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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -37 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 487 652 905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.15% 14.59% 14.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.84% 15.45% 16.42%
Number of salaries quoted 190 334 500
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,786 £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 £81,875 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £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 6,212 4,221 5,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 91.15% 94.45% 91.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,458 2,081 2,845
10th Percentile £28,425 £32,000 £31,133
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £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 £82,800
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 29 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 29 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 -58 259 £71,250 +29.55% 21
Edinburgh -6 179 £70,000 +0.80% 37
Aberdeen -7 16 £42,500 -22.73% 9
Lanarkshire -1 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 (12.32%) ArcGIS
1 60 (12.32%) GeoServer
2 31 (6.37%) Confluence
3 15 (3.08%) Cloud Foundry
4 9 (1.85%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.44%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.03%) WordPress
7 4 (0.82%) Captiva
7 4 (0.82%) FileNet
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 31 (6.37%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.46%) Sketch
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 227 (46.61%) Azure
2 218 (44.76%) AWS
3 74 (15.20%) GCP
4 57 (11.70%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (8.83%) Figma
6 40 (8.21%) SaaS
7 31 (6.37%) SurveyMonkey
8 26 (5.34%) PaaS
9 24 (4.93%) IaaS
10 19 (3.90%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.08%) BlazeMeter
12 14 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
13 12 (2.46%) GitHub
14 10 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.05%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.64%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.64%) Entra ID
15 8 (1.64%) Serverless
16 7 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (1.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.31%) Firewall
2 17 (3.49%) SD-WAN
3 14 (2.87%) VPN
4 13 (2.67%) WAN
5 6 (1.23%) Network Security
6 4 (0.82%) Internet
7 3 (0.62%) BGP
8 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.35%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.32%) GIS
2 60 (12.32%) QGIS
3 48 (9.86%) NoSQL
4 35 (7.19%) Looker
5 33 (6.78%) MongoDB
6 29 (5.95%) SQL Server
7 23 (4.72%) Relational Database
8 21 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.49%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (3.29%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.08%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (3.08%) Power BI
12 13 (2.67%) MySQL
13 12 (2.46%) Geospatial Data
14 11 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (2.26%) Big Data
15 9 (1.85%) Tableau
16 6 (1.23%) Data Vault
17 5 (1.03%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 59 (12.11%) JIRA
2 50 (10.27%) Jenkins
3 36 (7.39%) Git
4 24 (4.93%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.70%) JUnit
6 16 (3.29%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.46%) Visual Studio
8 11 (2.26%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.64%) Maven
10 7 (1.44%) MSTest
10 7 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (1.23%) Selenium
12 5 (1.03%) IBM UrbanCode
12 5 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.82%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.82%) webpack
14 3 (0.62%) GitLab
14 3 (0.62%) Spinnaker
General
1 193 (39.63%) Finance
2 137 (28.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 125 (25.67%) Law
3 125 (25.67%) Social Skills
4 82 (16.84%) Marketing
5 68 (13.96%) Banking
6 31 (6.37%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (3.70%) Private Banking
8 15 (3.08%) Investment Banking
9 14 (2.87%) Military
10 13 (2.67%) Retail Banking
11 9 (1.85%) Legal
12 8 (1.64%) Games
13 7 (1.44%) Billing
14 4 (0.82%) Advertising
15 3 (0.62%) Retail
16 2 (0.41%) Aviation
16 2 (0.41%) Public Sector
17 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 149 (30.60%) Software Engineer
2 109 (22.38%) Senior
3 95 (19.51%) Lead
4 62 (12.73%) Developer
5 50 (10.27%) Senior Software Engineer
6 44 (9.03%) Architect
7 37 (7.60%) Java Engineer
8 34 (6.98%) Java Software Engineer
8 34 (6.98%) Lead Software Engineer
9 31 (6.37%) User Experience Researcher
10 27 (5.54%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (4.93%) Senior Developer
12 23 (4.72%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.72%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (4.52%) UI Engineer
14 19 (3.90%) Full Stack Engineer
15 17 (3.49%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 16 (3.29%) Agile Coach
17 15 (3.08%) Lead Java Engineer
18 14 (2.87%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (28.13%) React
2 108 (22.18%) CSS
3 83 (17.04%) .NET
4 60 (12.32%) .NET Core
4 60 (12.32%) Leaflet
4 60 (12.32%) OpenLayers
4 60 (12.32%) PostGIS
5 57 (11.70%) HTML
6 51 (10.47%) Spring
7 47 (9.65%) Kafka
8 32 (6.57%) Node.js
8 32 (6.57%) Spring Boot
9 28 (5.75%) AngularJS
10 17 (3.49%) ASP.NET
11 15 (3.08%) JDBC
12 14 (2.87%) Vue
13 10 (2.05%) Django
13 10 (2.05%) JSON
13 10 (2.05%) RESTful
14 9 (1.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 53 (10.88%) Product Ownership
2 48 (9.86%) Public Cloud
3 25 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (4.93%) Private Cloud
5 19 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.67%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.67%) Replication
8 12 (2.46%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.64%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.64%) IoT
11 7 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.03%) 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 69 (14.17%) Linux
2 38 (7.80%) Windows
3 26 (5.34%) Unix
4 19 (3.90%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.87%) Mac OS X
6 10 (2.05%) 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 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (70.43%) Agile
2 171 (35.11%) Software Engineering
3 140 (28.75%) CI/CD
4 133 (27.31%) Mentoring
5 130 (26.69%) Actionable Insight
6 79 (16.22%) SDLC
7 78 (16.02%) Analytics
8 73 (14.99%) Continuous Integration
9 72 (14.78%) Problem-Solving
10 69 (14.17%) Visualisation
11 67 (13.76%) Web Development
12 59 (12.11%) Roadmaps
12 59 (12.11%) User Experience
13 55 (11.29%) User Research
14 52 (10.68%) TDD
15 50 (10.27%) Full Stack Development
15 50 (10.27%) Microservices
16 49 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
17 47 (9.65%) Systems Thinking
18 46 (9.45%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 143 (29.36%) JavaScript
2 117 (24.02%) Python
3 111 (22.79%) SQL
4 94 (19.30%) Java
5 67 (13.76%) C#
6 21 (4.31%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.49%) Bash
7 17 (3.49%) TypeScript
8 12 (2.46%) PHP
9 11 (2.26%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.85%) Groovy
11 6 (1.23%) Ruby
12 5 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.82%) Bicep
13 4 (0.82%) C
13 4 (0.82%) Perl
13 4 (0.82%) Swift
14 3 (0.62%) Scala
15 2 (0.41%) Go
15 2 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 93 (19.10%) Degree
2 89 (18.28%) Security Cleared
3 88 (18.07%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.11%) CCNA
4 20 (4.11%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.29%) CISSP
6 14 (2.87%) CISM
6 14 (2.87%) GCIA
6 14 (2.87%) GCIH
6 14 (2.87%) GREM
7 9 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.03%) 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 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.62%) CCNP
11 2 (0.41%) ACCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.37%) Actionable Recommendations
2 27 (5.54%) QA
3 21 (4.31%) PMO
4 13 (2.67%) 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 (0.21%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 38 (7.80%) Docker
2 13 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.67%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.05%) 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 67 (13.76%) Terraform
2 53 (10.88%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.60%) Ansible
4 26 (5.34%) Grafana
5 13 (2.67%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.41%) Rancher
10 2 (0.41%) SCCM
11 1 (0.21%) Kibana
11 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (12.32%) ESRI
2 38 (7.80%) Microsoft
3 31 (6.37%) Qualtrics
4 29 (5.95%) Google
5 22 (4.52%) ServiceNow
6 21 (4.31%) Splunk
7 19 (3.90%) Atlassian
7 19 (3.90%) Cisco
8 17 (3.49%) Oracle
9 16 (3.29%) Dynatrace
10 14 (2.87%) Dell
11 13 (2.67%) NetApp
11 13 (2.67%) VMware
12 10 (2.05%) Databricks
12 10 (2.05%) IBM
13 5 (1.03%) AppDynamics
13 5 (1.03%) CA
13 5 (1.03%) Sybase
14 4 (0.82%) ForgeRock
14 4 (0.82%) Pega