AWS Contracts in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing AWS 219 240 414
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.22% 11.26% 15.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.38% 33.06% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 176 305
10th Percentile £389 £400 £418
25th Percentile £425 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -4.81%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £574
90th Percentile £591 £615 £660
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £576
% change year-on-year -3.64% -4.56% +0.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £41.38
25th Percentile - - £50.94
Median hourly rate - - £66.75
75th Percentile - - £78.25
90th Percentile - - £82.30
UK median hourly rate £75.60 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +37.45% -26.67% +14.43%

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 619 726 962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.36% 34.07% 36.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 505 708
10th Percentile £311 £219 £250
25th Percentile £408 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £453 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -4.63% -2.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £589 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 11
10th Percentile £16.21 £16.08 £17.72
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £26.63
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £25.06 £22.28 £66.50
90th Percentile £27.05 £33.05 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £21.37 £37.00
% change year-on-year +31.02% -42.24% +65.18%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing AWS in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for AWS in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing AWS in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend 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 31 May 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
Edinburgh +5 104 £475 +1.17% 30
Glasgow -9 94 £500 +5.26% 42
Lanarkshire +4 4 £525 +14.13% 4
Aberdeen - 3 £475 - 3
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
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UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (7.76%) Confluence
2 6 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.37%) JBoss
3 3 (1.37%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.37%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.37%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.91%) Apache
4 2 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.91%) Camunda
4 2 (0.91%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.46%) nginx
5 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.28%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.46%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 68 (31.05%) Amazon S3
2 63 (28.77%) Serverless
3 62 (28.31%) Azure
4 52 (23.74%) AWS Lambda
5 33 (15.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 23 (10.50%) AWS CodePipeline
6 23 (10.50%) GitHub
7 22 (10.05%) OpenShift
8 18 (8.22%) Snowflake
9 17 (7.76%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (7.31%) GCP
11 14 (6.39%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 12 (5.48%) SaaS
13 11 (5.02%) Amazon Cognito
13 11 (5.02%) PaaS
14 10 (4.57%) Amazon EKS
14 10 (4.57%) AWS CodeBuild
15 9 (4.11%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.94%) Firewall
2 7 (3.20%) SAN
3 6 (2.74%) NAS
4 5 (2.28%) Network Security
5 4 (1.83%) BGP
5 4 (1.83%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.83%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.83%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.83%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.83%) OSPF
5 4 (1.83%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.83%) VPN
5 4 (1.83%) WAN
5 4 (1.83%) Wireless
6 2 (0.91%) IPsec
6 2 (0.91%) SMS
7 1 (0.46%) DNS
7 1 (0.46%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (15.07%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (10.50%) Amazon RDS
2 23 (10.50%) Data Warehouse
3 21 (9.59%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (7.76%) MongoDB
5 14 (6.39%) Oracle Database
6 12 (5.48%) MySQL
6 12 (5.48%) Relational Database
7 11 (5.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 9 (4.11%) DynamoDB
8 9 (4.11%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.65%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (3.65%) DB2
10 7 (3.20%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.28%) GIS
11 5 (2.28%) MariaDB
12 4 (1.83%) SQL Server
13 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (1.37%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 38 (17.35%) Jenkins
2 29 (13.24%) Git
3 25 (11.42%) JIRA
4 21 (9.59%) GitLab
5 20 (9.13%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.94%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.57%) Storybook
8 7 (3.20%) JUnit
9 6 (2.74%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.83%) Gradle
10 4 (1.83%) Maven
10 4 (1.83%) webpack
11 3 (1.37%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.37%) Mockito
11 3 (1.37%) Newman
11 3 (1.37%) PyCharm
11 3 (1.37%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.37%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.91%) Ant
12 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 65 (29.68%) Social Skills
2 49 (22.37%) Finance
3 45 (20.55%) Public Sector
4 28 (12.79%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (8.68%) Banking
6 8 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.83%) Law
7 4 (1.83%) Tech for Good
8 3 (1.37%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.37%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.91%) Front Office
9 2 (0.91%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Legal
10 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.46%) Retail
Job Titles
1 61 (27.85%) Developer
2 27 (12.33%) Architect
2 27 (12.33%) Data Engineer
3 21 (9.59%) Senior
4 20 (9.13%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (9.13%) Java Developer
5 16 (7.31%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
6 13 (5.94%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (5.02%) AWS Developer
8 10 (4.57%) Analyst
8 10 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.11%) Lead
10 8 (3.65%) React Developer
10 8 (3.65%) Senior Developer
10 8 (3.65%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.20%) Software Developer
12 5 (2.28%) Business Analyst
12 5 (2.28%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.28%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (16.89%) AWS CDK
1 37 (16.89%) Spring
2 33 (15.07%) Spring Boot
3 30 (13.70%) React
4 18 (8.22%) RESTful
5 17 (7.76%) CSS
6 16 (7.31%) REST
7 13 (5.94%) Node.js
8 12 (5.48%) Jest
9 11 (5.02%) Kafka
10 9 (4.11%) Tailwind CSS
11 8 (3.65%) HTML
12 7 (3.20%) JSON
12 7 (3.20%) PostGIS
13 6 (2.74%) AngularJS
13 6 (2.74%) PySpark
14 5 (2.28%) GraphQL
15 4 (1.83%) CSS3
15 4 (1.83%) Hibernate
15 4 (1.83%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.87%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.39%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (3.20%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (3.20%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.20%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.74%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.28%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.28%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.37%) Equity Derivative
7 3 (1.37%) Oracle Licensing
7 3 (1.37%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.37%) Replication
7 3 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.46%) NVMe
9 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.16%) Linux
2 24 (10.96%) Windows
3 15 (6.85%) Unix
4 12 (5.48%) Windows Server
5 9 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.28%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.91%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.46%) AIX
8 1 (0.46%) CentOS
8 1 (0.46%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (44.29%) CI/CD
2 70 (31.96%) Agile
3 56 (25.57%) DevOps
4 51 (23.29%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (21.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (15.07%) Test Automation
7 30 (13.70%) Microservices
7 30 (13.70%) Scrum
8 29 (13.24%) Containerisation
9 27 (12.33%) ETL
10 26 (11.87%) Computer Science
11 24 (10.96%) Migration
12 23 (10.50%) Data Protection
12 23 (10.50%) SDLC
13 20 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 19 (8.68%) Continuous Delivery
14 19 (8.68%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (8.68%) Observability
15 16 (7.31%) Data Engineering
15 16 (7.31%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 92 (42.01%) Python
2 58 (26.48%) Java
3 49 (22.37%) SQL
4 36 (16.44%) TypeScript
5 28 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.85%) Bash
7 6 (2.74%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.28%) C#
8 5 (2.28%) Go
9 4 (1.83%) Groovy
9 4 (1.83%) Perl
10 3 (1.37%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.91%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (18.26%) AWS Certification
2 28 (12.79%) Degree
3 22 (10.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 17 (7.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (5.02%) Azure Certification
6 7 (3.20%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (2.74%) CISSP
8 4 (1.83%) CCNP
8 4 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.83%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.83%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.37%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.37%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.37%) PMP
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.46%) CEH
11 1 (0.46%) GCFA
11 1 (0.46%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.48%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.57%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.11%) QA
4 3 (1.37%) GRC
4 3 (1.37%) WCAG
5 2 (0.91%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) NIST
5 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
6 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (15.53%) Docker
2 4 (1.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.37%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.46%) GPFS
5 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.46%) NFS
Systems Management
1 48 (21.92%) Terraform
2 40 (18.26%) Kubernetes
3 15 (6.85%) Ansible
4 14 (6.39%) Grafana
5 9 (4.11%) Oracle RMAN
6 6 (2.74%) NetBackup
7 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.37%) Kibana
8 3 (1.37%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.91%) Podman
9 2 (0.91%) Puppet
10 1 (0.46%) Argo
10 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.46%) Istio
10 1 (0.46%) linkerd
10 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.46%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.46%) SCCM
10 1 (0.46%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 27 (12.33%) Oracle
2 9 (4.11%) IBM
3 7 (3.20%) Google
3 7 (3.20%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.20%) Veritas
4 6 (2.74%) AppDynamics
4 6 (2.74%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.74%) VMware
5 5 (2.28%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.28%) Informatica
5 5 (2.28%) Splunk
5 5 (2.28%) Sybase
6 4 (1.83%) Cisco
6 4 (1.83%) Palo Alto
6 4 (1.83%) StreamSets
7 3 (1.37%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.37%) Teradata
8 2 (0.91%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.91%) ForgeRock
8 2 (0.91%) Imperva