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 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 13 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 241 220 265
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 15.13% 12.99% 11.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.62% 33.28% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 169 195
10th Percentile £314 £355 £400
25th Percentile £401 £419 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £559 £538 £606
90th Percentile £606 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
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% -11.54%

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 624 661 751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.17% 39.02% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 456 504
10th Percentile £310 £266 £313
25th Percentile £401 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £599 £531 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £684
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 7
10th Percentile £12.23 £22.06 £15.29
25th Percentile £18.65 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £42.50 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +75.77% +42.24% -28.70%
75th Percentile £60.50 £27.75 £19.68
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £34.48
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £27.13 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.62% +26.93% -14.52%

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 2 March 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 2 March 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 2 March 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 +14 152 £447 -0.67% 36
Edinburgh 0 79 £518 +8.43% 37
South Lanarkshire - 2 £800 - 2
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 16 (6.64%) Apache
2 14 (5.81%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (5.39%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.83%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.41%) FileNet
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 99 (41.08%) Azure
2 58 (24.07%) Serverless
3 47 (19.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 47 (19.50%) AWS Lambda
4 41 (17.01%) Amazon S3
4 41 (17.01%) GCP
5 29 (12.03%) Snowflake
6 27 (11.20%) Amazon EC2
6 27 (11.20%) Amazon ECS
6 27 (11.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 23 (9.54%) Amazon EKS
9 14 (5.81%) AWS Step Functions
10 13 (5.39%) Amazon SageMaker
11 12 (4.98%) Amazon SQS
12 10 (4.15%) GitHub
12 10 (4.15%) OpenShift
13 9 (3.73%) Amazon EventBridge
14 8 (3.32%) AWS KMS
14 8 (3.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.22%) Firewall
2 5 (2.07%) HTTP
3 3 (1.24%) Network Security
4 2 (0.83%) DHCP
4 2 (0.83%) DNS
4 2 (0.83%) DSL
4 2 (0.83%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.83%) Internet
4 2 (0.83%) SAN
4 2 (0.83%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.83%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) BGP
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.41%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.41%) Modbus
5 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (14.52%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (10.37%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (8.30%) MySQL
4 18 (7.47%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (7.47%) DynamoDB
4 18 (7.47%) Relational Database
5 16 (6.64%) Data Lake
6 15 (6.22%) NoSQL
7 12 (4.98%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.98%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.90%) Metadata
9 6 (2.49%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.49%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.49%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.07%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.66%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.66%) Big Data
11 4 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.24%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 29 (12.03%) GitLab
2 24 (9.96%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.54%) Git
4 18 (7.47%) JIRA
5 14 (5.81%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.39%) MLflow
7 9 (3.73%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.49%) JUnit
9 5 (2.07%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.24%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.83%) Mockito
11 2 (0.83%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.41%) git-flow
12 1 (0.41%) Maven
12 1 (0.41%) Postman
12 1 (0.41%) Snyk
12 1 (0.41%) Vite
12 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 74 (30.71%) Finance
2 57 (23.65%) Social Skills
3 45 (18.67%) Public Sector
4 40 (16.60%) Banking
5 18 (7.47%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.15%) Retail Banking
7 7 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.49%) Retail
9 5 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.07%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.66%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.66%) Legal
11 2 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (17.01%) Architect
2 33 (13.69%) Senior
3 30 (12.45%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (10.37%) Developer
5 19 (7.88%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (7.47%) Data Engineer
7 17 (7.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 17 (7.05%) Python Engineer
8 15 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (6.22%) Data Architect
9 14 (5.81%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 14 (5.81%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (5.39%) Platform Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) Java Developer
11 12 (4.98%) Security Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) Lead
13 9 (3.73%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.73%) Database Engineer
13 9 (3.73%) Site Engineer
13 9 (3.73%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.03%) React
2 27 (11.20%) Node.js
3 19 (7.88%) AWS CDK
3 19 (7.88%) PySpark
4 18 (7.47%) Spring
5 16 (6.64%) Pandas
5 16 (6.64%) Spring Boot
6 15 (6.22%) FastAPI
6 15 (6.22%) NumPy
6 15 (6.22%) PyTorch
6 15 (6.22%) REST
7 13 (5.39%) AngularJS
7 13 (5.39%) Hugging Face
7 13 (5.39%) Kafka
7 13 (5.39%) OAuth
7 13 (5.39%) RESTful
7 13 (5.39%) SQLAlchemy
8 12 (4.98%) OpenCV
9 10 (4.15%) JWT
10 9 (3.73%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.18%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.88%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.64%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.81%) Algorithms
5 11 (4.56%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.56%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.56%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.90%) Clustering
7 7 (2.90%) IVR
7 7 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.49%) NHS
8 6 (2.49%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.49%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.49%) Replication
9 4 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.66%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.66%) PKI
10 3 (1.24%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.24%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.54%) Linux
2 17 (7.05%) Windows
3 11 (4.56%) Unix
4 5 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.24%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (43.15%) CI/CD
2 75 (31.12%) Agile
3 73 (30.29%) DevOps
3 73 (30.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (23.65%) Migration
5 53 (21.99%) AI
6 47 (19.50%) Containerisation
6 47 (19.50%) Machine Learning
7 46 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
8 45 (18.67%) Microservices
9 35 (14.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 34 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (13.28%) Analytics
12 31 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
13 28 (11.62%) Data Engineering
14 27 (11.20%) Observability
15 26 (10.79%) ETL
15 26 (10.79%) Mentoring
15 26 (10.79%) Performance Tuning
16 24 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (53.53%) Python
2 46 (19.09%) Java
3 36 (14.94%) SQL
4 29 (12.03%) PowerShell
5 18 (7.47%) TypeScript
6 17 (7.05%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.64%) Bash
8 10 (4.15%) Perl
9 7 (2.90%) Ruby
10 4 (1.66%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.83%) Korn
11 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.83%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.41%) Bicep
12 1 (0.41%) C++
12 1 (0.41%) Go
12 1 (0.41%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.41%) PromQL
12 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (9.13%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.88%) AWS Certification
3 12 (4.98%) Degree
4 10 (4.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.15%) SC Cleared
5 7 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.07%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.24%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.24%) PMP
7 3 (1.24%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.83%) CCNP
8 2 (0.83%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.83%) CISM
8 2 (0.83%) CISSP
8 2 (0.83%) FFIEC
8 2 (0.83%) NCDA
8 2 (0.83%) VCP6
8 2 (0.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (9.13%) Data Quality
2 20 (8.30%) QA
3 14 (5.81%) Accessibility
4 12 (4.98%) GDPR
5 9 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.32%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (3.32%) PCI DSS
6 8 (3.32%) SLA
7 4 (1.66%) NIST
8 3 (1.24%) COBIT
8 3 (1.24%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.24%) PMO
9 2 (0.83%) NCSC
10 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.41%) GRC
10 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.41%) PSD2
10 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 38 (15.77%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.24%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.83%) Firmware
4 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (23.24%) Terraform
2 51 (21.16%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.11%) Ansible
4 18 (7.47%) Grafana
5 6 (2.49%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.66%) Kibana
6 4 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.24%) logstash
7 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.24%) SCCM
7 3 (1.24%) vRealize
8 2 (0.83%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.83%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.83%) vMotion
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (10.37%) Oracle
2 22 (9.13%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.81%) Databricks
3 14 (5.81%) Greenplum
4 12 (4.98%) Google
5 10 (4.15%) Splunk
6 9 (3.73%) Cisco
7 8 (3.32%) Informatica
7 8 (3.32%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.32%) Talend
8 7 (2.90%) IBM
8 7 (2.90%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.49%) OpenAI
10 5 (2.07%) Avaya
10 5 (2.07%) Genesys
11 4 (1.66%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.66%) Confluent
11 4 (1.66%) F5
11 4 (1.66%) Pega
12 3 (1.24%) Thales