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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 17 19
Rank change year-on-year -12 +2 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 225 260 260
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 8.18% 7.94% 10.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.19% 9.43% 11.46%
Number of salaries quoted 58 118 221
10th Percentile £26,100 £47,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.36% +8.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,144 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,385 £85,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,100 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.30% -1.29% -

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 2,448 2,758 2,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.05% 84.27% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,121 1,305 1,815
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,790 £82,100 £82,548
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +7 163 £67,500 +12.50% 46
Glasgow -28 40 £78,750 +34.04% 52
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian -2 3 - - 6
Fife +8 2 £50,000 - 7
Lanarkshire -4 2 - - 16
East Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 - 5
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 - 1
Aberdeen +3 1 - - 3
North Lanarkshire -14 1 - -
Moray - 1 - - 1
Midlothian - 1 - - 30
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 17 (7.56%) Confluence
2 9 (4.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.56%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.22%) Apache
5 4 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.78%) WebSphere
6 3 (1.33%) CICS
6 3 (1.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.44%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.33%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (9.33%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 162 (72.00%) Azure
2 104 (46.22%) Azure DevOps
3 68 (30.22%) GitHub
4 59 (26.22%) AWS
5 38 (16.89%) Entra ID
6 32 (14.22%) Snowflake
7 31 (13.78%) GitHub Copilot
8 29 (12.89%) GCP
9 27 (12.00%) Power Platform
10 23 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
11 22 (9.78%) dbt
12 21 (9.33%) OCI
13 19 (8.44%) GitHub Actions
14 18 (8.00%) Azure Data Factory
15 16 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (6.22%) OpenShift
16 14 (6.22%) SaaS
17 11 (4.89%) PaaS
18 8 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
18 8 (3.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.67%) Broadband
2 10 (4.44%) Firewall
3 9 (4.00%) DNS
4 7 (3.11%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.67%) BGP
5 6 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 5 (2.22%) LAN
6 5 (2.22%) VPN
6 5 (2.22%) WAN
7 3 (1.33%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (1.33%) MPLS
7 3 (1.33%) Network Security
7 3 (1.33%) NX-OS
7 3 (1.33%) OSPF
7 3 (1.33%) VXLAN
7 3 (1.33%) Wireless
8 2 (0.89%) DHCP
9 1 (0.44%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (10.67%) Power BI
3 21 (9.33%) Tableau
4 10 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.44%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (3.11%) Metadata
5 7 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.78%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.78%) Big Data
6 4 (1.78%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.78%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.78%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.78%) Redis
7 3 (1.33%) DB2
7 3 (1.33%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (19.56%) JIRA
2 40 (17.78%) Jenkins
3 21 (9.33%) Oracle Forms
4 20 (8.89%) GitLab
5 15 (6.67%) SonarQube
6 11 (4.89%) Git
7 2 (0.89%) JUnit
7 2 (0.89%) Maven
8 1 (0.44%) Ant
8 1 (0.44%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.44%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.44%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.44%) JMeter
8 1 (0.44%) Locust
8 1 (0.44%) Selenium
8 1 (0.44%) Snyk
8 1 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.44%) TestNG
General
1 134 (59.56%) Finance
2 55 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 38 (16.89%) Marketing
4 31 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.56%) Games
7 11 (4.89%) Law
8 5 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.22%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.78%) Front Office
9 4 (1.78%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.33%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.89%) Back Office
11 2 (0.89%) Banking
11 2 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.89%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.89%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.44%) Legal
12 1 (0.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (22.22%) Senior
2 32 (14.22%) Applications Engineer
2 32 (14.22%) Cloud Engineer
3 24 (10.67%) Architect
4 22 (9.78%) Analyst
5 20 (8.89%) Software Engineer
6 17 (7.56%) Lead
7 16 (7.11%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 14 (6.22%) Salesforce Architect
9 13 (5.78%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (5.33%) Business Analyst
11 11 (4.89%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (4.89%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 11 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.89%) Technical Architect
12 10 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
13 8 (3.56%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (3.56%) Salesforce Technical Architect
13 8 (3.56%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.56%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (15.56%) RESTful
2 33 (14.67%) SOAP
3 22 (9.78%) REST
4 21 (9.33%) Lightning Web Components
5 19 (8.44%) JSON
6 18 (8.00%) OAuth
6 18 (8.00%) React
7 15 (6.67%) .NET
7 15 (6.67%) OAuth2
7 15 (6.67%) Visualforce
8 14 (6.22%) XML
9 12 (5.33%) Middleware
10 9 (4.00%) AngularJS
10 9 (4.00%) SAML
11 8 (3.56%) Blazor
12 7 (3.11%) .NET Core
12 7 (3.11%) ADO
12 7 (3.11%) Kafka
12 7 (3.11%) Spring
12 7 (3.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 72 (32.00%) Product Ownership
2 46 (20.44%) Cloud Native
3 25 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (6.22%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.78%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.33%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (4.44%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.56%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.67%) Data Centre
10 5 (2.22%) Low-Code
10 5 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.78%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.78%) Mainframe
12 3 (1.33%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.33%) Clustering
12 3 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
13 2 (0.89%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.11%) Linux
2 4 (1.78%) Unix
2 4 (1.78%) VMS
3 3 (1.33%) Windows
4 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.44%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (69.33%) Agile
2 135 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 117 (52.00%) Coaching
4 110 (48.89%) Asset Management
5 107 (47.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (34.67%) AI
7 73 (32.44%) Test Automation
8 60 (26.67%) Roadmaps
9 53 (23.56%) Analytics
10 51 (22.67%) Infrastructure as Code
10 51 (22.67%) Observability
11 49 (21.78%) Mentoring
12 37 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
13 34 (15.11%) Sprint Planning
13 34 (15.11%) Technology Roadmap
14 33 (14.67%) Sprint Retrospective
15 32 (14.22%) Clean Code
15 32 (14.22%) ITIL
15 32 (14.22%) Migration
15 32 (14.22%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 91 (40.44%) Python
2 75 (33.33%) SQL
3 41 (18.22%) Java
4 36 (16.00%) PowerShell
5 21 (9.33%) Apex Code
5 21 (9.33%) PL/SQL
5 21 (9.33%) Shell Script
6 20 (8.89%) Bash
7 19 (8.44%) JavaScript
8 15 (6.67%) C#
8 15 (6.67%) SOQL
8 15 (6.67%) SOSL
9 12 (5.33%) Bicep
10 5 (2.22%) TypeScript
11 3 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.89%) C
13 1 (0.44%) Go
13 1 (0.44%) Groovy
13 1 (0.44%) PHP
13 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (4.00%) Degree
2 8 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.22%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.22%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (2.22%) CRISC
5 3 (1.33%) CCNA
5 3 (1.33%) CCNP
5 3 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.44%) CBAP
6 1 (0.44%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.44%) PMP
6 1 (0.44%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.22%) Accessibility
2 10 (4.44%) QA
3 7 (3.11%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.67%) GDPR
5 5 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.89%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.89%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.89%) SEPA
7 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 38 (16.89%) Docker
2 22 (9.78%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.33%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (1.78%) RACF
6 2 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 84 (37.33%) Terraform
2 44 (19.56%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.33%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (6.67%) Grafana
5 14 (6.22%) Ansible
6 11 (4.89%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.33%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.89%) Puppet
10 1 (0.44%) Podman
10 1 (0.44%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 38 (16.89%) Microsoft
2 23 (10.22%) Oracle
3 22 (9.78%) Salesforce
3 22 (9.78%) Splunk
4 12 (5.33%) Okta
5 7 (3.11%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.67%) Ab Initio
6 6 (2.67%) F5
6 6 (2.67%) IBM
7 5 (2.22%) Google
8 4 (1.78%) Charles River
8 4 (1.78%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.33%) Broadcom
9 3 (1.33%) Cisco
9 3 (1.33%) Databricks
9 3 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.44%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.44%) VMware