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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 7
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 0
Contract jobs citing AWS 249 233 325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 15.57% 12.45% 13.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 43.30% 38.58% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 158 243
10th Percentile £400 £397 £391
25th Percentile £450 £424 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -2.23%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £545
90th Percentile £636 £621 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £575
% change year-on-year -7.08% -1.74% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -66.96% +41.98%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 £46.18 £72.50
% change year-on-year +59.16% -36.30% +18.37%

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 575 604 821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.96% 32.28% 33.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 396 578
10th Percentile £351 £213 £300
25th Percentile £425 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £616 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
10th Percentile £19.58 £16.69 £14.53
25th Percentile £26.32 £18.42 £16.58
Median hourly rate £37.55 £21.14 £23.86
Median % change year-on-year +77.58% -11.39% +34.65%
75th Percentile £48.77 £24.18 £39.06
90th Percentile £55.51 - £50.88
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.68% -11.43% +62.79%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Edinburgh 0 124 £500 +1.83% 65
Glasgow -5 114 £495 +8.43% 50
Perthshire +2 2 £625 -10.71%
Argyll and Bute - 1 £475 -
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (5.62%) Confluence
2 12 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (4.82%) WebLogic
3 8 (3.21%) Apache
4 5 (2.01%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.20%) JBoss
5 3 (1.20%) nginx
5 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.80%) SAS
7 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.40%) FileNet
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 87 (34.94%) Azure
2 52 (20.88%) Serverless
3 49 (19.68%) Amazon S3
3 49 (19.68%) GitHub
4 40 (16.06%) AWS Lambda
5 35 (14.06%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (13.25%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (12.05%) GCP
8 22 (8.84%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (8.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (6.83%) OpenShift
12 15 (6.02%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (5.22%) Snowflake
14 11 (4.42%) AWS CodePipeline
14 11 (4.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (4.02%) Amazon ECS
15 10 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
16 9 (3.61%) SaaS
17 6 (2.41%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 18 (7.23%) Firewall
2 5 (2.01%) Network Security
2 5 (2.01%) VPN
3 3 (1.20%) HTTP
4 2 (0.80%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.80%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) SAN
4 2 (0.80%) SMS
4 2 (0.80%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) BGP
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.40%) DHCP
5 1 (0.40%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (0.40%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.40%) LAN
5 1 (0.40%) NAS
5 1 (0.40%) OSPF
5 1 (0.40%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.24%) Amazon Aurora
2 24 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.83%) MongoDB
4 16 (6.43%) Relational Database
5 15 (6.02%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (4.82%) SQL Server
7 11 (4.42%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.21%) MySQL
8 8 (3.21%) Oracle Database
9 7 (2.81%) DB2
10 6 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (2.01%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.01%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (1.20%) InfluxDB
13 3 (1.20%) MariaDB
13 3 (1.20%) MSDE
Development Applications
1 47 (18.88%) Jenkins
2 38 (15.26%) Git
2 38 (15.26%) JIRA
3 26 (10.44%) Bitbucket
4 20 (8.03%) Cypress.io
5 19 (7.63%) GitLab
6 14 (5.62%) IntelliJ
6 14 (5.62%) Visual Studio Code
7 13 (5.22%) PyCharm
7 13 (5.22%) Visual Studio
8 10 (4.02%) Storybook
9 9 (3.61%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.61%) JUnit
10 7 (2.81%) Oracle Forms
11 5 (2.01%) Maven
12 4 (1.61%) Gradle
12 4 (1.61%) Liquibase
12 4 (1.61%) Terragrunt
13 3 (1.20%) Newman
13 3 (1.20%) Vite
General
1 78 (31.33%) Finance
2 73 (29.32%) Social Skills
3 49 (19.68%) Public Sector
4 30 (12.05%) Banking
5 23 (9.24%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (4.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.21%) Retail Banking
8 7 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.41%) Legal
10 4 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.61%) Retail
11 3 (1.20%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.80%) Front Office
12 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Automotive
13 1 (0.40%) Digital Healthcare
13 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.40%) Military
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (24.90%) Developer
2 29 (11.65%) Architect
3 26 (10.44%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (10.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 23 (9.24%) Senior
6 21 (8.43%) Lead
7 20 (8.03%) Python Engineer
8 18 (7.23%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.22%) Python Developer
9 13 (5.22%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.82%) Technical Leader
11 11 (4.42%) Data Engineer
12 10 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (4.02%) Technical Architect
13 9 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
13 9 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 9 (3.61%) React Developer
13 9 (3.61%) Software Developer
14 8 (3.21%) Lead Architect
14 8 (3.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (15.26%) React
2 34 (13.65%) AWS CDK
3 28 (11.24%) Spring
4 24 (9.64%) Spring Boot
5 20 (8.03%) RESTful
6 19 (7.63%) CSS
7 18 (7.23%) REST
8 16 (6.43%) OAuth
9 15 (6.02%) Jest
9 15 (6.02%) Node.js
9 15 (6.02%) Pandas
9 15 (6.02%) PyTorch
10 13 (5.22%) NumPy
11 12 (4.82%) AngularJS
11 12 (4.82%) Hugging Face
12 11 (4.42%) FastAPI
12 11 (4.42%) HTML
12 11 (4.42%) SQLAlchemy
13 10 (4.02%) Next.js
13 10 (4.02%) OpenCV
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.65%) Cloud Native
2 23 (9.24%) Data Protection Act
3 21 (8.43%) Public Cloud
4 20 (8.03%) Legacy Systems
5 11 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (3.61%) Algorithms
7 8 (3.21%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.21%) Product Ownership
7 8 (3.21%) Virtual Team
8 6 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.20%) Legacy Code
11 2 (0.80%) Equity Derivative
11 2 (0.80%) IVR
12 1 (0.40%) PKI
12 1 (0.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 52 (20.88%) Linux
2 35 (14.06%) Windows
3 22 (8.84%) Unix
4 10 (4.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (4.02%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.20%) Amazon Linux
5 3 (1.20%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.80%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (51.00%) Agile
2 124 (49.80%) CI/CD
3 91 (36.55%) DevOps
4 81 (32.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (18.47%) SDLC
6 44 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (15.66%) Microservices
8 38 (15.26%) Containerisation
9 35 (14.06%) Test Automation
10 34 (13.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 34 (13.65%) Software Engineering
11 29 (11.65%) Artificial Intelligence
12 27 (10.84%) Migration
12 27 (10.84%) TDD
13 26 (10.44%) Continuous Integration
13 26 (10.44%) Data Protection
13 26 (10.44%) Observability
14 25 (10.04%) Machine Learning
14 25 (10.04%) Roadmaps
15 24 (9.64%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 94 (37.75%) Python
2 75 (30.12%) Java
3 60 (24.10%) TypeScript
4 29 (11.65%) SQL
5 26 (10.44%) JavaScript
6 15 (6.02%) C#
7 13 (5.22%) Bash
7 13 (5.22%) Go
8 12 (4.82%) Perl
9 8 (3.21%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.61%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.20%) Groovy
12 3 (1.20%) PromQL
13 1 (0.40%) Bicep
13 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (10.84%) AWS Certification
2 25 (10.04%) Degree
3 16 (6.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.42%) Security Cleared
5 10 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 10 (4.02%) CISSP
6 8 (3.21%) SC Cleared
7 7 (2.81%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.41%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified Developer
11 2 (0.80%) CCNP
11 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 2 (0.80%) CISM
12 1 (0.40%) CISA
12 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.40%) OCP
12 1 (0.40%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.43%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.22%) QA
3 8 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (1.61%) COBIT
5 4 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.61%) NIST
6 3 (1.20%) WCAG
7 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) DICOM
8 1 (0.40%) GDPR
8 1 (0.40%) HL7
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS
8 1 (0.40%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.40%) ISO 13485
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 44 (17.67%) Docker
2 5 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.61%) KVM
4 1 (0.40%) GPFS
4 1 (0.40%) NFS
Systems Management
1 84 (33.73%) Terraform
2 79 (31.73%) Kubernetes
3 40 (16.06%) Grafana
4 37 (14.86%) Ansible
5 24 (9.64%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.61%) Argo
6 4 (1.61%) Istio
6 4 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
6 4 (1.61%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.20%) Fluentd
7 3 (1.20%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.20%) Kibana
7 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.80%) linkerd
8 2 (0.80%) logstash
8 2 (0.80%) Nagios
8 2 (0.80%) Podman
8 2 (0.80%) SCCM
9 1 (0.40%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.40%) Veritas Storage Foundation
Vendors
1 27 (10.84%) Oracle
2 16 (6.43%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.22%) Splunk
4 8 (3.21%) Dynatrace
4 8 (3.21%) F5
4 8 (3.21%) Google
4 8 (3.21%) IBM
5 7 (2.81%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.41%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.41%) Pega
7 5 (2.01%) Cisco
7 5 (2.01%) ForgeRock
7 5 (2.01%) Informatica
7 5 (2.01%) VMware
8 4 (1.61%) Databricks
8 4 (1.61%) StreamSets
9 3 (1.20%) Commvault
9 3 (1.20%) Dell
9 3 (1.20%) HP
9 3 (1.20%) Sybase