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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 3 Aug 2025 |
Same period 2024 | Same period 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 111 | 80 | 131 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -31 | +51 | +14 |
| Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 | 13 | 35 | 27 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland | 0.75% | 1.85% | 1.03% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 2.15% | 5.28% | 2.85% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 5 | 19 | 19 |
| 10th Percentile | £485 | £410 | £463 |
| 25th Percentile | £500 | £425 | £498 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £525 | £475 | £515 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +10.53% | -7.77% | -1.90% |
| 75th Percentile | £538 | £514 | £541 |
| 90th Percentile | £551 | £534 | £583 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £538 | £600 |
| % change year-on-year | -2.42% | -10.33% | +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 | 605 | 663 | 947 |
| As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland | 34.81% | 34.97% | 36.09% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 401 | 438 | 681 |
| 10th Percentile | £315 | £200 | £254 |
| 25th Percentile | £420 | £363 | £400 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £475 | £450 | £475 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +5.56% | -5.26% | -3.06% |
| 75th Percentile | £538 | £538 | £541 |
| 90th Percentile | £600 | £613 | £603 |
| UK median daily rate | £500 | £525 | £540 |
| % change year-on-year | -4.76% | -2.78% | -1.82% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 2 | 14 | 9 |
| 10th Percentile | £16.21 | £15.52 | £16.81 |
| 25th Percentile | £17.90 | £16.50 | £27.50 |
| Median hourly rate | £21.22 | £18.69 | £57.50 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +13.55% | -67.50% | +72.93% |
| 75th Percentile | £25.06 | £23.89 | £63.00 |
| 90th Percentile | £27.05 | £24.18 | £65.60 |
| UK median hourly rate | £27.40 | £23.80 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +15.13% | -32.00% | +59.09% |
Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland
Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.
Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing 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 3 August 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 | -5 | 12 | £525 | +16.67% | 7 |
| Glasgow | -21 | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Amazon EC2 UK |
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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:
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