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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 200 280
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.88% 11.68% 11.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.33% 34.48% 37.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 132 213
10th Percentile £358 £356 £376
25th Percentile £425 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £575
90th Percentile £637 £631 £702
UK median daily rate £525 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% -6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +163.16% - -
UK median hourly rate £84.00 £46.18 £57.75
% change year-on-year +81.90% -20.03% +7.44%

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 589 580 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.23% 33.86% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 351 514
10th Percentile £320 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.71% +0.47%
75th Percentile £575 £533 £575
90th Percentile £626 £625 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 4
10th Percentile £20.56 £18.31 -
25th Percentile £31.60 £19.97 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £23.00 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +38.81% -6.49%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £58.00 £26.32 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -12.33% +15.38% +17.33%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 +10 151 £465 +9.41% 26
Edinburgh +1 105 £503 +1.72% 48
Perthshire +3 2 £625 -10.71%
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 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 14 (5.24%) Apache
2 13 (4.87%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (4.12%) Confluence
4 10 (3.75%) Apache Spark
5 9 (3.37%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle Coherence
6 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.37%) FileNet
7 1 (0.37%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (40.07%) Azure
2 66 (24.72%) Serverless
3 51 (19.10%) AWS Lambda
4 49 (18.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 47 (17.60%) Amazon S3
6 39 (14.61%) GCP
7 33 (12.36%) GitHub
8 27 (10.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 26 (9.74%) Amazon EKS
10 23 (8.61%) Amazon EC2
11 21 (7.87%) Snowflake
12 20 (7.49%) Amazon ECS
12 20 (7.49%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (6.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (5.99%) OpenShift
15 12 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
15 12 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (4.49%) SaaS
16 11 (4.12%) Amazon SageMaker
17 7 (2.62%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.99%) Firewall
2 8 (3.00%) Network Security
3 6 (2.25%) VPN
4 3 (1.12%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.12%) HTTP
4 3 (1.12%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.12%) WAN
5 2 (0.75%) BGP
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.75%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.75%) DHCP
5 2 (0.75%) DNS
5 2 (0.75%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.75%) Internet
5 2 (0.75%) LAN
5 2 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (11.61%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.12%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (5.99%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.24%) Amazon Athena
5 14 (5.24%) Amazon RDS
5 14 (5.24%) Relational Database
6 12 (4.49%) SQL Server
7 9 (3.37%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.00%) DynamoDB
8 8 (3.00%) MySQL
8 8 (3.00%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.62%) Data Lake
9 7 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.25%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (1.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 4 (1.50%) Metadata
11 4 (1.50%) RDBMS
12 3 (1.12%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 40 (14.98%) Jenkins
2 37 (13.86%) Git
2 37 (13.86%) JIRA
3 25 (9.36%) Bitbucket
3 25 (9.36%) GitLab
4 13 (4.87%) Cypress.io
5 12 (4.49%) IntelliJ
5 12 (4.49%) Visual Studio Code
6 11 (4.12%) MLflow
6 11 (4.12%) PyCharm
6 11 (4.12%) Visual Studio
7 9 (3.37%) CircleCI
8 8 (3.00%) JUnit
9 7 (2.62%) Oracle Forms
9 7 (2.62%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (1.87%) Cucumber
11 4 (1.50%) Liquibase
12 3 (1.12%) Terragrunt
12 3 (1.12%) Vite
13 2 (0.75%) Snyk
General
1 91 (34.08%) Finance
2 66 (24.72%) Social Skills
3 53 (19.85%) Public Sector
4 47 (17.60%) Banking
5 18 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.49%) Retail Banking
7 9 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.25%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.25%) Legal
10 5 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Retail
11 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (17.98%) Developer
2 46 (17.23%) Architect
3 38 (14.23%) Senior
4 28 (10.49%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (9.74%) Lead
6 24 (8.99%) DevOps Engineer
7 19 (7.12%) Python Engineer
8 15 (5.62%) Data Engineer
8 15 (5.62%) Technical Leader
9 14 (5.24%) Java Developer
10 13 (4.87%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 11 (4.12%) AWS Architect
12 11 (4.12%) Python Developer
12 11 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.75%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 10 (3.75%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
14 9 (3.37%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.99%) React
2 26 (9.74%) Spring
3 25 (9.36%) Node.js
4 24 (8.99%) Spring Boot
5 22 (8.24%) AWS CDK
6 19 (7.12%) RESTful
7 18 (6.74%) OAuth
8 16 (5.99%) PySpark
8 16 (5.99%) PyTorch
9 15 (5.62%) Pandas
10 14 (5.24%) NumPy
10 14 (5.24%) REST
11 13 (4.87%) AngularJS
12 12 (4.49%) Hugging Face
13 11 (4.12%) SQLAlchemy
14 10 (3.75%) Next.js
14 10 (3.75%) OpenCV
15 9 (3.37%) FastAPI
15 9 (3.37%) OAuth2
16 8 (3.00%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.61%) Cloud Native
2 21 (7.87%) Data Protection Act
2 21 (7.87%) Legacy Systems
2 21 (7.87%) Public Cloud
3 20 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (4.49%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.37%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.00%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.00%) IVR
7 7 (2.62%) NHS
7 7 (2.62%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.25%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.87%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.12%) CMDB
10 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.12%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.10%) Linux
2 26 (9.74%) Windows
3 22 (8.24%) Unix
4 6 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.25%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (50.56%) CI/CD
2 116 (43.45%) Agile
3 98 (36.70%) DevOps
4 97 (36.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (22.47%) Migration
6 54 (20.22%) Containerisation
7 49 (18.35%) Microservices
8 39 (14.61%) AI
9 38 (14.23%) Machine Learning
10 37 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (13.11%) SDLC
12 34 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
12 34 (12.73%) Software Engineering
13 32 (11.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (11.99%) Roadmaps
14 29 (10.86%) Observability
15 27 (10.11%) Analytics
15 27 (10.11%) Data Protection
16 26 (9.74%) Mentoring
17 25 (9.36%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 121 (45.32%) Python
2 74 (27.72%) Java
3 43 (16.10%) TypeScript
4 26 (9.74%) SQL
5 20 (7.49%) PowerShell
6 18 (6.74%) JavaScript
7 16 (5.99%) Perl
8 13 (4.87%) C#
9 12 (4.49%) Bash
10 9 (3.37%) Go
11 6 (2.25%) Ruby
11 6 (2.25%) Shell Script
12 5 (1.87%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.12%) Groovy
13 3 (1.12%) PromQL
14 1 (0.37%) Bicep
14 1 (0.37%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 29 (10.86%) AWS Certification
2 25 (9.36%) Degree
3 19 (7.12%) Security Cleared
4 16 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (4.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.49%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.62%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.25%) CISSP
9 4 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 4 (1.50%) CCNP
9 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.12%) CISM
10 3 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.12%) PMP
10 3 (1.12%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.37%) CCNA
12 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.12%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.37%) QA
3 12 (4.49%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.37%) GDPR
6 7 (2.62%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.25%) Disclosure Scotland
8 5 (1.87%) COBIT
8 5 (1.87%) NIST
9 3 (1.12%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.12%) PMO
10 2 (0.75%) NCSC
10 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.75%) SLA
11 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.37%) IFRS
11 1 (0.37%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.37%) PSD2
11 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 50 (18.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.87%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.50%) KVM
3 4 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 94 (35.21%) Terraform
2 83 (31.09%) Kubernetes
3 50 (18.73%) Ansible
4 37 (13.86%) Grafana
5 23 (8.61%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (1.50%) Argo
7 4 (1.50%) Fluentd
7 4 (1.50%) Kibana
7 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.50%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.12%) Istio
8 3 (1.12%) logstash
9 2 (0.75%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.75%) Nagios
9 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.75%) SCCM
10 1 (0.37%) linkerd
10 1 (0.37%) vRealize
10 1 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 31 (11.61%) Oracle
2 19 (7.12%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.62%) Splunk
4 12 (4.49%) Cisco
4 12 (4.49%) Databricks
5 10 (3.75%) F5
5 10 (3.75%) Greenplum
5 10 (3.75%) Pega
6 8 (3.00%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.62%) IBM
7 7 (2.62%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.25%) Avaya
9 5 (1.87%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.87%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.87%) Genesys
9 5 (1.87%) Google
10 4 (1.50%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.50%) HP
10 4 (1.50%) Meraki
10 4 (1.50%) Red Hat