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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 65 56
Rank change year-on-year -66 -9 +106
Permanent jobs citing Public Cloud 33 386 225
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.11% 5.67% 5.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.50% 12.02% 12.29%
Number of salaries quoted 15 67 89
10th Percentile £57,700 £31,250 £44,033
25th Percentile £76,727 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,253 £62,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.40% -10.71% +19.19%
75th Percentile £98,750 £72,433 £97,328
90th Percentile £128,506 £77,500 £117,236
UK median annual salary £77,500 £65,000 £73,713
% change year-on-year +19.23% -11.82% +1.67%

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 733 3,210 1,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.62% 47.12% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 369 841 764
10th Percentile £35,000 £28,750 £32,618
25th Percentile £48,688 £39,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £89,459
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 28 May 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 28 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 -8 27 £85,253 +31.16% 15
Glasgow +1 6 £65,000 +30.00% 17
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 (3.03%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) GCP
2 18 (54.55%) AWS
3 14 (42.42%) Azure
4 4 (12.12%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (12.12%) Google Analytics
4 4 (12.12%) IaaS
4 4 (12.12%) PaaS
5 3 (9.09%) Serverless
6 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub
7 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) Network Security
3 1 (3.03%) BGP
3 1 (3.03%) DNS
3 1 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.03%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.03%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) webpack
3 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 2 (6.06%) JIRA
4 1 (3.03%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 18 (54.55%) Banking
2 17 (51.52%) Finance
3 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (12.12%) Law
7 1 (3.03%) Billing
7 1 (3.03%) Electronics
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Software Engineer
2 12 (36.36%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) Senior Software Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Lead
5 4 (12.12%) Auditor
5 4 (12.12%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 4 (12.12%) Security Auditor
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Auditor
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Analyst
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Network Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Security Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Security Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Senior IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Spring Boot
2 6 (18.18%) Spring
3 5 (15.15%) Middleware
3 5 (15.15%) React
4 4 (12.12%) Enzyme
4 4 (12.12%) Jest
4 4 (12.12%) Redux
5 3 (9.09%) Kafka
5 3 (9.09%) REST
6 2 (6.06%) gRPC
7 1 (3.03%) CSS
7 1 (3.03%) HTML
7 1 (3.03%) RESTful
7 1 (3.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
1 4 (12.12%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.06%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.06%) Replication
4 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (60.61%) CI/CD
2 16 (48.48%) Software Engineering
3 15 (45.45%) Agile
4 12 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 11 (33.33%) Microservices
5 11 (33.33%) SDLC
6 10 (30.30%) DevOps
7 9 (27.27%) Coaching
7 9 (27.27%) Mentoring
7 9 (27.27%) TDD
8 8 (24.24%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (21.21%) BDD
9 7 (21.21%) Customer Experience
10 6 (18.18%) Pair Programming
10 6 (18.18%) Risk Management
10 6 (18.18%) Roadmaps
10 6 (18.18%) Thought Leadership
11 5 (15.15%) Cryptography
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Java
2 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
3 4 (12.12%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) Python
5 1 (3.03%) JCL
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) Azure Certification
1 2 (6.06%) CCNP
1 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.03%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (42.42%) Kubernetes
2 6 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Argo
3 1 (3.03%) CA Endevor
3 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (3.03%) Puppet
3 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Google
2 4 (12.12%) Adobe
2 4 (12.12%) Tealium
3 3 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.03%) F5
5 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
5 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.03%) Splunk