AWS Job Trends in Glasgow

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 36 66 388
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 5.28% 9.08% 32.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.51% 23.49% 61.88%
Number of salaries quoted 18 30 47
10th Percentile £27,500 £44,800 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £65,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% +18.64% -
75th Percentile £81,875 £84,875 £73,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,325 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £48,000 £63,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -24.71% +6.25% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 118 281 627
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 17.30% 38.65% 52.03%
Number of salaries quoted 62 140 211
10th Percentile £28,325 £32,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £41,813 £37,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £63,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £87,750 £76,250
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

AWS job vacancy trend in Glasgow

AWS
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Glasgow

AWS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (8.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (5.56%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) IIS
3 1 (2.78%) JBoss
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 16 (44.44%) Azure
2 7 (19.44%) GitHub
3 4 (11.11%) OpenShift
3 4 (11.11%) SaaS
4 3 (8.33%) PaaS
5 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) Serverless
6 1 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) DHCP
2 1 (2.78%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.78%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) Ant
3 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (19.44%) Multimedia
4 5 (13.89%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Private Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Developer
2 7 (19.44%) Trainee
3 6 (16.67%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) AWS Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Principal Architect
4 5 (13.89%) Head of Data Management
4 5 (13.89%) Head of Risk Management
4 5 (13.89%) Trainee Developer
5 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (11.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Lead
6 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Trainee Web Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Web Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Analyst
7 2 (5.56%) Applications Support
7 2 (5.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (25.00%) React
2 7 (19.44%) CSS
2 7 (19.44%) HTML
3 4 (11.11%) .NET
4 3 (8.33%) Hibernate
4 3 (8.33%) RESTful
4 3 (8.33%) Spring
4 3 (8.33%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.56%) Node.js
6 1 (2.78%) AWS CDK
6 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.78%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.78%) Kafka
6 1 (2.78%) LangChain
6 1 (2.78%) Middleware
6 1 (2.78%) Next.js
6 1 (2.78%) REST
6 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Clustering
2 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.78%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) PMI
3 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) CI/CD
2 12 (33.33%) DevOps
3 10 (27.78%) Agile
4 9 (25.00%) Risk Management
5 8 (22.22%) AI
5 8 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
7 6 (16.67%) Change Management
7 6 (16.67%) Data Engineering
7 6 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 6 (16.67%) Web Development
8 5 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.89%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (13.89%) Customer Experience
8 5 (13.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
8 5 (13.89%) Test Automation
9 4 (11.11%) Design Patterns
9 4 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) Python
2 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (19.44%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) Java
5 3 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 2 (5.56%) Bash
6 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (5.56%) R
6 2 (5.56%) T-SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Bicep
7 1 (2.78%) C#
7 1 (2.78%) Groovy
7 1 (2.78%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) AWS Certification
2 7 (19.44%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 7 (19.44%) Azure Certification
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (13.89%) CRISC
3 5 (13.89%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) CISM
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.56%) QA
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Ansible
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.78%) Podman
2 1 (2.78%) Proxmox
2 1 (2.78%) Puppet
2 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.78%) OpenAI
2 1 (2.78%) VMware