AWS Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer 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 99 103 139
Rank change year-on-year +4 +36 0
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 17 26 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.05% 1.17% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.24% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 16
10th Percentile £409 £440 £444
25th Percentile £469 £453 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £516
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -6.98% -1.71%
75th Percentile £547 £527 £643
90th Percentile £569 £542 £674
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer 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 8 £526 +2.18% 3
Glasgow -7 5 £409 -9.71% 2
Lanarkshire - 3 £525 -
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, AWS Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) Python
2 13 (76.47%) Serverless
3 11 (64.71%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (58.82%) Amazon S3
4 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
5 7 (41.18%) AWS CDK
5 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
6 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
7 5 (29.41%) DevOps
7 5 (29.41%) AWS Certification
7 5 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
7 5 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
7 5 (29.41%) Route 53
7 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
7 5 (29.41%) Finance
7 5 (29.41%) JSON
8 4 (23.53%) Agile
8 4 (23.53%) Firewall
8 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
8 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (23.53%) Bash
8 4 (23.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
8 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (23.53%) Docker

AWS Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) AWS
2 13 (76.47%) Serverless
3 11 (64.71%) AWS Lambda
4 10 (58.82%) Amazon S3
5 5 (29.41%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (29.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (29.41%) OpenShift
5 5 (29.41%) Route 53
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (23.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 3 (17.65%) Amazon Cognito
7 3 (17.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (17.65%) AWS CloudTrail
7 3 (17.65%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (17.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
7 3 (17.65%) AWS CodePipeline
7 3 (17.65%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (17.65%) GitHub
7 3 (17.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (17.65%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (17.65%) Big Data
1 3 (17.65%) DynamoDB
1 3 (17.65%) Parquet
2 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) InfluxDB
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Artifactory
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Ant
4 1 (5.88%) Gradle
4 1 (5.88%) Maven
4 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) AWS CDK
2 5 (29.41%) JSON
3 2 (11.76%) JSON Schema
3 2 (11.76%) Node.js
3 2 (11.76%) OAuth
3 2 (11.76%) RESTful
4 1 (5.88%) PySpark
4 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (5.88%) React
4 1 (5.88%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (35.29%) Containerisation
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (17.65%) Cost Optimisation
6 3 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (17.65%) Event-Driven
6 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (17.65%) Impact Assessments
6 3 (17.65%) Kanban
6 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Release Management
6 3 (17.65%) Scrum
6 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Fintech
7 2 (11.76%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) Python
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
3 3 (17.65%) Groovy
3 3 (17.65%) SQL
4 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.88%) Go
5 1 (5.88%) Java
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 4 (23.53%) Terraform
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Grafana
4 2 (11.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) AppDynamics
2 1 (5.88%) Imperva
2 1 (5.88%) Informatica