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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 13 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,621 624 862
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.71% 14.34% 14.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 56.50% 40.49% 40.70%
Number of salaries quoted 273 280 442
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,745 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £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 £74,250 £83,125
90th Percentile £91,250 £85,000 £90,000
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 2,869 1,541 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 41.96% 35.42% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,009 851 1,324
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £41,863
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £68,500 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,510 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%

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 1 June 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 1 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 -5 1,299 £55,000 - 29
Edinburgh +2 240 £65,000 - 56
Dundee - 29 £47,500 - 5
Aberdeen -1 17 £42,500 -34.62% 3
Fife -1 8 - -
Lanarkshire -3 8 £70,000 - 9
Midlothian - 4 £35,000 - 12
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
West Lothian - 1 £57,500 - 1
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
1 437 (26.96%) Apache Spark
2 120 (7.40%) Apache
3 114 (7.03%) Apache Airflow
4 60 (3.70%) ArcGIS
4 60 (3.70%) GeoServer
5 17 (1.05%) Cloud Foundry
6 11 (0.68%) CICS
7 10 (0.62%) IIS
8 8 (0.49%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.37%) Confluence
10 4 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.062%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 410 (25.29%) Azure
2 199 (12.28%) GCP
3 90 (5.55%) Datadog
4 86 (5.31%) SaaS
5 80 (4.94%) Serverless
6 77 (4.75%) Amazon SQS
7 76 (4.69%) Amazon EKS
8 73 (4.50%) Amazon ECS
9 67 (4.13%) AWS Lambda
9 67 (4.13%) Cloud Computing
10 59 (3.64%) Amazon EC2
11 58 (3.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 49 (3.02%) Amazon EMR
13 35 (2.16%) Microsoft 365
14 30 (1.85%) Amazon S3
15 24 (1.48%) IaaS
16 21 (1.30%) PaaS
17 18 (1.11%) GitHub
18 17 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
19 15 (0.93%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 28 (1.73%) WAN
2 26 (1.60%) Firewall
3 17 (1.05%) DNS
3 17 (1.05%) Kerberos
3 17 (1.05%) SD-WAN
4 16 (0.99%) DSL
4 16 (0.99%) VPN
5 14 (0.86%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.56%) DHCP
7 8 (0.49%) BGP
7 8 (0.49%) SSL
8 6 (0.37%) LAN
8 6 (0.37%) Wireless
9 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
9 3 (0.19%) VLAN
9 3 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.062%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (0.062%) Internet
10 1 (0.062%) VoIP
10 1 (0.062%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 358 (22.09%) NoSQL
2 348 (21.47%) Big Data
3 197 (12.15%) Hadoop
4 123 (7.59%) Apache Hive
5 103 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 98 (6.05%) HBase
7 95 (5.86%) PostgreSQL
8 73 (4.50%) Data Lake
9 60 (3.70%) GIS
9 60 (3.70%) QGIS
10 55 (3.39%) MongoDB
11 49 (3.02%) Electronic Patient Records
12 46 (2.84%) SQL Server
13 40 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
14 39 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
15 34 (2.10%) Apache Cassandra
15 34 (2.10%) MySQL
16 33 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
17 27 (1.67%) DB2
17 27 (1.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 127 (7.83%) Jenkins
2 110 (6.79%) Git
3 96 (5.92%) JUnit
4 84 (5.18%) Bitbucket Server
5 72 (4.44%) Cypress.io
6 65 (4.01%) Selenium
7 60 (3.70%) Jasmine
7 60 (3.70%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (3.70%) Protractor
7 60 (3.70%) WebDriver
8 29 (1.79%) Maven
9 21 (1.30%) JIRA
10 18 (1.11%) GitLab
11 11 (0.68%) ChangeMan
12 6 (0.37%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.31%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.25%) Snyk
15 3 (0.19%) Gradle
15 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.19%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,186 (73.16%) Finance
2 1,177 (72.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,139 (70.27%) Law
4 569 (35.10%) Marketing
5 351 (21.65%) Legal
6 263 (16.22%) Banking
7 192 (11.84%) Social Skills
8 186 (11.47%) Investment Banking
9 166 (10.24%) Financial Institution
10 65 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
11 61 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
12 54 (3.33%) Private Banking
13 33 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
14 22 (1.36%) Prime Brokerage
15 21 (1.30%) Games
16 15 (0.93%) Publishing
17 12 (0.74%) Retail Banking
18 11 (0.68%) Public Sector
19 10 (0.62%) Tech for Good
20 7 (0.43%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,073 (66.19%) Software Engineer
2 384 (23.69%) Lead
3 325 (20.05%) Lead Software Engineer
4 318 (19.62%) Java Engineer
5 313 (19.31%) Java Software Engineer
6 304 (18.75%) AWS Engineer
7 289 (17.83%) AWS Software Engineer
8 235 (14.50%) Big Data Engineer
8 235 (14.50%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 228 (14.07%) Python Engineer
9 228 (14.07%) Python Software Engineer
10 222 (13.70%) Senior
11 196 (12.09%) Data Engineer
12 173 (10.67%) Developer
13 136 (8.39%) Senior Software Engineer
14 134 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
15 116 (7.16%) Lead Java Engineer
16 107 (6.60%) Architect
16 107 (6.60%) Engineering Manager
17 105 (6.48%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (21.34%) Spring
2 310 (19.12%) React
3 190 (11.72%) AngularJS
3 190 (11.72%) Kafka
4 189 (11.66%) CSS
5 186 (11.47%) Spring Boot
6 171 (10.55%) PySpark
7 136 (8.39%) HTML
8 131 (8.08%) Node.js
9 104 (6.42%) .NET
9 104 (6.42%) RESTful
10 103 (6.35%) JSON
11 100 (6.17%) J2EE
12 96 (5.92%) Hibernate
13 79 (4.87%) JMS
13 79 (4.87%) jQuery
13 79 (4.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 75 (4.63%) OpenTelemetry
15 71 (4.38%) .NET Core
16 69 (4.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 445 (27.45%) Cloud Native
2 403 (24.86%) Algorithms
3 320 (19.74%) Public Cloud
4 119 (7.34%) Data Structures
5 90 (5.55%) Onboarding
6 74 (4.57%) Product Ownership
7 65 (4.01%) Distributed Applications
8 43 (2.65%) Management Information System
9 36 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (1.42%) Reference Data
11 21 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (1.17%) Taxonomies
13 18 (1.11%) Data Centre
14 15 (0.93%) PKI
14 15 (0.93%) Private Cloud
15 13 (0.80%) Replication
16 12 (0.74%) Mainframe
17 11 (0.68%) VSAM
18 9 (0.56%) Clustering
19 8 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 128 (7.90%) Unix
2 65 (4.01%) Linux
3 37 (2.28%) Windows
4 19 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.62%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.25%) Mesosphere
7 1 (0.062%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,282 (79.09%) Agile
2 1,279 (78.90%) Software Engineering
3 1,062 (65.52%) SDLC
4 1,061 (65.45%) CI/CD
5 979 (60.39%) Operational Stability
6 718 (44.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 717 (44.23%) Machine Learning
8 655 (40.41%) Community of Practice
9 396 (24.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 387 (23.87%) Visualisation
11 356 (21.96%) Risk Management
12 275 (16.96%) Decision-Making
13 271 (16.72%) Microservices
14 257 (15.85%) Problem-Solving
15 243 (14.99%) Architectural Design
16 224 (13.82%) Continuous Delivery
16 224 (13.82%) TDD
17 220 (13.57%) DevOps
18 216 (13.33%) Information Architecture
19 204 (12.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 897 (55.34%) Java
2 659 (40.65%) Python
3 515 (31.77%) SQL
4 289 (17.83%) JavaScript
5 203 (12.52%) Scala
6 149 (9.19%) TypeScript
7 115 (7.09%) PL/SQL
8 87 (5.37%) C#
9 34 (2.10%) Go
10 31 (1.91%) PHP
11 27 (1.67%) Bash
12 23 (1.42%) Groovy
13 16 (0.99%) PowerShell
13 16 (0.99%) T-SQL
14 14 (0.86%) C++
15 11 (0.68%) COBOL
15 11 (0.68%) JCL
16 7 (0.43%) C
16 7 (0.43%) Perl
17 6 (0.37%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (5.43%) Security Cleared
2 76 (4.69%) SC Cleared
3 46 (2.84%) AWS Certification
3 46 (2.84%) Degree
4 23 (1.42%) Azure Certification
5 22 (1.36%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (1.11%) CCNA
7 17 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 12 (0.74%) CISSP
10 6 (0.37%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (0.37%) CISM
10 6 (0.37%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (0.25%) CISA
11 4 (0.25%) Network+ Certification
11 4 (0.25%) PhD
11 4 (0.25%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (3.39%) SLA
2 45 (2.78%) QA
3 36 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 35 (2.16%) Accessibility
5 18 (1.11%) PMO
6 12 (0.74%) NIST
7 4 (0.25%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.25%) 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 98 (6.05%) HDFS
2 83 (5.12%) Docker
3 22 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 18 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.80%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.25%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.12%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.12%) KVM
8 2 (0.12%) Xen
9 1 (0.062%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 290 (17.89%) Terraform
2 199 (12.28%) Kubernetes
3 107 (6.60%) Grafana
4 41 (2.53%) Prometheus
5 33 (2.04%) Ansible
6 13 (0.80%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.62%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.43%) Puppet
9 4 (0.25%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.25%) Istio
10 3 (0.19%) Autotask
11 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.062%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.062%) Kibana
Vendors
1 239 (14.74%) Databricks
2 133 (8.20%) Oracle
3 108 (6.66%) Splunk
4 106 (6.54%) Dynatrace
5 95 (5.86%) Google
6 84 (5.18%) Informatica
7 68 (4.19%) Cloudera
8 60 (3.70%) ESRI
9 55 (3.39%) Alteryx
10 51 (3.15%) Microsoft
11 38 (2.34%) VMware
12 20 (1.23%) Cisco
13 18 (1.11%) Atlassian
13 18 (1.11%) SaltStack
14 16 (0.99%) Cognos
14 16 (0.99%) Sybase
15 14 (0.86%) Dell
15 14 (0.86%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.80%) NetApp
17 10 (0.62%) Sparx