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 22 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 138 156
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 +63
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 24 16 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.90% 0.48% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.50% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £47,000 -
25th Percentile - £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile - £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile - £59,000 -
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 2,175 3,216 2,377
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 81.77% 96.58% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 905 1,604 1,901
10th Percentile £25,600 £30,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £40,000 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,000 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.09% +4.95% -8.18%
75th Percentile £65,750 £69,800 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.08% -5.83% -

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'AWS Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

AWS Engineer job vacancy trend 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 22 October 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 +16 23 - -
Edinburgh - 1 £100,000 - 2
AWS Engineer
UK

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 22 October 2025, AWS Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 20 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 19 (79.17%) Agile
3 19 (79.17%) Java
3 19 (79.17%) SDLC
4 13 (54.17%) Community of Practice
4 13 (54.17%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (54.17%) Visualisation
5 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
6 10 (41.67%) Kafka
7 9 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
7 9 (37.50%) Operational Stability
7 9 (37.50%) TDD
8 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
8 8 (33.33%) Spring
8 8 (33.33%) Spring Boot
9 7 (29.17%) Azure
9 7 (29.17%) Python
10 6 (25.00%) Analytics
10 6 (25.00%) Apache
10 6 (25.00%) Architectural Design
10 6 (25.00%) Biometrics
10 6 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
10 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
10 6 (25.00%) Facebook
10 6 (25.00%) GCP
10 6 (25.00%) Go
10 6 (25.00%) Google
10 6 (25.00%) Identity Access Management

AWS Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (25.00%) Apache
2 5 (20.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.17%) JBoss
3 1 (4.17%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 24 (100.00%) AWS
2 9 (37.50%) Amazon S3
3 7 (29.17%) Azure
4 6 (25.00%) GCP
5 4 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (16.67%) OpenShift
5 4 (16.67%) Serverless
6 3 (12.50%) PaaS
7 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Amazon Athena
2 5 (20.83%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (20.83%) Apache Hudi
2 5 (20.83%) Apache Iceberg
2 5 (20.83%) Big Data
2 5 (20.83%) Parquet
3 4 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
3 4 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 4 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JUnit
2 1 (4.17%) Ant
2 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.17%) Git
2 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (4.17%) Maven
2 1 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (83.33%) Finance
2 19 (79.17%) Banking
2 19 (79.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (79.17%) Law
3 4 (16.67%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Kafka
2 8 (33.33%) Spring
2 8 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 6 (25.00%) OAuth
3 6 (25.00%) OAuth2
3 6 (25.00%) OpenID
3 6 (25.00%) SAML
4 4 (16.67%) RESTful
5 2 (8.33%) React
6 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Algorithms
2 10 (41.67%) Cloud Native
3 5 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
5 3 (12.50%) Clustering
6 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 19 (79.17%) Agile
2 19 (79.17%) SDLC
3 13 (54.17%) Community of Practice
3 13 (54.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (54.17%) Visualisation
4 12 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 9 (37.50%) Operational Stability
5 9 (37.50%) TDD
6 6 (25.00%) Analytics
6 6 (25.00%) Architectural Design
6 6 (25.00%) Biometrics
6 6 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (25.00%) Information Architecture
6 6 (25.00%) Prototyping
7 5 (20.83%) Parallel Processing
8 4 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
8 4 (16.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Java
2 7 (29.17%) Python
3 6 (25.00%) Go
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 5 (20.83%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Podman
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Facebook
1 6 (25.00%) Google
2 5 (20.83%) Databricks