AWS Jobs in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 24 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -27 0 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 200 1,624 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 5.71% 24.44% 15.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 37.59% 56.33% 43.43%
Number of salaries quoted 120 274 326
10th Percentile £46,250 £33,250 £43,697
25th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £63,853
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -6.03% +6.42%
75th Percentile £81,563 £75,000 £76,351
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,934 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 532 2,883 1,690
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 15.19% 43.38% 35.37%
Number of salaries quoted 366 1,022 961
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,275 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,063 £38,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,403 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,543 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,644 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.21% -11.54% +4.00%

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 24 April 2025.

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 24 April 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
Edinburgh -1 157 £65,750 +1.15% 113
Glasgow -3 39 £70,000 +40.00% 95
Aberdeen +11 1 £71,000 +67.06% 6
Lanarkshire -9 1 £48,343 +5.09% 8
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
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 7 (3.50%) Apache
1 7 (3.50%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (2.50%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 2 (1.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.50%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 75 (37.50%) Azure
2 55 (27.50%) GCP
3 26 (13.00%) Serverless
4 21 (10.50%) AWS Lambda
5 19 (9.50%) SaaS
6 18 (9.00%) GitHub
7 15 (7.50%) Amazon S3
8 14 (7.00%) Snowflake
9 12 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (5.50%) Amazon SageMaker
11 9 (4.50%) Amazon EKS
12 8 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
14 4 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
14 4 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (2.00%) CloudBees
14 4 (2.00%) IaaS
14 4 (2.00%) PaaS
14 4 (2.00%) Power Platform
15 3 (1.50%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.50%) Firewall
2 9 (4.50%) Network Security
3 7 (3.50%) VPN
4 5 (2.50%) DNS
5 4 (2.00%) DHCP
5 4 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.00%) BGP
7 1 (0.50%) HTTP
7 1 (0.50%) OSPF
7 1 (0.50%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.50%) MySQL
2 17 (8.50%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.50%) Tableau
3 14 (7.00%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (6.00%) NoSQL
5 9 (4.50%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (2.00%) Amazon QuickSight
8 4 (2.00%) Big Data
8 4 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.50%) Power BI
10 2 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.00%) Geospatial Data
10 2 (1.00%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.50%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.50%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 32 (16.00%) Git
2 19 (9.50%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.00%) GitLab
4 5 (2.50%) IBM UrbanCode
4 5 (2.50%) JUnit
5 4 (2.00%) JIRA
6 3 (1.50%) Gradle
6 3 (1.50%) Maven
6 3 (1.50%) Spinnaker
6 3 (1.50%) webpack
7 2 (1.00%) Checkstyle
7 2 (1.00%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.00%) Mockito
7 2 (1.00%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.50%) MLflow
8 1 (0.50%) NUnit
8 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.50%) Vite
General
1 63 (31.50%) Finance
2 48 (24.00%) Social Skills
3 33 (16.50%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (12.50%) Banking
5 15 (7.50%) Games
6 11 (5.50%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.00%) Legal
9 4 (2.00%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.50%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.00%) Digital Health
11 2 (1.00%) Electronics
11 2 (1.00%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.00%) Local Government
11 2 (1.00%) Marketing
11 2 (1.00%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.50%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.50%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 63 (31.50%) Senior
2 43 (21.50%) Developer
3 33 (16.50%) Software Engineer
4 29 (14.50%) Lead
5 25 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 21 (10.50%) Senior Developer
7 16 (8.00%) Analyst
8 11 (5.50%) Data Manager
9 10 (5.00%) Architect
9 10 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 10 (5.00%) PHP Developer
9 10 (5.00%) Senior PHP Developer
9 10 (5.00%) Software Developer
10 9 (4.50%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (4.00%) Senior Software Developer
12 7 (3.50%) Cloud Security Lead
12 7 (3.50%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.50%) Lead Cloud Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
13 6 (3.00%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (22.00%) React
2 31 (15.50%) CSS
3 28 (14.00%) HTML
4 24 (12.00%) Kafka
5 22 (11.00%) Node.js
6 19 (9.50%) Spring
7 18 (9.00%) .NET
8 17 (8.50%) AngularJS
9 15 (7.50%) RESTful
10 14 (7.00%) Laravel
11 12 (6.00%) Spring Boot
12 10 (5.00%) LAMP
13 9 (4.50%) GraphQL
14 8 (4.00%) .NET Core
14 8 (4.00%) REST
15 7 (3.50%) ASP.NET
15 7 (3.50%) PySpark
16 6 (3.00%) .NET Framework
16 6 (3.00%) ASP.NET Web API
16 6 (3.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.00%) Public Cloud
2 11 (5.50%) Greenfield Project
2 11 (5.50%) Mobile App
3 9 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 9 (4.50%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.50%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.00%) Private Cloud
6 4 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.50%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.00%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.00%) IoT
8 2 (1.00%) IVR
8 2 (1.00%) Smart City
9 1 (0.50%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.50%) Distributed Applications
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.50%) Linux
2 9 (4.50%) Unix
3 8 (4.00%) Windows
4 3 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Debian
5 1 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (36.00%) Agile
2 63 (31.50%) DevOps
3 60 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 44 (22.00%) CI/CD
5 43 (21.50%) Microservices
6 33 (16.50%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (15.50%) Mentoring
7 31 (15.50%) Roadmaps
8 26 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
9 23 (11.50%) Artificial Intelligence
10 22 (11.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (10.50%) Machine Learning
11 21 (10.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
12 20 (10.00%) MVC
12 20 (10.00%) Test Automation
13 18 (9.00%) Analytics
13 18 (9.00%) Containerisation
13 18 (9.00%) SDLC
14 17 (8.50%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 52 (26.00%) Python
2 47 (23.50%) JavaScript
3 40 (20.00%) Java
4 31 (15.50%) TypeScript
5 29 (14.50%) SQL
6 17 (8.50%) C#
7 14 (7.00%) PHP
8 11 (5.50%) Bash
9 9 (4.50%) PowerShell
10 6 (3.00%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.50%) Go
11 5 (2.50%) JCL
11 5 (2.50%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.00%) R
12 2 (1.00%) Ruby
13 1 (0.50%) Bicep
13 1 (0.50%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.50%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.50%) Rust
13 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (7.50%) Degree
2 6 (3.00%) CISM
2 6 (3.00%) CISSP
3 5 (2.50%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.00%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.50%) PhD
6 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.50%) CCNP
7 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.50%) Data Quality
2 8 (4.00%) GDPR
3 7 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.00%) NCSC
4 6 (3.00%) NIST
4 6 (3.00%) QA
5 5 (2.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (2.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.00%) SEPA
7 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.50%) TARGET2
System Software
1 29 (14.50%) Docker
2 3 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 45 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 25 (12.50%) Terraform
3 8 (4.00%) Grafana
4 6 (3.00%) Ansible
5 5 (2.50%) CA Endevor
6 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.50%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.50%) Argo
7 1 (0.50%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.50%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.50%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.50%) Puppet
7 1 (0.50%) SCCM
7 1 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (6.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.00%) Oracle
3 9 (4.50%) Databricks
4 5 (2.50%) Google
4 5 (2.50%) IBM
4 5 (2.50%) Informatica
5 4 (2.00%) IBM Sterling
6 3 (1.50%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.50%) Splunk
6 3 (1.50%) VMware
7 2 (1.00%) Cisco
7 2 (1.00%) Hitachi
7 2 (1.00%) SAP
7 2 (1.00%) StreamSets
7 2 (1.00%) Twitter
8 1 (0.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.50%) Planview
8 1 (0.50%) Qualys
8 1 (0.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.50%) Sybase