Public Cloud Job Trends in Scotland

Public Cloud
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Public Cloud in permanent job vacancies in Scotland. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Public Cloud over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 111 86
Rank change year-on-year -15 -25 +3
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 7 37 231
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.21% 1.49% 3.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.79% 5.13% 8.38%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 55
10th Percentile - £46,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £74,864 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £85,253 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.42% +31.16% -0.08%
75th Percentile £81,250 £95,639 £76,250
90th Percentile - £100,000 £98,474
UK median annual salary £80,000 £76,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.58% +17.69% -13.33%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

Public 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 888 721 2,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.78% 29.08% 45.09%
Number of salaries quoted 500 290 824
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,000 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,500 £43,750 £39,885
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £69,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,750 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +2.17% +4.55% -14.10%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Public Cloud job vacancy trend in Scotland

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Public Cloud.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Public Cloud

Public 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 Public Cloud within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 July 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
Edinburgh 0 6 £71,250 -16.42% 1
Glasgow +2 1 - - 9
Public Cloud
UK

Public 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 (42.86%) Azure
1 3 (42.86%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Broadband
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Parquet
1 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Senior
2 3 (42.86%) Site Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Next.js
1 2 (28.57%) React
1 2 (28.57%) Svelte
1 2 (28.57%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) AI Agents
1 2 (28.57%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
1 5 (71.43%) Observability
2 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) Architectural Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Auto-Scaling
4 2 (28.57%) Clean Code
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) FinOps
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) Generative AI
4 2 (28.57%) LLM
4 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
4 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
4 2 (28.57%) Presales
4 2 (28.57%) SIEM
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Discovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Meraki
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft