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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 236 211 234
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.31% 13.24% 11.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.35% 35.40% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 147 173
10th Percentile £336 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £444 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% -4.71%
75th Percentile £559 £543 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £617
UK median daily rate £538 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.42% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.80 - -
25th Percentile £49.50 - -
Median hourly rate £64.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.67% +62.41% -36.30%

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 804 596 702
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.54% 37.39% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 400 486
10th Percentile £313 £300 £213
25th Percentile £402 £413 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £590 £630
UK median daily rate £513 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +1.99% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 9
10th Percentile £13.65 £16.21 £16.22
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.72 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% +24.82% -71.20%
75th Percentile £59.13 £25.06 £21.64
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £30.09
UK median hourly rate £37.06 £28.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.36% +27.27% -37.14%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +6 119 £450 -10.00% 32
Edinburgh -4 106 £513 +7.89% 32
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 - 1
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen -4 1 £475 -
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 14 (5.93%) Apache
1 14 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
2 12 (5.08%) Confluence
3 6 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) JBoss
4 2 (0.85%) nginx
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.42%) CMS
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 85 (36.02%) Azure
2 61 (25.85%) GCP
3 42 (17.80%) Serverless
4 36 (15.25%) Amazon S3
5 34 (14.41%) AWS Lambda
6 27 (11.44%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (8.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 20 (8.47%) GitHub
9 19 (8.05%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (7.20%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (6.78%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (6.78%) Snowflake
12 12 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (4.24%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (3.39%) AWS Step Functions
15 8 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (2.54%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (2.54%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.24%) DNS
2 6 (2.54%) HTTP
3 4 (1.69%) Firewall
3 4 (1.69%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.69%) SSH
3 4 (1.69%) SSL
4 3 (1.27%) DHCP
4 3 (1.27%) Network Security
5 2 (0.85%) BIG-IP
5 2 (0.85%) DSL
5 2 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.85%) NGFW
5 2 (0.85%) SAN
5 2 (0.85%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.42%) CTI
6 1 (0.42%) LAN
6 1 (0.42%) PSTN
6 1 (0.42%) RTP
6 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.17%) MySQL
1 24 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (8.05%) MongoDB
3 17 (7.20%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.51%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.08%) Data Lake
5 12 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.66%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.81%) MariaDB
8 8 (3.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (2.54%) Metadata
10 5 (2.12%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.69%) Oracle Database
11 4 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.27%) Big Data
12 3 (1.27%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 24 (10.17%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.90%) Git
3 18 (7.63%) JIRA
4 13 (5.51%) GitLab
5 11 (4.66%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.24%) Selenium
7 7 (2.97%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.97%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.97%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.54%) Postman
9 4 (1.69%) MLflow
10 3 (1.27%) Appium
10 3 (1.27%) JUnit
10 3 (1.27%) Maven
10 3 (1.27%) SpecFlow
10 3 (1.27%) Subversion
10 3 (1.27%) WebDriver
11 2 (0.85%) GoCD
11 2 (0.85%) JProfiler
11 2 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 63 (26.69%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.76%) Finance
3 48 (20.34%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.75%) Banking
6 6 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.12%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.12%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.69%) Retail
9 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.27%) Marketing
10 2 (0.85%) Law
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (19.07%) Developer
2 35 (14.83%) Architect
3 26 (11.02%) AWS Engineer
4 20 (8.47%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (7.63%) Senior
6 16 (6.78%) Java Developer
7 14 (5.93%) Analyst
7 14 (5.93%) Data Engineer
8 12 (5.08%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.66%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 8 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
12 8 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.39%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.39%) Data Architect
12 8 (3.39%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.44%) React
2 21 (8.90%) Spring
3 20 (8.47%) REST
4 19 (8.05%) AWS CDK
5 18 (7.63%) Spring Boot
6 16 (6.78%) Kafka
6 16 (6.78%) RESTful
7 15 (6.36%) FastAPI
7 15 (6.36%) Node.js
8 12 (5.08%) OAuth
9 11 (4.66%) PyTorch
9 11 (4.66%) Redux
10 10 (4.24%) Jest
10 10 (4.24%) JWT
11 9 (3.81%) CSS
11 9 (3.81%) HTML
11 9 (3.81%) OpenCV
11 9 (3.81%) Pandas
12 8 (3.39%) Express.js
13 7 (2.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 40 (16.95%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.20%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.51%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (4.66%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (4.24%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.81%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.97%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.54%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.12%) Clustering
9 5 (2.12%) Replication
10 4 (1.69%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (1.27%) IVR
11 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
12 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
12 2 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.85%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 21 (8.90%) Linux
2 14 (5.93%) Windows
3 6 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (35.59%) CI/CD
2 75 (31.78%) Agile
3 63 (26.69%) DevOps
4 47 (19.92%) AI
5 46 (19.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 38 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
7 37 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (15.68%) Microservices
8 32 (13.56%) Machine Learning
9 29 (12.29%) Migration
10 27 (11.44%) Containerisation
11 26 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 23 (9.75%) ETL
13 22 (9.32%) LLM
13 22 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
13 22 (9.32%) Test Automation
14 21 (8.90%) Analytics
14 21 (8.90%) Data Pipeline
14 21 (8.90%) Observability
14 21 (8.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 106 (44.92%) Python
2 49 (20.76%) Java
3 42 (17.80%) SQL
4 38 (16.10%) JavaScript
5 28 (11.86%) TypeScript
6 22 (9.32%) Bash
7 16 (6.78%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.69%) C#
9 2 (0.85%) Go
9 2 (0.85%) Perl
9 2 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.85%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.42%) C++
10 1 (0.42%) Groovy
10 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.42%) PHP
10 1 (0.42%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.42%) R
10 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (13.56%) Security Cleared
2 20 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.08%) Degree
4 10 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.69%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.27%) CISSP
8 3 (1.27%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.85%) CBAP
9 2 (0.85%) CCNP
9 2 (0.85%) CCSK
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CISM
9 2 (0.85%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.85%) NCDA
9 2 (0.85%) VCP6
9 2 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.42%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.47%) QA
2 16 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.97%) Disclosure Scotland
3 7 (2.97%) SLA
4 4 (1.69%) GDPR
5 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.42%) GRC
6 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.42%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (11.86%) Docker
2 7 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.54%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.69%) Ceph
4 4 (1.69%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.27%) Squid
6 2 (0.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 55 (23.31%) Kubernetes
2 33 (13.98%) Terraform
3 25 (10.59%) Ansible
4 14 (5.93%) Grafana
5 8 (3.39%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.12%) Istio
7 4 (1.69%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.27%) Argo
9 2 (0.85%) linkerd
9 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.85%) vMotion
9 2 (0.85%) vRealize
10 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.42%) Podman
10 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.42%) Puppet
10 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (8.90%) Oracle
2 20 (8.47%) Google
3 17 (7.20%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.81%) VMware
5 8 (3.39%) Cisco
6 7 (2.97%) Informatica
6 7 (2.97%) Splunk
6 7 (2.97%) Talend
7 6 (2.54%) Databricks
8 5 (2.12%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.69%) Dell
9 4 (1.69%) Greenplum
9 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.27%) Confluent
10 3 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.85%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (0.85%) Brocade
11 2 (0.85%) Commvault
11 2 (0.85%) Mitel
11 2 (0.85%) NetApp