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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 15 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing AWS 250 229 235
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.28% 13.59% 12.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.30% 38.42% 34.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 157 161
10th Percentile £332 £400 £400
25th Percentile £407 £450 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -3.55%
75th Percentile £547 £560 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £560
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.25% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £37.90 - -
25th Percentile £42.25 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £56.75 - £19.50
90th Percentile £61.10 - -
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 825 596 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.21% 35.37% 35.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 398 456
10th Percentile £313 £313 £200
25th Percentile £400 £418 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £558 £540 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £613
UK median daily rate £519 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.80% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 14
10th Percentile - £16.21 £15.52
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% -67.50%
75th Percentile £20.61 £25.06 £23.89
90th Percentile £55.25 £27.05 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £27.38 £22.50
% change year-on-year +29.68% +21.67% -35.71%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 +4 130 £431 -13.75% 58
Edinburgh -1 107 £478 -3.29% 35
South Lanarkshire - 5 £800 -
Dundee - 2 - - 1
Aberdeen -3 1 £475 - 1
West Lothian - 1 - - 1
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 14 (5.60%) Apache
2 12 (4.80%) Confluence
3 11 (4.40%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (2.80%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.60%) JBoss
6 2 (0.80%) nginx
6 2 (0.80%) Red Hat Fuse
6 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Superset
7 1 (0.40%) CMS
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.80%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 86 (34.40%) Azure
2 77 (30.80%) GCP
3 50 (20.00%) Serverless
4 45 (18.00%) Amazon S3
5 40 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
6 35 (14.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 30 (12.00%) GitHub
8 22 (8.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
9 20 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
9 20 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
10 15 (6.00%) Snowflake
11 14 (5.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 11 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
12 11 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (3.20%) Amazon EMR
13 8 (3.20%) AWS Step Functions
13 8 (3.20%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (2.80%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (2.80%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.80%) DNS
2 7 (2.80%) Firewall
3 5 (2.00%) HTTP
4 4 (1.60%) HTTPS
4 4 (1.60%) Network Security
4 4 (1.60%) SSH
4 4 (1.60%) SSL
5 3 (1.20%) DHCP
6 2 (0.80%) BIG-IP
6 2 (0.80%) Ethernet VPN
6 2 (0.80%) NGFW
6 2 (0.80%) VXLAN
7 1 (0.40%) Broadband
7 1 (0.40%) CTI
7 1 (0.40%) LAN
7 1 (0.40%) PSTN
7 1 (0.40%) RTP
7 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.20%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (9.60%) MongoDB
3 19 (7.60%) MySQL
4 17 (6.80%) DynamoDB
5 13 (5.20%) Amazon Athena
6 12 (4.80%) Data Lake
7 11 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (4.00%) MariaDB
8 10 (4.00%) NoSQL
8 10 (4.00%) Relational Database
9 8 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
11 6 (2.40%) Metadata
12 4 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
13 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
14 2 (0.80%) Snowflake Schema
14 2 (0.80%) SQLPlus
14 2 (0.80%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (14.80%) Jenkins
2 33 (13.20%) Git
3 19 (7.60%) JIRA
4 14 (5.60%) Bitbucket
5 13 (5.20%) GitLab
6 11 (4.40%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.00%) Selenium
8 9 (3.60%) JUnit
8 9 (3.60%) Maven
9 8 (3.20%) Gradle
10 7 (2.80%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.80%) GoCD
10 7 (2.80%) Postman
10 7 (2.80%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.40%) Claude Code
11 6 (2.40%) JProfiler
12 4 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (1.60%) Subversion
13 3 (1.20%) Appium
13 3 (1.20%) WebDriver
General
1 57 (22.80%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.40%) Finance
3 46 (18.40%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.20%) Banking
5 21 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (2.40%) Retail Banking
7 5 (2.00%) Investment Banking
8 4 (1.60%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.60%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.60%) Marketing
9 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.20%) Legal
9 3 (1.20%) Retail
10 2 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.80%) Law
10 2 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.40%) Front Office
11 1 (0.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (22.00%) Developer
2 39 (15.60%) Architect
3 29 (11.60%) AWS Engineer
4 24 (9.60%) Cloud Engineer
5 20 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 18 (7.20%) Java Developer
7 17 (6.80%) Senior
8 16 (6.40%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.00%) Solutions Architect
10 14 (5.60%) Platform Engineer
11 13 (5.20%) Analyst
12 10 (4.00%) Lead
12 10 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 9 (3.60%) AWS Architect
13 9 (3.60%) Python Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
14 8 (3.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 8 (3.20%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.60%) React
2 31 (12.40%) Spring
3 29 (11.60%) REST
4 28 (11.20%) Spring Boot
5 22 (8.80%) Kafka
5 22 (8.80%) Node.js
6 19 (7.60%) AWS CDK
6 19 (7.60%) RESTful
7 17 (6.80%) OAuth
8 14 (5.60%) OAuth2
9 12 (4.80%) FastAPI
9 12 (4.80%) Redux
10 11 (4.40%) HTML
11 10 (4.00%) CSS
12 9 (3.60%) AngularJS
12 9 (3.60%) Jest
12 9 (3.60%) PySpark
13 8 (3.20%) PyTorch
14 7 (2.80%) HTML5
14 7 (2.80%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 55 (22.00%) Cloud Native
2 19 (7.60%) Product Ownership
3 18 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
4 11 (4.40%) Data Centre
5 10 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.60%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.20%) Enterprise Cloud
7 8 (3.20%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.00%) Algorithms
8 5 (2.00%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.00%) Replication
9 4 (1.60%) AI Agents
9 4 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.60%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.60%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.20%) IVR
10 3 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.20%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.60%) Linux
2 13 (5.20%) Windows
3 10 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.20%) Unix
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (43.20%) CI/CD
2 75 (30.00%) Agile
3 72 (28.80%) DevOps
4 57 (22.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 49 (19.60%) AI
6 46 (18.40%) Microservices
7 38 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (14.40%) Containerisation
9 34 (13.60%) Observability
10 32 (12.80%) Migration
11 29 (11.60%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (11.20%) Platform Engineering
13 27 (10.80%) Event-Driven
14 26 (10.40%) Machine Learning
14 26 (10.40%) Mentoring
14 26 (10.40%) Scrum
14 26 (10.40%) TDD
15 25 (10.00%) Test Automation
16 23 (9.20%) Analytics
16 23 (9.20%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (41.20%) Python
2 60 (24.00%) Java
3 45 (18.00%) JavaScript
4 43 (17.20%) SQL
5 34 (13.60%) TypeScript
6 25 (10.00%) Bash
7 14 (5.60%) Shell Script
8 6 (2.40%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.00%) C#
9 5 (2.00%) Go
10 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.20%) Ruby
11 2 (0.80%) Groovy
11 2 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
12 1 (0.40%) C++
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (11.60%) Security Cleared
2 18 (7.20%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.80%) Degree
4 10 (4.00%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.80%) AWS Certification
8 4 (1.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (1.60%) ISTQB
9 3 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (1.20%) CISSP
10 2 (0.80%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
10 2 (0.80%) CBAP
10 2 (0.80%) CCNP
10 2 (0.80%) CCSK
10 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.80%) CISM
10 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.40%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.60%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.20%) QA
3 10 (4.00%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.80%) SLA
5 4 (1.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.40%) PSD2
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) SEPA
7 1 (0.40%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (13.60%) Docker
2 9 (3.60%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.60%) Ceph
4 4 (1.60%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.20%) Squid
5 3 (1.20%) zsh
6 2 (0.80%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 68 (27.20%) Kubernetes
2 49 (19.60%) Terraform
3 24 (9.60%) Ansible
4 12 (4.80%) Grafana
5 8 (3.20%) Argo
6 7 (2.80%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.40%) Istio
8 4 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.80%) linkerd
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.80%) Netcool
10 1 (0.40%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.40%) Kibana
10 1 (0.40%) Podman
10 1 (0.40%) Puppet
10 1 (0.40%) yum
Vendors
1 29 (11.60%) Google
2 23 (9.20%) Oracle
3 17 (6.80%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.40%) Splunk
5 8 (3.20%) VMware
6 7 (2.80%) Databricks
6 7 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.40%) Cisco
7 6 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 6 (2.40%) ForgeRock
8 5 (2.00%) MuleSoft
8 5 (2.00%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.60%) Confluent
9 4 (1.60%) Dell
9 4 (1.60%) Informatica
9 4 (1.60%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.60%) Talend
10 3 (1.20%) EnterpriseDB
10 3 (1.20%) Greenplum
10 3 (1.20%) Okta