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 2 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 16 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 246 224 240
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.40% 13.50% 11.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.15% 36.36% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 153 173
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £463
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +6.81% -6.57%
75th Percentile £556 £545 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £617
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.80 - -
25th Percentile £49.50 - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -36.52%

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 816 616 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.83% 37.13% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 413 478
10th Percentile £313 £309 £213
25th Percentile £400 £413 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £674 £597 £626
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +2.08% -3.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 10
10th Percentile £13.76 £16.21 £14.91
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +24.82% -63.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 £25.06 £20.87
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £27.14
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £27.76 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.09% +26.18% -37.14%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +6 124 £450 -10.10% 44
Edinburgh -3 110 £513 +7.89% 28
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 -
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen -3 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 14 (5.69%) Apache
1 14 (5.69%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.28%) Confluence
3 6 (2.44%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.81%) JBoss
4 2 (0.81%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (34.55%) Azure
2 68 (27.64%) GCP
3 45 (18.29%) Serverless
4 43 (17.48%) Amazon S3
5 37 (15.04%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (12.20%) AWS CloudFormation
7 27 (10.98%) GitHub
8 24 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (7.72%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (7.72%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (6.50%) Snowflake
12 13 (5.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
14 11 (4.47%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
17 7 (2.85%) AWS CodePipeline
17 7 (2.85%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.07%) DNS
2 6 (2.44%) HTTP
3 5 (2.03%) Firewall
4 4 (1.63%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.63%) Network Security
4 4 (1.63%) SSH
4 4 (1.63%) SSL
5 3 (1.22%) DHCP
6 2 (0.81%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.81%) DSL
6 2 (0.81%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.81%) NGFW
6 2 (0.81%) SAN
6 2 (0.81%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.41%) CTI
7 1 (0.41%) LAN
7 1 (0.41%) PSTN
7 1 (0.41%) RTP
7 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.76%) MySQL
1 24 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.72%) MongoDB
3 17 (6.91%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.28%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.88%) Data Lake
5 12 (4.88%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.47%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.66%) MariaDB
8 8 (3.25%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.85%) Metadata
10 6 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.03%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.03%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.22%) Big Data
13 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.81%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 30 (12.20%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.98%) Git
3 20 (8.13%) JIRA
4 12 (4.88%) GitLab
5 11 (4.47%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.07%) Selenium
7 7 (2.85%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.85%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.85%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.44%) Maven
8 6 (2.44%) Postman
9 5 (2.03%) GoCD
9 5 (2.03%) Gradle
9 5 (2.03%) JUnit
10 4 (1.63%) JProfiler
10 4 (1.63%) MLflow
10 4 (1.63%) Subversion
11 3 (1.22%) Claude Code
11 3 (1.22%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.22%) WebDriver
General
1 63 (25.61%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.76%) Finance
3 50 (20.33%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.98%) Banking
5 23 (9.35%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.44%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.44%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.03%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.63%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Marketing
8 4 (1.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.81%) Law
10 2 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (19.51%) Developer
2 38 (15.45%) Architect
3 30 (12.20%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (8.54%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.32%) Senior
7 17 (6.91%) Java Developer
8 15 (6.10%) Data Engineer
9 13 (5.28%) Analyst
9 13 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.88%) Python Engineer
11 11 (4.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 10 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
13 9 (3.66%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.66%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.66%) Data Architect
14 8 (3.25%) Cloud Architect
14 8 (3.25%) Lead
14 8 (3.25%) Python Developer
14 8 (3.25%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.79%) React
2 24 (9.76%) REST
3 22 (8.94%) Spring
4 21 (8.54%) AWS CDK
5 19 (7.72%) Spring Boot
6 18 (7.32%) Node.js
7 16 (6.50%) RESTful
8 15 (6.10%) FastAPI
8 15 (6.10%) Kafka
9 13 (5.28%) Redux
10 12 (4.88%) OAuth
11 11 (4.47%) PyTorch
12 10 (4.07%) HTML
12 10 (4.07%) Jest
12 10 (4.07%) JWT
13 9 (3.66%) CSS
13 9 (3.66%) OpenCV
13 9 (3.66%) Pandas
14 7 (2.85%) Express.js
14 7 (2.85%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (18.70%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.94%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.28%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.88%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.66%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.44%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.44%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.03%) Clustering
8 5 (2.03%) Enterprise Cloud
8 5 (2.03%) Replication
9 4 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.63%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.22%) IVR
10 3 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.81%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.35%) Linux
2 15 (6.10%) Windows
3 8 (3.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (37.80%) CI/CD
2 75 (30.49%) Agile
3 70 (28.46%) DevOps
4 53 (21.54%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (20.73%) AI
6 42 (17.07%) Microservices
7 40 (16.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (13.01%) Machine Learning
10 31 (12.60%) Containerisation
11 30 (12.20%) Migration
12 27 (10.98%) Mentoring
13 25 (10.16%) Scrum
14 24 (9.76%) ETL
14 24 (9.76%) TDD
14 24 (9.76%) Test Automation
15 23 (9.35%) LLM
15 23 (9.35%) Observability
15 23 (9.35%) Platform Engineering
16 22 (8.94%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 106 (43.09%) Python
2 50 (20.33%) Java
3 43 (17.48%) SQL
4 42 (17.07%) JavaScript
5 30 (12.20%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.76%) Bash
7 13 (5.28%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.63%) C#
8 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.81%) Go
9 2 (0.81%) Perl
9 2 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.81%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.41%) C++
10 1 (0.41%) Groovy
10 1 (0.41%) PHP
10 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.41%) Ruby
10 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (13.01%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.72%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.88%) Degree
4 11 (4.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.07%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.85%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.63%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.22%) CISSP
8 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.81%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.81%) CCNP
9 2 (0.81%) CCSK
9 2 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.81%) CISM
9 2 (0.81%) NCDA
9 2 (0.81%) VCP6
9 2 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.32%) QA
2 14 (5.69%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.25%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (2.85%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.85%) SLA
5 5 (2.03%) GDPR
6 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) PSD2
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.41%) SEPA
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (11.79%) Docker
2 7 (2.85%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.63%) Ceph
3 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.22%) Squid
4 3 (1.22%) zsh
5 1 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 62 (25.20%) Kubernetes
2 40 (16.26%) Terraform
3 26 (10.57%) Ansible
4 14 (5.69%) Grafana
5 8 (3.25%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.44%) Istio
7 4 (1.63%) Argo
7 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.81%) linkerd
8 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.81%) vMotion
8 2 (0.81%) vRealize
9 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.41%) Podman
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (10.16%) Oracle
2 22 (8.94%) Google
3 17 (6.91%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.66%) VMware
5 8 (3.25%) Cisco
6 7 (2.85%) Informatica
6 7 (2.85%) Talend
7 6 (2.44%) Databricks
7 6 (2.44%) Splunk
8 5 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.63%) Dell
9 4 (1.63%) Greenplum
9 4 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.22%) Confluent
10 3 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.81%) Citrix
11 2 (0.81%) Commvault
11 2 (0.81%) NetApp
11 2 (0.81%) Okta