Amazon EC2 Contracts in Edinburgh

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Amazon EC2 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Amazon EC2 over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 80 109
Rank change year-on-year +27 +29 -8
Contract jobs citing Amazon EC2 19 23 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.15% 1.94% 0.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.11% 4.80% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 15
10th Percentile £404 £463 £380
25th Percentile £416 £487 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% -2.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile £494 £613 £558
90th Percentile £506 £688 £575
Scotland median daily rate £463 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -8.78% -3.43% +5.53%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

Amazon EC2 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 311 479 640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 35.26% 40.39% 33.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 370 466
10th Percentile £213 £213 £363
25th Percentile £410 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.37% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £556 £525 £575
90th Percentile £663 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £15.94 - £17.50
25th Percentile £16.50 - £17.80
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.06% -22.96% -
75th Percentile £18.03 - £42.75
90th Percentile £20.81 - £48.75
Scotland median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £40.50
% change year-on-year -71.92% +49.51% -40.66%

Amazon EC2
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Amazon EC2 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Amazon EC2 in Edinburgh

Amazon EC2
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Amazon EC2 in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Amazon EC2 in Edinburgh

Amazon EC2
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 1 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 19 (100.00%) AWS
2 15 (78.95%) AWS CloudFormation
3 13 (68.42%) Serverless
4 12 (63.16%) OpenShift
5 11 (57.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 11 (57.89%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (52.63%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 3 (15.79%) AWS CodeBuild
7 3 (15.79%) AWS CodeCommit
7 3 (15.79%) AWS CodePipeline
8 2 (10.53%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (10.53%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) MongoDB
1 12 (63.16%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (57.89%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (36.84%) Informix
4 5 (26.32%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (21.05%) InfluxDB
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (10.53%) Relational Database
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (5.26%) Apache Hive
8 1 (5.26%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) GitLab
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) Artifactory
3 2 (10.53%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) Gradle
4 1 (5.26%) JUnit
General
1 9 (47.37%) Public Sector
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Database Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Data Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Data Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) AWS CDK
2 3 (15.79%) Spring
3 1 (5.26%) Guice
3 1 (5.26%) Java EE
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Node.js
3 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.26%) React
3 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Replication
2 3 (15.79%) Cloud Native
3 2 (10.53%) Algorithms
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (5.26%) Legacy Code
4 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 6 (31.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (21.05%) Ubuntu
4 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Agile
2 11 (57.89%) Scrum
3 9 (47.37%) Infrastructure as Code
3 9 (47.37%) Kanban
4 8 (42.11%) Migration
5 7 (36.84%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (36.84%) High Availability
6 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
7 4 (21.05%) Containerisation
7 4 (21.05%) DevOps
7 4 (21.05%) Roadmaps
8 3 (15.79%) Community of Practice
8 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (15.79%) Software Delivery
8 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
9 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
9 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
9 2 (10.53%) OO
9 2 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) TypeScript
2 10 (52.63%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Java
3 5 (26.32%) Python
4 4 (21.05%) Bash
4 4 (21.05%) Groovy
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) Ansible
1 14 (73.68%) Grafana
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 3 (15.79%) Kibana
4 2 (10.53%) Terraform
5 1 (5.26%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 3 (15.79%) Commvault
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.26%) Confluent
3 1 (5.26%) IBM
3 1 (5.26%) Informatica
3 1 (5.26%) StreamSets