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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 243 220 284
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 15.97% 13.53% 11.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.90% 35.66% 37.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 164 213
10th Percentile £358 £356 £400
25th Percentile £410 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.26% -2.80%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £575
90th Percentile £606 £618 £700
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -6.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £52.80 - -
25th Percentile £57.00 - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
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 609 617 756
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.01% 37.95% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 408 511
10th Percentile £313 £254 £325
25th Percentile £410 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £525 £585
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 6 8 5
10th Percentile £12.23 £21.84 -
25th Percentile £22.40 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +128.31% +35.95% -
75th Percentile £63.00 £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% -6.25%

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 9 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
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 9 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 +11 141 £450 - 39
Edinburgh -1 93 £525 +6.76% 28
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 15 (6.17%) Apache
1 15 (6.17%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.35%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.88%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) FileNet
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (41.98%) Azure
2 58 (23.87%) Serverless
3 46 (18.93%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (18.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (16.05%) Amazon S3
6 38 (15.64%) GCP
7 29 (11.93%) Snowflake
8 25 (10.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 23 (9.47%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (9.05%) Amazon ECS
11 21 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (5.76%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.94%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (4.53%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (3.29%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (3.29%) PaaS
17 7 (2.88%) Amazon MSK
17 7 (2.88%) GitHub
17 7 (2.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.41%) Firewall
2 5 (2.06%) HTTP
3 3 (1.23%) Network Security
3 3 (1.23%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.82%) BGP
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.82%) DHCP
4 2 (0.82%) DNS
4 2 (0.82%) DSL
4 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.82%) Internet
4 2 (0.82%) SAN
4 2 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.82%) VPN
4 2 (0.82%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.23%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.88%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (7.00%) MySQL
4 15 (6.17%) Data Lake
4 15 (6.17%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.76%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.35%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (5.35%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (3.29%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.88%) Metadata
10 6 (2.47%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.47%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.65%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.65%) Big Data
11 4 (1.65%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.23%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 27 (11.11%) GitLab
2 25 (10.29%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.05%) Git
4 20 (8.23%) JIRA
5 14 (5.76%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.35%) MLflow
7 9 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
8 8 (3.29%) Cypress.io
9 7 (2.88%) JUnit
10 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.82%) ERwin
11 2 (0.82%) git-flow
11 2 (0.82%) Mockito
11 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
12 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.41%) Maven
12 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 83 (34.16%) Finance
2 61 (25.10%) Social Skills
3 50 (20.58%) Public Sector
4 45 (18.52%) Banking
5 19 (7.82%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.53%) Retail Banking
7 7 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.47%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.47%) Retail
9 5 (2.06%) Legal
10 4 (1.65%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.82%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (15.64%) Architect
2 33 (13.58%) Developer
2 33 (13.58%) Senior
3 24 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
5 16 (6.58%) Python Engineer
6 15 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 15 (6.17%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.76%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.76%) Java Developer
8 13 (5.35%) Data Architect
8 13 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
9 12 (4.94%) Security Engineer
10 11 (4.53%) Lead
10 11 (4.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 11 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.70%) Windows Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) Analyst
12 8 (3.29%) Database Engineer
12 8 (3.29%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.93%) React
2 23 (9.47%) Node.js
3 21 (8.64%) Spring
4 19 (7.82%) AWS CDK
4 19 (7.82%) Spring Boot
5 17 (7.00%) Pandas
5 17 (7.00%) PySpark
5 17 (7.00%) PyTorch
6 16 (6.58%) NumPy
7 14 (5.76%) AngularJS
8 13 (5.35%) Hugging Face
8 13 (5.35%) SQLAlchemy
9 12 (4.94%) OpenCV
9 12 (4.94%) REST
10 11 (4.53%) FastAPI
11 10 (4.12%) RESTful
12 9 (3.70%) boto
12 9 (3.70%) Jest
12 9 (3.70%) Kafka
12 9 (3.70%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.99%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.17%) Algorithms
3 15 (6.17%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.94%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.94%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.53%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.88%) IVR
7 7 (2.88%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.88%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.88%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.47%) Clustering
8 6 (2.47%) NHS
8 6 (2.47%) Replication
9 5 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.65%) PKI
11 3 (1.23%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.23%) CMDB
11 3 (1.23%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.29%) Linux
2 17 (7.00%) Windows
3 12 (4.94%) Unix
4 5 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.23%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (41.15%) CI/CD
2 83 (34.16%) Agile
3 75 (30.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 74 (30.45%) DevOps
5 57 (23.46%) Migration
6 56 (23.05%) AI
7 48 (19.75%) Containerisation
7 48 (19.75%) Machine Learning
7 48 (19.75%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (17.70%) Microservices
9 33 (13.58%) Analytics
9 33 (13.58%) Disaster Recovery
10 32 (13.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (11.11%) Mentoring
12 26 (10.70%) Performance Tuning
13 25 (10.29%) Data Engineering
14 24 (9.88%) Data Pipeline
14 24 (9.88%) Data Protection
15 23 (9.47%) Software Engineering
15 23 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (51.03%) Python
2 49 (20.16%) Java
3 38 (15.64%) SQL
4 29 (11.93%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.82%) TypeScript
6 13 (5.35%) JavaScript
7 12 (4.94%) Bash
8 11 (4.53%) Perl
9 7 (2.88%) Ruby
10 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.23%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.82%) Go
12 2 (0.82%) Korn
12 2 (0.82%) PromQL
12 2 (0.82%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.41%) Bicep
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.41%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.23%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.76%) Degree
4 10 (4.12%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.47%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.23%) CCNP
8 3 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.23%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.23%) PMP
8 3 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.82%) CISM
9 2 (0.82%) CISSP
9 2 (0.82%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.82%) NCDA
9 2 (0.82%) VCP6
9 2 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.47%) QA
2 21 (8.64%) Data Quality
3 15 (6.17%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.53%) GDPR
5 9 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.29%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (3.29%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.06%) SLA
8 4 (1.65%) NIST
9 3 (1.23%) COBIT
9 3 (1.23%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.23%) PMO
10 2 (0.82%) NCSC
11 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) COREP
11 1 (0.41%) GRC
11 1 (0.41%) IFRS
11 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 40 (16.46%) Docker
2 4 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.23%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.82%) Firmware
4 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (23.46%) Terraform
2 51 (20.99%) Kubernetes
3 37 (15.23%) Ansible
4 20 (8.23%) Grafana
5 5 (2.06%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.65%) Kibana
6 4 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.23%) logstash
7 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.23%) SCCM
7 3 (1.23%) vRealize
8 2 (0.82%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.82%) vMotion
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (10.29%) Oracle
2 22 (9.05%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.76%) Databricks
3 14 (5.76%) Greenplum
4 12 (4.94%) Cisco
4 12 (4.94%) Google
4 12 (4.94%) Splunk
5 8 (3.29%) F5
5 8 (3.29%) Informatica
5 8 (3.29%) Salesforce
5 8 (3.29%) Talend
6 7 (2.88%) IBM
6 7 (2.88%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.47%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.06%) Avaya
8 5 (2.06%) Genesys
9 4 (1.65%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.65%) Meraki
9 4 (1.65%) Pega
10 3 (1.23%) Dynatrace