AWS Certification Jobs in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certification
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 231 120
Rank change year-on-year +67 -111 +28
Permanent jobs citing AWS Certification 4 42 96
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% 0.61% 2.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 3.49% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 10
10th Percentile - £55,125 £61,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £58,125 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £69,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.46% +2.96% +8.00%
75th Percentile £56,250 £72,750 £82,548
90th Percentile - £77,325 £83,793
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £75,669
% change year-on-year -6.67% -0.88% +0.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

AWS Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,114 1,203 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 36.19% 17.44% 32.71%
Number of salaries quoted 531 563 415
10th Percentile £36,250 £27,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,000 £39,294
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £48,500 £50,939
Median % change year-on-year +6.48% -4.79% +7.24%
75th Percentile £60,265 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.21% -12.04% +9.09%

AWS Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Certification in Scotland

AWS Certification
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for AWS Certification in Scotland

AWS Certification
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 Certification within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 22 June 2025. 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 +120 2 - - 32
Edinburgh +21 2 £52,500 -30.69% 35
AWS Certification
UK

AWS Certification
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Serverless
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (25.00%) Law
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Pega Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Enablement
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Pega