Private Cloud Job Trends in Scotland

Private Cloud
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Private Cloud in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Private Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 135 190
Rank change year-on-year +1 +55 -95
Permanent jobs citing Private Cloud 5 12 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.13% 0.47% 0.55%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.47% 1.64% 1.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £32,950
25th Percentile - - £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 - £46,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.55%
75th Percentile - - £56,750
90th Percentile - - £62,450
UK median annual salary £73,750 £75,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -1.67% +20.00% -3.85%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Private Cloud 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 1,060 732 1,814
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 27.19% 28.82% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 566 268 532
10th Percentile £27,500 £25,014 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -2.73% -5.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £70,518
90th Percentile £93,750 £88,250 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -4.00%

Private Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Private Cloud relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Private Cloud job vacancy trend in Scotland

Private Cloud
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Private Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Private Cloud

Private Cloud
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Private Cloud 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 -1 3 £100,000 - 13
Edinburgh +2 2 - - 3
Private Cloud
UK

Private Cloud
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 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) BGP
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) IPsec
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) OSPF
1 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Law
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
1 3 (60.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (60.00%) Observability
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (20.00%) Secure Coding
3 1 (20.00%) Thought Leadership
3 1 (20.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (20.00%) Google