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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 110 103 121
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 17.68% 13.90% 12.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.18% 36.40% 30.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 61 86
10th Percentile £443 £420 £403
25th Percentile £466 £438 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.72% -1.20% +2.25%
75th Percentile £550 £533 £545
90th Percentile £600 £600 £594
Scotland median daily rate £500 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +6.61% -6.20% -

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 249 283 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.03% 38.19% 40.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 168 267
10th Percentile £404 £194 £293
25th Percentile £450 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £550 £526 £538
90th Percentile £625 £588 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £17.88 £16.69 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £19.28 -
Median hourly rate £36.95 £23.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +60.04% +30.30% -
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £55.46 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.09 £22.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -31.41% +24.15% -

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 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Edinburgh

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 9 (8.18%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (7.27%) Apache
2 8 (7.27%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.91%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.91%) FileNet
4 1 (0.91%) nginx
4 1 (0.91%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.55%) Azure
2 34 (30.91%) Amazon S3
3 28 (25.45%) Serverless
4 27 (24.55%) GCP
5 22 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (19.09%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
8 12 (10.91%) Amazon EC2
9 11 (10.00%) OpenShift
10 10 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 8 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (6.36%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (6.36%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (6.36%) GitHub
13 6 (5.45%) Snowflake
14 4 (3.64%) Amazon EMR
14 4 (3.64%) OCI
14 4 (3.64%) Textract
15 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
16 2 (1.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) Firewall
2 3 (2.73%) HTTP
2 3 (2.73%) Network Security
2 3 (2.73%) VPN
3 2 (1.82%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (5.45%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.82%) Data Mart
7 2 (1.82%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.82%) MySQL
7 2 (1.82%) Power BI
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.91%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.91%) GIS
8 1 (0.91%) Metadata
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.91%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (14.55%) Jenkins
2 14 (12.73%) Git
3 13 (11.82%) JIRA
4 8 (7.27%) Cypress.io
4 8 (7.27%) GitLab
5 4 (3.64%) Liquibase
6 2 (1.82%) git-flow
6 2 (1.82%) MLflow
6 2 (1.82%) Snyk
6 2 (1.82%) Subversion
7 1 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.91%) Maven
7 1 (0.91%) Tricentis qTest
7 1 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 31 (28.18%) Finance
2 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 27 (24.55%) Public Sector
4 24 (21.82%) Banking
5 11 (10.00%) Retail Banking
6 6 (5.45%) Legal
7 5 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (4.55%) Retail
8 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.91%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (16.36%) AWS Engineer
2 17 (15.45%) Developer
3 11 (10.00%) Senior
4 10 (9.09%) Lead
4 10 (9.09%) Python Engineer
5 9 (8.18%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Architect
6 7 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.36%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Data Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 5 (4.55%) Project Manager
8 5 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Site Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) Software Developer
9 4 (3.64%) Implementation Specialist
9 4 (3.64%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (3.64%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (20.00%) AWS CDK
2 14 (12.73%) PyTorch
3 11 (10.00%) Pandas
3 11 (10.00%) React
4 10 (9.09%) NumPy
4 10 (9.09%) RESTful
4 10 (9.09%) Spring
4 10 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
5 9 (8.18%) Hugging Face
5 9 (8.18%) OAuth
5 9 (8.18%) OpenCV
5 9 (8.18%) REST
6 8 (7.27%) FastAPI
6 8 (7.27%) Spring Boot
7 7 (6.36%) boto
8 6 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (4.55%) CSS
9 5 (4.55%) HTML
10 4 (3.64%) Spring Web Flow
10 4 (3.64%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 15 (13.64%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (6.36%) Algorithms
5 7 (6.36%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.55%) Public Cloud
7 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.73%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.73%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.82%) PKI
9 2 (1.82%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.82%) Replication
10 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.18%) Linux
2 12 (10.91%) Unix
3 11 (10.00%) Windows
4 9 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (59.09%) Agile
2 45 (40.91%) CI/CD
3 41 (37.27%) DevOps
3 41 (37.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (20.91%) Migration
5 22 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 18 (16.36%) AI
6 18 (16.36%) Machine Learning
7 17 (15.45%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (14.55%) Software Engineering
9 15 (13.64%) Data Protection
9 15 (13.64%) Microservices
10 13 (11.82%) LLM
10 13 (11.82%) OCR
10 13 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (10.91%) API Development
11 12 (10.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (10.91%) Mentoring
12 11 (10.00%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 44 (40.00%) Python
2 20 (18.18%) Java
3 14 (12.73%) TypeScript
4 12 (10.91%) SQL
5 11 (10.00%) Perl
6 10 (9.09%) Bash
7 8 (7.27%) JavaScript
8 5 (4.55%) Go
9 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.73%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.82%) Groovy
10 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.91%) Bicep
11 1 (0.91%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Degree
2 10 (9.09%) AWS Certification
3 7 (6.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 4 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.64%) CISSP
5 3 (2.73%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.91%) CISA
7 1 (0.91%) CISM
7 1 (0.91%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 1 (0.91%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.45%) QA
3 5 (4.55%) COBIT
4 3 (2.73%) NIST
5 2 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.82%) GDPR
5 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.82%) NCSC
5 2 (1.82%) NIST 800
5 2 (1.82%) SLA
6 1 (0.91%) COREP
6 1 (0.91%) DICOM
6 1 (0.91%) HL7
6 1 (0.91%) IFRS
6 1 (0.91%) IFRS 9
6 1 (0.91%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.91%) PSD2
6 1 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 19 (17.27%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) KVM
3 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (29.09%) Terraform
2 26 (23.64%) Kubernetes
3 23 (20.91%) Grafana
4 19 (17.27%) Ansible
5 10 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.64%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.82%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.82%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.82%) Kibana
8 2 (1.82%) logstash
8 2 (1.82%) Nagios
9 1 (0.91%) Argo
9 1 (0.91%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.91%) linkerd
9 1 (0.91%) Podman
9 1 (0.91%) vRealize
9 1 (0.91%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 12 (10.91%) Oracle
2 7 (6.36%) F5
3 6 (5.45%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.55%) ForgeRock
4 5 (4.55%) Splunk
5 4 (3.64%) CheckPoint
5 4 (3.64%) Dell
5 4 (3.64%) Google
5 4 (3.64%) HP
5 4 (3.64%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.64%) Red Hat
6 3 (2.73%) Commvault
6 3 (2.73%) IBM
6 3 (2.73%) Informatica
6 3 (2.73%) VMware
7 2 (1.82%) Cisco
7 2 (1.82%) Meraki
7 2 (1.82%) Ping Identity
7 2 (1.82%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.91%) CyberArk