AWS Job Trends in Edinburgh

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -28 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 36 136 182
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 3.42% 15.83% 13.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.92% 49.28% 32.04%
Number of salaries quoted 24 62 139
10th Percentile - £46,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £71,875 £80,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,250 £95,000 £100,000
Scotland median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 302 276 568
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 28.71% 32.13% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 182 154 455
10th Percentile £29,750 £46,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £90,616 £73,818
90th Percentile £90,000 £98,474 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £53,125 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.61% +9.52% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

AWS job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS

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Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Edinburgh

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 7 (19.44%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (13.89%) Jupyter
3 3 (8.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.78%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 21 (58.33%) Azure
2 13 (36.11%) GitHub
3 6 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (13.89%) GCP
4 5 (13.89%) SaaS
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (11.11%) Amazon S3
5 4 (11.11%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (11.11%) Serverless
6 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) dbt
7 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (5.56%) OCI
7 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.78%) AWS IoT
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) AMQP
2 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.78%) MQTT
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.56%) Data Vault
3 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI
3 2 (5.56%) Tableau
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.78%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle ODI
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Git
2 6 (16.67%) Visual Studio Code
3 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.78%) JIRA
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (2.78%) Selenium
4 1 (2.78%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (33.33%) Finance
2 10 (27.78%) Multimedia
3 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
5 5 (13.89%) Retail
6 4 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.78%) Games
8 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (41.67%) Trainee
2 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
2 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Programmer
2 5 (13.89%) Senior
2 5 (13.89%) Trainee Developer
2 5 (13.89%) Trainee Programmer
3 4 (11.11%) Informatica Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Software Developer
3 4 (11.11%) Trainee Software Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Lead
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Associate Director
6 1 (2.78%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (30.56%) CSS
1 11 (30.56%) HTML
2 7 (19.44%) SOAP
3 5 (13.89%) Hugging Face
3 5 (13.89%) Matplotlib
3 5 (13.89%) NumPy
3 5 (13.89%) Pandas
3 5 (13.89%) REST
3 5 (13.89%) scikit-learn
3 5 (13.89%) Streamlit
4 3 (8.33%) JSON
4 3 (8.33%) React
4 3 (8.33%) XML
5 2 (5.56%) Kafka
5 2 (5.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.78%) Django
6 1 (2.78%) Node.js
6 1 (2.78%) Playwright
6 1 (2.78%) PySpark
6 1 (2.78%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 5 (13.89%) Algorithms
3 4 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.78%) IoT
5 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.78%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (41.67%) Mentoring
2 11 (30.56%) Machine Learning
3 10 (27.78%) AI
3 10 (27.78%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (25.00%) Workflow
5 7 (19.44%) Data Governance
5 7 (19.44%) Data Modelling
5 7 (19.44%) Root Cause Analysis
6 6 (16.67%) API Integration
6 6 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 6 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (16.67%) Data Privacy
6 6 (16.67%) LLM
6 6 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Conversational UI
7 5 (13.89%) Integration Patterns
7 5 (13.89%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Python
2 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.78%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) Shell Script
5 5 (13.89%) R
6 4 (11.11%) Java
7 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 2 (5.56%) Scala
7 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.78%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) AWS Certification
2 15 (41.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 11 (30.56%) Azure Certification
4 10 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (11.11%) Degree
6 2 (5.56%) CISM
6 2 (5.56%) CISSP
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.78%) CBAP
7 1 (2.78%) CEH
7 1 (2.78%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.78%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.78%) GxP
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
2 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Control-M
2 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (47.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (19.44%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) Informatica
4 3 (8.33%) Databricks
5 2 (5.56%) Okta
6 1 (2.78%) FIS
6 1 (2.78%) Google
6 1 (2.78%) OpenAI