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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 22 13
Rank change year-on-year -4 -9 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 393 333 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.50% 11.12% 14.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 36.15% 28.93% 39.44%
Number of salaries quoted 143 198 423
10th Percentile £40,250 £38,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £47,125 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.83% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,625 £86,250
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +0.69% -0.69% +3.57%

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 1,087 1,151 2,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.51% 38.44% 37.76%
Number of salaries quoted 491 747 1,204
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,050 £31,698
25th Percentile £38,375 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,433 £72,647
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +4.17%

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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 2024. 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 +5 232 £65,000 +4.00% 35
Glasgow +10 130 £60,000 +4.35% 27
Dundee +3 7 £55,000 -
Fife - 5 £36,500 -
Lanarkshire 0 3 £70,000 -6.67% 6
West Lothian - 3 £70,000 -
Renfrewshire - 2 £50,000 - 2
North Lanarkshire 0 1 £57,500 - 3
South Lanarkshire -2 1 £60,000 +41.18%
Stirling -8 1 £47,500 -
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 13 (3.31%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.27%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.76%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.25%) CICS
5 1 (0.25%) Cloud Foundry
5 1 (0.25%) CMS
5 1 (0.25%) Confluence
5 1 (0.25%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.25%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
1 5 (1.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 189 (48.09%) Azure
2 98 (24.94%) GCP
3 37 (9.41%) SaaS
3 37 (9.41%) Serverless
4 20 (5.09%) Cloud Computing
5 19 (4.83%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (4.58%) Amazon S3
7 17 (4.33%) Snowflake
8 14 (3.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 14 (3.56%) GitHub
8 14 (3.56%) Power Platform
9 12 (3.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (2.29%) dbt
11 7 (1.78%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.53%) Datadog
13 5 (1.27%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (1.27%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.27%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.02%) Firewall
1 4 (1.02%) Internet
1 4 (1.02%) VoIP
2 3 (0.76%) TCP/IP
2 3 (0.76%) VPN
3 2 (0.51%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.51%) SSL
4 1 (0.25%) Broadband
4 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.25%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.25%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.25%) NGFW
4 1 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.25%) RTP
4 1 (0.25%) SAN
4 1 (0.25%) Skype
4 1 (0.25%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (7.12%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (6.87%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (5.60%) SQL Server
4 19 (4.83%) MySQL
4 19 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 16 (4.07%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 16 (4.07%) Tableau
6 14 (3.56%) Geospatial Data
6 14 (3.56%) Power BI
7 13 (3.31%) MongoDB
8 12 (3.05%) Big Data
8 12 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (2.54%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.29%) Data Vault
11 5 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 5 (1.27%) DB2
11 5 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.89%) Git
2 23 (5.85%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.54%) GitLab
4 8 (2.04%) Selenium
5 5 (1.27%) JIRA
6 4 (1.02%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.02%) Maven
7 3 (0.76%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.76%) GoCD
7 3 (0.76%) Spinnaker
8 2 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
8 2 (0.51%) Mocha
8 2 (0.51%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.51%) Terragrunt
9 1 (0.25%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.25%) ChangeMan
9 1 (0.25%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.25%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.25%) webpack
General
1 114 (29.01%) Finance
2 89 (22.65%) Social Skills
3 77 (19.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 40 (10.18%) Law
5 33 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.83%) Legal
7 17 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (4.07%) Banking
8 16 (4.07%) Marketing
9 10 (2.54%) Tech for Good
10 8 (2.04%) Investment Banking
10 8 (2.04%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.04%) Retail
11 7 (1.78%) Financial Institution
12 6 (1.53%) Games
13 5 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.27%) Retail Banking
14 2 (0.51%) Back Office
14 2 (0.51%) Private Banking
14 2 (0.51%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 104 (26.46%) Software Engineer
2 78 (19.85%) Senior
3 65 (16.54%) Architect
4 51 (12.98%) Developer
5 49 (12.47%) Lead
6 30 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.60%) Data Engineer
8 22 (5.60%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 18 (4.58%) Senior Developer
9 18 (4.58%) Software Architect
10 16 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
10 16 (4.07%) Python Engineer
11 14 (3.56%) Data Architect
11 14 (3.56%) Geospatial Architect
11 14 (3.56%) Lead Software Engineer
12 13 (3.31%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (3.31%) Engineering Manager
12 13 (3.31%) Software Engineering Manager
13 12 (3.05%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (20.87%) React
2 48 (12.21%) .NET
3 47 (11.96%) AngularJS
3 47 (11.96%) Node.js
4 46 (11.70%) CSS
4 46 (11.70%) HTML
5 36 (9.16%) .NET Core
6 28 (7.12%) Kafka
7 27 (6.87%) RESTful
8 25 (6.36%) Vue
9 21 (5.34%) Spring Boot
10 18 (4.58%) ASP.NET
10 18 (4.58%) Spring
11 17 (4.33%) .NET Framework
12 15 (3.82%) ASP.NET Web API
12 15 (3.82%) Django
13 12 (3.05%) REST
14 11 (2.80%) HTML5
14 11 (2.80%) Laravel
14 11 (2.80%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 30 (7.63%) Cloud Native
2 15 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
3 14 (3.56%) Public Cloud
4 12 (3.05%) Algorithms
4 12 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
4 12 (3.05%) Product Ownership
5 9 (2.29%) Data Centre
5 9 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
6 7 (1.78%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 6 (1.53%) Virtual Team
8 4 (1.02%) Distributed Applications
8 4 (1.02%) Educational Technology
8 4 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.02%) Mainframe
8 4 (1.02%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.02%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 30 (7.63%) Linux
2 16 (4.07%) Unix
3 8 (2.04%) Android
3 8 (2.04%) Windows
4 6 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (1.53%) Ubuntu
5 5 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.27%) MVS
6 2 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (42.49%) Software Engineering
2 160 (40.71%) Agile
3 114 (29.01%) DevOps
4 87 (22.14%) CI/CD
5 66 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (15.78%) Mentoring
7 59 (15.01%) Microservices
8 49 (12.47%) Analytics
9 48 (12.21%) SDLC
10 44 (11.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 42 (10.69%) Full-Stack Development
11 42 (10.69%) Machine Learning
11 42 (10.69%) Scrum
12 41 (10.43%) Artificial Intelligence
12 41 (10.43%) Coaching
13 36 (9.16%) Containerisation
13 36 (9.16%) Fintech
13 36 (9.16%) TDD
13 36 (9.16%) Test Automation
14 34 (8.65%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 106 (26.97%) Python
2 94 (23.92%) Java
3 88 (22.39%) JavaScript
4 68 (17.30%) SQL
5 67 (17.05%) TypeScript
6 45 (11.45%) C#
7 23 (5.85%) PHP
8 13 (3.31%) C++
9 10 (2.54%) C
9 10 (2.54%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.29%) Bash
10 9 (2.29%) Kotlin
10 9 (2.29%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.04%) Go
12 7 (1.78%) Groovy
13 5 (1.27%) Rust
13 5 (1.27%) Scala
14 4 (1.02%) Perl
14 4 (1.02%) Ruby
15 3 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 29 (7.38%) AWS Certification
2 25 (6.36%) Degree
3 15 (3.82%) SC Cleared
3 15 (3.82%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 13 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
6 12 (3.05%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (2.04%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.27%) CCNP
10 4 (1.02%) CCNA
11 3 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.51%) PhD
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
13 1 (0.25%) MCSA
13 1 (0.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (7.12%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.80%) QA
3 4 (1.02%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.51%) IFRS
4 2 (0.51%) IFRS 9
5 1 (0.25%) GDPR
5 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.25%) ITGC
5 1 (0.25%) NCSC
5 1 (0.25%) NIST
5 1 (0.25%) SEPA
5 1 (0.25%) TARGET2
System Software
1 65 (16.54%) Docker
2 10 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.04%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.51%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.51%) HDFS
6 1 (0.25%) KVM
6 1 (0.25%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.25%) vSphere
6 1 (0.25%) Xen
Systems Management
1 68 (17.30%) Kubernetes
2 41 (10.43%) Terraform
3 20 (5.09%) Ansible
4 10 (2.54%) Grafana
5 6 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.76%) Fortio
6 3 (0.76%) Istio
6 3 (0.76%) Kiali
6 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (0.76%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.76%) Puppet
7 2 (0.51%) Consul
Vendors
1 39 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 29 (7.38%) Google
3 21 (5.34%) Oracle
4 15 (3.82%) Splunk
4 15 (3.82%) VMware
5 11 (2.80%) Databricks
6 7 (1.78%) Cisco
7 5 (1.27%) Barracuda Networks
7 5 (1.27%) Dell
7 5 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.27%) Sparx
8 4 (1.02%) Carbon Black
8 4 (1.02%) CrowdStrike
8 4 (1.02%) Zscaler
9 3 (0.76%) Alteryx
9 3 (0.76%) Dynatrace
9 3 (0.76%) Informatica
10 2 (0.51%) IBM
10 2 (0.51%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.51%) TOWER Software