AWS Jobs in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 13 14 7
Rank change year-on-year +1 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 414 751 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 13.98% 15.23% 16.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 35.41% 40.59% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 184 387 536
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,150 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £75,000 £77,688
90th Percentile £86,750 £85,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £74,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -6.04% +6.43% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,169 1,850 1,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 39.48% 37.52% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 687 1,134 1,285
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,625 £41,233 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £72,433 £71,249 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +4.35%

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 7 December 2023.

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 7 December 2023. 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 -6 197 £65,000 +4.84% 46
Glasgow +4 196 £55,000 -1.79% 31
Dundee 0 6 £55,000 +22.22% 7
Aberdeen +4 3 £55,000 +29.41% 5
Lanarkshire +10 2 £60,500 -13.57% 8
South Lanarkshire +3 2 £42,500 - 1
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Stirling - 1 - - 1
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 53 (12.80%) Apache Spark
2 12 (2.90%) Apache
3 11 (2.66%) IIS
4 8 (1.93%) CMS
4 8 (1.93%) Drupal
5 5 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.48%) Jetty
6 2 (0.48%) MS Exchange
6 2 (0.48%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.24%) Confluence
7 1 (0.24%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.72%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.24%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 163 (39.37%) Azure
2 113 (27.29%) GCP
3 69 (16.67%) SaaS
4 43 (10.39%) GitHub
5 35 (8.45%) Serverless
6 32 (7.73%) PaaS
7 27 (6.52%) OpenShift
8 26 (6.28%) Amazon EC2
9 24 (5.80%) IaaS
10 21 (5.07%) Cloud Computing
11 17 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (3.62%) Amazon S3
13 14 (3.38%) Amazon SQS
14 13 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (2.66%) Amazon ECS
16 9 (2.17%) Google Docs
16 9 (2.17%) Miro
16 9 (2.17%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.62%) VPN
2 12 (2.90%) DNS
2 12 (2.90%) Firewall
2 12 (2.90%) WAN
3 11 (2.66%) DHCP
3 11 (2.66%) TCP/IP
4 6 (1.45%) HTTP
5 4 (0.97%) DSL
6 3 (0.72%) DMZ
6 3 (0.72%) Network Security
7 2 (0.48%) BGP
7 2 (0.48%) IPsec
7 2 (0.48%) LAN
7 2 (0.48%) OSPF
7 2 (0.48%) SSH
8 1 (0.24%) DAB
8 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
8 1 (0.24%) IP Telephony
8 1 (0.24%) SAN
8 1 (0.24%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (15.70%) NoSQL
2 59 (14.25%) Big Data
3 28 (6.76%) Hadoop
4 27 (6.52%) MySQL
5 26 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
6 22 (5.31%) Elasticsearch
6 22 (5.31%) SQL Server
7 21 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
7 21 (5.07%) Relational Database
8 20 (4.83%) PostgreSQL
9 18 (4.35%) Data Lake
10 14 (3.38%) Apache Hive
11 13 (3.14%) MongoDB
11 13 (3.14%) Redis
12 9 (2.17%) HBase
12 9 (2.17%) RDBMS
12 9 (2.17%) Scylla
13 7 (1.69%) Oracle Database
14 6 (1.45%) Oracle Database 11g
15 5 (1.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 66 (15.94%) Jenkins
2 44 (10.63%) Git
3 32 (7.73%) Maven
4 18 (4.35%) IntelliJ
5 8 (1.93%) Gradle
6 6 (1.45%) JIRA
6 6 (1.45%) Selenium
7 5 (1.21%) Postman
7 5 (1.21%) Spinnaker
8 4 (0.97%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (0.97%) JUnit
8 4 (0.97%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.72%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.72%) GitLab
9 3 (0.72%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.72%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.48%) Ranorex
10 2 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 151 (36.47%) Finance
2 137 (33.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 104 (25.12%) Law
4 73 (17.63%) Marketing
5 68 (16.43%) Social Skills
6 56 (13.53%) Banking
7 27 (6.52%) Legal
8 17 (4.11%) Telecoms
9 16 (3.86%) Financial Institution
9 16 (3.86%) Investment Banking
10 14 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.38%) Retail
11 12 (2.90%) Aerospace
12 11 (2.66%) Analytical Skills
13 10 (2.42%) Private Banking
14 8 (1.93%) Public Sector
15 7 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.21%) Games
17 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
18 3 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 144 (34.78%) Software Engineer
2 99 (23.91%) Senior
3 73 (17.63%) Developer
4 58 (14.01%) Architect
5 47 (11.35%) Lead
6 41 (9.90%) Java Engineer
6 41 (9.90%) Senior Software Engineer
7 40 (9.66%) Java Software Engineer
8 38 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
8 38 (9.18%) Lead Software Engineer
9 34 (8.21%) Solutions Architect
10 32 (7.73%) AWS Engineer
10 32 (7.73%) Senior Developer
11 29 (7.00%) Java Developer
12 28 (6.76%) Cloud Engineer
12 28 (6.76%) Enterprise Architect
13 26 (6.28%) Big Data Engineer
13 26 (6.28%) Big Data Software Engineer
14 24 (5.80%) AWS Software Engineer
15 22 (5.31%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (17.39%) React
2 41 (9.90%) Kafka
3 39 (9.42%) CSS
3 39 (9.42%) HTML
4 37 (8.94%) Spring
5 34 (8.21%) AngularJS
6 30 (7.25%) Spring Boot
7 23 (5.56%) React Native
8 22 (5.31%) J2EE
8 22 (5.31%) REST
9 19 (4.59%) RESTful
10 18 (4.35%) .NET
10 18 (4.35%) jOOQ
10 18 (4.35%) Redux
11 17 (4.11%) GraphQL
11 17 (4.11%) Node.js
11 17 (4.11%) OpenID
12 11 (2.66%) Vue
13 10 (2.42%) JPA
13 10 (2.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 75 (18.12%) Public Cloud
2 68 (16.43%) Cloud Native
3 46 (11.11%) Algorithms
4 29 (7.00%) Data Structures
5 22 (5.31%) Product Ownership
5 22 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (4.11%) Distributed Systems
7 13 (3.14%) Mainframe
7 13 (3.14%) Management Information System
8 12 (2.90%) Blockchain
8 12 (2.90%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.66%) Clustering
9 11 (2.66%) Onboarding
10 10 (2.42%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 5 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
13 4 (0.97%) Taxonomies
14 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.72%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 59 (14.25%) Linux
2 38 (9.18%) Windows
3 34 (8.21%) Unix
4 24 (5.80%) Mac OS
5 16 (3.86%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (1.93%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) CentOS
7 1 (0.24%) CoreOS
7 1 (0.24%) Debian
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (57.25%) Agile
2 174 (42.03%) Software Engineering
3 156 (37.68%) CI/CD
4 121 (29.23%) DevOps
5 103 (24.88%) SDLC
6 95 (22.95%) Operational Stability
7 87 (21.01%) Artificial Intelligence
8 86 (20.77%) Problem-Solving
9 85 (20.53%) Machine Learning
10 65 (15.70%) Actionable Insight
11 64 (15.46%) Microservices
12 53 (12.80%) Cybersecurity
13 49 (11.84%) Community of Practice
13 49 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
14 47 (11.35%) Computer Science
15 43 (10.39%) Customer Service
15 43 (10.39%) Full Stack Development
16 42 (10.14%) Enterprise Architecture
16 42 (10.14%) TOGAF
17 41 (9.90%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 192 (46.38%) Java
2 167 (40.34%) Python
3 122 (29.47%) SQL
4 66 (15.94%) JavaScript
5 60 (14.49%) Bash
6 40 (9.66%) Scala
7 26 (6.28%) TypeScript
8 20 (4.83%) C#
8 20 (4.83%) Go
9 16 (3.86%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.38%) PHP
10 14 (3.38%) PL/SQL
11 13 (3.14%) Groovy
11 13 (3.14%) Shell Script
12 11 (2.66%) Ruby
13 9 (2.17%) C++
14 6 (1.45%) Bicep
15 5 (1.21%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.97%) Perl
17 3 (0.72%) C
Qualifications
1 66 (15.94%) Degree
2 43 (10.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (8.94%) Security Cleared
4 28 (6.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 20 (4.83%) AWS Certification
6 15 (3.62%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.66%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.97%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.72%) CCNP
9 3 (0.72%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.24%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.24%) OCA
11 1 (0.24%) OCP
11 1 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.38%) SLA
2 9 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 9 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.69%) QA
4 4 (0.97%) PMO
5 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 77 (18.60%) Docker
2 17 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 12 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (2.66%) VMware NSX
5 10 (2.42%) Hyper-V
6 8 (1.93%) HDFS
7 3 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 89 (21.50%) Kubernetes
2 70 (16.91%) Terraform
3 31 (7.49%) Ansible
4 15 (3.62%) Puppet
5 5 (1.21%) Istio
5 5 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.97%) Grafana
6 4 (0.97%) Kibana
7 3 (0.72%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.48%) logstash
9 1 (0.24%) CA Endevor
9 1 (0.24%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 1 (0.24%) Rancher
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 36 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.76%) Oracle
3 26 (6.28%) VMware
4 23 (5.56%) Databricks
5 20 (4.83%) Google
6 10 (2.42%) Dell
7 8 (1.93%) Cloudera
7 8 (1.93%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.21%) Splunk
8 5 (1.21%) Zscaler
9 4 (0.97%) Alteryx
9 4 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 4 (0.97%) Cisco
9 4 (0.97%) Cognos
9 4 (0.97%) Confluent
9 4 (0.97%) Informatica
9 4 (0.97%) Sybase
10 3 (0.72%) IBM