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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 9 7
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing AWS 224 240 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 13.18% 11.72% 15.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.54% 33.90% 41.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 173 305
10th Percentile £400 £400 £415
25th Percentile £450 £418 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £463 £495
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -6.57% -3.41%
75th Percentile £544 £538 £550
90th Percentile £600 £617 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £39.25
25th Percentile - - £45.63
Median hourly rate - - £57.50
75th Percentile - - £67.38
90th Percentile - - £72.55
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £46.18 £72.75
% change year-on-year +59.70% -36.52% +17.34%

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 613 708 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.06% 34.59% 36.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 478 725
10th Percentile £313 £213 £253
25th Percentile £413 £364 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -2.86%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £541
90th Percentile £598 £626 £614
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 10
10th Percentile £16.21 £14.91 £17.26
25th Percentile £17.90 £16.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £21.22 £17.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +24.82% -63.24% +14.20%
75th Percentile £25.06 £20.87 £62.39
90th Percentile £27.05 £27.14 £64.30
UK median hourly rate £27.76 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.18% -37.14% +59.09%

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

AWS
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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 +1 108 £475 +0.58% 255
Glasgow -10 97 £500 +10.38% 311
Lanarkshire +2 3 £525 +14.13% 22
Aberdeen - 3 £475 - 77
Perthshire +3 2 £625 -10.71%
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
AWS
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 16 (7.14%) Confluence
2 7 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.34%) Apache
3 3 (1.34%) JBoss
3 3 (1.34%) Tomcat
3 3 (1.34%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.34%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.89%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.89%) Camunda
4 2 (0.89%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
5 1 (0.45%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (2.23%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.45%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 77 (34.38%) Azure
2 62 (27.68%) Amazon S3
3 54 (24.11%) Serverless
4 46 (20.54%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (15.18%) GitHub
6 26 (11.61%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
8 22 (9.82%) GCP
9 16 (7.14%) Snowflake
10 15 (6.70%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
12 13 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 12 (5.36%) AWS CodePipeline
13 12 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (5.36%) OpenShift
14 11 (4.91%) Amazon Cognito
14 11 (4.91%) SaaS
15 10 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (2.68%) Cohesity
16 6 (2.68%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.46%) Firewall
2 7 (3.13%) SAN
3 6 (2.68%) NAS
4 5 (2.23%) Network Security
4 5 (2.23%) VPN
5 4 (1.79%) BGP
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.79%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.79%) OSPF
5 4 (1.79%) SD-WAN
5 4 (1.79%) WAN
5 4 (1.79%) Wireless
6 2 (0.89%) DNS
6 2 (0.89%) IPsec
6 2 (0.89%) SMS
7 1 (0.45%) DHCP
7 1 (0.45%) SSL
7 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (12.95%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 20 (8.93%) Amazon RDS
4 17 (7.59%) MongoDB
5 16 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (6.25%) Oracle Database
7 10 (4.46%) DynamoDB
7 10 (4.46%) Relational Database
8 9 (4.02%) MySQL
8 9 (4.02%) NoSQL
9 8 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (3.57%) DB2
10 7 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.79%) GIS
11 4 (1.79%) MariaDB
11 4 (1.79%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.34%) Hadoop
12 3 (1.34%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (1.34%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 39 (17.41%) Jenkins
2 31 (13.84%) Git
3 29 (12.95%) JIRA
4 23 (10.27%) Bitbucket
5 17 (7.59%) Cypress.io
6 13 (5.80%) GitLab
7 10 (4.46%) Storybook
8 9 (4.02%) IntelliJ
8 9 (4.02%) Visual Studio Code
9 8 (3.57%) PyCharm
9 8 (3.57%) Visual Studio
10 7 (3.13%) JUnit
11 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
11 4 (1.79%) Gradle
11 4 (1.79%) Maven
12 3 (1.34%) Mockito
12 3 (1.34%) Newman
12 3 (1.34%) Selenium
13 2 (0.89%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.89%) Snyk
General
1 80 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 60 (26.79%) Finance
3 41 (18.30%) Public Sector
4 32 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (7.59%) Banking
6 10 (4.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.79%) Law
8 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.34%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.89%) Front Office
9 2 (0.89%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.89%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Automotive
10 1 (0.45%) Legal
10 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.45%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 57 (25.45%) Developer
2 28 (12.50%) Architect
3 27 (12.05%) Senior
4 19 (8.48%) AWS Engineer
4 19 (8.48%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (7.59%) Data Engineer
6 16 (7.14%) Java Developer
7 14 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 14 (6.25%) Lead
8 13 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.91%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.46%) Analyst
11 9 (4.02%) Senior Developer
11 9 (4.02%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.57%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Python Engineer
13 7 (3.13%) Python Developer
14 6 (2.68%) React Developer
15 5 (2.23%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (14.73%) Spring
2 29 (12.95%) AWS CDK
2 29 (12.95%) React
3 28 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 18 (8.04%) CSS
4 18 (8.04%) RESTful
5 12 (5.36%) Jest
5 12 (5.36%) Kafka
6 11 (4.91%) Node.js
7 10 (4.46%) REST
8 9 (4.02%) HTML
8 9 (4.02%) OAuth
8 9 (4.02%) Tailwind CSS
9 6 (2.68%) JSON
9 6 (2.68%) OpenID
9 6 (2.68%) SAML
10 5 (2.23%) AngularJS
10 5 (2.23%) Next.js
11 4 (1.79%) GraphQL
11 4 (1.79%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 18 (8.04%) Data Protection Act
3 15 (6.70%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.91%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.68%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.79%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.79%) Replication
9 3 (1.34%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.34%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle Licensing
9 3 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.89%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.41%) Linux
2 32 (14.29%) Windows
3 18 (8.04%) Unix
4 14 (6.25%) Windows Server
5 7 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.23%) Amazon Linux
7 2 (0.89%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.45%) AIX
8 1 (0.45%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (40.18%) CI/CD
2 82 (36.61%) Agile
3 64 (28.57%) DevOps
4 59 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (21.88%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (16.52%) SDLC
7 36 (16.07%) Microservices
8 34 (15.18%) Test Automation
9 27 (12.05%) Data Protection
10 25 (11.16%) Computer Science
10 25 (11.16%) ETL
11 24 (10.71%) Migration
12 23 (10.27%) Containerisation
12 23 (10.27%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (9.82%) Scrum
14 19 (8.48%) Observability
15 18 (8.04%) Continuous Delivery
15 18 (8.04%) Performance Tuning
15 18 (8.04%) Software Engineering
16 17 (7.59%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.16%) Python
2 69 (30.80%) Java
3 41 (18.30%) TypeScript
4 38 (16.96%) SQL
5 29 (12.95%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.46%) C#
7 8 (3.57%) Bash
7 8 (3.57%) Go
8 7 (3.13%) Perl
9 5 (2.23%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.79%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.34%) Groovy
11 3 (1.34%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (16.96%) AWS Certification
2 33 (14.73%) Degree
3 20 (8.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 18 (8.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.46%) Azure Certification
6 6 (2.68%) CISSP
7 5 (2.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.79%) CCNP
8 4 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.79%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.79%) Security Cleared
9 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.34%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.34%) PMP
10 2 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.45%) CISA
11 1 (0.45%) CISM
11 1 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.36%) Data Quality
1 12 (5.36%) QA
2 10 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 9 (4.02%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.34%) GRC
4 3 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.89%) GDPR
5 2 (0.89%) NIST
5 2 (0.89%) WCAG
6 1 (0.45%) COBIT
6 1 (0.45%) DICOM
6 1 (0.45%) HL7
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 13485
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (12.05%) Docker
2 7 (3.13%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.34%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.45%) GPFS
4 1 (0.45%) NFS
4 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 54 (24.11%) Terraform
2 45 (20.09%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.59%) Ansible
4 12 (5.36%) Grafana
5 9 (4.02%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.68%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.79%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.89%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.89%) Podman
10 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.45%) Istio
10 1 (0.45%) Kibana
10 1 (0.45%) linkerd
10 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.45%) Puppet
10 1 (0.45%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.45%) SCCM
10 1 (0.45%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 28 (12.50%) Oracle
2 10 (4.46%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.02%) IBM
4 8 (3.57%) Google
5 7 (3.13%) Veritas
6 6 (2.68%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.68%) Informatica
6 6 (2.68%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.68%) VMware
7 5 (2.23%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.23%) Splunk
7 5 (2.23%) Sybase
8 4 (1.79%) Cisco
8 4 (1.79%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.79%) ForgeRock
8 4 (1.79%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.79%) StreamSets
9 3 (1.34%) ServiceNow
9 3 (1.34%) Teradata
10 2 (0.89%) F5