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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 6 7
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +9
Contract jobs citing AWS 93 122 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.98% 14.42% 16.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.10% 39.87% 48.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 88 93
10th Percentile £350 £400 £413
25th Percentile £424 £417 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £513 £650
90th Percentile £704 £600 £676
Scotland median daily rate £480 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.55% -5.29%
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 - - £66.75
% change year-on-year - - +40.13%

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 299 306 302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 38.53% 36.17% 34.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 227 211
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £406 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £453 £494
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -8.30% +9.78%
75th Percentile £550 £511 £600
90th Percentile £589 £590 £673
Scotland median daily rate £470 £460 £475
% change year-on-year +2.17% -3.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £15.20
25th Percentile - £51.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £15.09 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.26% +50.00% +59.09%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £59.83
Scotland median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.18% -71.92% +83.48%

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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 18 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 (10.75%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Apache
2 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.08%) JBoss
2 1 (1.08%) SAS
2 1 (1.08%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.08%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.08%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.08%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 42 (45.16%) Azure
2 15 (16.13%) Serverless
3 14 (15.05%) Amazon S3
4 13 (13.98%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (9.68%) OpenShift
6 8 (8.60%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (7.53%) GCP
7 7 (7.53%) GitHub
8 6 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.45%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.45%) Cohesity
8 6 (6.45%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (5.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.38%) PaaS
10 4 (4.30%) Azure AKS
10 4 (4.30%) SaaS
10 4 (4.30%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.15%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (2.15%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) SAN
2 6 (6.45%) NAS
3 4 (4.30%) Firewall
4 1 (1.08%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.08%) FTP
4 1 (1.08%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.08%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) MongoDB
1 11 (11.83%) MySQL
2 10 (10.75%) NoSQL
3 7 (7.53%) MariaDB
4 5 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.38%) DB2
4 5 (5.38%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.30%) Amazon Aurora
5 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.30%) RDBMS
6 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.08%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 24 (25.81%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.35%) Bitbucket
3 16 (17.20%) JIRA
4 15 (16.13%) Git
5 7 (7.53%) JUnit
6 5 (5.38%) GitLab
7 4 (4.30%) Gradle
7 4 (4.30%) Maven
8 3 (3.23%) IntelliJ
8 3 (3.23%) Mockito
8 3 (3.23%) PyCharm
8 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio
8 3 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (2.15%) webpack
10 1 (1.08%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.08%) Gatling
10 1 (1.08%) JMeter
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
10 1 (1.08%) Toad
General
1 27 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 23 (24.73%) Finance
3 15 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Banking
6 5 (5.38%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) Front Office
9 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Legal
9 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 34 (36.56%) Developer
2 20 (21.51%) Java Developer
3 14 (15.05%) Architect
4 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (11.83%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Python Developer
6 8 (8.60%) Senior
7 5 (5.38%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Lead
7 5 (5.38%) Python Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) NetBackup Engineer
8 3 (3.23%) Senior Architect
8 3 (3.23%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.23%) Senior Java Developer
8 3 (3.23%) Senior Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.15%) Automation Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (31.18%) Spring
2 26 (27.96%) Spring Boot
3 11 (11.83%) React
4 8 (8.60%) CSS
4 8 (8.60%) Kafka
4 8 (8.60%) RESTful
5 6 (6.45%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.45%) HTML
6 4 (4.30%) CSS3
6 4 (4.30%) HTML5
6 4 (4.30%) Node.js
6 4 (4.30%) REST
7 3 (3.23%) AWS CDK
7 3 (3.23%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.23%) Spring Batch
7 3 (3.23%) Vue
8 2 (2.15%) JPA
8 2 (2.15%) pytest
8 2 (2.15%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (2.15%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.60%) Cloud Native
2 7 (7.53%) Public Cloud
3 6 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.30%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.23%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.08%) CMDB
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.08%) NVMe
7 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.58%) Linux
2 17 (18.28%) Windows
3 11 (11.83%) Unix
4 7 (7.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.15%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.08%) CentOS
6 1 (1.08%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (48.39%) CI/CD
2 30 (32.26%) Agile
3 26 (27.96%) DevOps
4 25 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (21.51%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (19.35%) SDLC
7 16 (17.20%) Continuous Delivery
7 16 (17.20%) Microservices
7 16 (17.20%) Test Automation
8 15 (16.13%) Containerisation
8 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (12.90%) Computer Science
9 12 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (12.90%) Operational Stability
9 12 (12.90%) Software Engineering
10 11 (11.83%) Data Protection
10 11 (11.83%) Observability
11 10 (10.75%) Architectural Patterns
11 10 (10.75%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (10.75%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 48 (51.61%) Java
2 46 (49.46%) Python
3 16 (17.20%) TypeScript
4 14 (15.05%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.90%) SQL
6 9 (9.68%) C#
7 4 (4.30%) Go
7 4 (4.30%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.23%) Bash
9 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.08%) C++
10 1 (1.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 21 (22.58%) AWS Certification
2 16 (17.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 9 (9.68%) Azure Certification
4 8 (8.60%) AWS Certified Developer
5 4 (4.30%) Degree
6 2 (2.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.23%) QA
2 2 (2.15%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (2.15%) NIST
2 2 (2.15%) WCAG
3 1 (1.08%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) GRC
3 1 (1.08%) NCSC
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (12.90%) Docker
2 3 (3.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.08%) Firmware
3 1 (1.08%) GPFS
3 1 (1.08%) NFS
Systems Management
1 37 (39.78%) Terraform
2 30 (32.26%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
4 6 (6.45%) NetBackup
4 6 (6.45%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (4.30%) Grafana
6 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.08%) Packer
7 1 (1.08%) Podman
7 1 (1.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.08%) Puppet
7 1 (1.08%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.08%) SCCM
7 1 (1.08%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 7 (7.53%) Veritas
2 6 (6.45%) Oracle
3 5 (5.38%) AppDynamics
3 5 (5.38%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.38%) Sybase
4 4 (4.30%) IBM
5 3 (3.23%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.23%) Splunk
6 2 (2.15%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.15%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.15%) Google
6 2 (2.15%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.08%) Adobe
7 1 (1.08%) Brocade
7 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (1.08%) EMC
7 1 (1.08%) Genesys
7 1 (1.08%) Netskope
7 1 (1.08%) Okta
7 1 (1.08%) Workday