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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 282 256 209
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.65% 16.03% 11.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 33.85% 44.68% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 174 136
10th Percentile £357 £400 £366
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £538 £559 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% -1.75%
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 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -25.82%

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 833 573 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 34.42% 35.88% 31.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 366 367
10th Percentile £288 £338 £229
25th Percentile £402 £424 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £563 £533
90th Percentile £635 £625 £596
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 8
10th Percentile £15.63 £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile - £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% +19.31%
75th Percentile £18.75 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile £22.63 £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 15 October 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
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 15 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +3 149 £425 -10.53% 28
Edinburgh -2 111 £475 -5.00% 10
Dumfries and Galloway - 7 - -
West Lothian - 5 - - 1
South Lanarkshire -4 3 - -
Aberdeen - 3 £475 - 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 18 (6.38%) Apache
2 13 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (4.26%) Confluence
4 9 (3.19%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.42%) JBoss
6 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.35%) CMS
7 1 (0.35%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.35%) IIS
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
7 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.35%) SAS
7 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.35%) Traefik
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.35%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 105 (37.23%) Azure
2 100 (35.46%) GCP
3 51 (18.09%) Serverless
4 44 (15.60%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (13.83%) Amazon S3
6 32 (11.35%) GitHub
7 26 (9.22%) Amazon EKS
8 24 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 23 (8.16%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (6.74%) Snowflake
11 16 (5.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.67%) OpenShift
12 15 (5.32%) Kong
13 13 (4.61%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (4.61%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.61%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (3.90%) Apigee
15 10 (3.55%) Amazon SageMaker
15 10 (3.55%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.61%) DNS
2 11 (3.90%) Firewall
3 7 (2.48%) HTTP
4 6 (2.13%) SSL
5 5 (1.77%) Broadband
5 5 (1.77%) iSCSI
5 5 (1.77%) Network Security
6 4 (1.42%) SAN
7 3 (1.06%) Fibre Channel
7 3 (1.06%) HTTPS
7 3 (1.06%) LAN
7 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
7 3 (1.06%) SSH
7 3 (1.06%) VPN
7 3 (1.06%) WAN
8 2 (0.71%) BIG-IP
8 2 (0.71%) NAS
8 2 (0.71%) NGFW
8 2 (0.71%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (0.71%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (11.70%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.32%) MongoDB
3 12 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 12 (4.26%) Data Lake
4 11 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (3.90%) MySQL
5 10 (3.55%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.48%) Metadata
8 6 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 6 (2.13%) MariaDB
8 6 (2.13%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.13%) Power BI
9 5 (1.77%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.06%) Flink
11 3 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (17.38%) Git
2 42 (14.89%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.09%) JIRA
4 18 (6.38%) GitLab
5 14 (4.96%) Maven
6 13 (4.61%) Cypress.io
6 13 (4.61%) Gradle
7 11 (3.90%) Claude Code
7 11 (3.90%) JUnit
8 10 (3.55%) Bitbucket
9 9 (3.19%) Selenium
10 8 (2.84%) GoCD
11 7 (2.48%) JProfiler
11 7 (2.48%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.13%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.13%) Postman
13 4 (1.42%) Appium
13 4 (1.42%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.42%) Subversion
14 3 (1.06%) webpack
General
1 80 (28.37%) Finance
2 65 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 53 (18.79%) Public Sector
4 48 (17.02%) Banking
5 25 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (3.90%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.48%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.42%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.42%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.42%) Legal
9 4 (1.42%) Retail
10 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.06%) Marketing
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Military
12 1 (0.35%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (25.18%) Developer
2 43 (15.25%) Architect
3 22 (7.80%) Java Developer
4 21 (7.45%) Senior
5 19 (6.74%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (6.74%) Lead
5 19 (6.74%) Solutions Architect
6 18 (6.38%) Data Engineer
7 17 (6.03%) Analyst
7 17 (6.03%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (4.96%) AWS Engineer
9 13 (4.61%) Full-Stack Developer
10 12 (4.26%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (3.55%) DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.19%) GCP Engineer
13 9 (3.19%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.84%) Lead Developer
15 7 (2.48%) AWS Architect
15 7 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (19.50%) Terraform
2 46 (16.31%) REST
3 40 (14.18%) Spring
4 38 (13.48%) Spring Boot
5 37 (13.12%) React
6 30 (10.64%) Kafka
7 25 (8.87%) RESTful
8 23 (8.16%) Node.js
9 17 (6.03%) OAuth
10 15 (5.32%) AngularJS
10 15 (5.32%) OAuth2
11 12 (4.26%) AWS CDK
12 11 (3.90%) FastAPI
12 11 (3.90%) OpenID
12 11 (3.90%) Swagger
13 10 (3.55%) OpenAPI
14 9 (3.19%) HTML
14 9 (3.19%) JSON
14 9 (3.19%) JWT
14 9 (3.19%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 72 (25.53%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (4.96%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.61%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.90%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.90%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (3.55%) AI Agents
6 10 (3.55%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.19%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.19%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.13%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.13%) Replication
9 5 (1.77%) Enterprise Storage
10 4 (1.42%) IVR
10 4 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.42%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.42%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.93%) Linux
2 12 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (4.26%) Windows
3 4 (1.42%) Unix
4 3 (1.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (45.04%) CI/CD
2 86 (30.50%) Agile
3 83 (29.43%) DevOps
4 75 (26.60%) AI
5 67 (23.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 54 (19.15%) Microservices
7 52 (18.44%) Containerisation
8 39 (13.83%) Event-Driven
8 39 (13.83%) Observability
9 38 (13.48%) Software Engineering
10 37 (13.12%) Migration
11 33 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (11.70%) Platform Engineering
12 32 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
12 32 (11.35%) Scrum
12 32 (11.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 32 (11.35%) Test Automation
13 31 (10.99%) Machine Learning
14 30 (10.64%) LLM
15 27 (9.57%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 106 (37.59%) Python
2 64 (22.70%) Java
3 55 (19.50%) SQL
4 39 (13.83%) TypeScript
5 37 (13.12%) JavaScript
6 23 (8.16%) Bash
7 22 (7.80%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.67%) Go
9 7 (2.48%) C#
9 7 (2.48%) Lua
10 5 (1.77%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.42%) Groovy
11 4 (1.42%) Ruby
12 3 (1.06%) Perl
12 3 (1.06%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.71%) Cypher
13 2 (0.71%) Dart
13 2 (0.71%) Scala
13 2 (0.71%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.71%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 35 (12.41%) Security Cleared
2 22 (7.80%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.90%) Degree
4 10 (3.55%) AWS Certification
4 10 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.42%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.71%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.71%) CBAP
8 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.71%) RHCE
8 2 (0.71%) RHCSA
8 2 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.35%) CISM
9 1 (0.35%) CISSP
9 1 (0.35%) LFCS
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.51%) Data Quality
2 14 (4.96%) Accessibility
3 12 (4.26%) Disclosure Scotland
4 10 (3.55%) QA
5 6 (2.13%) GDPR
6 2 (0.71%) HL7
6 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.35%) GRC
7 1 (0.35%) MiFID
7 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.35%) PSD2
7 1 (0.35%) SEPA
7 1 (0.35%) SLA
7 1 (0.35%) Solvency II
System Software
1 51 (18.09%) Docker
2 6 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.13%) zsh
3 5 (1.77%) NFS
4 4 (1.42%) GPFS
5 3 (1.06%) Ceph
5 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.71%) Squid
7 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 95 (33.69%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.22%) Ansible
3 9 (3.19%) Argo
4 8 (2.84%) Grafana
5 3 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.71%) Istio
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.71%) Netcool
7 1 (0.35%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.35%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) logstash
7 1 (0.35%) Podman
7 1 (0.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.35%) Puppet
7 1 (0.35%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 1 (0.35%) yum
Vendors
1 42 (14.89%) Google
2 22 (7.80%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.09%) Oracle
4 16 (5.67%) Splunk
5 14 (4.96%) Informatica
6 11 (3.90%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.84%) Databricks
7 8 (2.84%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.48%) Cisco
8 7 (2.48%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.48%) VMware
9 6 (2.13%) Dell
9 6 (2.13%) ForgeRock
9 6 (2.13%) IBM
9 6 (2.13%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.77%) Greenplum
10 5 (1.77%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.77%) Talend
11 4 (1.42%) Brocade
11 4 (1.42%) NetApp