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 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 11 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 252 204 270
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.61% 12.30% 11.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.37% 35.48% 36.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 147 200
10th Percentile £358 £356 £375
25th Percentile £419 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £570
90th Percentile £630 £627 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £555 £550
% change year-on-year -5.41% +0.91% -6.38%
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 £84.00 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +81.90% -19.69% +4.55%

All Cloud 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 581 575 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.30% 34.68% 30.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 363 495
10th Percentile £313 £274 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £575
90th Percentile £638 £600 £683
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 3
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 -
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +52.40% -12.98%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £16.57
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £17.26
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £27.50 £25.19
% change year-on-year -3.64% +9.17% +11.96%

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 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 +11 150 £450 +2.04% 68
Edinburgh -1 94 £510 +3.40% 82
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 (4.76%) Apache
2 11 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.97%) Confluence
4 9 (3.57%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.79%) nginx
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) FileNet
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (42.06%) Azure
2 63 (25.00%) Serverless
3 48 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
4 47 (18.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 41 (16.27%) Amazon S3
6 38 (15.08%) GCP
7 28 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (10.32%) Amazon EKS
8 26 (10.32%) GitHub
9 25 (9.92%) Snowflake
10 22 (8.73%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
12 18 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (7.14%) OpenShift
13 16 (6.35%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (4.37%) Amazon SageMaker
16 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
16 10 (3.97%) SaaS
17 8 (3.17%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.52%) Firewall
2 7 (2.78%) Network Security
3 5 (1.98%) VPN
4 3 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.19%) HTTP
4 3 (1.19%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.19%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) BGP
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.79%) DHCP
5 2 (0.79%) DNS
5 2 (0.79%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.79%) Internet
5 2 (0.79%) LAN
5 2 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (6.35%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.16%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (5.16%) Amazon Aurora
5 13 (5.16%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.76%) SQL Server
7 10 (3.97%) Data Lake
7 10 (3.97%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.17%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.17%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (2.78%) MySQL
10 6 (2.38%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.59%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.59%) Metadata
11 4 (1.59%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 35 (13.89%) JIRA
3 34 (13.49%) Git
4 30 (11.90%) GitLab
5 24 (9.52%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.37%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.37%) MLflow
7 10 (3.97%) IntelliJ
7 10 (3.97%) Visual Studio Code
8 9 (3.57%) CircleCI
8 9 (3.57%) JUnit
8 9 (3.57%) PyCharm
8 9 (3.57%) Visual Studio
9 8 (3.17%) Sonatype Nexus
10 7 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (1.59%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
12 3 (1.19%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.19%) Vite
13 2 (0.79%) Mockito
General
1 89 (35.32%) Finance
2 55 (21.83%) Social Skills
3 53 (21.03%) Banking
3 53 (21.03%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.95%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.16%) Retail Banking
6 8 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.38%) Legal
8 6 (2.38%) Retail
9 5 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.19%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.40%) Marketing
12 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 46 (18.25%) Architect
2 43 (17.06%) Developer
3 34 (13.49%) Senior
4 26 (10.32%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.33%) Lead
7 17 (6.75%) Python Engineer
8 14 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.56%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 12 (4.76%) Technical Leader
10 11 (4.37%) AWS Architect
10 11 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.97%) Python Developer
11 10 (3.97%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
12 9 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.71%) React
2 26 (10.32%) Spring
3 25 (9.92%) Node.js
4 24 (9.52%) Spring Boot
5 19 (7.54%) AWS CDK
6 16 (6.35%) PySpark
6 16 (6.35%) PyTorch
6 16 (6.35%) RESTful
7 15 (5.95%) Pandas
7 15 (5.95%) REST
8 14 (5.56%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.56%) NumPy
9 12 (4.76%) Hugging Face
10 11 (4.37%) OAuth
10 11 (4.37%) SQLAlchemy
11 10 (3.97%) OpenCV
12 9 (3.57%) FastAPI
13 8 (3.17%) boto
13 8 (3.17%) Next.js
14 7 (2.78%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.49%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 17 (6.75%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (6.35%) Data Protection Act
4 16 (6.35%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (5.16%) Algorithms
6 10 (3.97%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.57%) Data Centre
8 8 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.17%) IVR
9 7 (2.78%) NHS
9 7 (2.78%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.98%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.98%) Product Ownership
11 4 (1.59%) Clustering
11 4 (1.59%) Replication
12 3 (1.19%) CMDB
12 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
12 3 (1.19%) PKI
12 3 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 46 (18.25%) Linux
2 24 (9.52%) Windows
3 22 (8.73%) Unix
4 7 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.79%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (50.79%) CI/CD
2 104 (41.27%) Agile
3 96 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
4 91 (36.11%) DevOps
5 58 (23.02%) Migration
6 55 (21.83%) Containerisation
7 45 (17.86%) Microservices
8 42 (16.67%) AI
9 39 (15.48%) Machine Learning
10 36 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (13.49%) Disaster Recovery
12 29 (11.51%) Roadmaps
13 28 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (11.11%) Observability
13 28 (11.11%) Software Engineering
14 27 (10.71%) Analytics
14 27 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
15 26 (10.32%) SDLC
16 24 (9.52%) Mentoring
17 23 (9.13%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 124 (49.21%) Python
2 64 (25.40%) Java
3 37 (14.68%) TypeScript
4 31 (12.30%) SQL
5 22 (8.73%) PowerShell
6 14 (5.56%) Perl
7 13 (5.16%) Bash
8 12 (4.76%) JavaScript
9 10 (3.97%) C#
10 8 (3.17%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.78%) Go
11 7 (2.78%) Ruby
12 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.19%) PromQL
14 2 (0.79%) Korn
15 1 (0.40%) Bicep
15 1 (0.40%) Groovy
15 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 30 (11.90%) AWS Certification
2 23 (9.13%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.33%) Degree
4 15 (5.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 13 (5.16%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.78%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.98%) CISSP
9 4 (1.59%) CCNP
9 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.19%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.19%) PMP
10 3 (1.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.79%) CISM
11 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.40%) CCNA
12 1 (0.40%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.75%) QA
3 14 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.57%) GDPR
4 9 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.78%) PCI DSS
6 6 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (1.59%) COBIT
7 4 (1.59%) NIST
8 3 (1.19%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.19%) PMO
9 2 (0.79%) NCSC
9 2 (0.79%) SLA
10 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.40%) COREP
10 1 (0.40%) IFRS
10 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.40%) PSD2
10 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 54 (21.43%) Docker
2 4 (1.59%) KVM
2 4 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 88 (34.92%) Terraform
2 76 (30.16%) Kubernetes
3 53 (21.03%) Ansible
4 36 (14.29%) Grafana
5 23 (9.13%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.59%) Argo
6 4 (1.59%) Fluentd
6 4 (1.59%) Kibana
6 4 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.19%) Istio
7 3 (1.19%) logstash
7 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.19%) SCCM
8 2 (0.79%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.79%) Nagios
8 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.40%) linkerd
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (12.30%) Oracle
2 20 (7.94%) Microsoft
3 16 (6.35%) Splunk
4 13 (5.16%) Greenplum
5 12 (4.76%) Cisco
5 12 (4.76%) Databricks
6 10 (3.97%) F5
6 10 (3.97%) Pega
7 8 (3.17%) Google
7 8 (3.17%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.78%) IBM
8 7 (2.78%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.38%) Avaya
9 6 (2.38%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.98%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.98%) Dynatrace
10 5 (1.98%) Genesys
11 4 (1.59%) Informatica
11 4 (1.59%) Meraki
11 4 (1.59%) Talend