Operational Stability Job Trends in Scotland

Operational Stability
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Operational Stability skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 41 76
Rank change year-on-year -86 +35 -
Permanent jobs citing Operational Stability 13 158 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.31% 6.04% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 6.67% 2.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £65,000
25th Percentile £103,750 - £66,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £107,500 - £70,000
75th Percentile £111,250 - £70,625
90th Percentile - - £71,000
UK median annual salary £69,305 £64,000 £65,465
% change year-on-year +8.29% -2.24% -3.66%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

Operational Stability falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,872 2,368 2,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.22% 90.59% 83.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,672 1,015 1,411
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,575 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

Operational Stability
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Operational Stability relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Operational Stability job vacancy trend in Scotland

Operational Stability
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Operational Stability.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Operational Stability

Operational Stability
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Operational Stability within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 October 2026. 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 -52 12 £107,500 - 118
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Operational Stability
UK

Operational Stability
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon Bedrock
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon SageMaker
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 1 (7.69%) Datadog
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) MariaDB
2 1 (7.69%) MySQL
2 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.69%) Redis
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Claude Code
1 1 (7.69%) Flyway
1 1 (7.69%) Liquibase
General
1 11 (84.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (76.92%) Finance
2 10 (76.92%) Law
2 10 (76.92%) Marketing
3 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) Games
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Lead
1 9 (69.23%) Software Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) Lead Software Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Lead Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Reliability Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Manager
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Software Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Lead Enterprise Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Release Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Software Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Software Release Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Database Architect
5 1 (7.69%) Head of Delivery
5 1 (7.69%) Head of IT
5 1 (7.69%) Principal Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) CrewAI
1 3 (23.08%) LangChain
1 3 (23.08%) LangGraph
1 3 (23.08%) OpenTelemetry
1 3 (23.08%) Ray
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
1 3 (23.08%) vLLM
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Memcached
2 1 (7.69%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) AI Agents
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Credit Risk
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) AI
2 9 (69.23%) Software Engineering
3 8 (61.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (53.85%) Agile
4 7 (53.85%) Continuous Delivery
4 7 (53.85%) Machine Learning
4 7 (53.85%) SDLC
5 5 (38.46%) CI/CD
5 5 (38.46%) Code Quality
5 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (38.46%) Observability
5 5 (38.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
6 4 (30.77%) Community of Practice
6 4 (30.77%) LLM
6 4 (30.77%) Open Source
6 4 (30.77%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (30.77%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
6 4 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (30.77%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Go
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (38.46%) Grafana
3 4 (30.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Databricks
1 3 (23.08%) NVIDIA
2 2 (15.38%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) Google
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) New Relic
3 1 (7.69%) OpenAI
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle
3 1 (7.69%) Splunk