DevOps Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Scotland is £70,576 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
30 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 143 89
Rank change year-on-year -105 -54 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 29 80 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.43% 1.69% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 1.88% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 22 50 91
10th Percentile £60,250 £51,125 £47,500
25th Percentile £64,625 £57,188 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.82% +12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £84,375 £85,375 £86,250
UK median annual salary £70,576 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -5.90% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 6,524 4,258 5,511
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 96.85% 90.21% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 2,620 2,311 2,971
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,569 £28,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,499 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £52,750 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.08% - +9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Scotland.

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 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
Edinburgh +7 18 £70,576 -5.90% 1
Glasgow -113 11 £77,500 +31.91% 2
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 19 (65.52%) Terraform
3 19 (65.52%) Agile
4 15 (51.72%) Python
5 14 (48.28%) Azure
6 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (41.38%) Finance
7 12 (41.38%) Kubernetes
8 10 (34.48%) GCP
8 10 (34.48%) Ansible
9 9 (31.03%) Docker
9 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
9 9 (31.03%) Bash
10 8 (27.59%) Public Cloud
10 8 (27.59%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (27.59%) Banking
10 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
11 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
11 7 (24.14%) Groovy
11 7 (24.14%) SQL
11 7 (24.14%) Linux
11 7 (24.14%) OpenShift
12 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
12 6 (20.69%) Software Delivery
12 6 (20.69%) Java
12 6 (20.69%) Windows
12 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
12 6 (20.69%) Git

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) AWS
2 14 (48.28%) Azure
3 10 (34.48%) GCP
4 7 (24.14%) OpenShift
5 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (10.34%) Serverless
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (6.90%) IaaS
8 1 (3.45%) Adobe Analytics
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.45%) Apigee
8 1 (3.45%) GitHub
8 1 (3.45%) Route 53
8 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) VPN
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) InfluxDB
2 2 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) GitLab
2 5 (17.24%) IBM UrbanCode
3 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
4 3 (10.34%) Maven
4 3 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (10.34%) Spinnaker
5 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.45%) Gradle
5 1 (3.45%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (3.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 8 (27.59%) Banking
2 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.79%) Law
4 4 (13.79%) Legal
5 3 (10.34%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) AWS CDK
2 2 (6.90%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.90%) JSON
2 2 (6.90%) Kafka
2 2 (6.90%) React
2 2 (6.90%) React Native
2 2 (6.90%) REST
2 2 (6.90%) Spring
2 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
3 1 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Public Cloud
2 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
2 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.34%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (6.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) CoreOS
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
3 1 (3.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (100.00%) DevOps
2 20 (68.97%) CI/CD
3 19 (65.52%) Agile
4 13 (44.83%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (31.03%) Mentoring
6 8 (27.59%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
8 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (20.69%) Software Delivery
8 6 (20.69%) Software Engineering
9 5 (17.24%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (17.24%) Observability
9 5 (17.24%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (13.79%) Client Onboarding
10 4 (13.79%) Community of Practice
10 4 (13.79%) OO
10 4 (13.79%) Operational Stability
10 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
10 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 15 (51.72%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 7 (24.14%) Groovy
3 7 (24.14%) SQL
4 6 (20.69%) Java
4 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.90%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.45%) Degree
2 1 (3.45%) OCP
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (65.52%) Terraform
2 12 (41.38%) Kubernetes
3 10 (34.48%) Ansible
4 4 (13.79%) Progress Chef
5 3 (10.34%) Grafana
6 2 (6.90%) Istio
6 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
6 2 (6.90%) Rancher
7 1 (3.45%) CA Endevor
7 1 (3.45%) Kibana
7 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Google
2 3 (10.34%) IBM
3 1 (3.45%) Adobe
3 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
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