Amazon EC2 Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 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 101 110 136
Rank change year-on-year +9 +26 +24
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 15 19 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.92% 0.86% 0.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 2.57% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 21
10th Percentile £509 £406 £463
25th Percentile £513 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £480 £520
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -7.60% -1.05%
75th Percentile £579 £519 £650
90th Percentile £638 £536 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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
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 1 May 2025. 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 +6 14 £535 +20.22% 5
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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 15 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 15 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
2 10 (66.67%) Serverless
3 6 (40.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
3 6 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 5 (33.33%) AWS CodeBuild
4 5 (33.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 5 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
4 5 (33.33%) AWS Fargate
4 5 (33.33%) Route 53
5 4 (26.67%) PaaS
5 4 (26.67%) SaaS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (6.67%) Azure
6 1 (6.67%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
2 1 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 4 (26.67%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (13.33%) Apache Hive
5 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (13.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (13.33%) InfluxDB
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (6.67%) DB2
6 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) GitLab
3 3 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.67%) JIRA
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Architect
2 3 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (20.00%) DBA
2 3 (20.00%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Architect
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Environment Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (13.33%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (13.33%) React
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) Loki
3 1 (6.67%) PySpark
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle Licensing
3 3 (20.00%) Replication
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Migration
3 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
3 6 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 6 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (33.33%) Scrum
5 4 (26.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (26.67%) Kanban
6 3 (20.00%) Database Migration
6 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Software Licensing
6 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) Groovy
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (6.67%) Java
6 1 (6.67%) Perl
6 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) OCP
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Grafana
3 3 (20.00%) Kibana
3 3 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) IBM
2 2 (13.33%) Imperva
2 2 (13.33%) Informatica
2 2 (13.33%) StreamSets
3 1 (6.67%) Confluent