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 27 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 11 12 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 +1 -6
Permanent jobs citing AWS 1,669 684 844
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.50% 15.23% 13.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 57.02% 42.27% 40.15%
Number of salaries quoted 270 286 442
10th Percentile £37,350 £43,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £44,063 £49,063 £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 £76,250 £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 2,927 1,618 2,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 42.97% 36.03% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,011 879 1,334
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £42,500 £41,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +13.40%
75th Percentile £68,114 £71,250 £71,250
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% +8.69%

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 27 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 27 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 1,350 £55,000 -3.51% 37
Edinburgh +1 239 £65,000 - 66
Dundee - 27 £47,500 - 5
Aberdeen -2 17 £42,500 -34.62% 5
Lanarkshire -7 9 £58,000 - 7
Fife -2 8 - -
Midlothian 0 4 £35,000 - 10
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
1 464 (27.80%) Apache Spark
2 126 (7.55%) Apache
3 117 (7.01%) 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%) Microsoft Exchange
10 2 (0.12%) SharePoint
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
1 411 (24.63%) Azure
2 207 (12.40%) GCP
3 90 (5.39%) Datadog
3 90 (5.39%) SaaS
4 82 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
5 80 (4.79%) Amazon EKS
5 80 (4.79%) Serverless
6 75 (4.49%) Amazon ECS
7 70 (4.19%) Cloud Computing
8 67 (4.01%) AWS Lambda
9 59 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
10 57 (3.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 51 (3.06%) Amazon EMR
12 35 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
13 32 (1.92%) Amazon S3
14 24 (1.44%) IaaS
15 21 (1.26%) PaaS
16 18 (1.08%) Google Docs
16 18 (1.08%) Lucidchart
16 18 (1.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 29 (1.74%) WAN
2 25 (1.50%) Firewall
3 18 (1.08%) DSL
4 17 (1.02%) DNS
4 17 (1.02%) Kerberos
4 17 (1.02%) SD-WAN
5 16 (0.96%) VPN
6 14 (0.84%) TCP/IP
7 9 (0.54%) DHCP
8 8 (0.48%) BGP
8 8 (0.48%) SSL
9 6 (0.36%) LAN
9 6 (0.36%) Wireless
10 3 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
10 3 (0.18%) VLAN
10 3 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (0.060%) Cisco Firepower
11 1 (0.060%) Internet
11 1 (0.060%) VoIP
11 1 (0.060%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (22.53%) Big Data
2 374 (22.41%) NoSQL
3 211 (12.64%) Hadoop
4 131 (7.85%) Apache Hive
5 109 (6.53%) Relational Database
6 102 (6.11%) HBase
7 94 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
8 75 (4.49%) Data Lake
9 60 (3.59%) GIS
9 60 (3.59%) QGIS
10 59 (3.54%) MongoDB
11 51 (3.06%) Electronic Patient Records
12 47 (2.82%) SQL Server
13 46 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
14 39 (2.34%) Qlik Sense
15 34 (2.04%) Apache Cassandra
15 34 (2.04%) MySQL
16 33 (1.98%) Data Warehouse
17 29 (1.74%) DB2
18 27 (1.62%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 131 (7.85%) Jenkins
2 112 (6.71%) Git
3 96 (5.75%) JUnit
4 86 (5.15%) Bitbucket Server
5 72 (4.31%) Cypress.io
6 65 (3.89%) Selenium
7 60 (3.59%) Jasmine
7 60 (3.59%) Karma Test Runner
7 60 (3.59%) Protractor
7 60 (3.59%) WebDriver
8 28 (1.68%) Maven
9 21 (1.26%) JIRA
10 18 (1.08%) GitLab
11 11 (0.66%) ChangeMan
12 6 (0.36%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.30%) Artifactory
14 4 (0.24%) Snyk
15 3 (0.18%) Gradle
15 3 (0.18%) Sonatype Nexus
15 3 (0.18%) Spinnaker
General
1 1,240 (74.30%) Finance
2 1,235 (74.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1,194 (71.54%) Law
4 604 (36.19%) Marketing
5 362 (21.69%) Legal
6 276 (16.54%) Banking
7 194 (11.62%) Investment Banking
8 193 (11.56%) Social Skills
9 174 (10.43%) Financial Institution
10 68 (4.07%) Presentation Skills
11 67 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
12 59 (3.54%) Private Banking
13 34 (2.04%) 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 10 (0.60%) Public Sector
18 10 (0.60%) Tech for Good
19 7 (0.42%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,124 (67.35%) Software Engineer
2 402 (24.09%) Lead
3 344 (20.61%) Lead Software Engineer
4 334 (20.01%) Java Engineer
5 329 (19.71%) Java Software Engineer
6 315 (18.87%) AWS Engineer
7 301 (18.03%) AWS Software Engineer
8 251 (15.04%) Big Data Engineer
8 251 (15.04%) Big Data Software Engineer
9 237 (14.20%) Python Engineer
9 237 (14.20%) Python Software Engineer
10 226 (13.54%) Senior
11 206 (12.34%) Data Engineer
12 174 (10.43%) Developer
13 143 (8.57%) Senior Software Engineer
14 138 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
15 122 (7.31%) Lead Java Engineer
16 113 (6.77%) Scala Engineer
16 113 (6.77%) Scala Software Engineer
17 109 (6.53%) Cloud Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 357 (21.39%) Spring
2 317 (18.99%) React
3 201 (12.04%) Kafka
4 198 (11.86%) AngularJS
5 193 (11.56%) CSS
5 193 (11.56%) Spring Boot
6 174 (10.43%) PySpark
7 140 (8.39%) HTML
8 128 (7.67%) Node.js
9 108 (6.47%) RESTful
10 103 (6.17%) .NET
10 103 (6.17%) JSON
11 102 (6.11%) J2EE
12 98 (5.87%) Hibernate
13 79 (4.73%) JMS
13 79 (4.73%) jQuery
13 79 (4.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 75 (4.49%) OpenTelemetry
15 73 (4.37%) REST
16 70 (4.19%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 464 (27.80%) Cloud Native
2 420 (25.16%) Algorithms
3 342 (20.49%) Public Cloud
4 125 (7.49%) Data Structures
5 92 (5.51%) Onboarding
6 80 (4.79%) Product Ownership
7 65 (3.89%) Distributed Applications
8 47 (2.82%) Management Information System
9 37 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
10 25 (1.50%) Reference Data
11 21 (1.26%) Taxonomies
12 19 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 17 (1.02%) Private Cloud
15 15 (0.90%) PKI
16 13 (0.78%) Replication
17 12 (0.72%) Mainframe
18 11 (0.66%) VSAM
19 10 (0.60%) Clustering
20 8 (0.48%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 131 (7.85%) Unix
2 63 (3.77%) Linux
3 37 (2.22%) Windows
4 19 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (0.60%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.24%) Mesosphere
7 1 (0.060%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,335 (79.99%) Software Engineering
2 1,328 (79.57%) Agile
3 1,112 (66.63%) SDLC
4 1,105 (66.21%) CI/CD
5 1,030 (61.71%) Operational Stability
6 750 (44.94%) Machine Learning
7 749 (44.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 680 (40.74%) Community of Practice
9 410 (24.57%) Continuous Improvement
10 401 (24.03%) Visualisation
11 369 (22.11%) Risk Management
12 296 (17.74%) Decision-Making
13 277 (16.60%) Microservices
14 270 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
15 254 (15.22%) Architectural Design
16 233 (13.96%) Continuous Delivery
17 230 (13.78%) TDD
18 228 (13.66%) Information Architecture
19 217 (13.00%) DevOps
20 205 (12.28%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 942 (56.44%) Java
2 686 (41.10%) Python
3 541 (32.41%) SQL
4 293 (17.56%) JavaScript
5 224 (13.42%) Scala
6 150 (8.99%) TypeScript
7 119 (7.13%) PL/SQL
8 88 (5.27%) C#
9 40 (2.40%) Go
10 30 (1.80%) Bash
10 30 (1.80%) PHP
11 23 (1.38%) Groovy
12 16 (0.96%) PowerShell
12 16 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 13 (0.78%) C++
14 11 (0.66%) COBOL
14 11 (0.66%) JCL
15 7 (0.42%) C
16 6 (0.36%) Perl
16 6 (0.36%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 88 (5.27%) Security Cleared
2 75 (4.49%) SC Cleared
3 48 (2.88%) Degree
4 47 (2.82%) AWS Certification
5 23 (1.38%) Azure Certification
6 21 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (1.02%) CCNA
8 16 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 12 (0.72%) CISSP
11 6 (0.36%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.36%) CISM
11 6 (0.36%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.30%) Master's Degree
13 4 (0.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (0.24%) CISA
13 4 (0.24%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (0.24%) PhD
13 4 (0.24%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.18%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (3.65%) SLA
2 45 (2.70%) QA
3 39 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 38 (2.28%) 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 (6.11%) HDFS
2 83 (4.97%) Docker
3 23 (1.38%) VMware NSX
4 18 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (0.78%) Hyper-V
6 11 (0.66%) Time Sharing Option
7 4 (0.24%) 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
1 297 (17.80%) Terraform
2 209 (12.52%) Kubernetes
3 107 (6.41%) Grafana
4 41 (2.46%) Prometheus
5 33 (1.98%) Ansible
6 13 (0.78%) FortiGate
7 10 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.60%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.42%) Puppet
9 4 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (0.24%) Istio
10 3 (0.18%) Autotask
11 2 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.12%) ZABBIX
12 1 (0.060%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.060%) Kibana
Vendors
1 252 (15.10%) Databricks
2 138 (8.27%) Oracle
3 108 (6.47%) Splunk
4 106 (6.35%) Dynatrace
5 100 (5.99%) Google
6 86 (5.15%) Informatica
7 72 (4.31%) Cloudera
8 60 (3.59%) ESRI
9 57 (3.42%) Alteryx
10 52 (3.12%) Microsoft
11 39 (2.34%) VMware
12 20 (1.20%) Atlassian
13 19 (1.14%) Cisco
14 18 (1.08%) Cognos
14 18 (1.08%) Dell
14 18 (1.08%) SaltStack
14 18 (1.08%) Sybase
15 14 (0.84%) ServiceNow
16 13 (0.78%) NetApp
17 10 (0.60%) Sparx