7 (28.00%) Bash
4 7 (28.00%) SQL
5 6 (24.00%) Groovy
6 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.00%) Ruby
7 1 (4.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (68.00%) Kubernetes
2 12 (48.00%) Terraform
3 8 (32.00%) Ansible
4 7 (28.00%) Grafana
5 6 (24.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Databricks
2 1 (4.00%) Commvault
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat