AWS Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 92 180 241
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.02% 14.95% 12.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.68% 37.89% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 149 177
10th Percentile £407 £425 £413
25th Percentile £425 £458 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £493 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% -5.29% +14.29%
75th Percentile £569 £528 £580
90th Percentile £634 £592 £643
Scotland median daily rate £475 £495 £520
% change year-on-year -4.04% -4.81% +12.43%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 310 475 625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.13% 39.45% 33.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 366 449
10th Percentile £228 £209 £361
25th Percentile £410 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.16% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £575
90th Percentile £663 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £455 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -4.16% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 10
10th Percentile £15.66 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £19.83
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -39.93% -
75th Percentile £17.50 - £40.56
90th Percentile - - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
% change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -55.10%

AWS
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 26 May 2024.

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 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 2 (2.17%) GeoServer
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 40 (43.48%) Amazon S3
2 39 (42.39%) Serverless
3 37 (40.22%) AWS CloudFormation
4 34 (36.96%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (26.09%) OpenShift
6 14 (15.22%) Amazon EC2
6 14 (15.22%) AWS CodePipeline
7 10 (10.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (10.87%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (9.78%) Azure
9 8 (8.70%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 8 (8.70%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (6.52%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 4 (4.35%) GCP
11 4 (4.35%) IaaS
12 3 (3.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (3.26%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (3.26%) AWS Fargate
12 3 (3.26%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (3.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.52%) Firewall
2 2 (2.17%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) Internet
3 1 (1.09%) LAN
3 1 (1.09%) MPLS
3 1 (1.09%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.09%) WAN
3 1 (1.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (32.61%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (18.48%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (15.22%) MongoDB
4 11 (11.96%) Oracle Database
5 9 (9.78%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (9.78%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (4.35%) Informix
8 3 (3.26%) GIS
8 3 (3.26%) InfluxDB
9 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
9 2 (2.17%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (1.09%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (1.09%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.09%) Big Data
10 1 (1.09%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
10 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.09%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (20.65%) Jenkins
2 11 (11.96%) GitLab
3 9 (9.78%) Git
4 7 (7.61%) Gradle
4 7 (7.61%) Maven
5 4 (4.35%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.09%) Cypress.io
General
1 39 (42.39%) Public Sector
2 21 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.96%) Finance
4 8 (8.70%) Back Office
4 8 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (3.26%) Banking
6 2 (2.17%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Publishing
7 1 (1.09%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 27 (29.35%) Developer
2 14 (15.22%) Data Engineer
3 10 (10.87%) Architect
3 10 (10.87%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (7.61%) AWS Architect
4 7 (7.61%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Analyst
5 6 (6.52%) Automation Developer
5 6 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Site Manager
5 6 (6.52%) Site Reliability Manager
5 6 (6.52%) Systems Analyst
6 5 (5.43%) AWS Developer
6 5 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (5.43%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
7 4 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (42.39%) AWS CDK
2 16 (17.39%) REST
3 14 (15.22%) React
4 9 (9.78%) CSS
4 9 (9.78%) HTML
4 9 (9.78%) Node.js
5 8 (8.70%) SOAP
6 6 (6.52%) Spring
7 5 (5.43%) PostGIS
7 5 (5.43%) SpaCy
7 5 (5.43%) Spring Boot
8 4 (4.35%) Kafka
9 3 (3.26%) PyTorch
9 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
10 2 (2.17%) .NET
10 2 (2.17%) .NET Core
10 2 (2.17%) OAuth
10 2 (2.17%) OAuth2
10 2 (2.17%) Spring Security
11 1 (1.09%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.96%) Legacy Systems
3 7 (7.61%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.43%) Replication
5 4 (4.35%) Security Posture
6 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (3.26%) PKI
6 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.09%) BYOD
8 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.09%) IoT
8 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (16.30%) Linux
2 8 (8.70%) Unix
2 8 (8.70%) Windows
3 7 (7.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (5.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.48%) Agile
2 34 (36.96%) CI/CD
3 31 (33.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 26 (28.26%) DevOps
5 20 (21.74%) Scrum
6 19 (20.65%) Migration
7 17 (18.48%) Kanban
7 17 (18.48%) Roadmaps
8 15 (16.30%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (13.04%) Containerisation
9 12 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (13.04%) Microservices
10 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.87%) Machine Learning
12 8 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (8.70%) Mentoring
12 8 (8.70%) Pair Programming
12 8 (8.70%) Service Management
12 8 (8.70%) Storage Management
12 8 (8.70%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (45.65%) Python
2 31 (33.70%) TypeScript
3 23 (25.00%) Java
4 18 (19.57%) Bash
5 16 (17.39%) JavaScript
6 15 (16.30%) SQL
7 13 (14.13%) Shell Script
8 11 (11.96%) Groovy
9 7 (7.61%) Ruby
10 3 (3.26%) Perl
11 1 (1.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (3.26%) Azure Certification
1 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (3.26%) Degree
2 2 (2.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.96%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (10.87%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.17%) NCSC
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 18 (19.57%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (25.00%) Ansible
2 22 (23.91%) Terraform
3 21 (22.83%) Grafana
4 18 (19.57%) Kubernetes
5 5 (5.43%) Kibana
6 1 (1.09%) CASB
6 1 (1.09%) Packer
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Oracle
2 3 (3.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.17%) Commvault
3 2 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.09%) Confluent
4 1 (1.09%) Databricks
4 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.09%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.09%) IBM
4 1 (1.09%) Informatica
4 1 (1.09%) Splunk
4 1 (1.09%) StreamSets