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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 13 7
Rank change year-on-year +7 -6 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 260 197 312
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.25% 11.28% 12.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.99% 34.74% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 129 237
10th Percentile £361 £356 £379
25th Percentile £425 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £571 £538 £573
90th Percentile £638 £626 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK median hourly rate £85.00 £46.18 £60.00
% change year-on-year +84.06% -23.03% +33.33%

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 591 567 788
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.94% 32.47% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 343 542
10th Percentile £316 £264 £313
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £532 £575
90th Percentile £625 £613 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 4
10th Percentile £17.88 £18.34 -
25th Percentile £24.90 £20.13 £15.42
Median hourly rate £36.95 £23.50 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +57.24% +41.82% -6.49%
75th Percentile £48.65 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £55.46 £25.97 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £30.88 £27.00
% change year-on-year -16.65% +14.35% +22.28%

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 24 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 24 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 +12 146 £465 +9.67% 46
Edinburgh 0 103 £503 +1.72% 45
Perthshire +3 2 £625 -10.71%
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 13 (5.00%) Apache
1 13 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.62%) Confluence
3 11 (4.23%) WebLogic
4 9 (3.46%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.54%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.77%) JBoss
6 2 (0.77%) nginx
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.38%) FileNet
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 104 (40.00%) Azure
2 64 (24.62%) Serverless
3 51 (19.62%) AWS Lambda
4 48 (18.46%) AWS CloudFormation
5 45 (17.31%) Amazon S3
6 38 (14.62%) GCP
7 34 (13.08%) GitHub
8 28 (10.77%) Amazon EKS
9 27 (10.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 21 (8.08%) Amazon EC2
11 20 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (6.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (6.15%) Snowflake
14 14 (5.38%) OpenShift
15 13 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
16 12 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
17 11 (4.23%) Amazon SageMaker
17 11 (4.23%) SaaS
18 7 (2.69%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.23%) Firewall
2 8 (3.08%) Network Security
3 6 (2.31%) VPN
4 3 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.15%) HTTP
4 3 (1.15%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.15%) WAN
5 2 (0.77%) BGP
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.77%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.77%) Internet
5 2 (0.77%) LAN
5 2 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.77%) Wireless
6 1 (0.38%) DNS
6 1 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
2 20 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.31%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (5.77%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.38%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (5.38%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.85%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.08%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.08%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.08%) MySQL
8 8 (3.08%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.69%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.31%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.92%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.54%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.54%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.15%) Metadata
13 3 (1.15%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 40 (15.38%) Git
2 39 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 38 (14.62%) JIRA
4 27 (10.38%) Bitbucket
5 25 (9.62%) GitLab
6 13 (5.00%) Cypress.io
7 12 (4.62%) IntelliJ
7 12 (4.62%) Visual Studio Code
8 11 (4.23%) PyCharm
8 11 (4.23%) Visual Studio
9 10 (3.85%) MLflow
10 9 (3.46%) CircleCI
11 8 (3.08%) JUnit
12 7 (2.69%) Oracle Forms
12 7 (2.69%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.92%) Cucumber
14 4 (1.54%) Liquibase
14 4 (1.54%) Terragrunt
15 3 (1.15%) Snyk
15 3 (1.15%) Vite
General
1 95 (36.54%) Finance
2 65 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 52 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 44 (16.92%) Banking
5 18 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.85%) Retail Banking
7 8 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.31%) Legal
9 5 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.92%) Investment Banking
9 5 (1.92%) Retail
10 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.38%) Marketing
11 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (18.46%) Developer
2 46 (17.69%) Architect
3 36 (13.85%) Senior
4 27 (10.38%) AWS Engineer
5 25 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
5 25 (9.62%) Lead
6 19 (7.31%) Python Engineer
7 15 (5.77%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.38%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.38%) Technical Leader
9 12 (4.62%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) AWS Architect
10 11 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.23%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (3.85%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.46%) Site Engineer
12 9 (3.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.92%) React
2 25 (9.62%) Node.js
3 24 (9.23%) Spring
4 22 (8.46%) Spring Boot
5 21 (8.08%) AWS CDK
6 19 (7.31%) RESTful
7 17 (6.54%) OAuth
8 16 (6.15%) PyTorch
9 15 (5.77%) Pandas
9 15 (5.77%) PySpark
10 14 (5.38%) NumPy
10 14 (5.38%) REST
11 13 (5.00%) AngularJS
12 12 (4.62%) Hugging Face
13 11 (4.23%) SQLAlchemy
14 10 (3.85%) OpenCV
15 9 (3.46%) FastAPI
15 9 (3.46%) Next.js
16 8 (3.08%) boto
16 8 (3.08%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.85%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.08%) Data Protection Act
2 21 (8.08%) Public Cloud
3 19 (7.31%) Legacy Systems
4 16 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (4.62%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.46%) IVR
7 8 (3.08%) Data Centre
7 8 (3.08%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.69%) NHS
8 7 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 6 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.31%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.54%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.15%) CMDB
11 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.15%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.62%) Linux
2 26 (10.00%) Windows
3 20 (7.69%) Unix
4 7 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (48.85%) CI/CD
2 118 (45.38%) Agile
3 97 (37.31%) DevOps
4 90 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
5 55 (21.15%) Migration
6 52 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 47 (18.08%) Microservices
8 38 (14.62%) SDLC
9 36 (13.85%) AI
10 35 (13.46%) Machine Learning
10 35 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
11 33 (12.69%) Roadmaps
11 33 (12.69%) Software Engineering
12 32 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
13 31 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
14 28 (10.77%) Data Protection
14 28 (10.77%) Observability
15 27 (10.38%) Analytics
16 26 (10.00%) Mentoring
16 26 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 114 (43.85%) Python
2 73 (28.08%) Java
3 43 (16.54%) TypeScript
4 25 (9.62%) SQL
5 17 (6.54%) JavaScript
6 16 (6.15%) Perl
6 16 (6.15%) PowerShell
7 13 (5.00%) C#
8 11 (4.23%) Bash
9 9 (3.46%) Go
10 6 (2.31%) Ruby
11 5 (1.92%) PL/SQL
11 5 (1.92%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.15%) PromQL
13 2 (0.77%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) Bicep
14 1 (0.38%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 30 (11.54%) AWS Certification
2 23 (8.85%) Degree
3 18 (6.92%) Security Cleared
4 14 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.62%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.69%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.31%) CISSP
9 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.54%) CCNP
10 4 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.15%) CISM
11 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.15%) PMP
11 3 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.38%) CCNA
13 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.31%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.54%) QA
3 11 (4.23%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.46%) GDPR
6 7 (2.69%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.31%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (1.92%) COBIT
8 5 (1.92%) NIST
9 3 (1.15%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.15%) PMO
10 2 (0.77%) NCSC
10 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.77%) SLA
11 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.38%) IFRS
11 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.38%) PSD2
11 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (17.69%) Docker
2 4 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.54%) KVM
2 4 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 89 (34.23%) Terraform
2 80 (30.77%) Kubernetes
3 44 (16.92%) Ansible
4 36 (13.85%) Grafana
5 23 (8.85%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.92%) Argo
6 5 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.54%) Fluentd
7 4 (1.54%) Istio
7 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.54%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.15%) Kibana
8 3 (1.15%) logstash
9 2 (0.77%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.77%) Nagios
9 2 (0.77%) SCCM
10 1 (0.38%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.38%) linkerd
10 1 (0.38%) vRealize
10 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 33 (12.69%) Oracle
2 19 (7.31%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.00%) Splunk
4 12 (4.62%) Cisco
5 11 (4.23%) Databricks
6 10 (3.85%) F5
6 10 (3.85%) Pega
7 8 (3.08%) Salesforce
8 7 (2.69%) Greenplum
8 7 (2.69%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.31%) Avaya
9 6 (2.31%) Dynatrace
9 6 (2.31%) IBM
10 5 (1.92%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.92%) ForgeRock
10 5 (1.92%) Genesys
10 5 (1.92%) Google
11 4 (1.54%) HP
11 4 (1.54%) Meraki
11 4 (1.54%) Red Hat