AWS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 7 12
Rank change year-on-year -3 +5 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 235 429 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.84% 15.53% 10.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.24% 42.90% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 316 274
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £418 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £588
90th Percentile £634 £668 £662
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £43.00 £42.65
25th Percentile - £55.00 £44.01
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year - +20.71% -
75th Percentile - £76.00 £49.89
90th Percentile - £81.40 £50.42
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £74.00 £65.54
% change year-on-year -25.68% +12.91% +48.95%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 729 1,000 1,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.63% 36.19% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 739 779
10th Percentile £230 £250 £305
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 18
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.25 £19.09
25th Percentile £16.23 £45.00 £20.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -56.93%
75th Percentile £18.54 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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
Glasgow 0 121 £475 -15.56% 37
Edinburgh -2 88 £475 -2.96% 56
Perthshire +9 2 £700 +3.70%
Lanarkshire +1 2 £443 -7.33% 11
Renfrewshire -2 2 £563 +4.43%
Midlothian +1 1 - - 9
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 1
Fife - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £700 -
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 18 (7.66%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.53%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.70%) SAS
4 3 (1.28%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.28%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.85%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.38%) Azure
2 60 (25.53%) Serverless
3 57 (24.26%) Amazon S3
4 55 (23.40%) AWS Lambda
5 52 (22.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 37 (15.74%) OpenShift
7 21 (8.94%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (8.94%) GCP
8 17 (7.23%) AWS CodePipeline
9 14 (5.96%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (5.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (5.11%) Snowflake
12 11 (4.68%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 11 (4.68%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (4.26%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (3.83%) AWS CodeBuild
14 9 (3.83%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (2.98%) Dynamics 365
17 6 (2.55%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.98%) Firewall
2 4 (1.70%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (1.70%) iSCSI
2 4 (1.70%) SAN
3 3 (1.28%) DNS
4 2 (0.85%) DHCP
4 2 (0.85%) Network Security
4 2 (0.85%) SSL
4 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.43%) Internet
5 1 (0.43%) LAN
5 1 (0.43%) MPLS
5 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.43%) VLAN
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
5 1 (0.43%) WAN
5 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (21.28%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (12.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 24 (10.21%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (9.79%) Oracle Database
5 18 (7.66%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.96%) Elasticsearch
7 11 (4.68%) Relational Database
8 9 (3.83%) MySQL
9 7 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.98%) MariaDB
10 6 (2.55%) Big Data
10 6 (2.55%) InfluxDB
10 6 (2.55%) Informix
11 5 (2.13%) DB2
11 5 (2.13%) GIS
12 3 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.28%) Apache Hive
12 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.28%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 27 (11.49%) Jenkins
2 20 (8.51%) Git
3 15 (6.38%) GitLab
4 10 (4.26%) JIRA
5 8 (3.40%) Maven
6 7 (2.98%) Gradle
7 6 (2.55%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.13%) Cucumber
8 5 (2.13%) Selenium
9 4 (1.70%) webpack
10 3 (1.28%) Burp Suite
10 3 (1.28%) JUnit
10 3 (1.28%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.85%) Subversion
11 2 (0.85%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket Server
12 1 (0.43%) Gatling
12 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 53 (22.55%) Public Sector
2 40 (17.02%) Social Skills
3 30 (12.77%) Finance
4 22 (9.36%) Banking
5 14 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.40%) Back Office
7 8 (3.40%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.55%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.43%) Automotive
9 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Legal
9 1 (0.43%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.43%) Publishing
9 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 92 (39.15%) Developer
2 44 (18.72%) Java Developer
3 26 (11.06%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (8.51%) Data Engineer
5 17 (7.23%) Architect
5 17 (7.23%) Senior
6 15 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (6.38%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (5.11%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (5.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (4.68%) AWS Developer
8 11 (4.68%) Python Engineer
8 11 (4.68%) Software Developer
9 10 (4.26%) Analyst
9 10 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (4.26%) Systems Analyst
10 9 (3.83%) Java Engineer
10 9 (3.83%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.83%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.83%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (23.83%) Spring
2 54 (22.98%) AWS CDK
3 48 (20.43%) Spring Boot
4 44 (18.72%) REST
5 35 (14.89%) CSS
6 31 (13.19%) React
7 30 (12.77%) HTML
8 28 (11.91%) Kafka
9 22 (9.36%) RESTful
10 19 (8.09%) AngularJS
10 19 (8.09%) Node.js
11 11 (4.68%) JPA
12 9 (3.83%) Elastic Stack
13 8 (3.40%) OpenTracing
13 8 (3.40%) SOAP
14 7 (2.98%) PostGIS
15 6 (2.55%) OAuth
15 6 (2.55%) PySpark
15 6 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
16 5 (2.13%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 23 (9.79%) Cloud Native
2 22 (9.36%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (7.66%) Legacy Systems
4 17 (7.23%) Public Cloud
5 14 (5.96%) Data Structures
6 9 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.40%) Replication
8 6 (2.55%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.13%) Data Centre
9 5 (2.13%) PKI
10 4 (1.70%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.70%) NVMe
10 4 (1.70%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.70%) SCADA
10 4 (1.70%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.85%) IoT
12 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 41 (17.45%) Linux
2 18 (7.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 18 (7.66%) Unix
2 18 (7.66%) Windows
3 7 (2.98%) Ubuntu
3 7 (2.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.70%) Data ONTAP
5 3 (1.28%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (46.38%) Agile
2 74 (31.49%) CI/CD
3 65 (27.66%) Microservices
4 58 (24.68%) DevOps
5 55 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 40 (17.02%) Scrum
7 38 (16.17%) SDLC
8 29 (12.34%) Test Automation
9 28 (11.91%) Roadmaps
10 27 (11.49%) Machine Learning
10 27 (11.49%) Software Engineering
11 26 (11.06%) Kanban
12 25 (10.64%) Migration
12 25 (10.64%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (10.21%) Artificial Intelligence
13 24 (10.21%) Full Stack Development
14 20 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
14 20 (8.51%) TDD
15 19 (8.09%) Computer Science
15 19 (8.09%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 105 (44.68%) Java
2 91 (38.72%) Python
3 57 (24.26%) SQL
4 56 (23.83%) TypeScript
5 31 (13.19%) JavaScript
6 27 (11.49%) Bash
7 20 (8.51%) Scala
7 20 (8.51%) Shell Script
8 14 (5.96%) Groovy
9 10 (4.26%) Perl
10 9 (3.83%) Kotlin
11 8 (3.40%) Ruby
12 7 (2.98%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.43%) C
13 1 (0.43%) C#
13 1 (0.43%) Elixir
13 1 (0.43%) Go
13 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 10 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.40%) Degree
3 7 (2.98%) Azure Certification
4 6 (2.55%) AWS Certification
5 5 (2.13%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.70%) SC Cleared
7 3 (1.28%) OSCP
8 2 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.94%) Accessibility
2 18 (7.66%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.85%) NCSC
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.43%) PMO
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
5 1 (0.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (22.55%) Docker
2 7 (2.98%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.70%) GPFS
3 4 (1.70%) NFS
4 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.43%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.43%) HDFS
6 1 (0.43%) KVM
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 58 (24.68%) Kubernetes
2 50 (21.28%) Terraform
3 33 (14.04%) Grafana
4 31 (13.19%) Ansible
5 9 (3.83%) Kibana
6 8 (3.40%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.40%) Zipkin
7 4 (1.70%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.28%) Packer
8 3 (1.28%) Puppet
8 3 (1.28%) SCCM
9 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.85%) vRealize
10 1 (0.43%) CASB
10 1 (0.43%) Istio
10 1 (0.43%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.43%) Knative
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 43 (18.30%) Oracle
2 18 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.68%) Databricks
4 9 (3.83%) Splunk
5 7 (2.98%) Google
5 7 (2.98%) IBM
6 5 (2.13%) Veritas
6 5 (2.13%) VMware
7 4 (1.70%) Brocade
7 4 (1.70%) Commvault
7 4 (1.70%) EMC
7 4 (1.70%) NetApp
7 4 (1.70%) Sybase
8 3 (1.28%) Red Hat
9 2 (0.85%) Sage
10 1 (0.43%) Cisco
10 1 (0.43%) Citrix
10 1 (0.43%) HP
10 1 (0.43%) Informatica
10 1 (0.43%) McAfee