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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 12 5
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 258 198 310
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.03% 11.02% 13.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.25% 35.36% 39.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 129 231
10th Percentile £400 £355 £375
25th Percentile £425 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -5.25% -1.00%
75th Percentile £564 £523 £550
90th Percentile £638 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -4.72% +0.18% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year +62.41% -23.03% -5.88%

All Cloud 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 583 560 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.23% 31.18% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 349 541
10th Percentile £325 £200 £300
25th Percentile £420 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £565 £523 £550
90th Percentile £625 £588 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 3
10th Percentile £13.58 £17.19 £14.07
25th Percentile £14.15 £18.50 £15.44
Median hourly rate £15.09 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.41% +24.15% -
75th Percentile £37.55 £24.18 £25.11
90th Percentile £51.02 - £29.54
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% +9.38% +44.93%

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 31 October 2025.

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 31 October 2025. 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 +9 136 £473 +11.18% 24
Edinburgh +1 110 £501 +1.78% 50
Perthshire +3 2 £625 -10.71%
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
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 11 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
1 11 (4.26%) Confluence
1 11 (4.26%) WebLogic
2 8 (3.10%) Apache
3 4 (1.55%) Apache Spark
3 4 (1.55%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.78%) JBoss
4 2 (0.78%) nginx
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Coherence
4 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.39%) FileNet
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 106 (41.09%) Azure
2 53 (20.54%) Serverless
3 46 (17.83%) Amazon S3
4 45 (17.44%) GitHub
5 40 (15.50%) AWS Lambda
6 38 (14.73%) GCP
7 37 (14.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (12.02%) GitHub Actions
9 23 (8.91%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (6.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (6.98%) Amazon EC2
11 17 (6.59%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (6.59%) Snowflake
12 15 (5.81%) OpenShift
13 13 (5.04%) Amazon SQS
13 13 (5.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (4.65%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (3.88%) SaaS
16 6 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
16 6 (2.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.91%) Firewall
2 6 (2.33%) Network Security
2 6 (2.33%) VPN
3 3 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (1.16%) HTTP
4 2 (0.78%) BGP
4 2 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.78%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.78%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (0.78%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.78%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.78%) SMS
4 2 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.78%) WAN
4 2 (0.78%) Wireless
5 1 (0.39%) Internet
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) OSPF
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (9.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (6.98%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (6.98%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.04%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.04%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.65%) Amazon RDS
6 10 (3.88%) SQL Server
7 8 (3.10%) MySQL
7 8 (3.10%) Oracle Database
8 6 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.94%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.55%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.55%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.55%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.55%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.16%) MariaDB
11 3 (1.16%) MSDE
12 2 (0.78%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 49 (18.99%) Jenkins
2 40 (15.50%) Git
3 37 (14.34%) JIRA
4 26 (10.08%) Bitbucket
5 18 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 17 (6.59%) GitLab
7 14 (5.43%) IntelliJ
7 14 (5.43%) Visual Studio Code
8 13 (5.04%) PyCharm
8 13 (5.04%) Visual Studio
9 10 (3.88%) JUnit
10 9 (3.49%) CircleCI
11 7 (2.71%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (1.94%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.94%) MLflow
13 4 (1.55%) Liquibase
13 4 (1.55%) Maven
13 4 (1.55%) Mockito
13 4 (1.55%) Storybook
13 4 (1.55%) Terragrunt
General
1 83 (32.17%) Finance
2 72 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 49 (18.99%) Public Sector
4 41 (15.89%) Banking
5 21 (8.14%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.49%) Retail Banking
8 6 (2.33%) Legal
9 5 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.94%) Retail
10 2 (0.78%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.39%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.39%) Marketing
11 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 58 (22.48%) Developer
2 38 (14.73%) Architect
3 32 (12.40%) Senior
4 27 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (10.08%) DevOps Engineer
6 24 (9.30%) Lead
7 20 (7.75%) Python Engineer
8 16 (6.20%) Java Developer
9 14 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (5.04%) Data Engineer
11 12 (4.65%) Python Developer
11 12 (4.65%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.65%) Technical Leader
12 10 (3.88%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
13 9 (3.49%) Site Engineer
13 9 (3.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 8 (3.10%) AWS Architect
14 8 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (3.10%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.18%) React
2 28 (10.85%) AWS CDK
3 25 (9.69%) Spring
4 22 (8.53%) RESTful
4 22 (8.53%) Spring Boot
5 20 (7.75%) Node.js
6 17 (6.59%) OAuth
7 16 (6.20%) AngularJS
7 16 (6.20%) PyTorch
8 15 (5.81%) Pandas
8 15 (5.81%) REST
9 14 (5.43%) NumPy
10 13 (5.04%) CSS
11 12 (4.65%) Hugging Face
12 11 (4.26%) HTML
12 11 (4.26%) Jest
12 11 (4.26%) SQLAlchemy
13 10 (3.88%) OpenCV
14 9 (3.49%) FastAPI
14 9 (3.49%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.18%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.53%) Public Cloud
3 21 (8.14%) Data Protection Act
4 20 (7.75%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (6.20%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (4.26%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.10%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.10%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.71%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.94%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.55%) Management Information System
11 4 (1.55%) Product Ownership
12 3 (1.16%) CMDB
12 3 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.16%) IVR
12 3 (1.16%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.16%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (20.54%) Linux
2 30 (11.63%) Windows
3 22 (8.53%) Unix
4 9 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.94%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (51.55%) CI/CD
2 128 (49.61%) Agile
3 104 (40.31%) DevOps
4 88 (34.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (18.60%) Containerisation
6 44 (17.05%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (16.28%) Microservices
7 42 (16.28%) Migration
7 42 (16.28%) SDLC
8 37 (14.34%) Continuous Improvement
9 35 (13.57%) AI
10 34 (13.18%) Machine Learning
10 34 (13.18%) Software Engineering
11 30 (11.63%) Observability
11 30 (11.63%) Roadmaps
12 27 (10.47%) Test Automation
13 26 (10.08%) Data Protection
13 26 (10.08%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (9.69%) TDD
15 24 (9.30%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 101 (39.15%) Python
2 71 (27.52%) Java
3 52 (20.16%) TypeScript
4 25 (9.69%) JavaScript
4 25 (9.69%) SQL
5 15 (5.81%) C#
6 14 (5.43%) Perl
7 13 (5.04%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.26%) Bash
8 11 (4.26%) Go
9 6 (2.33%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.94%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.55%) PromQL
12 3 (1.16%) Ruby
13 2 (0.78%) Groovy
14 1 (0.39%) Bicep
14 1 (0.39%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 28 (10.85%) AWS Certification
2 20 (7.75%) Degree
3 17 (6.59%) Security Cleared
4 12 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 11 (4.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (3.88%) CISSP
7 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.94%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.94%) Master's Degree
9 4 (1.55%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.16%) CCNP
10 3 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.16%) CISM
10 3 (1.16%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.16%) PMP
10 3 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.39%) CISA
12 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 14 (5.43%) QA
3 7 (2.71%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (1.94%) COBIT
5 5 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.94%) NIST
6 3 (1.16%) GDPR
7 2 (0.78%) GRC
7 2 (0.78%) NCSC
7 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.78%) SLA
7 2 (0.78%) WCAG
8 1 (0.39%) COREP
8 1 (0.39%) DICOM
8 1 (0.39%) HL7
8 1 (0.39%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.39%) PSD2
8 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (18.99%) Docker
2 5 (1.94%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.55%) KVM
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 92 (35.66%) Terraform
2 78 (30.23%) Kubernetes
3 45 (17.44%) Ansible
4 38 (14.73%) Grafana
5 24 (9.30%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.55%) Argo
7 4 (1.55%) Fluentd
7 4 (1.55%) Istio
7 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.16%) Kibana
8 3 (1.16%) logstash
9 2 (0.78%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.78%) Nagios
9 2 (0.78%) SCCM
10 1 (0.39%) linkerd
10 1 (0.39%) Podman
10 1 (0.39%) vRealize
10 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 32 (12.40%) Oracle
2 19 (7.36%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.43%) Splunk
4 10 (3.88%) F5
5 8 (3.10%) IBM
6 7 (2.71%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.71%) Greenplum
6 7 (2.71%) Pega
7 6 (2.33%) Cisco
7 6 (2.33%) Google
8 5 (1.94%) AppDynamics
8 5 (1.94%) Databricks
8 5 (1.94%) ForgeRock
9 4 (1.55%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.55%) Dell
9 4 (1.55%) HP
9 4 (1.55%) Meraki
9 4 (1.55%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.55%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.16%) Commvault