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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +5 0 -7
Contract jobs citing AWS 227 206 243
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 13.95% 12.36% 10.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.32% 31.99% 32.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 156 176
10th Percentile £313 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £419 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £499
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -4.76% +0.76%
75th Percentile £560 £551 £627
90th Percentile £602 £600 £701
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 £75.00 £72.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% +26.09% -11.54%

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 625 644 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.41% 38.63% 32.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 446 489
10th Percentile £310 £255 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £533 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £12.24 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.05 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -62.22%
75th Percentile £57.00 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 +13 148 £447 -3.87% 34
Edinburgh -3 69 £503 +5.79% 25
South Lanarkshire - 4 £800 - 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 15 (6.61%) Apache
2 13 (5.73%) Apache Spark
3 11 (4.85%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.08%) Confluence
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.44%) Apache Superset
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) JBoss
6 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.44%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 93 (40.97%) Azure
2 50 (22.03%) Serverless
3 46 (20.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 43 (18.94%) GCP
5 40 (17.62%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (15.42%) Amazon S3
7 30 (13.22%) Amazon EC2
8 28 (12.33%) Snowflake
9 26 (11.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 20 (8.81%) Amazon ECS
11 19 (8.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 18 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (6.17%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (5.29%) GitHub
15 11 (4.85%) Amazon SageMaker
16 9 (3.96%) Amazon EventBridge
16 9 (3.96%) OpenShift
17 8 (3.52%) GitHub Actions
17 8 (3.52%) PaaS
17 8 (3.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.73%) Firewall
2 4 (1.76%) DHCP
2 4 (1.76%) DNS
3 3 (1.32%) HTTP
3 3 (1.32%) Network Security
4 2 (0.88%) DSL
4 2 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.88%) Internet
4 2 (0.88%) SAN
4 2 (0.88%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.44%) BGP
5 1 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.44%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (0.44%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.44%) Modbus
5 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.42%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.25%) MySQL
3 20 (8.81%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.93%) Amazon Athena
4 18 (7.93%) DynamoDB
4 18 (7.93%) Relational Database
5 16 (7.05%) NoSQL
6 13 (5.73%) Data Lake
6 13 (5.73%) MongoDB
7 12 (5.29%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (3.52%) Metadata
9 6 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.64%) Delta Lake
9 6 (2.64%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.32%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.32%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 29 (12.78%) GitLab
2 24 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 22 (9.69%) Git
4 19 (8.37%) JIRA
5 13 (5.73%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.85%) MLflow
7 9 (3.96%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.64%) JUnit
9 4 (1.76%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.88%) Mockito
11 2 (0.88%) Postman
11 2 (0.88%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.44%) git-flow
12 1 (0.44%) REST Assured
12 1 (0.44%) Selenium
12 1 (0.44%) Snyk
12 1 (0.44%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.44%) Vite
12 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 69 (30.40%) Finance
2 56 (24.67%) Social Skills
3 39 (17.18%) Public Sector
4 37 (16.30%) Banking
5 19 (8.37%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.41%) Retail Banking
7 8 (3.52%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.64%) Retail
9 5 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.76%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (0.88%) Legal
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Marketing
13 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (18.94%) Architect
2 32 (14.10%) Senior
3 29 (12.78%) AWS Engineer
4 25 (11.01%) Developer
5 19 (8.37%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 15 (6.61%) Data Architect
7 15 (6.61%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (6.17%) Data Engineer
8 14 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 13 (5.73%) Java Developer
9 13 (5.73%) Platform Engineer
10 11 (4.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 10 (4.41%) Python Engineer
11 10 (4.41%) Security Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) AWS Architect
12 9 (3.96%) Database Engineer
12 9 (3.96%) Lead
12 9 (3.96%) Senior Developer
12 9 (3.96%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.33%) React
2 24 (10.57%) Node.js
3 20 (8.81%) Spring
4 18 (7.93%) Spring Boot
5 15 (6.61%) PySpark
6 14 (6.17%) REST
6 14 (6.17%) RESTful
7 13 (5.73%) Kafka
8 11 (4.85%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.85%) AWS CDK
9 9 (3.96%) FastAPI
9 9 (3.96%) OAuth
10 8 (3.52%) Jest
10 8 (3.52%) Redux
11 7 (3.08%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.64%) Express.js
12 6 (2.64%) GraphQL
12 6 (2.64%) JWT
13 5 (2.20%) NestJS
13 5 (2.20%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 34 (14.98%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.49%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.17%) Product Ownership
4 13 (5.73%) Data Centre
4 13 (5.73%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.41%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.08%) Clustering
7 7 (3.08%) IVR
8 6 (2.64%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.64%) NHS
8 6 (2.64%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.64%) Replication
9 5 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
10 4 (1.76%) Management Information System
10 4 (1.76%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.32%) CMDB
11 3 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
11 3 (1.32%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 28 (12.33%) Linux
2 17 (7.49%) Windows
3 10 (4.41%) Unix
4 6 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.76%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (44.93%) CI/CD
2 69 (30.40%) DevOps
3 66 (29.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 64 (28.19%) Agile
5 58 (25.55%) Migration
6 46 (20.26%) Microservices
7 45 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (18.50%) Containerisation
9 40 (17.62%) AI
10 36 (15.86%) Machine Learning
11 32 (14.10%) Analytics
11 32 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 30 (13.22%) Disaster Recovery
13 27 (11.89%) Data Pipeline
13 27 (11.89%) Observability
14 26 (11.45%) Data Engineering
15 24 (10.57%) Mentoring
16 23 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (9.69%) Data Protection
17 22 (9.69%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 116 (51.10%) Python
2 48 (21.15%) Java
3 37 (16.30%) SQL
4 29 (12.78%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.37%) JavaScript
6 17 (7.49%) Bash
7 15 (6.61%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.41%) Perl
9 7 (3.08%) Ruby
10 4 (1.76%) Shell Script
11 2 (0.88%) Korn
11 2 (0.88%) SPARQL
12 1 (0.44%) C++
12 1 (0.44%) Go
12 1 (0.44%) Groovy
12 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.44%) PHP
12 1 (0.44%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.44%) PromQL
12 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (11.01%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.05%) AWS Certification
3 13 (5.73%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.29%) Degree
5 8 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.20%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.32%) PMP
8 3 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.88%) CCNP
9 2 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.88%) FFIEC
9 2 (0.88%) NCDA
9 2 (0.88%) VCP6
9 2 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (10.13%) Data Quality
1 23 (10.13%) QA
2 12 (5.29%) Accessibility
2 12 (5.29%) GDPR
3 8 (3.52%) PCI DSS
3 8 (3.52%) SLA
4 6 (2.64%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.32%) HIPAA
5 3 (1.32%) PMO
6 2 (0.88%) COBIT
6 2 (0.88%) NIST
6 2 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) NCSC
7 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.44%) PSD2
7 1 (0.44%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (17.62%) Docker
2 4 (1.76%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.76%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.88%) Firmware
3 2 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 54 (23.79%) Terraform
2 50 (22.03%) Kubernetes
3 32 (14.10%) Ansible
4 14 (6.17%) Grafana
5 7 (3.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.32%) vRealize
8 2 (0.88%) Argo
8 2 (0.88%) Istio
8 2 (0.88%) Kibana
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.88%) SCCM
8 2 (0.88%) vMotion
9 1 (0.44%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.44%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.44%) logstash
9 1 (0.44%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 26 (11.45%) Oracle
2 20 (8.81%) Microsoft
3 14 (6.17%) Google
4 13 (5.73%) Databricks
4 13 (5.73%) Greenplum
5 9 (3.96%) Cisco
6 8 (3.52%) Informatica
6 8 (3.52%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.52%) Talend
7 7 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 7 (3.08%) Splunk
8 6 (2.64%) IBM
9 5 (2.20%) Avaya
9 5 (2.20%) Genesys
9 5 (2.20%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.76%) Confluent
10 4 (1.76%) Pega
11 3 (1.32%) CheckPoint
11 3 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.32%) VMware