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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 13 9
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 245 216 277
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 15.52% 12.93% 11.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 38.83% 33.49% 36.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 163 208
10th Percentile £321 £351 £399
25th Percentile £402 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% -4.52% +0.51%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £600
90th Percentile £602 £600 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -5.17%
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 £54.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +37.61% +3.81% -18.60%

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 631 645 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.96% 38.60% 32.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 434 512
10th Percentile £312 £258 £321
25th Percentile £402 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £530 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 6
10th Percentile £12.42 £22.06 £15.26
25th Percentile £24.10 £22.50 £15.42
Median hourly rate £50.00 £24.18 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +106.78% +43.54% -25.74%
75th Percentile £62.00 £27.75 £20.66
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £37.70
UK median hourly rate £37.54 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +36.51% +27.91% -14.00%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 +14 154 £449 -0.22% 25
Edinburgh +1 82 £524 +7.93% 29
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 £325 - 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 16 (6.53%) Apache
2 14 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.71%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.86%) Confluence
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.41%) FileNet
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 98 (40.00%) Azure
2 59 (24.08%) Serverless
3 47 (19.18%) AWS Lambda
4 46 (18.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (15.92%) Amazon S3
6 38 (15.51%) GCP
7 29 (11.84%) Snowflake
8 27 (11.02%) Amazon ECS
9 26 (10.61%) Amazon EC2
9 26 (10.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 23 (9.39%) Amazon EKS
11 22 (8.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (5.71%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (4.90%) Amazon SageMaker
13 12 (4.90%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (4.08%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.67%) GitHub
16 8 (3.27%) Amazon EventBridge
16 8 (3.27%) AWS KMS
16 8 (3.27%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.53%) Firewall
2 5 (2.04%) HTTP
3 3 (1.22%) Network Security
3 3 (1.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.82%) BGP
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.82%) Cisco Wireless
4 2 (0.82%) DHCP
4 2 (0.82%) DNS
4 2 (0.82%) DSL
4 2 (0.82%) EIGRP
4 2 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.82%) SAN
4 2 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (0.82%) VPN
4 2 (0.82%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.88%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (10.61%) Data Warehouse
3 19 (7.76%) MySQL
4 18 (7.35%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.94%) Data Lake
5 17 (6.94%) NoSQL
5 17 (6.94%) Relational Database
6 16 (6.53%) DynamoDB
7 12 (4.90%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (4.49%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.67%) Metadata
10 6 (2.45%) Delta Lake
10 6 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (2.45%) SQL Server
11 5 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
12 4 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.63%) Big Data
12 4 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.22%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 29 (11.84%) GitLab
2 26 (10.61%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.39%) Git
4 19 (7.76%) JIRA
5 15 (6.12%) Bitbucket
6 13 (5.31%) MLflow
7 9 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.45%) JUnit
9 5 (2.04%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.22%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.82%) ERwin
11 2 (0.82%) Mockito
11 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.41%) git-flow
12 1 (0.41%) Liquibase
12 1 (0.41%) Maven
12 1 (0.41%) Snyk
12 1 (0.41%) Vite
12 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 80 (32.65%) Finance
2 59 (24.08%) Social Skills
3 45 (18.37%) Public Sector
4 43 (17.55%) Banking
5 19 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.49%) Retail Banking
7 7 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.45%) Retail
9 5 (2.04%) Financial Institution
9 5 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.63%) Legal
11 2 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.41%) Marketing
12 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (16.73%) Architect
2 32 (13.06%) Senior
3 29 (11.84%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (10.20%) Developer
5 20 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 18 (7.35%) Data Engineer
6 18 (7.35%) Python Engineer
7 17 (6.94%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 15 (6.12%) Data Architect
9 13 (5.31%) Platform Engineer
9 13 (5.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.90%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.90%) Security Engineer
11 11 (4.49%) Lead
12 9 (3.67%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.67%) Database Engineer
12 9 (3.67%) Windows Engineer
13 8 (3.27%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.02%) React
2 24 (9.80%) Node.js
3 21 (8.57%) PySpark
4 18 (7.35%) Spring
5 17 (6.94%) Pandas
6 16 (6.53%) AWS CDK
6 16 (6.53%) NumPy
6 16 (6.53%) Spring Boot
7 15 (6.12%) PyTorch
8 14 (5.71%) FastAPI
9 13 (5.31%) AngularJS
9 13 (5.31%) Hugging Face
9 13 (5.31%) OAuth
9 13 (5.31%) REST
9 13 (5.31%) SQLAlchemy
10 12 (4.90%) Kafka
10 12 (4.90%) OpenCV
10 12 (4.90%) RESTful
11 10 (4.08%) JWT
12 9 (3.67%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 38 (15.51%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.57%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (6.12%) Algorithms
3 15 (6.12%) Product Ownership
4 12 (4.90%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.90%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.49%) Data Centre
6 10 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.86%) Clustering
7 7 (2.86%) IVR
7 7 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (2.86%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.45%) NHS
8 6 (2.45%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.45%) Replication
9 4 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.63%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.63%) PKI
10 3 (1.22%) CMDB
10 3 (1.22%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.80%) Linux
2 16 (6.53%) Windows
3 12 (4.90%) Unix
4 5 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (43.27%) CI/CD
2 80 (32.65%) Agile
3 75 (30.61%) DevOps
4 72 (29.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 59 (24.08%) Migration
6 53 (21.63%) AI
7 47 (19.18%) Containerisation
7 47 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (18.78%) Machine Learning
9 43 (17.55%) Microservices
10 33 (13.47%) Disaster Recovery
11 32 (13.06%) Analytics
11 32 (13.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 29 (11.84%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (11.02%) Data Engineering
13 27 (11.02%) Performance Tuning
14 26 (10.61%) ETL
14 26 (10.61%) Mentoring
14 26 (10.61%) Observability
15 23 (9.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (53.06%) Python
2 46 (18.78%) Java
3 36 (14.69%) SQL
4 29 (11.84%) PowerShell
5 16 (6.53%) TypeScript
6 15 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.31%) Bash
8 11 (4.49%) Perl
9 7 (2.86%) Ruby
10 4 (1.63%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.22%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.82%) Go
12 2 (0.82%) Korn
12 2 (0.82%) PromQL
12 2 (0.82%) SPARQL
13 1 (0.41%) Bicep
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.41%) SAS Macro
13 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (8.98%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.16%) AWS Certification
3 14 (5.71%) Degree
4 10 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.08%) SC Cleared
5 9 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 6 (2.45%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.22%) CCNP
8 3 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.22%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.22%) PMP
8 3 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.82%) CISM
9 2 (0.82%) CISSP
9 2 (0.82%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.82%) NCDA
9 2 (0.82%) VCP6
9 2 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.39%) Data Quality
2 21 (8.57%) QA
3 14 (5.71%) Accessibility
4 11 (4.49%) GDPR
5 9 (3.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.27%) Disclosure Scotland
6 8 (3.27%) PCI DSS
7 6 (2.45%) SLA
8 4 (1.63%) NIST
9 3 (1.22%) COBIT
9 3 (1.22%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.22%) PMO
10 2 (0.82%) NCSC
11 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.41%) COREP
11 1 (0.41%) GRC
11 1 (0.41%) IFRS
11 1 (0.41%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 38 (15.51%) Docker
2 4 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.82%) Firmware
4 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (22.86%) Terraform
2 51 (20.82%) Kubernetes
3 36 (14.69%) Ansible
4 20 (8.16%) Grafana
5 8 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.63%) Kibana
6 4 (1.63%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.22%) logstash
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.22%) SCCM
7 3 (1.22%) vRealize
8 2 (0.82%) Fluentd
8 2 (0.82%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.82%) vMotion
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 24 (9.80%) Oracle
2 22 (8.98%) Microsoft
3 15 (6.12%) Databricks
4 14 (5.71%) Greenplum
5 12 (4.90%) Google
5 12 (4.90%) Splunk
6 11 (4.49%) Cisco
7 8 (3.27%) Informatica
7 8 (3.27%) Salesforce
7 8 (3.27%) Talend
8 7 (2.86%) IBM
8 7 (2.86%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.45%) OpenAI
10 5 (2.04%) Avaya
10 5 (2.04%) Genesys
11 4 (1.63%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.63%) Confluent
11 4 (1.63%) F5
11 4 (1.63%) Pega
12 3 (1.22%) Cloudera