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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 31 58
Rank change year-on-year -6 +27 -44
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 135 191 280
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.81% 7.49% 5.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 8.37% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 81 54 133
10th Percentile £27,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £101,750 £96,500
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 2,481 2,283 4,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.08% 89.49% 87.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 1,009 1,962
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,851 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £66,018 £65,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £80,500 £83,738 £81,125
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +14 51 £55,000 -30.16% 55
Edinburgh -6 47 £60,000 -14.29% 33
South Lanarkshire 0 8 £72,500 - 2
Fife -4 6 - - 2
Lanarkshire +5 4 - - 19
Stirling -2 4 - -
Moray - 4 £81,250 -
West Lothian +4 2 - -
North Lanarkshire -4 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire +1 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 11
Scottish Borders - 1 - - 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 4 (2.96%) Apache
1 4 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) IIS
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 53 (39.26%) Azure
2 28 (20.74%) AWS
3 20 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (13.33%) GCP
5 16 (11.85%) SaaS
6 11 (8.15%) Entra ID
7 10 (7.41%) GitHub
8 6 (4.44%) Azure AI
9 4 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.22%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (2.22%) Dataform
10 3 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.22%) Serverless
11 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (1.48%) Cloud Run
11 2 (1.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.07%) Broadband
2 2 (1.48%) Firewall
2 2 (1.48%) Network Security
2 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) AMQP
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.74%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.19%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.22%) Big Data
4 3 (2.22%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.22%) Metadata
4 3 (2.22%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.48%) Power BI
5 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.04%) GitLab
3 22 (16.30%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.93%) JIRA
5 5 (3.70%) Git
6 3 (2.22%) fastlane
6 3 (2.22%) JMeter
7 2 (1.48%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.48%) Xcode
8 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) ERwin
8 1 (0.74%) Gradle
8 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) Mockito
8 1 (0.74%) Selenium
8 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.74%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 37 (27.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 26 (19.26%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.30%) Marketing
4 19 (14.07%) Finance
4 19 (14.07%) Games
5 12 (8.89%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.67%) Banking
7 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Advertising
10 1 (0.74%) Billing
10 1 (0.74%) Law
10 1 (0.74%) Legal
10 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (20.74%) Architect
3 25 (18.52%) Lead
4 21 (15.56%) Salesforce Architect
5 18 (13.33%) Technical Leader
6 14 (10.37%) Senior
7 13 (9.63%) Technical Architect
8 12 (8.89%) Applications Support
9 11 (8.15%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (8.15%) Applications Support Engineer
9 11 (8.15%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 11 (8.15%) Support Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) Developer
10 10 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (5.93%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 7 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (4.44%) .NET Developer
14 5 (3.70%) Analyst
14 5 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
14 5 (3.70%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.30%) REST
2 21 (15.56%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (15.56%) SOAP
3 19 (14.07%) React
3 19 (14.07%) Visualforce
4 13 (9.63%) RESTful
5 10 (7.41%) .NET
6 9 (6.67%) AWS CDK
6 9 (6.67%) Next.js
7 8 (5.93%) Jakarta EE
7 8 (5.93%) JSP
8 6 (4.44%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.44%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (4.44%) Blazor
8 6 (4.44%) ML.NET
9 2 (1.48%) Great Expectations
9 2 (1.48%) Node.js
9 2 (1.48%) Playwright
9 2 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 28 (20.74%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.15%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.44%) BBC
4 6 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.44%) Social Media
5 3 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.48%) IoT
6 2 (1.48%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.74%) PMI
7 1 (0.74%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Android
1 2 (1.48%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.48%) Linux
1 2 (1.48%) Unix
1 2 (1.48%) Windows
1 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (51.11%) Agile
2 67 (49.63%) CI/CD
3 34 (25.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 34 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (22.96%) Mentoring
4 31 (22.96%) Roadmaps
5 28 (20.74%) Scrum
6 26 (19.26%) OO
7 24 (17.78%) Software Engineering
8 22 (16.30%) Design Patterns
8 22 (16.30%) Technology Roadmap
9 21 (15.56%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 21 (15.56%) Event-Driven
9 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (15.56%) Technical Analysis
10 20 (14.81%) Code Quality
10 20 (14.81%) TOGAF
11 19 (14.07%) Continuous Integration
11 19 (14.07%) PLM
11 19 (14.07%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.26%) JavaScript
2 24 (17.78%) SQL
3 21 (15.56%) Apex Code
4 19 (14.07%) SOQL
4 19 (14.07%) SOSL
4 19 (14.07%) TypeScript
5 15 (11.11%) Python
6 11 (8.15%) Java
7 8 (5.93%) C#
8 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
9 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (4.44%) Degree
2 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.48%) ISEB
4 2 (1.48%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.74%) CISSP
5 1 (0.74%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.74%) HND
5 1 (0.74%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.74%) PMP
5 1 (0.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.85%) QA
2 7 (5.19%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.70%) GDPR
4 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.22%) NCSC
5 3 (2.22%) WCAG
6 1 (0.74%) GRC
6 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.74%) SLA
6 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (17.04%) Terraform
2 17 (12.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (15.56%) Salesforce
2 19 (14.07%) Google
2 19 (14.07%) Splunk
3 16 (11.85%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.19%) Apple
4 7 (5.19%) Pega
5 6 (4.44%) Facebook
5 6 (4.44%) Sony
5 6 (4.44%) Yahoo!
6 3 (2.22%) Oracle
7 2 (1.48%) Databricks
7 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.48%) VMware
8 1 (0.74%) Adobe
8 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.74%) Cisco
8 1 (0.74%) Freshdesk
8 1 (0.74%) Meraki
8 1 (0.74%) Nintex