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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 27 36
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 -18
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 120 222 274
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.96% 8.77% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 9.76% 7.65%
Number of salaries quoted 69 52 128
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,700 £46,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,438 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +1.92% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £79,419
90th Percentile £105,500 £85,630 £90,000
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 2,770 2,275 3,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.36% 89.85% 85.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,642 996 1,582
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,575 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +40.99% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £82,450
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 20 September 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 20 September 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 +21 59 £60,000 -7.69% 87
Edinburgh -23 38 £60,000 -9.43% 78
South Lanarkshire -5 8 £72,500 -
Moray +1 4 £81,250 -
Lanarkshire 0 2 - - 18
Fife -11 2 - - 4
Stirling -3 1 - - 2
North Lanarkshire -6 1 - - 1
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 2 (1.67%) IIS
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.83%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 51 (42.50%) Azure
2 36 (30.00%) AWS
3 18 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (10.00%) GCP
4 12 (10.00%) SaaS
5 8 (6.67%) Entra ID
6 6 (5.00%) Azure AI
7 5 (4.17%) GitHub
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.33%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.33%) Serverless
9 3 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.50%) dbt
9 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) Broadband
2 3 (2.50%) Internet
3 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) AMQP
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) Firewall
4 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.83%) MQTT
4 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.83%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.17%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.50%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.67%) Parquet
6 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.83%) Big Data
7 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.83%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.83%) Power BI
7 1 (0.83%) Redis
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.33%) Git
1 10 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 10 (8.33%) SonarQube
2 9 (7.50%) GitLab
3 4 (3.33%) JIRA
4 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 3 (2.50%) JMeter
5 2 (1.67%) Burp Suite
5 2 (1.67%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.67%) JUnit
5 2 (1.67%) Maven
5 2 (1.67%) Mockito
5 2 (1.67%) Selenium
6 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.83%) ERwin
6 1 (0.83%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 26 (21.67%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.83%) Finance
3 11 (9.17%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.50%) Banking
4 9 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (7.50%) Marketing
5 6 (5.00%) Games
6 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Law
8 2 (1.67%) Legal
9 1 (0.83%) Advertising
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (29.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (25.00%) Lead
3 16 (13.33%) Technical Leader
4 14 (11.67%) Architect
5 12 (10.00%) Senior
6 9 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (7.50%) Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Applications Support
7 8 (6.67%) Applications Support Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Salesforce Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
9 5 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
10 4 (3.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.83%) React
2 15 (12.50%) Terraform
3 11 (9.17%) RESTful
4 10 (8.33%) Next.js
5 9 (7.50%) .NET
5 9 (7.50%) REST
6 8 (6.67%) AWS CDK
6 8 (6.67%) Jakarta EE
6 8 (6.67%) JSP
6 8 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
6 8 (6.67%) SOAP
7 6 (5.00%) .NET Core
7 6 (5.00%) ASP.NET
7 6 (5.00%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (5.00%) Blazor
7 6 (5.00%) ML.NET
7 6 (5.00%) Visualforce
8 4 (3.33%) PySpark
9 3 (2.50%) Playwright
9 3 (2.50%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.17%) Product Ownership
3 8 (6.67%) Client/Server
4 6 (5.00%) BBC
4 6 (5.00%) Social Media
5 5 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.50%) IoT
6 3 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.50%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.67%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.83%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.67%) Unix
2 2 (1.67%) Windows
2 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.00%) CI/CD
2 50 (41.67%) Agile
3 32 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 31 (25.83%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (25.83%) Software Engineering
5 27 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 20 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (15.83%) AI
9 16 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
9 16 (13.33%) SDLC
10 15 (12.50%) Observability
10 15 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 14 (11.67%) Microservices
11 14 (11.67%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (10.83%) Stakeholder Management
13 12 (10.00%) OO
14 10 (8.33%) Machine Learning
14 10 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (22.50%) JavaScript
2 21 (17.50%) SQL
3 18 (15.00%) TypeScript
4 16 (13.33%) Python
5 15 (12.50%) Java
6 8 (6.67%) Apex Code
6 8 (6.67%) C#
7 6 (5.00%) SOQL
7 6 (5.00%) SOSL
8 4 (3.33%) Bicep
9 3 (2.50%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.67%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.83%) Bash
11 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (5.83%) Degree
1 7 (5.83%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.67%) ISEB
4 2 (1.67%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.83%) CISSP
5 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.83%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.83%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (10.00%) Docker
2 8 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.67%) Grafana
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Google
3 8 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 6 (5.00%) Apple
4 6 (5.00%) Facebook
4 6 (5.00%) Sony
4 6 (5.00%) Splunk
4 6 (5.00%) Yahoo!
5 4 (3.33%) Databricks
5 4 (3.33%) Oracle
6 3 (2.50%) Intel
7 2 (1.67%) VMware
7 2 (1.67%) YouTube
8 1 (0.83%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.83%) Cisco
8 1 (0.83%) Meraki