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 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 251 219 284
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.25% 13.54% 11.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.16% 35.61% 37.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 163 212
10th Percentile £343 £356 £400
25th Percentile £402 £419 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £575
90th Percentile £606 £620 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -5.98%
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 £49.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +52.28% -14.35% -11.54%

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 625 615 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.45% 38.01% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 379 406 507
10th Percentile £313 £253 £334
25th Percentile £409 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £525 £579
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 7 8 5
10th Percentile £12.42 £21.84 -
25th Percentile £24.10 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% +35.95% -
75th Percentile £62.00 £25.07 £21.64
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.94 £40.91
UK median hourly rate £35.61 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.47% +22.22% -9.09%

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 10 February 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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +11 149 £450 - 36
Edinburgh -2 93 £525 +6.76% 29
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 16 (6.37%) Apache
2 15 (5.98%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (5.58%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.79%) Confluence
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) FileNet
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (41.83%) Azure
2 62 (24.70%) Serverless
3 50 (19.92%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (19.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 41 (16.33%) GCP
6 40 (15.94%) Amazon S3
7 29 (11.55%) Snowflake
8 25 (9.96%) Amazon ECS
8 25 (9.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 24 (9.56%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (7.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (5.58%) OpenShift
13 12 (4.78%) Amazon SageMaker
13 12 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
13 12 (4.78%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (4.38%) GitHub
15 8 (3.19%) AWS KMS
15 8 (3.19%) PaaS
16 7 (2.79%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.17%) Firewall
2 5 (1.99%) HTTP
3 3 (1.20%) Network Security
3 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.80%) BGP
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (0.80%) DHCP
4 2 (0.80%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) DSL
4 2 (0.80%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.80%) SAN
4 2 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.80%) VPN
4 2 (0.80%) WAN
4 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.94%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (7.97%) MySQL
4 18 (7.17%) Relational Database
5 17 (6.77%) NoSQL
6 16 (6.37%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (5.98%) Data Lake
8 14 (5.58%) DynamoDB
9 13 (5.18%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
11 8 (3.19%) MongoDB
12 7 (2.79%) Elasticsearch
12 7 (2.79%) Metadata
13 6 (2.39%) Delta Lake
13 6 (2.39%) SQL Server
14 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.59%) Big Data
14 4 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
15 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 3 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (11.55%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.76%) GitLab
3 22 (8.76%) Git
4 20 (7.97%) JIRA
5 14 (5.58%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.18%) MLflow
7 9 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.19%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.79%) JUnit
10 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.80%) ERwin
11 2 (0.80%) git-flow
11 2 (0.80%) Mockito
11 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.40%) Maven
12 1 (0.40%) PyCharm
12 1 (0.40%) Snyk
12 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (33.47%) Finance
2 61 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 51 (20.32%) Public Sector
4 45 (17.93%) Banking
5 19 (7.57%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.38%) Retail Banking
7 7 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.39%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.39%) Retail
9 5 (1.99%) Legal
10 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (15.54%) Architect
2 33 (13.15%) Developer
2 33 (13.15%) Senior
3 26 (10.36%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (7.17%) Python Engineer
6 17 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 15 (5.98%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.58%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.18%) Data Architect
9 13 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.78%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.38%) Lead
11 11 (4.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) Windows Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) Database Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.75%) React
2 26 (10.36%) Node.js
3 21 (8.37%) Spring
4 19 (7.57%) AWS CDK
4 19 (7.57%) Spring Boot
5 18 (7.17%) PyTorch
6 17 (6.77%) Pandas
6 17 (6.77%) PySpark
7 16 (6.37%) NumPy
8 15 (5.98%) REST
9 14 (5.58%) AngularJS
9 14 (5.58%) FastAPI
10 13 (5.18%) Hugging Face
10 13 (5.18%) RESTful
10 13 (5.18%) SQLAlchemy
11 12 (4.78%) OAuth
11 12 (4.78%) OpenCV
12 10 (3.98%) JWT
12 10 (3.98%) Kafka
13 9 (3.59%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.74%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.98%) Algorithms
3 15 (5.98%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.78%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.38%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.79%) IVR
7 7 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.79%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.39%) Clustering
8 6 (2.39%) NHS
8 6 (2.39%) Replication
9 5 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.59%) PKI
11 3 (1.20%) CMDB
11 3 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.96%) Linux
2 17 (6.77%) Windows
3 12 (4.78%) Unix
4 5 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (42.63%) CI/CD
2 86 (34.26%) Agile
3 80 (31.87%) DevOps
4 76 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (23.11%) Migration
6 56 (22.31%) AI
7 50 (19.92%) Containerisation
8 49 (19.52%) Machine Learning
9 48 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (18.73%) Microservices
11 33 (13.15%) Analytics
11 33 (13.15%) Disaster Recovery
12 32 (12.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (10.76%) Mentoring
14 26 (10.36%) Performance Tuning
15 25 (9.96%) Data Engineering
15 25 (9.96%) Data Pipeline
15 25 (9.96%) Observability
16 24 (9.56%) Data Protection
16 24 (9.56%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 131 (52.19%) Python
2 49 (19.52%) Java
3 38 (15.14%) SQL
4 29 (11.55%) PowerShell
5 22 (8.76%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.37%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.78%) Bash
8 11 (4.38%) Perl
9 7 (2.79%) Ruby
10 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) Go
12 2 (0.80%) Korn
12 2 (0.80%) PromQL
12 2 (0.80%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (8.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.97%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.58%) Degree
4 10 (3.98%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 6 (2.39%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.20%) CCNP
9 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.20%) PMP
9 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.80%) CISM
10 2 (0.80%) CISSP
10 2 (0.80%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.80%) NCDA
10 2 (0.80%) VCP6
10 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.16%) QA
2 21 (8.37%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.98%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.38%) GDPR
5 9 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.19%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (3.19%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.99%) SLA
8 4 (1.59%) NIST
9 3 (1.20%) COBIT
9 3 (1.20%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.20%) PMO
10 2 (0.80%) NCSC
11 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.40%) COREP
11 1 (0.40%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) IFRS
11 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (17.13%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.80%) Firmware
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (22.71%) Terraform
2 54 (21.51%) Kubernetes
3 37 (14.74%) Ansible
4 21 (8.37%) Grafana
5 6 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.59%) Kibana
6 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.20%) logstash
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.20%) SCCM
7 3 (1.20%) vRealize
8 2 (0.80%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) vMotion
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (9.96%) Oracle
2 22 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.58%) Databricks
3 14 (5.58%) Greenplum
4 12 (4.78%) Cisco
4 12 (4.78%) Google
4 12 (4.78%) Splunk
5 8 (3.19%) F5
5 8 (3.19%) Informatica
5 8 (3.19%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.19%) Talend
6 7 (2.79%) IBM
6 7 (2.79%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.39%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.99%) Avaya
8 5 (1.99%) Genesys
9 4 (1.59%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.59%) Meraki
9 4 (1.59%) Pega
10 3 (1.20%) Cloudera