AWS Jobs in Scotland

Amazon Web Services (AWS)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited AWS over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 11 13
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,673 698 817
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.92% 15.27% 13.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.10% 42.72% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 275 296 433
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £40,100
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,284 £85,000
90th Percentile £91,761 £85,000 £91,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

AWS is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,930 1,634 2,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 43.64% 35.75% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,016 900 1,309
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,563 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 18 May 2024.

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 18 May 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 -5 1,347 £55,000 -3.51% 36
Edinburgh +3 248 £65,000 - 69
Dundee +8 26 £47,500 -13.64% 6
Aberdeen -2 17 £42,500 -34.62% 4
Fife 0 8 - -
Lanarkshire -6 8 £46,000 - 11
Midlothian 0 4 £35,000 - 13
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Renfrewshire -2 2 £52,500 -
Inverclyde - 1 £45,000 -
Stirling - 1 £46,000 -
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
1 469 (28.03%) Apache Spark
2 126 (7.53%) Apache
3 117 (6.99%) Apache Airflow
4 60 (3.59%) ArcGIS
4 60 (3.59%) GeoServer
5 17 (1.02%) Cloud Foundry
6 11 (0.66%) CICS
6 11 (0.66%) IIS
7 8 (0.48%) WebLogic
8 6 (0.36%) Confluence
9 4 (0.24%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.060%) CMS
11 1 (0.060%) Drupal
11 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.060%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.060%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.60%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 409 (24.45%) Azure
2 216 (12.91%) GCP
3 99 (5.92%) SaaS
4 90 (5.38%) Datadog
5 87 (5.20%) Amazon SQS
6 82 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
7 81 (4.84%) Serverless
8 76 (4.54%) Amazon ECS
9 68 (4.06%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
11 59 (3.53%) Amazon EC2
12 57 (3.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 51 (3.05%) Amazon EMR
14 37 (2.21%) Amazon S3
15 34 (2.03%) Microsoft 365
16 26 (1.55%) IaaS
17 23 (1.37%) Google Docs
17 23 (1.37%) Miro
17 23 (1.37%) PaaS
17 23 (1.37%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.73%) WAN
2 25 (1.49%) Firewall
3 18 (1.08%) DSL
3 18 (1.08%) VPN
4 17 (1.02%) DNS
4 17 (1.02%) Kerberos
4 17 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 14 (0.84%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.54%) DHCP
7 8 (0.48%) BGP
7 8 (0.48%) SSL
8 6 (0.36%) LAN
8 6 (0.36%) Wireless
9 3 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.18%) VLAN
9 3 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.060%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.060%) Internet
10 1 (0.060%) Network Security
10 1 (0.060%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 381 (22.77%) Big Data
2 375 (22.41%) NoSQL
3 216 (12.91%) Hadoop
4 131 (7.83%) Apache Hive
5 109 (6.52%) Relational Database
6 102 (6.10%) HBase
7 94 (5.62%) PostgreSQL
8 77 (4.60%) Data Lake
9 60 (3.59%) GIS
9 60 (3.59%) QGIS
10 59 (3.53%) MongoDB
11 52 (3.11%) Elasticsearch
12 51 (3.05%) Electronic Patient Records
13 49 (2.93%) SQL Server
14 39 (2.33%) Qlik Sense
15 34 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
15 34 (2.03%) MySQL
16 31 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
17 29 (1.73%) DB2
18 27 (1.61%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 132 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 115 (6.87%) Git
3 96 (5.74%) JUnit
4 86 (5.14%) Bitbucket Server
5 72 (4.30%) Cypress.io
6 67 (4.00%) Selenium
7 60 (3.59%) Jasmine
7 60 (3.59%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (3.59%) Protractor
7 60 (3.59%) WebDriver
8 30 (1.79%) Maven
9 19 (1.14%) GitLab
9 19 (1.14%) JIRA
10 11 (0.66%) ChangeMan
11 6 (0.36%) Eclipse
12 5 (0.30%) Artifactory
12 5 (0.30%) Spinnaker
13 4 (0.24%) Snyk
14 3 (0.18%) Gradle
14 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,245 (74.42%) Finance
2 1,242 (74.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,194 (71.37%) Law
4 604 (36.10%) Marketing
5 362 (21.64%) Legal
6 283 (16.92%) Banking
7 196 (11.72%) Social Skills
8 194 (11.60%) Investment Banking
9 174 (10.40%) Financial Institution
10 67 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
11 63 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
12 59 (3.53%) Private Banking
13 34 (2.03%) Analytical Skills
14 22 (1.32%) Prime Brokerage
15 21 (1.26%) Games
16 15 (0.90%) Publishing
17 12 (0.72%) Retail Banking
18 11 (0.66%) Public Sector
19 10 (0.60%) Tech for Good
20 7 (0.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,132 (67.66%) Software Engineer
2 400 (23.91%) Lead
3 344 (20.56%) Lead Software Engineer
4 336 (20.08%) Java Engineer
5 331 (19.78%) Java Software Engineer
6 317 (18.95%) AWS Engineer
7 301 (17.99%) AWS Software Engineer
8 251 (15.00%) Big Data Engineer
8 251 (15.00%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 237 (14.17%) Python Engineer
9 237 (14.17%) Python Software Engineer
10 226 (13.51%) Senior
11 205 (12.25%) Data Engineer
12 174 (10.40%) Developer
13 143 (8.55%) Senior Software Engineer
14 138 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
15 122 (7.29%) Lead Java Engineer
16 113 (6.75%) Scala Engineer
16 113 (6.75%) Scala Software Engineer
17 109 (6.52%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (21.46%) Spring
2 318 (19.01%) React
3 208 (12.43%) Kafka
4 199 (11.89%) AngularJS
5 194 (11.60%) Spring Boot
6 193 (11.54%) CSS
7 174 (10.40%) PySpark
8 140 (8.37%) HTML
9 125 (7.47%) Node.js
10 111 (6.63%) RESTful
11 105 (6.28%) JSON
12 104 (6.22%) .NET
13 102 (6.10%) J2EE
14 98 (5.86%) Hibernate
15 79 (4.72%) JMS
15 79 (4.72%) jQuery
15 79 (4.72%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 75 (4.48%) OpenTelemetry
17 74 (4.42%) REST
18 71 (4.24%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 464 (27.73%) Cloud Native
2 427 (25.52%) Algorithms
3 343 (20.50%) Public Cloud
4 130 (7.77%) Data Structures
5 92 (5.50%) Onboarding
6 79 (4.72%) Product Ownership
7 65 (3.89%) Distributed Applications
8 47 (2.81%) Management Information System
9 37 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.49%) Reference Data
11 21 (1.26%) Taxonomies
12 17 (1.02%) Data Centre
12 17 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.02%) Private Cloud
13 15 (0.90%) PKI
14 14 (0.84%) Mainframe
15 13 (0.78%) Replication
16 11 (0.66%) VSAM
17 10 (0.60%) Clustering
18 8 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 132 (7.89%) Unix
2 61 (3.65%) Linux
3 35 (2.09%) Windows
4 19 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (0.54%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.24%) Mesosphere
7 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,343 (80.27%) Software Engineering
2 1,330 (79.50%) Agile
3 1,112 (66.47%) SDLC
4 1,105 (66.05%) CI/CD
5 1,030 (61.57%) Operational Stability
6 753 (45.01%) Artificial Intelligence
6 753 (45.01%) Machine Learning
7 680 (40.65%) Community of Practice
8 408 (24.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 401 (23.97%) Visualisation
10 369 (22.06%) Risk Management
11 296 (17.69%) Decision-Making
12 281 (16.80%) Microservices
13 273 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
14 254 (15.18%) Architectural Design
15 233 (13.93%) Continuous Delivery
16 231 (13.81%) TDD
17 228 (13.63%) Information Architecture
18 214 (12.79%) DevOps
19 202 (12.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 947 (56.60%) Java
2 688 (41.12%) Python
3 545 (32.58%) SQL
4 292 (17.45%) JavaScript
5 229 (13.69%) Scala
6 149 (8.91%) TypeScript
7 119 (7.11%) PL/SQL
8 89 (5.32%) C#
9 46 (2.75%) Go
10 36 (2.15%) Bash
11 31 (1.85%) PHP
12 25 (1.49%) Groovy
13 18 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 15 (0.90%) PowerShell
15 14 (0.84%) C++
16 11 (0.66%) COBOL
16 11 (0.66%) JCL
17 7 (0.42%) C
18 5 (0.30%) Perl
18 5 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 86 (5.14%) Security Cleared
2 73 (4.36%) SC Cleared
3 53 (3.17%) Degree
4 46 (2.75%) AWS Certification
5 21 (1.26%) Azure Certification
5 21 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (1.02%) CCNA
7 16 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 12 (0.72%) CISSP
9 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 6 (0.36%) CISM
9 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.30%) Master's Degree
11 4 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.24%) CISA
11 4 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (0.24%) PhD
11 4 (0.24%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.65%) SLA
2 45 (2.69%) QA
3 39 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.20%) PMO
6 12 (0.72%) NIST
7 4 (0.24%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.12%) GDPR
8 2 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 102 (6.10%) HDFS
2 83 (4.96%) Docker
3 23 (1.37%) VMware NSX
4 17 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.66%) Time Sharing Option
7 3 (0.18%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.12%) KVM
8 2 (0.12%) Xen
9 1 (0.060%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 298 (17.81%) Terraform
2 214 (12.79%) Kubernetes
3 107 (6.40%) Grafana
4 41 (2.45%) Prometheus
5 30 (1.79%) Ansible
6 13 (0.78%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.42%) Puppet
10 6 (0.36%) Istio
11 4 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.18%) Autotask
13 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
14 1 (0.060%) Kibana
Vendors
1 252 (15.06%) Databricks
2 138 (8.25%) Oracle
3 108 (6.46%) Splunk
4 107 (6.40%) Google
5 106 (6.34%) Dynatrace
6 86 (5.14%) Informatica
7 72 (4.30%) Cloudera
8 60 (3.59%) ESRI
9 57 (3.41%) Alteryx
10 51 (3.05%) Microsoft
11 38 (2.27%) VMware
12 23 (1.37%) Dell
13 20 (1.20%) Atlassian
14 19 (1.14%) Cisco
15 18 (1.08%) Cognos
15 18 (1.08%) SaltStack
15 18 (1.08%) Sybase
16 13 (0.78%) NetApp
17 12 (0.72%) ServiceNow
18 10 (0.60%) Sparx