AWS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 12 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 200 310 487
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.20% 13.20% 15.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.97% 39.39% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 231 373
10th Percentile £355 £375 £413
25th Percentile £420 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% -0.50% -
75th Percentile £523 £553 £570
90th Percentile £600 £699 £643
UK median daily rate £555 £550 £588
% change year-on-year +0.82% -6.38% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - £40.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 - £40.50
75th Percentile £19.50 - £40.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £60.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year -23.03% -5.88% +6.25%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS 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 556 787 1,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 31.15% 33.50% 36.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 539 872
10th Percentile £213 £300 £338
25th Percentile £378 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £564
90th Percentile £588 £638 £639
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 21
10th Percentile £17.19 £14.07 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.44 £13.16
Median hourly rate £22.00 £17.72 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +24.15% - -71.87%
75th Percentile £24.18 £25.11 £20.43
90th Percentile - £29.54 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.15 £22.50
% change year-on-year +8.86% +42.89% +7.14%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +3 101 £493 -1.50% 28
Glasgow -10 76 £425 -15.00% 20
Aberdeen - 4 - - 1
Perthshire - 3 £700 -
Lanarkshire 0 2 £460 +11.52% 4
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 9 (4.50%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.50%) Apache
4 4 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.00%) JBoss
4 4 (2.00%) SAS
5 3 (1.50%) Confluence
6 2 (1.00%) Apache Pig
6 2 (1.00%) IIS
6 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (1.00%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (1.00%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.50%) Camunda
7 1 (0.50%) GeoServer
7 1 (0.50%) nginx
7 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 73 (36.50%) Amazon S3
2 67 (33.50%) Serverless
3 60 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 55 (27.50%) Azure
5 54 (27.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 50 (25.00%) OpenShift
7 33 (16.50%) Amazon EC2
8 25 (12.50%) GCP
9 19 (9.50%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (8.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 16 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (7.00%) AWS Fargate
13 12 (6.00%) AWS CodeBuild
14 10 (5.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
14 10 (5.00%) AWS CodePipeline
14 10 (5.00%) GitHub
15 8 (4.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
15 8 (4.00%) Azure AKS
16 7 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.50%) Firewall
2 4 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (2.00%) iSCSI
3 3 (1.50%) DNS
3 3 (1.50%) HTTP
3 3 (1.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.00%) DHCP
4 2 (1.00%) Reverse Proxy
4 2 (1.00%) SAN
4 2 (1.00%) SSL
4 2 (1.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.50%) Skype
5 1 (0.50%) VPN
5 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (14.50%) Amazon Aurora
3 21 (10.50%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (7.50%) MySQL
6 14 (7.00%) MongoDB
7 11 (5.50%) Amazon Athena
7 11 (5.50%) Informix
8 10 (5.00%) Big Data
9 9 (4.50%) InfluxDB
10 8 (4.00%) MariaDB
11 7 (3.50%) Apache Hive
11 7 (3.50%) Relational Database
12 6 (3.00%) Oracle Database
12 6 (3.00%) Spark SQL
13 5 (2.50%) NoSQL
14 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (2.00%) GIS
14 4 (2.00%) Hadoop
14 4 (2.00%) Impala
Development Applications
1 45 (22.50%) Jenkins
2 24 (12.00%) Git
3 16 (8.00%) JIRA
4 13 (6.50%) GitLab
5 11 (5.50%) Artifactory
6 10 (5.00%) Bitbucket
6 10 (5.00%) Cypress.io
7 8 (4.00%) TeamCity
8 7 (3.50%) CircleCI
8 7 (3.50%) JUnit
8 7 (3.50%) Maven
9 5 (2.50%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.50%) Selenium
10 4 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 4 (2.00%) Mercurial
10 4 (2.00%) Travis CI
11 3 (1.50%) WebDriver
12 2 (1.00%) Postman
12 2 (1.00%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (33.50%) Public Sector
2 39 (19.50%) Banking
3 38 (19.00%) Social Skills
4 36 (18.00%) Finance
5 9 (4.50%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.00%) Retail Banking
7 7 (3.50%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.00%) Retail
10 1 (0.50%) Back Office
10 1 (0.50%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (44.00%) Developer
2 30 (15.00%) Java Developer
3 23 (11.50%) Architect
3 23 (11.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 23 (11.50%) Senior
4 21 (10.50%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (7.00%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (5.50%) Senior Developer
8 10 (5.00%) Database Engineer
9 9 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.00%) Software Developer
10 8 (4.00%) Tester
11 7 (3.50%) Automation Developer
11 7 (3.50%) AWS Developer
11 7 (3.50%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.50%) Database Developer
11 7 (3.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (26.00%) AWS CDK
2 44 (22.00%) Spring
3 40 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 32 (16.00%) React
5 26 (13.00%) REST
6 17 (8.50%) Kafka
7 15 (7.50%) CSS
8 14 (7.00%) HTML
9 12 (6.00%) Node.js
10 11 (5.50%) RabbitMQ
11 9 (4.50%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.50%) RESTful
12 8 (4.00%) OAuth
12 8 (4.00%) OAuth2
13 7 (3.50%) PySpark
13 7 (3.50%) SpaCy
13 7 (3.50%) Spring Security
14 6 (3.00%) Spring MVC
15 5 (2.50%) .NET
15 5 (2.50%) Spring Web Flow
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.00%) Cloud Native
2 9 (4.50%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.50%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.50%) Greenfield Project
4 7 (3.50%) Operational Technology
4 7 (3.50%) Replication
4 7 (3.50%) SCADA
4 7 (3.50%) Virtual Team
5 5 (2.50%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.00%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.50%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.50%) IoT
7 3 (1.50%) NVMe
7 3 (1.50%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (15.50%) Linux
2 16 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 16 (8.00%) Unix
2 16 (8.00%) Windows
3 10 (5.00%) Ubuntu
3 10 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Android
4 2 (1.00%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.00%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.50%) CI/CD
2 79 (39.50%) Agile
3 61 (30.50%) DevOps
4 59 (29.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 44 (22.00%) Microservices
6 41 (20.50%) Scrum
7 38 (19.00%) Test Automation
8 32 (16.00%) Code Quality
8 32 (16.00%) Kanban
9 31 (15.50%) Roadmaps
10 27 (13.50%) Unit Testing
11 25 (12.50%) Analytics
11 25 (12.50%) Containerisation
12 23 (11.50%) Inclusive Design
12 23 (11.50%) TDD
13 22 (11.00%) Human-Centred Design
13 22 (11.00%) Pair Programming
13 22 (11.00%) User Experience
14 21 (10.50%) Migration
15 18 (9.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 83 (41.50%) Java
2 67 (33.50%) Python
3 60 (30.00%) SQL
4 47 (23.50%) TypeScript
5 41 (20.50%) JavaScript
6 31 (15.50%) Bash
7 12 (6.00%) Groovy
8 9 (4.50%) Shell Script
9 8 (4.00%) Perl
9 8 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.00%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.50%) C#
11 3 (1.50%) Scala
12 2 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.00%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.50%) C++
13 1 (0.50%) Go
13 1 (0.50%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (6.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.00%) Degree
3 6 (3.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
5 4 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (1.50%) CTC Cleared
6 3 (1.50%) OCP
7 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.00%) CCNP
7 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (11.50%) Accessibility
2 16 (8.00%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.50%) QA
4 2 (1.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.00%) NIST
4 2 (1.00%) WCAG
5 1 (0.50%) GDPR
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (18.50%) Docker
2 4 (2.00%) NFS
2 4 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.00%) GPFS
4 2 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 42 (21.00%) Grafana
3 37 (18.50%) Ansible
4 25 (12.50%) Terraform
5 10 (5.00%) Kibana
6 9 (4.50%) Progress Chef
7 5 (2.50%) Puppet
8 4 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.50%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.00%) Istio
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.00%) Oozie
10 2 (1.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
10 2 (1.00%) SCCM
10 2 (1.00%) SCOM
10 2 (1.00%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 2 (1.00%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.50%) Kustomize
11 1 (0.50%) Packer
11 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 34 (17.00%) Oracle
2 13 (6.50%) Google
3 11 (5.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.50%) IBM
4 7 (3.50%) Red Hat
5 6 (3.00%) Imperva
6 4 (2.00%) IBM Sterling
6 4 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.00%) VMware
7 3 (1.50%) EMC
7 3 (1.50%) NetApp
7 3 (1.50%) Siemens
7 3 (1.50%) Splunk
8 2 (1.00%) Apple
8 2 (1.00%) Citrix
8 2 (1.00%) Commvault
8 2 (1.00%) HP
8 2 (1.00%) SAP
8 2 (1.00%) Sybase
8 2 (1.00%) Veritas