AWS Certification Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 161 152
Rank change year-on-year +38 -9 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 6 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.27% 0.18% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.01% 0.86% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 14
10th Percentile - - £481
25th Percentile £525 £725 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £750 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +30.43% +10.05%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £611
90th Percentile £595 - £664
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

AWS Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 596 584 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 27.21% 20.71% 17.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 403 370
10th Percentile £188 £163 £181
25th Percentile £340 £375 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £632 £625
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 13 17
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.35 £21.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £15.99 £25.28
Median hourly rate £26.00 £21.26 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year +22.30% -52.90% +144.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £54.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £63.20 £63.81 £56.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +10.53%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in Scotland

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in Scotland

AWS Certification
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 Certification within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 3 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 - 6 £550 - 5
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 5 (83.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (83.33%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (83.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
3 3 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) React
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Batch
1 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Capacity Planning
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Operations
1 5 (83.33%) Cost Control
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Planning and Forecasting
2 3 (50.00%) Supplier Management
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Oracle
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Google