Operations Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Operations Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Operations Engineer salary in Scotland is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 264 -
Rank change year-on-year +120 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Operations Engineer 1 13 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.035% 0.19% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.20% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 13 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £33,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +203.03% - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £59,999
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +10.90%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies 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 2,557 6,524 4,262
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.74% 96.85% 90.22%
Number of salaries quoted 1,368 2,620 2,315
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £73,449
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -

Operations Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Operations Engineer in Scotland

Operations Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Operations Engineer in Scotland

Operations 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 Operations Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 1 £100,000 - 3
Operations Engineer
UK

Operations Engineer Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Operations 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 Operations Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Hitachi
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation

Operations 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Vertex AI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) MLOps
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubeflow
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Hitachi