AWS Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £526, 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 59 62 95
Rank change year-on-year +3 +33 +13
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 8 10 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% 1.23% 1.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 1.29% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £475 £446 £478
25th Percentile £484 £461 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% +3.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £550 £543 £529
90th Percentile £556 £558 £558
Scotland median daily rate £525 £480 £516
% change year-on-year +9.38% -6.98% -1.71%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Edinburgh

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon S3
3 6 (75.00%) Python
3 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (75.00%) Serverless
3 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (62.50%) Route 53
5 4 (50.00%) Bash
5 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (50.00%) AWS CDK
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 3 (37.50%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (37.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (37.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (37.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 3 (37.50%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (37.50%) Git
6 3 (37.50%) Kanban
6 3 (37.50%) Groovy
6 3 (37.50%) Firewall
6 3 (37.50%) Scrum
6 3 (37.50%) Agile
6 3 (37.50%) Ansible

AWS Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
2 7 (87.50%) Amazon S3
3 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (75.00%) Serverless
4 5 (62.50%) Route 53
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (50.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 4 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (50.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (37.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 3 (37.50%) AWS CodeBuild
6 3 (37.50%) AWS CodeDeploy
6 3 (37.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 3 (37.50%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (25.00%) CloudFront
7 2 (25.00%) PaaS
7 2 (25.00%) SaaS
8 1 (12.50%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (12.50%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (25.00%) MySQL
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Big Data
2 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
2 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Ant
3 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Retail
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (25.00%) JSON
2 2 (25.00%) JSON Schema
2 2 (25.00%) Node.js
2 2 (25.00%) OAuth
2 2 (25.00%) RESTful
3 1 (12.50%) PySpark
3 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Kanban
3 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) API Development
4 2 (25.00%) Fintech
4 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
3 3 (37.50%) Groovy
4 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) Grafana
3 2 (25.00%) Kibana
4 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Imperva
9 AWS Engineer jobs in Scotland