AWS Contract Job Trends in South Lanarkshire

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > South Lanarkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire requiring AWS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing AWS 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Lanarkshire 12.90% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £775 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £475 £480 £475
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -4.04%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Lanarkshire

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 South Lanarkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11 0 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire 35.48% - 11.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 10
10th Percentile - - £369
25th Percentile £617 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £825 - £467
90th Percentile £833 - £491
Scotland median daily rate £475 £470 £455
% change year-on-year +1.06% +3.24% -4.16%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in South Lanarkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Lanarkshire.

AWS job vacancy trend in South Lanarkshire

AWS
Daily Rate Trend in South Lanarkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing AWS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Lanarkshire citing AWS

AWS
Contract Job Locations in South Lanarkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the South Lanarkshire region over the 6 months to 25 May 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
East Kilbride - 4 £800 - 1
AWS
Scotland

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Lanarkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (25.00%) SSH
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Ceph
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware