AWS Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £480 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 140 141
Rank change year-on-year +33 +1 -22
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 26 24 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.17% 0.84% 0.93%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.24% 0.88% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 16 24
10th Percentile £440 £444 £394
25th Percentile £453 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £516 £503
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.58% -0.64%
75th Percentile £527 £643 £590
90th Percentile £542 £674 £658
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%

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 2,101 2,715 3,400
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.16% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 1,945 2,410
10th Percentile £200 £250 £212
25th Percentile £375 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £545
90th Percentile £667 £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 46 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.09
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS 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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 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
Glasgow +14 15 £453 -28.38% 2
Edinburgh +25 10 £515 +3.00% 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, AWS 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 21 (80.77%) Python
3 18 (69.23%) DevOps
4 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
5 14 (53.85%) Java
6 12 (46.15%) Agile
6 12 (46.15%) Terraform
6 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
7 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
7 9 (34.62%) Docker
8 8 (30.77%) Azure
8 8 (30.77%) SQL
8 8 (30.77%) Computer Science
8 8 (30.77%) Scala
8 8 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (30.77%) Databricks
8 8 (30.77%) GitOps
8 8 (30.77%) DataOps
8 8 (30.77%) MLOps
8 8 (30.77%) Snowflake
8 8 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
8 8 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (26.92%) AWS CDK
9 7 (26.92%) Finance
9 7 (26.92%) Bash
9 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
9 7 (26.92%) OpenShift
9 7 (26.92%) Ansible
9 7 (26.92%) GitLab

AWS 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 8 (30.77%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 8 (30.77%) Snowflake
3 7 (26.92%) AWS CloudFormation
3 7 (26.92%) OpenShift
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 6 (23.08%) Amazon S3
4 6 (23.08%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (23.08%) Serverless
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (19.23%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (19.23%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.85%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (11.54%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) GitLab
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (23.08%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) AWS CDK
2 6 (23.08%) AngularJS
2 6 (23.08%) REST
2 6 (23.08%) Spring
2 6 (23.08%) Spring Boot
3 5 (19.23%) CSS
3 5 (19.23%) HTML
3 5 (19.23%) JPA
4 3 (11.54%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (7.69%) RESTful
6 1 (3.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (19.23%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
1 6 (23.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (23.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) DevOps
2 12 (46.15%) Agile
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 9 (34.62%) Data Engineering
3 9 (34.62%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 8 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
4 8 (30.77%) DataOps
4 8 (30.77%) GitOps
4 8 (30.77%) MLOps
5 6 (23.08%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 6 (23.08%) Decision-Making
5 6 (23.08%) Full Stack Development
5 6 (23.08%) Machine Learning
6 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (19.23%) Operational Stability
6 5 (19.23%) SDLC
6 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 21 (80.77%) Python
2 14 (53.85%) Java
3 8 (30.77%) Scala
3 8 (30.77%) SQL
4 7 (26.92%) Bash
5 6 (23.08%) Groovy
6 5 (19.23%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.85%) Perl
7 1 (3.85%) Ruby
7 1 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (65.38%) Kubernetes
2 12 (46.15%) Terraform
3 7 (26.92%) Ansible
4 6 (23.08%) Grafana
4 6 (23.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Databricks