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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 6 8
Rank change year-on-year -29 +2 +1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 79 199 190
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 6.69% 20.14% 15.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.41% 48.54% 32.70%
Number of salaries quoted 45 108 141
10th Percentile - £49,450 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -42.31% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £78,312 £80,313 £79,600
90th Percentile £84,650 £95,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £60,250 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.71% +4.78% -7.26%

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 429 410 581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 36.33% 41.50% 45.93%
Number of salaries quoted 152 228 464
10th Percentile £25,800 £39,808 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,625 £65,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.00% +9.58% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £81,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £55,000 £56,971 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.46% +8.52% -8.70%

AWS
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

AWS
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 March 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Edinburgh

AWS
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 8 (10.13%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.33%) Jupyter
3 4 (5.06%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.53%) Weka
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (20.25%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 58 (73.42%) Azure
2 35 (44.30%) GitHub
3 16 (20.25%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (20.25%) Entra ID
3 16 (20.25%) GCP
3 16 (20.25%) OCI
4 9 (11.39%) dbt
5 8 (10.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (7.59%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (7.59%) SaaS
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (6.33%) Amazon S3
7 5 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (6.33%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.33%) Serverless
8 4 (5.06%) Amazon ECR
8 4 (5.06%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (5.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (5.06%) PaaS
8 4 (5.06%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 19 (24.05%) Internet
2 5 (6.33%) WAN
3 4 (5.06%) BGP
3 4 (5.06%) Firewall
3 4 (5.06%) LAN
3 4 (5.06%) MPLS
3 4 (5.06%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.06%) Wireless
4 3 (3.80%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.92%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.13%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (10.13%) Elasticsearch
3 5 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.06%) Redis
4 4 (5.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.27%) Power BI
6 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.27%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (29.11%) Git
2 16 (20.25%) Jenkins
2 16 (20.25%) Oracle Forms
3 6 (7.59%) Visual Studio Code
4 3 (3.80%) JIRA
5 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.27%) JMeter
5 1 (1.27%) Locust
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle APEX
General
1 31 (39.24%) Finance
2 19 (24.05%) Multimedia
3 18 (22.78%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.13%) Retail
5 6 (7.59%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.33%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.80%) Games
7 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.53%) Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.53%) Legal
8 2 (2.53%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.53%) Tech for Good
9 1 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 26 (32.91%) Senior
2 24 (30.38%) Trainee
3 18 (22.78%) Cloud Engineer
3 18 (22.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 16 (20.25%) Applications Engineer
5 10 (12.66%) Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Software Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Trainee Developer
5 10 (12.66%) Trainee Software Developer
6 8 (10.13%) Lead
7 6 (7.59%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
8 5 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Programmer
8 5 (6.33%) Trainee Programmer
9 4 (5.06%) Informatica Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Network Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Senior Platform Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.11%) CSS
1 23 (29.11%) HTML
2 21 (26.58%) SOAP
3 20 (25.32%) RESTful
4 17 (21.52%) JSON
4 17 (21.52%) XML
5 7 (8.86%) Kafka
6 6 (7.59%) React
7 5 (6.33%) Django
7 5 (6.33%) Hugging Face
7 5 (6.33%) Matplotlib
7 5 (6.33%) NumPy
7 5 (6.33%) Pandas
7 5 (6.33%) REST
7 5 (6.33%) scikit-learn
7 5 (6.33%) Streamlit
8 3 (3.80%) Node.js
9 2 (2.53%) .NET
9 2 (2.53%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (2.53%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.52%) Cloud Native
2 16 (20.25%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (8.86%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (6.33%) Algorithms
5 4 (5.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (5.06%) Product Ownership
5 4 (5.06%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.80%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 10 (12.66%) Linux
2 8 (10.13%) Unix
3 2 (2.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (54.43%) Mentoring
2 32 (40.51%) CI/CD
3 28 (35.44%) DevOps
4 26 (32.91%) Agile
5 25 (31.65%) Observability
6 23 (29.11%) API Integration
6 23 (29.11%) Cybersecurity
7 22 (27.85%) Migration
8 21 (26.58%) Data Governance
9 20 (25.32%) Root Cause Analysis
10 19 (24.05%) Coaching
10 19 (24.05%) Test Automation
11 16 (20.25%) Asset Management
11 16 (20.25%) Business Strategy
11 16 (20.25%) ERP
11 16 (20.25%) Identity Access Management
11 16 (20.25%) Translating Business Requirements
12 12 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (13.92%) Machine Learning
14 9 (11.39%) AI
Programming Languages
1 59 (74.68%) Python
2 25 (31.65%) Java
3 23 (29.11%) JavaScript
4 22 (27.85%) SQL
5 20 (25.32%) Shell Script
6 16 (20.25%) PL/SQL
7 9 (11.39%) R
8 4 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.53%) C#
9 2 (2.53%) Scala
10 1 (1.27%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 27 (34.18%) AWS Certification
2 24 (30.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 21 (26.58%) Azure Certification
4 19 (24.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (7.59%) SC Cleared
5 6 (7.59%) Security Cleared
6 5 (6.33%) CISM
6 5 (6.33%) CISSP
7 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.06%) Degree
8 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.27%) CBAP
9 1 (1.27%) CEH
9 1 (1.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.53%) GxP
2 2 (2.53%) QA
3 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.27%) NIST
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (20.25%) Active Directory
2 9 (11.39%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (31.65%) Terraform
2 16 (20.25%) Single Sign-On
3 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
4 5 (6.33%) Grafana
5 4 (5.06%) Ansible
5 4 (5.06%) Control-M
5 4 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.80%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (2.53%) Kibana
7 2 (2.53%) logstash
Vendors
1 26 (32.91%) Microsoft
2 21 (26.58%) Oracle
3 16 (20.25%) Okta
4 5 (6.33%) Google
5 4 (5.06%) Databricks
5 4 (5.06%) F5
5 4 (5.06%) Fortinet
5 4 (5.06%) Informatica
5 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.06%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.06%) Splunk
6 1 (1.27%) FIS
6 1 (1.27%) OpenAI