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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 116 141
Rank change year-on-year -32 +25 +60
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Computing 6 36 16
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.23% 1.09% 0.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.91% 3.45% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 0 21 14
10th Percentile - £37,500 -
25th Percentile - £47,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £67,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year - +43.62% -14.55%
75th Percentile - £80,000 £69,800
90th Percentile - £91,250 £109,750
UK median annual salary £48,122 £69,308 £64,500
% change year-on-year -30.57% +7.45% -16.77%

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 659 1,043 900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.88% 31.50% 36.41%
Number of salaries quoted 235 487 751
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,700 £81,550 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 21 October 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 -10 6 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 6 (100.00%) Serverless
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (66.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 4 (66.67%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 4 (66.67%) RDBMS
1 4 (66.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
1 1 (16.67%) Jasmine
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Karma Test Runner
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
1 1 (16.67%) Protractor
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
1 1 (16.67%) webpack
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
1 5 (83.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 5 (83.33%) Law
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Java Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Java Software Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Spring
2 4 (66.67%) Kafka
2 4 (66.67%) RESTful
2 4 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (16.67%) Bootstrap
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (16.67%) HTML
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) J2EE
3 1 (16.67%) JMS
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Algorithms
2 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
2 4 (66.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
1 5 (83.33%) Community of Practice
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (83.33%) Microservices
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) Visualisation
2 4 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 4 (66.67%) Software Architecture
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) AI
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Load Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes