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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 22 142
Rank change year-on-year -127 +120 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cloud Native 15 970 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.51% 14.51% 1.76%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.07% 30.16% 4.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 20 26
10th Percentile £66,000 £62,500 -
25th Percentile £75,000 £68,718 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,360 £71,991 £66,875
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% +7.65% -4.46%
75th Percentile £85,000 £96,539 £84,056
90th Percentile £98,000 £105,000 £147,967
UK median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £80,000

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 724 3,216 1,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.54% 48.11% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 410 841 790
10th Percentile £36,225 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,241 £39,885 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £55,000 £57,810
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -4.86% +5.11%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,548 £89,472
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

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 May 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 May 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
Edinburgh +6 13 £75,360 +4.68% 28
Glasgow -31 6 £75,360 -24.64% 12
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 4 (26.67%) Apache
1 4 (26.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) SaaS
3 4 (26.67%) CloudBees
3 4 (26.67%) GitHub
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (13.33%) OpenShift
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Flink
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Electronics
5 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Banking Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Lead
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Principal Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.67%) Java EE
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Computing
2 2 (13.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
5 3 (20.00%) Epics
5 3 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (20.00%) User Research
5 3 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Ansible
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 3 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) IBM
1 4 (26.67%) IBM Sterling
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) SAP