AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Edinburgh is £480 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 - 122
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.12% - 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £465 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - -
75th Percentile £495 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £453 - -

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 764 1,228 1,869
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 95.64% 95.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 873 1,283
10th Percentile £206 £239 £230
25th Percentile £400 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £565
90th Percentile £663 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 12 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £13.62 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.81 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £54.43 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £24.27 £22.13 £26.85
% change year-on-year +9.71% -17.60% -28.40%

AWS Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in Edinburgh

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, AWS Platform 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 Platform Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK

AWS Platform 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 1 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
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
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CDK
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes