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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 251 221 284
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.06% 13.29% 12.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 39.59% 35.14% 37.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 166 212
10th Percentile £328 £356 £396
25th Percentile £402 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -1.45% -3.60%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £575
90th Percentile £606 £613 £700
UK median daily rate £523 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -5.98%
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 £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 634 629 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.56% 37.82% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 390 418 505
10th Percentile £312 £254 £350
25th Percentile £405 £364 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £525 £588
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 7 8 6
10th Percentile £12.42 £21.84 £15.26
25th Percentile £24.10 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.09 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +107.56% +43.01% -4.94%
75th Percentile £62.00 £25.07 £20.66
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.94 £37.70
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +31.27% +21.89% -10.00%

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 13 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 February 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 13 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 +12 153 £450 -0.11% 35
Edinburgh 0 89 £525 +6.60% 27
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 16 (6.37%) Apache
2 14 (5.58%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.58%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.79%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.40%) FileNet
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 101 (40.24%) Azure
2 63 (25.10%) Serverless
3 51 (20.32%) AWS CloudFormation
3 51 (20.32%) AWS Lambda
4 43 (17.13%) Amazon S3
5 39 (15.54%) GCP
6 29 (11.55%) Snowflake
7 27 (10.76%) Amazon EC2
7 27 (10.76%) Amazon ECS
8 26 (10.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 23 (9.16%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (8.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (5.58%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (5.58%) OpenShift
12 12 (4.78%) Amazon SageMaker
12 12 (4.78%) Amazon SQS
13 10 (3.98%) GitHub
14 8 (3.19%) Amazon EventBridge
14 8 (3.19%) AWS KMS
14 8 (3.19%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.17%) Firewall
2 5 (1.99%) HTTP
3 3 (1.20%) Network Security
3 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.80%) BGP
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (0.80%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) DSL
4 2 (0.80%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.80%) Internet
4 2 (0.80%) SAN
4 2 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.80%) VPN
4 2 (0.80%) WAN
4 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.14%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.56%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.57%) MySQL
4 18 (7.17%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.77%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.77%) Relational Database
6 16 (6.37%) DynamoDB
7 15 (5.98%) Data Lake
8 12 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.38%) MongoDB
10 9 (3.59%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (3.59%) Metadata
11 6 (2.39%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.39%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.59%) Big Data
12 4 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 28 (11.16%) Jenkins
2 27 (10.76%) GitLab
3 21 (8.37%) Git
4 19 (7.57%) JIRA
5 13 (5.18%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.18%) MLflow
6 9 (3.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (2.79%) Cypress.io
7 7 (2.79%) JUnit
8 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.80%) ERwin
9 2 (0.80%) Mockito
9 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.40%) git-flow
10 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.40%) Maven
10 1 (0.40%) Snyk
10 1 (0.40%) Vite
10 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 82 (32.67%) Finance
2 61 (24.30%) Social Skills
3 51 (20.32%) Public Sector
4 44 (17.53%) Banking
5 18 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.38%) Retail Banking
7 7 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.39%) Retail
9 5 (1.99%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.99%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.99%) Legal
10 2 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (16.33%) Architect
2 32 (12.75%) Senior
3 29 (11.55%) AWS Engineer
3 29 (11.55%) Developer
4 20 (7.97%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (7.17%) Python Engineer
6 17 (6.77%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.37%) Data Engineer
8 15 (5.98%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (5.98%) Data Architect
9 13 (5.18%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.18%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.18%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.78%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (4.38%) Lead
12 9 (3.59%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.59%) Windows Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Database Engineer
13 8 (3.19%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.55%) React
2 24 (9.56%) Node.js
3 20 (7.97%) AWS CDK
3 20 (7.97%) Spring
4 19 (7.57%) PySpark
5 18 (7.17%) PyTorch
5 18 (7.17%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.77%) Pandas
7 16 (6.37%) NumPy
8 14 (5.58%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.58%) FastAPI
8 14 (5.58%) OAuth
8 14 (5.58%) REST
9 13 (5.18%) Hugging Face
9 13 (5.18%) RESTful
9 13 (5.18%) SQLAlchemy
10 12 (4.78%) Kafka
10 12 (4.78%) OpenCV
11 10 (3.98%) JWT
12 9 (3.59%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 39 (15.54%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.17%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.98%) Algorithms
3 15 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.78%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.78%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.38%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.79%) IVR
7 7 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.79%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.39%) Clustering
8 6 (2.39%) NHS
8 6 (2.39%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.39%) Replication
9 5 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.59%) PKI
11 3 (1.20%) CMDB
11 3 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.56%) Linux
2 16 (6.37%) Windows
3 12 (4.78%) Unix
4 5 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (42.63%) CI/CD
2 84 (33.47%) Agile
3 78 (31.08%) DevOps
4 76 (30.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (23.90%) Migration
6 55 (21.91%) AI
7 49 (19.52%) Machine Learning
8 48 (19.12%) Containerisation
9 47 (18.73%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (17.93%) Microservices
11 34 (13.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (13.55%) Disaster Recovery
12 32 (12.75%) Analytics
13 28 (11.16%) Observability
14 27 (10.76%) Data Engineering
14 27 (10.76%) Data Pipeline
15 26 (10.36%) ETL
15 26 (10.36%) Mentoring
15 26 (10.36%) Performance Tuning
16 23 (9.16%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 131 (52.19%) Python
2 46 (18.33%) Java
3 35 (13.94%) SQL
4 29 (11.55%) PowerShell
5 20 (7.97%) TypeScript
6 15 (5.98%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.18%) Bash
8 11 (4.38%) Perl
9 7 (2.79%) Ruby
10 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) Go
12 2 (0.80%) Korn
12 2 (0.80%) PromQL
12 2 (0.80%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (8.76%) Security Cleared
2 20 (7.97%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.58%) Degree
4 10 (3.98%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (3.98%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.20%) CCNP
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.20%) PMP
8 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.80%) CISM
9 2 (0.80%) CISSP
9 2 (0.80%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.80%) NCDA
9 2 (0.80%) VCP6
9 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.16%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.76%) QA
3 15 (5.98%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.38%) GDPR
5 9 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.19%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (3.19%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.39%) SLA
8 4 (1.59%) NIST
9 3 (1.20%) COBIT
9 3 (1.20%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.20%) PMO
10 2 (0.80%) NCSC
11 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.40%) COREP
11 1 (0.40%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) IFRS
11 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.40%) PSD2
System Software
1 43 (17.13%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.80%) Firmware
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 57 (22.71%) Terraform
2 53 (21.12%) Kubernetes
3 36 (14.34%) Ansible
4 23 (9.16%) Grafana
5 8 (3.19%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.59%) Kibana
6 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.20%) logstash
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.20%) SCCM
7 3 (1.20%) vRealize
8 2 (0.80%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) vMotion
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (9.56%) Oracle
2 22 (8.76%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.98%) Databricks
4 14 (5.58%) Greenplum
5 12 (4.78%) Google
5 12 (4.78%) Splunk
6 11 (4.38%) Cisco
7 8 (3.19%) Informatica
7 8 (3.19%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.19%) Talend
8 7 (2.79%) F5
8 7 (2.79%) IBM
8 7 (2.79%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.39%) OpenAI
10 5 (1.99%) Avaya
10 5 (1.99%) Genesys
11 4 (1.59%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.59%) Confluent
11 4 (1.59%) Pega
12 3 (1.20%) Cloudera