AWS Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Amazon Web Services Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 61 81
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 -3
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 5 15 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.65% 1.78% 1.02%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 1.87% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 9
10th Percentile £353 £440 £423
25th Percentile £358 - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £453 £640
Median % change year-on-year +21.41% -29.22% +9.68%
75th Percentile £575 £460 £673
90th Percentile - £503 £690
Scotland median daily rate £525 £480 £575
% change year-on-year +9.38% -16.52% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 732 804 840
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.81% 95.15% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 531 616
10th Percentile £300 £256 £325
25th Percentile £373 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £650 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 36 19
10th Percentile £16.58 £11.94 £12.45
25th Percentile £16.77 £16.00 £13.71
Median hourly rate £19.71 £36.22 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.58% +95.78% -52.21%
75th Percentile £23.86 £54.69 £53.24
90th Percentile £66.02 £68.75 £61.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.71 £27.90 £22.13
% change year-on-year -29.34% +26.08% -26.07%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Glasgow

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS Engineer in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Glasgow

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Glasgow

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 15 May 2025, AWS Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
3 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Maven
4 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 2 (40.00%) Confluence
4 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (40.00%) Gradle
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) Go
4 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (40.00%) Docker
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
4 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (40.00%) SDLC
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 (40.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
3 2 (40.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (40.00%) Gradle
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Observability
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Stability
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) Java
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft