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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 232 243 408
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.47% 11.71% 14.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.12% 33.70% 40.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 175 306
10th Percentile £400 £400 £415
25th Percentile £450 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £463 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -6.57% -3.41%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £620 £632 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £39.25
25th Percentile - - £45.63
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £67.38
90th Percentile - - £72.55
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £46.18 £72.50
% change year-on-year +59.70% -36.30% +16.94%

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 625 721 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.30% 34.73% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 485 741
10th Percentile £312 £208 £252
25th Percentile £413 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £541
90th Percentile £600 £626 £613
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 10
10th Percentile £16.21 £14.91 £17.26
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -63.24% +14.20%
75th Percentile £25.06 £20.87 £62.39
90th Percentile £27.05 £27.14 £64.30
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -37.14% +59.09%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Edinburgh +2 109 £475 - 181
Glasgow -9 104 £500 +10.38% 209
Lanarkshire +2 3 £525 +14.13% 26
Aberdeen - 3 £475 - 43
Perthshire +3 2 £625 -10.71%
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
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 19 (8.19%) Confluence
2 7 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.29%) Apache
3 3 (1.29%) JBoss
3 3 (1.29%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.29%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.29%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.86%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.86%) Camunda
4 2 (0.86%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.43%) nginx
5 1 (0.43%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.16%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 81 (34.91%) Azure
2 62 (26.72%) Amazon S3
3 54 (23.28%) Serverless
4 46 (19.83%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (15.52%) GitHub
6 26 (11.21%) AWS CloudFormation
7 25 (10.78%) GitHub Actions
8 24 (10.34%) GCP
9 16 (6.90%) Snowflake
10 15 (6.47%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (6.03%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (6.03%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (5.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 13 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
13 12 (5.17%) AWS CodePipeline
13 12 (5.17%) OpenShift
14 11 (4.74%) Amazon Cognito
14 11 (4.74%) SaaS
15 6 (2.59%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (2.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.31%) Firewall
2 7 (3.02%) SAN
3 6 (2.59%) NAS
4 5 (2.16%) Network Security
4 5 (2.16%) VPN
5 4 (1.72%) BGP
5 4 (1.72%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.72%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.72%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.72%) OSPF
5 4 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.72%) WAN
5 4 (1.72%) Wireless
6 2 (0.86%) DNS
6 2 (0.86%) IPsec
6 2 (0.86%) SMS
7 1 (0.43%) DHCP
7 1 (0.43%) SSL
7 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.34%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (8.62%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (7.33%) MongoDB
5 16 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (6.03%) Oracle Database
7 11 (4.74%) Relational Database
8 10 (4.31%) DynamoDB
8 10 (4.31%) MySQL
9 9 (3.88%) NoSQL
10 8 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
10 8 (3.45%) DB2
11 6 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.72%) GIS
12 4 (1.72%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.29%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (1.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 40 (17.24%) Jenkins
2 36 (15.52%) Git
3 34 (14.66%) JIRA
4 25 (10.78%) Bitbucket
5 17 (7.33%) Cypress.io
6 13 (5.60%) GitLab
7 11 (4.74%) IntelliJ
7 11 (4.74%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (4.31%) PyCharm
8 10 (4.31%) Storybook
8 10 (4.31%) Visual Studio
9 7 (3.02%) JUnit
10 4 (1.72%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.72%) Gradle
10 4 (1.72%) Maven
10 4 (1.72%) Terragrunt
11 3 (1.29%) Mockito
11 3 (1.29%) Newman
11 3 (1.29%) Selenium
12 2 (0.86%) Cucumber
General
1 80 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 64 (27.59%) Finance
3 44 (18.97%) Public Sector
4 32 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.76%) Banking
6 10 (4.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.72%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.72%) Law
8 3 (1.29%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.29%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.86%) Front Office
9 2 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.86%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.43%) Automotive
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 58 (25.00%) Developer
2 30 (12.93%) Architect
3 27 (11.64%) Senior
4 23 (9.91%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.62%) AWS Engineer
6 16 (6.90%) Data Engineer
6 16 (6.90%) Java Developer
7 15 (6.47%) Lead
8 14 (6.03%) Cloud Engineer
9 13 (5.60%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (5.17%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.31%) Analyst
11 10 (4.31%) Python Engineer
12 9 (3.88%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.88%) Software Developer
13 8 (3.45%) AWS Developer
13 8 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.45%) Python Developer
14 6 (2.59%) Java Engineer
14 6 (2.59%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.66%) Spring
2 29 (12.50%) AWS CDK
2 29 (12.50%) React
2 29 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 18 (7.76%) CSS
3 18 (7.76%) RESTful
4 12 (5.17%) Jest
4 12 (5.17%) Kafka
5 11 (4.74%) Node.js
6 10 (4.31%) REST
7 9 (3.88%) HTML
7 9 (3.88%) OAuth
7 9 (3.88%) Tailwind CSS
8 6 (2.59%) JSON
8 6 (2.59%) OpenID
8 6 (2.59%) SAML
9 5 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.16%) Next.js
10 4 (1.72%) GraphQL
10 4 (1.72%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.07%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.62%) Data Protection Act
3 17 (7.33%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.74%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.02%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.02%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.59%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.72%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.72%) Replication
9 3 (1.29%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.29%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.29%) Oracle Licensing
10 2 (0.86%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.86%) Renewable Energy
11 1 (0.43%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (18.97%) Linux
2 34 (14.66%) Windows
3 18 (7.76%) Unix
4 14 (6.03%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.16%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.43%) AIX
8 1 (0.43%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (40.95%) CI/CD
2 87 (37.50%) Agile
3 70 (30.17%) DevOps
4 59 (25.43%) Problem-Solving
5 53 (22.84%) Infrastructure as Code
6 39 (16.81%) SDLC
7 38 (16.38%) Microservices
8 35 (15.09%) Test Automation
9 29 (12.50%) Data Protection
10 27 (11.64%) Migration
11 26 (11.21%) Computer Science
12 25 (10.78%) Containerisation
12 25 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.78%) ETL
13 22 (9.48%) Scrum
14 20 (8.62%) Software Engineering
15 18 (7.76%) Continuous Delivery
15 18 (7.76%) Observability
15 18 (7.76%) Performance Tuning
16 16 (6.90%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 86 (37.07%) Python
2 75 (32.33%) Java
3 43 (18.53%) TypeScript
4 38 (16.38%) SQL
5 29 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 12 (5.17%) C#
7 8 (3.45%) Bash
7 8 (3.45%) Go
8 7 (3.02%) Perl
9 5 (2.16%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.29%) Groovy
11 3 (1.29%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.38%) AWS Certification
2 34 (14.66%) Degree
3 20 (8.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 19 (8.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.31%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.59%) CISSP
7 5 (2.16%) AWS Certified Developer
7 5 (2.16%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.16%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.72%) CCNP
8 4 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.29%) PMP
10 2 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.43%) CISA
11 1 (0.43%) CISM
11 1 (0.43%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.60%) QA
2 12 (5.17%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.31%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.88%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.29%) GRC
5 3 (1.29%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.86%) GDPR
6 2 (0.86%) NIST
6 2 (0.86%) WCAG
7 1 (0.43%) COBIT
7 1 (0.43%) DICOM
7 1 (0.43%) HL7
7 1 (0.43%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.43%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (12.07%) Docker
2 7 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.29%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.43%) GPFS
4 1 (0.43%) NFS
4 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 59 (25.43%) Terraform
2 51 (21.98%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.19%) Ansible
4 12 (5.17%) Grafana
5 9 (3.88%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.59%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.72%) Argo
8 4 (1.72%) Istio
8 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.86%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.86%) Podman
10 1 (0.43%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.43%) Puppet
10 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.43%) SCCM
10 1 (0.43%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 29 (12.50%) Oracle
2 10 (4.31%) Microsoft
3 9 (3.88%) IBM
4 8 (3.45%) Google
5 7 (3.02%) Veritas
6 6 (2.59%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.59%) Informatica
6 6 (2.59%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.59%) VMware
7 5 (2.16%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.16%) Splunk
7 5 (2.16%) Sybase
8 4 (1.72%) Cisco
8 4 (1.72%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.72%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.72%) StreamSets
9 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.29%) Teradata
10 2 (0.86%) Rapid7