Cloud Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 July 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 144 148 205
Rank change year-on-year +4 +57 -60
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 114 63 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.00% 1.66% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.06% 1.80% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 47 45 32
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,736 £40,162
25th Percentile £52,500 £57,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +13.38% +17.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £97,500 -
UK median annual salary £65,000 £68,515 £65,000
% change year-on-year -5.13% +5.41% +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 5,531 3,496 5,710
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.07% 92.15% 93.76%
Number of salaries quoted 2,492 2,018 3,223
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024. 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 -20 74 £50,000 -37.50%
Edinburgh +13 28 £72,500 +4.40% 3
Dundee - 8 £55,000 -
Aberdeen -7 2 £61,250 - 1
Cloud Engineer
UK

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 26 July 2024, Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 80 (70.18%) AWS
2 70 (61.40%) CI/CD
3 69 (60.53%) Terraform
4 62 (54.39%) Public Cloud
5 61 (53.51%) Social Skills
5 61 (53.51%) Finance
6 58 (50.88%) Software Engineering
7 56 (49.12%) Java
7 56 (49.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 55 (48.25%) Operational Stability
8 55 (48.25%) SDLC
8 55 (48.25%) Law
8 55 (48.25%) Agile
8 55 (48.25%) Machine Learning
9 54 (47.37%) Artificial Intelligence
9 54 (47.37%) Cloud Native
9 54 (47.37%) Community of Practice
10 53 (46.49%) Architectural Design
11 52 (45.61%) Observability
11 52 (45.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 52 (45.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 52 (45.61%) Dynatrace
11 52 (45.61%) Grafana
11 52 (45.61%) Identity Access Management
11 52 (45.61%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 52 (45.61%) Stakeholder Management
11 52 (45.61%) Splunk
11 52 (45.61%) Information Architecture
11 52 (45.61%) Datadog
11 52 (45.61%) Amazon CloudWatch

Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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 80 (70.18%) AWS
2 52 (45.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 52 (45.61%) Datadog
3 36 (31.58%) Azure
4 13 (11.40%) GCP
5 8 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.02%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.02%) PaaS
6 7 (6.14%) GitHub
6 7 (6.14%) IaaS
7 6 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (4.39%) OCI
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Event Grid
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.88%) SaaS
10 1 (0.88%) Serverless
10 1 (0.88%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.14%) Firewall
2 6 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 6 (5.26%) VPN
2 6 (5.26%) WAN
3 3 (2.63%) BGP
4 1 (0.88%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.88%) Event Store
2 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
2 1 (0.88%) MySQL
2 1 (0.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Git
2 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.88%) Gradle
3 1 (0.88%) Maven
General
1 61 (53.51%) Finance
1 61 (53.51%) Social Skills
2 56 (49.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 55 (48.25%) Law
4 23 (20.18%) Marketing
5 3 (2.63%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.88%) French Language
6 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (45.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (5.26%) .NET
3 3 (2.63%) ADO
3 3 (2.63%) ARM Templates
3 3 (2.63%) YAML
4 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.88%) ASP.NET
4 1 (0.88%) React
4 1 (0.88%) RESTful
4 1 (0.88%) Spring
4 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 62 (54.39%) Public Cloud
2 54 (47.37%) Cloud Native
3 20 (17.54%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
6 6 (5.26%) Replication
7 2 (1.75%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.75%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.28%) Linux
2 12 (10.53%) Windows
3 7 (6.14%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.63%) Unix
5 1 (0.88%) Android
5 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (61.40%) CI/CD
2 58 (50.88%) Software Engineering
3 55 (48.25%) Agile
3 55 (48.25%) Machine Learning
3 55 (48.25%) Operational Stability
3 55 (48.25%) SDLC
4 54 (47.37%) Artificial Intelligence
4 54 (47.37%) Community of Practice
5 53 (46.49%) Architectural Design
6 52 (45.61%) Continuous Delivery
6 52 (45.61%) Identity Access Management
6 52 (45.61%) Information Architecture
6 52 (45.61%) Observability
6 52 (45.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 52 (45.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 52 (45.61%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 32 (28.07%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (22.81%) DevOps
9 14 (12.28%) Mentoring
10 8 (7.02%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 56 (49.12%) Java
2 14 (12.28%) Python
3 6 (5.26%) Bash
4 5 (4.39%) Perl
4 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
5 4 (3.51%) Bicep
5 4 (3.51%) Shell Script
6 3 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (1.75%) Go
8 1 (0.88%) C
8 1 (0.88%) C#
8 1 (0.88%) C++
8 1 (0.88%) Groovy
8 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (7.89%) CCNA
1 9 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (2.63%) CCNP
3 2 (1.75%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.88%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.88%) MCSE
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.88%) GDPR
1 1 (0.88%) IEC 62304
1 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.26%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.88%) vSphere
5 1 (0.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (60.53%) Terraform
2 52 (45.61%) Grafana
3 11 (9.65%) Ansible
4 6 (5.26%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.75%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.88%) Galera Cluster
7 1 (0.88%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (45.61%) Dynatrace
1 52 (45.61%) Splunk
2 9 (7.89%) VMware
3 6 (5.26%) Cisco
3 6 (5.26%) NetApp
4 5 (4.39%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.39%) Oracle
5 2 (1.75%) Google
5 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.88%) Citrix
6 1 (0.88%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (0.88%) Veeam