AWS Certification Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 124 158
Rank change year-on-year +45 +34 -11
Contract jobs citing AWS Certification 38 5 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.34% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.84% 0.83% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 3 2
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £513 £525 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -26.67% +30.43%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £775
90th Percentile £667 £595 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 321 606 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.75% 27.33% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 326 408
10th Percentile £200 £188 £163
25th Percentile £363 £346 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 14
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.95 £13.65
25th Percentile £19.73 £16.50 £15.99
Median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%
75th Percentile £28.07 £60.00 £57.90
90th Percentile £61.16 £64.70 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in Scotland

AWS Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for AWS Certification in Scotland

AWS Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS Certification in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS Certification in Scotland

AWS Certification
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 Certification 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
Glasgow +19 21 £550 - 3
Edinburgh - 10 £500 - 6
Lanarkshire - 6 £525 -
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
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 10 (26.32%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 38 (100.00%) AWS
2 23 (60.53%) Serverless
3 15 (39.47%) Amazon S3
4 13 (34.21%) Azure
5 12 (31.58%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (15.79%) Amazon Cognito
6 6 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (15.79%) AWS CloudTrail
6 6 (15.79%) GitHub
7 5 (13.16%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.26%) GCP
9 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (2.63%) CloudFront
9 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.63%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.42%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (18.42%) DynamoDB
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle Database
2 6 (15.79%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (15.79%) Parquet
3 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Bitbucket
1 10 (26.32%) JIRA
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Finance
3 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Banking
4 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.26%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (42.11%) Architect
2 12 (31.58%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Cloud Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Senior
5 5 (13.16%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) AWS Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Cloud Architect
6 3 (7.89%) DBA
6 3 (7.89%) Oracle DBA
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.26%) Python Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Infrastructure Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Security Architect
8 1 (2.63%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.42%) AWS CDK
2 6 (15.79%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) JMS
3 1 (2.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.79%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (7.89%) Oracle Licensing
3 3 (7.89%) Replication
4 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (52.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 19 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (44.74%) Computer Science
4 13 (34.21%) Event-Driven
5 12 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 10 (26.32%) Continuous Delivery
6 10 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (26.32%) Operational Stability
7 9 (23.68%) Architectural Patterns
7 9 (23.68%) Cost Optimisation
7 9 (23.68%) DevOps
7 9 (23.68%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (21.05%) CI/CD
8 8 (21.05%) Mathematics
9 6 (15.79%) Critical Thinking
9 6 (15.79%) Customer Requirements
9 6 (15.79%) Migration
10 5 (13.16%) Community of Practice
10 5 (13.16%) Data Security
11 4 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 25 (65.79%) Python
2 9 (23.68%) SQL
3 5 (13.16%) Java
4 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Go
5 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 10 (26.32%) Azure Certification
3 9 (23.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (23.68%) Degree
4 8 (21.05%) AWS Certified Developer
5 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (5.26%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) CISSP
7 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 8 (21.05%) Docker
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.63%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (28.95%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle RMAN
3 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.63%) Ansible
4 1 (2.63%) HAProxy
4 1 (2.63%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.63%) Dynatrace
3 1 (2.63%) ForgeRock
3 1 (2.63%) Google
3 1 (2.63%) Sybase
3 1 (2.63%) VMware