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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing AWS 94 112 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 14.66% 12.89% 14.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.45% 33.04% 36.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 74 146
10th Percentile £418 £413 £425
25th Percentile £450 £429 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £493
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -0.71% -1.99%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £538
90th Percentile £575 £650 £589
Scotland median daily rate £495 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +4.21% -2.56% -4.65%

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 251 339 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.16% 39.01% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 206 372
10th Percentile £261 £203 £207
25th Percentile £425 £408 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £467
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -2.89% -6.55%
75th Percentile £532 £559 £523
90th Percentile £599 £655 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £14.53 -
25th Percentile £26.32 £16.15 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.88% -4.06% -11.40%
75th Percentile £28.38 £17.77 -
90th Percentile - £20.25 -
Scotland median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +24.82% -70.43% +41.98%

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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 17 July 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 (7.45%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (5.32%) Confluence
3 3 (3.19%) Apache
4 2 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (2.13%) Camunda
4 2 (2.13%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.06%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (35.11%) Amazon S3
2 30 (31.91%) Serverless
3 25 (26.60%) AWS Lambda
4 22 (23.40%) AWS CloudFormation
4 22 (23.40%) Azure
5 16 (17.02%) GCP
6 13 (13.83%) GitHub
6 13 (13.83%) Snowflake
7 12 (12.77%) AWS CodePipeline
8 11 (11.70%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (8.51%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (7.45%) Amazon Cognito
10 7 (7.45%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (6.38%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (5.32%) AWS CodeBuild
13 4 (4.26%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (4.26%) CloudFront
14 3 (3.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (3.19%) OpenShift
14 3 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) Firewall
1 3 (3.19%) Network Security
1 3 (3.19%) VPN
2 2 (2.13%) SMS
3 1 (1.06%) DNS
3 1 (1.06%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (22.34%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (19.15%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (11.70%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.38%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.26%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.26%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.26%) GIS
7 3 (3.19%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.19%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.13%) Apache Hive
8 2 (2.13%) Big Data
8 2 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.13%) PowerCenter
9 1 (1.06%) DB2
9 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.06%) InfluxDB
9 1 (1.06%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (19.15%) Jenkins
2 14 (14.89%) Cypress.io
3 11 (11.70%) Git
3 11 (11.70%) GitLab
4 10 (10.64%) Storybook
5 9 (9.57%) JIRA
6 3 (3.19%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.19%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.13%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.13%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.13%) Snyk
8 1 (1.06%) Appium
8 1 (1.06%) git-flow
8 1 (1.06%) Selenium
8 1 (1.06%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 39 (41.49%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.79%) Finance
3 16 (17.02%) Public Sector
4 15 (15.96%) Banking
5 8 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.26%) Law
8 3 (3.19%) Retail Banking
9 2 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.13%) Tech for Good
10 1 (1.06%) Automotive
10 1 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (21.28%) Developer
2 11 (11.70%) Architect
2 11 (11.70%) AWS Engineer
2 11 (11.70%) Data Engineer
2 11 (11.70%) Senior
3 9 (9.57%) Lead
4 7 (7.45%) Software Engineer
5 6 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.38%) React Developer
6 5 (5.32%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Snowflake Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Software Developer
7 4 (4.26%) Analyst
7 4 (4.26%) Java Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Server Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.19%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (24.47%) AWS CDK
2 21 (22.34%) React
3 12 (12.77%) CSS
3 12 (12.77%) RESTful
3 12 (12.77%) Spring
3 12 (12.77%) Spring Boot
4 9 (9.57%) Jest
4 9 (9.57%) Tailwind CSS
5 6 (6.38%) REST
6 5 (5.32%) Next.js
7 4 (4.26%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.26%) Node.js
7 4 (4.26%) PostGIS
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Amplify
8 3 (3.19%) HTML
8 3 (3.19%) Kafka
8 3 (3.19%) Playwright
8 3 (3.19%) PySpark
9 2 (2.13%) .NET
9 2 (2.13%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (10.64%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (5.32%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.19%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.13%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Life Science
8 1 (1.06%) Mobile App
8 1 (1.06%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Replication
8 1 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 18 (19.15%) Linux
2 12 (12.77%) Windows
3 8 (8.51%) Unix
3 8 (8.51%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (5.32%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.06%) AIX
6 1 (1.06%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (44.68%) CI/CD
2 39 (41.49%) Agile
3 29 (30.85%) DevOps
4 25 (26.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (24.47%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (23.40%) Microservices
7 17 (18.09%) Containerisation
8 15 (15.96%) Data Protection
9 14 (14.89%) Migration
9 14 (14.89%) Test Automation
10 11 (11.70%) ETL
11 10 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (10.64%) Mentoring
11 10 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
11 10 (10.64%) User Experience
12 9 (9.57%) DevSecOps
12 9 (9.57%) Roadmaps
12 9 (9.57%) Software Engineering
13 8 (8.51%) Scrum
13 8 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (28.72%) Python
2 23 (24.47%) Java
3 22 (23.40%) TypeScript
4 13 (13.83%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.77%) SQL
6 7 (7.45%) Bash
7 6 (6.38%) Perl
8 3 (3.19%) Go
8 3 (3.19%) Groovy
8 3 (3.19%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (13.83%) Degree
2 9 (9.57%) AWS Certification
3 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.32%) CISSP
5 4 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.06%) CEH
8 1 (1.06%) CISA
8 1 (1.06%) CISM
8 1 (1.06%) GCFA
8 1 (1.06%) GCIH
8 1 (1.06%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (1.06%) OCP
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (1.06%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.32%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.32%) QA
3 2 (2.13%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) COBIT
4 1 (1.06%) DICOM
4 1 (1.06%) GDPR
4 1 (1.06%) HL7
4 1 (1.06%) ISO 13485
4 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.06%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (11.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (15.96%) Kubernetes
1 15 (15.96%) Terraform
2 11 (11.70%) Ansible
3 9 (9.57%) Grafana
4 4 (4.26%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.06%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.06%) Kibana
6 1 (1.06%) linkerd
6 1 (1.06%) Podman
6 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (8.51%) Oracle
2 7 (7.45%) VMware
3 6 (6.38%) Informatica
3 6 (6.38%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.32%) Google
4 5 (5.32%) IBM
5 4 (4.26%) ForgeRock
5 4 (4.26%) StreamSets
6 3 (3.19%) Dynatrace
6 3 (3.19%) Splunk
6 3 (3.19%) Teradata
7 2 (2.13%) Microsoft
8 1 (1.06%) Citrix
8 1 (1.06%) Confluent
8 1 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.06%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.06%) Tanium
8 1 (1.06%) TSYS