Amazon EC2 Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 91 117
Rank change year-on-year +30 +26 -27
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 13 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.59% 1.47% 0.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.21% 3.79% 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 8
10th Percentile £400 £471 £318
25th Percentile £416 £498 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.24% +16.67% -6.01%
75th Percentile £495 £650 £547
90th Percentile £511 £688 £604
Scotland median daily rate £475 £520 £450
% change year-on-year -8.57% +15.44% -5.26%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

Amazon EC2 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 309 501 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.87% 38.75% 30.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 386 417
10th Percentile £301 £260 £310
25th Percentile £415 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.56%
75th Percentile £591 £538 £580
90th Percentile £686 £618 £675
Scotland median daily rate £472 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.58% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 10
10th Percentile £15.80 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £19.83
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -39.93% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.56
90th Percentile £17.61 - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%

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 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 13 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (76.92%) AWS CloudFormation
2 10 (76.92%) Serverless
3 9 (69.23%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (61.54%) OpenShift
5 7 (53.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 6 (46.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (15.38%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (15.38%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (15.38%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) MongoDB
1 7 (53.85%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (46.15%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (30.77%) Informix
4 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (23.08%) InfluxDB
5 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (7.69%) Apache Hive
6 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 3 (23.08%) Artifactory
2 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) Git
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Data Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
1 4 (30.77%) Senior Data Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Database Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
4 1 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Development Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (76.92%) AWS CDK
2 2 (15.38%) Spring
3 1 (7.69%) Guice
3 1 (7.69%) Java EE
3 1 (7.69%) Kafka
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (7.69%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (53.85%) Linux
2 5 (38.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (30.77%) Ubuntu
4 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Scrum
3 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (46.15%) Kanban
5 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 5 (38.46%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (38.46%) High Availability
5 5 (38.46%) Migration
6 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
6 3 (23.08%) DevOps
6 3 (23.08%) Software Delivery
6 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
7 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
7 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
7 2 (15.38%) Observability
7 2 (15.38%) OO
7 2 (15.38%) OOD
7 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) TypeScript
2 5 (38.46%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 4 (30.77%) Bash
3 4 (30.77%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) Groovy
5 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (15.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 9 (69.23%) Ansible
1 9 (69.23%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Kibana
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Commvault
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Confluent
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Informatica
3 1 (7.69%) StreamSets