AWS Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 218 216
Rank change year-on-year +137 -2 -94
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 316 4 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 4.70% 0.085% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.86% 0.094% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 15 2 15
10th Percentile £57,000 £66,875 -
25th Percentile - £71,563 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £81,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +16.07% +47.37%
75th Percentile £65,000 £89,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £92,625 -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year - - +23.08%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,505 4,245 5,505
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.84% 90.17% 96.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,614 2,309 2,967
10th Percentile £27,825 £31,530 £28,650
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,635
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,550 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured AWS Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 28 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 - 302 £62,500 - 1
Edinburgh +45 11 £60,000 -26.15% 2
Dundee - 2 £60,000 - 1
Aberdeen - 1 £60,000 - 1
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 316 (100.00%) AWS
2 306 (96.84%) Software Engineering
3 305 (96.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 302 (95.57%) Agile
5 299 (94.62%) Finance
5 299 (94.62%) Law
6 297 (93.99%) Operational Stability
7 296 (93.67%) SDLC
8 280 (88.61%) CI/CD
9 213 (67.41%) NoSQL
9 213 (67.41%) SQL
10 205 (64.87%) Risk Management
10 205 (64.87%) Legal
11 196 (62.03%) Visualisation
11 196 (62.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 196 (62.03%) Algorithms
12 190 (60.13%) Machine Learning
12 190 (60.13%) Artificial Intelligence
13 181 (57.28%) Apache Spark
14 177 (56.01%) Community of Practice
15 173 (54.75%) Python
16 172 (54.43%) Java
17 144 (45.57%) Big Data
18 139 (43.99%) Hadoop
19 117 (37.03%) Databricks
20 114 (36.08%) Scala
21 101 (31.96%) Apache
22 92 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
23 78 (24.68%) Terraform
24 76 (24.05%) Marketing

AWS Engineer Skill Set
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
1 181 (57.28%) Apache Spark
2 101 (31.96%) Apache
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 316 (100.00%) AWS
2 56 (17.72%) Serverless
3 54 (17.09%) Amazon ECS
3 54 (17.09%) Amazon EKS
3 54 (17.09%) AWS Lambda
4 52 (16.46%) Amazon EC2
5 51 (16.14%) Amazon EMR
5 51 (16.14%) Amazon SQS
6 33 (10.44%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (2.53%) Azure
8 5 (1.58%) GCP
9 3 (0.95%) GitHub
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.63%) Datadog
10 2 (0.63%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.32%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.32%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 213 (67.41%) NoSQL
2 144 (45.57%) Big Data
3 139 (43.99%) Hadoop
4 67 (21.20%) Apache Hive
4 67 (21.20%) HBase
5 51 (16.14%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.32%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 69 (21.84%) Jenkins
2 68 (21.52%) Git
3 67 (21.20%) Bitbucket Server
4 2 (0.63%) GitLab
5 1 (0.32%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.32%) JIRA
General
1 305 (96.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 299 (94.62%) Finance
2 299 (94.62%) Law
3 205 (64.87%) Legal
4 76 (24.05%) Marketing
5 41 (12.97%) Banking
5 41 (12.97%) Investment Banking
6 39 (12.34%) Financial Institution
7 15 (4.75%) Games
8 14 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Social Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.53%) React
2 6 (1.90%) Node.js
3 2 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (0.63%) React Native
4 1 (0.32%) AWS CDK
4 1 (0.32%) Kafka
4 1 (0.32%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 196 (62.03%) Algorithms
2 70 (22.15%) Cloud Native
3 37 (11.71%) Onboarding
4 3 (0.95%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.32%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.32%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.32%) PKI
5 1 (0.32%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (21.20%) Unix
2 1 (0.32%) Linux
2 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (96.84%) Software Engineering
2 302 (95.57%) Agile
3 297 (93.99%) Operational Stability
4 296 (93.67%) SDLC
5 280 (88.61%) CI/CD
6 205 (64.87%) Risk Management
7 196 (62.03%) Continuous Improvement
7 196 (62.03%) Visualisation
8 190 (60.13%) Artificial Intelligence
8 190 (60.13%) Machine Learning
9 177 (56.01%) Community of Practice
10 92 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
11 70 (22.15%) Test Automation
12 68 (21.52%) TDD
13 67 (21.20%) Batch Processing
13 67 (21.20%) Open Source
14 63 (19.94%) Performance Tuning
15 50 (15.82%) Decision-Making
16 49 (15.51%) Scrum
16 49 (15.51%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 213 (67.41%) SQL
2 173 (54.75%) Python
3 172 (54.43%) Java
4 114 (36.08%) Scala
5 67 (21.20%) PL/SQL
6 57 (18.04%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.90%) Bash
8 3 (0.95%) Perl
9 1 (0.32%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (7.59%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 67 (21.20%) HDFS
2 5 (1.58%) Docker
Systems Management
1 78 (24.68%) Terraform
2 6 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.95%) Ansible
3 3 (0.95%) Grafana
4 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.32%) Kibana
5 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 117 (37.03%) Databricks
2 67 (21.20%) Informatica
3 37 (11.71%) Cloudera
4 2 (0.63%) Splunk