AWS Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 8 7
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 93 96 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.88% 11.78% 16.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.21% 31.58% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 74 175
10th Percentile £413 £402 £414
25th Percentile £450 £426 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £564 £527
90th Percentile £600 £634 £613
Scotland median daily rate £494 £480 £493
% change year-on-year +2.92% -2.54% -6.19%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Edinburgh

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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 7 (7.53%) Confluence
2 5 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.15%) Camunda
3 2 (2.15%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.08%) Apache
4 1 (1.08%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.16%) Amazon S3
2 38 (40.86%) Serverless
3 35 (37.63%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (22.58%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (15.05%) Amazon EC2
5 14 (15.05%) AWS CodePipeline
6 11 (11.83%) Azure
6 11 (11.83%) OpenShift
6 11 (11.83%) Snowflake
7 8 (8.60%) GCP
8 7 (7.53%) AWS Step Functions
8 7 (7.53%) Route 53
8 7 (7.53%) SaaS
9 6 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 6 (6.45%) CloudFront
10 5 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (5.38%) AWS CodeBuild
10 5 (5.38%) GitHub
10 5 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) DNS
2 1 (1.08%) Network Security
2 1 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.58%) Data Warehouse
1 21 (22.58%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (17.20%) Amazon RDS
3 14 (15.05%) Oracle Database
4 12 (12.90%) Amazon Aurora
5 9 (9.68%) Amazon Redshift
6 6 (6.45%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (6.45%) Relational Database
7 4 (4.30%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (4.30%) GIS
7 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
8 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.23%) MySQL
8 3 (3.23%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.15%) Apache Hive
9 2 (2.15%) Big Data
9 2 (2.15%) InfluxDB
9 2 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
9 2 (2.15%) PowerCenter
10 1 (1.08%) DB2
Development Applications
1 14 (15.05%) GitLab
2 11 (11.83%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.75%) Git
4 9 (9.68%) JIRA
5 7 (7.53%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.45%) Storybook
7 5 (5.38%) Artifactory
8 3 (3.23%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.15%) Ant
9 2 (2.15%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (2.15%) webpack
10 1 (1.08%) Appium
10 1 (1.08%) Selenium
10 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (29.03%) Public Sector
2 23 (24.73%) Finance
3 21 (22.58%) Social Skills
4 10 (10.75%) Banking
5 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.30%) Law
6 4 (4.30%) Tech for Good
7 2 (2.15%) Games
8 1 (1.08%) Automotive
8 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (22.58%) Data Engineer
2 16 (17.20%) Developer
3 12 (12.90%) Architect
4 9 (9.68%) Analyst
5 8 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Senior
7 6 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Business Analyst
8 5 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Snowflake Data Engineer
8 5 (5.38%) Snowflake Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) AWS Developer
9 4 (4.30%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Server Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) AWS Architect
10 3 (3.23%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (3.23%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (3.23%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.73%) AWS CDK
2 13 (13.98%) React
3 11 (11.83%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.75%) Spring
5 8 (8.60%) REST
5 8 (8.60%) RESTful
6 6 (6.45%) Jest
6 6 (6.45%) Node.js
6 6 (6.45%) PostGIS
6 6 (6.45%) PySpark
7 5 (5.38%) CSS
7 5 (5.38%) Tailwind CSS
8 3 (3.23%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.23%) JSON
8 3 (3.23%) JSON Schema
8 3 (3.23%) Next.js
8 3 (3.23%) OAuth
8 3 (3.23%) OpenAPI
8 3 (3.23%) Swagger
8 3 (3.23%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.53%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (5.38%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.30%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (3.23%) Oracle Licensing
5 3 (3.23%) Replication
6 2 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.15%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Life Science
7 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Amazon Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Windows
2 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.15%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.15%) Unix
5 1 (1.08%) AIX
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (37.63%) CI/CD
2 28 (30.11%) Agile
3 22 (23.66%) ETL
4 20 (21.51%) Migration
5 19 (20.43%) DevOps
6 16 (17.20%) Scrum
6 16 (17.20%) Test Automation
7 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 14 (15.05%) Data Engineering
8 14 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (13.98%) Computer Science
9 13 (13.98%) Kanban
9 13 (13.98%) Microservices
10 12 (12.90%) Analytics
10 12 (12.90%) Containerisation
10 12 (12.90%) Data Migration
11 11 (11.83%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (11.83%) Data Transformation
12 10 (10.75%) Human-Centred Design
12 10 (10.75%) Inclusive Design
Programming Languages
1 39 (41.94%) Python
2 28 (30.11%) SQL
3 17 (18.28%) TypeScript
4 12 (12.90%) Java
5 10 (10.75%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.68%) Bash
7 4 (4.30%) Groovy
8 3 (3.23%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.15%) Go
9 2 (2.15%) Perl
9 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (21.51%) Degree
2 13 (13.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (10.75%) AWS Certification
4 6 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.15%) CISSP
5 2 (2.15%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.15%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.08%) CEH
6 1 (1.08%) GCFA
6 1 (1.08%) GCIH
6 1 (1.08%) OCP
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (1.08%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.90%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.60%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.30%) QA
5 1 (1.08%) GDPR
5 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (13.98%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (12.90%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.68%) Grafana
3 8 (8.60%) Ansible
3 8 (8.60%) Terraform
4 3 (3.23%) Kibana
4 3 (3.23%) Oracle RMAN
5 2 (2.15%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.08%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.08%) linkerd
6 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (18.28%) Oracle
2 6 (6.45%) Red Hat
2 6 (6.45%) VMware
3 4 (4.30%) Informatica
4 3 (3.23%) Google
4 3 (3.23%) IBM
4 3 (3.23%) Teradata
5 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.15%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.08%) Confluent
6 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (1.08%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.08%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.08%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.08%) Imperva
6 1 (1.08%) Splunk
6 1 (1.08%) Tanium
6 1 (1.08%) TSYS