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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 9 16
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 121 144 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.24% 16.33% 9.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.91% 47.84% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 93 72
10th Percentile £400 £413 £401
25th Percentile £416 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £513 £650 £575
90th Percentile £605 £676 £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 311 301 300
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 36.59% 34.13% 30.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 214 233
10th Percentile £209 £361 £213
25th Percentile £363 £413 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £498 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.04% +10.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £510 £600 £550
90th Percentile £600 £675 £600
Scotland median daily rate £460 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £19.00 £15.20 -
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.25 £21.00
Median hourly rate £33.96 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.97% +59.09% -
75th Percentile £44.17 £58.75 £23.00
90th Percentile £49.92 £59.83 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
% change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -65.63%

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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 10 May 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 (13.22%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.31%) SAS
4 3 (2.48%) Cloud Foundry
5 2 (1.65%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) GeoServer
6 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 45 (37.19%) Azure
2 16 (13.22%) GCP
3 14 (11.57%) Serverless
4 13 (10.74%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (9.92%) Amazon S3
6 10 (8.26%) Snowflake
7 9 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (7.44%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.61%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 8 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.96%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (4.96%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (4.96%) Entra ID
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.13%) npm
11 3 (2.48%) Amazon SageMaker
11 3 (2.48%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (2.48%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (3.31%) iSCSI
1 4 (3.31%) SAN
2 2 (1.65%) SSL
3 1 (0.83%) DHCP
3 1 (0.83%) DNS
3 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.74%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.44%) MySQL
3 9 (7.44%) Relational Database
4 8 (6.61%) Oracle Database
5 7 (5.79%) Amazon Aurora
5 7 (5.79%) MariaDB
6 5 (4.13%) DB2
7 4 (3.31%) Big Data
8 3 (2.48%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.65%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.65%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.65%) GIS
10 1 (0.83%) Impala
10 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.83%) Informix
10 1 (0.83%) Power BI
10 1 (0.83%) QGIS
10 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (9.09%) Git
2 9 (7.44%) JIRA
3 7 (5.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.13%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.13%) Selenium
5 4 (3.31%) webpack
6 3 (2.48%) Burp Suite
6 3 (2.48%) JUnit
6 3 (2.48%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.65%) Subversion
7 2 (1.65%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.83%) GitLab
8 1 (0.83%) JMeter
8 1 (0.83%) Maven
8 1 (0.83%) Mockito
8 1 (0.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (14.88%) Banking
2 16 (13.22%) Finance
3 15 (12.40%) Social Skills
4 14 (11.57%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (4.96%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (49.59%) Developer
2 40 (33.06%) Java Developer
3 15 (12.40%) AWS Engineer
4 12 (9.92%) Senior
5 10 (8.26%) Platform Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) Full Stack Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) Python Engineer
6 9 (7.44%) Senior Developer
6 9 (7.44%) Senior Java Developer
7 8 (6.61%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.79%) Full Stack Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 7 (5.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Lead
10 5 (4.13%) AWS Developer
11 4 (3.31%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (40.50%) Spring
2 43 (35.54%) Spring Boot
3 26 (21.49%) REST
4 24 (19.83%) CSS
4 24 (19.83%) Kafka
5 22 (18.18%) RESTful
6 19 (15.70%) AngularJS
6 19 (15.70%) HTML
7 17 (14.05%) React
8 11 (9.09%) JPA
9 9 (7.44%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (6.61%) OpenTracing
11 7 (5.79%) AWS CDK
11 7 (5.79%) Node.js
12 6 (4.96%) PySpark
13 4 (3.31%) Flash
13 4 (3.31%) OAuth
13 4 (3.31%) POSIX
14 3 (2.48%) JSON
14 3 (2.48%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.70%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (11.57%) Public Cloud
3 12 (9.92%) Data Structures
4 10 (8.26%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.31%) Client/Server
5 4 (3.31%) NVMe
6 3 (2.48%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.48%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.83%) PKI
8 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Replication
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.18%) Linux
2 10 (8.26%) Unix
3 9 (7.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.44%) Windows
4 5 (4.13%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.31%) Data ONTAP
6 3 (2.48%) Kali Linux
7 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.83%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (48.76%) Agile
2 50 (41.32%) Microservices
3 38 (31.40%) CI/CD
4 35 (28.93%) SDLC
5 28 (23.14%) DevOps
6 25 (20.66%) Software Engineering
7 22 (18.18%) Full Stack Development
8 20 (16.53%) Test Automation
9 19 (15.70%) Infrastructure as Code
9 19 (15.70%) Operational Stability
10 15 (12.40%) Machine Learning
11 14 (11.57%) Computer Science
12 13 (10.74%) Artificial Intelligence
12 13 (10.74%) Continuous Delivery
12 13 (10.74%) Decision-Making
12 13 (10.74%) GitOps
12 13 (10.74%) Scrum
13 12 (9.92%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 79 (65.29%) Java
2 43 (35.54%) Python
3 39 (32.23%) SQL
4 21 (17.36%) TypeScript
5 19 (15.70%) Scala
6 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
7 9 (7.44%) Kotlin
8 5 (4.13%) Bash
8 5 (4.13%) Perl
8 5 (4.13%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.65%) Groovy
11 1 (0.83%) Elixir
11 1 (0.83%) Go
11 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.83%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (4.96%) AWS Certification
1 6 (4.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 4 (3.31%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.48%) OSCP
5 2 (1.65%) Degree
5 2 (1.65%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.96%) Accessibility
1 6 (4.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 3 (2.48%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (26.45%) Docker
2 5 (4.13%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.31%) GPFS
3 4 (3.31%) NFS
4 2 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.83%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.83%) HDFS
5 1 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 39 (32.23%) Kubernetes
2 26 (21.49%) Terraform
3 8 (6.61%) Grafana
3 8 (6.61%) Prometheus
3 8 (6.61%) Zipkin
4 6 (4.96%) Ansible
5 4 (3.31%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.48%) SCCM
7 2 (1.65%) Packer
7 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.65%) Puppet
8 1 (0.83%) Argo
8 1 (0.83%) FreeIPA
8 1 (0.83%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (0.83%) Icinga
8 1 (0.83%) Istio
8 1 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.83%) Kibana
8 1 (0.83%) Knative
Vendors
1 23 (19.01%) Oracle
2 12 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.26%) Databricks
4 8 (6.61%) Splunk
5 7 (5.79%) Google
6 6 (4.96%) IBM
7 4 (3.31%) Brocade
7 4 (3.31%) EMC
7 4 (3.31%) NetApp
7 4 (3.31%) Sybase
7 4 (3.31%) Veritas
8 2 (1.65%) Sage
8 2 (1.65%) VMware
9 1 (0.83%) Cisco
9 1 (0.83%) Meraki