Cloud Computing Job Trends in Scotland

Cloud Computing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Cloud Computing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 151 147
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 +60
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 8 53 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.32% 1.20% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.33% 3.40% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2 22 15
10th Percentile - £37,875 £31,250
25th Percentile - £46,563 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +15.56%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £89,852
90th Percentile - £91,250 £108,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -13.33%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

Cloud Computing 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 601 1,558 974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.84% 35.22% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 220 601 806
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% - -
75th Percentile £71,532 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £87,050 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Cloud Computing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Computing in Scotland

Cloud Computing
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cloud Computing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cloud Computing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Glasgow +54 6 - - 4
Edinburgh +1 2 £70,000 +0.50% 3
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (75.00%) Serverless
2 4 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (12.50%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (50.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (12.50%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Ant
1 1 (12.50%) IntelliJ
1 1 (12.50%) Jasmine
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 1 (12.50%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (12.50%) Maven
1 1 (12.50%) Protractor
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
1 1 (12.50%) webpack
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (62.50%) Law
2 4 (50.00%) Banking
2 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Java Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
2 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML5
3 1 (12.50%) J2EE
3 1 (12.50%) JMS
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Algorithms
2 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (50.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Community of Practice
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) Microservices
1 5 (62.50%) SDLC
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) TDD
1 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 4 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Load Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Multithreading
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes