AWS Job Trends in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring AWS skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -51 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing AWS 76 285 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.41% 13.41% 22.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.48% 50.89% 54.50%
Number of salaries quoted 53 87 275
10th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £95,000 £90,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%

All Cloud Computing 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 802 560 2,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.44% 26.34% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 354 280 1,014
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,925 £28,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,938 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,125 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £68,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,375 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -10.16%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing AWS relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

AWS job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS

AWS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

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 8 June 2026. 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 -28 36 £37,500 -37.50% 36
Glasgow -26 25 £90,000 +24.57% 36
South Lanarkshire +5 12 £60,000 - 1
Aberdeen -18 1 £37,500 - 2
AWS
UK

AWS
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 8 (10.53%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.58%) Jupyter
3 3 (3.95%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.95%) WebSphere
3 3 (3.95%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (3.95%) WordPress
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle Application Server
4 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Chatbot
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.32%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.32%) FIS Private Capital Suite
Cloud Services
1 35 (46.05%) Azure
2 15 (19.74%) GitHub
3 8 (10.53%) Snowflake
4 7 (9.21%) Amazon S3
4 7 (9.21%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (9.21%) GCP
4 7 (9.21%) Serverless
5 6 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (7.89%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (6.58%) AWS Step Functions
6 5 (6.58%) SaaS
7 4 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.95%) dbt
9 2 (2.63%) Dagster
9 2 (2.63%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.11%) Internet
2 3 (3.95%) MQTT
3 2 (2.63%) Network Security
3 2 (2.63%) WAN
4 1 (1.32%) AMQP
4 1 (1.32%) BGP
4 1 (1.32%) BIG-IP
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.32%) EIGRP
4 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.32%) Firewall
4 1 (1.32%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.32%) LAN
4 1 (1.32%) MPLS
4 1 (1.32%) OSPF
4 1 (1.32%) VPN
4 1 (1.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.53%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.63%) Data Vault
5 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.63%) Neo4j
5 2 (2.63%) Pinecone
5 2 (2.63%) Power BI
5 2 (2.63%) Tableau
6 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle BI EE
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle ODI
6 1 (1.32%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.32%) Spark SQL
6 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (26.32%) Git
2 6 (7.89%) Visual Studio Code
3 4 (5.26%) JIRA
4 3 (3.95%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.63%) GitLab
5 2 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.32%) MLflow
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.32%) Selenium
6 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 25 (32.89%) Finance
2 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.11%) Multimedia
4 11 (14.47%) Banking
5 10 (13.16%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (9.21%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (6.58%) Manufacturing
8 5 (6.58%) Retail
9 4 (5.26%) Local Government
10 3 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.95%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.63%) Aerospace
11 2 (2.63%) Automotive
11 2 (2.63%) Health Technology
11 2 (2.63%) Legal
12 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (1.32%) Games
12 1 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (23.68%) Trainee
2 15 (19.74%) Architect
3 13 (17.11%) Developer
4 11 (14.47%) Data Architect
5 10 (13.16%) Lead
6 9 (11.84%) Senior
7 8 (10.53%) Technical Leader
8 6 (7.89%) Trainee Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
9 5 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 5 (6.58%) Principal Architect
9 5 (6.58%) Programmer
9 5 (6.58%) Software Developer
9 5 (6.58%) Trainee Programmer
10 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (5.26%) Informatica Engineer
10 4 (5.26%) Principal Data Architect
10 4 (5.26%) Trainee Software Developer
11 3 (3.95%) Support Analyst
11 3 (3.95%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.42%) CSS
1 14 (18.42%) HTML
2 13 (17.11%) AWS CDK
3 8 (10.53%) React
4 7 (9.21%) SOAP
5 6 (7.89%) Hugging Face
5 6 (7.89%) NumPy
5 6 (7.89%) Pandas
5 6 (7.89%) REST
6 5 (6.58%) Matplotlib
6 5 (6.58%) Node.js
6 5 (6.58%) scikit-learn
6 5 (6.58%) Streamlit
7 4 (5.26%) .NET
7 4 (5.26%) React Native
8 3 (3.95%) JSON
8 3 (3.95%) RESTful
8 3 (3.95%) XML
9 2 (2.63%) PySpark
9 2 (2.63%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 19 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.58%) Algorithms
3 5 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.95%) IoT
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Replication
6 2 (2.63%) Robotics
7 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.21%) CI/CD
2 25 (32.89%) Mentoring
3 23 (30.26%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (25.00%) Agile
4 19 (25.00%) AI
5 17 (22.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (21.05%) Data Governance
6 16 (21.05%) DevOps
6 16 (21.05%) Machine Learning
7 14 (18.42%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (18.42%) Microservices
8 13 (17.11%) Analytics
8 13 (17.11%) Data Engineering
9 12 (15.79%) Observability
9 12 (15.79%) Software Engineering
9 12 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
10 11 (14.47%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (14.47%) Data Strategy
10 11 (14.47%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 36 (47.37%) Python
2 27 (35.53%) JavaScript
3 15 (19.74%) SQL
4 14 (18.42%) TypeScript
5 13 (17.11%) Java
6 7 (9.21%) R
7 6 (7.89%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.95%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.63%) Scala
10 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 20 (26.32%) AWS Certification
2 18 (23.68%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 14 (18.42%) Azure Certification
4 13 (17.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (9.21%) Degree
6 4 (5.26%) AWS Certified Developer
6 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.63%) CISM
7 2 (2.63%) CISSP
7 2 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.32%) CBAP
8 1 (1.32%) CCIE
8 1 (1.32%) CCNP
8 1 (1.32%) CEH
8 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.32%) CSPO
8 1 (1.32%) ISTQB
8 1 (1.32%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.95%) QA
3 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.32%) GxP
4 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.32%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Terraform
2 4 (5.26%) Control-M
2 4 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.32%) Grafana
Vendors
1 23 (30.26%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) Oracle
3 4 (5.26%) Databricks
3 4 (5.26%) Informatica
4 3 (3.95%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.63%) Meraki
5 2 (2.63%) Okta
6 1 (1.32%) Aruba
6 1 (1.32%) Cisco
6 1 (1.32%) F5
6 1 (1.32%) FIS
6 1 (1.32%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.32%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.32%) VMware