Senior Cloud Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Senior Cloud Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Cloud Engineer salary in Scotland is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 11 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 193 238
Rank change year-on-year -61 +45 -56
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Cloud Engineer 23 22 13
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.34% 0.51% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.35% 0.57% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 19 14 10
10th Percentile £54,500 £64,125 £63,750
25th Percentile £58,125 £72,188 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £90,000 £82,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +9.09% +50.00%
75th Percentile £73,125 £97,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £80,000 - £89,875
UK median annual salary £70,000 £77,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -9.68% -3.13% +10.34%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,649 3,859 6,017
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.01% 89.70% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,920 2,101 3,088
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,033 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Senior Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Senior Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Cloud Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 June 2024. 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 -96 8 £65,000 -
Edinburgh +20 7 £75,000 -16.67%
Dundee - 6 £60,000 -
Aberdeen - 2 £61,250 -
Senior Cloud Engineer
UK

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 11 June 2024, Senior Cloud Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring Senior Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 10 (43.48%) Python
4 9 (39.13%) Windows
4 9 (39.13%) Linux
4 9 (39.13%) Bash
5 8 (34.78%) GitHub
5 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
6 7 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
7 6 (26.09%) OpenUP
7 6 (26.09%) SQL
7 6 (26.09%) .NET
7 6 (26.09%) Private Cloud
7 6 (26.09%) Terraform
7 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
8 5 (21.74%) DevOps
8 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (21.74%) Perl
8 5 (21.74%) Finance
9 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
9 4 (17.39%) ITIL
9 4 (17.39%) Grafana
9 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
9 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (17.39%) Ansible
9 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
9 4 (17.39%) Cloud Operations
9 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership

Senior Cloud Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 8 (34.78%) GitHub
4 5 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (13.04%) PaaS
6 3 (13.04%) SaaS
7 2 (8.70%) GCP
7 2 (8.70%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 2 (8.70%) Retail
3 1 (4.35%) Banking
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Private Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Life Science
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
2 6 (26.09%) OpenUP
3 5 (21.74%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Cloud Operations
4 4 (17.39%) ITIL
4 4 (17.39%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (13.04%) Coaching
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Security
6 2 (8.70%) Configuration Management
6 2 (8.70%) Containerisation
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (8.70%) ITSM
6 2 (8.70%) Mathematics
6 2 (8.70%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (8.70%) Software Delivery
6 2 (8.70%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) Python
2 9 (39.13%) Bash
3 6 (26.09%) PowerShell
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
4 5 (21.74%) Perl
5 2 (8.70%) C#
5 2 (8.70%) Java
5 2 (8.70%) PHP
5 2 (8.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) AWS Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 6 (26.09%) Terraform
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
3 4 (17.39%) Grafana
3 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
4 2 (8.70%) Puppet
4 2 (8.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Google
1 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft