Amazon EC2 Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 59 93
Rank change year-on-year +6 +34 +28
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 14 13 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.24% 1.60% 1.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 4.28% 3.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 15
10th Percentile £508 £400 £471
25th Percentile £513 £416 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -15.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £599 £495 £650
90th Percentile £638 £511 £688
Scotland median daily rate £533 £480 £520
% change year-on-year +10.94% -7.60% -1.05%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in Edinburgh

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Edinburgh

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (64.29%) AWS Lambda
2 9 (64.29%) Serverless
3 5 (35.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 5 (35.71%) AWS CloudFormation
3 5 (35.71%) OpenShift
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (28.57%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 4 (28.57%) AWS CodePipeline
4 4 (28.57%) AWS Fargate
4 4 (28.57%) Route 53
5 3 (21.43%) PaaS
5 3 (21.43%) SaaS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (7.14%) Azure
6 1 (7.14%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (35.71%) Oracle Database
3 3 (21.43%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (14.29%) Apache Hive
4 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
4 2 (14.29%) InfluxDB
4 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (7.14%) DB2
5 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Artifactory
2 3 (21.43%) Git
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (21.43%) DBA
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Architect
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Environment Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) AWS CDK
2 1 (7.14%) Kafka
2 1 (7.14%) Loki
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.14%) React
2 1 (7.14%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Cloud Native
2 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle Licensing
3 3 (21.43%) Replication
4 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (50.00%) Migration
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 6 (42.86%) Cost Optimisation
3 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
3 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Database Migration
5 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (21.43%) High Availability
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Kanban
5 3 (21.43%) Performance Tuning
5 3 (21.43%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Software Licensing
5 3 (21.43%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (35.71%) Bash
3 4 (28.57%) Groovy
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Perl
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) AWS Certification
1 6 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) OCP
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 4 (28.57%) Ansible
2 4 (28.57%) Grafana
3 3 (21.43%) Kibana
3 3 (21.43%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) Informatica
2 2 (14.29%) StreamSets
3 1 (7.14%) Confluent
3 1 (7.14%) Imperva