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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 13 8
Rank change year-on-year -37 -5 +4
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 490 692 875
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.33% 14.95% 14.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.93% 15.86% 16.35%
Number of salaries quoted 204 357 478
10th Percentile £43,250 £43,453 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £65,000 £59,513
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +9.22% +16.12%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £74,688
90th Percentile £96,681 £97,328 £87,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%

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 6,177 4,363 5,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.44% 94.27% 91.04%
Number of salaries quoted 2,398 2,185 2,823
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,022 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +5.50% +11.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 14 May 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 14 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 -65 254 £70,000 +21.74% 22
Edinburgh -4 188 £70,576 +1.62% 38
Aberdeen -4 15 £42,500 -22.73% 3
Lanarkshire +2 10 - - 12
Fife -5 6 - -
Dundee -7 5 £45,000 -
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 (12.24%) ArcGIS
1 60 (12.24%) GeoServer
2 32 (6.53%) Confluence
3 15 (3.06%) Cloud Foundry
4 12 (2.45%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.43%) Captiva
5 7 (1.43%) FileNet
5 7 (1.43%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.02%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.02%) WordPress
7 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Drupal
8 1 (0.20%) IIS
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (6.53%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.45%) Sketch
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 216 (44.08%) Azure
2 211 (43.06%) AWS
3 81 (16.53%) GCP
4 56 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (8.98%) Figma
6 42 (8.57%) SaaS
7 32 (6.53%) SurveyMonkey
8 26 (5.31%) PaaS
9 24 (4.90%) IaaS
10 18 (3.67%) GitHub
11 15 (3.06%) BlazeMeter
11 15 (3.06%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.65%) Serverless
13 12 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
13 12 (2.45%) OpenShift
14 11 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
15 8 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.63%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.69%) Firewall
2 17 (3.47%) SD-WAN
3 16 (3.27%) VPN
4 13 (2.65%) WAN
5 6 (1.22%) Internet
5 6 (1.22%) Network Security
6 4 (0.82%) Wireless
7 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.06%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.24%) GIS
2 60 (12.24%) QGIS
3 50 (10.20%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.35%) Looker
5 33 (6.73%) MongoDB
6 31 (6.33%) SQL Server
7 28 (5.71%) Relational Database
8 18 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.47%) BigQuery
9 17 (3.47%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (3.27%) Apache Cassandra
11 12 (2.45%) Big Data
11 12 (2.45%) MySQL
11 12 (2.45%) Oracle Database
12 11 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (2.24%) Power BI
13 7 (1.43%) RDBMS
14 5 (1.02%) Pentaho
14 5 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 61 (12.45%) JIRA
2 53 (10.82%) Jenkins
3 41 (8.37%) Git
4 24 (4.90%) Cypress.io
5 19 (3.88%) JUnit
6 16 (3.27%) Cucumber
7 13 (2.65%) Oracle Forms
8 12 (2.45%) Visual Studio
9 11 (2.24%) Bitbucket
10 9 (1.84%) IBM UrbanCode
10 9 (1.84%) Maven
11 8 (1.63%) Selenium
12 7 (1.43%) MSTest
13 6 (1.22%) JDeveloper
14 5 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
14 5 (1.02%) Spinnaker
14 5 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (0.82%) GitLab
15 4 (0.82%) WebDriver
15 4 (0.82%) webpack
General
1 208 (42.45%) Finance
2 141 (28.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 127 (25.92%) Law
4 122 (24.90%) Social Skills
5 84 (17.14%) Marketing
6 82 (16.73%) Banking
7 31 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.67%) Private Banking
9 15 (3.06%) Investment Banking
9 15 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (2.86%) Military
11 13 (2.65%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.84%) Legal
13 8 (1.63%) Games
14 7 (1.43%) Billing
15 4 (0.82%) Advertising
16 3 (0.61%) Retail
17 2 (0.41%) Aviation
17 2 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
18 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 167 (34.08%) Software Engineer
2 110 (22.45%) Senior
3 96 (19.59%) Lead
4 60 (12.24%) Developer
5 52 (10.61%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (7.96%) Java Engineer
7 36 (7.35%) Java Software Engineer
7 36 (7.35%) Lead Software Engineer
8 32 (6.53%) User Experience Researcher
9 31 (6.33%) Architect
10 26 (5.31%) Cloud Engineer
11 25 (5.10%) DevOps Engineer
12 23 (4.69%) Data Engineer
12 23 (4.69%) Senior Developer
12 23 (4.69%) UI Engineer
13 19 (3.88%) Full Stack Engineer
14 17 (3.47%) Full Stack Software Engineer
15 16 (3.27%) Agile Coach
16 15 (3.06%) Lead Java Engineer
17 14 (2.86%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (29.39%) React
2 108 (22.04%) CSS
3 83 (16.94%) .NET
4 61 (12.45%) .NET Core
5 60 (12.24%) Leaflet
5 60 (12.24%) OpenLayers
5 60 (12.24%) PostGIS
6 57 (11.63%) HTML
7 53 (10.82%) Spring
8 49 (10.00%) Kafka
9 34 (6.94%) Node.js
9 34 (6.94%) Spring Boot
10 27 (5.51%) AngularJS
11 18 (3.67%) ASP.NET
12 15 (3.06%) JDBC
12 15 (3.06%) Vue
13 13 (2.65%) RESTful
13 13 (2.65%) Web Services
14 12 (2.45%) JSON
15 11 (2.24%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.22%) Product Ownership
2 52 (10.61%) Public Cloud
3 28 (5.71%) Private Cloud
4 19 (3.88%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.47%) Legacy Systems
6 15 (3.06%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.65%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.65%) Replication
8 12 (2.45%) Mobile App
9 10 (2.04%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.84%) Onboarding
10 9 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
11 8 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (1.63%) IoT
12 7 (1.43%) DataPower
13 5 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
13 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
13 5 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
14 4 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 4 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 77 (15.71%) Linux
2 40 (8.16%) Windows
3 28 (5.71%) Unix
4 21 (4.29%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.86%) Mac OS X
6 9 (1.84%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.82%) Android
8 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.82%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (70.61%) Agile
2 190 (38.78%) Software Engineering
3 141 (28.78%) Mentoring
4 136 (27.76%) CI/CD
5 135 (27.55%) Actionable Insight
6 83 (16.94%) Continuous Integration
6 83 (16.94%) SDLC
7 76 (15.51%) Analytics
8 72 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (14.29%) Visualisation
10 67 (13.67%) Web Development
11 61 (12.45%) Roadmaps
12 57 (11.63%) Microservices
13 56 (11.43%) User Experience
13 56 (11.43%) User Research
14 53 (10.82%) TDD
15 51 (10.41%) Full Stack Development
16 48 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (9.80%) Systems Thinking
17 47 (9.59%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 148 (30.20%) JavaScript
2 123 (25.10%) SQL
3 121 (24.69%) Python
4 105 (21.43%) Java
5 67 (13.67%) C#
6 25 (5.10%) Bash
7 20 (4.08%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.45%) Groovy
9 12 (2.45%) PHP
10 11 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.84%) Ruby
12 7 (1.43%) Go
12 7 (1.43%) Perl
13 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 4 (0.82%) C
14 4 (0.82%) Scala
14 4 (0.82%) Swift
15 2 (0.41%) R
15 2 (0.41%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 96 (19.59%) Degree
2 87 (17.76%) Security Cleared
3 86 (17.55%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.08%) CCNA
4 20 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.27%) CISSP
6 14 (2.86%) CISM
6 14 (2.86%) GCIA
6 14 (2.86%) GCIH
6 14 (2.86%) GREM
7 7 (1.43%) Azure Certification
8 4 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (0.82%) ISEB
8 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
8 4 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.61%) CCNP
9 3 (0.61%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.61%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.53%) Actionable Recommendations
2 29 (5.92%) QA
3 22 (4.49%) PMO
4 16 (3.27%) GDPR
5 4 (0.82%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.82%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.41%) NCSC
6 2 (0.41%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 39 (7.96%) Docker
2 13 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.65%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.04%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) KVM
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 70 (14.29%) Terraform
2 55 (11.22%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.55%) Ansible
4 26 (5.31%) Grafana
5 13 (2.65%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.82%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.61%) Rancher
10 2 (0.41%) Istio
10 2 (0.41%) SCCM
11 1 (0.20%) Kibana
11 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (12.24%) ESRI
2 40 (8.16%) Microsoft
3 34 (6.94%) Google
4 32 (6.53%) Qualtrics
5 27 (5.51%) Oracle
6 23 (4.69%) ServiceNow
7 21 (4.29%) Splunk
8 20 (4.08%) Atlassian
9 19 (3.88%) Cisco
9 19 (3.88%) IBM
10 16 (3.27%) Dynatrace
11 15 (3.06%) Dell
12 13 (2.65%) NetApp
12 13 (2.65%) VMware
13 10 (2.04%) Databricks
14 7 (1.43%) Kofax
14 7 (1.43%) Pega
14 7 (1.43%) SAP
15 5 (1.02%) CA
15 5 (1.02%) Sybase