Public Cloud Jobs 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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 65 51
Rank change year-on-year -53 -14 +123
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 34 386 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.20% 5.76% 5.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.83% 11.92% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 18 69 120
10th Percentile £64,644 £31,250 £44,033
25th Percentile £76,727 £47,500 £53,970
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £65,000 £64,875
Median % change year-on-year +31.16% +0.19% +6.04%
75th Percentile £93,778 £72,433 £97,328
90th Percentile £119,378 £81,695 £117,236
UK median annual salary £76,500 £67,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -3.57% -6.67%

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 704 3,238 1,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.91% 48.31% 41.31%
Number of salaries quoted 424 851 816
10th Percentile £36,975 £28,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £55,000 £58,556
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -6.07% +6.46%
75th Percentile £69,000 £71,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,519 £82,548 £89,926
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%

Public Cloud
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Public Cloud in Scotland

Public Cloud
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Public Cloud in Scotland

Public Cloud
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Public Cloud in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Public Cloud in Scotland

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 26 April 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 -4 30 £85,253 +31.16% 19
Glasgow +6 4 £50,000 - 18
Public Cloud
UK

Public Cloud
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 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 25 (73.53%) GCP
2 18 (52.94%) AWS
2 18 (52.94%) Azure
3 5 (14.71%) GitHub
4 4 (11.76%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (11.76%) Google Analytics
5 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (8.82%) IaaS
5 3 (8.82%) PaaS
5 3 (8.82%) Serverless
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.94%) npm
7 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.82%) Firewall
2 1 (2.94%) BGP
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Big Data
1 2 (5.88%) DynamoDB
1 2 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Power BI
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Jenkins
2 5 (14.71%) IBM UrbanCode
2 5 (14.71%) webpack
3 2 (5.88%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.94%) Git
4 1 (2.94%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (64.71%) Banking
2 19 (55.88%) Finance
3 9 (26.47%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Billing
Job Titles
1 16 (47.06%) Senior
1 16 (47.06%) Software Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 4 (11.76%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 3 (8.82%) Auditor
4 3 (8.82%) Security Auditor
4 3 (8.82%) Senior Auditor
5 2 (5.88%) Analyst
5 2 (5.88%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Firewall Architect
6 1 (2.94%) IT Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Junior
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Audit Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Senior IT Audit Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (23.53%) Spring Boot
2 7 (20.59%) Spring
3 6 (17.65%) CSS
3 6 (17.65%) HTML
4 5 (14.71%) Jest
4 5 (14.71%) React
4 5 (14.71%) Redux
5 4 (11.76%) Enzyme
5 4 (11.76%) Kafka
5 4 (11.76%) Middleware
6 2 (5.88%) gRPC
6 2 (5.88%) REST
7 1 (2.94%) Playwright
7 1 (2.94%) RESTful
7 1 (2.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Mainframe
2 4 (11.76%) Data Centre
3 3 (8.82%) Product Ownership
4 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (5.88%) Private Cloud
4 2 (5.88%) Reference Data
4 2 (5.88%) Replication
5 1 (2.94%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Linux
2 5 (14.71%) Unix
3 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (61.76%) Software Engineering
2 19 (55.88%) CI/CD
3 15 (44.12%) SDLC
4 14 (41.18%) Test Automation
5 12 (35.29%) Agile
6 11 (32.35%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (32.35%) DevOps
6 11 (32.35%) Microservices
7 10 (29.41%) Mentoring
8 9 (26.47%) Customer Experience
8 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (23.53%) TDD
10 7 (20.59%) Coaching
10 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (17.65%) Analytics
11 6 (17.65%) BDD
11 6 (17.65%) Pair Programming
11 6 (17.65%) Roadmaps
12 5 (14.71%) Cash Management
12 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (50.00%) Java
2 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 10 (29.41%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) Bash
4 5 (14.71%) JCL
4 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
4 5 (14.71%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.88%) C#
5 2 (5.88%) Go
6 1 (2.94%) Python
6 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
1 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 1 (2.94%) CCNP
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (2.94%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 5 (14.71%) CA Endevor
3 4 (11.76%) Terraform
4 1 (2.94%) Argo
4 1 (2.94%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.94%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Google
2 4 (11.76%) Adobe
2 4 (11.76%) Tealium
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.94%) Oracle