Cloud Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Cloud Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Cloud Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 June 2024.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 136 222
Rank change year-on-year -2 +86 -89
Permanent jobs requiring a Cloud Engineer 155 81 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.27% 1.89% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.34% 2.11% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 57 49 27
10th Percentile £47,500 £47,212 £43,646
25th Percentile £52,500 £53,970 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £69,447 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +20.78% +10.05%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £97,500 £86,250
UK median annual salary £63,891 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.71% - +4.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 6,634 3,842 6,038
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.00% 89.72% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,931 2,088 3,091
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,313 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,056 £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 13 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 13 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 -25 109 £55,000 -15.38% 2
Edinburgh +7 33 £68,750 -1.00% 4
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 13 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.

1 116 (74.84%) AWS
2 99 (63.87%) CI/CD
3 95 (61.29%) Finance
4 93 (60.00%) Public Cloud
5 88 (56.77%) Software Engineering
6 87 (56.13%) Java
7 85 (54.84%) Agile
7 85 (54.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 84 (54.19%) Operational Stability
8 84 (54.19%) Cloud Native
8 84 (54.19%) Law
9 76 (49.03%) Terraform
10 73 (47.10%) SDLC
11 68 (43.87%) Machine Learning
12 67 (43.23%) Artificial Intelligence
12 67 (43.23%) Community of Practice
13 66 (42.58%) Architectural Design
14 65 (41.94%) Information Architecture
15 63 (40.65%) Social Skills
16 56 (36.13%) Grafana
17 53 (34.19%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (33.55%) Splunk
18 52 (33.55%) Datadog
18 52 (33.55%) Identity Access Management
18 52 (33.55%) Dynatrace
18 52 (33.55%) Continuous Delivery
18 52 (33.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 52 (33.55%) Observability
18 52 (33.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 52 (33.55%) OpenTelemetry

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
1 116 (74.84%) AWS
2 52 (33.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 52 (33.55%) Datadog
3 46 (29.68%) Azure
4 17 (10.97%) GCP
5 12 (7.74%) PaaS
6 11 (7.10%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (5.81%) IaaS
8 8 (5.16%) GitHub
9 6 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (3.23%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.23%) OCI
11 3 (1.94%) SaaS
12 1 (0.65%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.65%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.65%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.81%) Firewall
2 7 (4.52%) SD-WAN
2 7 (4.52%) VPN
2 7 (4.52%) WAN
3 3 (1.94%) BGP
4 1 (0.65%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.74%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.58%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 6 (3.87%) Git
2 3 (1.94%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.65%) Gradle
3 1 (0.65%) Maven
General
1 95 (61.29%) Finance
2 85 (54.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 84 (54.19%) Law
4 63 (40.65%) Social Skills
5 35 (22.58%) Marketing
6 19 (12.26%) Banking
7 17 (10.97%) Private Banking
8 3 (1.94%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.29%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.29%) Retail
10 1 (0.65%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (33.55%) OpenTelemetry
2 18 (11.61%) Spring Boot
3 17 (10.97%) AngularJS
3 17 (10.97%) React
3 17 (10.97%) RESTful
3 17 (10.97%) Spring
4 12 (7.74%) Kafka
5 6 (3.87%) .NET
6 3 (1.94%) ADO
7 2 (1.29%) YAML
8 1 (0.65%) .NET Core
8 1 (0.65%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.65%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 93 (60.00%) Public Cloud
2 84 (54.19%) Cloud Native
3 20 (12.90%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.16%) Data Centre
4 8 (5.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.52%) Private Cloud
5 7 (4.52%) Replication
6 2 (1.29%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.29%) Life Science
6 2 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.29%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (12.90%) Linux
2 19 (12.26%) Windows
3 12 (7.74%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.23%) Unix
5 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (63.87%) CI/CD
2 88 (56.77%) Software Engineering
3 85 (54.84%) Agile
4 84 (54.19%) Operational Stability
5 73 (47.10%) SDLC
6 68 (43.87%) Machine Learning
7 67 (43.23%) Artificial Intelligence
7 67 (43.23%) Community of Practice
8 66 (42.58%) Architectural Design
9 65 (41.94%) Information Architecture
10 53 (34.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 52 (33.55%) Continuous Delivery
11 52 (33.55%) Identity Access Management
11 52 (33.55%) Observability
11 52 (33.55%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 52 (33.55%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 32 (20.65%) Cybersecurity
13 29 (18.71%) DevOps
14 20 (12.90%) Mentoring
15 17 (10.97%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 87 (56.13%) Java
2 29 (18.71%) Python
3 10 (6.45%) Bash
3 10 (6.45%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.52%) SQL
5 5 (3.23%) Perl
6 4 (2.58%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.94%) Bicep
7 3 (1.94%) C#
7 3 (1.94%) Ruby
8 2 (1.29%) Go
8 2 (1.29%) PHP
9 1 (0.65%) Groovy
9 1 (0.65%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 14 (9.03%) AWS Certification
2 10 (6.45%) CCNA
2 10 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (1.94%) CCNP
4 2 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.29%) Degree
5 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.65%) MCSE
5 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.97%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (4.52%) VMware NSX
3 6 (3.87%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.94%) Docker
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.65%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 76 (49.03%) Terraform
2 56 (36.13%) Grafana
3 16 (10.32%) Ansible
4 10 (6.45%) Kubernetes
5 7 (4.52%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.58%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.94%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.29%) Puppet
8 2 (1.29%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.65%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 52 (33.55%) Dynatrace
1 52 (33.55%) Splunk
2 9 (5.81%) VMware
3 7 (4.52%) Cisco
3 7 (4.52%) NetApp
4 6 (3.87%) Microsoft
5 5 (3.23%) Oracle
6 4 (2.58%) Google
7 2 (1.29%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.65%) Citrix
8 1 (0.65%) Nimble Storage
8 1 (0.65%) Veeam