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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 11 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 261 207 282
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 16.93% 12.37% 11.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 45.39% 35.20% 38.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 143 209
10th Percentile £358 £357 £375
25th Percentile £419 £418 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -0.50%
75th Percentile £564 £538 £569
90th Percentile £631 £629 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -6.78%
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 £57.50
% change year-on-year +81.90% -19.69% +4.55%

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 575 588 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.29% 35.15% 31.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 363 367 498
10th Percentile £313 £270 £313
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £575
90th Percentile £625 £603 £679
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 4
10th Percentile £11.84 £18.84 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £20.47 £15.42
Median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
Median % change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £21.42
90th Percentile £57.00 £26.68 £28.07
UK median hourly rate £26.40 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -8.97% +16.00% +11.11%

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 16 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 16 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 +8 150 £450 +4.35% 24
Edinburgh +1 101 £506 +2.64% 34
Perthshire +4 2 £625 -10.71%
South Lanarkshire - 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 (5.36%) Apache
2 13 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.83%) Confluence
4 9 (3.45%) WebLogic
5 2 (0.77%) nginx
5 2 (0.77%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.38%) FileNet
6 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 105 (40.23%) Azure
2 68 (26.05%) Serverless
3 53 (20.31%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (19.92%) AWS CloudFormation
5 48 (18.39%) Amazon S3
6 38 (14.56%) GCP
7 31 (11.88%) GitHub
8 28 (10.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 27 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
10 24 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (8.81%) Snowflake
12 21 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
13 19 (7.28%) OpenShift
14 18 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
15 12 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (4.21%) Amazon SageMaker
17 10 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
17 10 (3.83%) SaaS
18 8 (3.07%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (9.20%) Firewall
2 7 (2.68%) Network Security
3 5 (1.92%) VPN
4 3 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.15%) HTTP
4 3 (1.15%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.15%) WAN
5 2 (0.77%) BGP
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.77%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.77%) DHCP
5 2 (0.77%) DNS
5 2 (0.77%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.77%) Internet
5 2 (0.77%) LAN
5 2 (0.77%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.77%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.26%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (8.05%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (6.51%) Amazon Aurora
4 16 (6.13%) NoSQL
5 15 (5.75%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
6 14 (5.36%) Relational Database
7 12 (4.60%) SQL Server
8 9 (3.45%) Data Lake
8 9 (3.45%) MongoDB
9 8 (3.07%) DynamoDB
9 8 (3.07%) MySQL
9 8 (3.07%) Oracle Database
10 7 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (2.30%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.53%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.53%) Metadata
12 4 (1.53%) RDBMS
13 3 (1.15%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 40 (15.33%) Jenkins
2 35 (13.41%) JIRA
3 34 (13.03%) Git
4 28 (10.73%) GitLab
5 24 (9.20%) Bitbucket
6 13 (4.98%) Cypress.io
7 11 (4.21%) MLflow
8 10 (3.83%) IntelliJ
8 10 (3.83%) Visual Studio Code
9 9 (3.45%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.45%) PyCharm
9 9 (3.45%) Visual Studio
10 8 (3.07%) JUnit
10 8 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (2.68%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (1.92%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.53%) Liquibase
14 3 (1.15%) Terragrunt
14 3 (1.15%) Vite
15 2 (0.77%) Snyk
General
1 87 (33.33%) Finance
2 58 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 54 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 50 (19.16%) Banking
5 18 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.60%) Retail Banking
7 8 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.30%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.30%) Legal
9 5 (1.92%) Retail
10 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.38%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.38%) Marketing
12 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 45 (17.24%) Architect
2 44 (16.86%) Developer
3 35 (13.41%) Senior
4 27 (10.34%) AWS Engineer
5 26 (9.96%) Lead
6 25 (9.58%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (6.90%) Python Engineer
8 16 (6.13%) Data Engineer
9 15 (5.75%) Technical Leader
10 12 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.60%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.60%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) AWS Architect
11 11 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (3.83%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
12 10 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.83%) Python Developer
12 10 (3.83%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.45%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (11.88%) React
2 25 (9.58%) Node.js
2 25 (9.58%) Spring
3 23 (8.81%) AWS CDK
3 23 (8.81%) Spring Boot
4 17 (6.51%) RESTful
5 16 (6.13%) PySpark
5 16 (6.13%) PyTorch
6 15 (5.75%) Pandas
6 15 (5.75%) REST
7 14 (5.36%) NumPy
8 13 (4.98%) AngularJS
8 13 (4.98%) OAuth
9 12 (4.60%) Hugging Face
10 11 (4.21%) SQLAlchemy
11 10 (3.83%) Next.js
11 10 (3.83%) OpenCV
12 9 (3.45%) FastAPI
13 8 (3.07%) boto
13 8 (3.07%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (13.79%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.28%) Data Protection Act
2 19 (7.28%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
3 18 (6.90%) Public Cloud
4 12 (4.60%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 9 (3.45%) Data Structures
6 8 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.07%) IVR
7 7 (2.68%) NHS
7 7 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.92%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.53%) Clustering
9 4 (1.53%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (19.54%) Linux
2 24 (9.20%) Windows
3 23 (8.81%) Unix
4 8 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (1.92%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.77%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.77%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (51.34%) CI/CD
2 110 (42.15%) Agile
3 97 (37.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 96 (36.78%) DevOps
5 58 (22.22%) Migration
6 54 (20.69%) Containerisation
7 45 (17.24%) Microservices
8 40 (15.33%) AI
9 37 (14.18%) Machine Learning
9 37 (14.18%) Problem-Solving
10 35 (13.41%) Disaster Recovery
11 30 (11.49%) Roadmaps
12 29 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (11.11%) Software Engineering
13 28 (10.73%) SDLC
14 27 (10.34%) Observability
15 26 (9.96%) Analytics
15 26 (9.96%) Mentoring
15 26 (9.96%) Performance Tuning
16 25 (9.58%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 120 (45.98%) Python
2 66 (25.29%) Java
3 41 (15.71%) TypeScript
4 29 (11.11%) SQL
5 22 (8.43%) PowerShell
6 17 (6.51%) JavaScript
7 15 (5.75%) Perl
8 13 (4.98%) Bash
9 11 (4.21%) C#
10 8 (3.07%) Go
10 8 (3.07%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.68%) Ruby
12 5 (1.92%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.15%) PromQL
14 2 (0.77%) Korn
15 1 (0.38%) Bicep
15 1 (0.38%) Groovy
15 1 (0.38%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 30 (11.49%) AWS Certification
2 25 (9.58%) Degree
3 21 (8.05%) Security Cleared
4 16 (6.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (5.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.60%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.68%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.30%) CISSP
9 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.53%) CCNP
10 4 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.15%) CISM
11 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.15%) PMP
11 3 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.38%) CCNA
13 1 (0.38%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.66%) Accessibility
2 15 (5.75%) QA
3 12 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 10 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.45%) GDPR
6 7 (2.68%) Disclosure Scotland
7 6 (2.30%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.92%) COBIT
8 5 (1.92%) NIST
9 3 (1.15%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.15%) PMO
10 2 (0.77%) NCSC
10 2 (0.77%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.77%) SLA
11 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.38%) IFRS
11 1 (0.38%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.38%) PSD2
11 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 53 (20.31%) Docker
2 5 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.53%) KVM
3 4 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 91 (34.87%) Terraform
2 78 (29.89%) Kubernetes
3 51 (19.54%) Ansible
4 37 (14.18%) Grafana
5 23 (8.81%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.53%) Argo
6 4 (1.53%) Fluentd
6 4 (1.53%) Kibana
6 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (1.53%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.15%) Istio
7 3 (1.15%) logstash
7 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.77%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.77%) Nagios
8 2 (0.77%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.77%) SCCM
9 1 (0.38%) linkerd
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize
9 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 32 (12.26%) Oracle
2 20 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.75%) Splunk
4 12 (4.60%) Cisco
4 12 (4.60%) Databricks
4 12 (4.60%) Greenplum
5 10 (3.83%) F5
5 10 (3.83%) Pega
6 8 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 7 (2.68%) IBM
7 7 (2.68%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.30%) Avaya
8 6 (2.30%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.92%) CheckPoint
9 5 (1.92%) Dynatrace
9 5 (1.92%) Genesys
9 5 (1.92%) Google
9 5 (1.92%) Informatica
10 4 (1.53%) HP
10 4 (1.53%) Meraki