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 24 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 7 9
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing AWS 271 253 227
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 11.32% 15.81% 12.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 31.62% 43.40% 37.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 171 151
10th Percentile £363 £400 £389
25th Percentile £412 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £546 £562 £538
90th Percentile £650 £638 £630
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -1.74%
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 £74.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.72% +60.78% -35.86%

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 857 583 598
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 35.78% 36.44% 31.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 504 367 384
10th Percentile £300 £356 £213
25th Percentile £402 £425 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £538
90th Percentile £644 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile £13.97 £19.58 £16.69
25th Percentile £15.35 £26.32 £18.42
Median hourly rate £15.81 £37.55 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +77.58% +19.31%
75th Percentile £18.75 £48.77 £24.18
90th Percentile - £55.51 -
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.45 £33.00
% change year-on-year +18.40% -16.82% -5.44%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 0 137 £425 -15.00% 233
Edinburgh -1 114 £475 -5.00% 105
Dumfries and Galloway - 7 - -
South Lanarkshire - 3 - -
West Lothian - 3 - - 6
Aberdeen - 2 £475 - 8
Dundee - 2 - - 5
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 18 (6.64%) Apache
2 15 (5.54%) Apache Airflow
3 13 (4.80%) Confluence
4 8 (2.95%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.48%) JBoss
6 2 (0.74%) nginx
6 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 94 (34.69%) Azure
2 83 (30.63%) GCP
3 55 (20.30%) Serverless
4 47 (17.34%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (15.13%) Amazon S3
6 31 (11.44%) Amazon EKS
7 30 (11.07%) GitHub
8 27 (9.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (8.86%) Amazon ECS
10 17 (6.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.54%) Kong
12 14 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
13 13 (4.80%) Amazon MSK
13 13 (4.80%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (4.80%) OpenShift
13 13 (4.80%) Snowflake
14 12 (4.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (4.06%) Amazon SQS
16 10 (3.69%) Apigee
17 9 (3.32%) Amazon SageMaker
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.80%) DNS
2 10 (3.69%) Firewall
3 8 (2.95%) HTTP
4 6 (2.21%) SSL
5 4 (1.48%) Network Security
6 3 (1.11%) Broadband
6 3 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (1.11%) HTTPS
6 3 (1.11%) LAN
6 3 (1.11%) SD-WAN
6 3 (1.11%) SSH
6 3 (1.11%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.11%) WAN
7 2 (0.74%) BIG-IP
7 2 (0.74%) DHCP
7 2 (0.74%) IPv4
7 2 (0.74%) NGFW
7 2 (0.74%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.74%) VLAN
7 2 (0.74%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (9.59%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.54%) Amazon Aurora
3 14 (5.17%) MongoDB
4 11 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
4 11 (4.06%) MySQL
5 10 (3.69%) Amazon Athena
5 10 (3.69%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.95%) DynamoDB
7 7 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (2.58%) MariaDB
8 6 (2.21%) Metadata
9 5 (1.85%) Power BI
9 5 (1.85%) SQL Server
10 4 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.48%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.48%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.11%) Flink
11 3 (1.11%) Oracle Database
11 3 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 42 (15.50%) Git
1 42 (15.50%) Jenkins
2 21 (7.75%) JIRA
3 18 (6.64%) GitLab
4 14 (5.17%) Maven
5 12 (4.43%) Bitbucket
6 11 (4.06%) Claude Code
6 11 (4.06%) Cypress.io
6 11 (4.06%) Gradle
7 10 (3.69%) JUnit
8 9 (3.32%) Selenium
9 8 (2.95%) GoCD
10 7 (2.58%) JProfiler
11 6 (2.21%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.21%) REST Assured
12 5 (1.85%) Postman
13 4 (1.48%) Subversion
14 3 (1.11%) Appium
14 3 (1.11%) SpecFlow
14 3 (1.11%) webpack
General
1 74 (27.31%) Finance
2 59 (21.77%) Social Skills
3 56 (20.66%) Public Sector
4 41 (15.13%) Banking
5 22 (8.12%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.95%) Investment Banking
6 8 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.21%) Retail Banking
8 4 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
8 4 (1.48%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.48%) Legal
9 3 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.11%) Marketing
9 3 (1.11%) Retail
10 2 (0.74%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Military
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 63 (23.25%) Developer
2 39 (14.39%) Architect
3 22 (8.12%) Java Developer
4 19 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
4 19 (7.01%) Lead
5 18 (6.64%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (6.64%) Senior
6 17 (6.27%) Analyst
6 17 (6.27%) Data Engineer
6 17 (6.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 17 (6.27%) Platform Engineer
7 15 (5.54%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 10 (3.69%) Software Engineer
10 9 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
10 9 (3.32%) GCP Engineer
10 9 (3.32%) Python Developer
11 8 (2.95%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (2.95%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 8 (2.95%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (21.03%) Terraform
2 40 (14.76%) Spring
3 39 (14.39%) REST
4 37 (13.65%) Spring Boot
5 33 (12.18%) React
6 24 (8.86%) Kafka
6 24 (8.86%) RESTful
7 22 (8.12%) Node.js
8 17 (6.27%) OAuth
9 14 (5.17%) OAuth2
10 13 (4.80%) AWS CDK
11 12 (4.43%) AngularJS
12 10 (3.69%) OpenID
12 10 (3.69%) Swagger
13 9 (3.32%) JWT
13 9 (3.32%) OpenAPI
13 9 (3.32%) SOAP
14 8 (2.95%) FastAPI
14 8 (2.95%) OpenTelemetry
14 8 (2.95%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.09%) Cloud Native
2 16 (5.90%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.17%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.06%) Data Structures
4 11 (4.06%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (3.69%) Data Centre
5 10 (3.69%) Enterprise Cloud
6 8 (2.95%) AI Agents
7 7 (2.58%) Algorithms
8 6 (2.21%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.21%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.48%) IVR
9 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.48%) Market Risk
9 4 (1.48%) Replication
10 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.11%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.07%) Linux
2 11 (4.06%) Windows
3 9 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.48%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (44.65%) CI/CD
2 87 (32.10%) DevOps
3 85 (31.37%) Agile
4 71 (26.20%) AI
5 69 (25.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 49 (18.08%) Containerisation
7 47 (17.34%) Microservices
8 37 (13.65%) Platform Engineering
9 35 (12.92%) Observability
10 34 (12.55%) Event-Driven
10 34 (12.55%) Migration
10 34 (12.55%) Software Engineering
11 33 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
12 31 (11.44%) Machine Learning
13 30 (11.07%) Scrum
14 29 (10.70%) Mentoring
14 29 (10.70%) Problem-Solving
15 28 (10.33%) LLM
15 28 (10.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 28 (10.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 99 (36.53%) Python
2 65 (23.99%) Java
3 46 (16.97%) SQL
4 36 (13.28%) JavaScript
5 35 (12.92%) TypeScript
6 25 (9.23%) Bash
7 21 (7.75%) Shell Script
8 15 (5.54%) Go
9 7 (2.58%) Lua
9 7 (2.58%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.21%) C#
11 4 (1.48%) Groovy
11 4 (1.48%) Ruby
12 3 (1.11%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.74%) Cypher
13 2 (0.74%) Scala
13 2 (0.74%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.74%) SPARQL
14 1 (0.37%) Perl
14 1 (0.37%) R
Qualifications
1 36 (13.28%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (4.06%) AWS Certification
3 11 (4.06%) Degree
4 10 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.48%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.11%) CISSP
9 2 (0.74%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 2 (0.74%) CCNP
9 2 (0.74%) CCSK
9 2 (0.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.74%) CISM
9 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.74%) RHCE
9 2 (0.74%) RHCSA
9 2 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (7.38%) Data Quality
2 13 (4.80%) Disclosure Scotland
3 11 (4.06%) Accessibility
4 9 (3.32%) QA
5 4 (1.48%) GDPR
6 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.37%) GRC
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) NIST
7 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) PSD2
7 1 (0.37%) SEPA
7 1 (0.37%) SLA
7 1 (0.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 42 (15.50%) Docker
2 6 (2.21%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.21%) zsh
3 3 (1.11%) Ceph
3 3 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.74%) GPFS
4 2 (0.74%) NFS
4 2 (0.74%) Squid
4 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 89 (32.84%) Kubernetes
2 28 (10.33%) Ansible
3 11 (4.06%) Grafana
4 10 (3.69%) Argo
5 4 (1.48%) Istio
6 3 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.74%) linkerd
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.74%) Netcool
8 1 (0.37%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.37%) Kibana
8 1 (0.37%) logstash
8 1 (0.37%) Podman
8 1 (0.37%) Puppet
8 1 (0.37%) yum
Vendors
1 34 (12.55%) Google
2 20 (7.38%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.38%) Oracle
3 16 (5.90%) Splunk
4 11 (4.06%) MuleSoft
5 9 (3.32%) Dynatrace
5 9 (3.32%) Informatica
5 9 (3.32%) VMware
6 7 (2.58%) Cisco
6 7 (2.58%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.21%) Databricks
7 6 (2.21%) Dell
7 6 (2.21%) ForgeRock
8 5 (1.85%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.11%) Foundry
9 3 (1.11%) Greenplum
9 3 (1.11%) IBM
9 3 (1.11%) Okta
9 3 (1.11%) Talend