AWS Contracts in Glasgow

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 10 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 123 147 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.71% 15.96% 10.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.56% 45.79% 32.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 97 83
10th Percentile £400 £413 £361
25th Percentile £418 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £590 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.63% +12.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £545 £660 £581
90th Percentile £651 £688 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £46.25 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £57.50 £47.64
% change year-on-year - +20.71% -

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 319 321 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 35.56% 34.85% 31.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 231 248
10th Percentile £231 £350 £213
25th Percentile £377 £409 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.75% +11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £544
90th Percentile £616 £676 £625
Scotland median daily rate £472 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.58% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile - £23.28 -
25th Percentile - £30.81 £21.00
Median hourly rate £15.42 £46.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.66% +110.23% +12.82%
75th Percentile £34.59 £59.20 £36.27
90th Percentile £46.08 £60.01 £44.23
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 Glasgow

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Glasgow

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 16 (13.01%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.88%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.25%) SAS
4 3 (2.44%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.63%) Confluence
6 1 (0.81%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.81%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.81%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (33.33%) Azure
2 17 (13.82%) Serverless
3 15 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (8.94%) GCP
5 10 (8.13%) Amazon S3
5 10 (8.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (8.13%) OpenShift
5 10 (8.13%) Snowflake
6 8 (6.50%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (5.69%) Amazon EKS
7 7 (5.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 6 (4.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
8 6 (4.88%) Entra ID
9 5 (4.07%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.25%) Amazon Cognito
10 4 (3.25%) npm
11 3 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.44%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.44%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (4.07%) iSCSI
2 4 (3.25%) SAN
3 3 (2.44%) Firewall
3 3 (2.44%) SSL
4 2 (1.63%) DHCP
4 2 (1.63%) DNS
4 2 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (0.81%) HTTP
5 1 (0.81%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.81%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.76%) Amazon RDS
1 12 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (6.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 8 (6.50%) Relational Database
3 7 (5.69%) Oracle Database
4 6 (4.88%) MySQL
5 5 (4.07%) DB2
5 5 (4.07%) MariaDB
6 3 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (2.44%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.44%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.63%) Big Data
7 2 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (1.63%) GIS
7 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.81%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.81%) Informix
8 1 (0.81%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.81%) Power BI
8 1 (0.81%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 12 (9.76%) Git
2 8 (6.50%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.69%) Selenium
4 6 (4.88%) Cucumber
5 4 (3.25%) JIRA
5 4 (3.25%) webpack
6 3 (2.44%) Burp Suite
6 3 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.44%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.63%) GitLab
7 2 (1.63%) JUnit
7 2 (1.63%) Subversion
7 2 (1.63%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.81%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.81%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.81%) Gatling
8 1 (0.81%) JMeter
8 1 (0.81%) Maven
8 1 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (14.63%) Public Sector
2 16 (13.01%) Finance
3 15 (12.20%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.38%) Banking
5 12 (9.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (43.09%) Developer
2 32 (26.02%) Java Developer
3 15 (12.20%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (11.38%) Senior
5 12 (9.76%) Java Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.13%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.13%) Senior Java Developer
7 9 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) Full Stack Engineer
7 9 (7.32%) Python Engineer
8 8 (6.50%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.50%) Lead
9 7 (5.69%) AWS Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.69%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.88%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 6 (4.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (35.77%) Spring
2 35 (28.46%) Spring Boot
3 30 (24.39%) REST
4 26 (21.14%) CSS
5 22 (17.89%) HTML
6 21 (17.07%) RESTful
7 18 (14.63%) AngularJS
7 18 (14.63%) Kafka
7 18 (14.63%) React
8 14 (11.38%) JPA
9 9 (7.32%) AWS CDK
10 7 (5.69%) Node.js
11 6 (4.88%) JSON
11 6 (4.88%) PySpark
11 6 (4.88%) Web Services
12 5 (4.07%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (4.07%) Hibernate
12 5 (4.07%) JDBC
13 4 (3.25%) OAuth
13 4 (3.25%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.01%) Public Cloud
2 15 (12.20%) Distributed Systems
3 10 (8.13%) Cloud Native
4 6 (4.88%) Data Centre
5 5 (4.07%) Client/Server
5 5 (4.07%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.25%) NVMe
7 3 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.81%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.81%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.81%) Replication
9 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (21.14%) Linux
2 15 (12.20%) Windows
3 12 (9.76%) Unix
4 10 (8.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.69%) Windows Server
6 4 (3.25%) Data ONTAP
7 3 (2.44%) Kali Linux
8 2 (1.63%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.81%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (52.03%) Agile
2 45 (36.59%) Microservices
3 42 (34.15%) CI/CD
4 35 (28.46%) DevOps
5 30 (24.39%) SDLC
6 28 (22.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 23 (18.70%) Software Engineering
8 22 (17.89%) Full Stack Development
9 18 (14.63%) Operational Stability
10 16 (13.01%) Test Automation
11 14 (11.38%) Computer Science
11 14 (11.38%) Continuous Delivery
11 14 (11.38%) Machine Learning
12 13 (10.57%) GitOps
13 12 (9.76%) Artificial Intelligence
13 12 (9.76%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (9.76%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (9.76%) Scrum
13 12 (9.76%) TDD
14 11 (8.94%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 75 (60.98%) Java
2 46 (37.40%) Python
3 40 (32.52%) SQL
4 25 (20.33%) TypeScript
5 21 (17.07%) JavaScript
6 15 (12.20%) Scala
7 6 (4.88%) Bash
7 6 (4.88%) Perl
7 6 (4.88%) PowerShell
8 5 (4.07%) Kotlin
9 4 (3.25%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.63%) Groovy
12 1 (0.81%) Elixir
12 1 (0.81%) Go
12 1 (0.81%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (4.88%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.07%) AWS Certification
2 5 (4.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 3 (2.44%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.44%) OSCP
3 3 (2.44%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.63%) Degree
5 1 (0.81%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.13%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.25%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.44%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.81%) GDPR
5 1 (0.81%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.81%) NIST
5 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (20.33%) Docker
2 6 (4.88%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.25%) GPFS
3 4 (3.25%) NFS
4 2 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.81%) HDFS
5 1 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.81%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 33 (26.83%) Kubernetes
2 26 (21.14%) Terraform
3 7 (5.69%) Ansible
4 6 (4.88%) Grafana
5 4 (3.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (3.25%) Veritas Storage Foundation
5 4 (3.25%) Zipkin
6 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.44%) Packer
6 3 (2.44%) SCCM
7 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.63%) Puppet
8 1 (0.81%) FreeIPA
8 1 (0.81%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.81%) Icinga
8 1 (0.81%) Istio
8 1 (0.81%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.81%) Kibana
8 1 (0.81%) Knative
8 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (20.33%) Oracle
2 14 (11.38%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.13%) Databricks
4 7 (5.69%) Google
5 6 (4.88%) IBM
6 5 (4.07%) Splunk
7 4 (3.25%) Brocade
7 4 (3.25%) EMC
7 4 (3.25%) F5
7 4 (3.25%) NetApp
7 4 (3.25%) Sybase
7 4 (3.25%) Veritas
8 3 (2.44%) VMware
9 2 (1.63%) Sage
10 1 (0.81%) Cisco
10 1 (0.81%) HP
10 1 (0.81%) Meraki