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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 13 8
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 205 215 260
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.93% 13.05% 11.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.37% 32.77% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 157 194
10th Percentile £313 £400 £400
25th Percentile £400 £423 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% +0.95% -3.55%
75th Percentile £561 £563 £539
90th Percentile £591 £600 £650
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 £74.25 £75.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -1.00% +30.43% -17.86%

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 698 656 751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.63% 39.83% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 446 515
10th Percentile £311 £279 £268
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £585 £538 £557
90th Percentile £675 £600 £662
UK median daily rate £500 £522 £525
% change year-on-year -4.12% -0.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 10
10th Percentile £12.57 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.20 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +42.24% -70.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.88 £21.00
% change year-on-year +53.10% +32.76% -30.29%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 +8 126 £447 -9.88% 27
Edinburgh -2 69 £496 +4.47% 22
South Lanarkshire - 4 £800 - 1
Dundee - 2 - -
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 (7.32%) Apache
2 11 (5.37%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.88%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.41%) Confluence
5 2 (0.98%) nginx
6 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.49%) CMS
6 1 (0.49%) JBoss
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.95%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 75 (36.59%) Azure
2 40 (19.51%) AWS CloudFormation
2 40 (19.51%) Serverless
3 38 (18.54%) GCP
4 34 (16.59%) AWS Lambda
5 29 (14.15%) Amazon S3
6 25 (12.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (11.71%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (10.73%) Amazon EKS
9 21 (10.24%) Snowflake
10 20 (9.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (9.27%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (6.83%) AWS Step Functions
13 12 (5.85%) GitHub
14 9 (4.39%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (4.39%) GitHub Actions
15 8 (3.90%) Amazon SageMaker
15 8 (3.90%) AWS KMS
15 8 (3.90%) OpenShift
16 6 (2.93%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.41%) DNS
1 7 (3.41%) Firewall
2 4 (1.95%) DHCP
2 4 (1.95%) HTTP
3 3 (1.46%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.46%) SSH
3 3 (1.46%) SSL
4 2 (0.98%) DSL
4 2 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.98%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.98%) Network Security
4 2 (0.98%) SAN
4 2 (0.98%) VXLAN
5 1 (0.49%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.49%) Internet
5 1 (0.49%) Modbus
5 1 (0.49%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.49%) VLAN
5 1 (0.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (13.66%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (12.20%) MySQL
3 20 (9.76%) DynamoDB
4 17 (8.29%) MongoDB
5 15 (7.32%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (7.32%) Relational Database
6 12 (5.85%) Data Lake
7 11 (5.37%) NoSQL
8 9 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.90%) Metadata
10 7 (3.41%) MariaDB
11 6 (2.93%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.93%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.93%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.95%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.46%) Big Data
13 3 (1.46%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 27 (13.17%) GitLab
2 18 (8.78%) Jenkins
3 17 (8.29%) JIRA
4 16 (7.80%) Git
5 10 (4.88%) Bitbucket
6 9 (4.39%) MLflow
7 6 (2.93%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.46%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.46%) JUnit
9 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.98%) Postman
9 2 (0.98%) Selenium
9 2 (0.98%) Terragrunt
9 2 (0.98%) WebDriver
10 1 (0.49%) git-flow
10 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (26.34%) Finance
2 45 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 41 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 28 (13.66%) Banking
5 16 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.41%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.95%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.95%) Retail
9 3 (1.46%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.49%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (14.15%) Architect
1 29 (14.15%) AWS Engineer
2 24 (11.71%) Developer
3 23 (11.22%) Senior
4 22 (10.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 15 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (6.83%) Java Developer
6 14 (6.83%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 11 (5.37%) Data Engineer
7 11 (5.37%) Platform Engineer
8 10 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Analyst
9 9 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Python Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.90%) Database Engineer
10 8 (3.90%) Lead
10 8 (3.90%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.63%) React
2 20 (9.76%) Node.js
2 20 (9.76%) Spring
3 18 (8.78%) Spring Boot
4 15 (7.32%) REST
5 13 (6.34%) PySpark
6 12 (5.85%) AWS CDK
6 12 (5.85%) RESTful
7 11 (5.37%) Redux
8 10 (4.88%) FastAPI
8 10 (4.88%) Jest
8 10 (4.88%) Kafka
9 9 (4.39%) OAuth
10 8 (3.90%) CSS
10 8 (3.90%) Express.js
10 8 (3.90%) HTML
11 7 (3.41%) AngularJS
11 7 (3.41%) JWT
12 6 (2.93%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.93%) MERN Stack
Miscellaneous
1 30 (14.63%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.32%) Product Ownership
3 13 (6.34%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (5.85%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.39%) Data Centre
6 8 (3.90%) Clustering
7 7 (3.41%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.93%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.93%) IVR
8 6 (2.93%) NHS
9 5 (2.44%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.44%) Replication
10 4 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.46%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.46%) CMDB
11 3 (1.46%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (1.46%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (12.68%) Linux
2 14 (6.83%) Windows
3 7 (3.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.93%) Unix
5 4 (1.95%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.98%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (42.44%) CI/CD
2 60 (29.27%) DevOps
3 59 (28.78%) Agile
4 55 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (21.95%) Migration
6 36 (17.56%) AI
7 35 (17.07%) Microservices
7 35 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (14.15%) Containerisation
10 27 (13.17%) Machine Learning
11 25 (12.20%) Analytics
11 25 (12.20%) Data Pipeline
12 24 (11.71%) Data Engineering
13 23 (11.22%) Data Protection
13 23 (11.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (11.22%) Observability
14 21 (10.24%) Mentoring
14 21 (10.24%) Platform Engineering
14 21 (10.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 104 (50.73%) Python
2 47 (22.93%) Java
3 40 (19.51%) SQL
4 24 (11.71%) PowerShell
5 22 (10.73%) Bash
5 22 (10.73%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.29%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.93%) Perl
8 4 (1.95%) Ruby
9 3 (1.46%) Go
9 3 (1.46%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.98%) Korn
10 2 (0.98%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.49%) C++
11 1 (0.49%) Groovy
11 1 (0.49%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.49%) PHP
11 1 (0.49%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.83%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.88%) AWS Certification
3 10 (4.88%) Degree
4 9 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.44%) DV Cleared
6 5 (2.44%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (1.46%) CCNP
7 3 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.46%) CISSP
7 3 (1.46%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.46%) PMP
7 3 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (0.98%) CCSK
8 2 (0.98%) CISM
8 2 (0.98%) FFIEC
8 2 (0.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.73%) QA
2 19 (9.27%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.88%) GDPR
4 9 (4.39%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.90%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 7 (3.41%) SLA
7 6 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.46%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.46%) PMO
9 2 (0.98%) NIST
10 1 (0.49%) GRC
10 1 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (15.12%) Docker
2 5 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.95%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.46%) Ceph
4 3 (1.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.98%) Firmware
5 2 (0.98%) Squid
5 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 42 (20.49%) Terraform
3 30 (14.63%) Ansible
4 16 (7.80%) Grafana
5 8 (3.90%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.44%) Istio
7 3 (1.46%) Argo
7 3 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.98%) Kibana
8 2 (0.98%) linkerd
8 2 (0.98%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.98%) vMotion
8 2 (0.98%) vRealize
9 1 (0.49%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.49%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.49%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.49%) logstash
9 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.49%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.49%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (8.29%) Oracle
2 15 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.83%) Google
4 12 (5.85%) Databricks
5 10 (4.88%) Cisco
6 7 (3.41%) Greenplum
6 7 (3.41%) Informatica
6 7 (3.41%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.41%) Talend
6 7 (3.41%) VMware
7 6 (2.93%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.44%) Avaya
8 5 (2.44%) Genesys
8 5 (2.44%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.44%) Splunk
9 4 (1.95%) Confluent
9 4 (1.95%) IBM
10 3 (1.46%) Pega
10 3 (1.46%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.98%) Thales