Public Cloud Job Trends in Edinburgh

Public Cloud
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 64 66
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -21
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 9 12 27
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.78% 1.58% 2.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.60% 4.62% 7.99%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 21
10th Percentile - £79,882 £46,306
25th Percentile £55,000 £84,614 £61,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £95,000 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +34.61% +8.00%
75th Percentile £81,250 £98,750 £98,474
90th Percentile - £99,500 -
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £85,253 £65,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +31.16% +2.56%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

Public Cloud falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 250 260 338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.78% 34.17% 26.70%
Number of salaries quoted 140 92 185
10th Percentile £27,125 £25,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £33,938 £32,875 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £88,750 £73,063 £73,886
90th Percentile £104,125 £100,000 £89,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £54,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.26% -0.91% -5.17%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Public Cloud

Public Cloud
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 1 (11.11%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) Broadband
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) DuckDB
1 3 (33.33%) Parquet
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Senior
2 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Site Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Next.js
1 3 (33.33%) React
1 3 (33.33%) Svelte
1 3 (33.33%) SvelteKit
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) AI Agents
2 2 (22.22%) Replication
3 1 (11.11%) Bitcoin
3 1 (11.11%) Blockchain
3 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
3 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
3 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (55.56%) Observability
2 4 (44.44%) AI
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 3 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
3 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 3 (33.33%) LLM
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) FinOps
4 2 (22.22%) Presales
4 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) Secrets Management
4 2 (22.22%) SIEM
4 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Meraki
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft