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 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -1
Permanent jobs citing AWS 39 63 626
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 5.22% 10.02% 32.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 27.27% 25.61% 67.10%
Number of salaries quoted 21 31 57
10th Percentile £27,500 £43,000 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.57% +10.00% -3.51%
75th Percentile £85,000 £75,360 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £79,250
Scotland median annual salary £37,500 £61,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -39.02% +6.96% -4.17%

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 143 246 933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 19.14% 39.11% 48.04%
Number of salaries quoted 73 117 252
10th Percentile £29,000 £33,250 £27,600
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,500 £78,625
Scotland median annual salary £48,000 £56,500 £53,000
% change year-on-year -15.04% +6.60% -6.19%

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 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for AWS in Glasgow

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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 5 (12.82%) WebSphere
2 4 (10.26%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.56%) Apache
3 1 (2.56%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 21 (53.85%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) GitHub
2 5 (12.82%) Snowflake
3 4 (10.26%) OpenShift
4 3 (7.69%) PaaS
5 2 (5.13%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.56%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.56%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Git
2 5 (12.82%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) Ant
3 1 (2.56%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) Maven
3 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (33.33%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 7 (17.95%) Multimedia
4 5 (12.82%) Financial Institution
5 4 (10.26%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Banking
7 2 (5.13%) Private Banking
8 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Architect
2 8 (20.51%) Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Trainee
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Architect
4 6 (15.38%) Principal Architect
5 5 (12.82%) Head of Data Management
5 5 (12.82%) Head of Risk Management
5 5 (12.82%) Trainee Developer
6 4 (10.26%) Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) Applications Support
6 4 (10.26%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (10.26%) AWS DevOps
6 4 (10.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Data Architect
6 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (10.26%) Lead
6 4 (10.26%) Support Analyst
7 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (7.69%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.51%) React
2 7 (17.95%) CSS
2 7 (17.95%) HTML
3 6 (15.38%) .NET
4 3 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
5 2 (5.13%) Node.js
5 2 (5.13%) Spring
6 1 (2.56%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (2.56%) Hibernate
6 1 (2.56%) Hugging Face
6 1 (2.56%) Kafka
6 1 (2.56%) LangChain
6 1 (2.56%) Middleware
6 1 (2.56%) Next.js
6 1 (2.56%) REST
6 1 (2.56%) RESTful
6 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Clustering
2 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.56%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.56%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.56%) Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.77%) DevOps
2 11 (28.21%) CI/CD
3 10 (25.64%) Data Engineering
4 8 (20.51%) Agile
4 8 (20.51%) AI
5 7 (17.95%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (17.95%) Mentoring
5 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (17.95%) Risk Management
6 6 (15.38%) Change Management
6 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 6 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 5 (12.82%) Analytics
7 5 (12.82%) Architectural Design
7 5 (12.82%) Architectural Patterns
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.82%) Customer Experience
7 5 (12.82%) ITIL
7 5 (12.82%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Python
2 8 (20.51%) JavaScript
3 7 (17.95%) Java
4 6 (15.38%) SQL
5 4 (10.26%) T-SQL
6 3 (7.69%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.13%) Bash
7 2 (5.13%) R
8 1 (2.56%) Bicep
8 1 (2.56%) C#
8 1 (2.56%) Groovy
8 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 7 (17.95%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 7 (17.95%) Azure Certification
2 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (12.82%) CRISC
3 5 (12.82%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) CISM
4 1 (2.56%) CISSP
4 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) Data Quality
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.56%) GDPR
2 1 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) Podman
2 1 (2.56%) Puppet
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.56%) OpenAI