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

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 13
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing AWS 220 210 248
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 13.49% 12.58% 10.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.76% 31.91% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 159 180
10th Percentile £313 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £555 £556 £613
90th Percentile £601 £600 £700
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 £71.25 £57.50
% change year-on-year +5.26% +23.91% -12.21%

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 633 658 743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.81% 39.42% 32.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 459 493
10th Percentile £310 £256 £303
25th Percentile £400 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £599 £530 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £685
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £12.24 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.05 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -62.22%
75th Percentile £57.00 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £26.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +39.62% +26.19% -18.48%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 23 March 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 +12 148 £444 -5.13% 24
Edinburgh -6 63 £518 +8.95% 14
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 - 4
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 (6.82%) Apache
2 13 (5.91%) Apache Spark
3 11 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (3.64%) Confluence
5 2 (0.91%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 89 (40.45%) Azure
2 50 (22.73%) Serverless
3 46 (20.91%) AWS CloudFormation
4 44 (20.00%) GCP
5 40 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (15.45%) Amazon S3
7 29 (13.18%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (12.73%) Snowflake
9 25 (11.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (8.18%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (6.36%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
14 11 (5.00%) GitHub
15 9 (4.09%) Amazon EventBridge
16 8 (3.64%) AWS KMS
16 8 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
16 8 (3.64%) OpenShift
17 7 (3.18%) Amazon MSK
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.00%) Firewall
2 7 (3.18%) DNS
3 4 (1.82%) DHCP
4 3 (1.36%) HTTP
4 3 (1.36%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.36%) SSH
4 3 (1.36%) SSL
5 2 (0.91%) DSL
5 2 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.91%) Network Security
5 2 (0.91%) SAN
5 2 (0.91%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.45%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.45%) Internet
6 1 (0.45%) LAN
6 1 (0.45%) Modbus
6 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.45%) VLAN
6 1 (0.45%) VPN
6 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (17.27%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.55%) MySQL
3 19 (8.64%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (8.18%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (8.18%) DynamoDB
5 17 (7.73%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.82%) MongoDB
7 14 (6.36%) NoSQL
8 13 (5.91%) Data Lake
9 12 (5.45%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (3.64%) Metadata
11 6 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.73%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.73%) MariaDB
11 6 (2.73%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.82%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.36%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 30 (13.64%) GitLab
2 23 (10.45%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.55%) Git
4 20 (9.09%) JIRA
5 12 (5.45%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.00%) MLflow
7 9 (4.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.73%) JUnit
9 4 (1.82%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.91%) Mockito
11 2 (0.91%) Postman
12 1 (0.45%) git-flow
12 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.45%) Selenium
12 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.45%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.45%) WebDriver
General
1 66 (30.00%) Finance
2 52 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 40 (18.18%) Public Sector
4 36 (16.36%) Banking
5 19 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.09%) Retail Banking
7 8 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.27%) Retail
9 4 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.36%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.45%) Marketing
12 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (18.64%) Architect
2 31 (14.09%) Senior
3 30 (13.64%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (10.45%) Developer
5 19 (8.64%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (8.18%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.82%) Data Architect
7 15 (6.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (5.91%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (5.45%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Database Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Lead
12 9 (4.09%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.09%) Python Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Security Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Senior Developer
12 9 (4.09%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (12.27%) React
2 24 (10.91%) Node.js
3 18 (8.18%) Spring
4 17 (7.73%) Spring Boot
5 15 (6.82%) PySpark
6 14 (6.36%) REST
6 14 (6.36%) RESTful
7 13 (5.91%) Kafka
8 11 (5.00%) AngularJS
8 11 (5.00%) AWS CDK
9 9 (4.09%) FastAPI
9 9 (4.09%) OAuth
10 8 (3.64%) Jest
10 8 (3.64%) Redux
11 7 (3.18%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.73%) Express.js
12 6 (2.73%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.73%) JWT
13 5 (2.27%) NestJS
13 5 (2.27%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (14.55%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.73%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.82%) Product Ownership
4 11 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.09%) Algorithms
5 9 (4.09%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.64%) Clustering
7 7 (3.18%) IVR
8 6 (2.73%) NHS
9 5 (2.27%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.27%) Replication
10 4 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.82%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.64%) Linux
2 16 (7.27%) Windows
3 9 (4.09%) Unix
4 7 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 71 (32.27%) DevOps
3 68 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 63 (28.64%) Agile
5 53 (24.09%) Migration
6 45 (20.45%) Microservices
6 45 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 39 (17.73%) AI
9 34 (15.45%) Machine Learning
10 33 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (14.09%) Analytics
12 29 (13.18%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (12.27%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (12.27%) Observability
14 26 (11.82%) Data Engineering
15 23 (10.45%) Mentoring
16 22 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
17 21 (9.55%) ETL
17 21 (9.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 118 (53.64%) Python
2 46 (20.91%) Java
3 38 (17.27%) SQL
4 29 (13.18%) PowerShell
5 20 (9.09%) Bash
6 19 (8.64%) JavaScript
7 15 (6.82%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.09%) Perl
9 7 (3.18%) Ruby
10 4 (1.82%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.91%) Korn
11 2 (0.91%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.45%) C++
12 1 (0.45%) Go
12 1 (0.45%) Groovy
12 1 (0.45%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.45%) PHP
12 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.45%) PromQL
12 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.27%) AWS Certification
3 15 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 10 (4.55%) Degree
5 8 (3.64%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.27%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.36%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.36%) PMP
9 3 (1.36%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 2 (0.91%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.91%) NCDA
10 2 (0.91%) VCP6
10 2 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 1 (0.45%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.45%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.45%) QA
2 22 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 12 (5.45%) Accessibility
4 11 (5.00%) GDPR
5 8 (3.64%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.64%) SLA
6 6 (2.73%) Disclosure Scotland
6 6 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.36%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.36%) PMO
8 2 (0.91%) NIST
8 2 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.45%) COBIT
9 1 (0.45%) GRC
9 1 (0.45%) NCSC
9 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.45%) PSD2
9 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 39 (17.73%) Docker
2 5 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.82%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (1.36%) Ceph
4 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.91%) Firmware
5 2 (0.91%) Squid
5 2 (0.91%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (24.55%) Terraform
2 49 (22.27%) Kubernetes
3 35 (15.91%) Ansible
4 14 (6.36%) Grafana
5 7 (3.18%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.36%) vRealize
8 2 (0.91%) Argo
8 2 (0.91%) Istio
8 2 (0.91%) Kibana
8 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.91%) SCCM
8 2 (0.91%) vMotion
9 1 (0.45%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.45%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.45%) logstash
9 1 (0.45%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (11.36%) Oracle
2 19 (8.64%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.36%) Google
4 13 (5.91%) Databricks
4 13 (5.91%) Greenplum
5 8 (3.64%) Cisco
6 7 (3.18%) Informatica
6 7 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.18%) Splunk
6 7 (3.18%) Talend
7 6 (2.73%) IBM
7 6 (2.73%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.73%) VMware
8 5 (2.27%) Avaya
8 5 (2.27%) Genesys
8 5 (2.27%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.82%) Confluent
9 4 (1.82%) Pega
10 3 (1.36%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.36%) Thales