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

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 15 9
Rank change year-on-year +6 -6 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 218 213 254
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 12.39% 13.04% 11.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.07% 32.97% 34.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 155 191
10th Percentile £313 £403 £400
25th Percentile £402 £424 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +1.05% -3.06%
75th Percentile £561 £563 £539
90th Percentile £606 £600 £638
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 £74.00 £75.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.12% +37.45% -24.40%

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 725 646 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.19% 39.56% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 439 508
10th Percentile £313 £303 £261
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £468
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -0.69% -1.42%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £541
90th Percentile £675 £600 £654
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 10
10th Percentile £12.74 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.39 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +42.24% -71.92%
75th Percentile £46.25 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £41.64 £27.43 £21.00
% change year-on-year +51.83% +30.60% -38.95%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +11 132 £447 -10.60% 25
Edinburgh -5 75 £525 +10.53% 14
South Lanarkshire - 4 £800 - 1
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen -4 1 £475 - 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 17 (7.80%) Apache
2 13 (5.96%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.59%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.21%) Confluence
5 2 (0.92%) JBoss
5 2 (0.92%) nginx
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.46%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.78%) Azure
2 43 (19.72%) Serverless
3 41 (18.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 40 (18.35%) GCP
5 37 (16.97%) AWS Lambda
6 32 (14.68%) Amazon S3
7 25 (11.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 24 (11.01%) Amazon EC2
9 23 (10.55%) Amazon EKS
10 22 (10.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 22 (10.09%) Snowflake
11 20 (9.17%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (6.42%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (5.96%) GitHub
14 10 (4.59%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (4.13%) Amazon EventBridge
15 9 (4.13%) OpenShift
16 8 (3.67%) Amazon SageMaker
16 8 (3.67%) AWS KMS
17 7 (3.21%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.21%) DNS
1 7 (3.21%) Firewall
2 5 (2.29%) HTTP
3 4 (1.83%) DHCP
4 3 (1.38%) HTTPS
4 3 (1.38%) SSH
4 3 (1.38%) SSL
5 2 (0.92%) DSL
5 2 (0.92%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.92%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.92%) Network Security
5 2 (0.92%) SAN
5 2 (0.92%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.46%) Internet
6 1 (0.46%) Modbus
6 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.46%) VLAN
6 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.93%) MySQL
3 20 (9.17%) DynamoDB
4 17 (7.80%) MongoDB
5 15 (6.88%) Amazon Athena
5 15 (6.88%) Relational Database
6 12 (5.50%) Data Lake
7 11 (5.05%) NoSQL
8 9 (4.13%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.67%) MariaDB
9 8 (3.67%) Metadata
10 7 (3.21%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (2.75%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.75%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.38%) Big Data
13 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.38%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.38%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (12.39%) GitLab
2 19 (8.72%) Jenkins
3 18 (8.26%) JIRA
4 17 (7.80%) Git
5 10 (4.59%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.59%) MLflow
6 7 (3.21%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.38%) JUnit
7 3 (1.38%) Selenium
7 3 (1.38%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.92%) Postman
8 2 (0.92%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.46%) Ant
9 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.46%) git-flow
9 1 (0.46%) Maven
9 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 57 (26.15%) Finance
2 47 (21.56%) Social Skills
3 43 (19.72%) Public Sector
4 30 (13.76%) Banking
5 17 (7.80%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.67%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.83%) Retail
9 3 (1.38%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 33 (15.14%) Architect
2 30 (13.76%) AWS Engineer
3 26 (11.93%) Developer
4 24 (11.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 22 (10.09%) Senior
6 16 (7.34%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) Java Developer
9 12 (5.50%) Data Engineer
10 11 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (5.05%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (4.59%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (4.13%) Analyst
12 9 (4.13%) AWS Architect
12 9 (4.13%) Database Engineer
12 9 (4.13%) Security Engineer
13 8 (3.67%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.76%) React
2 20 (9.17%) Node.js
2 20 (9.17%) Spring
3 18 (8.26%) Spring Boot
4 17 (7.80%) REST
5 13 (5.96%) AWS CDK
5 13 (5.96%) FastAPI
5 13 (5.96%) PySpark
6 12 (5.50%) Kafka
6 12 (5.50%) RESTful
7 11 (5.05%) Redux
8 10 (4.59%) Jest
8 10 (4.59%) OAuth
9 9 (4.13%) JWT
10 8 (3.67%) CSS
10 8 (3.67%) Express.js
10 8 (3.67%) HTML
10 8 (3.67%) PyTorch
11 7 (3.21%) OpenCV
11 7 (3.21%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.76%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.42%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (6.42%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.13%) Clustering
4 9 (4.13%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.67%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.21%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.21%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.75%) IVR
7 6 (2.75%) NHS
8 5 (2.29%) Replication
9 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.38%) CMDB
10 3 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.39%) Linux
2 15 (6.88%) Windows
3 8 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.75%) Unix
5 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (43.12%) CI/CD
2 64 (29.36%) Agile
2 64 (29.36%) DevOps
3 60 (27.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (21.10%) Migration
5 41 (18.81%) AI
6 35 (16.06%) Microservices
6 35 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (14.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (14.22%) Containerisation
8 31 (14.22%) Machine Learning
9 27 (12.39%) Analytics
10 26 (11.93%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (11.47%) Data Engineering
12 24 (11.01%) Data Protection
13 23 (10.55%) Disaster Recovery
13 23 (10.55%) Observability
14 22 (10.09%) Validation
15 21 (9.63%) ETL
15 21 (9.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 112 (51.38%) Python
2 50 (22.94%) Java
3 40 (18.35%) SQL
4 24 (11.01%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.01%) PowerShell
5 23 (10.55%) Bash
6 17 (7.80%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.75%) Perl
8 4 (1.83%) Ruby
9 3 (1.38%) Go
9 3 (1.38%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.92%) Groovy
10 2 (0.92%) Korn
10 2 (0.92%) SPARQL
11 1 (0.46%) C++
11 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.46%) PHP
11 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (11.93%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.42%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.59%) AWS Certification
3 10 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (4.59%) Degree
4 6 (2.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.29%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.38%) CCNP
6 3 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.38%) CISSP
6 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.38%) PMP
6 3 (1.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (0.92%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.92%) CCSK
7 2 (0.92%) FFIEC
7 2 (0.92%) NCDA
7 2 (0.92%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.55%) QA
2 19 (8.72%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.59%) GDPR
4 9 (4.13%) Accessibility
5 8 (3.67%) Disclosure Scotland
5 8 (3.67%) PCI DSS
6 7 (3.21%) SLA
7 6 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (1.38%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.38%) PMO
9 2 (0.92%) NIST
10 1 (0.46%) GRC
10 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 32 (14.68%) Docker
2 5 (2.29%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.83%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.38%) Ceph
4 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.92%) Firmware
5 2 (0.92%) Squid
5 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (25.23%) Kubernetes
2 45 (20.64%) Terraform
3 32 (14.68%) Ansible
4 17 (7.80%) Grafana
5 8 (3.67%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.29%) Istio
7 3 (1.38%) Argo
7 3 (1.38%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.92%) linkerd
8 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.92%) vMotion
8 2 (0.92%) vRealize
9 1 (0.46%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.46%) Kibana
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.46%) Podman
9 1 (0.46%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (8.72%) Oracle
2 15 (6.88%) Google
2 15 (6.88%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.96%) Databricks
4 10 (4.59%) Cisco
5 7 (3.21%) Greenplum
5 7 (3.21%) Informatica
5 7 (3.21%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.21%) Talend
5 7 (3.21%) VMware
6 6 (2.75%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.29%) Avaya
7 5 (2.29%) Genesys
7 5 (2.29%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.29%) Splunk
8 4 (1.83%) Confluent
8 4 (1.83%) IBM
9 3 (1.38%) Pega
9 3 (1.38%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.92%) Barracuda Networks