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 27 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 210 205 249
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 12.73% 12.57% 10.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.86% 31.59% 33.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 157 180
10th Percentile £313 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £419 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -4.52% +1.74%
75th Percentile £560 £560 £600
90th Percentile £606 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £39.50 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £73.75 £57.50
% change year-on-year +1.69% +28.26% -12.21%

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 639 649 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.75% 39.79% 32.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 456 500
10th Percentile £310 £266 £298
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £531 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.58% -0.19% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £12.24 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.05 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -69.09%
75th Percentile £57.00 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +49.06% +26.19% -18.64%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 +11 139 £440 -5.88% 26
Edinburgh -6 61 £509 +7.11% 14
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 - 4
South Ayrshire - 1 £325 -
Dundee - 1 - -
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 (7.14%) Apache
2 11 (5.24%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.76%) Apache Spark
4 8 (3.81%) Confluence
5 2 (0.95%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.48%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.48%) CMS
6 1 (0.48%) JBoss
6 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 84 (40.00%) Azure
2 44 (20.95%) GCP
3 43 (20.48%) Serverless
4 40 (19.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 34 (16.19%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 27 (12.86%) Snowflake
8 26 (12.38%) Amazon EC2
9 25 (11.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (9.52%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (9.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (9.05%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (6.67%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (5.24%) GitHub
14 9 (4.29%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (3.81%) Amazon SageMaker
15 8 (3.81%) AWS KMS
15 8 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.81%) OpenShift
16 7 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.24%) Firewall
2 7 (3.33%) DNS
3 4 (1.90%) DHCP
4 3 (1.43%) HTTP
4 3 (1.43%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.43%) SSH
4 3 (1.43%) SSL
5 2 (0.95%) DSL
5 2 (0.95%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.95%) Network Security
5 2 (0.95%) SAN
5 2 (0.95%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.48%) Internet
6 1 (0.48%) LAN
6 1 (0.48%) Modbus
6 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) VPN
6 1 (0.48%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.48%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (16.19%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.95%) MySQL
3 18 (8.57%) DynamoDB
4 17 (8.10%) Relational Database
5 16 (7.62%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (7.14%) MongoDB
7 14 (6.67%) NoSQL
8 13 (6.19%) Data Lake
9 12 (5.71%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (3.81%) Metadata
11 6 (2.86%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.86%) MariaDB
11 6 (2.86%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.90%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.90%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.43%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (1.43%) Big Data
13 3 (1.43%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 30 (14.29%) GitLab
2 20 (9.52%) JIRA
3 19 (9.05%) Jenkins
4 18 (8.57%) Git
5 11 (5.24%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.29%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (3.81%) MLflow
8 5 (2.38%) JUnit
9 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.43%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.95%) Mockito
10 2 (0.95%) Postman
11 1 (0.48%) git-flow
11 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.48%) Selenium
11 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.48%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.48%) WebDriver
General
1 59 (28.10%) Finance
2 49 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 39 (18.57%) Public Sector
4 30 (14.29%) Banking
5 16 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.81%) Retail Banking
7 7 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.38%) Retail
9 4 (1.90%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.48%) Legal
12 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.48%) Marketing
12 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (17.62%) Architect
2 30 (14.29%) Senior
3 27 (12.86%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (10.95%) Developer
5 19 (9.05%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (7.62%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 14 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 13 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (5.24%) Data Architect
10 10 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (4.76%) Database Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Python Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.81%) Analyst
12 8 (3.81%) Lead
12 8 (3.81%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.86%) React
2 21 (10.00%) Node.js
3 18 (8.57%) Spring
4 17 (8.10%) Spring Boot
5 15 (7.14%) PySpark
5 15 (7.14%) REST
6 12 (5.71%) Kafka
6 12 (5.71%) RESTful
7 11 (5.24%) AWS CDK
8 10 (4.76%) Redux
9 9 (4.29%) AngularJS
9 9 (4.29%) FastAPI
9 9 (4.29%) Jest
10 8 (3.81%) OAuth
11 7 (3.33%) CSS
11 7 (3.33%) HTML
12 6 (2.86%) Express.js
12 6 (2.86%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.86%) JWT
12 6 (2.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (7.14%) Product Ownership
4 12 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 11 (5.24%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.81%) Clustering
6 8 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.33%) IVR
8 6 (2.86%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.86%) NHS
9 5 (2.38%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.38%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.38%) Replication
10 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.90%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.43%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.43%) CMDB
11 3 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.43%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (14.29%) Linux
2 15 (7.14%) Windows
3 7 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (3.33%) Unix
4 4 (1.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (43.81%) CI/CD
2 65 (30.95%) DevOps
3 63 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 60 (28.57%) Agile
5 49 (23.33%) Migration
6 41 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (19.05%) Microservices
8 37 (17.62%) AI
9 33 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 32 (15.24%) Containerisation
11 29 (13.81%) Analytics
11 29 (13.81%) Machine Learning
12 28 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
14 26 (12.38%) Data Engineering
15 25 (11.90%) Observability
16 21 (10.00%) ETL
16 21 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
16 21 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 109 (51.90%) Python
2 46 (21.90%) Java
3 40 (19.05%) SQL
4 27 (12.86%) PowerShell
5 21 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.52%) Bash
7 15 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.29%) Perl
9 7 (3.33%) Ruby
10 4 (1.90%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.95%) Korn
11 2 (0.95%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.48%) C++
12 1 (0.48%) Go
12 1 (0.48%) Groovy
12 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.48%) PHP
12 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 13 (6.19%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.76%) Degree
5 8 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.38%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.38%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.43%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.43%) PMP
9 3 (1.43%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.95%) CCNP
10 2 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.95%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.95%) NCDA
10 2 (0.95%) VCP6
10 2 (0.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.48%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.48%) Data Quality
1 22 (10.48%) QA
2 10 (4.76%) GDPR
3 9 (4.29%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.81%) PCI DSS
5 7 (3.33%) SLA
6 6 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.43%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.48%) COBIT
8 1 (0.48%) GRC
8 1 (0.48%) NIST
8 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (16.19%) Docker
2 5 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.90%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.43%) Ceph
4 3 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.43%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.95%) Firmware
5 2 (0.95%) Squid
Systems Management
1 49 (23.33%) Kubernetes
2 46 (21.90%) Terraform
3 34 (16.19%) Ansible
4 13 (6.19%) Grafana
5 6 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.43%) vRealize
7 2 (0.95%) Argo
7 2 (0.95%) Istio
7 2 (0.95%) Kibana
7 2 (0.95%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.95%) vMotion
8 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.48%) Karpenter
8 1 (0.48%) logstash
8 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.48%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.48%) SCCM
8 1 (0.48%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (11.90%) Oracle
2 17 (8.10%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.67%) Google
4 13 (6.19%) Databricks
5 12 (5.71%) Greenplum
6 9 (4.29%) Cisco
7 7 (3.33%) Informatica
7 7 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.33%) Talend
7 7 (3.33%) VMware
8 6 (2.86%) IBM
8 6 (2.86%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.38%) Avaya
9 5 (2.38%) Genesys
9 5 (2.38%) OpenAI
9 5 (2.38%) Splunk
10 4 (1.90%) Confluent
10 4 (1.90%) Pega
11 3 (1.43%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.95%) NetApp