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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 31 53
Rank change year-on-year -5 +22 -39
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 136 185 274
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.83% 7.32% 5.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.48% 8.14% 6.14%
Number of salaries quoted 82 52 135
10th Percentile £27,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +3.38% +2.31%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £102,000 £99,875 £92,000
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 2,482 2,272 4,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.88% 89.94% 87.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,411 1,000 1,956
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,851 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £80,000
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 17 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 17 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 +19 52 £55,000 -30.16% 32
Edinburgh -7 47 £60,000 -11.11% 13
South Lanarkshire 0 8 £72,500 -
Fife -6 6 - -
Lanarkshire +5 4 - - 20
Stirling -2 4 - -
Moray - 4 £81,250 -
West Lothian +3 2 - -
North Lanarkshire -4 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire +1 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 19
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 4 (2.94%) Apache
1 4 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.47%) IIS
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.74%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (38.24%) Azure
2 27 (19.85%) AWS
3 20 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (12.50%) GCP
4 17 (12.50%) SaaS
5 11 (8.09%) Entra ID
6 10 (7.35%) GitHub
7 6 (4.41%) Azure AI
8 4 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.21%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (2.21%) Dataform
9 3 (2.21%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.21%) Serverless
10 2 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.47%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.47%) dbt
10 2 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (13.97%) Broadband
2 2 (1.47%) Firewall
2 2 (1.47%) Network Security
2 2 (1.47%) 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 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.15%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.68%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.21%) Big Data
4 3 (2.21%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.21%) Metadata
4 3 (2.21%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.21%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.47%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.47%) Power BI
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%) Redis
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (18.38%) Jenkins
2 23 (16.91%) GitLab
3 22 (16.18%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.88%) JIRA
5 5 (3.68%) Git
6 3 (2.21%) fastlane
6 3 (2.21%) JMeter
7 2 (1.47%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.47%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.47%) Xcode
8 1 (0.74%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.74%) Appium
8 1 (0.74%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) Gradle
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) Mockito
8 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.74%) TestRail
8 1 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 37 (27.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (19.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.18%) Marketing
4 19 (13.97%) Finance
4 19 (13.97%) Games
5 12 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.62%) Banking
7 6 (4.41%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.47%) 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 (21.32%) DevOps Engineer
2 28 (20.59%) Architect
3 25 (18.38%) Lead
4 21 (15.44%) Salesforce Architect
5 18 (13.24%) Technical Leader
6 13 (9.56%) Senior
6 13 (9.56%) Technical Architect
7 12 (8.82%) Applications Support
8 11 (8.09%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (8.09%) Applications Support Engineer
8 11 (8.09%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 11 (8.09%) Support Engineer
9 10 (7.35%) Developer
9 10 (7.35%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.88%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 7 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (4.41%) .NET Developer
13 5 (3.68%) Analyst
13 5 (3.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.18%) REST
2 21 (15.44%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (15.44%) SOAP
3 19 (13.97%) Visualforce
4 18 (13.24%) React
5 13 (9.56%) RESTful
6 9 (6.62%) .NET
6 9 (6.62%) AWS CDK
6 9 (6.62%) Next.js
7 8 (5.88%) Jakarta EE
7 8 (5.88%) JSP
8 6 (4.41%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.41%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.41%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (4.41%) Blazor
8 6 (4.41%) ML.NET
9 2 (1.47%) Great Expectations
9 2 (1.47%) Node.js
9 2 (1.47%) Playwright
9 2 (1.47%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.32%) Cloud Native
2 28 (20.59%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.09%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.41%) BBC
4 6 (4.41%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.41%) Social Media
5 4 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.47%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.47%) IoT
6 2 (1.47%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
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 (1.47%) Android
1 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.47%) Linux
1 2 (1.47%) Unix
1 2 (1.47%) Windows
1 2 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (51.47%) Agile
2 68 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 35 (25.74%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (23.53%) Mentoring
6 31 (22.79%) Roadmaps
7 28 (20.59%) Scrum
8 26 (19.12%) OO
9 24 (17.65%) Software Engineering
10 23 (16.91%) Design Patterns
11 22 (16.18%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (16.18%) Technology Roadmap
12 21 (15.44%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
12 21 (15.44%) Event-Driven
12 21 (15.44%) Technical Analysis
13 20 (14.71%) Code Quality
13 20 (14.71%) TOGAF
14 19 (13.97%) Community of Practice
14 19 (13.97%) Continuous Delivery
14 19 (13.97%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.38%) JavaScript
2 24 (17.65%) SQL
3 21 (15.44%) Apex Code
4 19 (13.97%) SOQL
4 19 (13.97%) SOSL
5 18 (13.24%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.29%) Python
7 11 (8.09%) Java
8 8 (5.88%) C#
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
9 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (5.88%) Degree
2 4 (2.94%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.21%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.47%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.47%) ISEB
4 2 (1.47%) 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%) 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 17 (12.50%) QA
2 7 (5.15%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.68%) GDPR
4 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.21%) NCSC
5 3 (2.21%) 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 (8.09%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (16.91%) Terraform
2 16 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (15.44%) Salesforce
2 19 (13.97%) Google
2 19 (13.97%) Splunk
3 15 (11.03%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.15%) Apple
4 7 (5.15%) Pega
5 6 (4.41%) Facebook
5 6 (4.41%) Sony
5 6 (4.41%) Yahoo!
6 3 (2.21%) Oracle
7 2 (1.47%) Databricks
7 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.47%) 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