Tech Ops Jobs in Scotland

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Tech Ops skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Tech Ops over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 213 239
Rank change year-on-year +74 +26 -51
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 166 5 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.46% 0.11% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 0.11% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4 5 7
10th Percentile £41,400 £37,400 £30,625
25th Percentile £52,875 £47,750 £32,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £50,500 £35,250
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% +43.26% -20.79%
75th Percentile £67,750 £65,000 £46,200
90th Percentile - £74,000 £55,200
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year +8.91% -6.65% +3.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Tech Ops 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 6,258 4,470 5,215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.83% 94.26% 90.92%
Number of salaries quoted 2,424 2,249 2,792
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,440 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,654 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +9.82% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,875 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in Scotland

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Tech Ops in Scotland

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in Scotland

Tech Ops
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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 +21 163 £60,000 +81.82% 1
Edinburgh +31 2 £63,500 +25.74%
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 -
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
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 85 (51.20%) Apache Spark
2 18 (10.84%) FileNet
3 17 (10.24%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 87 (52.41%) AWS
2 47 (28.31%) Azure
3 33 (19.88%) GCP
4 18 (10.84%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.61%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.60%) Datadog
6 1 (0.60%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.24%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.20%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.20%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (41.57%) NoSQL
2 52 (31.33%) Big Data
3 20 (12.05%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (10.84%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (10.24%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (10.24%) CockroachDB
6 4 (2.41%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (10.84%) JUnit
2 2 (1.20%) Maven
General
1 162 (97.59%) Finance
1 162 (97.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 162 (97.59%) Law
2 147 (88.55%) Marketing
3 53 (31.93%) Influencing Skills
4 14 (8.43%) Banking
5 12 (7.23%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.61%) Games
7 3 (1.81%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.20%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.60%) Legal
9 1 (0.60%) Local Government
9 1 (0.60%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.60%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 162 (97.59%) Lead
2 161 (96.99%) Senior
3 155 (93.37%) Lead Software Engineer
3 155 (93.37%) Senior Software Engineer
3 155 (93.37%) Software Engineer
4 78 (46.99%) Java Engineer
4 78 (46.99%) Java Software Engineer
4 78 (46.99%) Lead Java Engineer
4 78 (46.99%) Senior Java Engineer
4 78 (46.99%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 51 (30.72%) Big Data Engineer
5 51 (30.72%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 51 (30.72%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 51 (30.72%) Scala Engineer
5 51 (30.72%) Scala Software Engineer
5 51 (30.72%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 51 (30.72%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 51 (30.72%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
6 45 (27.11%) Java Scala Software Engineer
7 12 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (22.29%) Kafka
1 37 (22.29%) Spring
2 35 (21.08%) GraphQL
3 34 (20.48%) PySpark
4 18 (10.84%) AngularJS
4 18 (10.84%) CSS
4 18 (10.84%) Hibernate
4 18 (10.84%) HTML
4 18 (10.84%) J2EE
4 18 (10.84%) JMS
4 18 (10.84%) jQuery
4 18 (10.84%) JSON
4 18 (10.84%) Node.js
4 18 (10.84%) React
4 18 (10.84%) Spring Integration
4 18 (10.84%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 17 (10.24%) OAuth
5 17 (10.24%) REST
6 2 (1.20%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.60%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 50 (30.12%) Cloud Native
2 31 (18.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.20%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.60%) Linux
1 1 (0.60%) Solaris
1 1 (0.60%) Unix
1 1 (0.60%) Windows
1 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (96.99%) Operational Stability
1 161 (96.99%) Software Engineering
2 160 (96.39%) SDLC
3 155 (93.37%) Agile
3 155 (93.37%) Problem-Solving
4 137 (82.53%) Machine Learning
5 136 (81.93%) Artificial Intelligence
6 109 (65.66%) Decision-Making
7 52 (31.33%) Microservices
8 51 (30.72%) Performance Tuning
9 38 (22.89%) ETL
10 34 (20.48%) Data Engineering
10 34 (20.48%) Quality Management
11 33 (19.88%) Computer Science
11 33 (19.88%) Mathematics
12 32 (19.28%) CI/CD
13 30 (18.07%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (10.84%) AOP
14 18 (10.84%) Document Management
15 12 (7.23%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 153 (92.17%) Java
2 88 (53.01%) SQL
3 52 (31.33%) Python
4 51 (30.72%) Scala
5 18 (10.84%) JavaScript
5 18 (10.84%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.23%) C#
7 2 (1.20%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.60%) Go
8 1 (0.60%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (1.20%) CCNP
1 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.60%) Degree
2 1 (0.60%) MRICS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (20.48%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.60%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.60%) Docker
1 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (22.89%) Kubernetes
2 29 (17.47%) Terraform
3 1 (0.60%) Grafana
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 20 (12.05%) Oracle
2 17 (10.24%) Google
3 6 (3.61%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.41%) Databricks
5 2 (1.20%) ForeScout
5 2 (1.20%) Meraki