AWS Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 5 5
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +4
Contract jobs citing AWS 108 111 107
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 14.67% 17.48% 13.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.96% 43.87% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 59 66
10th Percentile £406 £437 £415
25th Percentile £425 £456 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -3.90% +2.99% -1.72%
75th Percentile £558 £539 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £458 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -8.50% +4.17% -2.69%

All Cloud Computing 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 318 253 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.21% 39.84% 37.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 138 189
10th Percentile £235 £406 £201
25th Percentile £397 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £491 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.01% +9.06% -4.96%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £538
90th Percentile £617 £600 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 7
10th Percentile - - £16.20
25th Percentile - - £18.92
Median hourly rate £15.81 £60.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.65% +172.73% +24.15%
75th Percentile £18.75 - £24.18
90th Percentile £30.38 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
% change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% -11.39%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

AWS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Edinburgh

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.48%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (5.56%) Apache
3 4 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.70%) Confluence
4 2 (1.85%) JBoss
4 2 (1.85%) nginx
5 1 (0.93%) CMS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.93%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.48%) Serverless
2 31 (28.70%) Amazon S3
3 26 (24.07%) AWS Lambda
3 26 (24.07%) Azure
4 21 (19.44%) GCP
5 17 (15.74%) AWS CloudFormation
6 13 (12.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (7.41%) OpenShift
8 7 (6.48%) Amazon EC2
9 6 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon EMR
10 5 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (4.63%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (4.63%) GitHub
10 5 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (3.70%) Apigee
11 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
12 3 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.70%) DNS
1 4 (3.70%) Firewall
1 4 (3.70%) Network Security
2 2 (1.85%) BIG-IP
2 2 (1.85%) DHCP
2 2 (1.85%) HTTP
2 2 (1.85%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.41%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (4.63%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (4.63%) DynamoDB
4 4 (3.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.85%) Metadata
5 2 (1.85%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.93%) DataStage
6 1 (0.93%) Looker
6 1 (0.93%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.93%) MySQL
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (0.93%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (13.89%) Jenkins
2 10 (9.26%) GitLab
3 7 (6.48%) Cypress.io
4 5 (4.63%) Bitbucket
4 5 (4.63%) Git
4 5 (4.63%) JIRA
5 3 (2.78%) Selenium
6 2 (1.85%) MLflow
6 2 (1.85%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.93%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (23.15%) Social Skills
2 24 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 22 (20.37%) Finance
4 12 (11.11%) Banking
5 10 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.78%) Retail Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Back Office
8 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (25.00%) Developer
2 17 (15.74%) Architect
3 12 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (10.19%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (7.41%) Analyst
6 7 (6.48%) AWS Architect
6 7 (6.48%) Consultant
7 6 (5.56%) Cloud Developer
7 6 (5.56%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.56%) Security Consultant
8 5 (4.63%) AWS Developer
8 5 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Python Engineer
8 5 (4.63%) Senior
9 4 (3.70%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (3.70%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (12.04%) AWS CDK
1 13 (12.04%) REST
1 13 (12.04%) Terraform
2 9 (8.33%) Node.js
3 8 (7.41%) React
4 7 (6.48%) PyTorch
5 6 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 6 (5.56%) OpenCV
5 6 (5.56%) Pandas
5 6 (5.56%) Spring
5 6 (5.56%) Spring Boot
6 5 (4.63%) CSS
6 5 (4.63%) HTML
6 5 (4.63%) Hugging Face
6 5 (4.63%) OAuth
7 4 (3.70%) Kafka
7 4 (3.70%) Next.js
7 4 (3.70%) NumPy
7 4 (3.70%) PySpark
7 4 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 37 (34.26%) Cloud Native
2 8 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.85%) AI Agents
4 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.85%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.85%) IVR
4 2 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (1.85%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (0.93%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
5 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.33%) Linux
2 7 (6.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 7 (6.48%) Windows
3 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (40.74%) CI/CD
2 36 (33.33%) Agile
3 31 (28.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (25.00%) AI
5 26 (24.07%) DevOps
6 20 (18.52%) Migration
7 17 (15.74%) Microservices
8 16 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (14.81%) LLM
8 16 (14.81%) Observability
9 15 (13.89%) Software Engineering
9 15 (13.89%) TDD
10 14 (12.96%) Event-Driven
10 14 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (12.96%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (12.04%) Mentoring
11 13 (12.04%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (12.04%) Test Automation
12 12 (11.11%) Containerisation
12 12 (11.11%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 35 (32.41%) Python
2 19 (17.59%) JavaScript
3 18 (16.67%) Java
3 18 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 13 (12.04%) SQL
5 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.63%) Bash
7 3 (2.78%) Go
8 2 (1.85%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (0.93%) PHP
9 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (4.63%) AWS Certification
2 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 3 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (2.78%) CISSP
3 2 (1.85%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 2 (1.85%) CBAP
3 2 (1.85%) CCSK
3 2 (1.85%) CISM
3 2 (1.85%) Degree
3 2 (1.85%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) CRISC
4 1 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (0.93%) RHCE
4 1 (0.93%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (12.96%) Docker
2 8 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.33%) Grafana
3 3 (2.78%) Ansible
4 2 (1.85%) linkerd
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.85%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.85%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.93%) Argo
5 1 (0.93%) HAProxy
5 1 (0.93%) Istio
5 1 (0.93%) Kibana
5 1 (0.93%) yum
Vendors
1 7 (6.48%) Splunk
2 4 (3.70%) Google
2 4 (3.70%) Oracle
2 4 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.85%) Cisco
3 2 (1.85%) Citrix
3 2 (1.85%) Dynatrace
3 2 (1.85%) EnterpriseDB
3 2 (1.85%) F5
3 2 (1.85%) Informatica
3 2 (1.85%) Palo Alto
3 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
4 1 (0.93%) ForgeRock
4 1 (0.93%) IBM
4 1 (0.93%) New Relic
4 1 (0.93%) Okta
4 1 (0.93%) VMware
4 1 (0.93%) WooCommerce