AWS Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 108 213 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.14% 16.51% 11.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.29% 42.51% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 176 152
10th Percentile £406 £414 £413
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £490 £522
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% -6.09% +15.94%
75th Percentile £569 £526 £600
90th Percentile £638 £613 £672
Scotland median daily rate £480 £491 £525
% change year-on-year -2.29% -6.43% +16.67%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 315 501 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.32% 38.84% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 388 419
10th Percentile £300 £260 £311
25th Percentile £414 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £594 £538 £580
90th Percentile £683 £618 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £15.80 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £19.83
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -39.93% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.56
90th Percentile £17.61 - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.85%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.93%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 42 (38.89%) Serverless
2 40 (37.04%) Amazon S3
3 37 (34.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 37 (34.26%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (23.15%) OpenShift
5 14 (12.96%) AWS CodePipeline
6 13 (12.04%) Amazon EC2
7 12 (11.11%) Azure
8 9 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (7.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (7.41%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (5.56%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 6 (5.56%) GCP
11 4 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
11 4 (3.70%) IaaS
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (2.78%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.48%) Firewall
2 3 (2.78%) Network Security
3 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.85%) WAN
4 1 (0.93%) BGP
4 1 (0.93%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.93%) Internet
4 1 (0.93%) LAN
4 1 (0.93%) MPLS
4 1 (0.93%) OSPF
4 1 (0.93%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.93%) Wireless
4 1 (0.93%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (28.70%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (17.59%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (12.04%) MongoDB
4 11 (10.19%) Oracle Database
5 9 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.70%) Informix
9 3 (2.78%) GIS
9 3 (2.78%) InfluxDB
9 3 (2.78%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.85%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.93%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.93%) Big Data
11 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.93%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (19.44%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.19%) GitLab
3 9 (8.33%) Git
4 7 (6.48%) Gradle
4 7 (6.48%) Maven
5 4 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.70%) Cypress.io
General
1 40 (37.04%) Public Sector
2 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.04%) Finance
4 8 (7.41%) Back Office
4 8 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.63%) Banking
6 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Automotive
7 1 (0.93%) Games
7 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Publishing
7 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (32.41%) Developer
2 14 (12.96%) Architect
2 14 (12.96%) Data Engineer
3 11 (10.19%) AWS Developer
4 10 (9.26%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Analyst
5 8 (7.41%) Full Stack Developer
6 7 (6.48%) AWS Architect
7 6 (5.56%) .NET Developer
7 6 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Java Developer
7 6 (5.56%) Site Manager
7 6 (5.56%) Site Reliability Manager
7 6 (5.56%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (37.96%) AWS CDK
2 21 (19.44%) React
3 18 (16.67%) REST
4 13 (12.04%) CSS
4 13 (12.04%) HTML
5 12 (11.11%) Node.js
6 8 (7.41%) .NET
6 8 (7.41%) SOAP
6 8 (7.41%) Spring
7 7 (6.48%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.63%) PostGIS
9 4 (3.70%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.70%) Kafka
9 4 (3.70%) Spring Security
10 3 (2.78%) AngularJS
10 3 (2.78%) OAuth
10 3 (2.78%) OAuth2
10 3 (2.78%) Spring MVC
10 3 (2.78%) Spring Web Flow
10 3 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.04%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.48%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.63%) Replication
5 4 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.70%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.78%) PKI
6 3 (2.78%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.93%) BYOD
8 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.93%) IoT
8 1 (0.93%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.89%) Linux
2 8 (7.41%) Unix
3 7 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.48%) Windows
4 5 (4.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.52%) Agile
2 41 (37.96%) CI/CD
3 33 (30.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (25.00%) DevOps
5 19 (17.59%) Migration
5 19 (17.59%) Roadmaps
5 19 (17.59%) Scrum
6 17 (15.74%) Kanban
6 17 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (13.89%) Microservices
8 14 (12.96%) Containerisation
9 11 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 11 (10.19%) Test Automation
10 10 (9.26%) Human-Centred Design
10 10 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (8.33%) Inclusive Design
11 9 (8.33%) Pair Programming
11 9 (8.33%) TDD
12 8 (7.41%) Machine Learning
12 8 (7.41%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.52%) Python
2 33 (30.56%) TypeScript
3 31 (28.70%) Java
4 23 (21.30%) JavaScript
5 18 (16.67%) Bash
6 15 (13.89%) SQL
7 13 (12.04%) Shell Script
8 11 (10.19%) Groovy
9 7 (6.48%) Ruby
10 3 (2.78%) Perl
11 2 (1.85%) C#
12 1 (0.93%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (3.70%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.78%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.78%) Degree
3 1 (0.93%) BC Cleared
3 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.93%) CCNP
3 1 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.04%) Accessibility
1 13 (12.04%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (4.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.85%) NCSC
3 2 (1.85%) NIST
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 19 (17.59%) Docker
2 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 25 (23.15%) Terraform
2 22 (20.37%) Ansible
3 21 (19.44%) Grafana
4 17 (15.74%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.63%) Kibana
6 1 (0.93%) CASB
6 1 (0.93%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (13.89%) Oracle
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.78%) Okta
4 2 (1.85%) Commvault
4 2 (1.85%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.85%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.93%) Arista
5 1 (0.93%) Blue Coat
5 1 (0.93%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.93%) Cisco
5 1 (0.93%) Databricks
5 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.93%) F5
5 1 (0.93%) Infoblox
5 1 (0.93%) Informatica
5 1 (0.93%) McAfee
5 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
5 1 (0.93%) SolarWinds
5 1 (0.93%) Splunk
5 1 (0.93%) VMware