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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 202 310
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.41% 11.31% 12.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 44.50% 35.69% 39.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 133 234
10th Percentile £368 £365 £375
25th Percentile £425 £420 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £565 £538 £572
90th Percentile £637 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £560 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +1.82% -6.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK median hourly rate £76.50 £46.18 £59.00
% change year-on-year +65.66% -21.73% +21.03%

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 600 566 793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.88% 31.69% 32.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 347 548
10th Percentile £320 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.26%
75th Percentile £573 £530 £565
90th Percentile £625 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 5
10th Percentile £13.58 £18.22 -
25th Percentile £14.15 £19.36 £15.42
Median hourly rate £15.09 £23.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -34.65% +30.30% -
75th Percentile £37.55 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £51.02 £27.39 £26.59
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.74 £32.15
% change year-on-year -25.45% +4.93% +46.14%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +12 151 £465 +9.41% 58
Edinburgh 0 106 £503 +1.72% 56
Perthshire +3 2 £625 -10.71%
South Lanarkshire - 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 12 (4.49%) Confluence
2 11 (4.12%) Apache Airflow
2 11 (4.12%) WebLogic
3 10 (3.75%) Apache
4 6 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.50%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.75%) JBoss
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) FileNet
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 109 (40.82%) Azure
2 60 (22.47%) Serverless
3 47 (17.60%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (17.23%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (16.85%) Amazon S3
6 39 (14.61%) GCP
7 37 (13.86%) GitHub
8 28 (10.49%) Amazon EKS
9 25 (9.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (8.61%) Amazon EC2
10 23 (8.61%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (8.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
13 17 (6.37%) Snowflake
14 16 (5.99%) Azure DevOps
15 14 (5.24%) OpenShift
16 12 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
16 12 (4.49%) SaaS
17 9 (3.37%) Amazon SageMaker
18 6 (2.25%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.74%) Firewall
2 7 (2.62%) Network Security
3 6 (2.25%) VPN
4 3 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.12%) HTTP
5 2 (0.75%) BGP
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.75%) Internet
5 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.75%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) Wireless
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) OSPF
6 1 (0.37%) SMS
6 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.49%) Amazon Aurora
3 18 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (5.99%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (5.62%) NoSQL
6 13 (4.87%) Relational Database
7 11 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
8 10 (3.75%) SQL Server
9 9 (3.37%) MongoDB
10 8 (3.00%) MySQL
10 8 (3.00%) Oracle Database
11 7 (2.62%) DynamoDB
12 6 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (1.87%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
14 4 (1.50%) RDBMS
15 3 (1.12%) MariaDB
15 3 (1.12%) Metadata
15 3 (1.12%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 45 (16.85%) Jenkins
2 41 (15.36%) Git
3 40 (14.98%) JIRA
4 29 (10.86%) Bitbucket
5 23 (8.61%) GitLab
6 13 (4.87%) Cypress.io
6 13 (4.87%) IntelliJ
6 13 (4.87%) Visual Studio Code
7 12 (4.49%) PyCharm
7 12 (4.49%) Visual Studio
8 9 (3.37%) CircleCI
9 8 (3.00%) JUnit
10 7 (2.62%) MLflow
10 7 (2.62%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (2.62%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
12 4 (1.50%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.50%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.12%) Snyk
13 3 (1.12%) Vite
General
1 97 (36.33%) Finance
2 70 (26.22%) Social Skills
3 52 (19.48%) Public Sector
4 47 (17.60%) Banking
5 19 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.75%) Retail Banking
7 8 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.25%) Legal
9 5 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.87%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.87%) Retail
10 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.37%) Marketing
11 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 50 (18.73%) Developer
2 46 (17.23%) Architect
3 35 (13.11%) Senior
4 30 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 28 (10.49%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (8.99%) Lead
7 20 (7.49%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 15 (5.62%) Java Developer
9 12 (4.49%) Software Engineer
9 12 (4.49%) Technical Leader
10 11 (4.12%) AWS Architect
10 11 (4.12%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.12%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) Site Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.61%) React
2 25 (9.36%) Node.js
3 24 (8.99%) Spring
4 22 (8.24%) Spring Boot
5 21 (7.87%) AWS CDK
6 20 (7.49%) RESTful
7 17 (6.37%) OAuth
8 16 (5.99%) PyTorch
9 15 (5.62%) Pandas
9 15 (5.62%) REST
10 14 (5.24%) AngularJS
10 14 (5.24%) NumPy
11 12 (4.49%) Hugging Face
11 12 (4.49%) PySpark
12 11 (4.12%) SQLAlchemy
13 10 (3.75%) OpenCV
14 9 (3.37%) FastAPI
14 9 (3.37%) HTML
14 9 (3.37%) Next.js
15 8 (3.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.48%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.24%) Public Cloud
3 21 (7.87%) Data Protection Act
4 19 (7.12%) Legacy Systems
5 16 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
6 10 (3.75%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.00%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.00%) IVR
8 7 (2.62%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.25%) NHS
9 6 (2.25%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.25%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.50%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.12%) CMDB
11 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.12%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 56 (20.97%) Linux
2 29 (10.86%) Windows
3 22 (8.24%) Unix
4 9 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (50.56%) CI/CD
2 124 (46.44%) Agile
3 105 (39.33%) DevOps
4 92 (34.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (19.10%) Containerisation
5 51 (19.10%) Migration
6 47 (17.60%) Microservices
7 41 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
7 41 (15.36%) SDLC
8 38 (14.23%) AI
9 36 (13.48%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (13.11%) Machine Learning
11 33 (12.36%) Roadmaps
11 33 (12.36%) Software Engineering
12 32 (11.99%) Observability
13 31 (11.61%) Disaster Recovery
14 30 (11.24%) Test Automation
15 28 (10.49%) Data Protection
16 26 (9.74%) Analytics
17 25 (9.36%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 111 (41.57%) Python
2 75 (28.09%) Java
3 44 (16.48%) TypeScript
4 23 (8.61%) SQL
5 18 (6.74%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.37%) Perl
7 16 (5.99%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.24%) C#
9 12 (4.49%) Bash
10 10 (3.75%) Go
11 6 (2.25%) Ruby
11 6 (2.25%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.87%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.50%) PromQL
14 2 (0.75%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) Bicep
15 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 35 (13.11%) AWS Certification
2 23 (8.61%) Degree
3 17 (6.37%) Security Cleared
4 14 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.49%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.75%) CISSP
8 7 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.62%) Master's Degree
9 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.50%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.12%) CCNP
11 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.12%) CISM
11 3 (1.12%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.12%) PMP
11 3 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.37%) CISA
13 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.49%) Accessibility
2 16 (5.99%) QA
3 10 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.00%) GDPR
6 6 (2.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (2.25%) PCI DSS
7 5 (1.87%) COBIT
7 5 (1.87%) NIST
8 3 (1.12%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.12%) PMO
9 2 (0.75%) GRC
9 2 (0.75%) NCSC
9 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.75%) SLA
9 2 (0.75%) WCAG
10 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.37%) IFRS
10 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.37%) PSD2
System Software
1 47 (17.60%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.50%) KVM
3 4 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 93 (34.83%) Terraform
2 80 (29.96%) Kubernetes
3 45 (16.85%) Ansible
4 37 (13.86%) Grafana
5 24 (8.99%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.87%) Argo
6 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.50%) Fluentd
7 4 (1.50%) Istio
7 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.12%) Kibana
8 3 (1.12%) logstash
9 2 (0.75%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.75%) Nagios
9 2 (0.75%) SCCM
10 1 (0.37%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.37%) linkerd
10 1 (0.37%) vRealize
10 1 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 35 (13.11%) Oracle
2 21 (7.87%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.24%) Splunk
4 10 (3.75%) Cisco
4 10 (3.75%) F5
4 10 (3.75%) Pega
5 8 (3.00%) Databricks
5 8 (3.00%) Salesforce
6 7 (2.62%) Google
6 7 (2.62%) Greenplum
6 7 (2.62%) IBM
6 7 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.25%) Dynatrace
8 5 (1.87%) Avaya
8 5 (1.87%) ForgeRock
8 5 (1.87%) Genesys
9 4 (1.50%) CheckPoint
9 4 (1.50%) Dell
9 4 (1.50%) HP
9 4 (1.50%) Red Hat