DevOps Jobs in Scotland

DevOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 47 15
Rank change year-on-year +7 -32 -3
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 211 423 575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.46% 6.49% 13.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.30% 7.33% 14.61%
Number of salaries quoted 72 174 308
10th Percentile £48,850 £45,000 £42,762
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,000 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £66,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +6.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £95,021 £81,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £146,300 £96,000 £97,328
UK median annual salary £72,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +11.54% -7.14% -

All Process and 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 2,891 5,773 3,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 88.46% 88.54% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 1,360 2,512 2,047
10th Percentile £28,950 £28,275 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,040 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,125 £80,000 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

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 5 July 2025. 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 -2 102 £71,250 +3.26% 130
Glasgow +36 58 £75,000 +3.09% 124
Lanarkshire -7 18 - - 17
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 2
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Fife -7 3 £50,000 - 5
Stirling - 3 - -
West Lothian +6 2 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
Aberdeen +22 1 - - 32
Falkirk - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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 49 (23.22%) Confluence
2 15 (7.11%) Oracle Application Server
3 7 (3.32%) Apache
3 7 (3.32%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.42%) CICS
4 3 (1.42%) nginx
4 3 (1.42%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.42%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.47%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.47%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.95%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 112 (53.08%) Azure
2 107 (50.71%) AWS
3 82 (38.86%) GCP
4 24 (11.37%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.16%) SaaS
6 10 (4.74%) GitHub
7 9 (4.27%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (4.27%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.79%) OpenShift
8 8 (3.79%) Serverless
9 6 (2.84%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.84%) IaaS
9 6 (2.84%) PaaS
10 5 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.90%) Amazon S3
12 3 (1.42%) Amazon SageMaker
12 3 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) Internet
2 5 (2.37%) Firewall
2 5 (2.37%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (1.90%) Network Security
4 3 (1.42%) BGP
4 3 (1.42%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.42%) DNS
4 3 (1.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.42%) NX-OS
4 3 (1.42%) OSPF
4 3 (1.42%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.42%) VXLAN
5 2 (0.95%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.47%) FTP
6 1 (0.47%) HTTP
6 1 (0.47%) LAN
6 1 (0.47%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.47%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.47%) SSL
6 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (29.38%) SQL Server
2 17 (8.06%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.11%) Oracle Reports
4 12 (5.69%) NoSQL
5 8 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.32%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.84%) Relational Database
8 4 (1.90%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.90%) Big Data
8 4 (1.90%) DB2
8 4 (1.90%) MySQL
9 3 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.42%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.47%) Power BI
10 1 (0.47%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 66 (31.28%) GitLab
2 63 (29.86%) Maven
3 53 (25.12%) JIRA
4 51 (24.17%) SonarQube
4 51 (24.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 50 (23.70%) Bitbucket
6 49 (23.22%) Cucumber
6 49 (23.22%) Selenium
7 24 (11.37%) Jenkins
8 16 (7.58%) Git
9 5 (2.37%) JUnit
9 5 (2.37%) Visual Studio
10 3 (1.42%) Gradle
10 3 (1.42%) Postman
11 2 (0.95%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.95%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.95%) Mockito
11 2 (0.95%) Oracle Forms
11 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
General
1 105 (49.76%) Finance
2 74 (35.07%) Banking
3 58 (27.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 57 (27.01%) Social Skills
5 39 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (8.53%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (7.11%) Military
8 11 (5.21%) Law
9 9 (4.27%) Marketing
10 4 (1.90%) Games
10 4 (1.90%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.90%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.95%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.95%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.95%) Retail
12 1 (0.47%) Advertising
12 1 (0.47%) Back Office
12 1 (0.47%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.47%) Front Office
12 1 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (38.39%) Software Engineer
2 33 (15.64%) Lead
3 28 (13.27%) Senior
4 19 (9.00%) Developer
5 16 (7.58%) Analyst
6 11 (5.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (5.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 11 (5.21%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 11 (5.21%) Senior Software Engineer
7 9 (4.27%) Architect
7 9 (4.27%) Java Developer
8 8 (3.79%) Android Engineer
8 8 (3.79%) Senior Developer
9 7 (3.32%) .NET Software Engineer
9 7 (3.32%) C# Software Engineer
9 7 (3.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 7 (3.32%) Lead Software Engineer
10 5 (2.37%) Database Engineer
10 5 (2.37%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (2.37%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (37.44%) React
2 67 (31.75%) Spring
2 67 (31.75%) Spring Boot
3 61 (28.91%) Kafka
4 58 (27.49%) CSS
5 57 (27.01%) Hibernate
5 57 (27.01%) HTML
6 52 (24.64%) JPA
7 50 (23.70%) Redux
8 31 (14.69%) RESTful
9 18 (8.53%) .NET
10 16 (7.58%) AngularJS
11 12 (5.69%) .NET Core
12 10 (4.74%) Middleware
13 8 (3.79%) Android Jetpack
13 8 (3.79%) Blazor
13 8 (3.79%) Jetpack Compose
14 7 (3.32%) REST
15 5 (2.37%) .NET Framework
16 4 (1.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 61 (28.91%) Product Ownership
2 53 (25.12%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (6.16%) Virtual Team
4 11 (5.21%) Distributed Systems
5 9 (4.27%) Public Cloud
6 8 (3.79%) Mobile App
6 8 (3.79%) Online Banking
7 7 (3.32%) Algorithms
7 7 (3.32%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.84%) Mainframe
9 4 (1.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 3 (1.42%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.42%) Private Cloud
10 3 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.42%) Wiki
11 2 (0.95%) CMDB
11 2 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.95%) IVR
11 2 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.64%) Linux
2 9 (4.27%) Unix
3 8 (3.79%) Android
4 7 (3.32%) Windows
5 4 (1.90%) zOS
6 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.47%) Solaris
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (71.56%) Agile
2 136 (64.45%) CI/CD
3 99 (46.92%) Software Engineering
4 92 (43.60%) Microservices
5 89 (42.18%) Containerisation
6 82 (38.86%) Full-Stack Development
7 79 (37.44%) Test Automation
8 68 (32.23%) TDD
9 66 (31.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 59 (27.96%) SDLC
11 58 (27.49%) Front End Development
12 53 (25.12%) Clean Code
13 50 (23.70%) Performance Optimisation
14 44 (20.85%) Roadmaps
15 38 (18.01%) Continuous Integration
16 37 (17.54%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (13.27%) Analytics
17 28 (13.27%) Customer Experience
18 26 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
19 24 (11.37%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 89 (42.18%) Java
2 78 (36.97%) JavaScript
3 76 (36.02%) SQL
4 33 (15.64%) Python
5 16 (7.58%) C#
6 14 (6.64%) TypeScript
7 9 (4.27%) Bash
8 8 (3.79%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.32%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.84%) Go
11 3 (1.42%) C++
11 3 (1.42%) Scala
12 2 (0.95%) Bicep
12 2 (0.95%) C
12 2 (0.95%) Elixir
12 2 (0.95%) F#
12 2 (0.95%) Groovy
12 2 (0.95%) Ruby
12 2 (0.95%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 15 (7.11%) DBS Check
2 9 (4.27%) Degree
3 6 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (1.90%) CCNA
4 4 (1.90%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.42%) CCNP
6 2 (0.95%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.95%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.95%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.47%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (26.54%) QA
2 11 (5.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.37%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.42%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.95%) SEPA
6 1 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.47%) ECSS
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 95 (45.02%) Docker
2 3 (1.42%) RACF
3 1 (0.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) NDS
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 106 (50.24%) Kubernetes
2 28 (13.27%) Terraform
3 8 (3.79%) Ansible
4 7 (3.32%) Grafana
5 4 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.95%) Argo
6 2 (0.95%) Istio
6 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.47%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.47%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.47%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (23.22%) Solace
2 21 (9.95%) Oracle
3 16 (7.58%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.74%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.37%) Cisco
5 5 (2.37%) F5
5 5 (2.37%) IBM
6 3 (1.42%) Fortinet
6 3 (1.42%) Splunk
6 3 (1.42%) Workday
7 2 (0.95%) Databricks
7 2 (0.95%) ForgeRock
7 2 (0.95%) Informatica
7 2 (0.95%) Ping Identity
7 2 (0.95%) Sage
7 2 (0.95%) SAP
7 2 (0.95%) Sybase
7 2 (0.95%) VMware
8 1 (0.47%) NetIQ
8 1 (0.47%) Red Hat