AWS Certification Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 57 - 107
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 10 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.60% - 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.87% - 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £469 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.43%
75th Percentile £613 - £775
90th Percentile £638 - -
Scotland median daily rate £550 £550 £750
% change year-on-year - -26.67% +30.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 127 159 200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.32% 19.51% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 89 126
10th Percentile £237 £179 £166
25th Percentile £400 £370 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £600 £646 £606
Scotland median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 5
10th Percentile £21.00 £15.43 £21.42
25th Percentile £21.61 £16.31 £21.67
Median hourly rate £23.00 £17.75 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.58% -65.87% +9.47%
75th Percentile £28.38 £45.00 £54.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £60.00 £62.30
Scotland median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
% change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing AWS Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in Edinburgh

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Certification in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in Edinburgh

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Edinburgh

AWS Certification
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 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) Amazon S3
3 6 (60.00%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (60.00%) Serverless
4 5 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (20.00%) Azure
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
6 1 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle Database
2 6 (60.00%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (30.00%) DBA
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle Licensing
2 3 (30.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (60.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 6 (60.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (30.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (30.00%) Database Migration
4 3 (30.00%) High Availability
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) Software Licensing
5 2 (20.00%) Cost Management
5 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) ETL
5 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
6 1 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Bash
3 1 (10.00%) Go
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) HAProxy
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) linkerd
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (10.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (10.00%) VMware