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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 249 212 277
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 15.61% 12.69% 11.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.66% 33.33% 36.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 160 208
10th Percentile £328 £350 £399
25th Percentile £402 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £492
Median % change year-on-year -0.71% -3.41% -1.26%
75th Percentile £555 £538 £584
90th Percentile £600 £603 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.59% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £39.50 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £54.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +37.61% -5.22% -10.51%

All Cloud Computing 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 644 636 749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.38% 38.06% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 425 504
10th Percentile £313 £252 £325
25th Percentile £402 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £600 £530 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £12.42 £22.06 £15.26
25th Percentile £24.10 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% +43.54% -18.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £27.75 £20.66
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £37.70
UK median hourly rate £37.25 £27.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +35.45% +25.00% -12.00%

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 20 February 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 20 February 2026. 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 +13 154 £449 -0.22% 41
Edinburgh +2 86 £525 +9.38% 63
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £325 - 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 16 (6.43%) Apache
2 14 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.62%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.81%) Confluence
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.40%) FileNet
5 1 (0.40%) JBoss
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (39.76%) Azure
2 63 (25.30%) Serverless
3 51 (20.48%) AWS Lambda
4 50 (20.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 43 (17.27%) Amazon S3
6 38 (15.26%) GCP
7 29 (11.65%) Snowflake
8 27 (10.84%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (10.44%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (10.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (9.24%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (8.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (5.62%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (5.62%) OpenShift
13 12 (4.82%) Amazon SageMaker
13 12 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
14 9 (3.61%) GitHub
15 8 (3.21%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (3.21%) AWS KMS
15 8 (3.21%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.43%) Firewall
2 5 (2.01%) HTTP
3 3 (1.20%) Network Security
3 3 (1.20%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.80%) BGP
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (0.80%) DHCP
4 2 (0.80%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) DSL
4 2 (0.80%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.80%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.80%) Internet
4 2 (0.80%) SAN
4 2 (0.80%) VPN
4 2 (0.80%) WAN
4 2 (0.80%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (15.26%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (10.44%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.63%) MySQL
4 18 (7.23%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.83%) Data Lake
5 17 (6.83%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.83%) Relational Database
6 16 (6.43%) DynamoDB
7 12 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (4.42%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.61%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.61%) Metadata
10 6 (2.41%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.41%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.61%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.61%) Big Data
11 4 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.20%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (11.65%) GitLab
2 27 (10.84%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.24%) Git
4 19 (7.63%) JIRA
5 15 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.22%) MLflow
7 9 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (2.81%) Cypress.io
8 7 (2.81%) JUnit
9 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.80%) ERwin
10 2 (0.80%) Mockito
10 2 (0.80%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.40%) git-flow
11 1 (0.40%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.40%) Maven
11 1 (0.40%) Snyk
11 1 (0.40%) Vite
11 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 81 (32.53%) Finance
2 61 (24.50%) Social Skills
3 49 (19.68%) Public Sector
4 44 (17.67%) Banking
5 19 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.42%) Retail Banking
7 7 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.81%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.41%) Retail
9 5 (2.01%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.01%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.01%) Legal
10 2 (0.80%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.40%) Marketing
11 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (16.47%) Architect
2 32 (12.85%) Senior
3 29 (11.65%) Developer
4 28 (11.24%) AWS Engineer
5 20 (8.03%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (7.23%) Data Engineer
6 18 (7.23%) Python Engineer
7 17 (6.83%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (6.02%) Data Architect
9 13 (5.22%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.22%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.82%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (4.42%) Lead
12 9 (3.61%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.61%) Windows Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) Database Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.65%) React
2 24 (9.64%) Node.js
3 21 (8.43%) PySpark
4 20 (8.03%) AWS CDK
4 20 (8.03%) Spring
5 18 (7.23%) PyTorch
5 18 (7.23%) Spring Boot
6 17 (6.83%) Pandas
7 16 (6.43%) NumPy
8 14 (5.62%) AngularJS
8 14 (5.62%) FastAPI
8 14 (5.62%) OAuth
8 14 (5.62%) REST
9 13 (5.22%) Hugging Face
9 13 (5.22%) RESTful
9 13 (5.22%) SQLAlchemy
10 12 (4.82%) Kafka
10 12 (4.82%) OpenCV
11 10 (4.02%) JWT
12 9 (3.61%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.26%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.03%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.02%) Algorithms
3 15 (6.02%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.82%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.82%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.42%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.81%) IVR
7 7 (2.81%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.81%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.41%) Clustering
8 6 (2.41%) NHS
8 6 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.41%) Replication
9 5 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.61%) PKI
11 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.20%) CMDB
11 3 (1.20%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.64%) Linux
2 16 (6.43%) Windows
3 12 (4.82%) Unix
4 5 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (42.97%) CI/CD
2 85 (34.14%) Agile
3 77 (30.92%) DevOps
4 76 (30.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (23.69%) Migration
6 55 (22.09%) AI
7 49 (19.68%) Machine Learning
8 48 (19.28%) Containerisation
9 47 (18.88%) Problem-Solving
10 45 (18.07%) Microservices
11 34 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (13.65%) Disaster Recovery
12 32 (12.85%) Analytics
13 29 (11.65%) Data Pipeline
14 28 (11.24%) Observability
14 28 (11.24%) Performance Tuning
15 27 (10.84%) Data Engineering
16 26 (10.44%) ETL
16 26 (10.44%) Mentoring
17 23 (9.24%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 132 (53.01%) Python
2 48 (19.28%) Java
3 37 (14.86%) SQL
4 29 (11.65%) PowerShell
5 20 (8.03%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.22%) Bash
8 11 (4.42%) Perl
9 7 (2.81%) Ruby
10 4 (1.61%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.80%) Go
12 2 (0.80%) Korn
12 2 (0.80%) PromQL
12 2 (0.80%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.40%) Groovy
13 1 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (8.84%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.03%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.62%) Degree
4 10 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.02%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.41%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.20%) CCNP
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.20%) PMP
8 3 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.80%) CISM
9 2 (0.80%) CISSP
9 2 (0.80%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.80%) NCDA
9 2 (0.80%) VCP6
9 2 (0.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.24%) Data Quality
2 22 (8.84%) QA
3 16 (6.43%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.42%) GDPR
5 9 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.21%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (3.21%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.41%) SLA
8 4 (1.61%) NIST
9 3 (1.20%) COBIT
9 3 (1.20%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.20%) PMO
10 2 (0.80%) NCSC
11 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.40%) GRC
11 1 (0.40%) IFRS
11 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.40%) PSD2
11 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 43 (17.27%) Docker
2 4 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.20%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.80%) Firmware
4 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (22.49%) Terraform
2 53 (21.29%) Kubernetes
3 36 (14.46%) Ansible
4 23 (9.24%) Grafana
5 8 (3.21%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.61%) Kibana
6 4 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.20%) logstash
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.20%) SCCM
7 3 (1.20%) vRealize
8 2 (0.80%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.80%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.80%) vMotion
9 1 (0.40%) Argo
9 1 (0.40%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.40%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (9.64%) Oracle
2 22 (8.84%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.02%) Databricks
4 14 (5.62%) Greenplum
5 12 (4.82%) Google
5 12 (4.82%) Splunk
6 11 (4.42%) Cisco
7 8 (3.21%) Informatica
7 8 (3.21%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.21%) Talend
8 7 (2.81%) IBM
8 7 (2.81%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.41%) OpenAI
10 5 (2.01%) Avaya
10 5 (2.01%) Genesys
11 4 (1.61%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.61%) Confluent
11 4 (1.61%) F5
11 4 (1.61%) Pega
12 3 (1.20%) Thales