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

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 12 15
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing AWS 228 208 240
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 15.53% 13.19% 10.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 40.14% 36.81% 35.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 151 177
10th Percentile £358 £356 £387
25th Percentile £411 £418 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.82% -4.60% -
75th Percentile £570 £538 £575
90th Percentile £606 £600 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £551 £550
% change year-on-year -4.72% +0.18% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 £19.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +163.16% - -
UK median hourly rate £76.59 £46.18 £57.50
% change year-on-year +65.84% -19.69% -8.00%

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 568 565 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.69% 35.83% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 363 449
10th Percentile £313 £308 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +4.38%
75th Percentile £588 £528 £588
90th Percentile £651 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 3
10th Percentile £11.84 £19.77 -
25th Percentile £12.71 £21.00 -
Median hourly rate £31.95 £24.00 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +33.14% +55.64% -12.98%
75th Percentile £52.50 £24.18 £16.57
90th Percentile £57.00 £27.04 £17.26
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.50 £23.00
% change year-on-year +1.82% +19.57% +2.22%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 +2.04% 15
Edinburgh -1 95 £525 +6.60% 34
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £325 - 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 12 (5.26%) Apache
2 11 (4.82%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (4.39%) Apache Spark
4 7 (3.07%) Confluence
5 2 (0.88%) nginx
5 2 (0.88%) Oracle Coherence
5 2 (0.88%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.44%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.44%) FileNet
6 1 (0.44%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (0.88%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 100 (43.86%) Azure
2 61 (26.75%) Serverless
3 46 (20.18%) AWS Lambda
4 45 (19.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 39 (17.11%) Amazon S3
6 38 (16.67%) GCP
7 27 (11.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 26 (11.40%) Snowflake
9 21 (9.21%) Amazon EC2
9 21 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
10 20 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
11 18 (7.89%) OpenShift
12 17 (7.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 11 (4.82%) Amazon SageMaker
13 11 (4.82%) Amazon SQS
14 8 (3.51%) AWS Step Functions
14 8 (3.51%) GitHub
15 7 (3.07%) Amazon MSK
15 7 (3.07%) PaaS
15 7 (3.07%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (10.53%) Firewall
2 7 (3.07%) Network Security
3 5 (2.19%) VPN
4 3 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (1.32%) HTTP
4 3 (1.32%) SD-WAN
4 3 (1.32%) WAN
5 2 (0.88%) BGP
5 2 (0.88%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.88%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.88%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
5 2 (0.88%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.88%) Internet
5 2 (0.88%) LAN
5 2 (0.88%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.88%) Wireless
6 1 (0.44%) OSPF
6 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.44%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.16%) PostgreSQL
2 21 (9.21%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.58%) NoSQL
4 14 (6.14%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.70%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (4.82%) Data Lake
8 10 (4.39%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (3.95%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.07%) DynamoDB
10 7 (3.07%) Elasticsearch
10 7 (3.07%) MySQL
11 6 (2.63%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.75%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (1.75%) Metadata
12 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
13 3 (1.32%) MSDE
13 3 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 32 (14.04%) Jenkins
2 29 (12.72%) GitLab
3 26 (11.40%) Git
4 25 (10.96%) JIRA
5 17 (7.46%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.82%) MLflow
7 10 (4.39%) Cypress.io
8 9 (3.95%) JUnit
9 8 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.75%) Liquibase
11 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.32%) IntelliJ
11 3 (1.32%) PyCharm
11 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.88%) ERwin
12 2 (0.88%) Mockito
12 2 (0.88%) Subversion
12 2 (0.88%) Vite
12 2 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 80 (35.09%) Finance
2 56 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 53 (23.25%) Banking
4 51 (22.37%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.26%) Retail Banking
7 7 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (3.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.07%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.63%) Legal
8 6 (2.63%) Retail
9 3 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.44%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.44%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.44%) Marketing
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (16.67%) Developer
2 33 (14.47%) Senior
3 32 (14.04%) Architect
4 23 (10.09%) AWS Engineer
5 17 (7.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (6.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 14 (6.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 14 (6.14%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.14%) Python Engineer
7 13 (5.70%) Java Developer
7 13 (5.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 12 (5.26%) Lead
9 11 (4.82%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.39%) Security Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) Site Engineer
11 8 (3.51%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.07%) Analyst
12 7 (3.07%) Database Engineer
12 7 (3.07%) Platform Engineer
12 7 (3.07%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (10.96%) React
2 23 (10.09%) Node.js
2 23 (10.09%) Spring
3 21 (9.21%) Spring Boot
4 18 (7.89%) AWS CDK
5 16 (7.02%) PySpark
5 16 (7.02%) PyTorch
6 15 (6.58%) Pandas
6 15 (6.58%) REST
6 15 (6.58%) RESTful
7 14 (6.14%) AngularJS
7 14 (6.14%) NumPy
8 12 (5.26%) Hugging Face
9 11 (4.82%) SQLAlchemy
10 10 (4.39%) OAuth
10 10 (4.39%) OpenCV
11 9 (3.95%) FastAPI
12 8 (3.51%) boto
13 7 (3.07%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (3.07%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 33 (14.47%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.46%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.14%) Algorithms
4 13 (5.70%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (4.82%) Data Structures
6 10 (4.39%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.95%) Data Centre
7 9 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (3.51%) IVR
9 7 (3.07%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (3.07%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.63%) NHS
10 6 (2.63%) Product Ownership
11 5 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.19%) Replication
12 4 (1.75%) Clustering
12 4 (1.75%) PKI
13 3 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
13 3 (1.32%) CMDB
13 3 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 36 (15.79%) Linux
2 22 (9.65%) Unix
3 18 (7.89%) Windows
4 7 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.88%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (46.05%) CI/CD
2 91 (39.91%) Agile
3 82 (35.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 78 (34.21%) DevOps
5 58 (25.44%) Migration
6 52 (22.81%) Containerisation
7 44 (19.30%) AI
8 41 (17.98%) Machine Learning
8 41 (17.98%) Microservices
9 38 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (14.91%) Disaster Recovery
11 27 (11.84%) Analytics
11 27 (11.84%) Observability
11 27 (11.84%) Performance Tuning
12 25 (10.96%) Continuous Improvement
13 23 (10.09%) High Availability
13 23 (10.09%) Software Engineering
14 22 (9.65%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (9.21%) Mentoring
16 20 (8.77%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 119 (52.19%) Python
2 51 (22.37%) Java
3 31 (13.60%) SQL
4 25 (10.96%) PowerShell
5 19 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 14 (6.14%) Bash
6 14 (6.14%) Perl
7 11 (4.82%) JavaScript
8 8 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.07%) Ruby
10 6 (2.63%) Go
11 5 (2.19%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.32%) C#
12 3 (1.32%) PromQL
13 2 (0.88%) Korn
14 1 (0.44%) Bicep
14 1 (0.44%) Groovy
14 1 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.44%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 28 (12.28%) AWS Certification
2 17 (7.46%) Degree
3 15 (6.58%) Security Cleared
4 13 (5.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (2.63%) Master's Degree
7 5 (2.19%) CISSP
7 5 (2.19%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (1.75%) CCNP
8 4 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.32%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.32%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.32%) PMP
9 3 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (0.88%) CISM
10 2 (0.88%) FFIEC
10 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.46%) Accessibility
2 16 (7.02%) QA
3 15 (6.58%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.82%) GDPR
5 9 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (3.51%) PCI DSS
7 5 (2.19%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (1.75%) COBIT
8 4 (1.75%) NIST
9 3 (1.32%) HIPAA
9 3 (1.32%) PMO
10 2 (0.88%) NCSC
10 2 (0.88%) SLA
11 1 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.44%) IFRS
11 1 (0.44%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.44%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.44%) PSD2
11 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 50 (21.93%) Docker
2 4 (1.75%) KVM
2 4 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 66 (28.95%) Terraform
2 52 (22.81%) Kubernetes
3 47 (20.61%) Ansible
4 26 (11.40%) Grafana
5 13 (5.70%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.75%) Fluentd
6 4 (1.75%) Kibana
6 4 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
7 3 (1.32%) logstash
7 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.32%) SCCM
7 3 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.88%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.88%) Nagios
8 2 (0.88%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.44%) Argo
9 1 (0.44%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.44%) linkerd
9 1 (0.44%) vRealize
9 1 (0.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 22 (9.65%) Oracle
2 21 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 16 (7.02%) Splunk
4 14 (6.14%) Greenplum
5 12 (5.26%) Cisco
5 12 (5.26%) Databricks
6 11 (4.82%) Google
7 10 (4.39%) F5
8 8 (3.51%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.07%) IBM
9 7 (3.07%) ServiceNow
10 6 (2.63%) Avaya
10 6 (2.63%) Pega
10 6 (2.63%) Red Hat
11 5 (2.19%) CheckPoint
11 5 (2.19%) Dynatrace
11 5 (2.19%) Genesys
11 5 (2.19%) Informatica
11 5 (2.19%) OpenAI
11 5 (2.19%) Talend