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

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 18 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 +37 -39
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 175 217 397
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.34% 10.88% 6.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.53% 11.66% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 57 85 202
10th Percentile £27,000 £45,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £71,250 £93,778 £81,875
90th Percentile £78,530 £111,000 £92,443
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 2,323 1,861 5,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.93% 93.33% 91.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 858 2,382
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%

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 May 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 May 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 -3 88 £55,000 -23.08% 21
Glasgow -28 30 £32,000 -52.59% 25
West Dunbartonshire 0 12 - -
Stirling -2 9 - -
South Lanarkshire +2 8 £72,500 -
West Lothian +2 7 - - 1
Fife +1 6 - - 2
Lanarkshire +5 5 - - 6
North Lanarkshire -4 4 - - 1
Moray - 2 £100,000 -
East Ayrshire -1 1 £85,700 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 11
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 6 (3.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.29%) Apache
2 4 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.57%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.57%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (6.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (6.86%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.29%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 106 (60.57%) Azure
2 71 (40.57%) Azure DevOps
3 55 (31.43%) GitHub
4 28 (16.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 24 (13.71%) Power Platform
5 24 (13.71%) Snowflake
6 23 (13.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 20 (11.43%) AWS
7 20 (11.43%) dbt
8 17 (9.71%) Entra ID
8 17 (9.71%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (9.71%) SaaS
9 15 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
10 13 (7.43%) GCP
11 12 (6.86%) Azure Key Vault
11 12 (6.86%) OCI
12 7 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (3.43%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (3.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (18.29%) Broadband
2 3 (1.71%) Firewall
2 3 (1.71%) Network Security
3 2 (1.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.57%) Power BI
2 14 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (4.00%) Metadata
3 7 (4.00%) Tableau
4 4 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.71%) BigQuery
5 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.14%) Big Data
6 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.14%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.57%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.57%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 47 (26.86%) Jenkins
2 33 (18.86%) GitLab
2 33 (18.86%) SonarQube
3 15 (8.57%) JIRA
4 12 (6.86%) Oracle Forms
5 8 (4.57%) Git
6 3 (1.71%) fastlane
7 2 (1.14%) Xcode
8 1 (0.57%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.57%) Appium
8 1 (0.57%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.57%) Gradle
8 1 (0.57%) MLflow
8 1 (0.57%) Postman
8 1 (0.57%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.57%) TestRail
8 1 (0.57%) XCTest
8 1 (0.57%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (41.71%) Finance
2 48 (27.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 38 (21.71%) Marketing
4 32 (18.29%) Games
5 31 (17.71%) Social Skills
6 12 (6.86%) Billing
6 12 (6.86%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (4.57%) Banking
9 1 (0.57%) Advertising
9 1 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 44 (25.14%) Senior
2 36 (20.57%) Architect
3 31 (17.71%) Salesforce Architect
4 29 (16.57%) Applications Engineer
5 27 (15.43%) Applications Support
6 19 (10.86%) Technical Architect
7 18 (10.29%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 16 (9.14%) Lead
9 15 (8.57%) Applications Support Engineer
9 15 (8.57%) Support Engineer
10 13 (7.43%) Analyst
10 13 (7.43%) Support Analyst
11 12 (6.86%) Applications Support Analyst
11 12 (6.86%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (6.86%) Salesforce Engineer
12 11 (6.29%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (5.71%) Technical Leader
14 9 (5.14%) Salesforce Solution Architect
14 9 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (28.57%) SOAP
2 45 (25.71%) REST
3 44 (25.14%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (18.29%) Visualforce
5 23 (13.14%) RESTful
6 19 (10.86%) OAuth
7 15 (8.57%) .NET
8 13 (7.43%) OAuth2
9 12 (6.86%) JSON
10 9 (5.14%) AWS CDK
11 6 (3.43%) ADO
11 6 (3.43%) GraphQL
11 6 (3.43%) OpenAPI
11 6 (3.43%) React
11 6 (3.43%) SAML
11 6 (3.43%) Swagger
11 6 (3.43%) XML
11 6 (3.43%) YAML
12 2 (1.14%) ASP.NET
12 2 (1.14%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 65 (37.14%) Product Ownership
2 40 (22.86%) Cloud Native
3 13 (7.43%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.86%) Management Information System
5 11 (6.29%) Client/Server
6 6 (3.43%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.29%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.71%) Low-Code
9 2 (1.14%) BBC
9 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.14%) Social Media
10 1 (0.57%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.57%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.86%) Windows
2 2 (1.14%) Android
2 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 124 (70.86%) Agile
3 66 (37.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 63 (36.00%) Coaching
5 62 (35.43%) Asset Management
6 51 (29.14%) Observability
7 46 (26.29%) Test Automation
8 45 (25.71%) Event-Driven
9 41 (23.43%) OO
9 41 (23.43%) Roadmaps
10 40 (22.86%) Mentoring
11 38 (21.71%) AI
11 38 (21.71%) Infrastructure as Code
12 37 (21.14%) Scrum
13 36 (20.57%) Data Modelling
14 35 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
15 34 (19.43%) Technical Analysis
15 34 (19.43%) Technology Roadmap
16 33 (18.86%) Design Patterns
17 32 (18.29%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 54 (30.86%) SQL
2 44 (25.14%) Apex Code
3 40 (22.86%) Python
4 32 (18.29%) SOQL
4 32 (18.29%) SOSL
5 19 (10.86%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.71%) PowerShell
7 13 (7.43%) Java
8 12 (6.86%) C#
8 12 (6.86%) PL/SQL
8 12 (6.86%) Shell Script
9 10 (5.71%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.00%) Bicep
11 4 (2.29%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.57%) Scala
13 1 (0.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (7.43%) Degree
2 12 (6.86%) HND
3 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.57%) PMP
4 1 (0.57%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (12.57%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.86%) SLA
3 10 (5.71%) GDPR
4 8 (4.57%) QA
5 7 (4.00%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.71%) NCSC
6 3 (1.71%) WCAG
7 1 (0.57%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (28.57%) Terraform
2 16 (9.14%) Kubernetes
3 12 (6.86%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.00%) Grafana
5 6 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 44 (25.14%) Salesforce
3 32 (18.29%) Splunk
4 13 (7.43%) Google
5 12 (6.86%) Adobe
5 12 (6.86%) Freshdesk
5 12 (6.86%) Nintex
5 12 (6.86%) Oracle
6 10 (5.71%) Ab Initio
7 7 (4.00%) Pega
8 6 (3.43%) Okta
9 5 (2.86%) Databricks
10 4 (2.29%) IBM
11 3 (1.71%) Apple
12 2 (1.14%) Cisco
12 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.14%) Facebook
12 2 (1.14%) Meraki
12 2 (1.14%) Sony
12 2 (1.14%) Yahoo!