Tech Ops Jobs in Scotland

Technical Operations (TechOps)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Tech Ops skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Tech Ops over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 206 247
Rank change year-on-year +70 +41 -57
Permanent jobs citing Tech Ops 159 3 15
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.32% 0.069% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 0.073% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile £42,750 £35,400 £32,020
25th Percentile £56,250 £42,750 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year - +20.60% +11.80%
75th Percentile £67,750 £72,500 £54,500
90th Percentile - £77,000 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £54,100
% change year-on-year +4.76% -2.96% -0.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Tech Ops 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 6,209 4,103 5,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.71% 94.39% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,060 2,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Tech Ops
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Tech Ops as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Tech Ops in Scotland

Tech Ops
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Tech Ops in Scotland.

Salary trend for Tech Ops in Scotland

Tech Ops
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech Ops in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Tech Ops in Scotland

Tech Ops
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tech Ops within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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 +11 155 £60,000 +81.82% 3
Edinburgh +34 2 £63,500 -20.63%
West Lothian - 1 £57,500 -
North Lanarkshire - 1 £37,500 - 1
Tech Ops
UK

Tech Ops
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 81 (50.94%) Apache Spark
2 18 (11.32%) FileNet
3 17 (10.69%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 82 (51.57%) AWS
2 45 (28.30%) Azure
3 31 (19.50%) GCP
4 19 (11.95%) Amazon S3
5 6 (3.77%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (0.63%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (0.63%) CloudFront
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.63%) Serverless
6 1 (0.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 17 (10.69%) Kerberos
2 2 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.26%) DNS
3 1 (0.63%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (42.14%) NoSQL
2 49 (30.82%) Big Data
3 20 (12.58%) Elasticsearch
4 18 (11.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 17 (10.69%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (10.69%) CockroachDB
6 4 (2.52%) Data Lake
6 4 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 18 (11.32%) JUnit
2 2 (1.26%) Maven
General
1 155 (97.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 154 (96.86%) Finance
2 154 (96.86%) Law
3 140 (88.05%) Marketing
4 51 (32.08%) Influencing Skills
5 14 (8.81%) Banking
6 12 (7.55%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.77%) Games
8 2 (1.26%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.26%) Private Banking
8 2 (1.26%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 155 (97.48%) Lead
2 154 (96.86%) Senior
3 148 (93.08%) Lead Software Engineer
3 148 (93.08%) Senior Software Engineer
3 148 (93.08%) Software Engineer
4 76 (47.80%) Java Engineer
4 76 (47.80%) Java Software Engineer
4 76 (47.80%) Lead Java Engineer
4 76 (47.80%) Senior Java Engineer
4 76 (47.80%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Big Data Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Big Data Software Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Lead Big Data Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Scala Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Scala Software Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Senior Big Data Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Senior Scala Engineer
5 49 (30.82%) Senior Scala Software Engineer
6 45 (28.30%) Java Scala Software Engineer
7 12 (7.55%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (23.27%) Kafka
1 37 (23.27%) Spring
2 35 (22.01%) GraphQL
3 32 (20.13%) PySpark
4 18 (11.32%) AngularJS
4 18 (11.32%) CSS
4 18 (11.32%) Hibernate
4 18 (11.32%) HTML
4 18 (11.32%) J2EE
4 18 (11.32%) JMS
4 18 (11.32%) jQuery
4 18 (11.32%) JSON
4 18 (11.32%) Node.js
4 18 (11.32%) React
4 18 (11.32%) Spring Integration
4 18 (11.32%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 17 (10.69%) OAuth
5 17 (10.69%) REST
6 2 (1.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 49 (30.82%) Cloud Native
2 29 (18.24%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.26%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.63%) Linux
1 1 (0.63%) Solaris
1 1 (0.63%) Unix
1 1 (0.63%) Windows
1 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (96.86%) Operational Stability
1 154 (96.86%) SDLC
1 154 (96.86%) Software Engineering
2 148 (93.08%) Agile
2 148 (93.08%) Problem-Solving
3 130 (81.76%) Artificial Intelligence
3 130 (81.76%) Machine Learning
4 104 (65.41%) Decision-Making
5 51 (32.08%) Microservices
6 49 (30.82%) Performance Tuning
7 36 (22.64%) ETL
8 33 (20.75%) Computer Science
8 33 (20.75%) Mathematics
9 32 (20.13%) CI/CD
9 32 (20.13%) Data Engineering
9 32 (20.13%) Quality Management
10 27 (16.98%) Infrastructure as Code
11 18 (11.32%) AOP
11 18 (11.32%) Document Management
12 12 (7.55%) Quantitative Research
Programming Languages
1 146 (91.82%) Java
2 86 (54.09%) SQL
3 50 (31.45%) Python
4 49 (30.82%) Scala
5 18 (11.32%) JavaScript
5 18 (11.32%) TypeScript
6 12 (7.55%) C#
7 2 (1.26%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.63%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2 (1.26%) CCNP
1 2 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
2 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (20.13%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.63%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (23.27%) Kubernetes
2 27 (16.98%) Terraform
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (12.58%) Oracle
2 17 (10.69%) Google
3 6 (3.77%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.52%) Databricks
5 2 (1.26%) ForeScout
5 2 (1.26%) Meraki