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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 57
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 -43
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 134 206 331
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.01% 8.64% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 9.42% 6.06%
Number of salaries quoted 71 68 176
10th Percentile £27,000 £49,450 £43,125
25th Percentile £41,250 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,565 £71,250 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% +7.14% +6.40%
75th Percentile £73,000 £95,021 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £146,300 £97,987
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 2,370 2,186 5,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.89% 91.66% 87.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,385 956 2,515
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,968 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,832
90th Percentile £81,250 £86,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.09%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +5 40 £55,000 -26.67% 25
Edinburgh -18 38 £55,000 -21.43% 20
Stirling 0 9 - -
South Lanarkshire 0 8 £72,500 -
West Lothian +3 7 - -
West Dunbartonshire 0 7 - -
Fife -3 6 - -
Lanarkshire +4 5 - - 8
North Lanarkshire -6 4 - -
Moray - 4 £81,250 - 1
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 14
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 (2.99%) Apache
1 4 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.49%) IIS
3 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (5.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 56 (41.79%) Azure
2 26 (19.40%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (14.93%) AWS
4 17 (12.69%) SaaS
5 14 (10.45%) GCP
6 12 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (8.21%) Entra ID
7 11 (8.21%) Power Platform
8 10 (7.46%) GitHub
9 6 (4.48%) Azure AI
10 4 (2.99%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.24%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.24%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.24%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (2.24%) Dataform
11 3 (2.24%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.24%) Serverless
12 2 (1.49%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 32 (23.88%) Broadband
2 3 (2.24%) Firewall
2 3 (2.24%) Network Security
3 2 (1.49%) DNS
4 1 (0.75%) AMQP
4 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.75%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 9 (6.72%) Power BI
3 6 (4.48%) MongoDB
4 5 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.24%) Big Data
5 3 (2.24%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.24%) Metadata
5 3 (2.24%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.49%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 37 (27.61%) Jenkins
2 35 (26.12%) GitLab
2 35 (26.12%) SonarQube
3 7 (5.22%) JIRA
4 4 (2.99%) Git
5 3 (2.24%) fastlane
5 3 (2.24%) JMeter
6 2 (1.49%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.49%) Xcode
7 1 (0.75%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.75%) Gradle
7 1 (0.75%) MLflow
7 1 (0.75%) Mockito
7 1 (0.75%) Postman
7 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.75%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.75%) TestRail
7 1 (0.75%) XCTest
General
1 48 (35.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 33 (24.63%) Marketing
3 32 (23.88%) Games
4 20 (14.93%) Social Skills
5 17 (12.69%) Finance
6 13 (9.70%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.97%) Banking
8 7 (5.22%) Billing
9 4 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.75%) Advertising
12 1 (0.75%) Legal
12 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (28.36%) Architect
2 32 (23.88%) Salesforce Architect
3 22 (16.42%) Lead
4 19 (14.18%) DevOps Engineer
4 19 (14.18%) Technical Architect
5 18 (13.43%) Applications Support
5 18 (13.43%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 14 (10.45%) Senior
6 14 (10.45%) Technical Leader
7 12 (8.96%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (8.21%) Applications Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Applications Support Engineer
8 11 (8.21%) Support Engineer
9 10 (7.46%) Analyst
9 10 (7.46%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 9 (6.72%) Developer
10 9 (6.72%) Support Analyst
11 7 (5.22%) Applications Support Analyst
12 6 (4.48%) .NET Developer
12 6 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (25.37%) REST
2 33 (24.63%) Lightning Web Components
2 33 (24.63%) SOAP
3 32 (23.88%) Visualforce
4 13 (9.70%) React
5 12 (8.96%) RESTful
6 11 (8.21%) .NET
7 9 (6.72%) AWS CDK
8 6 (4.48%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.48%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.48%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (4.48%) Blazor
8 6 (4.48%) ML.NET
9 5 (3.73%) Next.js
10 4 (2.99%) J2EE
10 4 (2.99%) JSP
11 2 (1.49%) Great Expectations
11 2 (1.49%) Node.js
11 2 (1.49%) Playwright
11 2 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 45 (33.58%) Product Ownership
2 22 (16.42%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.21%) Client/Server
4 8 (5.97%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.48%) BBC
5 6 (4.48%) Mobile App
5 6 (4.48%) Social Media
6 2 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.75%) IoT
7 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.75%) PMI
7 1 (0.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.49%) Android
1 2 (1.49%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.49%) Windows
1 2 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (60.45%) Agile
2 73 (54.48%) CI/CD
3 45 (33.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 44 (32.84%) Roadmaps
5 40 (29.85%) Scrum
6 39 (29.10%) OO
7 35 (26.12%) Technology Roadmap
8 34 (25.37%) Technical Analysis
9 33 (24.63%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 33 (24.63%) Design Patterns
9 33 (24.63%) Event-Driven
10 32 (23.88%) Community of Practice
10 32 (23.88%) Continuous Delivery
10 32 (23.88%) Continuous Integration
10 32 (23.88%) PLM
10 32 (23.88%) Static Code Analysis
10 32 (23.88%) TOGAF
11 28 (20.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 25 (18.66%) Mentoring
13 20 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.63%) Apex Code
2 32 (23.88%) SOQL
2 32 (23.88%) SOSL
3 24 (17.91%) SQL
4 21 (15.67%) JavaScript
5 14 (10.45%) TypeScript
6 11 (8.21%) Python
7 9 (6.72%) C#
8 6 (4.48%) Java
9 2 (1.49%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.49%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
10 1 (0.75%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (6.72%) Degree
2 7 (5.22%) HND
3 2 (1.49%) ISEB
3 2 (1.49%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.49%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.75%) PMP
4 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.96%) Accessibility
2 11 (8.21%) QA
3 7 (5.22%) SLA
4 5 (3.73%) GDPR
5 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.24%) NCSC
5 3 (2.24%) WCAG
6 1 (0.75%) GRC
6 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (8.21%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.97%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (14.93%) Terraform
2 17 (12.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.24%) Grafana
4 2 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 33 (24.63%) Salesforce
2 32 (23.88%) Splunk
3 23 (17.16%) Microsoft
4 17 (12.69%) Google
5 7 (5.22%) Adobe
5 7 (5.22%) Apple
5 7 (5.22%) Freshdesk
5 7 (5.22%) Nintex
5 7 (5.22%) Pega
6 6 (4.48%) Facebook
6 6 (4.48%) Sony
6 6 (4.48%) Yahoo!
7 2 (1.49%) Cisco
7 2 (1.49%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.49%) Meraki
7 2 (1.49%) Oracle
7 2 (1.49%) VMware
8 1 (0.75%) Databricks