Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in Scotland is £61,250 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 197 233
Rank change year-on-year -62 +36 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 25 24 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.37% 0.51% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.57% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 16 13
10th Percentile £54,750 £59,625 £64,500
25th Percentile £56,219 £64,688 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.94% +9.09% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65,313 £97,500 £122,500
90th Percentile £80,000 - -
UK median annual salary £67,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% -6.25% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,527 4,234 5,571
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.87% 90.05% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,624 2,303 3,003
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,569 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £39,225
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,508 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.49% - +9.09%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +29 9 £65,000 -27.78%
Glasgow -99 9 £65,000 -
Dundee - 5 £60,000 - 1
Aberdeen - 2 £61,250 -
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Senior Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (64.00%) Azure
2 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (44.00%) AWS
3 11 (44.00%) Python
4 10 (40.00%) Windows
4 10 (40.00%) Linux
5 9 (36.00%) GitHub
6 8 (32.00%) Bash
6 8 (32.00%) Finance
6 8 (32.00%) Terraform
7 7 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (28.00%) DevOps
8 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
8 6 (24.00%) OpenUP
8 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
8 6 (24.00%) SQL
8 6 (24.00%) .NET
8 6 (24.00%) Private Cloud
8 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (24.00%) Docker
9 5 (20.00%) Grafana
9 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
9 5 (20.00%) Google
9 5 (20.00%) GCP
9 5 (20.00%) PaaS
10 4 (16.00%) Ansible
10 4 (16.00%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (16.00%) Agile

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 16 (64.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
3 9 (36.00%) GitHub
4 7 (28.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (20.00%) GCP
5 5 (20.00%) PaaS
6 4 (16.00%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (8.00%) IaaS
7 2 (8.00%) SaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.00%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (32.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Law
4 1 (4.00%) Marketing
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) .NET
2 1 (4.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (12.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (8.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Linux
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) DevOps
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (24.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (24.00%) OpenUP
3 4 (16.00%) Agile
3 4 (16.00%) Cloud Operations
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
4 3 (12.00%) Coaching
4 3 (12.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Use Case
5 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) Python
2 8 (32.00%) Bash
3 6 (24.00%) PowerShell
3 6 (24.00%) SQL
4 4 (16.00%) Perl
5 3 (12.00%) Java
6 2 (8.00%) C#
6 2 (8.00%) PHP
6 2 (8.00%) Ruby
7 1 (4.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (32.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Grafana
3 5 (20.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (16.00%) Ansible
5 2 (8.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (8.00%) Puppet
5 2 (8.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.00%) ServiceNow