AWS DevOps Engineer Contracts in Scotland

DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Scotland

The median DevOps Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Scotland is £516 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 152 158
Rank change year-on-year +30 +6 -4
Contract jobs requiring an AWS DevOps Engineer 9 12 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.41% 0.42% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.44% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 7
10th Percentile £440 £431 £500
25th Percentile £490 £481 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £516 £625
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -17.44% +20.48%
75th Percentile £535 £568 £673
90th Percentile £551 £671 £674
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.42% +4.35% +4.55%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

AWS DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in Scotland

AWS DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS DevOps Engineer in Scotland

AWS DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS DevOps Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS DevOps Engineer in Scotland

AWS DevOps Engineer
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 DevOps Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Edinburgh +41 5 £530 +3.97% 1
Glasgow 0 3 £440 -31.25%
AWS DevOps Engineer
UK

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, AWS DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring AWS DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (55.56%) AWS CDK
2 5 (55.56%) Artifactory
2 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 5 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Kibana
2 5 (55.56%) GitLab
2 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
2 5 (55.56%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Ubuntu
2 5 (55.56%) Groovy
2 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation

AWS DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (22.22%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon ECS
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 5 (55.56%) Amazon S3
2 5 (55.56%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Fargate
2 5 (55.56%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (55.56%) OpenShift
2 5 (55.56%) Serverless
3 4 (44.44%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
4 2 (22.22%) Snowflake
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (11.11%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (33.33%) InfluxDB
2 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Artifactory
1 5 (55.56%) GitLab
1 5 (55.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) AWS CDK
2 3 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (55.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Observability
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (22.22%) DataOps
5 2 (22.22%) GitOps
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) MLOps
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
6 1 (11.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Bash
2 5 (55.56%) Groovy
3 2 (22.22%) Java
3 2 (22.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 5 (55.56%) Grafana
2 5 (55.56%) Kibana
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Databricks