Cloud Native Jobs in Scotland

Cloud Native
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Cloud Native in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cloud Native over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 23 130
Rank change year-on-year -78 +107 +42
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 67 741 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.07% 11.66% 1.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.18% 26.66% 4.67%
Number of salaries quoted 11 14 28
10th Percentile £27,500 £62,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £70,097 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,360 £72,996 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% +11.70% +0.54%
75th Percentile £86,430 £98,750 £88,483
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £138,592
UK median annual salary £81,000 £80,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +1.25% - -

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Cloud Native falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 819 2,779 1,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.32% 43.72% 38.76%
Number of salaries quoted 379 810 747
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,087 £33,730
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,874
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £69,938 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £64,470
% change year-on-year +4.55% -14.69% +3.15%

Cloud Native
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Native in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Cloud Native in Scotland

Cloud Native
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 Native within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 July 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 -24 58 £75,360 -24.64% 17
Edinburgh +16 11 £75,360 +4.68% 17
Cloud Native
UK

Cloud Native
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.94%) Apache
2 7 (10.45%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (10.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 40 (59.70%) AWS
2 16 (23.88%) Azure
3 11 (16.42%) GCP
3 11 (16.42%) GitHub
4 7 (10.45%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (10.45%) Serverless
5 6 (8.96%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (5.97%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (5.97%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (5.97%) CloudBees
8 3 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (4.48%) Dagster
8 3 (4.48%) GitHub Copilot
8 3 (4.48%) Prefect
9 2 (2.99%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (1.49%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (17.91%) Relational Database
2 11 (16.42%) Big Data
3 8 (11.94%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (11.94%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (11.94%) NoSQL
3 8 (11.94%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.94%) RDBMS
4 4 (5.97%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (5.97%) InterSystems Cache
4 4 (5.97%) KDB
4 4 (5.97%) Kdb+
4 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
4 4 (5.97%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.48%) Data Mart
5 3 (4.48%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.49%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.49%) Flink
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 61 (91.04%) Finance
2 55 (82.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 54 (80.60%) Law
4 30 (44.78%) Marketing
5 28 (41.79%) Banking
6 8 (11.94%) Investment Banking
7 7 (10.45%) Private Banking
8 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
9 4 (5.97%) Front Office
9 4 (5.97%) Legal
10 3 (4.48%) Electronics
11 2 (2.99%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
11 2 (2.99%) Telecoms
12 1 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 54 (80.60%) Software Engineer
2 38 (56.72%) Lead
3 36 (53.73%) Lead Software Engineer
4 34 (50.75%) Java Engineer
4 34 (50.75%) Java Software Engineer
5 20 (29.85%) Lead Java Engineer
6 15 (22.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 15 (22.39%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 14 (20.90%) Senior
8 10 (14.93%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (14.93%) AWS Software Engineer
9 9 (13.43%) Senior Software Engineer
10 8 (11.94%) Python Engineer
10 8 (11.94%) Python Software Engineer
10 8 (11.94%) Senior Java Engineer
10 8 (11.94%) Senior Java Software Engineer
11 6 (8.96%) Developer
12 5 (7.46%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 5 (7.46%) Software Developer
13 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (41.79%) Spring
2 27 (40.30%) Kafka
3 20 (29.85%) RESTful
3 20 (29.85%) Spring Boot
4 10 (14.93%) React
5 9 (13.43%) Web Services
6 8 (11.94%) AngularJS
7 6 (8.96%) OAuth
7 6 (8.96%) OAuth2
7 6 (8.96%) OpenID
7 6 (8.96%) SAML
8 5 (7.46%) REST
9 4 (5.97%) Hibernate
9 4 (5.97%) J2EE
9 4 (5.97%) PySpark
9 4 (5.97%) SOAP
9 4 (5.97%) Vue
10 1 (1.49%) Middleware
10 1 (1.49%) PyTorch
10 1 (1.49%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.43%) Algorithms
2 7 (10.45%) Public Cloud
3 4 (5.97%) Credit Risk
3 4 (5.97%) Derivative
3 4 (5.97%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.97%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.99%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.99%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.49%) IoT
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (89.55%) Agile
2 59 (88.06%) Software Engineering
3 44 (65.67%) Operational Stability
4 41 (61.19%) SDLC
5 36 (53.73%) CI/CD
6 31 (46.27%) Community of Practice
7 29 (43.28%) Architectural Design
8 28 (41.79%) Information Architecture
9 27 (40.30%) Machine Learning
10 26 (38.81%) Artificial Intelligence
11 17 (25.37%) Decision-Making
12 16 (23.88%) Computer Science
12 16 (23.88%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (22.39%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (20.90%) Analytics
14 14 (20.90%) Mathematics
15 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (17.91%) Microservices
16 11 (16.42%) Continuous Delivery
17 10 (14.93%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 38 (56.72%) Java
2 27 (40.30%) SQL
3 22 (32.84%) Python
4 6 (8.96%) Go
4 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.97%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.49%) C#
6 1 (1.49%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (2.99%) Degree
1 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
2 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.49%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.99%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.99%) SEPA
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (28.36%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.43%) Terraform
3 4 (5.97%) Ansible
3 4 (5.97%) Grafana
3 4 (5.97%) Netcool
3 4 (5.97%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 4 (5.97%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 16 (23.88%) Oracle
2 8 (11.94%) IBM
3 6 (8.96%) Facebook
3 6 (8.96%) Google
4 4 (5.97%) Dynatrace
4 4 (5.97%) IBM Sterling
4 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.97%) Splunk
5 3 (4.48%) Murex
6 2 (2.99%) SAP