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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 12 10
Rank change year-on-year +5 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 246 215 266
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.09% 13.26% 11.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.33% 35.36% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 162 196
10th Percentile £358 £356 £398
25th Percentile £410 £417 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £600
90th Percentile £607 £623 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £52.80 - -
25th Percentile £57.00 - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £46.18 £51.78
% change year-on-year +62.41% -10.81% -20.34%

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 610 608 734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.90% 37.48% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 405 494
10th Percentile £313 £253 £325
25th Percentile £412 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £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 6 8 4
10th Percentile £12.23 £21.84 -
25th Percentile £22.40 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.09 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +128.31% +45.38% -6.49%
75th Percentile £63.00 £25.07 £18.70
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.94 £20.46
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% +22.22% -6.25%

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 5 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
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 5 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 +11 142 £450 +0.28% 38
Edinburgh 0 95 £525 +6.76% 29
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 15 (6.10%) Apache
1 15 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.28%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.25%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.41%) FileNet
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (42.68%) Azure
2 58 (23.58%) Serverless
3 46 (18.70%) AWS Lambda
4 44 (17.89%) AWS CloudFormation
5 40 (16.26%) GCP
6 38 (15.45%) Amazon S3
7 28 (11.38%) Snowflake
8 24 (9.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 23 (9.35%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (8.94%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (8.13%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (7.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (5.69%) OpenShift
14 12 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
15 11 (4.47%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (3.25%) AWS Step Functions
16 8 (3.25%) PaaS
17 7 (2.85%) Amazon MSK
17 7 (2.85%) GitHub
17 7 (2.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.72%) Firewall
2 5 (2.03%) HTTP
3 3 (1.22%) Network Security
3 3 (1.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.81%) BGP
4 2 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.81%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.81%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.81%) DHCP
4 2 (0.81%) DNS
4 2 (0.81%) DSL
4 2 (0.81%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.81%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.81%) Internet
4 2 (0.81%) SAN
4 2 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.81%) VPN
4 2 (0.81%) WAN
4 2 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (15.04%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.76%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (6.50%) MySQL
4 14 (5.69%) Data Lake
4 14 (5.69%) NoSQL
4 14 (5.69%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.28%) Amazon Athena
5 13 (5.28%) Amazon RDS
6 9 (3.66%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (3.25%) DynamoDB
8 7 (2.85%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (2.85%) Metadata
9 6 (2.44%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.44%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.63%) Big Data
10 4 (1.63%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 27 (10.98%) GitLab
1 27 (10.98%) Jenkins
2 22 (8.94%) Git
2 22 (8.94%) JIRA
3 15 (6.10%) Bitbucket
4 13 (5.28%) MLflow
5 9 (3.66%) Cypress.io
5 9 (3.66%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (3.25%) JUnit
7 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.81%) ERwin
8 2 (0.81%) git-flow
8 2 (0.81%) Mockito
8 2 (0.81%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.41%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
9 1 (0.41%) Maven
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 86 (34.96%) Finance
2 62 (25.20%) Social Skills
3 49 (19.92%) Banking
3 49 (19.92%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.32%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.28%) Retail Banking
6 8 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.85%) Retail
8 6 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.44%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.44%) Legal
9 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (15.45%) Architect
2 34 (13.82%) Developer
3 31 (12.60%) Senior
4 23 (9.35%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (7.72%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (6.50%) Python Engineer
7 15 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.69%) Java Developer
8 14 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.28%) Data Architect
10 12 (4.88%) Security Engineer
11 11 (4.47%) Lead
11 11 (4.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (4.47%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.66%) Windows Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Analyst
13 8 (3.25%) Database Engineer
13 8 (3.25%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.79%) React
2 23 (9.35%) Node.js
3 21 (8.54%) Spring
4 19 (7.72%) Spring Boot
5 18 (7.32%) AWS CDK
6 17 (6.91%) Pandas
6 17 (6.91%) PySpark
6 17 (6.91%) PyTorch
7 16 (6.50%) NumPy
8 15 (6.10%) AngularJS
9 13 (5.28%) Hugging Face
9 13 (5.28%) SQLAlchemy
10 12 (4.88%) OpenCV
10 12 (4.88%) REST
11 11 (4.47%) FastAPI
11 11 (4.47%) RESTful
12 9 (3.66%) boto
12 9 (3.66%) Jest
12 9 (3.66%) Kafka
12 9 (3.66%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.41%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.50%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.10%) Algorithms
3 15 (6.10%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.88%) Data Structures
4 12 (4.88%) Product Ownership
5 11 (4.47%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.85%) IVR
8 7 (2.85%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.85%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.44%) Clustering
9 6 (2.44%) NHS
9 6 (2.44%) Replication
10 5 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.63%) PKI
12 3 (1.22%) AI Agents
12 3 (1.22%) CMDB
12 3 (1.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.57%) Linux
2 18 (7.32%) Windows
3 13 (5.28%) Unix
4 5 (2.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (41.87%) CI/CD
2 89 (36.18%) Agile
3 78 (31.71%) DevOps
4 77 (31.30%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (23.58%) Migration
6 55 (22.36%) AI
7 49 (19.92%) Containerisation
8 48 (19.51%) Machine Learning
9 47 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
10 44 (17.89%) Microservices
11 33 (13.41%) Analytics
12 32 (13.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 32 (13.01%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (10.98%) Performance Tuning
14 26 (10.57%) Mentoring
15 24 (9.76%) Data Engineering
15 24 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (9.35%) Data Protection
16 23 (9.35%) Observability
16 23 (9.35%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 124 (50.41%) Python
2 49 (19.92%) Java
3 36 (14.63%) SQL
4 29 (11.79%) PowerShell
5 19 (7.72%) TypeScript
6 12 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 11 (4.47%) Bash
7 11 (4.47%) Perl
8 7 (2.85%) Ruby
9 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.22%) PromQL
11 2 (0.81%) Go
11 2 (0.81%) Korn
11 2 (0.81%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.41%) C#
12 1 (0.41%) C++
12 1 (0.41%) Groovy
12 1 (0.41%) SAS Macro
12 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (8.54%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.13%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.69%) Degree
4 10 (4.07%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.44%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.22%) CCNP
8 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.22%) PMP
8 3 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.81%) CISM
9 2 (0.81%) CISSP
9 2 (0.81%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.81%) NCDA
9 2 (0.81%) VCP6
9 2 (0.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.35%) QA
2 21 (8.54%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.50%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.47%) GDPR
5 9 (3.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.25%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (3.25%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.63%) COBIT
7 4 (1.63%) NIST
7 4 (1.63%) SLA
8 3 (1.22%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.22%) PMO
9 2 (0.81%) NCSC
10 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.41%) COREP
10 1 (0.41%) GRC
10 1 (0.41%) IFRS
10 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 42 (17.07%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.81%) Firmware
4 2 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.81%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (24.39%) Terraform
2 52 (21.14%) Kubernetes
3 40 (16.26%) Ansible
4 21 (8.54%) Grafana
5 6 (2.44%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.63%) Kibana
6 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.22%) logstash
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.22%) SCCM
7 3 (1.22%) vRealize
8 2 (0.81%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.81%) vMotion
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (10.57%) Oracle
2 21 (8.54%) Microsoft
3 14 (5.69%) Greenplum
4 13 (5.28%) Databricks
4 13 (5.28%) Splunk
5 12 (4.88%) Cisco
6 11 (4.47%) Google
7 9 (3.66%) F5
8 8 (3.25%) Informatica
8 8 (3.25%) Salesforce
8 8 (3.25%) Talend
9 7 (2.85%) IBM
9 7 (2.85%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.44%) OpenAI
11 5 (2.03%) Avaya
11 5 (2.03%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.03%) Genesys
12 4 (1.63%) Dell
12 4 (1.63%) HP
12 4 (1.63%) Pega