AWS Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £506, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 93 144
Rank change year-on-year -4 +51 -1
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 19 25 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.15% 1.21% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.22% 1.28% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 19 12
10th Percentile £410 £439 £451
25th Percentile £467 £452 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.05% -12.38% -
75th Percentile £529 £527 £673
90th Percentile £575 £555 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -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 1,554 1,960 2,557
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.01% 94.64% 94.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 872 1,200 1,759
10th Percentile £232 £200 £250
25th Percentile £358 £348 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 126 54
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.30 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.34 £18.72
Median % change year-on-year +3.28% +3.31% -50.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £56.88 £52.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £66.00 £64.40
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -1 11 £500 -1.96% 6
Glasgow -20 5 £550 +21.41% 10
Lanarkshire - 3 £525 -
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 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 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
3 10 (52.63%) Serverless
4 9 (47.37%) Terraform
4 9 (47.37%) Amazon S3
4 9 (47.37%) Python
4 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
5 8 (42.11%) DevOps
6 7 (36.84%) Docker
6 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
6 7 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
6 7 (36.84%) Finance
6 7 (36.84%) Agile
7 6 (31.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
7 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (31.58%) AWS CDK
8 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
8 5 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
8 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
8 5 (26.32%) JSON
9 4 (21.05%) Java
9 4 (21.05%) GitHub
9 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
9 4 (21.05%) DynamoDB
9 4 (21.05%) OAuth
9 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
9 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration

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 (10.53%) Confluence
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 10 (52.63%) Serverless
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon S3
4 7 (36.84%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (31.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (26.32%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (21.05%) GitHub
8 3 (15.79%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (15.79%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (10.53%) Azure
9 2 (10.53%) CloudFront
9 2 (10.53%) OpenShift
9 2 (10.53%) PaaS
9 2 (10.53%) Route 53
10 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (5.26%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (5.26%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (15.79%) Parquet
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
3 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) GitLab
3 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.53%) Gradle
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 2 (10.53%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) Ant
4 1 (5.26%) webpack
General
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
4 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (31.58%) AWS CDK
2 5 (26.32%) JSON
3 4 (21.05%) OAuth
4 2 (10.53%) JSON Schema
4 2 (10.53%) Node.js
4 2 (10.53%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) .NET
5 1 (5.26%) FHIR
5 1 (5.26%) PySpark
5 1 (5.26%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) CI/CD
1 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (42.11%) DevOps
3 7 (36.84%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 5 (26.32%) Identity Access Management
5 5 (26.32%) Software Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (21.05%) SDLC
6 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 3 (15.79%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (15.79%) Event-Driven
7 3 (15.79%) Fintech
7 3 (15.79%) Impact Assessments
7 3 (15.79%) Release Management
7 3 (15.79%) TDD
8 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (10.53%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) Python
2 4 (21.05%) Java
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Go
4 2 (10.53%) Groovy
4 2 (10.53%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.26%) DICOM
1 1 (5.26%) HL7
1 1 (5.26%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 7 (36.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Terraform
2 7 (36.84%) Kubernetes
3 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (5.26%) Podman
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) ForgeRock
2 2 (10.53%) AppDynamics
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle