AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Contract Job Trends in Scotland

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS Certified SysOps Administrator qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.095% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.42% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £400 £688 £450
% change year-on-year -41.82% +52.78% -18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator 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 478 390 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 22.63% 24.19% 24.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 240 302
10th Percentile £303 £175 £179
25th Percentile £358 £310 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -0.55%
75th Percentile £580 £525 £588
90th Percentile £769 £588 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 32 46
10th Percentile £16.09 £16.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.83 £17.80 £15.35
Median hourly rate £53.75 £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +155.95% +7.69% -10.01%
75th Percentile £64.00 £25.15 £40.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.08 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £29.25 £40.33
% change year-on-year +70.94% -27.46% -26.85%

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS Certified SysOps Administrator

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
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 Certified SysOps Administrator within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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 - 2 - -
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
UK

AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodeBuild
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudTrail
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeCommit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) API Management
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Control
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle