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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -7
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,539 614 897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 22.35% 14.25% 14.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 55.22% 40.10% 41.15%
Number of salaries quoted 275 275 449
10th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £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 £76,250 £74,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £90,750 £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 2,787 1,531 2,180
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 40.48% 35.54% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,014 844 1,340
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,725 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,403 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £84,717 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%

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 9 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 9 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 -6 1,215 £57,500 +4.55% 31
Edinburgh +1 240 £65,000 - 53
Dundee - 30 £47,500 - 4
Aberdeen 0 17 £42,500 -34.62% 2
Fife -3 8 - -
Lanarkshire -4 8 £70,000 - 11
Midlothian - 4 £35,000 - 12
East Ayrshire - 3 £29,500 -
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
West Lothian - 2 £63,750 - 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
1 400 (25.99%) Apache Spark
2 109 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
3 108 (7.02%) Apache
4 58 (3.77%) ArcGIS
4 58 (3.77%) GeoServer
5 17 (1.10%) Cloud Foundry
6 11 (0.71%) CICS
7 9 (0.58%) IIS
8 8 (0.52%) WebLogic
9 6 (0.39%) Confluence
10 4 (0.26%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
12 1 (0.065%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 393 (25.54%) Azure
2 184 (11.96%) GCP
3 90 (5.85%) Datadog
4 84 (5.46%) SaaS
5 76 (4.94%) Serverless
6 72 (4.68%) Amazon SQS
7 69 (4.48%) Amazon ECS
8 68 (4.42%) Amazon EKS
9 63 (4.09%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (4.09%) Cloud Computing
10 58 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 55 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
12 45 (2.92%) Amazon EMR
13 35 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
14 29 (1.88%) Amazon S3
15 24 (1.56%) IaaS
16 21 (1.36%) PaaS
17 17 (1.10%) Azure DevOps
17 17 (1.10%) GitHub
18 15 (0.97%) BlazeMeter
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.75%) WAN
2 26 (1.69%) Firewall
3 17 (1.10%) DNS
3 17 (1.10%) Kerberos
3 17 (1.10%) SD-WAN
4 16 (1.04%) VPN
5 14 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 13 (0.84%) DSL
7 9 (0.58%) DHCP
8 8 (0.52%) BGP
8 8 (0.52%) SSL
9 6 (0.39%) LAN
9 6 (0.39%) Wireless
10 3 (0.19%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.19%) VLAN
10 3 (0.19%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.065%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.065%) Internet
11 1 (0.065%) VoIP
11 1 (0.065%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 329 (21.38%) NoSQL
2 316 (20.53%) Big Data
3 181 (11.76%) Hadoop
4 113 (7.34%) Apache Hive
5 96 (6.24%) Relational Database
6 93 (6.04%) PostgreSQL
7 91 (5.91%) HBase
8 70 (4.55%) Data Lake
9 58 (3.77%) GIS
9 58 (3.77%) QGIS
10 49 (3.18%) MongoDB
11 45 (2.92%) Electronic Patient Records
11 45 (2.92%) SQL Server
12 39 (2.53%) Qlik Sense
13 36 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
14 34 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
14 34 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
14 34 (2.21%) MySQL
15 27 (1.75%) Oracle Database
16 24 (1.56%) DB2
Development Applications
1 120 (7.80%) Jenkins
2 106 (6.89%) Git
3 96 (6.24%) JUnit
4 81 (5.26%) Bitbucket Server
5 72 (4.68%) Cypress.io
6 64 (4.16%) Selenium
7 60 (3.90%) Jasmine
7 60 (3.90%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (3.90%) Protractor
7 60 (3.90%) WebDriver
8 28 (1.82%) Maven
9 21 (1.36%) JIRA
10 18 (1.17%) GitLab
11 11 (0.71%) ChangeMan
12 6 (0.39%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.32%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.26%) Snyk
14 4 (0.26%) Spinnaker
15 3 (0.19%) Gradle
15 3 (0.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,102 (71.60%) Finance
2 1,091 (70.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,055 (68.55%) Law
4 519 (33.72%) Marketing
5 332 (21.57%) Legal
6 240 (15.59%) Banking
7 193 (12.54%) Social Skills
8 172 (11.18%) Investment Banking
9 153 (9.94%) Financial Institution
10 61 (3.96%) Presentation Skills
11 50 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
12 46 (2.99%) Private Banking
13 31 (2.01%) Analytical Skills
14 22 (1.43%) Prime Brokerage
15 21 (1.36%) Games
16 15 (0.97%) Publishing
17 13 (0.84%) Retail Banking
18 11 (0.71%) Public Sector
18 11 (0.71%) Tech for Good
19 7 (0.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 997 (64.78%) Software Engineer
2 352 (22.87%) Lead
3 293 (19.04%) Lead Software Engineer
4 283 (18.39%) Java Engineer
5 280 (18.19%) AWS Engineer
6 278 (18.06%) Java Software Engineer
7 266 (17.28%) AWS Software Engineer
8 221 (14.36%) Python Engineer
9 220 (14.29%) Python Software Engineer
10 216 (14.04%) Big Data Engineer
10 216 (14.04%) Big Data Software Engineer
11 211 (13.71%) Senior
12 191 (12.41%) Data Engineer
13 169 (10.98%) Developer
14 124 (8.06%) Cloud Engineer
15 123 (7.99%) Senior Software Engineer
16 107 (6.95%) Architect
17 106 (6.89%) Lead Java Engineer
18 104 (6.76%) Engineering Manager
19 97 (6.30%) Software Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 327 (21.25%) Spring
2 295 (19.17%) React
3 182 (11.83%) CSS
3 182 (11.83%) Kafka
4 176 (11.44%) AngularJS
5 173 (11.24%) Spring Boot
6 166 (10.79%) PySpark
7 132 (8.58%) Node.js
8 129 (8.38%) HTML
9 104 (6.76%) .NET
10 102 (6.63%) JSON
11 98 (6.37%) RESTful
12 97 (6.30%) J2EE
13 95 (6.17%) Hibernate
14 79 (5.13%) JMS
14 79 (5.13%) jQuery
14 79 (5.13%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 75 (4.87%) OpenTelemetry
16 71 (4.61%) .NET Core
17 60 (3.90%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 421 (27.36%) Cloud Native
2 379 (24.63%) Algorithms
3 287 (18.65%) Public Cloud
4 115 (7.47%) Data Structures
5 83 (5.39%) Onboarding
6 65 (4.22%) Distributed Applications
7 64 (4.16%) Product Ownership
8 37 (2.40%) Management Information System
9 35 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
10 22 (1.43%) Reference Data
11 18 (1.17%) Data Centre
11 18 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (0.97%) PKI
12 15 (0.97%) Taxonomies
13 13 (0.84%) Replication
14 12 (0.78%) Mainframe
15 11 (0.71%) Private Cloud
15 11 (0.71%) VSAM
16 8 (0.52%) Clustering
16 8 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 122 (7.93%) Unix
2 65 (4.22%) Linux
3 37 (2.40%) Windows
4 19 (1.23%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (0.52%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.26%) Mesosphere
8 1 (0.065%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,200 (77.97%) Agile
2 1,193 (77.52%) Software Engineering
3 994 (64.59%) CI/CD
4 987 (64.13%) SDLC
5 902 (58.61%) Operational Stability
6 667 (43.34%) Artificial Intelligence
7 663 (43.08%) Machine Learning
8 614 (39.90%) Community of Practice
9 374 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 365 (23.72%) Visualisation
11 334 (21.70%) Risk Management
12 257 (16.70%) Microservices
13 246 (15.98%) Decision-Making
14 240 (15.59%) Problem-Solving
15 224 (14.55%) Architectural Design
16 213 (13.84%) TDD
17 211 (13.71%) DevOps
18 210 (13.65%) Continuous Delivery
19 201 (13.06%) Mentoring
20 197 (12.80%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 827 (53.74%) Java
2 623 (40.48%) Python
3 471 (30.60%) SQL
4 282 (18.32%) JavaScript
5 180 (11.70%) Scala
6 147 (9.55%) TypeScript
7 109 (7.08%) PL/SQL
8 87 (5.65%) C#
9 32 (2.08%) PHP
10 28 (1.82%) Go
11 26 (1.69%) Bash
12 23 (1.49%) Groovy
13 16 (1.04%) PowerShell
13 16 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.84%) C++
15 11 (0.71%) COBOL
15 11 (0.71%) JCL
16 7 (0.45%) C
16 7 (0.45%) Perl
17 6 (0.39%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 85 (5.52%) Security Cleared
2 74 (4.81%) SC Cleared
3 44 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 41 (2.66%) Degree
5 23 (1.49%) Azure Certification
6 22 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (1.17%) CCNA
8 16 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (0.78%) CISSP
11 6 (0.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.39%) CISM
11 6 (0.39%) Master's Degree
11 6 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (0.26%) CISA
12 4 (0.26%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (0.26%) PhD
12 4 (0.26%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.19%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (3.12%) SLA
2 45 (2.92%) QA
3 32 (2.08%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.82%) Accessibility
5 15 (0.97%) PMO
6 12 (0.78%) NIST
7 4 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.13%) GDPR
8 2 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 91 (5.91%) HDFS
2 84 (5.46%) Docker
3 21 (1.36%) VMware NSX
4 18 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.84%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.71%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.26%) Active Directory
8 2 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 2 (0.13%) KVM
8 2 (0.13%) Xen
9 1 (0.065%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 275 (17.87%) Terraform
2 194 (12.61%) Kubernetes
3 107 (6.95%) Grafana
4 41 (2.66%) Prometheus
5 33 (2.14%) Ansible
6 13 (0.84%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.65%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.45%) Puppet
9 4 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.26%) Istio
10 3 (0.19%) Autotask
11 2 (0.13%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.065%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.065%) Kibana
Vendors
1 222 (14.42%) Databricks
2 126 (8.19%) Oracle
3 108 (7.02%) Splunk
4 106 (6.89%) Dynatrace
5 92 (5.98%) Google
6 81 (5.26%) Informatica
7 61 (3.96%) Cloudera
8 58 (3.77%) ESRI
9 52 (3.38%) Alteryx
10 50 (3.25%) Microsoft
11 37 (2.40%) VMware
12 20 (1.30%) Cisco
13 18 (1.17%) SaltStack
14 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.91%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.84%) Cognos
16 13 (0.84%) Dell
16 13 (0.84%) NetApp
16 13 (0.84%) Sybase
17 10 (0.65%) Sparx