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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 14 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +34 -40
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 237 221 378
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 7.78% 10.73% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.08% 11.47% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 49 114 216
10th Percentile £26,250 £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £68,404 £69,224
Median % change year-on-year -8.63% -1.18% +3.21%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,253 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,050 £108,750 £98,894
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 2,351 1,926 4,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 77.21% 93.50% 93.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1,222 942 2,267
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,275 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,288 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.84% +4.76% -10.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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
Edinburgh +1 160 £62,500 -10.71% 35
Glasgow -27 24 £70,000 +16.67% 24
Stirling - 12 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - - 1
West Lothian +4 8 - - 1
Lanarkshire +7 5 - - 12
Fife +3 5 - - 3
North Lanarkshire -9 4 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Midlothian - 2 - - 22
Dunbartonshire - 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 10 (4.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (1.27%) Apache
2 3 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (1.27%) Confluence
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (5.49%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 22 (9.28%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.69%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 169 (71.31%) Azure
2 123 (51.90%) Azure DevOps
3 96 (40.51%) GitHub
4 57 (24.05%) GitHub Copilot
5 47 (19.83%) Snowflake
6 43 (18.14%) dbt
7 39 (16.46%) Azure Data Factory
8 34 (14.35%) AWS
8 34 (14.35%) Power Platform
9 25 (10.55%) Entra ID
10 24 (10.13%) GitHub Actions
11 22 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (9.28%) OCI
12 19 (8.02%) Azure Key Vault
13 17 (7.17%) Azure Monitor
13 17 (7.17%) GCP
14 13 (5.49%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (5.06%) Azure Event Grid
15 12 (5.06%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (4.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.46%) Broadband
2 5 (2.11%) Firewall
3 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.27%) BGP
4 3 (1.27%) LAN
4 3 (1.27%) MPLS
4 3 (1.27%) WAN
4 3 (1.27%) Wireless
5 2 (0.84%) Network Security
5 2 (0.84%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.42%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.50%) Power BI
2 29 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.06%) Tableau
4 11 (4.64%) Metadata
5 9 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
6 8 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.38%) Snowflake Schema
7 7 (2.95%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.11%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.69%) Redis
10 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.42%) Big Data
11 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (27.00%) Jenkins
2 40 (16.88%) GitLab
3 39 (16.46%) SonarQube
4 30 (12.66%) JIRA
5 22 (9.28%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (4.64%) Git
7 3 (1.27%) fastlane
8 2 (0.84%) Xcode
9 1 (0.42%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.42%) Appium
9 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.42%) Gradle
9 1 (0.42%) JMeter
9 1 (0.42%) Locust
9 1 (0.42%) MLflow
9 1 (0.42%) Postman
9 1 (0.42%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.42%) XCTest
9 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 135 (56.96%) Finance
2 59 (24.89%) Social Skills
3 50 (21.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (20.68%) Marketing
5 39 (16.46%) Games
6 26 (10.97%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.06%) Billing
8 10 (4.22%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.11%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.84%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 74 (31.22%) Senior
2 43 (18.14%) Architect
3 40 (16.88%) Applications Engineer
4 37 (15.61%) Salesforce Architect
5 25 (10.55%) Cloud Engineer
6 23 (9.70%) Applications Support
7 22 (9.28%) Technical Architect
8 21 (8.86%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 20 (8.44%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (6.75%) Analyst
11 12 (5.06%) Applications Support Analyst
11 12 (5.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.06%) Support Analyst
12 11 (4.64%) Applications Support Engineer
12 11 (4.64%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 11 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (4.64%) Support Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Development Engineer
13 10 (4.22%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (3.38%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (29.96%) SOAP
2 60 (25.32%) REST
3 59 (24.89%) Lightning Web Components
4 39 (16.46%) Visualforce
5 38 (16.03%) RESTful
6 34 (14.35%) OAuth
7 24 (10.13%) JSON
8 23 (9.70%) OAuth2
9 16 (6.75%) .NET
10 12 (5.06%) XML
11 11 (4.64%) GraphQL
11 11 (4.64%) OpenAPI
11 11 (4.64%) Swagger
12 10 (4.22%) ADO
12 10 (4.22%) SAML
13 8 (3.38%) YAML
14 7 (2.95%) React
15 4 (1.69%) Django
16 3 (1.27%) Node.js
17 2 (0.84%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 97 (40.93%) Product Ownership
2 52 (21.94%) Cloud Native
3 23 (9.70%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.06%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.22%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.38%) Low-Code
6 8 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.11%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.84%) Clustering
10 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.42%) BBC
11 1 (0.42%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.42%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.42%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.42%) PMI
11 1 (0.42%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.69%) Linux
1 4 (1.69%) Unix
1 4 (1.69%) Windows
2 2 (0.84%) Android
2 2 (0.84%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (79.75%) CI/CD
2 180 (75.95%) Agile
3 128 (54.01%) Asset Management
3 128 (54.01%) Coaching
4 114 (48.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 91 (38.40%) Test Automation
6 78 (32.91%) Observability
7 77 (32.49%) AI
8 62 (26.16%) Event-Driven
9 56 (23.63%) Data Modelling
9 56 (23.63%) Roadmaps
10 53 (22.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (21.94%) Analytics
11 52 (21.94%) Mentoring
11 52 (21.94%) OO
12 49 (20.68%) Clean Code
13 46 (19.41%) Scrum
14 45 (18.99%) Technology Roadmap
15 44 (18.57%) Continuous Integration
15 44 (18.57%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 79 (33.33%) Python
2 78 (32.91%) SQL
3 59 (24.89%) Apex Code
4 39 (16.46%) SOQL
4 39 (16.46%) SOSL
5 36 (15.19%) PowerShell
6 25 (10.55%) Java
7 22 (9.28%) PL/SQL
7 22 (9.28%) Shell Script
8 15 (6.33%) C#
8 15 (6.33%) JavaScript
9 14 (5.91%) Bicep
10 7 (2.95%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.53%) Bash
12 4 (1.69%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (6.33%) Degree
2 12 (5.06%) HND
3 5 (2.11%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.11%) CRISC
3 5 (2.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.11%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.84%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.42%) CBAP
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.42%) PMP
5 1 (0.42%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (11.39%) Accessibility
2 16 (6.75%) GDPR
3 14 (5.91%) QA
4 12 (5.06%) SLA
5 9 (3.80%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.69%) WCAG
7 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 2 (0.84%) NCSC
8 1 (0.42%) GRC
8 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (9.70%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.59%) Docker
3 5 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 91 (38.40%) Terraform
2 22 (9.28%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (8.44%) Kubernetes
4 15 (6.33%) Grafana
5 13 (5.49%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.11%) Ansible
6 5 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.27%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 59 (24.89%) Microsoft
1 59 (24.89%) Salesforce
2 42 (17.72%) Splunk
3 22 (9.28%) Oracle
4 16 (6.75%) Ab Initio
5 13 (5.49%) Google
6 12 (5.06%) Adobe
6 12 (5.06%) Freshdesk
6 12 (5.06%) Nintex
6 12 (5.06%) Okta
7 7 (2.95%) Databricks
8 5 (2.11%) Pega
9 4 (1.69%) IBM
9 4 (1.69%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.27%) F5
10 3 (1.27%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.27%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.84%) Apple
11 2 (0.84%) Charles River
11 2 (0.84%) Dynatrace