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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 14 10
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 252 224 210
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.01% 14.11% 11.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.25% 40.95% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 145 138
10th Percentile £373 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -3.03%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £547
90th Percentile £650 £646 £621
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% -37.59%

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 833 547 607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.39% 34.45% 32.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 342 389
10th Percentile £311 £323 £189
25th Percentile £400 £419 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £538
90th Percentile £638 £612 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 12
10th Percentile £13.86 - -
25th Percentile £13.97 - £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £15.09 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -19.25% -57.29%
75th Percentile - - £23.30
90th Percentile £19.98 - £24.18
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £28.00 £27.86
% change year-on-year +21.39% +0.50% -20.40%

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 27 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 27 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 +5 131 £440 -12.00% 212
Edinburgh -3 105 £490 -1.95% 141
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 - 1
West Lothian - 3 - - 2
Aberdeen - 2 £475 - 3
Dundee - 2 - - 3
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 (5.16%) Confluence
2 11 (4.37%) Apache
3 10 (3.97%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.19%) JBoss
6 2 (0.79%) nginx
6 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.19%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 91 (36.11%) Azure
2 84 (33.33%) GCP
3 49 (19.44%) Serverless
4 40 (15.87%) AWS Lambda
5 38 (15.08%) Amazon S3
6 31 (12.30%) GitHub
7 28 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
8 27 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (7.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (6.35%) Amazon ECS
11 15 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (5.95%) Snowflake
12 13 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (4.37%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.37%) Kong
13 11 (4.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.97%) Amazon MSK
15 9 (3.57%) OpenShift
16 8 (3.17%) Cloud Computing
17 7 (2.78%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.35%) DNS
2 8 (3.17%) Firewall
2 8 (3.17%) HTTP
2 8 (3.17%) SSL
3 6 (2.38%) HTTPS
3 6 (2.38%) SSH
4 4 (1.59%) Network Security
5 3 (1.19%) 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 (0.40%) CTI
7 1 (0.40%) LAN
7 1 (0.40%) PSTN
7 1 (0.40%) RTP
7 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.75%) MongoDB
3 16 (6.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (5.16%) MySQL
5 11 (4.37%) MariaDB
6 9 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
7 8 (3.17%) Amazon Athena
7 8 (3.17%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.98%) DynamoDB
8 5 (1.98%) Relational Database
9 4 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.59%) Metadata
9 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
10 3 (1.19%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.19%) Power BI
10 3 (1.19%) SQLPlus
11 2 (0.79%) Flink
Development Applications
1 39 (15.48%) Jenkins
2 38 (15.08%) Git
3 21 (8.33%) JIRA
4 13 (5.16%) Bitbucket
4 13 (5.16%) GitLab
4 13 (5.16%) Maven
5 11 (4.37%) Claude Code
5 11 (4.37%) Cypress.io
5 11 (4.37%) Gradle
6 10 (3.97%) JUnit
6 10 (3.97%) Selenium
7 8 (3.17%) GoCD
8 7 (2.78%) Cucumber
8 7 (2.78%) JProfiler
8 7 (2.78%) REST Assured
9 6 (2.38%) Postman
10 4 (1.59%) Subversion
11 3 (1.19%) Appium
11 3 (1.19%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.19%) WebDriver
General
1 60 (23.81%) Finance
2 58 (23.02%) Social Skills
3 51 (20.24%) Public Sector
4 32 (12.70%) Banking
5 21 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.38%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.38%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (1.59%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.59%) Legal
8 3 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.19%) Marketing
8 3 (1.19%) Retail
9 2 (0.79%) Front Office
9 2 (0.79%) Law
9 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Back Office
10 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 60 (23.81%) Developer
2 38 (15.08%) Architect
3 22 (8.73%) Java Developer
4 21 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 18 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (7.14%) Lead
6 17 (6.75%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (6.75%) Senior
7 15 (5.95%) Analyst
7 15 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.16%) Data Engineer
9 10 (3.97%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (3.97%) Software Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 8 (3.17%) Lead Developer
10 8 (3.17%) Python Developer
11 7 (2.78%) AWS Architect
11 7 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (22.22%) Terraform
2 41 (16.27%) Spring
3 38 (15.08%) Spring Boot
4 34 (13.49%) React
5 31 (12.30%) REST
6 22 (8.73%) Node.js
6 22 (8.73%) RESTful
7 21 (8.33%) Kafka
8 15 (5.95%) AWS CDK
8 15 (5.95%) OAuth
9 12 (4.76%) HTML
9 12 (4.76%) OAuth2
10 11 (4.37%) CSS
11 10 (3.97%) AngularJS
11 10 (3.97%) Jest
12 9 (3.57%) FastAPI
12 9 (3.57%) Redux
13 8 (3.17%) FreeMarker
13 8 (3.17%) OpenID
13 8 (3.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 57 (22.62%) Cloud Native
2 16 (6.35%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.95%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.37%) Data Centre
5 11 (4.37%) Data Structures
5 11 (4.37%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.37%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.17%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.78%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.59%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.59%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.59%) Replication
10 3 (1.19%) IVR
10 3 (1.19%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.19%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.89%) Linux
2 11 (4.37%) Windows
3 9 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.59%) Unix
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (43.65%) CI/CD
2 82 (32.54%) Agile
3 80 (31.75%) DevOps
4 62 (24.60%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (22.22%) AI
6 45 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 44 (17.46%) Microservices
8 36 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
9 30 (11.90%) Scrum
10 28 (11.11%) Event-Driven
10 28 (11.11%) Migration
10 28 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (10.71%) Mentoring
11 27 (10.71%) Observability
11 27 (10.71%) Software Engineering
11 27 (10.71%) TDD
12 24 (9.52%) LLM
12 24 (9.52%) Test Automation
13 23 (9.13%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 94 (37.30%) Python
2 65 (25.79%) Java
3 42 (16.67%) SQL
4 41 (16.27%) JavaScript
5 34 (13.49%) TypeScript
6 28 (11.11%) Bash
7 21 (8.33%) Shell Script
8 11 (4.37%) Go
9 6 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.98%) C#
11 4 (1.59%) Groovy
11 4 (1.59%) Lua
11 4 (1.59%) Ruby
12 3 (1.19%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.79%) Search Processing Language
14 1 (0.40%) PHP
14 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 33 (13.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.54%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.37%) Degree
3 11 (4.37%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.17%) AWS Certification
4 8 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (1.59%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (1.19%) CISSP
8 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (0.79%) CBAP
8 2 (0.79%) CCNP
8 2 (0.79%) CCSK
8 2 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.79%) CISM
8 2 (0.79%) RHCE
8 2 (0.79%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.40%) LFCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 10 (3.97%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.57%) QA
4 4 (1.59%) GDPR
4 4 (1.59%) SLA
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
6 1 (0.40%) MiFID
6 1 (0.40%) NIST
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) PSD2
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.40%) SEPA
6 1 (0.40%) Solvency II
System Software
1 38 (15.08%) Docker
2 8 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.38%) Ceph
3 6 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.38%) zsh
4 4 (1.59%) Squid
5 2 (0.79%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 78 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.71%) Ansible
3 11 (4.37%) Argo
3 11 (4.37%) Grafana
4 6 (2.38%) Istio
5 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.79%) linkerd
6 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.79%) Netcool
7 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.40%) Kibana
7 1 (0.40%) logstash
7 1 (0.40%) Podman
7 1 (0.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.40%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (13.49%) Google
2 20 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.94%) Oracle
3 15 (5.95%) Splunk
4 11 (4.37%) VMware
5 8 (3.17%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.17%) MuleSoft
6 7 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.38%) Cisco
7 6 (2.38%) ForgeRock
8 5 (1.98%) Databricks
8 5 (1.98%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.59%) Dell
9 4 (1.59%) Informatica
9 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.19%) Foundry
10 3 (1.19%) Greenplum
10 3 (1.19%) Okta
10 3 (1.19%) Talend
11 2 (0.79%) Barracuda Networks