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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 238 199 255
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.16% 12.68% 11.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 41.68% 36.18% 36.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 146 189
10th Percentile £358 £356 £381
25th Percentile £413 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £630 £613 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +163.16% - -
UK median hourly rate £76.67 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +66.02% -19.69% -6.12%

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 571 550 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.76% 35.05% 30.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 350 466
10th Percentile £313 £312 £323
25th Percentile £412 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £584
90th Percentile £659 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 3
10th Percentile £11.84 £19.77 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.95 £24.00 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% +55.64% -12.98%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £16.57
90th Percentile £57.00 £27.04 £17.26
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £27.50 £23.22
% change year-on-year -0.53% +18.46% +3.18%

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 10 January 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
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 10 January 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 +13 137 £450 +2.45% 19
Edinburgh -1 93 £525 +6.76% 36
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 12 (5.04%) Apache
2 11 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.20%) Apache Spark
4 9 (3.78%) WebLogic
5 7 (2.94%) Confluence
6 2 (0.84%) nginx
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.84%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.42%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.42%) FileNet
7 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 102 (42.86%) Azure
2 61 (25.63%) Serverless
3 46 (19.33%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (18.91%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (16.39%) Amazon S3
6 38 (15.97%) GCP
7 27 (11.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (10.92%) Snowflake
9 21 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (8.40%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (7.56%) GitHub
11 18 (7.56%) OpenShift
12 17 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.62%) Amazon SageMaker
13 11 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.36%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (2.94%) Amazon EventBridge
16 7 (2.94%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.08%) Firewall
2 7 (2.94%) Network Security
3 5 (2.10%) VPN
4 3 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.26%) HTTP
4 3 (1.26%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.26%) WAN
5 2 (0.84%) BGP
5 2 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.84%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.84%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.84%) Internet
5 2 (0.84%) LAN
5 2 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.84%) Wireless
6 1 (0.42%) DHCP
6 1 (0.42%) OSPF
6 1 (0.42%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (6.72%) NoSQL
4 13 (5.46%) Amazon Athena
4 13 (5.46%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.04%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (5.04%) SQL Server
6 11 (4.62%) Data Lake
7 10 (4.20%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (4.20%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.36%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.94%) DynamoDB
9 7 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.52%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.52%) MySQL
11 4 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.68%) Metadata
11 4 (1.68%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.68%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (13.45%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.18%) GitLab
3 26 (10.92%) Git
4 25 (10.50%) JIRA
5 17 (7.14%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.62%) MLflow
7 10 (4.20%) Cypress.io
8 9 (3.78%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.78%) JUnit
9 8 (3.36%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.68%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.26%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.26%) IntelliJ
12 3 (1.26%) PyCharm
12 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio Code
12 3 (1.26%) Vite
13 2 (0.84%) ERwin
13 2 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 80 (33.61%) Finance
2 57 (23.95%) Social Skills
3 53 (22.27%) Banking
4 52 (21.85%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.04%) Retail Banking
7 8 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.94%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.52%) Legal
9 6 (2.52%) Retail
10 3 (1.26%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.42%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.42%) Marketing
12 1 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (17.65%) Architect
2 39 (16.39%) Developer
3 33 (13.87%) Senior
4 23 (9.66%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (7.98%) Lead
6 17 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
7 14 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 14 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.88%) Python Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 12 (5.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 11 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.62%) Technical Leader
10 10 (4.20%) Security Engineer
10 10 (4.20%) Technical Architect
11 9 (3.78%) Site Engineer
12 8 (3.36%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.36%) Full-Stack Developer
12 8 (3.36%) Lead Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (10.92%) React
2 25 (10.50%) Node.js
3 24 (10.08%) Spring
4 22 (9.24%) Spring Boot
5 18 (7.56%) AWS CDK
6 16 (6.72%) PySpark
6 16 (6.72%) PyTorch
7 15 (6.30%) Pandas
7 15 (6.30%) REST
7 15 (6.30%) RESTful
8 14 (5.88%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.88%) NumPy
9 12 (5.04%) Hugging Face
10 11 (4.62%) SQLAlchemy
11 10 (4.20%) OAuth
11 10 (4.20%) OpenCV
12 9 (3.78%) FastAPI
13 8 (3.36%) boto
13 8 (3.36%) Next.js
14 7 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.87%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.72%) Legacy Systems
4 14 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 13 (5.46%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (4.62%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.62%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.78%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.36%) IVR
9 7 (2.94%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.52%) NHS
11 5 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.10%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.10%) Replication
12 4 (1.68%) Clustering
12 4 (1.68%) PKI
13 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.26%) CMDB
13 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.13%) Linux
2 22 (9.24%) Unix
3 18 (7.56%) Windows
4 7 (2.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.68%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.26%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.84%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (49.58%) CI/CD
2 94 (39.50%) Agile
3 90 (37.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 80 (33.61%) DevOps
5 56 (23.53%) Migration
6 52 (21.85%) Containerisation
7 44 (18.49%) AI
8 41 (17.23%) Machine Learning
8 41 (17.23%) Microservices
9 39 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (11.34%) Analytics
11 27 (11.34%) Observability
11 27 (11.34%) Performance Tuning
11 27 (11.34%) Roadmaps
12 25 (10.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 24 (10.08%) Software Engineering
14 23 (9.66%) High Availability
14 23 (9.66%) TDD
15 22 (9.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 119 (50.00%) Python
2 51 (21.43%) Java
3 31 (13.03%) SQL
4 29 (12.18%) TypeScript
5 25 (10.50%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.88%) Bash
6 14 (5.88%) Perl
7 11 (4.62%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.36%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.94%) Ruby
10 6 (2.52%) Go
11 5 (2.10%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.26%) C#
12 3 (1.26%) PromQL
13 2 (0.84%) Korn
14 1 (0.42%) Bicep
14 1 (0.42%) Groovy
14 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.42%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 28 (11.76%) AWS Certification
2 23 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 19 (7.98%) Degree
4 14 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (5.04%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.94%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.10%) CISSP
10 4 (1.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.68%) CCNP
10 4 (1.68%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.26%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.26%) PMP
11 3 (1.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.84%) CISM
12 2 (0.84%) FFIEC
12 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 17 (7.14%) QA
2 15 (6.30%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.78%) GDPR
3 9 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.36%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (1.68%) COBIT
6 4 (1.68%) NIST
7 3 (1.26%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.26%) PMO
8 2 (0.84%) NCSC
8 2 (0.84%) SLA
9 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.42%) IFRS
9 1 (0.42%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.42%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.42%) PSD2
9 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 51 (21.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.68%) KVM
2 4 (1.68%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.84%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 76 (31.93%) Terraform
2 63 (26.47%) Kubernetes
3 47 (19.75%) Ansible
4 35 (14.71%) Grafana
5 22 (9.24%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.68%) Fluentd
6 4 (1.68%) Kibana
6 4 (1.68%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.26%) logstash
7 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.26%) SCCM
7 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.84%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.84%) Nagios
8 2 (0.84%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.42%) Argo
9 1 (0.42%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.42%) linkerd
9 1 (0.42%) vRealize
9 1 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 30 (12.61%) Oracle
2 21 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.72%) Splunk
4 14 (5.88%) Greenplum
5 12 (5.04%) Cisco
5 12 (5.04%) Databricks
6 11 (4.62%) Google
7 10 (4.20%) F5
8 8 (3.36%) Salesforce
9 7 (2.94%) IBM
9 7 (2.94%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.52%) Avaya
10 6 (2.52%) Pega
10 6 (2.52%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.10%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.10%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.10%) Genesys
11 5 (2.10%) Informatica
11 5 (2.10%) OpenAI
11 5 (2.10%) Talend