AWS Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in Scotland is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 100 166
Rank change year-on-year -23 +66 +57
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 23 109 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.91% 2.46% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 2.55% 0.079%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £55,000 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -11.11% +35.00%
75th Percentile - £62,500 £71,250
90th Percentile - £64,000 -
UK median annual salary £110,000 £90,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +22.22% +12.50% -5.88%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,059 4,280 2,546
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.67% 96.75% 95.04%
Number of salaries quoted 867 1,901 2,017
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,367 £40,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,943 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for AWS Engineer job vacancies 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 16 September 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 +10 21 - -
Edinburgh - 2 £100,000 - 2
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, 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 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (86.96%) Finance
2 20 (86.96%) Agile
2 20 (86.96%) Banking
2 20 (86.96%) Software Engineering
3 19 (82.61%) SDLC
3 19 (82.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 19 (82.61%) Law
3 19 (82.61%) Java
4 13 (56.52%) Visualisation
4 13 (56.52%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (56.52%) Community of Practice
4 13 (56.52%) Algorithms
5 10 (43.48%) Cloud Native
5 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
5 10 (43.48%) Kafka
6 9 (39.13%) Amazon S3
6 9 (39.13%) TDD
6 9 (39.13%) Amazon Athena
6 9 (39.13%) Operational Stability
7 8 (34.78%) Spring Boot
7 8 (34.78%) Spring
8 7 (30.43%) Python
8 7 (30.43%) Azure
8 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
9 6 (26.09%) GCP
9 6 (26.09%) Go
9 6 (26.09%) OAuth2
9 6 (26.09%) Identity Access Management
9 6 (26.09%) Terraform

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 6 (26.09%) Apache
2 5 (21.74%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.35%) JBoss
3 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 23 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (39.13%) Amazon S3
3 7 (30.43%) Azure
4 6 (26.09%) GCP
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (17.39%) Serverless
6 2 (8.70%) OpenShift
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.35%) PaaS
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (39.13%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (21.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (21.74%) Apache Hudi
2 5 (21.74%) Apache Iceberg
2 5 (21.74%) Big Data
2 5 (21.74%) Parquet
3 4 (17.39%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (17.39%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (17.39%) MongoDB
3 4 (17.39%) RDBMS
3 4 (17.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (21.74%) JUnit
2 1 (4.35%) Ant
2 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.35%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) GitLab
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) Maven
2 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (86.96%) Banking
1 20 (86.96%) Finance
2 19 (82.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (82.61%) Law
3 4 (17.39%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) Kafka
2 8 (34.78%) Spring
2 8 (34.78%) Spring Boot
3 6 (26.09%) OAuth
3 6 (26.09%) OAuth2
3 6 (26.09%) OpenID
3 6 (26.09%) SAML
4 4 (17.39%) RESTful
5 2 (8.70%) React
6 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (56.52%) Algorithms
2 10 (43.48%) Cloud Native
3 5 (21.74%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (21.74%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.35%) Clustering
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Agile
1 20 (86.96%) Software Engineering
2 19 (82.61%) SDLC
3 13 (56.52%) Community of Practice
3 13 (56.52%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (56.52%) Visualisation
4 10 (43.48%) CI/CD
5 9 (39.13%) Operational Stability
5 9 (39.13%) TDD
6 6 (26.09%) Analytics
6 6 (26.09%) Architectural Design
6 6 (26.09%) Biometrics
6 6 (26.09%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (26.09%) Data Architecture
6 6 (26.09%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (26.09%) Information Architecture
6 6 (26.09%) Prototyping
7 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
7 5 (21.74%) Parallel Processing
8 4 (17.39%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Java
2 7 (30.43%) Python
3 6 (26.09%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 6 (26.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Argo
3 1 (4.35%) Podman
3 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Facebook
1 6 (26.09%) Google
2 5 (21.74%) Databricks