AWS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 254 455 358
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 11.51% 15.94% 10.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.23% 44.30% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 340 265
10th Percentile £400 £414 £413
25th Percentile £432 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -6.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £571 £574 £600
90th Percentile £652 £675 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £580
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.86% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - £43.00 £42.65
25th Percentile - £55.00 £44.01
Median hourly rate - £57.50 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year - +20.71% -
75th Percentile - £76.00 £49.89
90th Percentile - £81.40 £50.42
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £73.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% +32.73% +32.53%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 742 1,027 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.62% 35.98% 30.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 771 784
10th Percentile £256 £250 £290
25th Percentile £400 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £661 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Glasgow 0 123 £498 -15.68% 37
Edinburgh -1 101 £475 -3.06% 67
Renfrewshire +1 3 £563 +4.43%
Perthshire +11 2 £700 +3.70%
Lanarkshire 0 2 £443 -7.33% 9
Fife - 1 - - 1
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 1
Midlothian - 1 - - 13
South Lanarkshire - 1 £700 - 1
AWS
UK

AWS
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 18 (7.09%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.54%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.57%) SAS
4 3 (1.18%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (1.18%) GeoServer
5 2 (0.79%) Confluence
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 70 (27.56%) Serverless
2 64 (25.20%) Amazon S3
2 64 (25.20%) AWS Lambda
3 61 (24.02%) Azure
4 60 (23.62%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (17.72%) OpenShift
6 19 (7.48%) Amazon EC2
7 18 (7.09%) GCP
8 17 (6.69%) AWS CodePipeline
9 14 (5.51%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (5.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 12 (4.72%) Snowflake
12 11 (4.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 10 (3.94%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 10 (3.94%) Amazon SageMaker
14 9 (3.54%) AWS CodeBuild
14 9 (3.54%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
16 7 (2.76%) Amazon ECS
16 7 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.33%) Firewall
2 5 (1.97%) DNS
2 5 (1.97%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (1.97%) iSCSI
3 4 (1.57%) DHCP
3 4 (1.57%) SAN
4 3 (1.18%) Network Security
4 3 (1.18%) SSL
4 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.79%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.79%) VSAN
5 2 (0.79%) WAN
6 1 (0.39%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.39%) HTTP
6 1 (0.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.39%) LAN
6 1 (0.39%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.39%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (23.23%) PostgreSQL
2 37 (14.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 24 (9.45%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (9.06%) Oracle Database
5 18 (7.09%) MongoDB
6 14 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
7 7 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.76%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.36%) InfluxDB
8 6 (2.36%) Informix
8 6 (2.36%) MySQL
9 5 (1.97%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.97%) Big Data
9 5 (1.97%) DB2
9 5 (1.97%) GIS
9 5 (1.97%) MariaDB
10 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.18%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
12 2 (0.79%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 33 (12.99%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.27%) Git
3 16 (6.30%) GitLab
4 10 (3.94%) Cypress.io
5 8 (3.15%) Maven
6 7 (2.76%) Gradle
6 7 (2.76%) JIRA
7 6 (2.36%) Artifactory
8 4 (1.57%) Selenium
8 4 (1.57%) webpack
9 3 (1.18%) Burp Suite
9 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.18%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.79%) JUnit
10 2 (0.79%) Subversion
10 2 (0.79%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.39%) Gatling
11 1 (0.39%) JMeter
11 1 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (25.20%) Public Sector
2 42 (16.54%) Social Skills
3 30 (11.81%) Finance
4 18 (7.09%) Banking
5 15 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.15%) Back Office
7 8 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.36%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Automotive
10 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Games
10 1 (0.39%) Legal
10 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.39%) Publishing
10 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 93 (36.61%) Developer
2 38 (14.96%) Java Developer
3 26 (10.24%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (8.66%) Architect
5 21 (8.27%) Senior
6 20 (7.87%) Data Engineer
7 15 (5.91%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (5.91%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.91%) Lead
7 15 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.51%) Full Stack Developer
9 12 (4.72%) Analyst
9 12 (4.72%) AWS Developer
9 12 (4.72%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.72%) Software Developer
10 11 (4.33%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (3.94%) Senior Developer
11 10 (3.94%) Senior Java Developer
11 10 (3.94%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (25.20%) AWS CDK
2 55 (21.65%) Spring
3 50 (19.69%) REST
4 46 (18.11%) Spring Boot
5 45 (17.72%) CSS
6 42 (16.54%) React
7 41 (16.14%) HTML
8 22 (8.66%) Kafka
9 19 (7.48%) AngularJS
9 19 (7.48%) Node.js
9 19 (7.48%) RESTful
10 11 (4.33%) JPA
11 9 (3.54%) OAuth
11 9 (3.54%) Spring Security
12 8 (3.15%) SOAP
13 7 (2.76%) PostGIS
14 6 (2.36%) Elastic Stack
14 6 (2.36%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.36%) PySpark
14 6 (2.36%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.45%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.27%) Legacy Systems
3 20 (7.87%) Public Cloud
4 19 (7.48%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (3.94%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.15%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.15%) Replication
7 6 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.97%) Client/Server
8 5 (1.97%) PKI
9 4 (1.57%) NVMe
9 4 (1.57%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.57%) SCADA
9 4 (1.57%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.18%) Clustering
10 3 (1.18%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
11 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 45 (17.72%) Linux
2 25 (9.84%) Windows
3 21 (8.27%) Unix
4 19 (7.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (3.94%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.76%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.57%) Data ONTAP
8 3 (1.18%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (49.21%) Agile
2 87 (34.25%) CI/CD
3 71 (27.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 70 (27.56%) DevOps
5 67 (26.38%) Microservices
6 39 (15.35%) Scrum
7 37 (14.57%) SDLC
8 34 (13.39%) Roadmaps
8 34 (13.39%) Test Automation
9 30 (11.81%) Full Stack Development
10 29 (11.42%) Software Engineering
11 28 (11.02%) Kanban
12 27 (10.63%) Machine Learning
13 26 (10.24%) Migration
13 26 (10.24%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (9.84%) TDD
15 24 (9.45%) Artificial Intelligence
15 24 (9.45%) Human-Centred Design
16 23 (9.06%) Inclusive Design
17 22 (8.66%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 109 (42.91%) Java
2 98 (38.58%) Python
3 68 (26.77%) TypeScript
4 59 (23.23%) SQL
5 45 (17.72%) JavaScript
6 28 (11.02%) Bash
7 19 (7.48%) Shell Script
8 17 (6.69%) Scala
9 14 (5.51%) Groovy
10 10 (3.94%) Perl
11 9 (3.54%) PowerShell
12 8 (3.15%) Ruby
13 6 (2.36%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.39%) C
14 1 (0.39%) C#
14 1 (0.39%) Elixir
14 1 (0.39%) Go
14 1 (0.39%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 13 (5.12%) Security Cleared
2 8 (3.15%) Degree
3 6 (2.36%) Azure Certification
4 5 (1.97%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.97%) SC Cleared
5 4 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.18%) OSCP
7 1 (0.39%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) CCNP
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.99%) Accessibility
2 19 (7.48%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) NIST
4 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.79%) NCSC
6 1 (0.39%) GDPR
6 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.39%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.39%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 53 (20.87%) Docker
2 9 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) GPFS
3 4 (1.57%) NFS
3 4 (1.57%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.18%) vSphere
5 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.39%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.39%) HDFS
6 1 (0.39%) KVM
6 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (21.65%) Kubernetes
2 50 (19.69%) Terraform
3 37 (14.57%) Grafana
4 32 (12.60%) Ansible
5 9 (3.54%) Kibana
6 5 (1.97%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.97%) Zipkin
7 4 (1.57%) Packer
7 4 (1.57%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.18%) Puppet
8 3 (1.18%) SCCM
8 3 (1.18%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.79%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Clustering
9 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.79%) vRealize
10 1 (0.39%) Argo
10 1 (0.39%) Knative
Vendors
1 41 (16.14%) Oracle
2 21 (8.27%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.33%) Databricks
4 8 (3.15%) VMware
5 7 (2.76%) Google
5 7 (2.76%) IBM
6 6 (2.36%) Splunk
6 6 (2.36%) Veritas
7 5 (1.97%) F5
8 4 (1.57%) Brocade
8 4 (1.57%) Commvault
8 4 (1.57%) EMC
8 4 (1.57%) NetApp
8 4 (1.57%) Sybase
9 3 (1.18%) HP
9 3 (1.18%) McAfee
9 3 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.79%) Cisco
10 2 (0.79%) Citrix
10 2 (0.79%) Sage