Cloud Engineer Job Trends in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Scotland is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 118 132
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 28 29 85
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.72% 1.14% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 1.39% 1.93%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 34
10th Percentile - £41,375 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £46,500 £53,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £48,750 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +17.95% -20.41% -11.80%
75th Percentile £100,000 £58,625 £76,875
90th Percentile - £78,125 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.85% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 3,572 2,085 4,404
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 82.09% 96.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,027 873 1,963
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £68,432
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,850 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -8.33%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cloud Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Cloud Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Salary distribution trend for Cloud Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Glasgow +3 10 £100,000 +73.91% 41
Highlands - 7 £50,000 -
Edinburgh -7 5 £57,500 +19.79% 13
Aberdeenshire - 4 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - - 1
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 13 September 2026, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) AWS
4 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
5 4 (14.29%) Terraform
6 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
6 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (10.71%) Observability
6 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
7 2 (7.14%) AI
7 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
7 2 (7.14%) Change Management
7 2 (7.14%) CISM
7 2 (7.14%) CISSP
7 2 (7.14%) Databricks
7 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
7 2 (7.14%) GDPR
7 2 (7.14%) GitHub
7 2 (7.14%) IaaS
7 2 (7.14%) Incident Response
7 2 (7.14%) Information Security

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 6 (21.43%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
3 3 (10.71%) GCP
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) GitHub
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (7.14%) PaaS
4 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) DHCP
1 1 (3.57%) DNS
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
1 1 (3.57%) LAN
1 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.57%) VPN
1 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.57%) Metadata
General
1 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Finance
2 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Law
2 1 (3.57%) Local Government
2 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Public Cloud
2 3 (10.71%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 5 (17.86%) Cloud Security
2 5 (17.86%) Software Engineering
3 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (10.71%) Observability
4 2 (7.14%) AI
4 2 (7.14%) Change Management
4 2 (7.14%) Decision-Making
4 2 (7.14%) Incident Response
4 2 (7.14%) Information Security
4 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 1 (3.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (3.57%) DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata Management
5 1 (3.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.57%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.57%) Bicep
2 1 (3.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) CISM
2 2 (7.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco
3 1 (3.57%) Google
3 1 (3.57%) Meraki