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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 16 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 245 214 237
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.59% 13.20% 11.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.21% 35.67% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 146 169
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £494 £463
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +6.81% -6.57%
75th Percentile £569 £546 £538
90th Percentile £650 £605 £621
UK median daily rate £545 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.81% -4.55% -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 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -36.74%

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 811 600 711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.36% 37.01% 34.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 403 482
10th Percentile £313 £302 £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 £579 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £600 £626
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -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% -70.43%
75th Percentile £59.13 £25.06 £21.64
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £30.09
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% +28.41% -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 25 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 25 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 25 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 +10 125 £450 -10.00% 20
Edinburgh -2 108 £518 +8.95% 20
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 -
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 (5.71%) Apache
1 14 (5.71%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (5.31%) Confluence
3 6 (2.45%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.82%) JBoss
4 2 (0.82%) nginx
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.41%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.41%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 87 (35.51%) Azure
2 65 (26.53%) GCP
3 43 (17.55%) Serverless
4 40 (16.33%) Amazon S3
5 35 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (11.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 26 (10.61%) GitHub
8 24 (9.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (8.16%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (7.76%) Amazon EKS
10 19 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (6.53%) Snowflake
12 12 (4.90%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (4.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 11 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (3.27%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (3.27%) AWS KMS
15 8 (3.27%) AWS Step Functions
16 7 (2.86%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.08%) DNS
2 6 (2.45%) HTTP
3 5 (2.04%) Firewall
4 4 (1.63%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.63%) Network Security
4 4 (1.63%) SSH
4 4 (1.63%) SSL
5 3 (1.22%) DHCP
6 2 (0.82%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.82%) DSL
6 2 (0.82%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.82%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (0.82%) NGFW
6 2 (0.82%) SAN
6 2 (0.82%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.41%) CTI
7 1 (0.41%) LAN
7 1 (0.41%) PSTN
7 1 (0.41%) RTP
7 1 (0.41%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.80%) MySQL
1 24 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.76%) MongoDB
3 17 (6.94%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.31%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.90%) Data Lake
5 12 (4.90%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.49%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.67%) MariaDB
8 8 (3.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (2.86%) Metadata
10 6 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.04%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.04%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.22%) Big Data
13 3 (1.22%) Hadoop
14 2 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 30 (12.24%) Jenkins
2 26 (10.61%) Git
3 20 (8.16%) JIRA
4 12 (4.90%) GitLab
5 11 (4.49%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.08%) Selenium
7 7 (2.86%) Bitbucket
7 7 (2.86%) Cucumber
7 7 (2.86%) REST Assured
8 6 (2.45%) JUnit
8 6 (2.45%) Maven
8 6 (2.45%) Postman
9 5 (2.04%) GoCD
9 5 (2.04%) Gradle
10 4 (1.63%) JProfiler
10 4 (1.63%) MLflow
10 4 (1.63%) Subversion
11 3 (1.22%) Appium
11 3 (1.22%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.22%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (27.35%) Social Skills
2 53 (21.63%) Finance
3 51 (20.82%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.43%) Banking
5 24 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.45%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 5 (2.04%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.63%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.63%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.63%) Marketing
8 4 (1.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.82%) Law
10 2 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Front Office
11 1 (0.41%) Legal
11 1 (0.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 47 (19.18%) Developer
2 38 (15.51%) Architect
3 27 (11.02%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (8.98%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (8.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 19 (7.76%) Senior
7 18 (7.35%) Java Developer
8 15 (6.12%) Data Engineer
9 14 (5.71%) Analyst
10 13 (5.31%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (4.90%) Python Engineer
12 11 (4.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 10 (4.08%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (3.67%) Data Architect
14 9 (3.67%) Security Engineer
15 8 (3.27%) AWS DevOps
15 8 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 8 (3.27%) Cloud Architect
15 8 (3.27%) Lead
15 8 (3.27%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.24%) React
2 24 (9.80%) REST
3 23 (9.39%) Spring
4 20 (8.16%) Spring Boot
5 19 (7.76%) AWS CDK
6 17 (6.94%) Node.js
6 17 (6.94%) RESTful
7 15 (6.12%) FastAPI
7 15 (6.12%) Kafka
8 13 (5.31%) Redux
9 12 (4.90%) OAuth
10 11 (4.49%) Jest
10 11 (4.49%) PyTorch
11 10 (4.08%) HTML
11 10 (4.08%) JWT
12 9 (3.67%) CSS
12 9 (3.67%) OpenCV
12 9 (3.67%) Pandas
13 7 (2.86%) Express.js
13 7 (2.86%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 43 (17.55%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.57%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (4.90%) Data Centre
4 12 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.67%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.86%) Algorithms
6 7 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.04%) Clustering
8 5 (2.04%) Replication
9 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.63%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.22%) IVR
10 3 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.82%) AI Agents
11 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.39%) Linux
2 16 (6.53%) Windows
3 8 (3.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (36.73%) CI/CD
2 76 (31.02%) Agile
3 70 (28.57%) DevOps
4 51 (20.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 50 (20.41%) AI
6 41 (16.73%) Microservices
7 40 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (15.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 34 (13.88%) Machine Learning
10 31 (12.65%) Migration
11 30 (12.24%) Containerisation
12 28 (11.43%) Mentoring
13 24 (9.80%) ETL
13 24 (9.80%) Scrum
13 24 (9.80%) Test Automation
14 23 (9.39%) LLM
14 23 (9.39%) Platform Engineering
15 22 (8.98%) Analytics
15 22 (8.98%) TDD
15 22 (8.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 107 (43.67%) Python
2 51 (20.82%) Java
3 43 (17.55%) SQL
4 41 (16.73%) JavaScript
5 28 (11.43%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.80%) Bash
7 15 (6.12%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.63%) C#
9 2 (0.82%) Go
9 2 (0.82%) Perl
9 2 (0.82%) Search Processing Language
9 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.82%) SPARQL
10 1 (0.41%) Groovy
10 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.41%) PHP
10 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.41%) R
10 1 (0.41%) Ruby
10 1 (0.41%) Scala
Qualifications
1 33 (13.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.76%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.90%) Degree
4 11 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.08%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.63%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.22%) CISSP
8 3 (1.22%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.82%) CCNP
9 2 (0.82%) CCSK
9 2 (0.82%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.82%) CISM
9 2 (0.82%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.82%) VCP6
9 2 (0.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.16%) QA
2 15 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.27%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (2.86%) SLA
5 5 (2.04%) GDPR
6 3 (1.22%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.41%) GRC
8 1 (0.41%) NIST
8 1 (0.41%) PSD2
8 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.41%) SEPA
8 1 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (12.24%) Docker
2 7 (2.86%) Active Directory
2 7 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.63%) Ceph
3 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
3 4 (1.63%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.22%) Squid
5 2 (0.82%) Firmware
5 2 (0.82%) zsh
Systems Management
1 61 (24.90%) Kubernetes
2 40 (16.33%) Terraform
3 28 (11.43%) Ansible
4 14 (5.71%) Grafana
5 8 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 6 (2.45%) Istio
7 5 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.63%) Argo
9 2 (0.82%) linkerd
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.82%) vMotion
9 2 (0.82%) vRealize
10 1 (0.41%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.41%) Podman
10 1 (0.41%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.41%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (10.20%) Oracle
2 22 (8.98%) Google
3 17 (6.94%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.67%) VMware
5 8 (3.27%) Cisco
6 7 (2.86%) Informatica
6 7 (2.86%) Talend
7 6 (2.45%) Databricks
7 6 (2.45%) Splunk
8 5 (2.04%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.63%) Dell
9 4 (1.63%) Greenplum
9 4 (1.63%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.63%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.22%) Confluent
10 3 (1.22%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
11 2 (0.82%) ForgeRock
11 2 (0.82%) Palo Alto
11 2 (0.82%) Thales