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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 10
Rank change year-on-year -5 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 278 264 227
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.65% 16.41% 12.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 32.67% 44.59% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 176 151
10th Percentile £360 £400 £389
25th Percentile £411 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £543 £561 £536
90th Percentile £650 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -34.03%

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 851 592 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.67% 36.79% 31.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 500 372 375
10th Percentile £287 £350 £213
25th Percentile £400 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £538
90th Percentile £638 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £13.97 £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile - £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% +19.31%
75th Percentile £18.75 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile - £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £32.00 £26.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +21.67% -24.86% +6.06%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -2 142 £425 -14.66% 241
Edinburgh -2 115 £475 -5.00% 126
Dumfries and Galloway - 7 - - 27
West Lothian - 4 - - 6
South Lanarkshire -5 3 - -
Aberdeen - 3 £475 - 9
Dundee - 1 - - 6
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 19 (6.83%) Apache
2 15 (5.40%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.68%) Confluence
4 9 (3.24%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.44%) JBoss
6 2 (0.72%) nginx
6 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.36%) IIS
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.08%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.36%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 100 (35.97%) Azure
2 90 (32.37%) GCP
3 55 (19.78%) Serverless
4 47 (16.91%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (14.75%) Amazon S3
6 31 (11.15%) Amazon EKS
6 31 (11.15%) GitHub
7 27 (9.71%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (8.63%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.40%) Kong
10 15 (5.40%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (5.04%) OpenShift
12 13 (4.68%) Amazon MSK
12 13 (4.68%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (4.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (3.96%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (3.60%) Apigee
16 9 (3.24%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.68%) DNS
2 10 (3.60%) Firewall
3 8 (2.88%) HTTP
4 6 (2.16%) SSL
5 4 (1.44%) Broadband
5 4 (1.44%) Network Security
6 3 (1.08%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.08%) iSCSI
6 3 (1.08%) LAN
6 3 (1.08%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.08%) SSH
6 3 (1.08%) WAN
7 2 (0.72%) CTI
7 2 (0.72%) IPv4
7 2 (0.72%) IPv6
7 2 (0.72%) OSPF
7 2 (0.72%) SAN
7 2 (0.72%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.72%) VPN
7 2 (0.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.07%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.40%) Amazon Aurora
2 15 (5.40%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.96%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (3.96%) MySQL
4 10 (3.60%) Amazon Athena
4 10 (3.60%) Data Lake
5 8 (2.88%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (2.88%) DynamoDB
6 7 (2.52%) MariaDB
7 6 (2.16%) Metadata
7 6 (2.16%) Power BI
8 5 (1.80%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.44%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.44%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.08%) Delta Lake
10 3 (1.08%) Flink
10 3 (1.08%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (16.19%) Git
2 42 (15.11%) Jenkins
3 21 (7.55%) JIRA
4 18 (6.47%) GitLab
5 14 (5.04%) Maven
6 12 (4.32%) Bitbucket
6 12 (4.32%) Gradle
7 11 (3.96%) Claude Code
7 11 (3.96%) Cypress.io
7 11 (3.96%) JUnit
8 9 (3.24%) Selenium
9 8 (2.88%) GoCD
10 7 (2.52%) JProfiler
11 6 (2.16%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.16%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.80%) Postman
13 4 (1.44%) Subversion
14 3 (1.08%) Appium
14 3 (1.08%) SpecFlow
14 3 (1.08%) webpack
General
1 75 (26.98%) Finance
2 61 (21.94%) Social Skills
3 56 (20.14%) Public Sector
4 43 (15.47%) Banking
5 22 (7.91%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.60%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.16%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (1.44%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.44%) Legal
10 3 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.08%) Marketing
10 3 (1.08%) Retail
11 2 (0.72%) Front Office
11 2 (0.72%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Military
12 1 (0.36%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 66 (23.74%) Developer
2 41 (14.75%) Architect
3 22 (7.91%) Java Developer
4 19 (6.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (6.83%) Lead
4 19 (6.83%) Senior
5 18 (6.47%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (6.47%) Data Engineer
6 17 (6.12%) Analyst
6 17 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.12%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 11 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (3.60%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.24%) GCP Engineer
9 9 (3.24%) Python Developer
10 8 (2.88%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (2.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (2.88%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (20.86%) Terraform
2 43 (15.47%) REST
3 41 (14.75%) Spring
4 38 (13.67%) Spring Boot
5 35 (12.59%) React
6 28 (10.07%) Kafka
7 24 (8.63%) RESTful
8 23 (8.27%) Node.js
9 17 (6.12%) OAuth
10 14 (5.04%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.04%) OAuth2
11 13 (4.68%) AWS CDK
12 10 (3.60%) FastAPI
12 10 (3.60%) OpenID
12 10 (3.60%) Swagger
13 9 (3.24%) JWT
13 9 (3.24%) OpenAPI
13 9 (3.24%) SOAP
14 8 (2.88%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (2.88%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 69 (24.82%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.04%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.68%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (3.96%) Data Structures
5 11 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
6 10 (3.60%) Enterprise Cloud
7 9 (3.24%) AI Agents
7 9 (3.24%) Data Centre
8 8 (2.88%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.52%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.16%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.44%) IVR
11 4 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.44%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.44%) Replication
11 4 (1.44%) Social Media
12 3 (1.08%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (1.08%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (10.79%) Linux
2 11 (3.96%) Windows
3 10 (3.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.72%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (45.68%) CI/CD
2 87 (31.29%) DevOps
3 86 (30.94%) Agile
4 73 (26.26%) AI
5 70 (25.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 51 (18.35%) Containerisation
7 49 (17.63%) Microservices
8 37 (13.31%) Platform Engineering
9 36 (12.95%) Event-Driven
10 35 (12.59%) Observability
10 35 (12.59%) Software Engineering
11 34 (12.23%) Migration
12 32 (11.51%) Continuous Improvement
13 31 (11.15%) Machine Learning
13 31 (11.15%) Problem-Solving
14 30 (10.79%) Scrum
15 29 (10.43%) LLM
15 29 (10.43%) Mentoring
15 29 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (10.43%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.33%) Python
2 66 (23.74%) Java
3 49 (17.63%) SQL
4 37 (13.31%) TypeScript
5 36 (12.95%) JavaScript
6 25 (8.99%) Bash
7 21 (7.55%) Shell Script
8 16 (5.76%) Go
9 7 (2.52%) Lua
9 7 (2.52%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.16%) C#
11 4 (1.44%) Groovy
11 4 (1.44%) Ruby
12 3 (1.08%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.72%) Cypher
13 2 (0.72%) Scala
13 2 (0.72%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.72%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.36%) Dart
14 1 (0.36%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (12.95%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.63%) SC Cleared
3 11 (3.96%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.96%) Degree
4 10 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.80%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.44%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.08%) CISSP
9 2 (0.72%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.72%) CBAP
9 2 (0.72%) CCSK
9 2 (0.72%) CISM
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.72%) RHCE
9 2 (0.72%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.36%) LFCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.19%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.68%) Disclosure Scotland
3 12 (4.32%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.24%) QA
5 5 (1.80%) GDPR
6 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) GRC
7 1 (0.36%) HL7
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) NIST
7 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.36%) PSD2
7 1 (0.36%) SEPA
7 1 (0.36%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) Solvency II
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (16.55%) Docker
2 6 (2.16%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.16%) zsh
3 3 (1.08%) Ceph
3 3 (1.08%) GPFS
3 3 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.08%) NFS
4 2 (0.72%) Squid
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 93 (33.45%) Kubernetes
2 27 (9.71%) Ansible
3 11 (3.96%) Grafana
4 10 (3.60%) Argo
5 4 (1.44%) Istio
6 3 (1.08%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.72%) linkerd
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.72%) Netcool
8 1 (0.36%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.36%) Kibana
8 1 (0.36%) logstash
8 1 (0.36%) Podman
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
8 1 (0.36%) yum
Vendors
1 36 (12.95%) Google
2 20 (7.19%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.19%) Oracle
3 16 (5.76%) Splunk
4 11 (3.96%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.24%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.24%) Informatica
6 8 (2.88%) VMware
7 7 (2.52%) Cisco
7 7 (2.52%) Databricks
7 7 (2.52%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.16%) Dell
8 6 (2.16%) ForgeRock
9 5 (1.80%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.44%) IBM
11 3 (1.08%) Foundry
11 3 (1.08%) Greenplum
11 3 (1.08%) Okta
11 3 (1.08%) Talend