AWS Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 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
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 54 95
Rank change year-on-year 0 +41 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 14 17 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.18% 2.10% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.41% 2.22% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 3
10th Percentile £454 £424 £463
25th Percentile £463 £493 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -0.29% -
75th Percentile £525 £569 £538
90th Percentile £528 £608 -
Scotland median daily rate £488 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -3.70% +1.25% -5.57%

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 581 766 1,057
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.64% 94.45% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 409 685
10th Percentile £284 £170 £221
25th Percentile £413 £313 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% -7.79% -
75th Percentile £531 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £628 £600
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.89% -5.26% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 36 12
10th Percentile - £13.57 £13.61
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £32.19 £18.07 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +78.19% +1.95% -
75th Percentile £64.06 £19.61 £46.24
90th Percentile £74.25 £52.50 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.60 £18.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +8.88% +1.58% -8.54%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) Terraform
3 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
3 9 (64.29%) Agile
4 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
4 8 (57.14%) DevOps
4 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
5 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (50.00%) Python
6 6 (42.86%) Finance
6 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
7 5 (35.71%) Ansible
7 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
8 4 (28.57%) Docker
8 4 (28.57%) ForgeRock
8 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
8 4 (28.57%) GitLab
8 4 (28.57%) Serverless
9 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
9 3 (21.43%) Azure
9 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
9 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (21.43%) Java
9 3 (21.43%) Banking
9 3 (21.43%) Linux
9 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
10 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native

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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.14%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (28.57%) Serverless
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (21.43%) Amazon S3
4 3 (21.43%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CodeCommit
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (7.14%) AWS KMS
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (7.14%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (7.14%) Big Data
1 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
1 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) JIRA
3 1 (7.14%) Liquibase
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.14%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
1 2 (14.29%) OAuth
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) FHIR
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Fintech
6 2 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) SDLC
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Deployment
7 1 (7.14%) Data Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
7 1 (7.14%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Java
3 2 (14.29%) Go
3 2 (14.29%) Groovy
4 1 (7.14%) Bash
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
2 3 (21.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) DICOM
1 1 (7.14%) HL7
1 1 (7.14%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) Terraform
2 8 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 5 (35.71%) Ansible
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
4 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
4 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (7.14%) linkerd
5 1 (7.14%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) ForgeRock
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.14%) Google
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Ping Identity
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk