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

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 27 56
Rank change year-on-year -6 +29 -41
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 133 205 365
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.09% 9.26% 5.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.82% 9.98% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 62 65 187
10th Percentile £27,000 £49,850 £42,500
25th Percentile £33,669 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £75,000 £66,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +12.78% +2.31%
75th Percentile £70,000 £98,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £89,725 £146,300 £98,474
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 2,286 2,054 5,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.38% 92.77% 88.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,313 841 2,584
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -9.54%

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 June 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 June 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
Edinburgh -9 44 £55,000 -22.81% 27
Glasgow +2 31 £55,000 -26.67% 44
West Dunbartonshire +1 10 - -
Stirling +2 9 - - 16
South Lanarkshire 0 8 £72,500 - 12
West Lothian +3 7 - - 21
Fife -2 6 - - 17
Lanarkshire +5 5 - - 9
North Lanarkshire -6 4 - -
Moray - 3 £100,000 - 1
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 16
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 (3.01%) Apache
1 4 (3.01%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.75%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.75%) IIS
2 1 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (7.52%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.50%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.75%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 61 (45.86%) Azure
2 32 (24.06%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (12.78%) AWS
3 17 (12.78%) SaaS
4 16 (12.03%) GitHub
5 15 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (11.28%) Power Platform
6 13 (9.77%) GCP
7 12 (9.02%) Entra ID
8 6 (4.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (3.76%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (3.01%) Azure AI
10 4 (3.01%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (3.01%) Snowflake
11 3 (2.26%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.26%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (2.26%) Dataform
11 3 (2.26%) dbt
11 3 (2.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (24.06%) Broadband
2 3 (2.26%) Firewall
2 3 (2.26%) Network Security
3 2 (1.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.75%) AMQP
4 1 (0.75%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.75%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) Azure SQL Database
2 13 (9.77%) Power BI
3 4 (3.01%) Metadata
3 4 (3.01%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.26%) Big Data
4 3 (2.26%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.50%) Tableau
6 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.75%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.75%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (27.82%) Jenkins
2 33 (24.81%) GitLab
2 33 (24.81%) SonarQube
3 7 (5.26%) JIRA
4 4 (3.01%) Git
5 3 (2.26%) fastlane
6 2 (1.50%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (1.50%) Xcode
7 1 (0.75%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.75%) Burp Suite
7 1 (0.75%) Crashlytics
7 1 (0.75%) ERwin
7 1 (0.75%) Gradle
7 1 (0.75%) JMeter
7 1 (0.75%) MLflow
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 (36.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 33 (24.81%) Marketing
3 32 (24.06%) Games
4 24 (18.05%) Finance
5 17 (12.78%) Social Skills
6 12 (9.02%) Public Sector
7 10 (7.52%) Billing
8 8 (6.02%) Banking
9 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Advertising
11 1 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) Architect
2 31 (23.31%) Salesforce Architect
3 22 (16.54%) Applications Support
4 19 (14.29%) Senior
4 19 (14.29%) Technical Architect
5 18 (13.53%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 16 (12.03%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (12.03%) Lead
7 14 (10.53%) Applications Engineer
8 12 (9.02%) Applications Support Engineer
8 12 (9.02%) Support Engineer
9 11 (8.27%) Analyst
9 11 (8.27%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (8.27%) Support Analyst
9 11 (8.27%) Technical Leader
10 10 (7.52%) Applications Support Analyst
11 9 (6.77%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 8 (6.02%) Developer
13 6 (4.51%) Azure Engineer
14 5 (3.76%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.32%) REST
1 35 (26.32%) SOAP
2 34 (25.56%) Lightning Web Components
3 32 (24.06%) Visualforce
4 11 (8.27%) RESTful
5 10 (7.52%) .NET
6 9 (6.77%) AWS CDK
6 9 (6.77%) React
7 4 (3.01%) .NET Core
7 4 (3.01%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.01%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (3.01%) Blazor
7 4 (3.01%) ML.NET
7 4 (3.01%) OAuth
8 3 (2.26%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.50%) Great Expectations
9 2 (1.50%) JSON
9 2 (1.50%) Next.js
9 2 (1.50%) Node.js
9 2 (1.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 49 (36.84%) Product Ownership
2 22 (16.54%) Cloud Native
3 11 (8.27%) Client/Server
3 11 (8.27%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.51%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.01%) BBC
5 4 (3.01%) Social Media
6 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) IoT
8 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 1 (0.75%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.75%) PMI
8 1 (0.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.50%) Android
1 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.50%) Windows
2 1 (0.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (63.16%) Agile
2 75 (56.39%) CI/CD
3 44 (33.08%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (33.08%) Roadmaps
4 40 (30.08%) Scrum
5 38 (28.57%) OO
6 35 (26.32%) Event-Driven
6 35 (26.32%) Technology Roadmap
7 34 (25.56%) Technical Analysis
8 33 (24.81%) Design Patterns
9 32 (24.06%) Community of Practice
9 32 (24.06%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 32 (24.06%) Continuous Delivery
9 32 (24.06%) Continuous Integration
9 32 (24.06%) PLM
9 32 (24.06%) Static Code Analysis
9 32 (24.06%) TOGAF
10 26 (19.55%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (18.05%) Mentoring
12 21 (15.79%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.56%) Apex Code
2 32 (24.06%) SOQL
2 32 (24.06%) SOSL
3 28 (21.05%) SQL
4 18 (13.53%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.28%) Python
6 11 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 8 (6.02%) C#
8 4 (3.01%) Java
8 4 (3.01%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.50%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.75%) Bicep
10 1 (0.75%) Scala
10 1 (0.75%) Swift
10 1 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (9.02%) Degree
2 10 (7.52%) HND
3 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.75%) ISEB
3 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.75%) PMI Certification
3 1 (0.75%) PMP
3 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.52%) SLA
3 6 (4.51%) GDPR
4 5 (3.76%) QA
5 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
6 3 (2.26%) NCSC
6 3 (2.26%) WCAG
7 1 (0.75%) GRC
7 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (9.77%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (17.29%) Terraform
2 15 (11.28%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.26%) Grafana
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 34 (25.56%) Salesforce
2 32 (24.06%) Splunk
3 29 (21.80%) Microsoft
4 15 (11.28%) Google
5 10 (7.52%) Adobe
5 10 (7.52%) Freshdesk
5 10 (7.52%) Nintex
6 7 (5.26%) Pega
7 5 (3.76%) Apple
8 4 (3.01%) Facebook
8 4 (3.01%) Oracle
8 4 (3.01%) Sony
8 4 (3.01%) Yahoo!
9 2 (1.50%) Ab Initio
9 2 (1.50%) Cisco
9 2 (1.50%) Databricks
9 2 (1.50%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.50%) Meraki
10 1 (0.75%) Okta
10 1 (0.75%) VMware