AWS Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 66 105
Rank change year-on-year +3 +39 +24
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 4 6 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.64% 0.74% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.77% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
10th Percentile £458 £275 -
25th Percentile £469 £297 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £388 £463
Median % change year-on-year +32.26% -16.22% +8.82%
75th Percentile £538 £434 £506
90th Percentile - £448 £508
Scotland median daily rate £525 £415 £450
% change year-on-year +26.51% -7.78% -16.28%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 581 778 1,245
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 95.46% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 441 887
10th Percentile £211 £206 £247
25th Percentile £400 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £479 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.34% +0.84% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £545
90th Percentile £638 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 55 12
10th Percentile - £16.10 £13.62
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.86 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £50.00 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +135.18% -10.48%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 £66.00 £54.43
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in Edinburgh

AWS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Developer in Edinburgh

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Developer 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 Edinburgh region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
3 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (50.00%) React
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Node.js
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
4 1 (25.00%) Inclusive Design
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (25.00%) Next.js
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership

AWS Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
2 3 (75.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (50.00%) PaaS
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (25.00%) CloudFront
4 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 1 (25.00%) Route 53
4 1 (25.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Ant
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) React
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) JSON Schema
2 1 (25.00%) Next.js
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
2 1 (25.00%) OpenAPI
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Swagger
2 1 (25.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Fintech
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible