AWS Developer Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Developer daily rate in Scotland is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 118 130
Rank change year-on-year +12 +12 +38
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Developer 10 11 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.62% 0.50% 1.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.52% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 29
10th Percentile £468 £275 £413
25th Percentile £503 £341 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £415 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -7.78% -16.28%
75th Percentile £532 £459 £475
90th Percentile £538 £503 £501
UK median daily rate £575 £571 £525
% change year-on-year +0.66% +8.81% -12.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,529 2,099 2,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.09% 94.68% 95.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,281 1,953
10th Percentile £263 £205 £238
25th Percentile £370 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £553
90th Percentile £610 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 114 44
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.50 £12.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £16.91
Median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
Median % change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.41
90th Percentile £42.58 £66.00 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

AWS Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured AWS Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Developer in Scotland

AWS Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Developer in Scotland

AWS Developer
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 AWS Developer 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 +3 4 £513 +32.26% 3
Lanarkshire - 3 £525 -
AWS Developer
UK

AWS Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring AWS Developer in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (80.00%) Serverless
4 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
4 7 (70.00%) Amazon S3
5 6 (60.00%) Python
5 6 (60.00%) AWS CDK
6 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
6 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (50.00%) DynamoDB
7 4 (40.00%) DevOps
7 4 (40.00%) Agile
7 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (40.00%) Scrum
7 4 (40.00%) JSON
7 4 (40.00%) Kanban
8 3 (30.00%) Release Management
8 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (30.00%) SaaS
8 3 (30.00%) PaaS
8 3 (30.00%) Bash
8 3 (30.00%) Java
8 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (30.00%) SQL
8 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
8 3 (30.00%) React
8 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management

AWS Developer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (90.00%) AWS Lambda
3 8 (80.00%) Serverless
4 7 (70.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (30.00%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (30.00%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (30.00%) GitHub
5 3 (30.00%) PaaS
5 3 (30.00%) SaaS
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 2 (20.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
6 2 (20.00%) OpenShift
6 2 (20.00%) Route 53
7 1 (10.00%) Azure
7 1 (10.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (30.00%) Parquet
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Ant
2 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) webpack
General
1 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (40.00%) JSON
3 3 (30.00%) React
4 2 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 2 (20.00%) Node.js
4 2 (20.00%) Spring
5 1 (10.00%) JSON Schema
5 1 (10.00%) Next.js
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth
5 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
5 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (10.00%) Swagger
5 1 (10.00%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Kanban
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
4 3 (30.00%) Cost Optimisation
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (30.00%) Event-Driven
4 3 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Release Management
4 3 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Human-Centred Design
5 2 (20.00%) Inclusive Design
5 2 (20.00%) Microservices
5 2 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
5 2 (20.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Imperva