AWS Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Amazon Web Services Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Amazon Web Services Engineer salary in Scotland is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 212 250
Rank change year-on-year +125 +38 -100
Permanent jobs requiring an AWS Engineer 272 3 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.98% 0.070% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.10% 0.078% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 11
10th Percentile £55,000 £66,875 -
25th Percentile £58,750 £71,563 £67,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £81,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% +16.07% +47.37%
75th Percentile £61,250 £89,063 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £92,625 £80,000
UK median annual salary £82,500 £80,000 £83,000
% change year-on-year +3.13% -3.61% +18.57%

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%

AWS Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing AWS Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for AWS Engineer in Scotland

AWS 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 AWS Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 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 - 260 £62,500 - 1
Edinburgh +29 6 £60,000 -26.15% 3
Dundee - 5 £60,000 - 1
Aberdeen - 1 £60,000 -
AWS Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, AWS 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 AWS Engineer in the job title.

1 272 (100.00%) AWS
2 262 (96.32%) Software Engineering
3 260 (95.59%) Agile
3 260 (95.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 257 (94.49%) Finance
4 257 (94.49%) Law
5 254 (93.38%) Operational Stability
6 253 (93.01%) SDLC
7 240 (88.24%) CI/CD
8 183 (67.28%) NoSQL
8 183 (67.28%) Legal
8 183 (67.28%) Risk Management
8 183 (67.28%) SQL
9 180 (66.18%) Visualisation
9 180 (66.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 180 (66.18%) Algorithms
10 171 (62.87%) Machine Learning
10 171 (62.87%) Artificial Intelligence
11 160 (58.82%) Python
12 158 (58.09%) Community of Practice
13 151 (55.51%) Apache Spark
14 138 (50.74%) Java
15 121 (44.49%) Hadoop
16 117 (43.01%) Databricks
17 114 (41.91%) Big Data
18 84 (30.88%) Scala
19 83 (30.51%) Apache
20 75 (27.57%) Problem-Solving
21 72 (26.47%) Terraform
22 71 (26.10%) Test Automation

AWS 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:

Application Platforms
1 151 (55.51%) Apache Spark
2 83 (30.51%) Apache
3 1 (0.37%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 272 (100.00%) AWS
2 46 (16.91%) Serverless
3 43 (15.81%) Amazon EC2
3 43 (15.81%) Amazon ECS
3 43 (15.81%) AWS Lambda
4 42 (15.44%) Amazon EKS
4 42 (15.44%) Amazon EMR
4 42 (15.44%) Amazon SQS
5 34 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.21%) Azure
7 5 (1.84%) GitHub
8 3 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.10%) Datadog
9 2 (0.74%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.37%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.37%) GCP
10 1 (0.37%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.37%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.37%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 183 (67.28%) NoSQL
2 121 (44.49%) Hadoop
3 114 (41.91%) Big Data
4 67 (24.63%) Apache Hive
4 67 (24.63%) HBase
5 42 (15.44%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 68 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 67 (24.63%) Bitbucket Server
2 67 (24.63%) Git
3 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.37%) GitLab
3 1 (0.37%) JIRA
General
1 260 (95.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 257 (94.49%) Finance
2 257 (94.49%) Law
3 183 (67.28%) Legal
4 55 (20.22%) Marketing
5 35 (12.87%) Banking
5 35 (12.87%) Investment Banking
6 33 (12.13%) Financial Institution
7 16 (5.88%) Games
8 15 (5.51%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Social Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.10%) Node.js
1 3 (1.10%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (1.10%) React
2 1 (0.37%) .NET
2 1 (0.37%) AWS CDK
2 1 (0.37%) Kafka
2 1 (0.37%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 180 (66.18%) Algorithms
2 55 (20.22%) Cloud Native
3 33 (12.13%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.37%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.37%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (0.37%) IoT
5 1 (0.37%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 67 (24.63%) Unix
2 1 (0.37%) Linux
2 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (96.32%) Software Engineering
2 260 (95.59%) Agile
3 254 (93.38%) Operational Stability
4 253 (93.01%) SDLC
5 240 (88.24%) CI/CD
6 183 (67.28%) Risk Management
7 180 (66.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 180 (66.18%) Visualisation
8 171 (62.87%) Artificial Intelligence
8 171 (62.87%) Machine Learning
9 158 (58.09%) Community of Practice
10 75 (27.57%) Problem-Solving
11 71 (26.10%) Test Automation
12 68 (25.00%) TDD
13 67 (24.63%) Batch Processing
13 67 (24.63%) Open Source
14 48 (17.65%) Data Analysis
15 42 (15.44%) Performance Tuning
16 41 (15.07%) Decision-Making
17 40 (14.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 183 (67.28%) SQL
2 160 (58.82%) Python
3 138 (50.74%) Java
4 84 (30.88%) Scala
5 67 (24.63%) PL/SQL
6 42 (15.44%) JavaScript
7 6 (2.21%) Bash
8 5 (1.84%) Perl
9 1 (0.37%) C#
9 1 (0.37%) Groovy
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 67 (24.63%) HDFS
2 5 (1.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 72 (26.47%) Terraform
2 5 (1.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.47%) Grafana
4 3 (1.10%) Ansible
4 3 (1.10%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.37%) Kibana
5 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 117 (43.01%) Databricks
2 67 (24.63%) Informatica
3 37 (13.60%) Cloudera
4 3 (1.10%) Splunk