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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 12 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 239 229 209
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 10.75% 14.05% 11.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.91% 39.83% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 152 138
10th Percentile £368 £401 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -3.61%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -1.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -36.52%

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 799 575 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.94% 35.28% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 373 404
10th Percentile £313 £350 £195
25th Percentile £400 £423 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £538
90th Percentile £644 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile £13.86 - -
25th Percentile £13.97 - £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £15.09 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -19.25% -57.29%
75th Percentile - - £23.30
90th Percentile £19.98 - £24.18
UK median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +21.88% +12.00% -28.57%

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 August 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 20 August 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 +1 121 £445 -11.00% 64
Edinburgh -3 104 £481 -2.73% 18
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Dundee - 2 - - 1
Aberdeen - 1 £475 - 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 - - 36
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 (5.44%) Confluence
2 11 (4.60%) Apache
3 10 (4.18%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.09%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.26%) JBoss
6 2 (0.84%) nginx
6 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (36.40%) Azure
2 83 (34.73%) GCP
3 47 (19.67%) Serverless
4 38 (15.90%) Amazon S3
4 38 (15.90%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (13.39%) GitHub
6 26 (10.88%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (7.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.44%) Snowflake
11 12 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.60%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.77%) OpenShift
14 8 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (2.93%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (2.51%) Akamai
16 6 (2.51%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.44%) DNS
2 8 (3.35%) Firewall
3 6 (2.51%) HTTP
3 6 (2.51%) SSL
4 5 (2.09%) HTTPS
4 5 (2.09%) SSH
5 4 (1.67%) Network Security
6 2 (0.84%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.84%) Broadband
6 2 (0.84%) DHCP
6 2 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.84%) NGFW
6 2 (0.84%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.42%) CTI
7 1 (0.42%) LAN
7 1 (0.42%) PSTN
7 1 (0.42%) RTP
7 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.53%) MongoDB
3 16 (6.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 14 (5.86%) MySQL
5 11 (4.60%) MariaDB
6 9 (3.77%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.35%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (3.35%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.93%) DynamoDB
9 6 (2.51%) NoSQL
9 6 (2.51%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.26%) Metadata
11 3 (1.26%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.26%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.26%) SQLPlus
12 2 (0.84%) Flink
12 2 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 40 (16.74%) Jenkins
2 37 (15.48%) Git
3 19 (7.95%) JIRA
4 13 (5.44%) Bitbucket
4 13 (5.44%) GitLab
4 13 (5.44%) Maven
5 11 (4.60%) Claude Code
5 11 (4.60%) Cypress.io
5 11 (4.60%) Gradle
6 10 (4.18%) JUnit
6 10 (4.18%) Selenium
7 8 (3.35%) GoCD
8 7 (2.93%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.93%) JProfiler
8 7 (2.93%) Postman
8 7 (2.93%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.67%) Subversion
10 3 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.26%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.26%) WebDriver
General
1 56 (23.43%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.76%) Finance
3 50 (20.92%) Public Sector
4 30 (12.55%) Banking
5 20 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.51%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.51%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.67%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.26%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.26%) Legal
8 3 (1.26%) Marketing
8 3 (1.26%) Retail
9 2 (0.84%) Front Office
9 2 (0.84%) Law
9 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (24.69%) Developer
2 37 (15.48%) Architect
3 22 (9.21%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (8.79%) Java Developer
5 17 (7.11%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.69%) Senior
7 15 (6.28%) Lead
7 15 (6.28%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.86%) Analyst
8 14 (5.86%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (5.02%) Data Engineer
10 10 (4.18%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (3.77%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.35%) Lead Developer
13 7 (2.93%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (2.93%) AWS Architect
13 7 (2.93%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.93%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (21.76%) Terraform
2 40 (16.74%) Spring
3 37 (15.48%) Spring Boot
4 35 (14.64%) React
5 32 (13.39%) REST
6 25 (10.46%) Node.js
7 21 (8.79%) Kafka
8 20 (8.37%) RESTful
9 16 (6.69%) AWS CDK
10 13 (5.44%) HTML
10 13 (5.44%) OAuth
11 12 (5.02%) CSS
12 10 (4.18%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.18%) Jest
12 10 (4.18%) OAuth2
12 10 (4.18%) Redux
13 9 (3.77%) FastAPI
14 8 (3.35%) FreeMarker
15 7 (2.93%) SAML
15 7 (2.93%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (21.34%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (6.69%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.60%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (4.60%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (4.18%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.18%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.77%) Enterprise Cloud
6 7 (2.93%) Algorithms
7 5 (2.09%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.67%) Market Risk
8 4 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.67%) Replication
9 3 (1.26%) Clustering
9 3 (1.26%) IVR
9 3 (1.26%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.26%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.39%) Linux
2 12 (5.02%) Windows
3 9 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.67%) Unix
5 3 (1.26%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (43.93%) CI/CD
2 77 (32.22%) Agile
3 74 (30.96%) DevOps
4 62 (25.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (21.34%) AI
6 46 (19.25%) Microservices
7 43 (17.99%) Containerisation
8 34 (14.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (12.13%) Scrum
10 28 (11.72%) Event-Driven
10 28 (11.72%) Migration
11 27 (11.30%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (11.30%) Software Engineering
11 27 (11.30%) TDD
12 26 (10.88%) Mentoring
12 26 (10.88%) Observability
13 25 (10.46%) Problem-Solving
14 22 (9.21%) LLM
14 22 (9.21%) Machine Learning
14 22 (9.21%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 92 (38.49%) Python
2 65 (27.20%) Java
3 43 (17.99%) JavaScript
4 41 (17.15%) SQL
5 35 (14.64%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.72%) Bash
7 21 (8.79%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.51%) Go
9 5 (2.09%) C#
9 5 (2.09%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.67%) Groovy
10 4 (1.67%) Ruby
11 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
13 1 (0.42%) PHP
13 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.95%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.60%) Degree
3 11 (4.60%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.93%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.67%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.26%) CISSP
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.84%) CBAP
9 2 (0.84%) CCNP
9 2 (0.84%) CCSK
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.84%) CISM
10 1 (0.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.02%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (3.77%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.77%) QA
3 4 (1.67%) GDPR
4 3 (1.26%) SLA
5 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) PSD2
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SEPA
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (15.48%) Docker
2 8 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.51%) zsh
5 5 (2.09%) Ceph
5 5 (2.09%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.67%) Squid
7 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 72 (30.13%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.88%) Ansible
3 10 (4.18%) Argo
3 10 (4.18%) Grafana
4 6 (2.51%) Istio
5 3 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.84%) linkerd
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.84%) Netcool
7 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.42%) Kibana
7 1 (0.42%) Podman
7 1 (0.42%) Puppet
7 1 (0.42%) yum
Vendors
1 33 (13.81%) Google
2 20 (8.37%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.37%) Oracle
3 12 (5.02%) Splunk
4 9 (3.77%) VMware
5 7 (2.93%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.93%) ForgeRock
5 7 (2.93%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.51%) Cisco
7 5 (2.09%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.67%) Databricks
8 4 (1.67%) Dell
8 4 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.67%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.26%) Greenplum
9 3 (1.26%) Informatica
9 3 (1.26%) Okta
9 3 (1.26%) Talend
10 2 (0.84%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (0.84%) EnterpriseDB