AWS Jobs in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring AWS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited AWS over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 11 13
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing AWS 302 1,480 599
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.78% 21.40% 14.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 52.34% 54.15% 39.77%
Number of salaries quoted 82 277 265
10th Percentile £46,250 £37,500 £43,600
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.00%
75th Percentile £79,375 £75,000 £73,875
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £72,500 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.57% -6.67% +3.45%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 577 2,733 1,506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.69% 39.52% 35.52%
Number of salaries quoted 274 1,016 825
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,114 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,875 £81,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £63,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -9.45% +1.60%

AWS
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for AWS in Scotland

AWS
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing AWS within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 June 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 -2 131 £60,000 -7.69% 447
Glasgow +1 118 £70,000 +21.74% 498
Lanarkshire -3 20 £48,343 -30.94% 12
North Lanarkshire - 5 £51,000 - 4
Renfrewshire -7 4 - - 37
Stirling 0 3 - -
West Lothian +6 2 - - 19
Fife -7 2 - - 23
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - - 1
Aberdeen +20 1 - - 222
Dundee -6 1 £37,500 -21.05% 46
Inverclyde -8 1 - - 2
East Ayrshire -25 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 18
North Ayrshire - 1 - - 2
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - - 2
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
AWS
UK

AWS
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 50 (16.56%) Confluence
2 20 (6.62%) Apache Spark
3 15 (4.97%) Apache
4 8 (2.65%) Apache Airflow
4 8 (2.65%) Camunda
4 8 (2.65%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
6 3 (0.99%) nginx
7 2 (0.66%) SAS
8 1 (0.33%) CMS
8 1 (0.33%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.33%) IIS
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 134 (44.37%) Azure
2 111 (36.75%) GCP
3 28 (9.27%) Serverless
4 26 (8.61%) Amazon S3
5 24 (7.95%) AWS Lambda
6 20 (6.62%) SaaS
7 19 (6.29%) Snowflake
8 15 (4.97%) GitHub
9 13 (4.30%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (3.97%) Amazon EKS
11 10 (3.31%) OpenShift
12 9 (2.98%) Amazon SageMaker
13 8 (2.65%) Amazon ECS
13 8 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (1.66%) IaaS
14 5 (1.66%) PaaS
15 4 (1.32%) Amazon EMR
15 4 (1.32%) Amazon MSK
15 4 (1.32%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.30%) Firewall
2 11 (3.64%) Network Security
3 8 (2.65%) VPN
4 5 (1.66%) DNS
5 4 (1.32%) BGP
5 4 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 3 (0.99%) OSPF
7 2 (0.66%) Bluetooth
7 2 (0.66%) DHCP
7 2 (0.66%) Ethernet
7 2 (0.66%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (0.66%) Modbus
7 2 (0.66%) MQTT
7 2 (0.66%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.66%) WAN
7 2 (0.66%) Wireless
8 1 (0.33%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (0.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (0.33%) LAN
8 1 (0.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (22.19%) SQL Server
2 25 (8.28%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (6.29%) Big Data
4 17 (5.63%) Amazon Athena
4 17 (5.63%) Relational Database
5 16 (5.30%) NoSQL
6 15 (4.97%) MongoDB
6 15 (4.97%) MySQL
7 11 (3.64%) Apache Cassandra
7 11 (3.64%) Tableau
8 10 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (3.31%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.31%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.98%) Apache Hive
9 9 (2.98%) Apache Iceberg
9 9 (2.98%) RDBMS
10 6 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.66%) Apache Hudi
11 5 (1.66%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.66%) HBase
Development Applications
1 66 (21.85%) Maven
2 63 (20.86%) GitLab
3 55 (18.21%) JIRA
4 51 (16.89%) SonarQube
5 50 (16.56%) Bitbucket
5 50 (16.56%) Selenium
6 49 (16.23%) Cucumber
6 49 (16.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 37 (12.25%) Git
8 29 (9.60%) Jenkins
9 18 (5.96%) JUnit
10 8 (2.65%) Gradle
11 4 (1.32%) Subversion
12 2 (0.66%) Checkstyle
12 2 (0.66%) CircleCI
12 2 (0.66%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.66%) IntelliJ
12 2 (0.66%) Mockito
13 1 (0.33%) Ant
13 1 (0.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 185 (61.26%) Finance
2 134 (44.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 122 (40.40%) Banking
4 83 (27.48%) Law
5 63 (20.86%) Social Skills
6 54 (17.88%) Analytical Skills
7 37 (12.25%) Marketing
8 15 (4.97%) Investment Banking
9 12 (3.97%) Legal
10 11 (3.64%) Games
11 7 (2.32%) Private Banking
12 6 (1.99%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.66%) Front Office
13 5 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.32%) Electronics
14 4 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.32%) Publishing
14 4 (1.32%) Telecoms
15 3 (0.99%) Agriculture
16 2 (0.66%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 153 (50.66%) Software Engineer
2 52 (17.22%) Senior
3 48 (15.89%) Java Engineer
3 48 (15.89%) Java Software Engineer
4 46 (15.23%) Lead
5 44 (14.57%) Developer
6 26 (8.61%) Senior Software Engineer
7 24 (7.95%) Python Engineer
8 22 (7.28%) Lead Software Engineer
8 22 (7.28%) Python Software Engineer
8 22 (7.28%) Software Developer
9 21 (6.95%) AWS Engineer
9 21 (6.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 21 (6.95%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 20 (6.62%) AWS Software Engineer
11 19 (6.29%) Java Developer
12 18 (5.96%) Senior Developer
13 16 (5.30%) Analyst
14 13 (4.30%) Developer/Software Engineer
14 13 (4.30%) Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (36.09%) Spring
2 97 (32.12%) React
3 95 (31.46%) Kafka
4 91 (30.13%) Spring Boot
5 67 (22.19%) HTML
6 65 (21.52%) CSS
7 61 (20.20%) Hibernate
8 57 (18.87%) JPA
9 50 (16.56%) Redux
10 26 (8.61%) AngularJS
10 26 (8.61%) RESTful
11 22 (7.28%) REST
12 14 (4.64%) .NET
13 11 (3.64%) Node.js
13 11 (3.64%) Pandas
14 10 (3.31%) PySpark
15 9 (2.98%) Web Services
16 8 (2.65%) JDBC
16 8 (2.65%) OpenAPI
16 8 (2.65%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 54 (17.88%) Product Ownership
2 53 (17.55%) Enterprise Software
3 42 (13.91%) Cloud Native
4 40 (13.25%) Algorithms
5 27 (8.94%) Public Cloud
6 9 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (2.65%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.65%) Derivative
8 7 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.32%) Mobile App
9 6 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.99%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.32%) Distributed Applications
10 4 (1.32%) Equities
10 4 (1.32%) Fixed Income
10 4 (1.32%) IoT
10 4 (1.32%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.99%) Management Information System
12 2 (0.66%) IVR
12 2 (0.66%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.97%) Linux
2 10 (3.31%) Unix
3 7 (2.32%) Windows
4 1 (0.33%) Android
4 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (61.59%) Agile
2 169 (55.96%) Software Engineering
3 137 (45.36%) CI/CD
4 128 (42.38%) SDLC
5 106 (35.10%) DevOps
6 97 (32.12%) Full-Stack Development
7 96 (31.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 92 (30.46%) Microservices
9 90 (29.80%) Test Automation
10 77 (25.50%) Containerisation
11 76 (25.17%) TDD
12 65 (21.52%) Operational Stability
13 64 (21.19%) Clean Code
14 63 (20.86%) Problem-Solving
15 61 (20.20%) Front End Development
16 53 (17.55%) Artificial Intelligence
17 51 (16.89%) Performance Optimisation
18 49 (16.23%) Community of Practice
19 48 (15.89%) Visualisation
20 46 (15.23%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 140 (46.36%) Java
2 111 (36.75%) SQL
3 83 (27.48%) JavaScript
4 71 (23.51%) Python
5 24 (7.95%) TypeScript
6 12 (3.97%) C#
7 9 (2.98%) T-SQL
8 8 (2.65%) Bash
8 8 (2.65%) Go
9 7 (2.32%) PHP
10 5 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.32%) C
12 3 (0.99%) C++
12 3 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.66%) R
13 2 (0.66%) Ruby
14 1 (0.33%) JCL
14 1 (0.33%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.33%) Rust
14 1 (0.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (5.30%) Degree
2 8 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (1.99%) CISM
3 6 (1.99%) CISSP
4 5 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (1.32%) CCNP
6 3 (0.99%) AWS Certification
6 3 (0.99%) CCNA
6 3 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.66%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.33%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (19.54%) QA
2 18 (5.96%) Data Quality
3 8 (2.65%) NIST
4 7 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.99%) NCSC
6 4 (1.32%) GDPR
7 3 (0.99%) SEPA
8 2 (0.66%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.66%) JTAG
9 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 83 (27.48%) Docker
2 5 (1.66%) HDFS
3 3 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.66%) Firmware
5 1 (0.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.33%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 132 (43.71%) Kubernetes
2 44 (14.57%) Terraform
3 16 (5.30%) Grafana
4 9 (2.98%) Ansible
5 6 (1.99%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.32%) ITRS Geneos
7 2 (0.66%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.66%) Puppet
7 2 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.33%) Argo
8 1 (0.33%) CA Endevor
8 1 (0.33%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.33%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 51 (16.89%) Oracle
2 49 (16.23%) Solace
3 16 (5.30%) Databricks
3 16 (5.30%) Splunk
4 14 (4.64%) Dynatrace
5 11 (3.64%) Google
6 9 (2.98%) Microsoft
7 7 (2.32%) IBM
8 6 (1.99%) Facebook
9 5 (1.66%) Cloudera
9 5 (1.66%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.32%) F5
10 4 (1.32%) IBM Sterling
10 4 (1.32%) SAP
10 4 (1.32%) VMware
11 3 (0.99%) Cisco
11 3 (0.99%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.99%) Ping Identity
12 2 (0.66%) ForgeRock
12 2 (0.66%) NVIDIA
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