DevOps Job Trends in Scotland

DevOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 29 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +12 -23
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 127 210 276
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.21% 8.30% 6.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 9.22% 7.36%
Number of salaries quoted 76 50 127
10th Percentile £27,000 £46,350 £46,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £79,613
90th Percentile £106,250 £85,700 £90,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,712 2,277 3,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.54% 89.96% 85.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,607 1,000 1,592
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,946 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £41,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +39.47% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,625 £81,950
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

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 17 September 2026. 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 +26 63 £57,500 -13.21% 100
Edinburgh -24 40 £60,000 -11.11% 76
South Lanarkshire -5 8 £72,500 - 1
Moray +1 4 £81,250 -
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 19
Fife -10 2 - - 4
West Lothian -2 1 - - 2
Stirling -4 1 - - 2
North Lanarkshire -6 1 - - 2
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.57%) IIS
2 1 (0.79%) Apache
2 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.79%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 54 (42.52%) Azure
2 33 (25.98%) AWS
3 18 (14.17%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (11.81%) SaaS
5 13 (10.24%) GCP
6 10 (7.87%) Entra ID
7 7 (5.51%) GitHub
8 6 (4.72%) Azure AI
9 4 (3.15%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.15%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.15%) Serverless
10 3 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.36%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.36%) dbt
10 3 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.57%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.57%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.51%) Broadband
2 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.79%) AMQP
3 1 (0.79%) DNS
3 1 (0.79%) Firewall
3 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) MQTT
3 1 (0.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.39%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.51%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.94%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.36%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.36%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.36%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.57%) Big Data
6 2 (1.57%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.57%) Parquet
7 1 (0.79%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.79%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.79%) Metadata
7 1 (0.79%) Power BI
7 1 (0.79%) Redis
7 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) Jenkins
1 11 (8.66%) SonarQube
2 10 (7.87%) GitLab
3 8 (6.30%) Git
4 6 (4.72%) JIRA
5 3 (2.36%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.36%) JMeter
6 2 (1.57%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.57%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.57%) JUnit
6 2 (1.57%) Maven
6 2 (1.57%) Mockito
6 2 (1.57%) Selenium
7 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.79%) ERwin
7 1 (0.79%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 27 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.75%) Finance
3 14 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (7.87%) Marketing
5 9 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.09%) Banking
6 7 (5.51%) Games
7 6 (4.72%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Law
9 2 (1.57%) Legal
10 1 (0.79%) Advertising
10 1 (0.79%) Local Government
10 1 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (25.98%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (23.62%) Lead
3 17 (13.39%) Technical Leader
4 15 (11.81%) Architect
5 12 (9.45%) Senior
6 10 (7.87%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (7.87%) Applications Support
6 10 (7.87%) Applications Support Engineer
6 10 (7.87%) Support Engineer
7 9 (7.09%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (7.09%) Developer
7 9 (7.09%) Salesforce Architect
8 7 (5.51%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.94%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Lead DevOps
10 5 (3.94%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.15%) Junior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.96%) React
2 18 (14.17%) Terraform
3 11 (8.66%) RESTful
4 10 (7.87%) Next.js
4 10 (7.87%) REST
5 9 (7.09%) .NET
5 9 (7.09%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (7.09%) SOAP
6 8 (6.30%) AWS CDK
6 8 (6.30%) Jakarta EE
6 8 (6.30%) JSP
7 7 (5.51%) Visualforce
8 6 (4.72%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.72%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.72%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (4.72%) Blazor
8 6 (4.72%) ML.NET
9 4 (3.15%) PySpark
10 3 (2.36%) Playwright
10 3 (2.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.98%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.45%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.87%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.72%) BBC
4 6 (4.72%) Social Media
5 5 (3.94%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.36%) IoT
6 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.57%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Bitcoin
8 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.79%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.79%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.79%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.36%) Linux
2 2 (1.57%) Unix
2 2 (1.57%) Windows
2 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (44.09%) Agile
1 56 (44.09%) CI/CD
2 32 (25.20%) Mentoring
3 31 (24.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 31 (24.41%) Software Engineering
4 28 (22.05%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (18.11%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (15.75%) Code Quality
6 20 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
7 19 (14.96%) AI
8 18 (14.17%) Roadmaps
9 17 (13.39%) Observability
10 16 (12.60%) Collaborative Culture
10 16 (12.60%) SDLC
11 15 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (11.02%) Microservices
12 14 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (10.24%) OO
14 12 (9.45%) Change Management
14 12 (9.45%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.26%) JavaScript
2 24 (18.90%) SQL
3 18 (14.17%) Python
3 18 (14.17%) TypeScript
4 15 (11.81%) Java
5 9 (7.09%) Apex Code
6 8 (6.30%) C#
7 7 (5.51%) SOQL
7 7 (5.51%) SOSL
8 4 (3.15%) Bicep
9 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.79%) Bash
10 1 (0.79%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.79%) Scala
10 1 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (5.51%) Degree
1 7 (5.51%) Security Cleared
2 5 (3.94%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.36%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.57%) ISEB
4 2 (1.57%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.79%) CISSP
5 1 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.79%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.79%) PMP
5 1 (0.79%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.96%) QA
2 5 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.79%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (7.87%) Active Directory
1 10 (7.87%) Docker
2 1 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (12.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.57%) Grafana
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.45%) Google
3 9 (7.09%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.51%) Splunk
5 6 (4.72%) Apple
5 6 (4.72%) Facebook
5 6 (4.72%) Sony
5 6 (4.72%) Yahoo!
6 4 (3.15%) Databricks
6 4 (3.15%) Oracle
7 2 (1.57%) Intel
7 2 (1.57%) Pega
7 2 (1.57%) VMware
7 2 (1.57%) YouTube
8 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) Meraki