AWS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 9 6
Rank change year-on-year -6 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing AWS 210 255 456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.01% 11.49% 15.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.86% 34.14% 44.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 189 340
10th Percentile £402 £400 £414
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £483 £493
Median % change year-on-year +2.28% -1.93% -6.19%
75th Percentile £563 £569 £575
90th Percentile £600 £651 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £43.00
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £76.00
90th Percentile - - £81.40
UK median hourly rate £75.60 £53.75 £73.00
% change year-on-year +40.65% -26.37% +32.73%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 639 747 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.59% 33.65% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 509 774
10th Percentile £297 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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 -6 98 £500 +0.50% 58
Edinburgh -1 89 £475 - 66
Lanarkshire +5 7 £525 +18.64% 8
Aberdeen - 3 £475 - 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 17 (8.10%) Confluence
2 6 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.95%) Apache
3 2 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.95%) Camunda
3 2 (0.95%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
4 1 (0.48%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.48%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.48%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.48%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.48%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 63 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 61 (29.05%) Serverless
3 60 (28.57%) Azure
4 50 (23.81%) AWS Lambda
5 24 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 21 (10.00%) OpenShift
7 16 (7.62%) Snowflake
8 15 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
8 15 (7.14%) GCP
9 14 (6.67%) GitHub
10 13 (6.19%) Amazon EKS
10 13 (6.19%) AWS CodePipeline
11 12 (5.71%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (5.71%) SaaS
12 11 (5.24%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (4.29%) Amazon Cognito
14 9 (4.29%) PaaS
14 9 (4.29%) Route 53
15 8 (3.81%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.29%) Firewall
2 7 (3.33%) SAN
3 6 (2.86%) NAS
4 5 (2.38%) Network Security
5 4 (1.90%) BGP
5 4 (1.90%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.90%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.90%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.90%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.90%) OSPF
5 4 (1.90%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.90%) VPN
5 4 (1.90%) WAN
5 4 (1.90%) Wireless
6 2 (0.95%) IPsec
7 1 (0.48%) DNS
7 1 (0.48%) FTP
7 1 (0.48%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.48%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.48%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.86%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.95%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 15 (7.14%) MySQL
5 14 (6.67%) Oracle Database
6 13 (6.19%) DynamoDB
7 12 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.71%) MongoDB
8 11 (5.24%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (5.24%) NoSQL
9 10 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (4.29%) Relational Database
11 7 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
11 7 (3.33%) MariaDB
11 7 (3.33%) Parquet
12 6 (2.86%) DB2
13 4 (1.90%) Big Data
13 4 (1.90%) GIS
13 4 (1.90%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (12.38%) Jenkins
2 23 (10.95%) Git
2 23 (10.95%) JIRA
3 19 (9.05%) Bitbucket
4 18 (8.57%) GitLab
5 6 (2.86%) Artifactory
6 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.90%) JUnit
7 3 (1.43%) webpack
8 2 (0.95%) Ant
8 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.48%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.48%) JMeter
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.48%) Postman
9 1 (0.48%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.48%) Selenium
9 1 (0.48%) Storybook
9 1 (0.48%) Toad
9 1 (0.48%) Visual Studio
General
1 61 (29.05%) Social Skills
2 47 (22.38%) Finance
3 44 (20.95%) Public Sector
4 26 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.57%) Banking
6 6 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.38%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.90%) Law
8 4 (1.90%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.43%) Retail Banking
10 2 (0.95%) Front Office
10 2 (0.95%) Games
10 2 (0.95%) Legal
10 2 (0.95%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.48%) Automotive
11 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 62 (29.52%) Developer
2 29 (13.81%) Architect
3 27 (12.86%) Data Engineer
4 21 (10.00%) Java Developer
5 19 (9.05%) Senior
6 17 (8.10%) AWS Engineer
7 15 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (6.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.71%) Lead
10 11 (5.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.76%) AWS Developer
12 9 (4.29%) Analyst
12 9 (4.29%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.81%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.81%) Software Engineer
14 7 (3.33%) Lead Developer
14 7 (3.33%) Python Engineer
14 7 (3.33%) Senior Developer
15 6 (2.86%) Cloud Developer
15 6 (2.86%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (21.90%) Spring
2 43 (20.48%) Spring Boot
3 32 (15.24%) AWS CDK
4 19 (9.05%) React
5 12 (5.71%) REST
5 12 (5.71%) RESTful
6 11 (5.24%) JSON
7 9 (4.29%) Node.js
8 7 (3.33%) CSS
8 7 (3.33%) Kafka
9 6 (2.86%) HTML
9 6 (2.86%) PostGIS
9 6 (2.86%) PySpark
10 4 (1.90%) OAuth
10 4 (1.90%) OpenAPI
11 3 (1.43%) CSS3
11 3 (1.43%) HTML5
11 3 (1.43%) JSON Schema
11 3 (1.43%) Spring Batch
11 3 (1.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.86%) Cloud Native
2 12 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 11 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 5 (2.38%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.43%) Equity Derivative
8 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.43%) Oracle Licensing
8 3 (1.43%) Replication
9 2 (0.95%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.95%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.48%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.48%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.48%) NVMe
10 1 (0.48%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (15.71%) Linux
2 24 (11.43%) Windows
3 15 (7.14%) Unix
4 12 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.38%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (1.43%) AIX
8 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.95%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.48%) CentOS
9 1 (0.48%) Data ONTAP
9 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (39.05%) CI/CD
2 56 (26.67%) Agile
3 52 (24.76%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (21.90%) DevOps
5 35 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 31 (14.76%) Microservices
7 28 (13.33%) Containerisation
8 27 (12.86%) Computer Science
9 26 (12.38%) ETL
9 26 (12.38%) Migration
9 26 (12.38%) Test Automation
10 25 (11.90%) Scrum
11 20 (9.52%) TDD
12 19 (9.05%) Analytics
13 18 (8.57%) Event-Driven
13 18 (8.57%) Project Delivery
14 17 (8.10%) Continuous Delivery
14 17 (8.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (8.10%) Mentoring
14 17 (8.10%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 98 (46.67%) Python
2 63 (30.00%) Java
3 48 (22.86%) SQL
4 29 (13.81%) JavaScript
5 28 (13.33%) TypeScript
6 13 (6.19%) Bash
7 9 (4.29%) Shell Script
8 7 (3.33%) C#
9 4 (1.90%) Go
9 4 (1.90%) Groovy
10 3 (1.43%) Perl
10 3 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.95%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.48%) C++
12 1 (0.48%) CoffeeScript
12 1 (0.48%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (18.57%) AWS Certification
2 28 (13.33%) Degree
3 23 (10.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (8.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.76%) Azure Certification
6 8 (3.81%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (2.38%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.38%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.90%) CCNP
8 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.43%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.43%) PMP
10 2 (0.95%) CISSP
10 2 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.48%) CEH
11 1 (0.48%) GCIH
11 1 (0.48%) OCP
11 1 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.71%) Data Quality
2 11 (5.24%) Disclosure Scotland
3 8 (3.81%) Accessibility
4 7 (3.33%) QA
5 3 (1.43%) NIST
6 2 (0.95%) GDPR
6 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.95%) WCAG
7 1 (0.48%) GRC
7 1 (0.48%) NCSC
7 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.48%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (14.76%) Docker
2 3 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.43%) Hyper-V
2 3 (1.43%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) Firmware
4 1 (0.48%) GPFS
4 1 (0.48%) NFS
Systems Management
1 47 (22.38%) Terraform
2 41 (19.52%) Kubernetes
3 17 (8.10%) Ansible
4 12 (5.71%) Grafana
5 9 (4.29%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (2.86%) NetBackup
7 4 (1.90%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.90%) Puppet
7 4 (1.90%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.43%) Kibana
8 3 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.43%) SCCM
9 2 (0.95%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.48%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.48%) linkerd
10 1 (0.48%) Packer
10 1 (0.48%) Podman
10 1 (0.48%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.48%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 22 (10.48%) Oracle
2 8 (3.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.81%) VMware
3 7 (3.33%) IBM
3 7 (3.33%) Veritas
4 6 (2.86%) Google
4 6 (2.86%) Red Hat
5 5 (2.38%) Informatica
5 5 (2.38%) Sybase
6 4 (1.90%) Cisco
6 4 (1.90%) Palo Alto
7 3 (1.43%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.43%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.43%) Splunk
7 3 (1.43%) Teradata
8 2 (0.95%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.95%) F5
8 2 (0.95%) Imperva
8 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.95%) StreamSets