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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 16 11
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing AWS 209 211 255
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 12.38% 12.73% 11.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.19% 31.68% 33.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 157 186
10th Percentile £313 £391 £400
25th Percentile £400 £420 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -1.84%
75th Percentile £563 £563 £564
90th Percentile £601 £600 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £39.50 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £76.85 £53.75
% change year-on-year -2.41% +42.98% -21.53%

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 670 666 757
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 40.19% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 462 505
10th Percentile £306 £270 £275
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -2.63% -
75th Percentile £599 £537 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £12.41 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.13 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £24.72 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.23% +42.24% -69.78%
75th Percentile £53.50 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -24.85%

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 April 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for AWS in Scotland

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 April 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 +11 134 £444 -6.14% 26
Edinburgh -6 65 £521 +9.74% 14
South Lanarkshire - 4 £800 - 4
Dundee - 2 - -
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 15 (7.18%) Apache
2 10 (4.78%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 8 (3.83%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.48%) CMS
4 1 (0.48%) JBoss
4 1 (0.48%) nginx
4 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Fuse
4 1 (0.48%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (37.32%) Azure
2 44 (21.05%) Serverless
3 41 (19.62%) AWS CloudFormation
3 41 (19.62%) GCP
4 36 (17.22%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (13.88%) Amazon S3
6 26 (12.44%) Amazon EC2
6 26 (12.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (11.48%) Amazon EKS
8 22 (10.53%) Snowflake
9 21 (10.05%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (9.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (6.70%) AWS Step Functions
12 12 (5.74%) GitHub
13 9 (4.31%) Amazon EventBridge
13 9 (4.31%) GitHub Actions
14 8 (3.83%) Amazon SageMaker
14 8 (3.83%) AWS KMS
14 8 (3.83%) OpenShift
15 7 (3.35%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.78%) Firewall
2 7 (3.35%) DNS
3 4 (1.91%) DHCP
3 4 (1.91%) HTTP
4 3 (1.44%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.44%) SSH
4 3 (1.44%) SSL
5 2 (0.96%) DSL
5 2 (0.96%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.96%) Network Security
5 2 (0.96%) SAN
5 2 (0.96%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.48%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.48%) Internet
6 1 (0.48%) Modbus
6 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) VLAN
6 1 (0.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (11.96%) MySQL
3 19 (9.09%) DynamoDB
4 15 (7.18%) Amazon Athena
4 15 (7.18%) MongoDB
4 15 (7.18%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.74%) Amazon RDS
5 12 (5.74%) Data Lake
5 12 (5.74%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.83%) Metadata
8 7 (3.35%) MariaDB
9 6 (2.87%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.87%) SQL Server
10 5 (2.39%) Amazon Aurora
11 4 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.91%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.44%) Big Data
12 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.96%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (13.88%) GitLab
2 20 (9.57%) Git
2 20 (9.57%) JIRA
3 19 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 11 (5.26%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.31%) MLflow
5 9 (4.31%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.44%) JUnit
7 2 (0.96%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.96%) Postman
7 2 (0.96%) Selenium
7 2 (0.96%) Terragrunt
7 2 (0.96%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.48%) git-flow
8 1 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.48%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (27.27%) Finance
2 47 (22.49%) Social Skills
3 41 (19.62%) Public Sector
4 29 (13.88%) Banking
5 16 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.35%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.91%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.91%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.91%) Retail
9 3 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.48%) Marketing
10 1 (0.48%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (14.83%) Architect
2 29 (13.88%) Senior
3 27 (12.92%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (11.00%) Developer
4 23 (11.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (7.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (6.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 13 (6.22%) Data Engineer
7 13 (6.22%) Java Developer
7 13 (6.22%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.78%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (4.31%) Data Architect
9 9 (4.31%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.31%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.31%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.83%) Analyst
10 8 (3.83%) AWS DevOps
10 8 (3.83%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.83%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (13.40%) React
2 21 (10.05%) Node.js
3 19 (9.09%) Spring
4 18 (8.61%) Spring Boot
5 15 (7.18%) REST
6 13 (6.22%) PySpark
7 12 (5.74%) AWS CDK
7 12 (5.74%) Kafka
7 12 (5.74%) RESTful
8 11 (5.26%) Redux
9 10 (4.78%) FastAPI
9 10 (4.78%) Jest
10 9 (4.31%) OAuth
11 8 (3.83%) CSS
11 8 (3.83%) HTML
12 7 (3.35%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.35%) JWT
13 6 (2.87%) Express.js
13 6 (2.87%) GraphQL
13 6 (2.87%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 32 (15.31%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.18%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.70%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (6.22%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.31%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.83%) Clustering
7 7 (3.35%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.35%) IVR
8 6 (2.87%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.87%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.87%) NHS
9 5 (2.39%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.39%) Replication
10 4 (1.91%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.44%) CMDB
11 3 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.83%) Linux
2 14 (6.70%) Windows
3 8 (3.83%) Unix
4 7 (3.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.91%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (43.06%) CI/CD
2 67 (32.06%) DevOps
3 59 (28.23%) Agile
4 58 (27.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (22.01%) Migration
6 40 (19.14%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (18.18%) Microservices
8 37 (17.70%) AI
9 31 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 30 (14.35%) Containerisation
11 29 (13.88%) Machine Learning
12 27 (12.92%) Analytics
13 26 (12.44%) Data Pipeline
13 26 (12.44%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (11.96%) Observability
15 24 (11.48%) Data Engineering
16 23 (11.00%) Data Protection
17 22 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
18 21 (10.05%) ETL
18 21 (10.05%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 109 (52.15%) Python
2 49 (23.44%) Java
3 41 (19.62%) SQL
4 28 (13.40%) PowerShell
5 21 (10.05%) Bash
5 21 (10.05%) JavaScript
6 15 (7.18%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.31%) Perl
8 7 (3.35%) Ruby
9 4 (1.91%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.96%) Go
10 2 (0.96%) Korn
10 2 (0.96%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.48%) C++
11 1 (0.48%) Groovy
11 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.48%) PHP
11 1 (0.48%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (11.96%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.70%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.74%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.78%) Degree
5 9 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.39%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.39%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (1.44%) CCNP
9 3 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.44%) CISSP
9 3 (1.44%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.44%) PMP
9 3 (1.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.96%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.96%) CCSK
10 2 (0.96%) CISM
10 2 (0.96%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.53%) QA
2 21 (10.05%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.78%) GDPR
4 9 (4.31%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.83%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.35%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (3.35%) SLA
7 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.44%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.44%) PMO
9 2 (0.96%) NIST
10 1 (0.48%) GRC
10 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 33 (15.79%) Docker
2 5 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.91%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.44%) Ceph
4 3 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.96%) Firmware
5 2 (0.96%) Squid
Systems Management
1 52 (24.88%) Kubernetes
2 45 (21.53%) Terraform
3 31 (14.83%) Ansible
4 15 (7.18%) Grafana
5 7 (3.35%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.39%) Istio
7 3 (1.44%) Argo
7 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.44%) vRealize
8 2 (0.96%) Kibana
8 2 (0.96%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.96%) vMotion
9 1 (0.48%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.48%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.48%) linkerd
9 1 (0.48%) logstash
9 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.48%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.48%) SCCM
9 1 (0.48%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (9.09%) Oracle
2 15 (7.18%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.70%) Google
4 12 (5.74%) Databricks
5 10 (4.78%) Cisco
6 9 (4.31%) Greenplum
7 8 (3.83%) VMware
8 7 (3.35%) Informatica
8 7 (3.35%) ServiceNow
8 7 (3.35%) Talend
9 6 (2.87%) IBM
9 6 (2.87%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.39%) Avaya
10 5 (2.39%) Genesys
10 5 (2.39%) OpenAI
10 5 (2.39%) Splunk
11 4 (1.91%) Confluent
11 4 (1.91%) Pega
12 3 (1.44%) Red Hat
13 2 (0.96%) NetApp