Amazon EC2 Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring Amazon EC2 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 71 67 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -2
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 7 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.92% 0.96% 0.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.40% 3.45% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £334 £354 £415
25th Percentile £358 £363 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £385 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -14.44% -18.37%
75th Percentile £402 £471 £513
90th Percentile £403 £519 £610
Scotland median daily rate £402 £477 £518
% change year-on-year -15.72% -7.83% -1.43%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

Amazon EC2 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 292 203 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.57% 27.73% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 135 183
10th Percentile £313 £313 £362
25th Percentile £411 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.06% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £513 £636
90th Percentile £650 £624 £721
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £15.09 £19.00 £13.16
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +44.38% -
Scotland median hourly rate £15.09 £22.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year -31.41% +24.15% -

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon EC2 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Amazon EC2 job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Amazon EC2.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing Amazon EC2

Amazon EC2
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (42.86%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon MSK
3 3 (42.86%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (14.29%) Datadog
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
2 3 (42.86%) Git
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) MLflow
2 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (85.71%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Senior
1 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Node.js
1 3 (42.86%) scikit-learn
1 3 (42.86%) TensorFlow
2 2 (28.57%) Torch
3 1 (14.29%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (14.29%) Apache Camel
3 1 (14.29%) J2EE
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Kafka
3 1 (14.29%) PyTorch
3 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (14.29%) RESTful
3 1 (14.29%) Spring
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Algorithms
1 3 (42.86%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Containerisation
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
3 3 (42.86%) Feature Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 3 (42.86%) Statistical Analysis
3 3 (42.86%) Statistical Modelling
3 3 (42.86%) Visualisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
3 3 (42.86%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft