AWS Platform Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services
UK > Scotland

The median Platform Engineer - Amazon Web Services daily rate in Scotland is £548, 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 113 122 -
Rank change year-on-year +9 - -
Contract jobs requiring an AWS Platform Engineer 3 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.32% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 0
10th Percentile £522 £440 -
25th Percentile £528 £447 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £453 -
Median % change year-on-year +20.86% - -
75th Percentile £558 £457 -
90th Percentile £559 £474 -
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +2.33% -10.42% +4.35%

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 Platform Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Platform Engineer in Scotland

AWS Platform Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Platform Engineer in Scotland

AWS Platform 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 Platform 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 +7 3 £548 +14.06% 1
AWS Platform Engineer
UK

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

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

1 3 (100.00%) Python
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Route 53
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CDK
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Kibana
2 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins

AWS Platform 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 3 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Fargate
1 3 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 3 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 3 (100.00%) Route 53
1 3 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (33.33%) InfluxDB
2 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Human-Centred Design
3 1 (33.33%) Inclusive Design
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Groovy
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Grafana
2 2 (66.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Imperva