Cloud Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Scotland is £62,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 131 212
Rank change year-on-year +4 +81 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 171 81 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.50% 1.86% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.58% 2.08% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 54 49 29
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,212 £44,323
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,970 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +20.78% +10.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £93,500
UK median annual salary £62,783 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.41% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,635 3,895 5,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.03% 89.52% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,785 2,120 3,050
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +13.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,652 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

Cloud Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cloud Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cloud Engineer in Scotland

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 Cloud Engineer 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 -27 129 £55,000 -15.38%
Edinburgh +7 29 £75,000 +8.00% 6
Dundee - 8 £55,000 - 1
Aberdeen - 2 £61,250 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
Cloud Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, 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 Cloud Engineer in the job title.

1 134 (78.36%) AWS
2 118 (69.01%) CI/CD
3 116 (67.84%) Finance
4 113 (66.08%) Public Cloud
5 107 (62.57%) Software Engineering
6 106 (61.99%) Agile
6 106 (61.99%) Java
7 105 (61.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 104 (60.82%) Operational Stability
8 104 (60.82%) Law
9 96 (56.14%) Cloud Native
10 88 (51.46%) SDLC
11 80 (46.78%) Machine Learning
12 79 (46.20%) Artificial Intelligence
12 79 (46.20%) Community of Practice
13 78 (45.61%) Architectural Design
14 77 (45.03%) Information Architecture
15 76 (44.44%) Terraform
16 63 (36.84%) Social Skills
17 56 (32.75%) Grafana
18 53 (30.99%) Stakeholder Management
19 52 (30.41%) Splunk
19 52 (30.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
19 52 (30.41%) OpenTelemetry
19 52 (30.41%) Observability
19 52 (30.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 52 (30.41%) Identity Access Management
19 52 (30.41%) Dynatrace
19 52 (30.41%) Datadog
19 52 (30.41%) Amazon CloudWatch

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
1 134 (78.36%) AWS
2 52 (30.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 52 (30.41%) Datadog
3 49 (28.65%) Azure
4 22 (12.87%) GCP
5 13 (7.60%) PaaS
6 12 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.26%) GitHub
7 9 (5.26%) IaaS
8 5 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (2.92%) OCI
9 3 (1.75%) SaaS
10 2 (1.17%) Microsoft 365
11 1 (0.58%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.58%) Azure App Service
11 1 (0.58%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.58%) Azure Event Grid
11 1 (0.58%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.58%) Azure Storage
11 1 (0.58%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.26%) Firewall
2 7 (4.09%) SD-WAN
2 7 (4.09%) VPN
2 7 (4.09%) WAN
3 3 (1.75%) BGP
4 1 (0.58%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.02%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.58%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.58%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (6.43%) Jenkins
2 6 (3.51%) Git
3 1 (0.58%) Gradle
3 1 (0.58%) Maven
General
1 116 (67.84%) Finance
2 105 (61.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 104 (60.82%) Law
4 63 (36.84%) Social Skills
5 40 (23.39%) Marketing
6 34 (19.88%) Banking
7 24 (14.04%) Private Banking
8 8 (4.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.75%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.17%) Retail
11 1 (0.58%) Analytical Skills
11 1 (0.58%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (30.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 32 (18.71%) Spring Boot
3 24 (14.04%) AngularJS
3 24 (14.04%) React
3 24 (14.04%) RESTful
3 24 (14.04%) Spring
4 17 (9.94%) Kafka
5 6 (3.51%) .NET
6 3 (1.75%) ADO
7 2 (1.17%) YAML
8 1 (0.58%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.58%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.58%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 113 (66.08%) Public Cloud
2 96 (56.14%) Cloud Native
3 20 (11.70%) Management Information System
4 14 (8.19%) Private Cloud
5 8 (4.68%) Data Centre
5 8 (4.68%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (4.09%) Replication
7 3 (1.75%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.17%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.17%) Life Science
9 1 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.58%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 19 (11.11%) Linux
1 19 (11.11%) Windows
2 12 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 4 (2.34%) Unix
4 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (69.01%) CI/CD
2 107 (62.57%) Software Engineering
3 106 (61.99%) Agile
4 104 (60.82%) Operational Stability
5 88 (51.46%) SDLC
6 80 (46.78%) Machine Learning
7 79 (46.20%) Artificial Intelligence
7 79 (46.20%) Community of Practice
8 78 (45.61%) Architectural Design
9 77 (45.03%) Information Architecture
10 53 (30.99%) Stakeholder Management
11 52 (30.41%) Continuous Delivery
11 52 (30.41%) Identity Access Management
11 52 (30.41%) Observability
11 52 (30.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 52 (30.41%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 33 (19.30%) Cybersecurity
13 26 (15.20%) DevOps
14 25 (14.62%) Decision-Making
15 24 (14.04%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 106 (61.99%) Java
2 35 (20.47%) Python
3 10 (5.85%) Bash
3 10 (5.85%) PowerShell
4 8 (4.68%) SQL
5 5 (2.92%) Perl
6 4 (2.34%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.75%) Bicep
7 3 (1.75%) C#
7 3 (1.75%) Ruby
8 2 (1.17%) Go
8 2 (1.17%) PHP
9 1 (0.58%) Groovy
9 1 (0.58%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.58%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 10 (5.85%) CCNA
2 10 (5.85%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.75%) CCNP
4 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.17%) Degree
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.58%) MCSE
5 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (14.62%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (4.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (4.09%) VMware NSX
3 4 (2.34%) Docker
4 2 (1.17%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.58%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 76 (44.44%) Terraform
2 56 (32.75%) Grafana
3 16 (9.36%) Ansible
4 11 (6.43%) Kubernetes
5 7 (4.09%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.34%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.75%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.17%) Puppet
8 2 (1.17%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (30.41%) Dynatrace
1 52 (30.41%) Splunk
2 9 (5.26%) VMware
3 7 (4.09%) Cisco
3 7 (4.09%) NetApp
4 5 (2.92%) Oracle
5 3 (1.75%) Google
6 2 (1.17%) Microsoft
6 2 (1.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.58%) Citrix
7 1 (0.58%) Informatica
7 1 (0.58%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (0.58%) Veeam