AWS Jobs in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 11 12
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -5
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,650 728 815
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.57% 15.37% 14.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.43% 43.23% 40.63%
Number of salaries quoted 274 320 435
10th Percentile £35,750 £43,745 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £63,853 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% +6.42% +14.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,284 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,804 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,924 1,684 2,006
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.54% 35.56% 35.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,027 949 1,285
10th Percentile £28,400 £31,350 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,625 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,548 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing AWS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing AWS in Scotland.

Salary trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow -6 1,327 £55,000 -8.33% 41
Edinburgh +2 247 £65,000 - 78
Dundee +8 26 £47,500 -2.56% 4
Aberdeen -1 17 £42,500 -34.62% 7
Fife -5 8 - - 1
Lanarkshire -8 8 £46,000 - 11
Midlothian -2 4 £35,000 - 13
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Renfrewshire -2 2 £52,500 -
Inverclyde - 1 £45,000 -
Stirling - 1 £46,000 - 1
AWS
UK

AWS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 468 (28.36%) Apache Spark
2 125 (7.58%) Apache
3 116 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
4 60 (3.64%) ArcGIS
4 60 (3.64%) GeoServer
5 17 (1.03%) Cloud Foundry
6 14 (0.85%) IIS
7 11 (0.67%) CICS
8 8 (0.48%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.36%) Confluence
10 4 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) CMS
11 2 (0.12%) Drupal
12 1 (0.061%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.061%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.061%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.061%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.61%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.061%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 393 (23.82%) Azure
2 210 (12.73%) GCP
3 100 (6.06%) SaaS
4 88 (5.33%) Datadog
5 87 (5.27%) Amazon SQS
6 83 (5.03%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (4.91%) Serverless
8 77 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
9 69 (4.18%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
11 60 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
12 56 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 51 (3.09%) Amazon EMR
14 37 (2.24%) Amazon S3
15 34 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
16 27 (1.64%) IaaS
17 24 (1.45%) PaaS
18 23 (1.39%) Google Docs
18 23 (1.39%) Lucidchart
18 23 (1.39%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 32 (1.94%) WAN
2 25 (1.52%) Firewall
3 18 (1.09%) DSL
4 17 (1.03%) DNS
4 17 (1.03%) Kerberos
4 17 (1.03%) SD-WAN
4 17 (1.03%) VPN
5 14 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.55%) DHCP
7 8 (0.48%) BGP
7 8 (0.48%) SSL
8 6 (0.36%) LAN
8 6 (0.36%) Wireless
9 3 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) VLAN
9 3 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.061%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.061%) Internet
10 1 (0.061%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 380 (23.03%) Big Data
2 379 (22.97%) NoSQL
3 217 (13.15%) Hadoop
4 131 (7.94%) Apache Hive
5 108 (6.55%) Relational Database
6 103 (6.24%) HBase
7 95 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
8 71 (4.30%) Data Lake
9 60 (3.64%) GIS
9 60 (3.64%) QGIS
10 59 (3.58%) MongoDB
11 52 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
12 51 (3.09%) Electronic Patient Records
13 49 (2.97%) SQL Server
14 37 (2.24%) Qlik Sense
15 35 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
16 34 (2.06%) MySQL
17 30 (1.82%) Oracle Database
18 29 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
18 29 (1.76%) DB2
Development Applications
1 132 (8.00%) Jenkins
2 117 (7.09%) Git
3 97 (5.88%) JUnit
4 86 (5.21%) Bitbucket Server
5 72 (4.36%) Cypress.io
6 65 (3.94%) Selenium
7 60 (3.64%) Jasmine
7 60 (3.64%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (3.64%) Protractor
7 60 (3.64%) WebDriver
8 29 (1.76%) Maven
9 19 (1.15%) GitLab
9 19 (1.15%) JIRA
10 11 (0.67%) ChangeMan
11 6 (0.36%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.30%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.30%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.24%) Snyk
14 3 (0.18%) Gradle
14 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,228 (74.42%) Finance
2 1,227 (74.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,182 (71.64%) Law
4 598 (36.24%) Marketing
5 360 (21.82%) Legal
6 281 (17.03%) Banking
7 192 (11.64%) Investment Banking
8 183 (11.09%) Social Skills
9 172 (10.42%) Financial Institution
10 66 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
11 58 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
11 58 (3.52%) Private Banking
12 34 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (1.33%) Prime Brokerage
14 20 (1.21%) Games
15 15 (0.91%) Publishing
16 12 (0.73%) Retail Banking
17 11 (0.67%) Public Sector
18 10 (0.61%) Tech for Good
19 7 (0.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,124 (68.12%) Software Engineer
2 394 (23.88%) Lead
3 340 (20.61%) Lead Software Engineer
4 334 (20.24%) Java Engineer
5 329 (19.94%) Java Software Engineer
6 316 (19.15%) AWS Engineer
7 299 (18.12%) AWS Software Engineer
8 250 (15.15%) Big Data Engineer
8 250 (15.15%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 233 (14.12%) Python Engineer
9 233 (14.12%) Python Software Engineer
10 224 (13.58%) Senior
11 198 (12.00%) Data Engineer
12 174 (10.55%) Developer
13 142 (8.61%) Senior Software Engineer
14 138 (8.36%) Cloud Engineer
15 121 (7.33%) Lead Java Engineer
16 113 (6.85%) Scala Engineer
16 113 (6.85%) Scala Software Engineer
17 109 (6.61%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (21.52%) Spring
2 323 (19.58%) React
3 207 (12.55%) Kafka
4 198 (12.00%) AngularJS
5 193 (11.70%) CSS
6 191 (11.58%) Spring Boot
7 171 (10.36%) PySpark
8 140 (8.48%) HTML
9 126 (7.64%) Node.js
10 110 (6.67%) RESTful
11 104 (6.30%) JSON
12 103 (6.24%) J2EE
13 101 (6.12%) .NET
14 98 (5.94%) Hibernate
15 79 (4.79%) JMS
15 79 (4.79%) jQuery
15 79 (4.79%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 73 (4.42%) OpenTelemetry
16 73 (4.42%) REST
17 69 (4.18%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 460 (27.88%) Cloud Native
2 424 (25.70%) Algorithms
3 345 (20.91%) Public Cloud
4 134 (8.12%) Data Structures
5 90 (5.45%) Onboarding
6 79 (4.79%) Product Ownership
7 64 (3.88%) Distributed Applications
8 47 (2.85%) Management Information System
9 40 (2.42%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.52%) Reference Data
11 21 (1.27%) Taxonomies
12 17 (1.03%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.03%) Private Cloud
13 16 (0.97%) Mainframe
14 15 (0.91%) PKI
15 14 (0.85%) Replication
16 13 (0.79%) Clustering
17 11 (0.67%) VSAM
18 9 (0.55%) Legacy Systems
19 8 (0.48%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 135 (8.18%) Unix
2 62 (3.76%) Linux
3 38 (2.30%) Windows
4 19 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.55%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.24%) Mesosphere
7 2 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.061%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.061%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,332 (80.73%) Software Engineering
2 1,310 (79.39%) Agile
3 1,102 (66.79%) SDLC
4 1,098 (66.55%) CI/CD
5 1,021 (61.88%) Operational Stability
6 747 (45.27%) Machine Learning
7 744 (45.09%) Artificial Intelligence
8 672 (40.73%) Community of Practice
9 401 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 395 (23.94%) Visualisation
11 367 (22.24%) Risk Management
12 293 (17.76%) Decision-Making
13 277 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
14 276 (16.73%) Microservices
15 253 (15.33%) Architectural Design
16 236 (14.30%) Continuous Delivery
17 233 (14.12%) TDD
18 227 (13.76%) Information Architecture
19 209 (12.67%) DevOps
20 201 (12.18%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 940 (56.97%) Java
2 681 (41.27%) Python
3 545 (33.03%) SQL
4 294 (17.82%) JavaScript
5 230 (13.94%) Scala
6 149 (9.03%) TypeScript
7 121 (7.33%) PL/SQL
8 84 (5.09%) C#
9 46 (2.79%) Go
10 40 (2.42%) Bash
11 33 (2.00%) PHP
12 25 (1.52%) Groovy
13 17 (1.03%) T-SQL
14 16 (0.97%) PowerShell
15 14 (0.85%) C++
16 11 (0.67%) COBOL
16 11 (0.67%) JCL
17 7 (0.42%) C
18 5 (0.30%) Perl
18 5 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 90 (5.45%) Security Cleared
2 73 (4.42%) SC Cleared
3 54 (3.27%) Degree
4 41 (2.48%) AWS Certification
5 21 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (1.03%) Azure Certification
6 17 (1.03%) CCNA
6 17 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 12 (0.73%) CISSP
8 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 6 (0.36%) CISM
8 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.30%) Master's Degree
10 4 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (0.24%) CISA
10 4 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
10 4 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.24%) PhD
10 4 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.70%) SLA
2 42 (2.55%) QA
3 38 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 37 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.21%) PMO
6 12 (0.73%) NIST
7 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.12%) GDPR
8 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 102 (6.18%) HDFS
2 82 (4.97%) Docker
3 26 (1.58%) VMware NSX
4 17 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.67%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (0.12%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.061%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.061%) KVM
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.061%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.061%) Xen
Systems Management
1 297 (18.00%) Terraform
2 213 (12.91%) Kubernetes
3 105 (6.36%) Grafana
4 39 (2.36%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.82%) Ansible
6 13 (0.79%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.61%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.42%) Puppet
10 6 (0.36%) Istio
11 4 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.18%) Autotask
13 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.061%) CA Endevor
14 1 (0.061%) Data Guard
14 1 (0.061%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.061%) Kibana
14 1 (0.061%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 1 (0.061%) Rancher
Vendors
1 252 (15.27%) Databricks
2 139 (8.42%) Oracle
3 107 (6.48%) Google
4 106 (6.42%) Splunk
5 105 (6.36%) Dynatrace
6 86 (5.21%) Informatica
7 72 (4.36%) Cloudera
8 60 (3.64%) ESRI
9 55 (3.33%) Alteryx
10 54 (3.27%) Microsoft
11 41 (2.48%) VMware
12 24 (1.45%) Dell
13 20 (1.21%) Atlassian
14 19 (1.15%) Cisco
15 18 (1.09%) Cognos
15 18 (1.09%) SaltStack
15 18 (1.09%) Sybase
16 13 (0.79%) NetApp
17 12 (0.73%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.61%) Sparx