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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing AWS 228 212 244
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.61% 13.35% 11.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.42% 35.10% 33.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 152 179
10th Percentile £314 £400 £400
25th Percentile £413 £430 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £588 £614
UK median daily rate £535 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +0.94% -3.64% -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 £75.60 £55.00
% change year-on-year -7.41% +37.45% -25.68%

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 775 604 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.48% 38.04% 34.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 416 509
10th Percentile £313 £300 £225
25th Percentile £400 £408 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £471 £453
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +3.98% -4.63%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £588 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £12.57 £16.21 £16.08
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £14.44 £21.22 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.95% +24.82% -71.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £25.06 £22.28
90th Percentile £64.00 £27.05 £33.05
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £27.88 £21.46
% change year-on-year +28.80% +29.92% -42.77%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 +7 112 £450 -10.00% 37
Edinburgh -4 105 £495 +4.26% 35
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 - 1
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen -3 1 £475 - 2
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 (6.14%) Apache
1 14 (6.14%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (4.39%) Confluence
3 6 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.88%) JBoss
4 2 (0.88%) nginx
5 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 80 (35.09%) Azure
2 53 (23.25%) GCP
3 42 (18.42%) Serverless
4 36 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 34 (14.91%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (12.72%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (9.21%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 19 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
9 17 (7.46%) Amazon EC2
9 17 (7.46%) GitHub
9 17 (7.46%) Snowflake
10 14 (6.14%) GitHub Actions
11 13 (5.70%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (3.51%) Amazon SQS
13 8 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (3.51%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (3.07%) AWS CodePipeline
15 6 (2.63%) Amazon EMR
15 6 (2.63%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.95%) DNS
2 5 (2.19%) HTTP
3 4 (1.75%) HTTPS
3 4 (1.75%) SSH
3 4 (1.75%) SSL
4 3 (1.32%) DHCP
5 2 (0.88%) DSL
5 2 (0.88%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
5 2 (0.88%) Firewall
5 2 (0.88%) Network Security
5 2 (0.88%) SAN
5 2 (0.88%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.44%) BIG-IP
6 1 (0.44%) CTI
6 1 (0.44%) LAN
6 1 (0.44%) NGFW
6 1 (0.44%) PSTN
6 1 (0.44%) RTP
6 1 (0.44%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.53%) MySQL
1 24 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (7.46%) MongoDB
3 16 (7.02%) DynamoDB
4 13 (5.70%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.26%) Data Lake
5 12 (5.26%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.82%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.95%) MariaDB
8 8 (3.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (2.63%) Metadata
11 5 (2.19%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.19%) SQL Server
12 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.32%) Big Data
13 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
13 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
14 2 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 21 (9.21%) Jenkins
2 18 (7.89%) Git
3 17 (7.46%) GitLab
4 14 (6.14%) JIRA
5 8 (3.51%) Cypress.io
6 7 (3.07%) Bitbucket
6 7 (3.07%) Selenium
7 4 (1.75%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.75%) MLflow
7 4 (1.75%) REST Assured
8 3 (1.32%) Postman
8 3 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (1.32%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.88%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.44%) Ant
10 1 (0.44%) Appium
10 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.44%) git-flow
10 1 (0.44%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.49%) Finance
3 47 (20.61%) Public Sector
4 26 (11.40%) Banking
5 22 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (2.19%) Retail Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.75%) Financial Institution
7 4 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (1.75%) Investment Banking
7 4 (1.75%) Retail
8 3 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.88%) Law
9 2 (0.88%) Marketing
9 2 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Back Office
10 1 (0.44%) Front Office
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (17.98%) Developer
2 34 (14.91%) Architect
3 28 (12.28%) AWS Engineer
4 23 (10.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 16 (7.02%) Senior
7 14 (6.14%) Data Engineer
7 14 (6.14%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.26%) Analyst
8 12 (5.26%) Python Engineer
9 11 (4.82%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
10 10 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.95%) Security Engineer
12 8 (3.51%) Cloud Architect
12 8 (3.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.51%) Python Developer
12 8 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (3.51%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (10.53%) React
2 20 (8.77%) AWS CDK
3 19 (8.33%) Spring
4 18 (7.89%) REST
5 16 (7.02%) Spring Boot
6 15 (6.58%) FastAPI
6 15 (6.58%) Kafka
7 13 (5.70%) Node.js
7 13 (5.70%) RESTful
8 11 (4.82%) OAuth
8 11 (4.82%) Redux
9 10 (4.39%) JWT
9 10 (4.39%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.95%) CSS
10 9 (3.95%) HTML
10 9 (3.95%) OpenCV
10 9 (3.95%) Pandas
11 8 (3.51%) Express.js
11 8 (3.51%) Jest
12 7 (3.07%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.58%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.70%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (3.95%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.07%) Clustering
6 7 (3.07%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.63%) Algorithms
7 6 (2.63%) Management Information System
8 5 (2.19%) Replication
9 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.75%) Market Risk
10 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
10 3 (1.32%) IVR
10 3 (1.32%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.32%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.88%) PKI
11 2 (0.88%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.53%) Linux
2 14 (6.14%) Windows
3 8 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.75%) Unix
5 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (34.21%) CI/CD
2 73 (32.02%) Agile
3 59 (25.88%) DevOps
4 47 (20.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 45 (19.74%) AI
6 38 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
7 35 (15.35%) Microservices
8 33 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (13.16%) Machine Learning
9 30 (13.16%) Migration
10 25 (10.96%) Containerisation
11 23 (10.09%) Analytics
11 23 (10.09%) ETL
12 22 (9.65%) Mentoring
13 21 (9.21%) Data Pipeline
14 20 (8.77%) Data Protection
14 20 (8.77%) LLM
14 20 (8.77%) Observability
14 20 (8.77%) Platform Engineering
15 19 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 101 (44.30%) Python
2 46 (20.18%) Java
3 42 (18.42%) SQL
4 33 (14.47%) JavaScript
5 24 (10.53%) Bash
5 24 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 18 (7.89%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.32%) Go
7 3 (1.32%) Perl
8 2 (0.88%) Korn
8 2 (0.88%) Search Processing Language
8 2 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.88%) SPARQL
9 1 (0.44%) C#
9 1 (0.44%) C++
9 1 (0.44%) Groovy
9 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.44%) PHP
9 1 (0.44%) Ruby
9 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 30 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 17 (7.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (3.95%) Degree
4 7 (3.07%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.75%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.32%) CISSP
6 3 (1.32%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (0.88%) CBAP
7 2 (0.88%) CCNP
7 2 (0.88%) CCSK
7 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.88%) CISM
7 2 (0.88%) FFIEC
7 2 (0.88%) NCDA
7 2 (0.88%) VCP6
7 2 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.44%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.33%) QA
2 17 (7.46%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.51%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (3.07%) SLA
5 6 (2.63%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.75%) GDPR
7 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) GRC
8 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.44%) NIST
8 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (12.28%) Docker
2 7 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.19%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.75%) Ceph
4 4 (1.75%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.75%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.32%) Squid
6 2 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 52 (22.81%) Kubernetes
2 35 (15.35%) Terraform
3 24 (10.53%) Ansible
4 15 (6.58%) Grafana
5 8 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.19%) Istio
7 4 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.88%) Argo
8 2 (0.88%) linkerd
8 2 (0.88%) vMotion
8 2 (0.88%) vRealize
9 1 (0.44%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.44%) Podman
9 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.44%) Puppet
9 1 (0.44%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (8.33%) Oracle
2 18 (7.89%) Google
3 16 (7.02%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.95%) VMware
5 7 (3.07%) Cisco
5 7 (3.07%) Informatica
5 7 (3.07%) Talend
6 6 (2.63%) Databricks
7 5 (2.19%) OpenAI
7 5 (2.19%) Splunk
8 4 (1.75%) Dell
8 4 (1.75%) Greenplum
9 3 (1.32%) Confluent
9 3 (1.32%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.88%) Barracuda Networks
10 2 (0.88%) Commvault
10 2 (0.88%) Mitel
10 2 (0.88%) NetApp
10 2 (0.88%) Thales