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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 14 7
Rank change year-on-year -34 -7 +6
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 486 616 909
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.11% 14.16% 14.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.83% 15.01% 16.40%
Number of salaries quoted 190 322 503
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £81,875 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,474 £97,328 £86,250
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 6,205 4,105 5,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.74% 94.35% 91.10%
Number of salaries quoted 2,476 2,058 2,852
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,563 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 -59 258 £71,250 +29.55% 25
Edinburgh -6 179 £70,000 +0.80% 39
Aberdeen -4 16 £42,500 -22.73% 9
Lanarkshire -1 10 - - 14
Fife -7 6 - -
Dundee - 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 (12.35%) ArcGIS
1 60 (12.35%) GeoServer
2 31 (6.38%) Confluence
3 15 (3.09%) Cloud Foundry
4 9 (1.85%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.44%) Umbraco
6 5 (1.03%) Tomcat
6 5 (1.03%) WordPress
7 4 (0.82%) Captiva
7 4 (0.82%) FileNet
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
8 1 (0.21%) SAS
8 1 (0.21%) SharePoint
Applications
1 30 (6.17%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.47%) Sketch
3 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 228 (46.91%) Azure
2 220 (45.27%) AWS
3 73 (15.02%) GCP
4 56 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (8.64%) Figma
6 40 (8.23%) SaaS
7 30 (6.17%) SurveyMonkey
8 25 (5.14%) PaaS
9 24 (4.94%) IaaS
10 19 (3.91%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.09%) BlazeMeter
12 14 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
13 11 (2.26%) GitHub
14 10 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
14 10 (2.06%) OpenShift
15 8 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
15 8 (1.65%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
17 6 (1.23%) Amazon S3
17 6 (1.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.32%) Firewall
2 17 (3.50%) SD-WAN
3 14 (2.88%) VPN
4 13 (2.67%) WAN
5 6 (1.23%) Network Security
6 4 (0.82%) Internet
7 3 (0.62%) BGP
8 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (13.37%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.35%) GIS
2 60 (12.35%) QGIS
3 47 (9.67%) NoSQL
4 34 (7.00%) Looker
5 33 (6.79%) MongoDB
6 29 (5.97%) SQL Server
7 21 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
8 20 (4.12%) Relational Database
9 17 (3.50%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (3.29%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 15 (3.09%) Power BI
12 14 (2.88%) Geospatial Data
13 13 (2.67%) MySQL
14 11 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (2.26%) Big Data
15 9 (1.85%) Tableau
16 6 (1.23%) Data Vault
17 5 (1.03%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 59 (12.14%) JIRA
2 48 (9.88%) Jenkins
3 34 (7.00%) Git
4 24 (4.94%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.70%) JUnit
6 16 (3.29%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.47%) Visual Studio
8 11 (2.26%) Bitbucket
9 8 (1.65%) Maven
10 7 (1.44%) MSTest
10 7 (1.44%) Oracle Forms
11 6 (1.23%) Selenium
12 5 (1.03%) IBM UrbanCode
12 5 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
13 4 (0.82%) SonarQube
13 4 (0.82%) WebDriver
13 4 (0.82%) webpack
14 3 (0.62%) GitLab
14 3 (0.62%) Spinnaker
General
1 190 (39.09%) Finance
2 136 (27.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 126 (25.93%) Social Skills
4 124 (25.51%) Law
5 80 (16.46%) Marketing
6 67 (13.79%) Banking
7 31 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.70%) Private Banking
9 15 (3.09%) Investment Banking
10 14 (2.88%) Military
11 13 (2.67%) Retail Banking
12 9 (1.85%) Legal
13 8 (1.65%) Games
14 7 (1.44%) Billing
15 4 (0.82%) Advertising
16 3 (0.62%) Retail
17 2 (0.41%) Aviation
17 2 (0.41%) Public Sector
18 1 (0.21%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 146 (30.04%) Software Engineer
2 108 (22.22%) Senior
3 95 (19.55%) Lead
4 62 (12.76%) Developer
5 50 (10.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 47 (9.67%) Architect
7 37 (7.61%) Java Engineer
8 34 (7.00%) Java Software Engineer
9 33 (6.79%) Lead Software Engineer
10 30 (6.17%) User Experience Researcher
11 26 (5.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (4.94%) Senior Developer
13 23 (4.73%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.73%) DevOps Engineer
14 21 (4.32%) UI Engineer
15 19 (3.91%) Full Stack Engineer
16 17 (3.50%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 16 (3.29%) Agile Coach
18 15 (3.09%) Lead Java Engineer
19 14 (2.88%) Geospatial Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (27.78%) React
2 107 (22.02%) CSS
3 83 (17.08%) .NET
4 60 (12.35%) .NET Core
4 60 (12.35%) Leaflet
4 60 (12.35%) OpenLayers
4 60 (12.35%) PostGIS
5 56 (11.52%) HTML
6 51 (10.49%) Spring
7 47 (9.67%) Kafka
8 32 (6.58%) Spring Boot
9 31 (6.38%) Node.js
10 28 (5.76%) AngularJS
11 17 (3.50%) ASP.NET
12 15 (3.09%) JDBC
13 14 (2.88%) Vue
14 11 (2.26%) Django
15 10 (2.06%) JSON
15 10 (2.06%) RESTful
16 9 (1.85%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 51 (10.49%) Product Ownership
2 46 (9.47%) Public Cloud
3 27 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
4 24 (4.94%) Private Cloud
5 19 (3.91%) Management Information System
6 16 (3.29%) Data Centre
7 13 (2.67%) Algorithms
7 13 (2.67%) Replication
8 12 (2.47%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.85%) Onboarding
9 9 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.65%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.65%) IoT
11 7 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.03%) Reference Data
13 4 (0.82%) Data Structures
13 4 (0.82%) DataPower
13 4 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
13 4 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 69 (14.20%) Linux
2 38 (7.82%) Windows
3 26 (5.35%) Unix
4 19 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.88%) Mac OS X
6 10 (2.06%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.82%) Android
7 4 (0.82%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.41%) CentOS
9 1 (0.21%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 344 (70.78%) Agile
2 168 (34.57%) Software Engineering
3 139 (28.60%) CI/CD
4 134 (27.57%) Mentoring
5 127 (26.13%) Actionable Insight
6 77 (15.84%) Analytics
6 77 (15.84%) SDLC
7 71 (14.61%) Continuous Integration
8 70 (14.40%) Problem-Solving
9 68 (13.99%) Visualisation
10 67 (13.79%) Web Development
11 58 (11.93%) Roadmaps
11 58 (11.93%) User Experience
12 54 (11.11%) User Research
13 52 (10.70%) TDD
14 50 (10.29%) Full Stack Development
15 49 (10.08%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (9.88%) Microservices
17 46 (9.47%) Systems Thinking
18 45 (9.26%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 140 (28.81%) JavaScript
2 115 (23.66%) Python
3 110 (22.63%) SQL
4 92 (18.93%) Java
5 67 (13.79%) C#
6 21 (4.32%) PowerShell
7 17 (3.50%) TypeScript
8 15 (3.09%) Bash
9 12 (2.47%) PHP
10 11 (2.26%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.85%) Groovy
12 5 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 4 (0.82%) Bicep
13 4 (0.82%) C
13 4 (0.82%) Ruby
13 4 (0.82%) Swift
14 3 (0.62%) Scala
15 2 (0.41%) C++
15 2 (0.41%) Elixir
15 2 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 92 (18.93%) Degree
2 91 (18.72%) Security Cleared
3 89 (18.31%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.12%) CCNA
4 20 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.29%) CISSP
6 14 (2.88%) CISM
6 14 (2.88%) GCIA
6 14 (2.88%) GCIH
6 14 (2.88%) GREM
7 9 (1.85%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.82%) ISEB
9 4 (0.82%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.82%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (0.82%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.62%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.62%) CCNP
11 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.17%) Actionable Recommendations
2 25 (5.14%) QA
3 20 (4.12%) PMO
4 13 (2.67%) 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 (0.21%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 37 (7.61%) Docker
2 13 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.67%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.06%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) KVM
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 66 (13.58%) Terraform
2 52 (10.70%) Kubernetes
3 37 (7.61%) Ansible
4 26 (5.35%) Grafana
5 13 (2.67%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.62%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.41%) Rancher
10 2 (0.41%) SCCM
11 1 (0.21%) Kibana
11 1 (0.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (12.35%) ESRI
2 38 (7.82%) Microsoft
3 30 (6.17%) Qualtrics
4 28 (5.76%) Google
5 22 (4.53%) ServiceNow
6 21 (4.32%) Splunk
7 19 (3.91%) Cisco
8 18 (3.70%) Atlassian
9 16 (3.29%) Dynatrace
10 15 (3.09%) Oracle
11 14 (2.88%) Dell
12 13 (2.67%) NetApp
12 13 (2.67%) VMware
13 10 (2.06%) Databricks
13 10 (2.06%) IBM
14 5 (1.03%) AppDynamics
14 5 (1.03%) CA
14 5 (1.03%) Sybase
15 4 (0.82%) ForgeRock
15 4 (0.82%) Pega