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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +2 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 245 227 215
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 10.97% 13.47% 11.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.99% 38.15% 32.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 156 147
10th Percentile £336 £404 £400
25th Percentile £404 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -3.55%
75th Percentile £549 £553 £550
90th Percentile £650 £637 £623
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.67% +62.41% -34.03%

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 817 595 655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.59% 35.31% 34.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 394 429
10th Percentile £313 £350 £200
25th Percentile £400 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% +6.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £540 £538
90th Percentile £648 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 14
10th Percentile - £16.21 £15.52
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +13.55% -67.50%
75th Percentile - £25.06 £23.89
90th Percentile £35.00 £27.05 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.45 £23.98
% change year-on-year +29.33% +14.49% -31.50%

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 6 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 6 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 +3 129 £425 -15.00% 92
Edinburgh -2 103 £475 -2.56% 46
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 -
Dundee - 2 - - 2
Aberdeen -3 1 £475 - 2
West Lothian - 1 - - 1
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 - -
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 (5.31%) Confluence
2 12 (4.90%) Apache
3 10 (4.08%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.22%) JBoss
6 2 (0.82%) nginx
6 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.41%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (35.51%) Azure
2 81 (33.06%) GCP
3 50 (20.41%) Serverless
4 42 (17.14%) Amazon S3
5 41 (16.73%) AWS Lambda
6 34 (13.88%) GitHub
7 32 (13.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (8.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (7.76%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (6.94%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (5.71%) Snowflake
13 12 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
13 12 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (4.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (3.27%) Amazon EMR
15 8 (3.27%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (3.27%) Cloud Computing
16 7 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
17 6 (2.45%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.90%) DNS
2 7 (2.86%) Firewall
3 5 (2.04%) HTTP
3 5 (2.04%) HTTPS
3 5 (2.04%) SSH
3 5 (2.04%) SSL
4 4 (1.63%) Network Security
5 2 (0.82%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.82%) DHCP
5 2 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.82%) NGFW
5 2 (0.82%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.41%) Broadband
6 1 (0.41%) CTI
6 1 (0.41%) LAN
6 1 (0.41%) PSTN
6 1 (0.41%) RTP
6 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.20%) MongoDB
1 25 (10.20%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.53%) MySQL
3 15 (6.12%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.31%) Amazon Athena
5 11 (4.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (4.49%) Data Lake
6 10 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 9 (3.67%) MariaDB
7 9 (3.67%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
10 5 (2.04%) Metadata
11 4 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.22%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.22%) SQLPlus
13 2 (0.82%) Flink
13 2 (0.82%) Power BI
13 2 (0.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (15.92%) Jenkins
2 37 (15.10%) Git
3 19 (7.76%) JIRA
4 14 (5.71%) Bitbucket
4 14 (5.71%) GitLab
5 11 (4.49%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.08%) JUnit
6 10 (4.08%) Maven
6 10 (4.08%) Selenium
7 9 (3.67%) Claude Code
7 9 (3.67%) Gradle
8 8 (3.27%) GoCD
9 7 (2.86%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.86%) JProfiler
9 7 (2.86%) Postman
9 7 (2.86%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.63%) Subversion
11 3 (1.22%) Appium
11 3 (1.22%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.22%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (22.45%) Finance
1 55 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.18%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.65%) Banking
4 21 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.45%) Investment Banking
5 6 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (2.45%) Retail Banking
6 4 (1.63%) Corporate Banking
6 4 (1.63%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.22%) Legal
7 3 (1.22%) Marketing
7 3 (1.22%) Retail
8 2 (0.82%) Front Office
8 2 (0.82%) Law
8 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Back Office
9 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 58 (23.67%) Developer
2 39 (15.92%) Architect
3 27 (11.02%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (9.39%) Cloud Engineer
5 21 (8.57%) Java Developer
6 20 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 18 (7.35%) Senior
8 16 (6.53%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (5.71%) Analyst
11 12 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (4.49%) Lead
13 9 (3.67%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.67%) GCP Engineer
14 8 (3.27%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
14 8 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.27%) Python Engineer
15 7 (2.86%) AWS Data Engineer
15 7 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (14.29%) Spring
2 33 (13.47%) React
3 32 (13.06%) Spring Boot
4 31 (12.65%) REST
5 23 (9.39%) Kafka
5 23 (9.39%) Node.js
6 20 (8.16%) RESTful
7 17 (6.94%) AWS CDK
7 17 (6.94%) OAuth
8 14 (5.71%) OAuth2
9 12 (4.90%) FastAPI
9 12 (4.90%) Redux
10 11 (4.49%) HTML
11 10 (4.08%) CSS
12 9 (3.67%) Jest
12 9 (3.67%) PySpark
13 8 (3.27%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.27%) FreeMarker
13 8 (3.27%) PyTorch
14 7 (2.86%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 54 (22.04%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
2 19 (7.76%) Product Ownership
3 11 (4.49%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.67%) Data Structures
5 9 (3.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 9 (3.67%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.45%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.63%) AI Agents
7 4 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.63%) Market Risk
7 4 (1.63%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.63%) Replication
8 3 (1.22%) Clustering
8 3 (1.22%) IVR
8 3 (1.22%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.24%) Linux
2 12 (4.90%) Windows
3 9 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Unix
5 3 (1.22%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (43.27%) CI/CD
2 77 (31.43%) Agile
3 75 (30.61%) DevOps
4 58 (23.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 48 (19.59%) AI
6 47 (19.18%) Microservices
7 40 (16.33%) Containerisation
8 35 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 31 (12.65%) Migration
9 31 (12.65%) Observability
10 29 (11.84%) Event-Driven
10 29 (11.84%) Scrum
11 26 (10.61%) Platform Engineering
11 26 (10.61%) TDD
12 25 (10.20%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (9.80%) Mentoring
14 23 (9.39%) Machine Learning
15 22 (8.98%) Full-Stack Development
15 22 (8.98%) LLM
15 22 (8.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 101 (41.22%) Python
2 62 (25.31%) Java
3 43 (17.55%) JavaScript
4 42 (17.14%) SQL
5 33 (13.47%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.61%) Bash
7 16 (6.53%) Shell Script
8 5 (2.04%) C#
8 5 (2.04%) Go
8 5 (2.04%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.63%) Ruby
10 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.82%) Groovy
11 2 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.41%) PHP
12 1 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.49%) DV Cleared
4 10 (4.08%) Degree
5 9 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.63%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.22%) CISSP
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.82%) CBAP
9 2 (0.82%) CCNP
9 2 (0.82%) CCSK
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.82%) CISM
10 1 (0.41%) CRISC
10 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.41%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.90%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.08%) QA
3 9 (3.67%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.63%) GDPR
5 4 (1.63%) SLA
6 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.41%) PSD2
7 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.41%) SEPA
7 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (13.88%) Docker
2 8 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.04%) Ceph
4 5 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 5 (2.04%) zsh
5 4 (1.63%) Squid
6 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 70 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 50 (20.41%) Terraform
3 26 (10.61%) Ansible
4 11 (4.49%) Grafana
5 8 (3.27%) Argo
6 6 (2.45%) Istio
6 6 (2.45%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.82%) linkerd
8 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.82%) Netcool
9 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.41%) Kibana
9 1 (0.41%) Podman
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) yum
Vendors
1 31 (12.65%) Google
2 20 (8.16%) Oracle
3 19 (7.76%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.49%) Splunk
5 9 (3.67%) VMware
6 7 (2.86%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.45%) Cisco
7 6 (2.45%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.45%) ForgeRock
8 5 (2.04%) Databricks
8 5 (2.04%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.63%) Confluent
9 4 (1.63%) Dell
9 4 (1.63%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.22%) Greenplum
10 3 (1.22%) Informatica
10 3 (1.22%) Okta
10 3 (1.22%) Talend
11 2 (0.82%) Palo Alto