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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 7
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 266 201 312
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.40% 11.51% 12.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.19% 35.77% 39.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 132 238
10th Percentile £366 £357 £371
25th Percentile £423 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £474 £499
Median % change year-on-year +5.54% -5.01% -0.25%
75th Percentile £573 £538 £569
90th Percentile £637 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year +84.06% -23.03% +33.33%

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 602 562 790
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.11% 32.17% 32.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 342 545
10th Percentile £315 £272 £313
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £575 £536 £573
90th Percentile £625 £614 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 4
10th Percentile £17.88 £18.28 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £19.81 £15.42
Median hourly rate £36.95 £23.59 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +56.64% +42.37% -6.49%
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £55.46 £26.68 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -17.46% +5.00% +36.36%

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 21 November 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 21 November 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 +11 151 £465 +11.64% 67
Edinburgh -1 104 £503 +1.72% 61
Perthshire +3 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 13 (4.89%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.51%) Apache
2 12 (4.51%) Confluence
3 11 (4.14%) WebLogic
4 8 (3.01%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.50%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.75%) JBoss
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) FileNet
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (40.23%) Azure
2 63 (23.68%) Serverless
3 50 (18.80%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (17.67%) AWS CloudFormation
5 44 (16.54%) Amazon S3
6 40 (15.04%) GCP
7 34 (12.78%) GitHub
8 28 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
9 26 (9.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (7.52%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (6.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (6.02%) Snowflake
14 14 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
14 14 (5.26%) OpenShift
15 12 (4.51%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (4.14%) Amazon SageMaker
16 11 (4.14%) SaaS
17 7 (2.63%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 25 (9.40%) Firewall
2 8 (3.01%) Network Security
3 6 (2.26%) VPN
4 3 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.13%) HTTP
4 3 (1.13%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.13%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) BGP
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.75%) Internet
5 2 (0.75%) LAN
5 2 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) Wireless
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.02%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.52%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (5.64%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 13 (4.89%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (4.89%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.76%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.01%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.01%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.01%) MySQL
8 8 (3.01%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.63%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.26%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.50%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.50%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.13%) Metadata
12 3 (1.13%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 40 (15.04%) Git
1 40 (15.04%) Jenkins
2 38 (14.29%) JIRA
3 28 (10.53%) Bitbucket
4 24 (9.02%) GitLab
5 13 (4.89%) Cypress.io
6 12 (4.51%) IntelliJ
6 12 (4.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 11 (4.14%) PyCharm
7 11 (4.14%) Visual Studio
8 9 (3.38%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.38%) MLflow
9 8 (3.01%) JUnit
10 7 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.88%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.50%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.50%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.13%) Snyk
13 3 (1.13%) Vite
General
1 95 (35.71%) Finance
2 70 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 52 (19.55%) Public Sector
4 47 (17.67%) Banking
5 20 (7.52%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.76%) Retail Banking
7 8 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.26%) Legal
9 5 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.88%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.88%) Retail
10 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (18.42%) Developer
2 46 (17.29%) Architect
3 37 (13.91%) Senior
4 27 (10.15%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (9.77%) DevOps Engineer
5 26 (9.77%) Lead
6 19 (7.14%) Python Engineer
7 15 (5.64%) Data Engineer
7 15 (5.64%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.26%) Technical Leader
9 12 (4.51%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.14%) AWS Architect
10 11 (4.14%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.14%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.14%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Site Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.38%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.65%) React
2 25 (9.40%) Node.js
3 24 (9.02%) Spring
4 22 (8.27%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.89%) AWS CDK
6 19 (7.14%) RESTful
7 17 (6.39%) OAuth
8 16 (6.02%) PyTorch
9 15 (5.64%) Pandas
10 14 (5.26%) NumPy
10 14 (5.26%) PySpark
10 14 (5.26%) REST
11 13 (4.89%) AngularJS
12 12 (4.51%) Hugging Face
13 11 (4.14%) SQLAlchemy
14 10 (3.76%) OpenCV
15 9 (3.38%) FastAPI
15 9 (3.38%) Next.js
16 8 (3.01%) boto
16 8 (3.01%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.53%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.27%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 19 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
6 12 (4.51%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.38%) IVR
8 8 (3.01%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.01%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.63%) NHS
9 7 (2.63%) Product Ownership
10 6 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.26%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.26%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.13%) CMDB
12 3 (1.13%) Distributed Computing
12 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
12 3 (1.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 53 (19.92%) Linux
2 26 (9.77%) Windows
3 22 (8.27%) Unix
4 7 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (48.12%) CI/CD
2 120 (45.11%) Agile
3 101 (37.97%) DevOps
4 89 (33.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 54 (20.30%) Migration
6 52 (19.55%) Containerisation
7 47 (17.67%) Microservices
8 40 (15.04%) AI
8 40 (15.04%) SDLC
9 39 (14.66%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (13.91%) Machine Learning
11 33 (12.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (12.41%) Roadmaps
11 33 (12.41%) Software Engineering
12 32 (12.03%) Disaster Recovery
13 30 (11.28%) Observability
14 29 (10.90%) Data Protection
15 27 (10.15%) Analytics
15 27 (10.15%) Test Automation
16 25 (9.40%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 114 (42.86%) Python
2 74 (27.82%) Java
3 43 (16.17%) TypeScript
4 25 (9.40%) SQL
5 17 (6.39%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.39%) Perl
6 16 (6.02%) PowerShell
7 13 (4.89%) C#
8 11 (4.14%) Bash
9 9 (3.38%) Go
10 6 (2.26%) Ruby
11 5 (1.88%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.88%) Shell Script
12 4 (1.50%) PromQL
13 2 (0.75%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 33 (12.41%) AWS Certification
2 23 (8.65%) Degree
3 18 (6.77%) Security Cleared
4 14 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.51%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.76%) CISSP
8 7 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.63%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.50%) CCNP
10 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.13%) CISM
11 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.13%) PMP
11 3 (1.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.38%) CCNA
13 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.39%) QA
3 10 (3.76%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (3.38%) GDPR
5 7 (2.63%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 5 (1.88%) COBIT
7 5 (1.88%) NIST
8 3 (1.13%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.13%) PMO
9 2 (0.75%) GRC
9 2 (0.75%) NCSC
9 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.75%) SLA
10 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.38%) IFRS
10 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.38%) PSD2
System Software
1 46 (17.29%) Docker
2 4 (1.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.50%) KVM
2 4 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 89 (33.46%) Terraform
2 80 (30.08%) Kubernetes
3 44 (16.54%) Ansible
4 37 (13.91%) Grafana
5 24 (9.02%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.88%) Argo
6 5 (1.88%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.50%) Fluentd
7 4 (1.50%) Istio
7 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.13%) Kibana
8 3 (1.13%) logstash
9 2 (0.75%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.75%) Nagios
9 2 (0.75%) SCCM
10 1 (0.38%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.38%) linkerd
10 1 (0.38%) vRealize
10 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 33 (12.41%) Oracle
2 20 (7.52%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.26%) Splunk
4 12 (4.51%) Cisco
5 10 (3.76%) Databricks
5 10 (3.76%) F5
5 10 (3.76%) Pega
6 8 (3.01%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.63%) Google
7 7 (2.63%) Greenplum
7 7 (2.63%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.26%) Avaya
8 6 (2.26%) Dynatrace
8 6 (2.26%) IBM
9 5 (1.88%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.88%) ForgeRock
9 5 (1.88%) Genesys
10 4 (1.50%) Meraki
10 4 (1.50%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.50%) Red Hat