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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 13 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 254 228 217
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.13% 14.34% 11.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.38% 40.86% 35.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 145 145
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -3.03%
75th Percentile £550 £560 £550
90th Percentile £650 £637 £630
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 £74.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.72% +60.78% -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 836 558 610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.63% 35.09% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 343 395
10th Percentile £304 £326 £208
25th Percentile £401 £423 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £625 £608
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 11
10th Percentile - £19.58 -
25th Percentile £13.97 £26.32 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +97.61% -36.67%
75th Percentile - £48.77 £23.59
90th Percentile £18.75 £55.51 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.88 £30.00
% change year-on-year +17.71% -3.75% -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 3 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 3 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 +3 131 £440 -11.29% 221
Edinburgh -3 105 £490 -1.95% 158
South Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Dumfries and Galloway - 4 - - 1
West Lothian - 3 - - 1
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 (5.12%) Confluence
2 12 (4.72%) Apache
3 11 (4.33%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.18%) JBoss
6 2 (0.79%) nginx
6 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (35.43%) Azure
2 83 (32.68%) GCP
3 51 (20.08%) Serverless
4 42 (16.54%) AWS Lambda
5 37 (14.57%) Amazon S3
6 31 (12.20%) GitHub
7 29 (11.42%) Amazon EKS
8 25 (9.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 17 (6.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (6.69%) Amazon ECS
10 15 (5.91%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.72%) Kong
12 12 (4.72%) Snowflake
13 11 (4.33%) Amazon MSK
14 10 (3.94%) OpenShift
15 9 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (3.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 8 (3.15%) Amazon SQS
16 8 (3.15%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.30%) DNS
2 8 (3.15%) Firewall
2 8 (3.15%) HTTP
2 8 (3.15%) SSL
3 6 (2.36%) HTTPS
3 6 (2.36%) SSH
4 4 (1.57%) Network Security
5 3 (1.18%) Broadband
6 2 (0.79%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.79%) DHCP
6 2 (0.79%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.79%) NGFW
6 2 (0.79%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.39%) CTI
7 1 (0.39%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.39%) LAN
7 1 (0.39%) PSTN
7 1 (0.39%) RTP
7 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (6.30%) Amazon Aurora
2 16 (6.30%) MongoDB
3 13 (5.12%) MySQL
4 11 (4.33%) MariaDB
5 9 (3.54%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (3.15%) Amazon Athena
6 8 (3.15%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.36%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.57%) Metadata
9 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.18%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.18%) Power BI
10 3 (1.18%) SQLPlus
11 2 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 39 (15.35%) Jenkins
2 37 (14.57%) Git
3 21 (8.27%) JIRA
4 14 (5.51%) GitLab
5 13 (5.12%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.12%) Maven
6 11 (4.33%) Claude Code
6 11 (4.33%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.33%) Gradle
7 10 (3.94%) JUnit
7 10 (3.94%) Selenium
8 8 (3.15%) GoCD
9 7 (2.76%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.76%) JProfiler
9 7 (2.76%) REST Assured
10 6 (2.36%) Postman
11 4 (1.57%) Subversion
12 3 (1.18%) Appium
12 3 (1.18%) SpecFlow
12 3 (1.18%) WebDriver
General
1 63 (24.80%) Finance
2 57 (22.44%) Social Skills
3 53 (20.87%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.60%) Banking
5 19 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (1.97%) Investment Banking
7 5 (1.97%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.57%) Legal
9 3 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.18%) Marketing
10 2 (0.79%) Front Office
10 2 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.79%) Retail
11 1 (0.39%) Back Office
11 1 (0.39%) International Banking
11 1 (0.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (23.23%) Developer
2 37 (14.57%) Architect
3 22 (8.66%) Java Developer
4 21 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
5 19 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
5 19 (7.48%) Senior
6 18 (7.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.09%) Lead
6 18 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (5.51%) Analyst
7 14 (5.51%) Data Engineer
7 14 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
8 10 (3.94%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (3.94%) Software Engineer
9 9 (3.54%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (3.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.15%) Lead Developer
10 8 (3.15%) Python Engineer
11 7 (2.76%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (2.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.05%) Terraform
2 41 (16.14%) Spring
3 38 (14.96%) Spring Boot
4 33 (12.99%) React
5 32 (12.60%) REST
6 22 (8.66%) Node.js
6 22 (8.66%) RESTful
7 21 (8.27%) Kafka
8 15 (5.91%) OAuth
9 13 (5.12%) AWS CDK
10 12 (4.72%) OAuth2
11 11 (4.33%) HTML
12 10 (3.94%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.94%) CSS
13 9 (3.54%) Jest
14 8 (3.15%) FastAPI
14 8 (3.15%) OpenID
14 8 (3.15%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (3.15%) Redux
14 8 (3.15%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 59 (23.23%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.91%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.51%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (4.33%) Data Centre
6 11 (4.33%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.33%) Linux Command Line
7 9 (3.54%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (3.15%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.76%) Algorithms
10 5 (1.97%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (1.57%) Market Risk
11 4 (1.57%) Replication
12 3 (1.18%) IVR
12 3 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
12 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.18%) Security Posture
12 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.78%) Linux
2 12 (4.72%) Windows
3 10 (3.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.57%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (43.70%) CI/CD
2 82 (32.28%) Agile
3 81 (31.89%) DevOps
4 62 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
5 60 (23.62%) AI
6 45 (17.72%) Containerisation
7 44 (17.32%) Microservices
8 33 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (12.99%) Platform Engineering
9 29 (11.42%) Event-Driven
9 29 (11.42%) Mentoring
9 29 (11.42%) Scrum
9 29 (11.42%) Software Engineering
10 28 (11.02%) Migration
11 27 (10.63%) Observability
11 27 (10.63%) TDD
12 25 (9.84%) LLM
12 25 (9.84%) Machine Learning
12 25 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (9.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 94 (37.01%) Python
2 66 (25.98%) Java
3 42 (16.54%) SQL
4 41 (16.14%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.39%) TypeScript
6 26 (10.24%) Bash
7 21 (8.27%) Shell Script
8 12 (4.72%) Go
9 6 (2.36%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.97%) C#
10 5 (1.97%) Lua
11 4 (1.57%) Groovy
11 4 (1.57%) Ruby
12 3 (1.18%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.39%) Cypher
14 1 (0.39%) Perl
14 1 (0.39%) PHP
14 1 (0.39%) R
14 1 (0.39%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 35 (13.78%) Security Cleared
2 22 (8.66%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.33%) Degree
4 10 (3.94%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.54%) AWS Certification
6 8 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.57%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.18%) CISSP
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.79%) CBAP
10 2 (0.79%) CCNP
10 2 (0.79%) CCSK
10 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.79%) CISM
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.79%) RHCE
10 2 (0.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.72%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (3.54%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.36%) QA
4 4 (1.57%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) GRC
6 1 (0.39%) MiFID
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.39%) PSD2
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.39%) SEPA
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (14.96%) Docker
2 9 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 6 (2.36%) Ceph
4 6 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.36%) zsh
5 4 (1.57%) Squid
6 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.39%) GPFS
7 1 (0.39%) NFS
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 81 (31.89%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.02%) Ansible
3 11 (4.33%) Argo
3 11 (4.33%) Grafana
4 6 (2.36%) Istio
5 3 (1.18%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.79%) linkerd
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.79%) Netcool
7 1 (0.39%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.39%) Kibana
7 1 (0.39%) logstash
7 1 (0.39%) Podman
7 1 (0.39%) Puppet
7 1 (0.39%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (13.39%) Google
2 20 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.87%) Oracle
3 15 (5.91%) Splunk
4 12 (4.72%) VMware
5 9 (3.54%) MuleSoft
6 8 (3.15%) Dynatrace
7 7 (2.76%) Cisco
7 7 (2.76%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.36%) ForgeRock
9 5 (1.97%) Dell
9 5 (1.97%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.57%) Informatica
10 4 (1.57%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.18%) Databricks
11 3 (1.18%) Foundry
11 3 (1.18%) Greenplum
11 3 (1.18%) Okta
11 3 (1.18%) Talend
12 2 (0.79%) EnterpriseDB