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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 267 249 230
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.28% 15.55% 12.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.26% 42.86% 38.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 167 157
10th Percentile £363 £400 £400
25th Percentile £410 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -3.85%
75th Percentile £541 £557 £538
90th Percentile £650 £636 £623
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -1.74%
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% -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 854 581 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.09% 36.29% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 497 368 397
10th Percentile £300 £352 £213
25th Percentile £402 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £538
90th Percentile £642 £625 £615
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile £13.97 £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile £15.35 £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% -11.39%
75th Percentile £18.75 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile - £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £31.00
% change year-on-year +11.80% -6.23% -11.43%

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 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 17 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 +2 137 £425 -14.23% 237
Edinburgh -1 109 £475 -5.00% 156
Dumfries and Galloway - 7 - -
South Lanarkshire - 4 - -
West Lothian - 3 - - 4
Aberdeen - 2 £475 - 13
Dundee - 2 - - 3
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 17 (6.37%) Apache
2 15 (5.62%) Apache Airflow
3 14 (5.24%) Confluence
4 8 (3.00%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.12%) JBoss
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (35.21%) Azure
2 84 (31.46%) GCP
3 55 (20.60%) Serverless
4 46 (17.23%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (14.98%) Amazon S3
6 30 (11.24%) Amazon EKS
6 30 (11.24%) GitHub
7 27 (10.11%) AWS CloudFormation
8 22 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
9 16 (5.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (5.62%) Kong
11 14 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
12 13 (4.87%) Amazon MSK
12 13 (4.87%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (4.87%) OpenShift
13 11 (4.12%) Snowflake
13 11 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (3.75%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (3.75%) Apigee
15 9 (3.37%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.62%) DNS
2 9 (3.37%) Firewall
2 9 (3.37%) SSL
3 8 (3.00%) HTTP
4 6 (2.25%) HTTPS
4 6 (2.25%) SSH
5 4 (1.50%) Network Security
6 3 (1.12%) Broadband
6 3 (1.12%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.12%) VXLAN
7 2 (0.75%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.75%) CTI
7 2 (0.75%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.75%) LAN
7 2 (0.75%) NGFW
7 2 (0.75%) RTP
7 2 (0.75%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.75%) WAN
8 1 (0.37%) IPsec
8 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.86%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.37%) MongoDB
3 15 (5.62%) Amazon Aurora
4 13 (4.87%) MySQL
5 10 (3.75%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (3.75%) Amazon RDS
5 10 (3.75%) Data Lake
5 10 (3.75%) MariaDB
6 8 (3.00%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.87%) Metadata
8 5 (1.87%) SQL Server
9 4 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.50%) Power BI
9 4 (1.50%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.12%) Flink
10 3 (1.12%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle Database
10 3 (1.12%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 41 (15.36%) Jenkins
2 39 (14.61%) Git
3 22 (8.24%) JIRA
4 18 (6.74%) GitLab
5 14 (5.24%) Maven
6 12 (4.49%) Bitbucket
7 11 (4.12%) Claude Code
7 11 (4.12%) Cypress.io
7 11 (4.12%) Gradle
8 10 (3.75%) JUnit
9 9 (3.37%) Selenium
10 8 (3.00%) GoCD
11 7 (2.62%) JProfiler
12 6 (2.25%) Cucumber
12 6 (2.25%) REST Assured
13 5 (1.87%) Postman
14 4 (1.50%) Subversion
15 3 (1.12%) Appium
15 3 (1.12%) SpecFlow
15 3 (1.12%) webpack
General
1 70 (26.22%) Finance
2 58 (21.72%) Social Skills
3 54 (20.22%) Public Sector
4 38 (14.23%) Banking
5 20 (7.49%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.00%) Investment Banking
6 8 (3.00%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.25%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.50%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.50%) Legal
9 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.12%) Marketing
9 3 (1.12%) Retail
10 2 (0.75%) Front Office
10 2 (0.75%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (23.22%) Developer
2 37 (13.86%) Architect
3 23 (8.61%) Java Developer
4 20 (7.49%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (7.49%) Lead
5 19 (7.12%) Senior
6 18 (6.74%) AWS Engineer
6 18 (6.74%) Platform Engineer
7 17 (6.37%) Data Engineer
8 16 (5.99%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (5.62%) Analyst
9 15 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (4.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (3.75%) Software Engineer
12 9 (3.37%) Full-Stack Developer
12 9 (3.37%) GCP Engineer
13 8 (3.00%) Lead Developer
13 8 (3.00%) Python Developer
13 8 (3.00%) Python Engineer
14 7 (2.62%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (21.72%) Terraform
2 40 (14.98%) Spring
3 37 (13.86%) Spring Boot
4 36 (13.48%) REST
5 34 (12.73%) React
6 24 (8.99%) Kafka
6 24 (8.99%) RESTful
7 22 (8.24%) Node.js
8 17 (6.37%) OAuth
9 14 (5.24%) OAuth2
10 13 (4.87%) AWS CDK
11 11 (4.12%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.75%) HTML
12 10 (3.75%) OpenID
12 10 (3.75%) Swagger
13 9 (3.37%) CSS
13 9 (3.37%) Jest
13 9 (3.37%) JWT
13 9 (3.37%) OpenAPI
14 8 (3.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 67 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 17 (6.37%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.24%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (4.12%) Data Structures
6 11 (4.12%) Linux Command Line
7 10 (3.75%) Data Centre
7 10 (3.75%) Enterprise Cloud
8 8 (3.00%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.62%) Algorithms
10 6 (2.25%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
12 4 (1.50%) IVR
12 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
12 4 (1.50%) Market Risk
12 4 (1.50%) Replication
13 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
13 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 3 (1.12%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.36%) Linux
2 11 (4.12%) Windows
3 10 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.50%) Unix
5 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (44.57%) CI/CD
2 86 (32.21%) Agile
2 86 (32.21%) DevOps
3 69 (25.84%) AI
4 68 (25.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (17.60%) Containerisation
6 44 (16.48%) Microservices
7 37 (13.86%) Platform Engineering
8 35 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (12.73%) Software Engineering
10 32 (11.99%) Event-Driven
10 32 (11.99%) Migration
10 32 (11.99%) Observability
11 31 (11.61%) Machine Learning
12 30 (11.24%) Scrum
13 28 (10.49%) LLM
13 28 (10.49%) Mentoring
14 27 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
14 27 (10.11%) TDD
14 27 (10.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 102 (38.20%) Python
2 65 (24.34%) Java
3 48 (17.98%) SQL
4 38 (14.23%) JavaScript
5 35 (13.11%) TypeScript
6 27 (10.11%) Bash
7 21 (7.87%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.62%) Go
9 7 (2.62%) Lua
10 6 (2.25%) PowerShell
11 5 (1.87%) C#
12 4 (1.50%) Groovy
12 4 (1.50%) Ruby
13 3 (1.12%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.75%) Cypher
14 2 (0.75%) Scala
14 2 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
14 2 (0.75%) SPARQL
15 1 (0.37%) Perl
15 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 37 (13.86%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.99%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.49%) DV Cleared
4 11 (4.12%) AWS Certification
4 11 (4.12%) Degree
5 8 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.50%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.12%) CISSP
9 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.75%) CCNP
9 2 (0.75%) CCSK
9 2 (0.75%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.75%) CISM
9 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.75%) RHCE
9 2 (0.75%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.37%) Data Quality
2 12 (4.49%) Disclosure Scotland
3 11 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.37%) QA
5 3 (1.12%) GDPR
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) PSD2
7 1 (0.37%) SEPA
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (15.73%) Docker
2 9 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.25%) Ceph
3 6 (2.25%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.25%) zsh
4 4 (1.50%) Squid
5 2 (0.75%) GPFS
5 2 (0.75%) NFS
5 2 (0.75%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 89 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 31 (11.61%) Ansible
3 11 (4.12%) Grafana
4 10 (3.75%) Argo
5 4 (1.50%) Istio
6 3 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.75%) linkerd
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.75%) Netcool
8 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) logstash
8 1 (0.37%) Podman
8 1 (0.37%) Puppet
8 1 (0.37%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (12.73%) Google
2 20 (7.49%) Microsoft
3 19 (7.12%) Oracle
4 16 (5.99%) Splunk
5 12 (4.49%) VMware
6 11 (4.12%) MuleSoft
7 9 (3.37%) Dynatrace
8 7 (2.62%) Cisco
8 7 (2.62%) Informatica
8 7 (2.62%) ServiceNow
9 6 (2.25%) ForgeRock
10 5 (1.87%) Databricks
10 5 (1.87%) Dell
10 5 (1.87%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.87%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.12%) Foundry
11 3 (1.12%) Greenplum
11 3 (1.12%) IBM
11 3 (1.12%) Okta
11 3 (1.12%) Talend