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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 14 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 219 214 247
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 12.09% 13.19% 11.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.48% 33.18% 33.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 155 185
10th Percentile £313 £403 £400
25th Percentile £402 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £494 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +2.92% -2.54%
75th Percentile £558 £569 £550
90th Percentile £606 £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 £74.00 £75.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.12% +37.45% -24.66%

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 743 645 738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.03% 39.74% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 440 504
10th Percentile £313 £305 £258
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -1.89% -
75th Percentile £579 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £600 £659
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 10
10th Percentile £12.57 £21.84 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.97 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% +41.71% -71.92%
75th Percentile £50.00 £27.91 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +12 130 £440 -12.00% 37
Edinburgh -5 79 £525 +10.53% 21
South Lanarkshire - 4 £800 - 1
Dundee - 2 - - 1
Aberdeen -2 1 £475 - 3
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 (7.76%) Apache
2 13 (5.94%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.57%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.20%) Confluence
5 2 (0.91%) JBoss
5 2 (0.91%) 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 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (33.79%) Azure
2 45 (20.55%) Serverless
3 41 (18.72%) AWS CloudFormation
3 41 (18.72%) GCP
4 39 (17.81%) AWS Lambda
5 34 (15.53%) Amazon S3
6 25 (11.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (10.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (10.96%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (10.50%) Amazon EKS
8 23 (10.50%) Snowflake
9 20 (9.13%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (6.39%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (6.39%) GitHub
11 11 (5.02%) GitHub Actions
12 9 (4.11%) Amazon EventBridge
13 8 (3.65%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (3.65%) AWS KMS
13 8 (3.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.20%) DNS
2 6 (2.74%) Firewall
3 5 (2.28%) HTTP
4 4 (1.83%) DHCP
5 3 (1.37%) HTTPS
5 3 (1.37%) SSH
5 3 (1.37%) SSL
6 2 (0.91%) DSL
6 2 (0.91%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.91%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.91%) Network Security
6 2 (0.91%) SAN
6 2 (0.91%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.46%) Internet
7 1 (0.46%) LAN
7 1 (0.46%) Modbus
7 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.79%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (12.33%) MySQL
3 20 (9.13%) DynamoDB
4 17 (7.76%) MongoDB
5 16 (7.31%) Relational Database
6 15 (6.85%) Amazon Athena
7 12 (5.48%) Data Lake
8 11 (5.02%) NoSQL
9 9 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
9 9 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (3.65%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (3.65%) MariaDB
10 8 (3.65%) Metadata
11 6 (2.74%) Delta Lake
11 6 (2.74%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.37%) Big Data
13 3 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.37%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 26 (11.87%) GitLab
2 19 (8.68%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.76%) Git
4 15 (6.85%) JIRA
5 10 (4.57%) Bitbucket
5 10 (4.57%) MLflow
6 7 (3.20%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.83%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.83%) Selenium
8 3 (1.37%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.91%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.91%) JUnit
9 2 (0.91%) Postman
9 2 (0.91%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.46%) Ant
10 1 (0.46%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.46%) git-flow
10 1 (0.46%) Maven
10 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.46%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (24.20%) Finance
2 46 (21.00%) Public Sector
3 43 (19.63%) Social Skills
4 28 (12.79%) Banking
5 16 (7.31%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.65%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.37%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (1.37%) Retail
10 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Front Office
11 1 (0.46%) Legal
11 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (15.53%) Architect
2 30 (13.70%) AWS Engineer
3 25 (11.42%) Developer
3 25 (11.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (9.59%) Senior
5 17 (7.76%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.94%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.48%) Python Engineer
9 11 (5.02%) Platform Engineer
10 10 (4.57%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 10 (4.57%) AWS Architect
10 10 (4.57%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (4.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 10 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (4.11%) Analyst
11 9 (4.11%) Database Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.65%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (13.24%) React
2 20 (9.13%) Node.js
3 19 (8.68%) Spring
4 17 (7.76%) REST
4 17 (7.76%) Spring Boot
5 15 (6.85%) FastAPI
6 13 (5.94%) AWS CDK
6 13 (5.94%) PySpark
7 12 (5.48%) Kafka
8 11 (5.02%) Redux
8 11 (5.02%) RESTful
9 10 (4.57%) OAuth
9 10 (4.57%) PyTorch
10 9 (4.11%) Jest
10 9 (4.11%) JWT
10 9 (4.11%) OpenCV
10 9 (4.11%) Pandas
11 8 (3.65%) CSS
11 8 (3.65%) Express.js
11 8 (3.65%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.70%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.85%) Product Ownership
3 14 (6.39%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (6.39%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (4.11%) Clustering
4 9 (4.11%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.65%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.20%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.20%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.74%) IVR
7 6 (2.74%) NHS
8 5 (2.28%) Replication
9 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.91%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.33%) Linux
2 15 (6.85%) Windows
3 8 (3.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.74%) Unix
5 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.91%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (42.47%) CI/CD
2 61 (27.85%) Agile
3 60 (27.40%) DevOps
4 59 (26.94%) Infrastructure as Code
5 43 (19.63%) AI
5 43 (19.63%) Migration
6 35 (15.98%) Microservices
6 35 (15.98%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 32 (14.61%) Machine Learning
9 29 (13.24%) Containerisation
10 26 (11.87%) Analytics
10 26 (11.87%) Data Pipeline
11 25 (11.42%) Data Engineering
12 24 (10.96%) Data Protection
13 23 (10.50%) Validation
14 22 (10.05%) ETL
14 22 (10.05%) Test Automation
15 21 (9.59%) Observability
15 21 (9.59%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 114 (52.05%) Python
2 50 (22.83%) Java
3 41 (18.72%) SQL
4 26 (11.87%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.96%) PowerShell
6 23 (10.50%) Bash
7 17 (7.76%) TypeScript
8 6 (2.74%) Perl
9 4 (1.83%) Ruby
10 3 (1.37%) Go
10 3 (1.37%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.91%) Groovy
11 2 (0.91%) Korn
11 2 (0.91%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.46%) C++
12 1 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.46%) PHP
12 1 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (11.87%) Security Cleared
2 14 (6.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (4.57%) AWS Certification
3 10 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 10 (4.57%) Degree
4 6 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.28%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.28%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (1.37%) CCNP
6 3 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.91%) CCSK
7 2 (0.91%) CISSP
7 2 (0.91%) FFIEC
7 2 (0.91%) NCDA
7 2 (0.91%) VCP6
7 2 (0.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.46%) CREST Certified
8 1 (0.46%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (10.05%) QA
2 19 (8.68%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.57%) GDPR
4 8 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 8 (3.65%) Disclosure Scotland
4 8 (3.65%) PCI DSS
5 7 (3.20%) SLA
6 5 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.37%) PMO
8 1 (0.46%) GRC
8 1 (0.46%) NIST
8 1 (0.46%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (14.16%) Docker
2 5 (2.28%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.83%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.37%) Ceph
4 3 (1.37%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.91%) Firmware
5 2 (0.91%) Squid
5 2 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (25.11%) Kubernetes
2 44 (20.09%) Terraform
3 31 (14.16%) Ansible
4 17 (7.76%) Grafana
5 8 (3.65%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.28%) Istio
7 3 (1.37%) Argo
7 3 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.91%) linkerd
8 2 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.91%) vMotion
8 2 (0.91%) vRealize
9 1 (0.46%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.46%) Karpenter
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 20 (9.13%) Oracle
2 16 (7.31%) Google
3 15 (6.85%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.94%) Databricks
5 10 (4.57%) Cisco
6 7 (3.20%) Greenplum
6 7 (3.20%) Informatica
6 7 (3.20%) Talend
6 7 (3.20%) VMware
7 6 (2.74%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.28%) Avaya
8 5 (2.28%) Genesys
8 5 (2.28%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.83%) Confluent
9 4 (1.83%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.83%) Splunk
10 3 (1.37%) Pega
10 3 (1.37%) Red Hat
11 2 (0.91%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (0.91%) Brocade