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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 259 205 277
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.88% 12.17% 11.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.89% 34.69% 37.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 144 204
10th Percentile £358 £358 £375
25th Percentile £419 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -4.32% -0.50%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £569
90th Percentile £633 £629 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -6.46% +2.05% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +163.16% - -
UK median hourly rate £80.34 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +73.96% -19.69% +4.55%

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 577 591 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.61% 35.07% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 369 496
10th Percentile £313 £268 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £575
90th Percentile £625 £607 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.86 £27.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.23% +11.00% +11.11%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 +11 149 £450 +2.86% 35
Edinburgh 0 100 £503 +1.88% 64
Perthshire +4 2 £625 -10.71%
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £325 -
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 14 (5.41%) Apache
2 13 (5.02%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.86%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.86%) Confluence
4 9 (3.47%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.77%) nginx
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) FileNet
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (40.54%) Azure
2 67 (25.87%) Serverless
3 52 (20.08%) AWS Lambda
4 51 (19.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 46 (17.76%) Amazon S3
6 39 (15.06%) GCP
7 29 (11.20%) GitHub
8 28 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (10.42%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (9.27%) Amazon EC2
10 24 (9.27%) Snowflake
11 21 (8.11%) Amazon ECS
12 19 (7.34%) OpenShift
13 18 (6.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (6.18%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.63%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (4.25%) Amazon SageMaker
17 10 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (3.86%) SaaS
18 8 (3.09%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.27%) Firewall
2 7 (2.70%) Network Security
3 5 (1.93%) VPN
4 3 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.16%) HTTP
4 3 (1.16%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.16%) WAN
5 2 (0.77%) BGP
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.77%) DHCP
5 2 (0.77%) DNS
5 2 (0.77%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.77%) Internet
5 2 (0.77%) LAN
5 2 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (6.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 16 (6.18%) NoSQL
4 15 (5.79%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (5.41%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (4.63%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.47%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.47%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.09%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.09%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (2.70%) MySQL
11 6 (2.32%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.54%) Metadata
12 4 (1.54%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 40 (15.44%) Jenkins
2 35 (13.51%) Git
2 35 (13.51%) JIRA
3 29 (11.20%) GitLab
4 24 (9.27%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.02%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.25%) MLflow
7 10 (3.86%) IntelliJ
7 10 (3.86%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (3.47%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.47%) PyCharm
8 9 (3.47%) Visual Studio
9 8 (3.09%) JUnit
9 8 (3.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (2.70%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.54%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.16%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.16%) Vite
13 2 (0.77%) Snyk
General
1 86 (33.20%) Finance
2 58 (22.39%) Social Skills
3 53 (20.46%) Public Sector
4 51 (19.69%) Banking
5 19 (7.34%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.02%) Retail Banking
7 9 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.70%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.32%) Legal
10 6 (2.32%) Retail
11 4 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.39%) Corporate Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.39%) Marketing
13 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (17.37%) Architect
2 42 (16.22%) Developer
3 35 (13.51%) Senior
4 26 (10.04%) AWS Engineer
4 26 (10.04%) Lead
5 25 (9.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (6.95%) Python Engineer
7 16 (6.18%) Data Engineer
8 15 (5.79%) Technical Leader
9 13 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.63%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.63%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (4.25%) AWS Architect
11 11 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (3.86%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.86%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.47%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.47%) Site Engineer
13 9 (3.47%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.97%) React
2 25 (9.65%) Node.js
2 25 (9.65%) Spring
3 23 (8.88%) Spring Boot
4 22 (8.49%) AWS CDK
5 16 (6.18%) PySpark
5 16 (6.18%) PyTorch
5 16 (6.18%) RESTful
6 15 (5.79%) Pandas
6 15 (5.79%) REST
7 14 (5.41%) NumPy
8 13 (5.02%) AngularJS
8 13 (5.02%) OAuth
9 12 (4.63%) Hugging Face
10 11 (4.25%) SQLAlchemy
11 10 (3.86%) Next.js
11 10 (3.86%) OpenCV
12 9 (3.47%) FastAPI
13 8 (3.09%) boto
13 8 (3.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.90%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.34%) Legacy Systems
2 19 (7.34%) Public Cloud
3 18 (6.95%) Data Protection Act
3 18 (6.95%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.63%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.47%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.09%) IVR
7 7 (2.70%) NHS
7 7 (2.70%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.93%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.93%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.54%) Clustering
9 4 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.54%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.92%) Linux
2 24 (9.27%) Windows
3 23 (8.88%) Unix
4 8 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.93%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (50.58%) CI/CD
2 108 (41.70%) Agile
3 98 (37.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 95 (36.68%) DevOps
5 57 (22.01%) Migration
6 53 (20.46%) Containerisation
7 45 (17.37%) Microservices
8 40 (15.44%) AI
9 37 (14.29%) Machine Learning
9 37 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (11.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (11.58%) Roadmaps
11 30 (11.58%) Software Engineering
12 28 (10.81%) SDLC
13 27 (10.42%) Analytics
13 27 (10.42%) Observability
14 26 (10.04%) Mentoring
14 26 (10.04%) Performance Tuning
15 24 (9.27%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 121 (46.72%) Python
2 65 (25.10%) Java
3 41 (15.83%) TypeScript
4 30 (11.58%) SQL
5 22 (8.49%) PowerShell
6 15 (5.79%) JavaScript
6 15 (5.79%) Perl
7 13 (5.02%) Bash
8 11 (4.25%) C#
9 8 (3.09%) Go
9 8 (3.09%) Shell Script
10 7 (2.70%) Ruby
11 5 (1.93%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.16%) PromQL
13 2 (0.77%) Korn
14 1 (0.39%) Bicep
14 1 (0.39%) Groovy
14 1 (0.39%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 30 (11.58%) AWS Certification
2 25 (9.65%) Degree
3 21 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.63%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.70%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.32%) CISSP
9 5 (1.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.54%) CCNP
10 4 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.16%) CISM
11 3 (1.16%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.16%) PMP
11 3 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.39%) CCNA
13 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.72%) Accessibility
2 16 (6.18%) QA
3 13 (5.02%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.47%) GDPR
6 6 (2.32%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (2.32%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.93%) COBIT
7 5 (1.93%) NIST
8 3 (1.16%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.16%) PMO
9 2 (0.77%) NCSC
9 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.77%) SLA
10 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.39%) IFRS
10 1 (0.39%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.39%) PSD2
10 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (20.46%) Docker
2 5 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.54%) KVM
3 4 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 90 (34.75%) Terraform
2 76 (29.34%) Kubernetes
3 51 (19.69%) Ansible
4 37 (14.29%) Grafana
5 23 (8.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.54%) Argo
6 4 (1.54%) Fluentd
6 4 (1.54%) Kibana
6 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.16%) Istio
7 3 (1.16%) logstash
7 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.77%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.77%) Nagios
8 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.77%) SCCM
9 1 (0.39%) linkerd
9 1 (0.39%) vRealize
9 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (11.97%) Oracle
2 20 (7.72%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.79%) Splunk
4 12 (4.63%) Cisco
4 12 (4.63%) Databricks
4 12 (4.63%) Greenplum
5 10 (3.86%) F5
5 10 (3.86%) Pega
6 8 (3.09%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.70%) IBM
7 7 (2.70%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.32%) Avaya
8 6 (2.32%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.93%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.93%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.93%) Genesys
9 5 (1.93%) Google
9 5 (1.93%) Informatica
10 4 (1.54%) HP
10 4 (1.54%) Meraki