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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 13 7
Rank change year-on-year -36 -6 +5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 492 697 903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.34% 15.18% 15.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.96% 16.09% 16.64%
Number of salaries quoted 200 352 502
10th Percentile £42,500 £43,453 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,500 £65,000 £59,763
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% +8.76% +19.53%
75th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £93,097 £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 6,183 4,333 5,428
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.19% 94.34% 91.01%
Number of salaries quoted 2,393 2,156 2,833
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,369 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,275
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 20 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 20 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 -62 259 £71,250 +26.67% 22
Edinburgh -4 185 £70,576 +1.62% 38
Aberdeen -6 15 £42,500 -22.73% 7
Lanarkshire +2 10 - - 13
Fife -4 6 - -
Dundee -8 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 (12.20%) ArcGIS
1 60 (12.20%) GeoServer
2 31 (6.30%) Confluence
3 15 (3.05%) Cloud Foundry
4 11 (2.24%) WebSphere
5 7 (1.42%) Umbraco
6 6 (1.22%) Captiva
6 6 (1.22%) FileNet
7 5 (1.02%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.02%) WordPress
8 1 (0.20%) 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 (6.50%) UserZoom
2 12 (2.44%) Sketch
3 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 222 (45.12%) Azure
2 214 (43.50%) AWS
3 79 (16.06%) GCP
4 56 (11.38%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (8.94%) Figma
6 41 (8.33%) SaaS
7 32 (6.50%) SurveyMonkey
8 26 (5.28%) PaaS
9 24 (4.88%) IaaS
10 17 (3.46%) GitHub
10 17 (3.46%) Power Platform
11 15 (3.05%) BlazeMeter
12 12 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
12 12 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
12 12 (2.44%) Serverless
13 11 (2.24%) OpenShift
14 8 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (1.63%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 6 (1.22%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.67%) Firewall
2 17 (3.46%) SD-WAN
3 16 (3.25%) VPN
4 13 (2.64%) WAN
5 6 (1.22%) Internet
5 6 (1.22%) Network Security
6 4 (0.81%) Wireless
7 3 (0.61%) BGP
8 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (13.01%) PostgreSQL
2 60 (12.20%) GIS
2 60 (12.20%) QGIS
3 49 (9.96%) NoSQL
4 36 (7.32%) Looker
5 33 (6.71%) MongoDB
6 31 (6.30%) SQL Server
7 28 (5.69%) Relational Database
8 19 (3.86%) Data Warehouse
9 17 (3.46%) Elasticsearch
10 16 (3.25%) BigQuery
11 15 (3.05%) Apache Cassandra
12 13 (2.64%) Power BI
13 12 (2.44%) MySQL
14 11 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
14 11 (2.24%) Big Data
14 11 (2.24%) Oracle Database
15 8 (1.63%) Geospatial Data
16 7 (1.42%) RDBMS
16 7 (1.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 59 (11.99%) JIRA
2 51 (10.37%) Jenkins
3 41 (8.33%) Git
4 24 (4.88%) Cypress.io
5 18 (3.66%) JUnit
6 16 (3.25%) Cucumber
7 12 (2.44%) Visual Studio
8 11 (2.24%) Bitbucket
8 11 (2.24%) Oracle Forms
9 10 (2.03%) Maven
10 8 (1.63%) IBM UrbanCode
10 8 (1.63%) Selenium
11 7 (1.42%) MSTest
12 6 (1.22%) JDeveloper
13 5 (1.02%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (1.02%) Spinnaker
13 5 (1.02%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.81%) WebDriver
14 4 (0.81%) webpack
15 3 (0.61%) GitLab
General
1 205 (41.67%) Finance
2 139 (28.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 127 (25.81%) Law
4 124 (25.20%) Social Skills
5 84 (17.07%) Marketing
6 78 (15.85%) Banking
7 31 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
8 18 (3.66%) Private Banking
9 17 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (3.05%) Investment Banking
11 14 (2.85%) Military
12 12 (2.44%) Retail Banking
13 9 (1.83%) Legal
14 8 (1.63%) Games
15 7 (1.42%) Billing
16 4 (0.81%) Advertising
17 3 (0.61%) Retail
18 2 (0.41%) Aviation
18 2 (0.41%) Public Sector
19 1 (0.20%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 161 (32.72%) Software Engineer
2 110 (22.36%) Senior
3 95 (19.31%) Lead
4 60 (12.20%) Developer
5 51 (10.37%) Senior Software Engineer
6 39 (7.93%) Java Engineer
7 38 (7.72%) Architect
8 36 (7.32%) Java Software Engineer
9 35 (7.11%) Lead Software Engineer
10 32 (6.50%) User Experience Researcher
11 25 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 24 (4.88%) DevOps Engineer
13 23 (4.67%) Data Engineer
13 23 (4.67%) Senior Developer
13 23 (4.67%) UI Engineer
14 19 (3.86%) Full Stack Engineer
15 17 (3.46%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 16 (3.25%) Agile Coach
17 15 (3.05%) Lead Java Engineer
18 14 (2.85%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 141 (28.66%) React
2 108 (21.95%) CSS
3 83 (16.87%) .NET
4 61 (12.40%) .NET Core
5 60 (12.20%) Leaflet
5 60 (12.20%) OpenLayers
5 60 (12.20%) PostGIS
6 57 (11.59%) HTML
7 53 (10.77%) Spring
8 48 (9.76%) Kafka
9 33 (6.71%) Node.js
9 33 (6.71%) Spring Boot
10 27 (5.49%) AngularJS
11 18 (3.66%) ASP.NET
12 15 (3.05%) JDBC
12 15 (3.05%) Vue
13 12 (2.44%) JSON
14 11 (2.24%) REST
14 11 (2.24%) RESTful
14 11 (2.24%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.57%) Product Ownership
1 52 (10.57%) Public Cloud
2 27 (5.49%) Private Cloud
3 21 (4.27%) Legacy Systems
4 19 (3.86%) Management Information System
5 16 (3.25%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.64%) Algorithms
6 13 (2.64%) Replication
7 12 (2.44%) Mobile App
8 9 (1.83%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 8 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
9 8 (1.63%) IoT
10 6 (1.22%) DataPower
11 5 (1.02%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.81%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.81%) Low-Code
12 4 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 75 (15.24%) Linux
2 41 (8.33%) Windows
3 27 (5.49%) Unix
4 21 (4.27%) Windows Server
5 14 (2.85%) Mac OS X
6 10 (2.03%) Ubuntu
7 6 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.81%) Android
8 4 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.81%) CentOS
9 1 (0.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (70.93%) Agile
2 183 (37.20%) Software Engineering
3 138 (28.05%) Mentoring
4 136 (27.64%) CI/CD
5 135 (27.44%) Actionable Insight
6 82 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 82 (16.67%) SDLC
7 77 (15.65%) Analytics
8 74 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
9 70 (14.23%) Visualisation
10 67 (13.62%) Web Development
11 60 (12.20%) Roadmaps
12 58 (11.79%) User Experience
13 56 (11.38%) Microservices
13 56 (11.38%) User Research
14 53 (10.77%) TDD
15 50 (10.16%) Full Stack Development
16 48 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (9.76%) Systems Thinking
17 47 (9.55%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 145 (29.47%) JavaScript
2 121 (24.59%) SQL
3 120 (24.39%) Python
4 102 (20.73%) Java
5 67 (13.62%) C#
6 23 (4.67%) Bash
7 20 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.25%) TypeScript
9 12 (2.44%) Groovy
9 12 (2.44%) PHP
10 11 (2.24%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.83%) Ruby
12 7 (1.42%) Perl
13 6 (1.22%) Go
14 5 (1.02%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.81%) C
15 4 (0.81%) Swift
16 3 (0.61%) Scala
17 2 (0.41%) DataWeave
17 2 (0.41%) R
Qualifications
1 98 (19.92%) Degree
2 87 (17.68%) Security Cleared
3 86 (17.48%) SC Cleared
4 20 (4.07%) CCNA
4 20 (4.07%) Cisco Certification
5 16 (3.25%) CISSP
6 14 (2.85%) CISM
6 14 (2.85%) GCIA
6 14 (2.85%) GCIH
6 14 (2.85%) GREM
7 7 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (0.81%) ISEB
9 4 (0.81%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.81%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (0.81%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CCNP
11 2 (0.41%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 30 (6.10%) QA
3 22 (4.47%) PMO
4 15 (3.05%) GDPR
5 4 (0.81%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.81%) 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 37 (7.52%) Docker
2 13 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (2.64%) VMware NSX
3 10 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) KVM
5 2 (0.41%) vSphere
5 2 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 68 (13.82%) Terraform
2 53 (10.77%) Kubernetes
3 38 (7.72%) Ansible
4 26 (5.28%) Grafana
5 13 (2.64%) FortiGate
6 7 (1.42%) Prometheus
7 5 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
8 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.41%) Istio
9 2 (0.41%) Rancher
9 2 (0.41%) SCCM
10 1 (0.20%) Kibana
10 1 (0.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 60 (12.20%) ESRI
2 40 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 33 (6.71%) Google
4 32 (6.50%) Qualtrics
5 25 (5.08%) Oracle
6 22 (4.47%) ServiceNow
7 21 (4.27%) Splunk
8 20 (4.07%) Atlassian
9 19 (3.86%) Cisco
10 17 (3.46%) IBM
11 16 (3.25%) Dynatrace
12 14 (2.85%) Dell
13 13 (2.64%) NetApp
13 13 (2.64%) VMware
14 10 (2.03%) Databricks
15 6 (1.22%) Kofax
15 6 (1.22%) Pega
15 6 (1.22%) SAP
16 5 (1.02%) CA
16 5 (1.02%) Sybase