AWS Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 260 237 245
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.80% 13.91% 11.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.06% 37.50% 33.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 161 176
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £496 £466
Median % change year-on-year -4.74% +6.44% -5.67%
75th Percentile £558 £546 £538
90th Percentile £650 £610 £632
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.80 - -
25th Percentile £49.50 - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -35.19%

All Cloud Computing 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 837 632 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.98% 37.09% 34.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 426 486
10th Percentile £313 £310 £209
25th Percentile £402 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £663 £599 £626
UK median daily rate £517 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.21 £14.91
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +24.82% -63.24%
75th Percentile £51.88 £25.06 £20.87
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £27.14
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.63 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.72% +25.59% -37.14%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS

AWS
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 9 July 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
Glasgow +5 135 £448 -10.40% 26
Edinburgh -3 113 £513 +7.89% 23
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 -
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen -3 1 £475 -
AWS
UK

AWS
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.77%) Apache
2 14 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (5.00%) Confluence
4 6 (2.31%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.54%) JBoss
6 2 (0.77%) nginx
6 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.46%) Azure
2 72 (27.69%) GCP
3 48 (18.46%) Serverless
4 43 (16.54%) Amazon S3
5 38 (14.62%) AWS Lambda
6 31 (11.92%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (11.54%) GitHub
8 25 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (5.77%) Snowflake
11 13 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
13 9 (3.46%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (2.69%) AWS CodePipeline
16 6 (2.31%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.85%) DNS
2 6 (2.31%) HTTP
3 5 (1.92%) Firewall
4 4 (1.54%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.54%) Network Security
4 4 (1.54%) SSH
4 4 (1.54%) SSL
5 3 (1.15%) DHCP
6 2 (0.77%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.77%) DSL
6 2 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.77%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.77%) NGFW
6 2 (0.77%) SAN
6 2 (0.77%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.38%) CTI
7 1 (0.38%) LAN
7 1 (0.38%) PSTN
7 1 (0.38%) RTP
7 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.00%) MySQL
1 26 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 17 (6.54%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.00%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.23%) Amazon Athena
6 11 (4.23%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.85%) MariaDB
8 9 (3.46%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.69%) Metadata
10 6 (2.31%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.31%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.92%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.15%) Big Data
12 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.77%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 32 (12.31%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.54%) Git
3 20 (7.69%) JIRA
4 12 (4.62%) GitLab
5 11 (4.23%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.85%) Selenium
7 8 (3.08%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.69%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.69%) Maven
8 7 (2.69%) Postman
8 7 (2.69%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.31%) Gradle
10 5 (1.92%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.92%) GoCD
10 5 (1.92%) JUnit
11 4 (1.54%) JProfiler
11 4 (1.54%) MLflow
11 4 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.54%) Subversion
12 3 (1.15%) SpecFlow
General
1 63 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.08%) Finance
3 52 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.38%) Banking
5 24 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.31%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.31%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.54%) Marketing
8 4 (1.54%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Law
10 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) International Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (19.23%) Developer
2 42 (16.15%) Architect
3 30 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
4 27 (10.38%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (8.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.92%) Senior
7 17 (6.54%) Java Developer
8 15 (5.77%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (5.00%) Analyst
11 12 (4.62%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (3.85%) Lead
14 9 (3.46%) AWS DevOps
14 9 (3.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Data Architect
15 8 (3.08%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (3.08%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.54%) React
2 26 (10.00%) Spring
3 25 (9.62%) REST
4 23 (8.85%) Spring Boot
5 21 (8.08%) AWS CDK
6 20 (7.69%) Node.js
7 18 (6.92%) RESTful
8 17 (6.54%) Kafka
9 15 (5.77%) FastAPI
10 14 (5.38%) Redux
11 13 (5.00%) OAuth
12 11 (4.23%) HTML
12 11 (4.23%) Jest
12 11 (4.23%) PyTorch
13 10 (3.85%) CSS
13 10 (3.85%) JWT
14 9 (3.46%) OpenCV
14 9 (3.46%) Pandas
15 8 (3.08%) AngularJS
15 8 (3.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 51 (19.62%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.85%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 13 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.08%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.69%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (2.31%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.92%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.92%) Clustering
9 4 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.54%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.54%) Replication
10 3 (1.15%) IVR
10 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.77%) Linux
2 17 (6.54%) Windows
3 11 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (38.85%) CI/CD
2 80 (30.77%) Agile
3 75 (28.85%) DevOps
4 58 (22.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 53 (20.38%) AI
6 47 (18.08%) Microservices
7 41 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (14.23%) Containerisation
9 36 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (13.08%) Migration
11 31 (11.92%) Machine Learning
12 29 (11.15%) Mentoring
13 27 (10.38%) TDD
14 26 (10.00%) Observability
14 26 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
14 26 (10.00%) Scrum
15 25 (9.62%) Technical Leadership
16 24 (9.23%) ETL
16 24 (9.23%) Test Automation
17 23 (8.85%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 108 (41.54%) Python
2 56 (21.54%) Java
3 45 (17.31%) JavaScript
4 42 (16.15%) SQL
5 33 (12.69%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.00%) Bash
7 12 (4.62%) PowerShell
8 10 (3.85%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.92%) C#
10 2 (0.77%) Go
10 2 (0.77%) Groovy
10 2 (0.77%) Perl
10 2 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
10 2 (0.77%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.38%) C++
11 1 (0.38%) PHP
11 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.38%) R
11 1 (0.38%) Ruby
11 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 13 (5.00%) Degree
4 11 (4.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.69%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.54%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.15%) CISSP
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.77%) CBAP
9 2 (0.77%) CCSK
9 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.77%) CISM
9 2 (0.77%) NCDA
9 2 (0.77%) VCP6
9 2 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.92%) QA
2 14 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (2.69%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.69%) SLA
5 5 (1.92%) GDPR
6 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.38%) GRC
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.38%) PSD2
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.38%) SEPA
7 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (12.69%) Docker
2 9 (3.46%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.54%) Ceph
4 4 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.15%) Squid
5 3 (1.15%) zsh
Systems Management
1 67 (25.77%) Kubernetes
2 46 (17.69%) Terraform
3 25 (9.62%) Ansible
4 14 (5.38%) Grafana
5 8 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.31%) Istio
7 4 (1.54%) Argo
7 4 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.77%) linkerd
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.77%) vMotion
8 2 (0.77%) vRealize
9 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.38%) Podman
9 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.38%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (10.00%) Oracle
2 24 (9.23%) Google
3 18 (6.92%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.46%) VMware
5 8 (3.08%) Cisco
6 6 (2.31%) Databricks
6 6 (2.31%) Informatica
6 6 (2.31%) Splunk
6 6 (2.31%) Talend
7 5 (1.92%) MuleSoft
7 5 (1.92%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.54%) Dell
8 4 (1.54%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.15%) Confluent
9 3 (1.15%) EnterpriseDB
9 3 (1.15%) Greenplum
9 3 (1.15%) Okta
10 2 (0.77%) F5
10 2 (0.77%) OpenAI