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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 7 11
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 101 214 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.48% 16.59% 11.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.90% 42.71% 35.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 176 153
10th Percentile £404 £414 £413
25th Percentile £428 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £519
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -5.50% +15.22%
75th Percentile £578 £526 £600
90th Percentile £644 £613 £672
Scotland median daily rate £484 £491 £525
% change year-on-year -1.58% -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 307 501 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.95% 38.84% 31.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 387 424
10th Percentile £298 £260 £308
25th Percentile £414 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% - +5.79%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £580
90th Percentile £688 £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 27 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 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.98%) Apache Spark
1 2 (1.98%) GeoServer
2 1 (0.99%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 41 (40.59%) Serverless
2 40 (39.60%) Amazon S3
3 37 (36.63%) AWS CloudFormation
4 36 (35.64%) AWS Lambda
5 25 (24.75%) OpenShift
6 14 (13.86%) AWS CodePipeline
7 13 (12.87%) Amazon EC2
8 12 (11.88%) Azure
9 9 (8.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (7.92%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 8 (7.92%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (5.94%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (5.94%) GCP
12 4 (3.96%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (3.96%) IaaS
13 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
13 3 (2.97%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 3 (2.97%) AWS Fargate
13 3 (2.97%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) Firewall
2 3 (2.97%) Network Security
3 2 (1.98%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.98%) WAN
4 1 (0.99%) BGP
4 1 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.99%) Internet
4 1 (0.99%) LAN
4 1 (0.99%) MPLS
4 1 (0.99%) OSPF
4 1 (0.99%) VXLAN
4 1 (0.99%) Wireless
4 1 (0.99%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (30.69%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (18.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 13 (12.87%) MongoDB
4 11 (10.89%) Oracle Database
5 9 (8.91%) Elasticsearch
6 8 (7.92%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.95%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (3.96%) Informix
9 3 (2.97%) GIS
9 3 (2.97%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.98%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.98%) Relational Database
10 2 (1.98%) Snowflake Schema
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.99%) Apache Hive
11 1 (0.99%) Big Data
11 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
11 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.99%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (20.79%) Jenkins
2 11 (10.89%) GitLab
3 9 (8.91%) Git
4 7 (6.93%) Gradle
4 7 (6.93%) Maven
5 4 (3.96%) Artifactory
5 4 (3.96%) Cypress.io
General
1 40 (39.60%) Public Sector
2 21 (20.79%) Social Skills
3 12 (11.88%) Finance
4 8 (7.92%) Back Office
4 8 (7.92%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (3.96%) Banking
6 2 (1.98%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Automotive
7 1 (0.99%) Games
7 1 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.99%) Publishing
7 1 (0.99%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 30 (29.70%) Developer
2 14 (13.86%) Data Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Architect
4 10 (9.90%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (7.92%) Analyst
6 7 (6.93%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.93%) AWS Developer
7 6 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) Site Manager
7 6 (5.94%) Site Reliability Manager
7 6 (5.94%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (4.95%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.95%) Full Stack Developer
8 5 (4.95%) Senior
8 5 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (4.95%) Technical Analyst
9 4 (3.96%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (40.59%) AWS CDK
2 18 (17.82%) REST
3 17 (16.83%) React
4 13 (12.87%) CSS
4 13 (12.87%) HTML
5 9 (8.91%) Node.js
6 8 (7.92%) SOAP
6 8 (7.92%) Spring
7 7 (6.93%) Spring Boot
8 5 (4.95%) .NET
8 5 (4.95%) PostGIS
9 4 (3.96%) Kafka
9 4 (3.96%) Spring Security
10 3 (2.97%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.97%) OAuth
10 3 (2.97%) OAuth2
10 3 (2.97%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (2.97%) Spring MVC
10 3 (2.97%) Spring Web Flow
11 2 (1.98%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.88%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (6.93%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (4.95%) Replication
5 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.96%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.97%) PKI
6 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.98%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.99%) BYOD
8 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) IoT
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.85%) Linux
2 8 (7.92%) Unix
3 7 (6.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (6.93%) Windows
4 5 (4.95%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (42.57%) Agile
2 37 (36.63%) CI/CD
3 33 (32.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (26.73%) DevOps
5 19 (18.81%) Roadmaps
5 19 (18.81%) Scrum
6 18 (17.82%) Migration
7 17 (16.83%) Kanban
7 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (14.85%) Microservices
9 14 (13.86%) Containerisation
10 11 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (10.89%) Test Automation
11 10 (9.90%) Human-Centred Design
11 10 (9.90%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (8.91%) Inclusive Design
12 9 (8.91%) Pair Programming
12 9 (8.91%) TDD
13 8 (7.92%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (7.92%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 44 (43.56%) Python
2 33 (32.67%) TypeScript
3 28 (27.72%) Java
4 19 (18.81%) JavaScript
5 18 (17.82%) Bash
6 15 (14.85%) SQL
7 13 (12.87%) Shell Script
8 11 (10.89%) Groovy
9 7 (6.93%) Ruby
10 3 (2.97%) Perl
11 1 (0.99%) C#
11 1 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (3.96%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (2.97%) Degree
3 1 (0.99%) BC Cleared
3 1 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.99%) CCNP
3 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
3 1 (0.99%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) Accessibility
1 13 (12.87%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.98%) NCSC
3 2 (1.98%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.99%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 19 (18.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (22.77%) Terraform
2 22 (21.78%) Ansible
3 21 (20.79%) Grafana
4 17 (16.83%) Kubernetes
5 5 (4.95%) Kibana
6 1 (0.99%) CASB
6 1 (0.99%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (14.85%) Oracle
2 4 (3.96%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.98%) Commvault
3 2 (1.98%) Fortinet
3 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.99%) Arista
4 1 (0.99%) Blue Coat
4 1 (0.99%) CheckPoint
4 1 (0.99%) Cisco
4 1 (0.99%) Databricks
4 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
4 1 (0.99%) F5
4 1 (0.99%) IBM
4 1 (0.99%) Infoblox
4 1 (0.99%) Informatica
4 1 (0.99%) McAfee
4 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
4 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
4 1 (0.99%) Splunk
4 1 (0.99%) VMware