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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -41 -1 +2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 492 742 822
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.33% 15.66% 14.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.89% 16.62% 15.82%
Number of salaries quoted 213 394 450
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £66,786 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.32% +12.24% +19.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £98,087 £97,328 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.80%

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 6,235 4,465 5,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.87% 94.26% 91.05%
Number of salaries quoted 2,418 2,242 2,777
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,125 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,905 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% +10.30% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -67 248 £65,000 +8.33% 24
Edinburgh -6 197 £70,576 +1.62% 38
Aberdeen -4 15 £42,500 -22.73% 6
Lanarkshire 0 10 - - 7
Fife -7 6 - -
Dundee -8 5 £45,000 - 3
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 33 (6.71%) Confluence
3 14 (2.85%) Cloud Foundry
4 12 (2.44%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.42%) Captiva
5 7 (1.42%) FileNet
5 7 (1.42%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.02%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.41%) CMS
7 2 (0.41%) 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
1 214 (43.50%) Azure
2 209 (42.48%) AWS
3 80 (16.26%) GCP
4 57 (11.59%) 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 20 (4.07%) GitHub
11 15 (3.05%) BlazeMeter
11 15 (3.05%) Power Platform
12 14 (2.85%) Serverless
13 12 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.03%) OpenShift
15 9 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
16 8 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
16 8 (1.63%) Entra ID
17 7 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
17 7 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
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 50 (10.16%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.32%) Looker
5 32 (6.50%) MongoDB
6 31 (6.30%) SQL Server
7 28 (5.69%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.86%) BigQuery
9 18 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
10 16 (3.25%) Apache Cassandra
10 16 (3.25%) Elasticsearch
11 14 (2.85%) Oracle Database
12 12 (2.44%) Big Data
12 12 (2.44%) MySQL
13 11 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (2.24%) Power BI
14 7 (1.42%) RDBMS
15 5 (1.02%) Pentaho
15 5 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (13.01%) JIRA
2 62 (12.60%) Jenkins
3 45 (9.15%) Git
4 25 (5.08%) Cypress.io
5 19 (3.86%) Cucumber
5 19 (3.86%) JUnit
6 14 (2.85%) Oracle Forms
7 12 (2.44%) IBM UrbanCode
7 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio
8 11 (2.24%) Bitbucket
9 10 (2.03%) Maven
10 9 (1.83%) Selenium
10 9 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (1.42%) MSTest
12 6 (1.22%) GitLab
12 6 (1.22%) JDeveloper
12 6 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
13 5 (1.02%) SonarQube
13 5 (1.02%) Spinnaker
14 4 (0.81%) webpack
General
1 215 (43.70%) Finance
2 139 (28.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 124 (25.20%) Law
4 119 (24.19%) Social Skills
5 90 (18.29%) Banking
6 84 (17.07%) Marketing
7 30 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.66%) Private Banking
9 15 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.85%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.85%) Military
10 14 (2.85%) Retail Banking
11 9 (1.83%) Legal
12 8 (1.63%) Games
13 7 (1.42%) Billing
14 4 (0.81%) Advertising
14 4 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (0.81%) Retail
15 2 (0.41%) Aviation
15 2 (0.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 174 (35.37%) Software Engineer
2 113 (22.97%) Senior
3 95 (19.31%) Lead
4 60 (12.20%) Developer
5 54 (10.98%) Senior Software Engineer
6 38 (7.72%) Java Engineer
7 37 (7.52%) Lead Software Engineer
8 35 (7.11%) Java Software Engineer
9 32 (6.50%) User Experience Researcher
10 30 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
11 26 (5.28%) Cloud Engineer
12 25 (5.08%) Senior Developer
13 23 (4.67%) Architect
13 23 (4.67%) UI Engineer
14 22 (4.47%) Data Engineer
15 18 (3.66%) Full Stack Engineer
16 16 (3.25%) Agile Coach
16 16 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
16 16 (3.25%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 15 (3.05%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (30.69%) React
2 107 (21.75%) CSS
3 84 (17.07%) .NET
4 61 (12.40%) .NET Core
5 60 (12.20%) Leaflet
5 60 (12.20%) OpenLayers
5 60 (12.20%) PostGIS
6 56 (11.38%) HTML
7 52 (10.57%) Spring
8 48 (9.76%) Kafka
9 39 (7.93%) Node.js
10 38 (7.72%) Spring Boot
11 29 (5.89%) AngularJS
12 18 (3.66%) ASP.NET
13 16 (3.25%) RESTful
14 15 (3.05%) Vue
15 14 (2.85%) JDBC
15 14 (2.85%) JSON
15 14 (2.85%) Web Services
16 13 (2.64%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 58 (11.79%) Product Ownership
2 56 (11.38%) Public Cloud
3 27 (5.49%) Private Cloud
4 18 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.05%) Data Centre
5 15 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
6 14 (2.85%) Replication
7 13 (2.64%) Algorithms
8 12 (2.44%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.03%) Cloud Native
9 10 (2.03%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.63%) IoT
12 7 (1.42%) DataPower
12 7 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
13 6 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
15 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
15 4 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.26%) Linux
2 44 (8.94%) Windows
3 30 (6.10%) Unix
4 21 (4.27%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.85%) Mac OS X
6 9 (1.83%) Ubuntu
7 7 (1.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.81%) Android
8 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.81%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) CoreOS
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (70.93%) Agile
2 200 (40.65%) Software Engineering
3 144 (29.27%) Mentoring
4 137 (27.85%) Actionable Insight
4 137 (27.85%) CI/CD
5 86 (17.48%) Continuous Integration
6 84 (17.07%) SDLC
7 76 (15.45%) Analytics
8 74 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (14.23%) Visualisation
10 67 (13.62%) Web Development
11 63 (12.80%) Microservices
12 61 (12.40%) Roadmaps
13 56 (11.38%) User Experience
13 56 (11.38%) User Research
14 55 (11.18%) Full Stack Development
15 52 (10.57%) TDD
16 50 (10.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 48 (9.76%) Coaching
17 48 (9.76%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 154 (31.30%) JavaScript
2 123 (25.00%) SQL
3 121 (24.59%) Python
4 106 (21.54%) Java
5 66 (13.41%) C#
6 30 (6.10%) Bash
7 23 (4.67%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.66%) TypeScript
9 13 (2.64%) PHP
10 12 (2.44%) Groovy
10 12 (2.44%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.83%) Ruby
12 8 (1.63%) Perl
13 7 (1.42%) Go
14 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.81%) C
15 4 (0.81%) Scala
15 4 (0.81%) Swift
16 2 (0.41%) C++
17 1 (0.20%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (19.11%) 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%) ISEB
8 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
8 4 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.61%) CCNP
9 3 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (0.61%) OCP
10 2 (0.41%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 28 (5.69%) QA
3 22 (4.47%) PMO
4 16 (3.25%) GDPR
5 5 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.81%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.41%) NCSC
7 2 (0.41%) NIST
8 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 48 (9.76%) 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%) vSphere
6 1 (0.20%) KVM
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.20%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (15.24%) Terraform
2 63 (12.80%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.52%) Ansible
4 28 (5.69%) Grafana
5 13 (2.64%) FortiGate
6 10 (2.03%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.61%) Rancher
10 2 (0.41%) Istio
10 2 (0.41%) Kibana
10 2 (0.41%) Puppet
10 2 (0.41%) SCCM
11 1 (0.20%) CA Endevor
11 1 (0.20%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.20%) Nagios
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 60 (12.20%) ESRI
2 42 (8.54%) Microsoft
3 37 (7.52%) Google
4 32 (6.50%) Qualtrics
5 29 (5.89%) Oracle
6 23 (4.67%) ServiceNow
7 22 (4.47%) Splunk
8 21 (4.27%) IBM
9 20 (4.07%) Atlassian
10 19 (3.86%) Cisco
11 17 (3.46%) Dynatrace
12 15 (3.05%) Dell
13 13 (2.64%) NetApp
13 13 (2.64%) VMware
14 10 (2.03%) Databricks
15 7 (1.42%) Kofax
15 7 (1.42%) Pega
15 7 (1.42%) SAP
16 5 (1.02%) AppDynamics
16 5 (1.02%) Sybase