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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +3 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 262 223 247
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.64% 13.22% 11.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.72% 36.62% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 152 176
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £410 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +4.84% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £634
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 £75.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.67% +62.41% -34.03%

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 853 609 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.89% 36.10% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 410 483
10th Percentile £316 £313 £213
25th Percentile £402 £413 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £601 £629
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 10
10th Percentile - £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% -70.43%
75th Percentile £46.25 £25.06 £20.87
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £27.14
UK median hourly rate £37.12 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.98% +24.15% -36.71%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 £444 -11.30% 22
Edinburgh 0 115 £490 +3.21% 23
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 -
Dundee - 2 - - 1
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 18 (6.87%) Apache
2 15 (5.73%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.96%) Confluence
4 9 (3.44%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.53%) JBoss
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.76%) 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 (0.76%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (33.21%) Azure
2 74 (28.24%) GCP
3 52 (19.85%) Serverless
4 47 (17.94%) Amazon S3
5 42 (16.03%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (12.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 31 (11.83%) GitHub
8 25 (9.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (8.02%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (7.63%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (6.11%) Snowflake
12 14 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (5.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.44%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (3.05%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (2.67%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.82%) DNS
2 6 (2.29%) HTTP
3 5 (1.91%) Firewall
4 4 (1.53%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.53%) Network Security
4 4 (1.53%) SSH
4 4 (1.53%) SSL
5 3 (1.15%) DHCP
6 2 (0.76%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.76%) DSL
6 2 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.76%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.76%) NGFW
6 2 (0.76%) SAN
6 2 (0.76%) 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 27 (10.31%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.54%) MySQL
3 21 (8.02%) MongoDB
4 17 (6.49%) DynamoDB
5 13 (4.96%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (4.96%) Data Lake
6 12 (4.58%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.58%) Relational Database
7 10 (3.82%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (3.82%) MariaDB
8 8 (3.05%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (2.67%) Metadata
10 6 (2.29%) SQL Server
11 5 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.91%) Oracle Database
12 4 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.15%) Big Data
13 3 (1.15%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.76%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 34 (12.98%) Jenkins
2 30 (11.45%) Git
3 20 (7.63%) JIRA
4 13 (4.96%) GitLab
5 11 (4.20%) Cypress.io
6 10 (3.82%) Selenium
7 9 (3.44%) Bitbucket
8 7 (2.67%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.67%) Maven
8 7 (2.67%) Postman
8 7 (2.67%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.29%) Gradle
9 6 (2.29%) JUnit
10 5 (1.91%) Claude Code
10 5 (1.91%) GoCD
11 4 (1.53%) JProfiler
11 4 (1.53%) MLflow
11 4 (1.53%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (1.53%) Subversion
12 3 (1.15%) WebDriver
General
1 62 (23.66%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.90%) Finance
3 50 (19.08%) Public Sector
4 28 (10.69%) Banking
5 23 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.29%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.29%) Retail Banking
7 5 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.53%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.53%) Marketing
8 4 (1.53%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Law
10 2 (0.76%) Legal
10 2 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Front Office
11 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 52 (19.85%) Developer
2 43 (16.41%) Architect
3 29 (11.07%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (9.54%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (7.63%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.25%) Senior
7 17 (6.49%) Java Developer
8 16 (6.11%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.34%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.96%) Analyst
10 13 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.58%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.20%) Data Architect
13 10 (3.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 10 (3.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 9 (3.44%) AWS Architect
14 9 (3.44%) Lead
15 8 (3.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 8 (3.05%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (3.05%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.21%) React
2 28 (10.69%) Spring
3 27 (10.31%) REST
4 25 (9.54%) Spring Boot
5 22 (8.40%) AWS CDK
6 20 (7.63%) Node.js
7 19 (7.25%) RESTful
8 18 (6.87%) Kafka
9 15 (5.73%) FastAPI
10 14 (5.34%) OAuth
10 14 (5.34%) Redux
11 12 (4.58%) HTML
12 11 (4.20%) CSS
12 11 (4.20%) Jest
12 11 (4.20%) PyTorch
13 10 (3.82%) JWT
13 10 (3.82%) PySpark
14 9 (3.44%) AngularJS
14 9 (3.44%) OpenCV
14 9 (3.44%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.23%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.40%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.96%) Data Centre
3 13 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (4.96%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (3.05%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.67%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.67%) Linux Command Line
7 5 (1.91%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.91%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.53%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.53%) Replication
9 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.15%) Clustering
9 3 (1.15%) IVR
9 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.45%) Linux
2 17 (6.49%) Windows
3 12 (4.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.76%) Unix
6 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (38.55%) CI/CD
2 80 (30.53%) Agile
3 75 (28.63%) DevOps
4 58 (22.14%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (20.61%) AI
6 48 (18.32%) Microservices
7 43 (16.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (14.12%) Containerisation
9 35 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (12.98%) Migration
11 31 (11.83%) Machine Learning
12 29 (11.07%) Mentoring
12 29 (11.07%) Observability
13 28 (10.69%) Platform Engineering
14 27 (10.31%) TDD
15 26 (9.92%) ETL
15 26 (9.92%) Scrum
16 25 (9.54%) Analytics
16 25 (9.54%) Data Pipeline
16 25 (9.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 111 (42.37%) Python
2 59 (22.52%) Java
3 47 (17.94%) SQL
4 46 (17.56%) JavaScript
5 34 (12.98%) TypeScript
6 26 (9.92%) Bash
7 11 (4.20%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.20%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.91%) C#
9 2 (0.76%) Go
9 2 (0.76%) Groovy
9 2 (0.76%) Perl
9 2 (0.76%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.76%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.38%) C++
10 1 (0.38%) PHP
10 1 (0.38%) R
10 1 (0.38%) Ruby
10 1 (0.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (12.21%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.63%) SC Cleared
3 13 (4.96%) Degree
4 11 (4.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.82%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.53%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.53%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.15%) CISSP
9 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.76%) CBAP
9 2 (0.76%) CCSK
9 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.76%) CISM
9 2 (0.76%) NCDA
9 2 (0.76%) VCP6
9 2 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.49%) QA
2 15 (5.73%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.58%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (3.05%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.67%) SLA
6 3 (1.15%) GDPR
7 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.38%) GRC
8 1 (0.38%) NIST
8 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.38%) PSD2
8 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.38%) SEPA
8 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (12.98%) Docker
2 9 (3.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.53%) Ceph
4 4 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.53%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.15%) Squid
5 3 (1.15%) zsh
Systems Management
1 67 (25.57%) Kubernetes
2 46 (17.56%) Terraform
3 24 (9.16%) Ansible
4 16 (6.11%) Grafana
5 8 (3.05%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.29%) Istio
7 4 (1.53%) Argo
7 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.76%) linkerd
8 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.76%) vMotion
8 2 (0.76%) vRealize
9 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.38%) Netcool
9 1 (0.38%) Podman
9 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.38%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) yum
Vendors
1 26 (9.92%) Oracle
2 25 (9.54%) Google
3 18 (6.87%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.82%) VMware
5 8 (3.05%) Cisco
6 7 (2.67%) Databricks
6 7 (2.67%) Splunk
7 6 (2.29%) Informatica
7 6 (2.29%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.29%) Talend
8 5 (1.91%) MuleSoft
8 5 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.53%) Dell
9 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.15%) Confluent
10 3 (1.15%) EnterpriseDB
10 3 (1.15%) Greenplum
10 3 (1.15%) Okta
11 2 (0.76%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (0.76%) OpenAI