AWS Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £515 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 87 105
Rank change year-on-year +22 +18 -21
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 10 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.23% 1.32% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.38% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 14
10th Percentile £446 £478 -
25th Percentile £461 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £543 £529 £569
90th Percentile £558 £558 £595
Scotland median daily rate £480 £516 £503
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.58% -0.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 773 1,234 1,867
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.43% 95.51% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 885 1,284
10th Percentile £200 £260 £230
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £550
90th Percentile £663 £625 £635
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 13 24
10th Percentile £16.10 - £12.30
25th Percentile £17.86 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -10.48% -58.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £64.90 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £29.43 £25.82
% change year-on-year +18.93% +14.00% -35.46%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, 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 10 (100.00%) Python
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
3 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (50.00%) GitLab
4 5 (50.00%) Ansible
4 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (50.00%) Bash
4 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 5 (50.00%) AWS CDK
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
5 4 (40.00%) Linux
5 4 (40.00%) Groovy
5 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (40.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
5 4 (40.00%) Grafana
5 4 (40.00%) Serverless
5 4 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (40.00%) Kibana
5 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (30.00%) AWS Fargate
6 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2

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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 5 (50.00%) OpenShift
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (40.00%) Serverless
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (10.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) GitLab
1 5 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (20.00%) Kanban
5 2 (20.00%) Observability
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 1 (10.00%) Data Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Data Integration
6 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
6 1 (10.00%) Data Transformation
6 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 4 (40.00%) Groovy
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (10.00%) Perl
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby
5 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (50.00%) Ansible
3 4 (40.00%) Grafana
3 4 (40.00%) Kibana
4 2 (20.00%) Terraform