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 citing AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 30 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 13 | 7 | 12 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -6 | +5 | -6 |
| Contract jobs citing AWS | 280 | 262 | 197 |
| As % of all contract jobs in Scotland | 11.86% | 16.21% | 10.93% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 35.62% | 44.63% | 35.24% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 156 | 180 | 128 |
| 10th Percentile | £350 | £400 | £354 |
| 25th Percentile | £402 | £425 | £419 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £450 | £500 | £469 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -10.00% | +6.61% | -4.77% |
| 75th Percentile | £535 | £575 | £521 |
| 90th Percentile | £644 | £638 | £600 |
| UK median daily rate | £550 | £525 | £555 |
| % change year-on-year | +4.76% | -5.36% | -0.94% |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10th Percentile | - | - | - |
| 25th Percentile | - | - | £18.50 |
| Median hourly rate | - | - | £19.00 |
| 75th Percentile | - | - | £19.50 |
| 90th Percentile | - | - | - |
| UK median hourly rate | £70.00 | £75.00 | £46.18 |
| % change year-on-year | -6.67% | +62.41% | -23.03% |
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 citing cloud computing skills in Scotland.
| 6 months to 30 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills | 786 | 587 | 559 |
| As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland | 33.29% | 36.32% | 31.02% |
| Number of daily rates quoted | 470 | 380 | 348 |
| 10th Percentile | £265 | £325 | £200 |
| 25th Percentile | £400 | £420 | £375 |
| Median daily rate (50th Percentile) | £450 | £500 | £450 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -10.00% | +11.11% | -5.26% |
| 75th Percentile | £538 | £570 | £521 |
| 90th Percentile | £625 | £625 | £588 |
| UK median daily rate | £525 | £500 | £525 |
| % change year-on-year | +5.00% | -4.76% | - |
| Number of hourly rates quoted | 9 | 2 | 9 |
| 10th Percentile | - | £19.58 | £17.19 |
| 25th Percentile | - | £26.32 | £18.50 |
| Median hourly rate | £15.81 | £37.55 | £22.00 |
| Median % change year-on-year | -57.89% | +70.66% | +24.15% |
| 75th Percentile | £18.75 | £48.77 | £24.18 |
| 90th Percentile | £26.50 | £55.51 | - |
| UK median hourly rate | £32.50 | £25.15 | £35.00 |
| % change year-on-year | +29.22% | -28.14% | +12.90% |
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 Daily Rate Trend in Scotland
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 30 October 2026.
AWS Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland
Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS.
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 October 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 |
Job Ads Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months |
Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year |
Live Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glasgow | +1 | 156 | £425 | -10.05% | 44 |
| Edinburgh | -3 | 103 | £463 | -7.96% | 13 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | - | 7 | - | - | |
| West Lothian | - | 5 | - | - | |
| South Lanarkshire | -3 | 3 | - | - | |
| Aberdeen | - | 2 | £450 | - | 1 |
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AWS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure | 39.3% | 110 |
| 2 | GCP | 36.8% | 103 |
| 3 | Serverless | 17.5% | 49 |
| 4 | AWS Lambda | 15.0% | 42 |
| 5 | Amazon S3 | 13.2% | 37 |
| 5 | GitHub | 13.2% | 37 |
| 7 | Amazon EKS | 10.0% | 28 |
| 8 | AWS CloudFormation | 9.6% | 27 |
| 9 | Amazon ECS | 9.3% | 26 |
| 10 | OpenShift | 6.1% | 17 |
| 10 | Snowflake | 6.1% | 17 |
| 12 | Amazon CloudWatch | 5.4% | 15 |
| 12 | Kong | 5.4% | 15 |
| 14 | Amazon MSK | 4.6% | 13 |
| 14 | Apigee | 4.6% | 13 |
| 14 | Azure DevOps | 4.6% | 13 |
| 14 | GitHub Actions | 4.6% | 13 |
| 18 | Virtual Private Cloud | 4.3% | 12 |
| 19 | Amazon SageMaker | 3.6% | 10 |
| 19 | Vertex AI | 3.6% | 10 |