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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 11 11
Rank change year-on-year -15 0 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 267 1,648 642
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.80% 24.14% 14.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 48.63% 56.85% 41.00%
Number of salaries quoted 90 274 284
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £76,965 £75,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,250 £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 549 2,899 1,566
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.10% 42.47% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 289 1,012 861
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £76,840 £68,210 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -3 138 £60,000 -7.69% 81
Glasgow -2 77 £70,000 +27.27% 86
Lanarkshire -4 20 £48,343 -16.65% 5
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 -
Renfrewshire -12 4 - - 43
Stirling -1 3 - -
West Lothian +6 2 - -
Fife -12 2 - - 1
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +15 1 - - 7
Inverclyde -10 1 - -
East Ayrshire -27 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 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 49 (18.35%) Confluence
2 13 (4.87%) Apache Spark
3 12 (4.49%) Apache
4 8 (3.00%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.50%) Camunda
5 4 (1.50%) Oracle Workflow
6 2 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) SAS
7 1 (0.37%) CMS
7 1 (0.37%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.37%) IIS
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 127 (47.57%) Azure
2 108 (40.45%) GCP
3 26 (9.74%) Serverless
4 22 (8.24%) AWS Lambda
5 21 (7.87%) Amazon S3
6 19 (7.12%) SaaS
7 18 (6.74%) Snowflake
8 14 (5.24%) GitHub
9 13 (4.87%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (4.49%) Amazon SageMaker
11 9 (3.37%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.37%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.00%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (1.87%) IaaS
14 5 (1.87%) PaaS
15 4 (1.50%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (1.50%) CloudBees
16 3 (1.12%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.49%) Firewall
2 10 (3.75%) Network Security
3 8 (3.00%) VPN
4 5 (1.87%) DNS
5 4 (1.50%) BGP
6 3 (1.12%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (1.12%) OSPF
7 2 (0.75%) DHCP
7 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.75%) WAN
7 2 (0.75%) Wireless
8 1 (0.37%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.37%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.37%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.37%) HTTP
8 1 (0.37%) LAN
8 1 (0.37%) MPLS
8 1 (0.37%) MQTT
8 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (24.72%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.49%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (6.74%) MySQL
4 14 (5.24%) Tableau
5 12 (4.49%) Big Data
5 12 (4.49%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.12%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.37%) Amazon Athena
7 9 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 9 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.62%) Amazon RDS
8 7 (2.62%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
10 5 (1.87%) Apache Iceberg
10 5 (1.87%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.50%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.50%) Apache Hive
11 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.12%) Parquet
12 3 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 62 (23.22%) GitLab
2 58 (21.72%) Maven
3 53 (19.85%) JIRA
4 51 (19.10%) SonarQube
5 50 (18.73%) Bitbucket
6 49 (18.35%) Cucumber
6 49 (18.35%) Selenium
6 49 (18.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 35 (13.11%) Git
8 22 (8.24%) Jenkins
9 12 (4.49%) JUnit
10 5 (1.87%) Gradle
11 2 (0.75%) Checkstyle
11 2 (0.75%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.75%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.75%) Mockito
11 2 (0.75%) Subversion
12 1 (0.37%) IBM UrbanCode
12 1 (0.37%) PyCharm
12 1 (0.37%) Snyk
General
1 148 (55.43%) Finance
2 96 (35.96%) Banking
2 96 (35.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 56 (20.97%) Social Skills
4 43 (16.10%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (16.10%) Law
5 19 (7.12%) Marketing
6 13 (4.87%) Games
7 10 (3.75%) Legal
8 9 (3.37%) Investment Banking
9 7 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (1.87%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.50%) Private Banking
12 3 (1.12%) Electronics
12 3 (1.12%) Front Office
12 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.12%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.75%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.75%) Local Government
13 2 (0.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 111 (41.57%) Software Engineer
2 51 (19.10%) Senior
3 41 (15.36%) Developer
4 38 (14.23%) Lead
5 25 (9.36%) Java Engineer
6 23 (8.61%) Java Software Engineer
7 22 (8.24%) Senior Software Engineer
8 19 (7.12%) Senior Developer
9 17 (6.37%) Analyst
10 16 (5.99%) Software Developer
11 13 (4.87%) Architect
11 13 (4.87%) AWS Engineer
11 13 (4.87%) Python Engineer
12 12 (4.49%) Java Developer
13 11 (4.12%) Lead Software Engineer
13 11 (4.12%) Python Software Engineer
14 10 (3.75%) AWS Software Engineer
14 10 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
14 10 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (3.75%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (32.58%) React
2 85 (31.84%) Spring
3 83 (31.09%) Kafka
4 75 (28.09%) Spring Boot
5 66 (24.72%) CSS
5 66 (24.72%) HTML
6 56 (20.97%) Hibernate
7 54 (20.22%) JPA
8 50 (18.73%) Redux
9 20 (7.49%) RESTful
10 18 (6.74%) AngularJS
11 16 (5.99%) .NET
12 14 (5.24%) REST
13 12 (4.49%) Node.js
14 9 (3.37%) GraphQL
14 9 (3.37%) Laravel
15 8 (3.00%) LAMP
16 7 (2.62%) .NET Core
16 7 (2.62%) scikit-learn
17 6 (2.25%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (20.22%) Product Ownership
2 52 (19.48%) Enterprise Software
3 26 (9.74%) Cloud Native
4 25 (9.36%) Algorithms
5 21 (7.87%) Public Cloud
6 9 (3.37%) Data Centre
6 9 (3.37%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.25%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.50%) Derivative
9 4 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.12%) IoT
10 3 (1.12%) Management Information System
11 2 (0.75%) Distributed Applications
11 2 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.75%) Equities
11 2 (0.75%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.75%) IVR
11 2 (0.75%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.62%) Linux
2 7 (2.62%) Unix
3 6 (2.25%) Windows
4 1 (0.37%) Android
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.37%) Debian
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (54.68%) Agile
2 129 (48.31%) Software Engineering
3 116 (43.45%) CI/CD
4 108 (40.45%) DevOps
5 92 (34.46%) SDLC
6 88 (32.96%) Microservices
7 85 (31.84%) Full-Stack Development
8 83 (31.09%) Test Automation
9 81 (30.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (27.34%) Containerisation
11 66 (24.72%) TDD
12 63 (23.60%) Clean Code
13 59 (22.10%) Front End Development
14 51 (19.10%) Performance Optimisation
15 41 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
16 38 (14.23%) Artificial Intelligence
17 35 (13.11%) Operational Stability
18 33 (12.36%) Analytics
18 33 (12.36%) Machine Learning
19 32 (11.99%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 110 (41.20%) Java
2 97 (36.33%) SQL
3 82 (30.71%) JavaScript
4 65 (24.34%) Python
5 23 (8.61%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.24%) C#
7 10 (3.75%) PHP
8 8 (3.00%) Bash
9 7 (2.62%) T-SQL
10 5 (1.87%) Go
11 3 (1.12%) C
11 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.75%) C++
12 2 (0.75%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.75%) R
12 2 (0.75%) Ruby
13 1 (0.37%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.37%) Objective-C
13 1 (0.37%) Rust
13 1 (0.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (5.62%) Degree
2 6 (2.25%) CISM
2 6 (2.25%) CISSP
3 5 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
4 4 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.12%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.12%) CCNP
5 3 (1.12%) PhD
6 2 (0.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.75%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.75%) CCNA
7 1 (0.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (21.72%) QA
2 14 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.62%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.62%) NIST
4 6 (2.25%) NCSC
5 5 (1.87%) GDPR
6 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) JTAG
7 1 (0.37%) SEPA
7 1 (0.37%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (30.71%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) HDFS
2 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 112 (41.95%) Kubernetes
2 38 (14.23%) Terraform
3 14 (5.24%) Grafana
4 9 (3.37%) Ansible
5 6 (2.25%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.75%) ITRS Geneos
6 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.75%) Puppet
6 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.37%) Argo
7 1 (0.37%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 49 (18.35%) Solace
2 32 (11.99%) Oracle
3 11 (4.12%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.75%) Databricks
4 10 (3.75%) Splunk
5 8 (3.00%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.00%) Google
6 7 (2.62%) IBM
7 4 (1.50%) IBM Sterling
8 3 (1.12%) Cisco
8 3 (1.12%) F5
8 3 (1.12%) Facebook
8 3 (1.12%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.12%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.12%) SAP
8 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.12%) VMware
9 2 (0.75%) Aruba
9 2 (0.75%) Cloudera
9 2 (0.75%) ForgeRock