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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 16 20
Rank change year-on-year -10 +4 -8
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 236 277 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 8.56% 8.42% 10.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.75% 9.92% 11.38%
Number of salaries quoted 60 125 220
10th Percentile £26,200 £47,338 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,500 £52,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £62,500 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -4.36% +8.92%
75th Percentile £82,500 £74,145 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,295 £86,601 £100,629
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -

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 2,421 2,792 2,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.81% 84.86% 95.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1,160 1,303 1,792
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,250 £70,000 £69,013
90th Percentile £79,775 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% - -

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 14 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 14 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 +3 174 £67,000 +7.20% 36
Glasgow -29 40 £78,750 +36.96% 34
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian +1 3 - -
Fife +10 2 £50,000 -
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 11
East Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 - 4
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Aberdeen +1 1 - - 3
North Lanarkshire -9 1 - - 3
Moray - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 26
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 (7.20%) Confluence
2 10 (4.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.39%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.12%) Apache
5 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.27%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.85%) CICS
7 2 (0.85%) nginx
8 1 (0.42%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.85%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 23 (9.75%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 175 (74.15%) Azure
2 115 (48.73%) Azure DevOps
3 78 (33.05%) GitHub
4 59 (25.00%) AWS
5 40 (16.95%) Entra ID
6 38 (16.10%) GitHub Copilot
7 37 (15.68%) Snowflake
8 29 (12.29%) Power Platform
9 28 (11.86%) GCP
10 27 (11.44%) dbt
11 23 (9.75%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (9.75%) OCI
12 21 (8.90%) Azure Data Factory
12 21 (8.90%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (7.20%) Azure Monitor
14 15 (6.36%) SaaS
15 12 (5.08%) OpenShift
16 11 (4.66%) PaaS
17 9 (3.81%) Azure Logic Apps
17 9 (3.81%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.36%) Broadband
2 11 (4.66%) Firewall
3 8 (3.39%) DNS
4 7 (2.97%) BGP
4 7 (2.97%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.54%) LAN
5 6 (2.54%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (2.54%) WAN
6 5 (2.12%) VPN
7 4 (1.69%) MPLS
7 4 (1.69%) Wireless
8 3 (1.27%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.27%) NX-OS
8 3 (1.27%) OSPF
8 3 (1.27%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.85%) DHCP
9 2 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.85%) Network Security
10 1 (0.42%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.14%) Data Warehouse
2 26 (11.02%) Power BI
3 22 (9.32%) Tableau
4 11 (4.66%) Azure SQL Database
4 11 (4.66%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (2.97%) Metadata
5 7 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.69%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.69%) Big Data
6 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
6 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (1.69%) NoSQL
6 4 (1.69%) Redis
7 3 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.27%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.85%) DB2
9 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 47 (19.92%) JIRA
2 42 (17.80%) Jenkins
3 23 (9.75%) Oracle Forms
4 19 (8.05%) GitLab
5 15 (6.36%) SonarQube
6 12 (5.08%) Git
7 2 (0.85%) JUnit
7 2 (0.85%) Maven
8 1 (0.42%) Ant
8 1 (0.42%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.42%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.42%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.42%) JMeter
8 1 (0.42%) Locust
8 1 (0.42%) Selenium
8 1 (0.42%) Snyk
8 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 146 (61.86%) Finance
2 61 (25.85%) Social Skills
3 39 (16.53%) Marketing
4 35 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (10.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 17 (7.20%) Games
7 11 (4.66%) Law
8 5 (2.12%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.12%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.69%) Front Office
9 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.27%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.85%) Back Office
11 2 (0.85%) Banking
11 2 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.85%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.85%) Health Technology
11 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (23.73%) Senior
2 36 (15.25%) Applications Engineer
3 34 (14.41%) Cloud Engineer
4 23 (9.75%) Architect
5 22 (9.32%) Analyst
6 20 (8.47%) Software Engineer
7 18 (7.63%) Lead
8 17 (7.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 15 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
10 14 (5.93%) Salesforce Architect
11 12 (5.08%) Business Analyst
12 11 (4.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 11 (4.66%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
13 10 (4.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 10 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (4.24%) Technical Architect
14 9 (3.81%) Applications Support
14 9 (3.81%) Applications Support Engineer
14 9 (3.81%) Support Engineer
15 8 (3.39%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (16.10%) RESTful
2 36 (15.25%) SOAP
3 24 (10.17%) REST
4 23 (9.75%) Lightning Web Components
5 21 (8.90%) JSON
5 21 (8.90%) OAuth
6 18 (7.63%) React
7 17 (7.20%) OAuth2
8 16 (6.78%) .NET
9 15 (6.36%) Visualforce
9 15 (6.36%) XML
10 12 (5.08%) Middleware
11 10 (4.24%) SAML
12 9 (3.81%) AngularJS
13 8 (3.39%) ADO
13 8 (3.39%) Blazor
14 7 (2.97%) .NET Core
14 7 (2.97%) Kafka
14 7 (2.97%) Spring
14 7 (2.97%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 75 (31.78%) Product Ownership
2 51 (21.61%) Cloud Native
3 26 (11.02%) Enterprise Software
4 15 (6.36%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.51%) Management Information System
6 12 (5.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.39%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.54%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.54%) Low-Code
9 6 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.12%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.69%) Algorithms
11 4 (1.69%) Client/Server
12 3 (1.27%) Clustering
12 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (1.27%) Mainframe
13 2 (0.85%) NHS
13 2 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.97%) Linux
2 4 (1.69%) Unix
2 4 (1.69%) VMS
3 3 (1.27%) Windows
4 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (69.49%) Agile
2 147 (62.29%) CI/CD
3 128 (54.24%) Coaching
4 122 (51.69%) Asset Management
5 114 (48.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 85 (36.02%) AI
7 80 (33.90%) Test Automation
8 58 (24.58%) Analytics
8 58 (24.58%) Roadmaps
9 57 (24.15%) Observability
10 53 (22.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (22.03%) Mentoring
12 40 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
13 39 (16.53%) Sprint Planning
14 38 (16.10%) Clean Code
14 38 (16.10%) Sprint Retrospective
15 36 (15.25%) Migration
16 34 (14.41%) Technology Roadmap
17 33 (13.98%) ITIL
17 33 (13.98%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 95 (40.25%) Python
2 81 (34.32%) SQL
3 42 (17.80%) Java
4 38 (16.10%) PowerShell
5 23 (9.75%) Apex Code
5 23 (9.75%) PL/SQL
5 23 (9.75%) Shell Script
6 20 (8.47%) Bash
7 19 (8.05%) JavaScript
8 16 (6.78%) C#
9 15 (6.36%) SOQL
9 15 (6.36%) SOSL
10 13 (5.51%) Bicep
11 5 (2.12%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.85%) C
14 1 (0.42%) Go
14 1 (0.42%) Groovy
14 1 (0.42%) PHP
14 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (3.81%) Degree
2 8 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.54%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.54%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.12%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.12%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (2.12%) CRISC
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.85%) CCNA
6 2 (0.85%) CCNP
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.42%) CBAP
7 1 (0.42%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.42%) PMP
7 1 (0.42%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.36%) Accessibility
2 11 (4.66%) QA
3 7 (2.97%) Data Quality
3 7 (2.97%) GDPR
4 5 (2.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.85%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.85%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.85%) SEPA
6 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (16.53%) Docker
2 24 (10.17%) Active Directory
3 12 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.27%) RACF
6 2 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 89 (37.71%) Terraform
2 44 (18.64%) Kubernetes
3 23 (9.75%) Single Sign-On
4 16 (6.78%) Grafana
5 14 (5.93%) Ansible
6 13 (5.51%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.24%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.27%) AWS Copilot
9 2 (0.85%) Puppet
10 1 (0.42%) Podman
10 1 (0.42%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (17.37%) Microsoft
2 25 (10.59%) Oracle
3 24 (10.17%) Salesforce
4 22 (9.32%) Splunk
5 13 (5.51%) Okta
6 7 (2.97%) Ab Initio
6 7 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.54%) F5
8 5 (2.12%) Google
8 5 (2.12%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.69%) Charles River
9 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.69%) IBM
10 3 (1.27%) Cisco
10 3 (1.27%) Databricks
11 2 (0.85%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.42%) VMware