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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 10 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -9
Contract jobs citing AWS 239 222 250
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 15.63% 13.74% 10.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.50% 36.63% 35.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 165 187
10th Percentile £358 £356 £398
25th Percentile £412 £420 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £579
90th Percentile £606 £615 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £51.40 - -
25th Percentile £53.50 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £57.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% - -
75th Percentile £60.50 £19.50 -
90th Percentile £62.60 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £51.78
% change year-on-year +62.41% -10.81% -20.34%

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 605 606 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.57% 37.50% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 404 474
10th Percentile £313 £312 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £489
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.93% +2.89%
75th Percentile £598 £525 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 4
10th Percentile £12.03 £19.94 -
25th Percentile £13.20 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.00 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +108.33% +44.84% -6.49%
75th Percentile £60.00 £24.18 £18.70
90th Percentile £62.40 £27.88 £20.46
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.43
% change year-on-year +18.18% +17.40% -0.32%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +10 138 £450 +0.28% 35
Edinburgh -4 93 £525 +9.38% 33
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £325 - 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 12 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
1 12 (5.02%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.60%) Apache
3 8 (3.35%) Confluence
4 2 (0.84%) nginx
4 2 (0.84%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.42%) FileNet
5 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (43.51%) Azure
2 57 (23.85%) Serverless
3 45 (18.83%) AWS Lambda
4 44 (18.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (16.32%) GCP
6 37 (15.48%) Amazon S3
7 27 (11.30%) Snowflake
7 27 (11.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 22 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (8.79%) Amazon EC2
10 20 (8.37%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (7.95%) OpenShift
12 17 (7.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.60%) Amazon SageMaker
13 11 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
13 11 (4.60%) GitHub
14 8 (3.35%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (3.35%) PaaS
15 7 (2.93%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (2.93%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.37%) Firewall
2 3 (1.26%) HTTP
2 3 (1.26%) Network Security
2 3 (1.26%) SD-WAN
3 2 (0.84%) BGP
3 2 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (0.84%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (0.84%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (0.84%) DSL
3 2 (0.84%) EIGRP
3 2 (0.84%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (0.84%) Internet
3 2 (0.84%) SAN
3 2 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (0.84%) VPN
3 2 (0.84%) WAN
3 2 (0.84%) Wireless
4 1 (0.42%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (14.23%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (9.62%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.28%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.86%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.44%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (5.44%) Data Lake
5 13 (5.44%) MySQL
6 12 (5.02%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (4.18%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (3.77%) Elasticsearch
9 8 (3.35%) MongoDB
10 7 (2.93%) DynamoDB
11 6 (2.51%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.51%) Metadata
11 6 (2.51%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.67%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 30 (12.55%) Jenkins
2 28 (11.72%) GitLab
3 24 (10.04%) Git
3 24 (10.04%) JIRA
4 17 (7.11%) Bitbucket
5 11 (4.60%) MLflow
6 10 (4.18%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.77%) JUnit
8 8 (3.35%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (1.26%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.26%) IntelliJ
9 3 (1.26%) PyCharm
9 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.84%) ERwin
10 2 (0.84%) git-flow
10 2 (0.84%) Mockito
10 2 (0.84%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.84%) webpack
11 1 (0.42%) Liquibase
General
1 84 (35.15%) Finance
2 58 (24.27%) Social Skills
3 53 (22.18%) Public Sector
4 51 (21.34%) Banking
5 19 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.44%) Retail Banking
7 8 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.35%) Investment Banking
8 7 (2.93%) Retail
9 6 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.51%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.51%) Legal
10 4 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (15.90%) Developer
2 35 (14.64%) Architect
3 32 (13.39%) Senior
4 23 (9.62%) AWS Engineer
5 16 (6.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (6.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (5.86%) Data Engineer
6 14 (5.86%) Java Developer
6 14 (5.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 13 (5.44%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 13 (5.44%) Python Engineer
8 12 (5.02%) Data Architect
8 12 (5.02%) Security Engineer
9 11 (4.60%) Lead
9 11 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.18%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.18%) Site Engineer
11 9 (3.77%) Windows Engineer
12 8 (3.35%) Database Engineer
12 8 (3.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.55%) React
2 24 (10.04%) Node.js
3 22 (9.21%) Spring
4 20 (8.37%) Spring Boot
5 18 (7.53%) AWS CDK
6 17 (7.11%) PySpark
7 15 (6.28%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.86%) Pandas
8 14 (5.86%) PyTorch
9 13 (5.44%) NumPy
9 13 (5.44%) RESTful
10 12 (5.02%) REST
11 11 (4.60%) Hugging Face
12 10 (4.18%) SQLAlchemy
13 9 (3.77%) Jest
13 9 (3.77%) OAuth
13 9 (3.77%) OpenCV
14 8 (3.35%) FastAPI
14 8 (3.35%) Kafka
15 7 (2.93%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 32 (13.39%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.86%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (5.44%) Algorithms
5 11 (4.60%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.18%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.18%) Product Ownership
7 9 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.93%) IVR
8 7 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.93%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.93%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.51%) Clustering
9 6 (2.51%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (2.51%) NHS
10 5 (2.09%) Replication
11 4 (1.67%) PKI
12 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.26%) CMDB
12 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.81%) Linux
2 20 (8.37%) Windows
3 19 (7.95%) Unix
4 9 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (44.77%) CI/CD
2 92 (38.49%) Agile
3 81 (33.89%) DevOps
4 80 (33.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (23.43%) Migration
6 51 (21.34%) Containerisation
7 47 (19.67%) AI
8 44 (18.41%) Microservices
9 43 (17.99%) Problem-Solving
10 42 (17.57%) Machine Learning
11 32 (13.39%) Disaster Recovery
12 30 (12.55%) Analytics
12 30 (12.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.30%) Observability
13 27 (11.30%) Performance Tuning
14 25 (10.46%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (9.62%) Mentoring
16 22 (9.21%) Data Engineering
16 22 (9.21%) Data Protection
16 22 (9.21%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 121 (50.63%) Python
2 51 (21.34%) Java
3 35 (14.64%) SQL
4 29 (12.13%) PowerShell
5 21 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.69%) Bash
6 16 (6.69%) Perl
7 11 (4.60%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.35%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.93%) Ruby
10 3 (1.26%) C#
10 3 (1.26%) Go
10 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.26%) PromQL
11 2 (0.84%) Korn
11 2 (0.84%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.42%) Bicep
12 1 (0.42%) Groovy
12 1 (0.42%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (8.79%) AWS Certification
2 19 (7.95%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.44%) Degree
4 9 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (2.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.09%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.26%) CCNP
9 3 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.26%) PMP
9 3 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.84%) CISM
10 2 (0.84%) CISSP
10 2 (0.84%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.84%) NCDA
10 2 (0.84%) VCP6
10 2 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.37%) QA
2 18 (7.53%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.69%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.60%) GDPR
5 9 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.35%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (1.67%) COBIT
8 4 (1.67%) NIST
9 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.26%) PMO
10 2 (0.84%) NCSC
10 2 (0.84%) SLA
11 1 (0.42%) GRC
11 1 (0.42%) IFRS
11 1 (0.42%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.42%) PSD2
11 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (20.50%) Docker
2 4 (1.67%) KVM
2 4 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) Firmware
3 2 (0.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 65 (27.20%) Terraform
2 53 (22.18%) Kubernetes
3 48 (20.08%) Ansible
4 24 (10.04%) Grafana
5 11 (4.60%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.67%) Fluentd
6 4 (1.67%) Kibana
6 4 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.26%) logstash
7 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.26%) SCCM
7 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.26%) vRealize
8 2 (0.84%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.84%) Nagios
8 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.84%) vMotion
9 1 (0.42%) Argo
9 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 27 (11.30%) Oracle
2 21 (8.79%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.86%) Greenplum
4 13 (5.44%) Splunk
5 12 (5.02%) Cisco
5 12 (5.02%) Databricks
6 10 (4.18%) F5
7 9 (3.77%) Google
8 8 (3.35%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.93%) IBM
9 7 (2.93%) Informatica
9 7 (2.93%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.93%) Talend
10 6 (2.51%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.09%) Avaya
11 5 (2.09%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.09%) Commvault
11 5 (2.09%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.09%) Genesys
11 5 (2.09%) Pega