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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -37 -4 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 493 693 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.31% 15.23% 15.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.96% 16.12% 16.56%
Number of salaries quoted 195 350 501
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% +13.88%
75th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,084 £97,328 £87,500
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 6,194 4,298 5,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.80% 94.48% 91.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,404 2,120 2,834
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £41,233
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 23 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 23 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 -62 260 £72,500 +26.09% 21
Edinburgh -2 184 £70,000 +0.80% 34
Aberdeen -5 16 £42,500 -22.73% 7
Lanarkshire +3 10 - - 12
Fife -6 6 - -
Dundee - 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 (12.17%) ArcGIS
1 60 (12.17%) GeoServer
2 31 (6.29%) Confluence
3 15 (3.04%) Cloud Foundry
4 10 (2.03%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.42%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.01%) Captiva
6 5 (1.01%) FileNet
6 5 (1.01%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.01%) WordPress
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) Drupal
7 1 (0.20%) IIS
7 1 (0.20%) SAS
7 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (6.49%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.43%) Sketch
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 226 (45.84%) Azure
2 220 (44.62%) AWS
3 79 (16.02%) GCP
4 55 (11.16%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (8.92%) Figma
6 41 (8.32%) SaaS
7 32 (6.49%) SurveyMonkey
8 26 (5.27%) PaaS
9 24 (4.87%) IaaS
10 19 (3.85%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.04%) BlazeMeter
11 15 (3.04%) GitHub
12 14 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
13 11 (2.23%) OpenShift
14 10 (2.03%) Serverless
15 8 (1.62%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 7 (1.42%) Entra ID
17 6 (1.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.46%) Firewall
2 17 (3.45%) SD-WAN
3 15 (3.04%) VPN
4 13 (2.64%) WAN
5 6 (1.22%) Network Security
6 5 (1.01%) Internet
7 3 (0.61%) BGP
7 3 (0.61%) Wireless
8 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.98%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.17%) GIS
2 60 (12.17%) QGIS
3 49 (9.94%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.30%) Looker
5 33 (6.69%) MongoDB
6 30 (6.09%) SQL Server
7 26 (5.27%) Relational Database
8 21 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (3.25%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.04%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (3.04%) Power BI
12 12 (2.43%) MySQL
13 11 (2.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.23%) Big Data
14 10 (2.03%) Geospatial Data
15 9 (1.83%) Tableau
16 8 (1.62%) Oracle Database
17 6 (1.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 60 (12.17%) JIRA
2 52 (10.55%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.71%) Git
4 24 (4.87%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.65%) JUnit
6 16 (3.25%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.43%) Visual Studio
8 11 (2.23%) Bitbucket
9 9 (1.83%) Maven
9 9 (1.83%) Oracle Forms
10 7 (1.42%) IBM UrbanCode
10 7 (1.42%) MSTest
10 7 (1.42%) Selenium
11 5 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (0.81%) JDeveloper
12 4 (0.81%) SonarQube
12 4 (0.81%) Spinnaker
12 4 (0.81%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 199 (40.37%) Finance
2 139 (28.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 127 (25.76%) Law
3 127 (25.76%) Social Skills
4 84 (17.04%) Marketing
5 74 (15.01%) Banking
6 31 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
7 19 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.65%) Private Banking
9 15 (3.04%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.84%) Military
11 13 (2.64%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.83%) Legal
13 8 (1.62%) Games
14 7 (1.42%) Billing
15 4 (0.81%) Advertising
16 3 (0.61%) Retail
17 2 (0.41%) Aviation
17 2 (0.41%) Public Sector
18 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 155 (31.44%) Software Engineer
2 109 (22.11%) Senior
3 96 (19.47%) Lead
4 62 (12.58%) Developer
5 50 (10.14%) Senior Software Engineer
6 42 (8.52%) Architect
7 38 (7.71%) Java Engineer
8 35 (7.10%) Java Software Engineer
8 35 (7.10%) Lead Software Engineer
9 32 (6.49%) User Experience Researcher
10 25 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 25 (5.07%) DevOps Engineer
11 23 (4.67%) Data Engineer
11 23 (4.67%) Senior Developer
11 23 (4.67%) UI Engineer
12 19 (3.85%) Full Stack Engineer
13 17 (3.45%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 16 (3.25%) Agile Coach
15 15 (3.04%) Lead Java Engineer
16 14 (2.84%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (28.19%) React
2 108 (21.91%) CSS
3 83 (16.84%) .NET
4 60 (12.17%) .NET Core
4 60 (12.17%) Leaflet
4 60 (12.17%) OpenLayers
4 60 (12.17%) PostGIS
5 57 (11.56%) HTML
6 52 (10.55%) Spring
7 48 (9.74%) Kafka
8 34 (6.90%) Node.js
9 33 (6.69%) Spring Boot
10 27 (5.48%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.45%) ASP.NET
12 15 (3.04%) JDBC
13 14 (2.84%) Vue
14 11 (2.23%) JSON
15 10 (2.03%) Django
15 10 (2.03%) REST
15 10 (2.03%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.95%) Product Ownership
2 51 (10.34%) Public Cloud
3 26 (5.27%) Private Cloud
4 23 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.25%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.64%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.64%) Replication
8 12 (2.43%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.03%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.83%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.62%) IoT
12 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 5 (1.01%) DataPower
13 5 (1.01%) Reference Data
14 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
14 4 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.81%) Linux
2 40 (8.11%) Windows
3 27 (5.48%) Unix
4 20 (4.06%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.84%) Mac OS X
6 10 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.81%) Android
8 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.61%) CentOS
10 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (70.79%) Agile
2 177 (35.90%) Software Engineering
3 139 (28.19%) CI/CD
4 138 (27.99%) Mentoring
5 133 (26.98%) Actionable Insight
6 82 (16.63%) SDLC
7 79 (16.02%) Analytics
8 78 (15.82%) Continuous Integration
9 74 (15.01%) Problem-Solving
10 70 (14.20%) Visualisation
11 67 (13.59%) Web Development
12 60 (12.17%) Roadmaps
12 60 (12.17%) User Experience
13 56 (11.36%) User Research
14 54 (10.95%) TDD
15 53 (10.75%) Microservices
16 50 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 50 (10.14%) Full Stack Development
17 48 (9.74%) Systems Thinking
18 47 (9.53%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 145 (29.41%) JavaScript
2 120 (24.34%) Python
3 117 (23.73%) SQL
4 99 (20.08%) Java
5 67 (13.59%) C#
6 20 (4.06%) Bash
7 19 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.45%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.43%) PHP
10 11 (2.23%) Groovy
10 11 (2.23%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.62%) Ruby
12 6 (1.22%) Perl
13 5 (1.01%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.81%) C
14 4 (0.81%) Go
14 4 (0.81%) Swift
15 3 (0.61%) Scala
16 2 (0.41%) Elixir
16 2 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 96 (19.47%) Degree
2 89 (18.05%) Security Cleared
3 88 (17.85%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.06%) CCNA
4 20 (4.06%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.25%) CISSP
6 14 (2.84%) CISM
6 14 (2.84%) GCIA
6 14 (2.84%) GCIH
6 14 (2.84%) GREM
7 9 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.81%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.81%) ISEB
9 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CCNP
11 2 (0.41%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.49%) Actionable Recommendations
2 28 (5.68%) QA
3 22 (4.46%) PMO
4 14 (2.84%) 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 39 (7.91%) Docker
2 13 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.64%) VMware NSX
3 9 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) KVM
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 68 (13.79%) Terraform
2 54 (10.95%) Kubernetes
3 39 (7.91%) Ansible
4 26 (5.27%) Grafana
5 13 (2.64%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.01%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.41%) Rancher
9 2 (0.41%) SCCM
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) Kibana
10 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (12.17%) ESRI
2 39 (7.91%) Microsoft
3 32 (6.49%) Google
3 32 (6.49%) Qualtrics
4 23 (4.67%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.26%) Oracle
5 21 (4.26%) Splunk
6 20 (4.06%) Atlassian
7 19 (3.85%) Cisco
8 16 (3.25%) Dynatrace
9 14 (2.84%) Dell
9 14 (2.84%) IBM
10 13 (2.64%) NetApp
10 13 (2.64%) VMware
11 10 (2.03%) Databricks
12 5 (1.01%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.01%) CA
12 5 (1.01%) Kofax
12 5 (1.01%) Pega
12 5 (1.01%) Sybase