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 24 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 216 212 255
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 12.31% 12.96% 11.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.83% 32.67% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 154 191
10th Percentile £313 £400 £400
25th Percentile £402 £423 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £477 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +0.47% -3.55%
75th Percentile £563 £563 £539
90th Percentile £606 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
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 £74.00 £75.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.12% +37.45% -24.14%

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 724 649 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.28% 39.67% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 442 509
10th Percentile £313 £272 £261
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -1.49% -1.16%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £540
90th Percentile £675 £600 £654
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £12.74 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.39 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +42.24% -71.92%
75th Percentile £46.25 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £42.59 £27.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +54.88% +30.95% -37.78%

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 24 April 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 24 April 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 24 April 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 +11 132 £447 -10.24% 27
Edinburgh -4 73 £525 +10.53% 13
South Lanarkshire - 4 £800 - 1
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen -4 1 £475 - 2
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 16 (7.41%) Apache
2 12 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.63%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.24%) Confluence
5 2 (0.93%) JBoss
5 2 (0.93%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (36.11%) Azure
2 41 (18.98%) AWS CloudFormation
2 41 (18.98%) Serverless
3 40 (18.52%) GCP
4 35 (16.20%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (13.89%) Amazon S3
6 25 (11.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (10.19%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (10.19%) Snowflake
9 21 (9.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (8.80%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (6.48%) AWS Step Functions
12 13 (6.02%) GitHub
13 10 (4.63%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (4.17%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (4.17%) OpenShift
15 8 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
15 8 (3.70%) AWS KMS
16 7 (3.24%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.24%) DNS
1 7 (3.24%) Firewall
2 4 (1.85%) DHCP
2 4 (1.85%) HTTP
3 3 (1.39%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.39%) SSH
3 3 (1.39%) SSL
4 2 (0.93%) DSL
4 2 (0.93%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.93%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.93%) Network Security
4 2 (0.93%) SAN
4 2 (0.93%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) LAN
5 1 (0.46%) Modbus
5 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.96%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (12.04%) MySQL
3 20 (9.26%) DynamoDB
4 17 (7.87%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (6.94%) Relational Database
6 12 (5.56%) Data Lake
7 11 (5.09%) NoSQL
8 9 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.70%) MariaDB
9 8 (3.70%) Metadata
10 7 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.78%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.39%) Big Data
13 3 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.39%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.39%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (12.50%) GitLab
2 19 (8.80%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.33%) JIRA
4 17 (7.87%) Git
5 10 (4.63%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.17%) MLflow
7 7 (3.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.39%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.39%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.39%) JUnit
8 3 (1.39%) Selenium
8 3 (1.39%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.93%) Postman
9 2 (0.93%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.46%) Ant
10 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.46%) git-flow
10 1 (0.46%) Maven
10 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (26.39%) Finance
2 47 (21.76%) Social Skills
3 43 (19.91%) Public Sector
4 30 (13.89%) Banking
5 17 (7.87%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.70%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.85%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.85%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.85%) Retail
9 3 (1.39%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (15.28%) Architect
2 30 (13.89%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (11.57%) Developer
4 24 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (10.19%) Senior
6 16 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (6.48%) Java Developer
9 12 (5.56%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.09%) Platform Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.17%) Analyst
12 9 (4.17%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.17%) Database Engineer
12 9 (4.17%) Security Engineer
13 8 (3.70%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.89%) React
2 20 (9.26%) Node.js
2 20 (9.26%) Spring
3 18 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 16 (7.41%) REST
5 13 (6.02%) PySpark
6 12 (5.56%) AWS CDK
6 12 (5.56%) Kafka
6 12 (5.56%) RESTful
7 11 (5.09%) FastAPI
7 11 (5.09%) Redux
8 10 (4.63%) Jest
9 9 (4.17%) OAuth
10 8 (3.70%) CSS
10 8 (3.70%) Express.js
10 8 (3.70%) HTML
11 7 (3.24%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.24%) JWT
12 6 (2.78%) MERN Stack
12 6 (2.78%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.89%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.94%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.48%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.17%) Clustering
4 9 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 7 (3.24%) Algorithms
5 7 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.78%) IVR
6 6 (2.78%) NHS
7 5 (2.31%) Replication
8 4 (1.85%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.39%) CMDB
9 3 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.50%) Linux
2 15 (6.94%) Windows
3 8 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.78%) Unix
5 4 (1.85%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.93%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (43.52%) CI/CD
2 64 (29.63%) DevOps
3 62 (28.70%) Agile
4 59 (27.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (21.30%) Migration
6 39 (18.06%) AI
7 35 (16.20%) Microservices
7 35 (16.20%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (13.89%) Containerisation
10 29 (13.43%) Machine Learning
11 27 (12.50%) Analytics
12 26 (12.04%) Data Pipeline
13 25 (11.57%) Data Engineering
14 24 (11.11%) Data Protection
15 23 (10.65%) Disaster Recovery
15 23 (10.65%) Observability
16 22 (10.19%) Validation
17 21 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
17 21 (9.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (50.93%) Python
2 50 (23.15%) Java
3 40 (18.52%) SQL
4 24 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 23 (10.65%) Bash
6 17 (7.87%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.78%) Perl
8 4 (1.85%) Ruby
9 3 (1.39%) Go
9 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.93%) Groovy
10 2 (0.93%) Korn
10 2 (0.93%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.46%) C++
11 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.46%) PHP
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (12.04%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.48%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.63%) AWS Certification
3 10 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (4.63%) Degree
4 6 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.31%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.39%) CCNP
6 3 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.39%) CISSP
6 3 (1.39%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.39%) PMP
6 3 (1.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.93%) CCSK
7 2 (0.93%) CISM
7 2 (0.93%) FFIEC
7 2 (0.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.65%) QA
2 19 (8.80%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.63%) GDPR
4 9 (4.17%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.70%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.24%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (3.24%) SLA
7 6 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.39%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.39%) PMO
9 2 (0.93%) NIST
10 1 (0.46%) GRC
10 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (14.81%) Docker
2 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.85%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.39%) Ceph
4 3 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.93%) Firmware
5 2 (0.93%) Squid
5 2 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 45 (20.83%) Terraform
3 32 (14.81%) Ansible
4 16 (7.41%) Grafana
5 8 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.31%) Istio
7 3 (1.39%) Argo
7 3 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.93%) linkerd
8 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.93%) vMotion
8 2 (0.93%) vRealize
9 1 (0.46%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.46%) Kibana
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.46%) Podman
9 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (8.80%) Oracle
2 15 (6.94%) Google
2 15 (6.94%) Microsoft
3 13 (6.02%) Databricks
4 10 (4.63%) Cisco
5 7 (3.24%) Greenplum
5 7 (3.24%) Informatica
5 7 (3.24%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.24%) Talend
5 7 (3.24%) VMware
6 6 (2.78%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.31%) Avaya
7 5 (2.31%) Genesys
7 5 (2.31%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.31%) Splunk
8 4 (1.85%) Confluent
8 4 (1.85%) IBM
9 3 (1.39%) Pega
9 3 (1.39%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.93%) Barracuda Networks