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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 121 180
Rank change year-on-year -16 +59 +7
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 7 9 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% 0.44% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.86% 1.44% 3.70%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 44
10th Percentile - £55,894 -
25th Percentile £33,750 £59,110 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £69,308 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -45.89% +42.17% +14.71%
75th Percentile £41,250 £74,144 £72,762
90th Percentile - £74,144 £79,250
UK median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -32.14% +16.67% -11.11%

All Cloud Computing 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 816 626 2,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.21% 30.36% 43.60%
Number of salaries quoted 310 398 962
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,688 £41,250 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £78,670 £76,840 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

Cloud Computing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Cloud Computing job vacancy trend 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 23 March 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 -2 6 £37,500 -45.89%
Glasgow -7 1 - - 2
Cloud Computing
UK

Cloud Computing
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 5 (71.43%) Jupyter
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Mimecast
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Manufacturing
2 5 (71.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence Programmer
1 5 (71.43%) Programmer
1 5 (71.43%) Trainee
1 5 (71.43%) Trainee Programmer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Architect
2 1 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Hugging Face
1 5 (71.43%) Matplotlib
1 5 (71.43%) NumPy
1 5 (71.43%) Pandas
1 5 (71.43%) scikit-learn
1 5 (71.43%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Customer Service
1 6 (85.71%) Workflow
2 5 (71.43%) AI
2 5 (71.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Conversational UI
2 5 (71.43%) Data Privacy
2 5 (71.43%) LLM
2 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
2 5 (71.43%) Neural Network
2 5 (71.43%) OO
2 5 (71.43%) OOP
2 5 (71.43%) Prompt Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 5 (71.43%) Sentiment Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) AWS Certification
2 5 (71.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (14.29%) Sophos