Amazon EC2 Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Amazon EC2 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 138 159
Rank change year-on-year +32 +21 -34
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 21 28 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.97% 1.02% 0.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.88% 2.83% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 13
10th Percentile £406 £464 £345
25th Percentile £425 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -3.43% +10.53%
75th Percentile £519 £641 £575
90th Percentile £536 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £524 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.75% +4.35% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Amazon EC2 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 Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 729 990 1,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.63% 36.13% 31.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 501 738 776
10th Percentile £230 £250 £300
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% - +7.34%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £638 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 19
10th Percentile £15.32 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.23 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +83.48% -65.63%
75th Percentile £18.54 £66.50 £47.25
90th Percentile £31.27 £76.00 £48.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
% change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in Scotland

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Scotland

Amazon EC2
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon EC2 in Scotland

Amazon EC2
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon EC2 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +28 13 £445 -13.51%
Glasgow +10 5 £589 +17.70%
Amazon EC2
UK

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (95.24%) Amazon S3
3 15 (71.43%) AWS CloudFormation
3 15 (71.43%) Serverless
4 14 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
5 11 (52.38%) OpenShift
6 10 (47.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 8 (38.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (19.05%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (19.05%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (14.29%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (14.29%) AWS CodeCommit
9 3 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (4.76%) Amazon Cognito
10 1 (4.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (4.76%) Azure
10 1 (4.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (42.86%) Amazon RDS
3 8 (38.10%) MongoDB
4 6 (28.57%) InfluxDB
5 5 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (23.81%) Informix
6 4 (19.05%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
8 2 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
9 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
9 1 (4.76%) MariaDB
9 1 (4.76%) MySQL
9 1 (4.76%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) GitLab
2 5 (23.81%) Artifactory
2 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (14.29%) Git
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) JUnit
4 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) Terragrunt
General
1 11 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 8 (38.10%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) AWS Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Database Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 4 (19.05%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Development Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Full Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (66.67%) AWS CDK
2 5 (23.81%) Spring
3 3 (14.29%) Kafka
3 3 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (9.52%) React
5 1 (4.76%) AngularJS
5 1 (4.76%) Guice
5 1 (4.76%) Java EE
5 1 (4.76%) Node.js
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Batch
5 1 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Replication
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.52%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (9.52%) Data Structures
3 2 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) Legacy Code
4 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 3 (14.29%) Unix
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (52.38%) Scrum
4 9 (42.86%) Kanban
5 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
6 7 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (33.33%) High Availability
6 7 (33.33%) Migration
7 6 (28.57%) DevOps
8 5 (23.81%) Containerisation
8 5 (23.81%) Software Delivery
8 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
9 4 (19.05%) Microservices
9 4 (19.05%) Observability
9 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
10 3 (14.29%) Community of Practice
10 3 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
11 2 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
11 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (9.52%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) TypeScript
2 8 (38.10%) Java
2 8 (38.10%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) SQL
3 6 (28.57%) Bash
4 5 (23.81%) Groovy
5 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
6 2 (9.52%) Perl
7 1 (4.76%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Grafana
2 12 (57.14%) Ansible
3 6 (28.57%) Kibana
4 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
5 4 (19.05%) Terraform
6 1 (4.76%) FreeIPA
6 1 (4.76%) Icinga
6 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) Oracle
2 4 (19.05%) Commvault
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) Confluent
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Informatica
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk
4 1 (4.76%) StreamSets