AWS Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 18 12
Rank change year-on-year +14 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 153 101 113
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 21.16% 12.36% 12.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.04% 32.06% 40.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 78 86
10th Percentile £313 £349 £384
25th Percentile £370 £381 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -10.00% -15.87%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £675
90th Percentile £588 £666 £732
Scotland median daily rate £470 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.05% -5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 - -
Median hourly rate £42.50 - -
75th Percentile £46.25 - -
90th Percentile £48.50 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £57.00 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Glasgow

AWS 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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 294 315 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.66% 38.56% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 222 203
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £382 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -4.23%
75th Percentile £575 £537 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £36.50 - -
25th Percentile £38.75 £25.25 -
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.50 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +60.38% +71.85% -55.94%
75th Percentile £46.25 £27.75 £34.59
90th Percentile £48.50 - £46.08
Scotland median hourly rate £42.50 £24.18 £17.00
% change year-on-year +75.77% +42.24% -28.70%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

AWS job vacancy trend in Glasgow

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Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing AWS

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Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Glasgow

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Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing AWS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing AWS

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in Glasgow

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 10 (6.54%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.58%) Apache
3 4 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 60 (39.22%) Azure
2 44 (28.76%) AWS CloudFormation
2 44 (28.76%) Serverless
3 35 (22.88%) AWS Lambda
4 25 (16.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 23 (15.03%) Amazon S3
5 23 (15.03%) Snowflake
6 22 (14.38%) Amazon EC2
7 21 (13.73%) GCP
8 18 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (9.15%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (8.50%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (7.84%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (5.23%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (4.58%) Amazon MSK
14 7 (4.58%) OpenShift
15 6 (3.92%) Amazon Kinesis
15 6 (3.92%) AWS KMS
15 6 (3.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.54%) Firewall
2 2 (1.31%) DSL
2 2 (1.31%) VPN
3 1 (0.65%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (0.65%) SAN
3 1 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.95%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
2 18 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (10.46%) DynamoDB
3 16 (10.46%) MySQL
3 16 (10.46%) Relational Database
4 13 (8.50%) NoSQL
5 12 (7.84%) Data Lake
6 11 (7.19%) MongoDB
7 9 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (3.92%) Delta Lake
9 4 (2.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.61%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (1.31%) Metadata
11 2 (1.31%) Oracle Database
11 2 (1.31%) Redis
11 2 (1.31%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (13.73%) GitLab
2 20 (13.07%) Git
2 20 (13.07%) Jenkins
3 14 (9.15%) Bitbucket
4 10 (6.54%) JIRA
5 9 (5.88%) MLflow
6 8 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (3.92%) JUnit
8 4 (2.61%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.31%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.31%) Mockito
9 2 (1.31%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.65%) Snyk
10 1 (0.65%) Vite
General
1 45 (29.41%) Finance
2 36 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 29 (18.95%) Public Sector
4 20 (13.07%) Banking
5 13 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.96%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.31%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (19.61%) Architect
2 24 (15.69%) AWS Engineer
3 21 (13.73%) Senior
4 20 (13.07%) Developer
5 15 (9.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (9.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 13 (8.50%) Data Engineer
8 12 (7.84%) Data Architect
9 10 (6.54%) Java Developer
9 10 (6.54%) Platform Engineer
9 10 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (5.88%) AWS Architect
10 9 (5.88%) Database Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Security Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Site Engineer
10 9 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (4.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.58%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (16.99%) React
2 23 (15.03%) Node.js
3 17 (11.11%) PySpark
4 13 (8.50%) Spring
4 13 (8.50%) Spring Boot
5 12 (7.84%) AngularJS
6 9 (5.88%) RESTful
7 7 (4.58%) Jest
7 7 (4.58%) Kafka
7 7 (4.58%) Redux
7 7 (4.58%) REST
8 6 (3.92%) AWS CDK
8 6 (3.92%) FastAPI
8 6 (3.92%) OAuth
9 5 (3.27%) Django
9 5 (3.27%) Flask
9 5 (3.27%) OAuth2
10 4 (2.61%) Express.js
10 4 (2.61%) scikit-learn
10 4 (2.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (19.61%) Cloud Native
2 18 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (8.50%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.58%) IVR
5 6 (3.92%) NHS
6 5 (3.27%) Algorithms
6 5 (3.27%) Clustering
7 4 (2.61%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.61%) Replication
8 3 (1.96%) Distributed Computing
8 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.96%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.31%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.31%) CMDB
9 2 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.31%) W3C
10 1 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.11%) Linux
2 10 (6.54%) Windows
3 8 (5.23%) Unix
4 3 (1.96%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (54.25%) CI/CD
2 58 (37.91%) DevOps
3 53 (34.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (24.84%) Agile
5 36 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 36 (23.53%) Microservices
6 34 (22.22%) Migration
7 29 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
8 24 (15.69%) Data Pipeline
9 23 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
9 23 (15.03%) Disaster Recovery
9 23 (15.03%) Observability
10 22 (14.38%) Analytics
11 21 (13.73%) AI
12 20 (13.07%) Data Engineering
12 20 (13.07%) Machine Learning
13 19 (12.42%) Performance Tuning
14 18 (11.76%) High Availability
15 17 (11.11%) SDLC
15 17 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 96 (62.75%) Python
2 39 (25.49%) Java
3 23 (15.03%) SQL
4 21 (13.73%) PowerShell
5 14 (9.15%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.84%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.88%) Bash
8 8 (5.23%) Perl
9 7 (4.58%) Ruby
10 2 (1.31%) PL/SQL
10 2 (1.31%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.31%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.65%) C++
11 1 (0.65%) Go
11 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.65%) PromQL
11 1 (0.65%) Scala
Qualifications
1 19 (12.42%) AWS Certification
2 15 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 8 (5.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 8 (5.23%) Degree
4 7 (4.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.27%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.31%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.31%) CISM
7 2 (1.31%) CISSP
7 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.31%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.31%) PMP
7 2 (1.31%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.65%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.65%) GIAC
8 1 (0.65%) NCDA
8 1 (0.65%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.65%) VCAP
8 1 (0.65%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (8.50%) QA
2 9 (5.88%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.58%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.58%) GDPR
5 6 (3.92%) PCI DSS
5 6 (3.92%) SLA
6 3 (1.96%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.96%) PMO
7 2 (1.31%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.31%) NIST
8 1 (0.65%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 33 (21.57%) Docker
2 4 (2.61%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 43 (28.10%) Terraform
2 42 (27.45%) Kubernetes
3 27 (17.65%) Ansible
4 8 (5.23%) Grafana
5 6 (3.92%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.96%) SCCM
7 2 (1.31%) Fluentd
7 2 (1.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.65%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.65%) vMotion
8 1 (0.65%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 16 (10.46%) Oracle
3 14 (9.15%) Databricks
3 14 (9.15%) Greenplum
4 9 (5.88%) Splunk
5 8 (5.23%) Salesforce
6 6 (3.92%) Cisco
6 6 (3.92%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.27%) Avaya
7 5 (3.27%) Genesys
8 4 (2.61%) Confluent
8 4 (2.61%) IBM
8 4 (2.61%) Informatica
8 4 (2.61%) Pega
8 4 (2.61%) Talend
9 3 (1.96%) Google
10 2 (1.31%) Ab Initio
10 2 (1.31%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.31%) Cribl.io
10 2 (1.31%) OpenAI