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 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 53 80
Rank change year-on-year -4 +27 +30
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 12 25 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.83% 2.98% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.62% 7.69% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 16
10th Percentile £485 £405 £463
25th Percentile £500 £418 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £520
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -13.46% -0.95%
75th Percentile £538 £495 £551
90th Percentile £551 £516 £594
Scotland median daily rate £525 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.77% -1.90%

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 260 325 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.69% 38.78% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 190 336
10th Percentile £400 £179 £209
25th Percentile £450 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £525
90th Percentile £588 £650 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £15.24 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.69 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +54.63% -0.18% -11.40%
75th Percentile £28.38 £23.30 -
90th Percentile - £24.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £18.69 £57.50
% change year-on-year +13.55% -67.50% +72.93%

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 3 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (16.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 12 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (41.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 5 (41.67%) OpenShift
4 4 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (25.00%) AWS CodeBuild
5 3 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub
5 3 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (16.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (16.67%) AWS CodeCommit
6 2 (16.67%) AWS KMS
6 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (16.67%) Serverless
7 1 (8.33%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (8.33%) GCP
7 1 (8.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (33.33%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (25.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (16.67%) Apache Hive
3 2 (16.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (8.33%) DB2
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Database
4 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
1 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (8.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Site Engineer
1 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Informatica Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Environment Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Loki
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
4 4 (33.33%) Observability
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (25.00%) ETL
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Change Data Capture
6 2 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Data Science
6 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Patch Management
6 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (16.67%) SIEM
6 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
2 5 (41.67%) Perl
3 3 (25.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) Groovy
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) OCP
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Docker
2 3 (25.00%) KVM
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Grafana
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (41.67%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (41.67%) Prometheus
3 4 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (16.67%) Fluentd
4 2 (16.67%) HAProxy
4 2 (16.67%) Nagios
5 1 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) Informatica
2 4 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 3 (25.00%) Commvault
4 2 (16.67%) IBM
4 2 (16.67%) StreamSets
5 1 (8.33%) Confluent