AWS Contracts in Glasgow

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 9 9
Rank change year-on-year -8 0 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 98 121 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 12.28% 13.80% 16.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.92% 38.41% 45.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 89 97
10th Percentile £356 £400 £413
25th Percentile £419 £418 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £590
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -15.68% +12.38%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £660
90th Percentile £692 £656 £688
Scotland median daily rate £494 £480 £493
% change year-on-year +2.92% -2.54% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £37.13
25th Percentile - - £40.31
Median hourly rate - - £46.25
75th Percentile - - £52.81
90th Percentile - - £56.38
Scotland median hourly rate - - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +20.71%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 307 315 322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.47% 35.92% 35.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 231 230
10th Percentile £313 £213 £350
25th Percentile £400 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -6.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £618 £676
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £23.28
25th Percentile £25.25 - £30.81
Median hourly rate £26.50 £15.42 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +71.85% -66.66% +110.23%
75th Percentile £27.75 £34.59 £59.20
90th Percentile - £46.08 £60.01
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Glasgow

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Glasgow

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Glasgow

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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 10 (10.20%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) Apache
2 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.02%) JBoss
2 1 (1.02%) SAS
2 1 (1.02%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.02%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.02%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 40 (40.82%) Azure
2 18 (18.37%) Serverless
3 14 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 11 (11.22%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (9.18%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (8.16%) AWS Lambda
6 8 (8.16%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.12%) Cohesity
7 6 (6.12%) GCP
8 5 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (5.10%) GitHub
9 4 (4.08%) Azure AKS
9 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (4.08%) Snowflake
10 3 (3.06%) PaaS
11 2 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.04%) SaaS
12 1 (1.02%) Sumo Logic
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.14%) SAN
2 6 (6.12%) NAS
3 1 (1.02%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) FTP
3 1 (1.02%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) MySQL
2 8 (8.16%) MongoDB
3 7 (7.14%) MariaDB
3 7 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.10%) DB2
4 5 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.08%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (4.08%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.06%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.04%) Big Data
7 2 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.02%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.02%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.02%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.02%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 17 (17.35%) Jenkins
2 16 (16.33%) Bitbucket
3 14 (14.29%) JIRA
4 12 (12.24%) Git
5 4 (4.08%) JUnit
6 2 (2.04%) GitLab
7 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
7 1 (1.02%) Gatling
7 1 (1.02%) Gradle
7 1 (1.02%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.02%) JMeter
7 1 (1.02%) Maven
7 1 (1.02%) Mockito
7 1 (1.02%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.02%) PyCharm
7 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.02%) Toad
7 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 29 (29.59%) Social Skills
2 21 (21.43%) Finance
3 16 (16.33%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.12%) Banking
6 5 (5.10%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.08%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.04%) Front Office
8 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (38.78%) Developer
2 19 (19.39%) Java Developer
3 16 (16.33%) Architect
4 13 (13.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Solutions Architect
6 9 (9.18%) Lead
7 8 (8.16%) Python Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Senior
9 6 (6.12%) Python Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (5.10%) Lead Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
12 3 (3.06%) Data Engineer
12 3 (3.06%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 3 (3.06%) NetBackup Engineer
12 3 (3.06%) React Developer
12 3 (3.06%) Senior Architect
12 3 (3.06%) Senior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (34.69%) Spring
2 32 (32.65%) Spring Boot
3 9 (9.18%) React
4 7 (7.14%) CSS
5 6 (6.12%) HTML
5 6 (6.12%) Kafka
6 5 (5.10%) RESTful
7 4 (4.08%) REST
8 3 (3.06%) AWS CDK
8 3 (3.06%) CSS3
8 3 (3.06%) FastAPI
8 3 (3.06%) HTML5
8 3 (3.06%) Node.js
8 3 (3.06%) Spring Batch
9 2 (2.04%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.04%) pytest
9 2 (2.04%) Vue
10 1 (1.02%) Apache Camel
10 1 (1.02%) Flask
10 1 (1.02%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Cloud Native
1 10 (10.20%) Public Cloud
2 6 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.06%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.04%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.02%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.02%) CMDB
6 1 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.02%) NVMe
6 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.51%) Linux
2 17 (17.35%) Windows
3 13 (13.27%) Unix
4 7 (7.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.04%) AIX
5 2 (2.04%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.02%) CentOS
6 1 (1.02%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.80%) CI/CD
2 27 (27.55%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (23.47%) Agile
4 19 (19.39%) DevOps
5 17 (17.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (17.35%) Microservices
6 16 (16.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 14 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
7 14 (14.29%) Software Engineering
8 13 (13.27%) Process Improvement
8 13 (13.27%) SDLC
9 12 (12.24%) Computer Science
9 12 (12.24%) Project Delivery
10 11 (11.22%) Operational Stability
10 11 (11.22%) TDD
10 11 (11.22%) Test Automation
11 10 (10.20%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (10.20%) Event-Driven
11 10 (10.20%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (48.98%) Java
2 47 (47.96%) Python
3 17 (17.35%) JavaScript
4 16 (16.33%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.22%) SQL
6 7 (7.14%) C#
6 7 (7.14%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.04%) Bash
7 2 (2.04%) Go
7 2 (2.04%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.02%) C++
8 1 (1.02%) CoffeeScript
8 1 (1.02%) Perl
8 1 (1.02%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (21.43%) AWS Certification
2 16 (16.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 8 (8.16%) AWS Certified Developer
3 8 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.08%) Degree
5 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.04%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.02%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.02%) PMP
6 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.06%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (3.06%) NIST
2 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) GDPR
3 1 (1.02%) GRC
3 1 (1.02%) NCSC
3 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.02%) QA
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (9.18%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.02%) Firmware
4 1 (1.02%) GPFS
4 1 (1.02%) NFS
Systems Management
1 39 (39.80%) Terraform
2 26 (26.53%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.18%) Ansible
4 6 (6.12%) NetBackup
4 6 (6.12%) Oracle RMAN
5 3 (3.06%) Grafana
5 3 (3.06%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.06%) Puppet
5 3 (3.06%) SCCM
6 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.02%) Packer
7 1 (1.02%) Podman
7 1 (1.02%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.02%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft
1 7 (7.14%) Veritas
2 6 (6.12%) Oracle
3 5 (5.10%) Sybase
4 4 (4.08%) IBM
5 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.04%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.04%) Google
6 2 (2.04%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.04%) Splunk
6 2 (2.04%) VMware
7 1 (1.02%) Adobe
7 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.02%) Brocade
7 1 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.02%) NetApp
7 1 (1.02%) Netskope
7 1 (1.02%) Okta
7 1 (1.02%) Workday