DevOps Jobs in Scotland

DevOps
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 12 7
Rank change year-on-year -38 -5 +5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 492 697 890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.33% 15.25% 15.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 16.17% 16.58%
Number of salaries quoted 201 354 494
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,453 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £65,000 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +9.24% +19.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,328 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,192 4,310 5,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.23% 94.31% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,403 2,153 2,812
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,297 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +12.24%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 18 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 -65 258 £70,000 +24.44% 21
Edinburgh -3 186 £70,000 +0.80% 35
Aberdeen -6 15 £42,500 -22.73% 6
Lanarkshire +2 10 - - 13
Fife -4 6 - -
Dundee -7 5 £45,000 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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 60 (12.20%) ArcGIS
1 60 (12.20%) GeoServer
2 31 (6.30%) Confluence
3 15 (3.05%) Cloud Foundry
4 11 (2.24%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.42%) Umbraco
6 6 (1.22%) Captiva
6 6 (1.22%) FileNet
7 5 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.02%) WordPress
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Drupal
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (6.50%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.44%) Sketch
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 219 (44.51%) Azure
2 214 (43.50%) AWS
3 78 (15.85%) GCP
4 56 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (8.94%) Figma
6 41 (8.33%) SaaS
7 32 (6.50%) SurveyMonkey
8 26 (5.28%) PaaS
9 24 (4.88%) IaaS
10 17 (3.46%) GitHub
11 15 (3.05%) BlazeMeter
11 15 (3.05%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.64%) Serverless
13 12 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.44%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.63%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.67%) Firewall
2 17 (3.46%) SD-WAN
3 16 (3.25%) VPN
4 13 (2.64%) WAN
5 6 (1.22%) Internet
5 6 (1.22%) Network Security
6 4 (0.81%) Wireless
7 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.20%) GIS
2 60 (12.20%) QGIS
3 49 (9.96%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.32%) Looker
5 33 (6.71%) MongoDB
6 31 (6.30%) SQL Server
7 28 (5.69%) Relational Database
8 17 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
8 17 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
9 16 (3.25%) BigQuery
10 15 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (2.44%) MySQL
12 11 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.24%) Big Data
12 11 (2.24%) Oracle Database
12 11 (2.24%) Power BI
13 8 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
14 7 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.02%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 59 (11.99%) JIRA
2 52 (10.57%) Jenkins
3 41 (8.33%) Git
4 24 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.66%) JUnit
6 16 (3.25%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio
8 11 (2.24%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.24%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (2.03%) Maven
10 8 (1.63%) IBM UrbanCode
10 8 (1.63%) Selenium
11 7 (1.42%) MSTest
12 6 (1.22%) JDeveloper
13 5 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.02%) Spinnaker
13 5 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.81%) GitLab
14 4 (0.81%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 205 (41.67%) Finance
2 140 (28.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 127 (25.81%) Law
4 125 (25.41%) Social Skills
5 84 (17.07%) Marketing
6 78 (15.85%) Banking
7 31 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.66%) Private Banking
9 15 (3.05%) Investment Banking
9 15 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.85%) Military
11 12 (2.44%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.83%) Legal
13 8 (1.63%) Games
14 7 (1.42%) Billing
15 4 (0.81%) Advertising
16 3 (0.61%) Public Sector
16 3 (0.61%) Retail
17 2 (0.41%) Aviation
18 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 161 (32.72%) Software Engineer
2 110 (22.36%) Senior
3 95 (19.31%) Lead
4 60 (12.20%) Developer
5 51 (10.37%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (7.93%) Java Engineer
7 36 (7.32%) Architect
7 36 (7.32%) Java Software Engineer
8 35 (7.11%) Lead Software Engineer
9 32 (6.50%) User Experience Researcher
10 26 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (4.67%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.67%) Senior Developer
12 23 (4.67%) UI Engineer
13 19 (3.86%) Full Stack Engineer
14 17 (3.46%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 16 (3.25%) Agile Coach
16 15 (3.05%) Lead Java Engineer
17 14 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (29.07%) React
2 108 (21.95%) CSS
3 83 (16.87%) .NET
4 61 (12.40%) .NET Core
5 60 (12.20%) Leaflet
5 60 (12.20%) OpenLayers
5 60 (12.20%) PostGIS
6 57 (11.59%) HTML
7 53 (10.77%) Spring
8 48 (9.76%) Kafka
9 34 (6.91%) Node.js
10 33 (6.71%) Spring Boot
11 27 (5.49%) AngularJS
12 18 (3.66%) ASP.NET
13 15 (3.05%) JDBC
13 15 (3.05%) Vue
14 12 (2.44%) JSON
15 11 (2.24%) REST
15 11 (2.24%) RESTful
15 11 (2.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.77%) Product Ownership
2 52 (10.57%) Public Cloud
3 27 (5.49%) Private Cloud
4 21 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.86%) Management Information System
6 15 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.64%) Replication
8 12 (2.44%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.83%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
10 8 (1.63%) IoT
11 6 (1.22%) DataPower
12 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 74 (15.04%) Linux
2 40 (8.13%) Windows
3 27 (5.49%) Unix
4 21 (4.27%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.85%) Mac OS X
6 9 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.81%) Android
8 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.81%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (70.93%) Agile
2 184 (37.40%) Software Engineering
3 139 (28.25%) Mentoring
4 137 (27.85%) CI/CD
5 135 (27.44%) Actionable Insight
6 82 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 82 (16.67%) SDLC
7 75 (15.24%) Analytics
8 72 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (14.23%) Visualisation
10 67 (13.62%) Web Development
11 60 (12.20%) Roadmaps
12 56 (11.38%) Microservices
12 56 (11.38%) User Experience
12 56 (11.38%) User Research
13 53 (10.77%) TDD
14 50 (10.16%) Full Stack Development
15 48 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
15 48 (9.76%) Systems Thinking
16 47 (9.55%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 147 (29.88%) JavaScript
2 121 (24.59%) SQL
3 120 (24.39%) Python
4 102 (20.73%) Java
5 67 (13.62%) C#
6 24 (4.88%) Bash
7 20 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.25%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.44%) Groovy
9 12 (2.44%) PHP
10 11 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.83%) Ruby
12 7 (1.42%) Perl
13 6 (1.22%) Go
14 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.81%) C
15 4 (0.81%) Swift
16 3 (0.61%) Scala
17 2 (0.41%) DataWeave
17 2 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 97 (19.72%) Degree
2 87 (17.68%) Security Cleared
3 86 (17.48%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.07%) CCNA
4 20 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.25%) CISSP
6 14 (2.85%) CISM
6 14 (2.85%) GCIA
6 14 (2.85%) GCIH
6 14 (2.85%) GREM
7 7 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.81%) ISEB
8 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (0.81%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.61%) CCNP
9 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 30 (6.10%) QA
3 22 (4.47%) PMO
4 15 (3.05%) GDPR
5 4 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.81%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.41%) NCSC
6 2 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 38 (7.72%) Docker
2 13 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.64%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) KVM
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 69 (14.02%) Terraform
2 53 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.52%) Ansible
4 26 (5.28%) Grafana
5 13 (2.64%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.41%) Istio
9 2 (0.41%) Rancher
9 2 (0.41%) SCCM
10 1 (0.20%) Kibana
10 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (12.20%) ESRI
2 40 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.50%) Google
3 32 (6.50%) Qualtrics
4 25 (5.08%) Oracle
5 22 (4.47%) ServiceNow
6 21 (4.27%) Splunk
7 20 (4.07%) Atlassian
8 19 (3.86%) Cisco
9 17 (3.46%) IBM
10 16 (3.25%) Dynatrace
11 14 (2.85%) Dell
12 13 (2.64%) NetApp
12 13 (2.64%) VMware
13 10 (2.03%) Databricks
14 6 (1.22%) Kofax
14 6 (1.22%) Pega
14 6 (1.22%) SAP
15 5 (1.02%) CA
15 5 (1.02%) Sybase