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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 219 218 241
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.39% 13.64% 11.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.70% 35.45% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 158 177
10th Percentile £314 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £427 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -4.04%
75th Percentile £556 £548 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £624
UK median daily rate £535 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -2.55% -5.17%
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 £70.00 £75.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.41% +37.45% -26.67%

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 763 615 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.70% 38.49% 34.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 423 502
10th Percentile £313 £313 £228
25th Percentile £400 £408 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £471 £455
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +3.47% -4.16%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £589 £633
UK median daily rate £508 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.98% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 7
10th Percentile £12.74 £16.21 £15.94
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.72 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% +24.82% -71.92%
75th Percentile £55.63 £25.06 £19.57
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £34.48
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £28.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +28.57% +31.02% -39.80%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +7 113 £449 -10.20% 26
Edinburgh -4 97 £520 +9.47% 34
South Lanarkshire - 4 £800 - 1
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen -4 1 £475 - 2
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 (6.39%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.94%) Apache
3 10 (4.57%) Confluence
4 6 (2.74%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.91%) JBoss
5 2 (0.91%) 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 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 81 (36.99%) Azure
2 49 (22.37%) GCP
3 39 (17.81%) Serverless
4 35 (15.98%) Amazon S3
5 30 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (12.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 20 (9.13%) Snowflake
8 19 (8.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (8.22%) Amazon EC2
9 18 (8.22%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (7.31%) GitHub
11 13 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
12 12 (5.48%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 8 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.65%) OpenShift
15 7 (3.20%) AWS CodePipeline
15 7 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
15 7 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
16 6 (2.74%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.57%) DNS
2 5 (2.28%) HTTP
3 4 (1.83%) DHCP
3 4 (1.83%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.83%) SSH
3 4 (1.83%) SSL
4 2 (0.91%) DSL
4 2 (0.91%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.91%) Firewall
4 2 (0.91%) Network Security
4 2 (0.91%) SAN
4 2 (0.91%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.46%) CTI
5 1 (0.46%) LAN
5 1 (0.46%) NGFW
5 1 (0.46%) PSTN
5 1 (0.46%) RTP
5 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.96%) MySQL
3 18 (8.22%) MongoDB
4 14 (6.39%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.94%) Relational Database
6 12 (5.48%) Data Lake
6 12 (5.48%) NoSQL
7 11 (5.02%) Amazon Athena
8 9 (4.11%) MariaDB
9 8 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.74%) Metadata
11 6 (2.74%) SQL Server
12 5 (2.28%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (1.37%) Big Data
14 3 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
14 3 (1.37%) Oracle Database
15 2 (0.91%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 18 (8.22%) Jenkins
2 16 (7.31%) Git
2 16 (7.31%) GitLab
3 14 (6.39%) JIRA
4 7 (3.20%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.83%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.83%) MLflow
6 4 (1.83%) Selenium
7 3 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.37%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.91%) Postman
8 2 (0.91%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.46%) Ant
9 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.46%) git-flow
9 1 (0.46%) JUnit
9 1 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (23.74%) Social Skills
2 47 (21.46%) Finance
3 45 (20.55%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.50%) Banking
5 21 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.28%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.83%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.83%) Retail
8 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Back Office
10 1 (0.46%) Front Office
10 1 (0.46%) Law
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (17.35%) Developer
2 30 (13.70%) Architect
3 28 (12.79%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (8.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (6.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) Java Developer
7 13 (5.94%) Senior
8 12 (5.48%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (4.11%) Analyst
10 9 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Data Architect
11 8 (3.65%) Database Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.65%) Security Engineer
11 8 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.96%) React
2 19 (8.68%) AWS CDK
2 19 (8.68%) REST
2 19 (8.68%) Spring
3 16 (7.31%) Spring Boot
4 15 (6.85%) FastAPI
5 13 (5.94%) Kafka
6 12 (5.48%) Node.js
7 11 (5.02%) OAuth
7 11 (5.02%) Redux
8 10 (4.57%) JWT
8 10 (4.57%) PyTorch
8 10 (4.57%) RESTful
9 9 (4.11%) OpenCV
9 9 (4.11%) Pandas
10 8 (3.65%) CSS
10 8 (3.65%) Express.js
10 8 (3.65%) HTML
10 8 (3.65%) Jest
11 7 (3.20%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.39%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.94%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (5.02%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.11%) Clustering
5 9 (4.11%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.74%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.28%) Replication
9 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.83%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.37%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.37%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.91%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.87%) Linux
2 15 (6.85%) Windows
3 8 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.74%) Unix
5 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (36.99%) CI/CD
2 69 (31.51%) Agile
3 56 (25.57%) DevOps
4 54 (24.66%) Infrastructure as Code
5 42 (19.18%) AI
6 39 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
7 33 (15.07%) Microservices
8 31 (14.16%) Migration
9 28 (12.79%) Machine Learning
10 24 (10.96%) Containerisation
10 24 (10.96%) ETL
11 21 (9.59%) Data Pipeline
11 21 (9.59%) Mentoring
11 21 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
12 20 (9.13%) Analytics
12 20 (9.13%) Observability
13 19 (8.68%) LLM
14 18 (8.22%) Task Automation
14 18 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 104 (47.49%) Python
2 41 (18.72%) Java
2 41 (18.72%) SQL
3 32 (14.61%) JavaScript
4 25 (11.42%) Bash
5 21 (9.59%) TypeScript
6 20 (9.13%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.37%) Go
7 3 (1.37%) Perl
8 2 (0.91%) Korn
8 2 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.91%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.46%) C++
9 1 (0.46%) Groovy
9 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.46%) PHP
9 1 (0.46%) Ruby
9 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (12.79%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.31%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (4.11%) Degree
4 6 (2.74%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.37%) CISSP
6 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.91%) CBAP
7 2 (0.91%) CCNP
7 2 (0.91%) CCSK
7 2 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.91%) CISM
7 2 (0.91%) FFIEC
7 2 (0.91%) NCDA
7 2 (0.91%) VCP6
7 2 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.68%) QA
2 16 (7.31%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.65%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (3.20%) SLA
5 6 (2.74%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.83%) GDPR
7 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.46%) GRC
8 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.46%) NIST
8 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (12.79%) Docker
2 7 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.74%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.83%) Ceph
4 4 (1.83%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.83%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.37%) Squid
6 2 (0.91%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 51 (23.29%) Kubernetes
2 37 (16.89%) Terraform
3 30 (13.70%) Ansible
4 16 (7.31%) Grafana
5 8 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.28%) Istio
7 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.91%) Argo
8 2 (0.91%) linkerd
8 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.91%) vMotion
8 2 (0.91%) vRealize
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 18 (8.22%) Google
1 18 (8.22%) Oracle
2 15 (6.85%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.11%) VMware
4 7 (3.20%) Cisco
4 7 (3.20%) Informatica
4 7 (3.20%) Talend
5 6 (2.74%) Databricks
5 6 (2.74%) Greenplum
5 6 (2.74%) Splunk
6 5 (2.28%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.37%) Confluent
7 3 (1.37%) Dell
7 3 (1.37%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.91%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (0.91%) Brocade
8 2 (0.91%) Commvault
8 2 (0.91%) Mitel
8 2 (0.91%) NetApp
8 2 (0.91%) Thales