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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 13 9
Rank change year-on-year 0 -4 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 237 231 203
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 10.82% 13.79% 10.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.85% 39.02% 32.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 154 137
10th Percentile £368 £400 £400
25th Percentile £411 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +4.17% -3.03%
75th Percentile £558 £558 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% -2.17%
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 £75.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.67% +62.41% -34.03%

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 794 592 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 36.24% 35.34% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 385 415
10th Percentile £320 £350 £200
25th Percentile £402 £423 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £608
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 12
10th Percentile £13.86 £16.21 -
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +13.55% -46.61%
75th Percentile - £25.06 £23.30
90th Percentile £19.98 £27.05 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £27.88 £24.92
% change year-on-year +25.54% +11.88% -28.80%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +2 122 £440 -12.00% 188
Edinburgh -4 101 £475 -3.21% 145
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 -
West Lothian - 2 - - 2
Dundee - 2 - - 2
Aberdeen -2 1 £475 - 4
Dumfries and Galloway - 1 - -
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 13 (5.49%) Confluence
2 11 (4.64%) Apache
3 10 (4.22%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (2.11%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.27%) JBoss
6 2 (0.84%) nginx
6 2 (0.84%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.42%) CMS
7 1 (0.42%) IIS
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.42%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.84%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 87 (36.71%) Azure
2 82 (34.60%) GCP
3 47 (19.83%) Serverless
4 38 (16.03%) Amazon S3
4 38 (16.03%) AWS Lambda
5 32 (13.50%) GitHub
6 26 (10.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
8 18 (7.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 17 (7.17%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (5.49%) Snowflake
11 12 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
12 11 (4.64%) Amazon EC2
12 11 (4.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (3.80%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.38%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (2.95%) Amazon SQS
16 6 (2.53%) Akamai
16 6 (2.53%) Amazon EMR
16 6 (2.53%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.49%) DNS
2 8 (3.38%) Firewall
3 6 (2.53%) HTTP
3 6 (2.53%) SSL
4 5 (2.11%) HTTPS
4 5 (2.11%) SSH
5 4 (1.69%) Network Security
6 2 (0.84%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.84%) Broadband
6 2 (0.84%) DHCP
6 2 (0.84%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.84%) NGFW
6 2 (0.84%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.42%) CTI
7 1 (0.42%) LAN
7 1 (0.42%) PSTN
7 1 (0.42%) RTP
7 1 (0.42%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.13%) PostgreSQL
2 18 (7.59%) MongoDB
3 14 (5.91%) MySQL
4 13 (5.49%) Amazon Aurora
5 11 (4.64%) MariaDB
6 10 (4.22%) Data Lake
7 9 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.38%) Amazon Athena
9 7 (2.95%) DynamoDB
10 6 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.53%) NoSQL
10 6 (2.53%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.27%) Metadata
12 3 (1.27%) Oracle Database
12 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
12 3 (1.27%) SQLPlus
13 2 (0.84%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 39 (16.46%) Git
2 37 (15.61%) Jenkins
3 19 (8.02%) JIRA
4 15 (6.33%) Bitbucket
4 15 (6.33%) GitLab
5 13 (5.49%) Maven
6 11 (4.64%) Claude Code
6 11 (4.64%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.64%) Gradle
7 10 (4.22%) JUnit
7 10 (4.22%) Selenium
8 8 (3.38%) GoCD
9 7 (2.95%) Cucumber
9 7 (2.95%) JProfiler
9 7 (2.95%) Postman
9 7 (2.95%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.69%) Subversion
11 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (1.27%) SpecFlow
11 3 (1.27%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 52 (21.94%) Finance
3 48 (20.25%) Public Sector
4 30 (12.66%) Banking
5 20 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.53%) Investment Banking
6 6 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.53%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.69%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.27%) Legal
8 3 (1.27%) Marketing
8 3 (1.27%) Retail
9 2 (0.84%) Front Office
9 2 (0.84%) Law
9 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.42%) Back Office
10 1 (0.42%) Military
Job Titles
1 59 (24.89%) Developer
2 37 (15.61%) Architect
3 22 (9.28%) AWS Engineer
4 21 (8.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (8.86%) Java Developer
5 17 (7.17%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.75%) Senior
7 15 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
8 14 (5.91%) Analyst
8 14 (5.91%) Data Engineer
8 14 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (5.06%) Lead
10 10 (4.22%) GCP Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Software Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Lead Developer
13 7 (2.95%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 7 (2.95%) AWS Architect
13 7 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.95%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (15.61%) Spring
2 34 (14.35%) Spring Boot
3 32 (13.50%) React
4 29 (12.24%) REST
5 22 (9.28%) Node.js
6 21 (8.86%) Kafka
7 20 (8.44%) RESTful
8 16 (6.75%) AWS CDK
9 13 (5.49%) OAuth
10 10 (4.22%) AngularJS
10 10 (4.22%) HTML
10 10 (4.22%) Jest
10 10 (4.22%) OAuth2
10 10 (4.22%) Redux
11 9 (3.80%) CSS
11 9 (3.80%) FastAPI
12 8 (3.38%) FreeMarker
13 7 (2.95%) OpenTelemetry
13 7 (2.95%) PySpark
13 7 (2.95%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (21.10%) Cloud Native
2 18 (7.59%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.75%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.64%) Data Centre
4 11 (4.64%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.22%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.22%) Data Structures
5 10 (4.22%) Linux Command Line
6 9 (3.80%) Enterprise Cloud
7 7 (2.95%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.11%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.69%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Replication
10 3 (1.27%) Clustering
10 3 (1.27%) IVR
10 3 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.50%) Linux
2 12 (5.06%) Windows
3 9 (3.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.69%) Unix
5 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (43.04%) CI/CD
2 76 (32.07%) Agile
3 71 (29.96%) DevOps
4 59 (24.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 51 (21.52%) AI
6 46 (19.41%) Microservices
7 41 (17.30%) Containerisation
8 33 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
9 29 (12.24%) Scrum
10 28 (11.81%) Migration
11 27 (11.39%) Event-Driven
11 27 (11.39%) Platform Engineering
11 27 (11.39%) TDD
12 25 (10.55%) Observability
12 25 (10.55%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (10.55%) Software Engineering
13 24 (10.13%) Mentoring
14 22 (9.28%) LLM
14 22 (9.28%) Machine Learning
15 21 (8.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 93 (39.24%) Python
2 64 (27.00%) Java
3 40 (16.88%) JavaScript
3 40 (16.88%) SQL
4 32 (13.50%) TypeScript
5 28 (11.81%) Bash
6 20 (8.44%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.53%) Go
8 5 (2.11%) C#
8 5 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.69%) Groovy
9 4 (1.69%) Ruby
10 3 (1.27%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.84%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.42%) PHP
12 1 (0.42%) R
Qualifications
1 32 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 19 (8.02%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.64%) Degree
3 11 (4.64%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.95%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (1.69%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.27%) CISSP
9 2 (0.84%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.84%) CBAP
9 2 (0.84%) CCNP
9 2 (0.84%) CCSK
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.84%) CISM
10 1 (0.42%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
10 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.64%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.80%) QA
3 7 (2.95%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.69%) GDPR
5 3 (1.27%) SLA
6 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) PSD2
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.42%) SEPA
7 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (14.35%) Docker
2 8 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.53%) zsh
5 5 (2.11%) Ceph
5 5 (2.11%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.69%) Squid
7 2 (0.84%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 71 (29.96%) Kubernetes
2 51 (21.52%) Terraform
3 26 (10.97%) Ansible
4 10 (4.22%) Argo
5 8 (3.38%) Grafana
6 6 (2.53%) Istio
7 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.84%) linkerd
8 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.84%) Netcool
9 1 (0.42%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.42%) Kibana
9 1 (0.42%) Podman
9 1 (0.42%) Puppet
9 1 (0.42%) yum
Vendors
1 32 (13.50%) Google
2 20 (8.44%) Microsoft
2 20 (8.44%) Oracle
3 12 (5.06%) Splunk
4 9 (3.80%) VMware
5 7 (2.95%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.95%) ForgeRock
5 7 (2.95%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.53%) Cisco
7 5 (2.11%) MuleSoft
8 4 (1.69%) Databricks
8 4 (1.69%) Dell
8 4 (1.69%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.27%) Greenplum
9 3 (1.27%) Informatica
9 3 (1.27%) Okta
9 3 (1.27%) Talend
10 2 (0.84%) F5
10 2 (0.84%) Foundry