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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 14 7
Rank change year-on-year -34 -7 +6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 490 652 907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.22% 14.58% 14.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.91% 15.43% 16.43%
Number of salaries quoted 192 335 502
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,881 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £80,625 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,376 £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 6,197 4,226 5,521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.25% 94.48% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 2,092 2,855
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
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 28 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 28 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 -58 260 £71,250 +29.55% 21
Edinburgh -5 181 £70,000 +0.80% 36
Aberdeen -6 16 £42,500 -22.73% 9
Lanarkshire 0 10 - - 13
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 (12.24%) ArcGIS
1 60 (12.24%) GeoServer
2 31 (6.33%) Confluence
3 15 (3.06%) Cloud Foundry
4 9 (1.84%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.43%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.02%) WordPress
7 4 (0.82%) Captiva
7 4 (0.82%) FileNet
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (6.33%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.45%) Sketch
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 227 (46.33%) Azure
2 217 (44.29%) AWS
3 76 (15.51%) GCP
4 57 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (8.78%) Figma
6 40 (8.16%) SaaS
7 31 (6.33%) SurveyMonkey
8 26 (5.31%) PaaS
9 24 (4.90%) IaaS
10 19 (3.88%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.06%) BlazeMeter
12 14 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (2.45%) GitHub
14 11 (2.24%) OpenShift
15 10 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
15 10 (2.04%) Serverless
16 8 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (1.63%) Entra ID
17 7 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
18 6 (1.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.29%) Firewall
2 17 (3.47%) SD-WAN
3 14 (2.86%) VPN
4 13 (2.65%) WAN
5 6 (1.22%) Network Security
6 4 (0.82%) Internet
7 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.27%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.24%) GIS
2 60 (12.24%) QGIS
3 48 (9.80%) NoSQL
4 35 (7.14%) Looker
5 33 (6.73%) MongoDB
6 29 (5.92%) SQL Server
7 25 (5.10%) Relational Database
8 21 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (3.27%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (3.06%) Power BI
12 13 (2.65%) MySQL
13 11 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.24%) Big Data
13 11 (2.24%) Geospatial Data
14 9 (1.84%) Tableau
15 7 (1.43%) Oracle Database
16 6 (1.22%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 59 (12.04%) JIRA
2 50 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 38 (7.76%) Git
4 24 (4.90%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.67%) JUnit
6 16 (3.27%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.45%) Visual Studio
8 11 (2.24%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.63%) Maven
10 7 (1.43%) MSTest
10 7 (1.43%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (1.22%) IBM UrbanCode
11 6 (1.22%) Selenium
12 5 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.82%) JDeveloper
13 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.82%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.82%) webpack
14 3 (0.61%) GitLab
General
1 195 (39.80%) Finance
2 137 (27.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 126 (25.71%) Social Skills
4 125 (25.51%) Law
5 82 (16.73%) Marketing
6 70 (14.29%) Banking
7 31 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
8 19 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
9 18 (3.67%) Private Banking
10 15 (3.06%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.86%) Military
12 13 (2.65%) Retail Banking
13 9 (1.84%) Legal
14 8 (1.63%) Games
15 7 (1.43%) Billing
16 4 (0.82%) Advertising
17 3 (0.61%) Retail
18 2 (0.41%) Aviation
18 2 (0.41%) Public Sector
19 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 151 (30.82%) Software Engineer
2 110 (22.45%) Senior
3 95 (19.39%) Lead
4 62 (12.65%) Developer
5 50 (10.20%) Senior Software Engineer
6 43 (8.78%) Architect
7 37 (7.55%) Java Engineer
8 34 (6.94%) Java Software Engineer
8 34 (6.94%) Lead Software Engineer
9 31 (6.33%) User Experience Researcher
10 27 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (4.90%) DevOps Engineer
11 24 (4.90%) Senior Developer
12 23 (4.69%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.49%) UI Engineer
14 19 (3.88%) Full Stack Engineer
15 17 (3.47%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 16 (3.27%) Agile Coach
17 15 (3.06%) Lead Java Engineer
18 14 (2.86%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (28.37%) React
2 108 (22.04%) CSS
3 83 (16.94%) .NET
4 60 (12.24%) .NET Core
4 60 (12.24%) Leaflet
4 60 (12.24%) OpenLayers
4 60 (12.24%) PostGIS
5 57 (11.63%) HTML
6 51 (10.41%) Spring
7 47 (9.59%) Kafka
8 34 (6.94%) Node.js
9 32 (6.53%) Spring Boot
10 28 (5.71%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.47%) ASP.NET
12 15 (3.06%) JDBC
13 14 (2.86%) Vue
14 10 (2.04%) Django
14 10 (2.04%) JSON
14 10 (2.04%) RESTful
15 9 (1.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.82%) Product Ownership
2 49 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 25 (5.10%) Private Cloud
4 24 (4.90%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (3.88%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.27%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.65%) Replication
8 12 (2.45%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.84%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.84%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.63%) IoT
11 7 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.82%) DataPower
13 4 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.82%) Low-Code
13 4 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 70 (14.29%) Linux
2 39 (7.96%) Windows
3 26 (5.31%) Unix
4 19 (3.88%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.86%) Mac OS X
6 10 (2.04%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.82%) Android
7 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (70.20%) Agile
2 173 (35.31%) Software Engineering
3 140 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 134 (27.35%) Mentoring
5 132 (26.94%) Actionable Insight
6 79 (16.12%) SDLC
7 78 (15.92%) Analytics
8 75 (15.31%) Continuous Integration
9 74 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (14.08%) Visualisation
11 67 (13.67%) Web Development
12 59 (12.04%) Roadmaps
12 59 (12.04%) User Experience
13 55 (11.22%) User Research
14 52 (10.61%) Microservices
14 52 (10.61%) TDD
15 50 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 50 (10.20%) Full Stack Development
16 47 (9.59%) Systems Thinking
17 46 (9.39%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 145 (29.59%) JavaScript
2 119 (24.29%) Python
3 112 (22.86%) SQL
4 96 (19.59%) Java
5 67 (13.67%) C#
6 21 (4.29%) PowerShell
7 19 (3.88%) Bash
8 17 (3.47%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.45%) PHP
10 11 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.04%) Groovy
12 8 (1.63%) Ruby
13 6 (1.22%) Perl
14 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.82%) Bicep
15 4 (0.82%) C
15 4 (0.82%) Go
15 4 (0.82%) Swift
16 3 (0.61%) Scala
17 2 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (18.98%) Degree
2 89 (18.16%) Security Cleared
3 88 (17.96%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.08%) CCNA
4 20 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.27%) CISSP
6 14 (2.86%) CISM
6 14 (2.86%) GCIA
6 14 (2.86%) GCIH
6 14 (2.86%) GREM
7 9 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.82%) ISEB
9 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CCNP
11 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 29 (5.92%) QA
3 21 (4.29%) PMO
4 13 (2.65%) GDPR
5 4 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.82%) 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 (7.76%) Docker
2 13 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.65%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) KVM
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 68 (13.88%) Terraform
2 53 (10.82%) Kubernetes
3 38 (7.76%) Ansible
4 26 (5.31%) Grafana
5 13 (2.65%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.41%) Rancher
9 2 (0.41%) SCCM
10 1 (0.20%) Kibana
10 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (12.24%) ESRI
2 38 (7.76%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.33%) Google
3 31 (6.33%) Qualtrics
4 22 (4.49%) ServiceNow
5 21 (4.29%) Splunk
6 19 (3.88%) Atlassian
6 19 (3.88%) Cisco
6 19 (3.88%) Oracle
7 16 (3.27%) Dynatrace
8 14 (2.86%) Dell
9 13 (2.65%) NetApp
9 13 (2.65%) VMware
10 11 (2.24%) IBM
11 10 (2.04%) Databricks
12 5 (1.02%) AppDynamics
12 5 (1.02%) CA
12 5 (1.02%) Sybase
13 4 (0.82%) ForgeRock
13 4 (0.82%) Pega