AWS Developer Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services Developer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in Edinburgh is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 67 93
Rank change year-on-year +4 +26 +38
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.16% 0.25% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.18% 0.27% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 8
10th Percentile - £417 £403
25th Percentile - £421 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £440 £456
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -3.56% -2.93%
75th Percentile - £458 £477
90th Percentile - £461 £505
Scotland median daily rate £375 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -4.26%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Edinburgh with a recognized job title 556 754 1,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.55% 94.60% 94.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 406 672
10th Percentile £272 £170 £219
25th Percentile £406 £305 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% -7.79% -
75th Percentile £530 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £631 £600
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 36 12
10th Percentile - £13.57 £13.61
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.07 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +93.74% +1.95% -
75th Percentile £62.19 £19.61 £46.24
90th Percentile £73.75 £52.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.97 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +17.47% -4.06% -5.87%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for AWS Developer job vacancies in Edinburgh

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Textract
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK

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 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes