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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 11 10
Rank change year-on-year -2 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 264 233 230
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.26% 14.43% 12.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.77% 40.59% 36.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 152 159
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +4.17% -2.69%
75th Percentile £547 £564 £538
90th Percentile £650 £635 £620
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -4.76% +59.16% -38.43%

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 858 574 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.59% 35.54% 33.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 359 409
10th Percentile £307 £319 £213
25th Percentile £402 £421 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £545 £538
90th Percentile £638 £625 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile - £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile £13.97 £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% -11.39%
75th Percentile £16.55 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile £18.75 £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.63 £30.00
% change year-on-year +9.70% -1.25% -14.29%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 +2 135 £425 -13.79% 133
Edinburgh -2 108 £481 -3.90% 65
Dumfries and Galloway - 7 - -
South Lanarkshire - 4 - - 2
West Lothian - 3 - - 3
Aberdeen - 2 £475 - 2
Dundee - 2 - - 2
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 (4.92%) Confluence
2 12 (4.55%) Apache
3 11 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.89%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.14%) JBoss
6 2 (0.76%) nginx
6 2 (0.76%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) CMS
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.14%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 93 (35.23%) Azure
2 85 (32.20%) GCP
3 51 (19.32%) Serverless
4 42 (15.91%) AWS Lambda
5 36 (13.64%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.36%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (11.36%) GitHub
7 25 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 19 (7.20%) Amazon ECS
9 17 (6.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.68%) Kong
11 14 (5.30%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.92%) Amazon MSK
12 13 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.17%) OpenShift
13 11 (4.17%) Snowflake
14 10 (3.79%) Apigee
15 9 (3.41%) Amazon SQS
15 9 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.06%) DNS
2 8 (3.03%) Firewall
2 8 (3.03%) HTTP
2 8 (3.03%) SSL
3 6 (2.27%) HTTPS
3 6 (2.27%) SSH
4 4 (1.52%) Network Security
5 3 (1.14%) Broadband
6 2 (0.76%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.76%) DHCP
6 2 (0.76%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.76%) iSCSI
6 2 (0.76%) NGFW
6 2 (0.76%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.38%) CTI
7 1 (0.38%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.38%) NAS
7 1 (0.38%) RTP
7 1 (0.38%) SAN
7 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.06%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.68%) Amazon Aurora
4 12 (4.55%) MySQL
5 10 (3.79%) MariaDB
6 9 (3.41%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (3.03%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.65%) DynamoDB
9 5 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.89%) Relational Database
10 4 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.52%) Metadata
10 4 (1.52%) SQL Server
11 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
11 3 (1.14%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.14%) Power BI
11 3 (1.14%) SQLPlus
12 2 (0.76%) Flink
Development Applications
1 39 (14.77%) Jenkins
2 35 (13.26%) Git
3 22 (8.33%) JIRA
4 16 (6.06%) GitLab
5 13 (4.92%) Bitbucket
5 13 (4.92%) Maven
6 11 (4.17%) Claude Code
6 11 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.17%) Gradle
7 10 (3.79%) JUnit
8 9 (3.41%) Selenium
9 8 (3.03%) GoCD
10 7 (2.65%) JProfiler
10 7 (2.65%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.27%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.27%) Postman
12 4 (1.52%) Subversion
13 3 (1.14%) Appium
13 3 (1.14%) SpecFlow
13 3 (1.14%) webpack
General
1 66 (25.00%) Finance
2 57 (21.59%) Social Skills
3 53 (20.08%) Public Sector
4 34 (12.88%) Banking
5 19 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.89%) Retail Banking
9 4 (1.52%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.52%) Legal
10 3 (1.14%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.14%) Marketing
11 2 (0.76%) Front Office
11 2 (0.76%) Law
11 2 (0.76%) Retail
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) International Banking
12 1 (0.38%) Military
Job Titles
1 61 (23.11%) Developer
2 37 (14.02%) Architect
3 22 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 21 (7.95%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (7.58%) Lead
6 19 (7.20%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (7.20%) Platform Engineer
6 19 (7.20%) Senior
7 17 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (5.30%) Analyst
8 14 (5.30%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.30%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (3.79%) GCP Engineer
10 10 (3.79%) Software Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 8 (3.03%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.03%) Python Developer
11 8 (3.03%) Python Engineer
12 7 (2.65%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (22.35%) Terraform
2 41 (15.53%) Spring
3 38 (14.39%) Spring Boot
4 35 (13.26%) REST
5 33 (12.50%) React
6 24 (9.09%) RESTful
7 22 (8.33%) Node.js
8 21 (7.95%) Kafka
9 16 (6.06%) OAuth
10 13 (4.92%) AWS CDK
10 13 (4.92%) OAuth2
11 11 (4.17%) HTML
11 11 (4.17%) Swagger
12 10 (3.79%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.79%) CSS
12 10 (3.79%) OpenAPI
13 9 (3.41%) Jest
13 9 (3.41%) OpenID
14 8 (3.03%) FreeMarker
14 8 (3.03%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 66 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 18 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.92%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.17%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.17%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.41%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.03%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.65%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.27%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.52%) Market Risk
10 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.52%) Replication
11 3 (1.14%) IVR
11 3 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
11 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.88%) Linux
2 12 (4.55%) Windows
3 11 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.52%) Unix
4 4 (1.52%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (43.56%) CI/CD
2 85 (32.20%) Agile
3 83 (31.44%) DevOps
4 66 (25.00%) AI
4 66 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (17.05%) Containerisation
6 44 (16.67%) Microservices
7 36 (13.64%) Platform Engineering
8 34 (12.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 33 (12.50%) Software Engineering
10 30 (11.36%) Event-Driven
10 30 (11.36%) Mentoring
10 30 (11.36%) Observability
10 30 (11.36%) Scrum
11 29 (10.98%) Migration
12 28 (10.61%) Machine Learning
13 27 (10.23%) LLM
13 27 (10.23%) TDD
13 27 (10.23%) Test Automation
14 26 (9.85%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 97 (36.74%) Python
2 66 (25.00%) Java
3 42 (15.91%) SQL
4 41 (15.53%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.26%) TypeScript
6 26 (9.85%) Bash
7 21 (7.95%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.68%) Go
9 7 (2.65%) Lua
10 6 (2.27%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.89%) C#
12 4 (1.52%) Groovy
12 4 (1.52%) Ruby
13 3 (1.14%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.76%) Cypher
14 2 (0.76%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.76%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.38%) Perl
15 1 (0.38%) PHP
15 1 (0.38%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 24 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.17%) Degree
4 10 (3.79%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.41%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.14%) CISSP
10 2 (0.76%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.76%) CBAP
10 2 (0.76%) CCSK
10 2 (0.76%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CISM
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.76%) RHCE
10 2 (0.76%) RHCSA
10 2 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.55%) Data Quality
1 12 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.65%) QA
4 3 (1.14%) GDPR
5 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.38%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) PSD2
6 1 (0.38%) SEPA
6 1 (0.38%) SLA
6 1 (0.38%) Solvency II
System Software
1 40 (15.15%) Docker
2 9 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.03%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.27%) Ceph
4 6 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.27%) zsh
5 4 (1.52%) Squid
6 2 (0.76%) GPFS
6 2 (0.76%) NFS
6 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 87 (32.95%) Kubernetes
2 29 (10.98%) Ansible
3 11 (4.17%) Grafana
4 10 (3.79%) Argo
5 5 (1.89%) Istio
6 3 (1.14%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.76%) linkerd
7 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.76%) Netcool
8 1 (0.38%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.38%) Kibana
8 1 (0.38%) logstash
8 1 (0.38%) Podman
8 1 (0.38%) Puppet
8 1 (0.38%) yum
Vendors
1 35 (13.26%) Google
2 20 (7.58%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.20%) Oracle
4 15 (5.68%) Splunk
5 12 (4.55%) VMware
6 11 (4.17%) MuleSoft
7 8 (3.03%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.65%) Cisco
8 7 (2.65%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.27%) ForgeRock
9 6 (2.27%) Informatica
10 5 (1.89%) Dell
10 5 (1.89%) Red Hat
11 4 (1.52%) Salesforce
12 3 (1.14%) Databricks
12 3 (1.14%) Foundry
12 3 (1.14%) Greenplum
12 3 (1.14%) IBM
12 3 (1.14%) Okta
12 3 (1.14%) Talend