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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 16 55
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 -46
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 214 197 406
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.70% 10.21% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.99% 11.04% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 53 109 218
10th Percentile £27,000 £46,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.70% +0.85%
75th Percentile £73,500 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £109,500 £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 2,380 1,784 5,751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 74.54% 92.48% 92.94%
Number of salaries quoted 1,285 912 2,394
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,575 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £39,784
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.43%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,878 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.09% -10.57%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -1 138 £60,000 -16.08% 25
Glasgow -26 27 £60,000 -4.00% 20
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Stirling - 9 - -
West Lothian +1 8 - - 1
Fife +2 6 - -
Lanarkshire - 5 - - 10
North Lanarkshire - 4 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 2 £55,000 - 1
East Ayrshire - 1 £85,700 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 15
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 8 (3.74%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.87%) Apache
2 4 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.47%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (5.61%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (7.48%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.87%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 151 (70.56%) Azure
2 103 (48.13%) Azure DevOps
3 87 (40.65%) GitHub
4 51 (23.83%) GitHub Copilot
5 41 (19.16%) Snowflake
6 38 (17.76%) dbt
7 37 (17.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (14.49%) Power Platform
9 28 (13.08%) AWS
10 23 (10.75%) GitHub Actions
11 20 (9.35%) Entra ID
11 20 (9.35%) GCP
12 19 (8.88%) Azure Key Vault
13 18 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (7.48%) OCI
15 15 (7.01%) SaaS
16 13 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (5.14%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (5.14%) Datadog
18 10 (4.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.42%) Broadband
2 5 (2.34%) Firewall
3 3 (1.40%) BGP
3 3 (1.40%) LAN
3 3 (1.40%) MPLS
3 3 (1.40%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.40%) WAN
3 3 (1.40%) Wireless
4 2 (0.93%) Network Security
4 2 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.47%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.55%) Power BI
2 23 (10.75%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (5.61%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.67%) Metadata
5 9 (4.21%) Tableau
6 8 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.27%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.80%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.40%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.40%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.40%) Redis
10 3 (1.40%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.93%) Big Data
12 1 (0.47%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.47%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 52 (24.30%) Jenkins
2 34 (15.89%) GitLab
3 33 (15.42%) SonarQube
4 26 (12.15%) JIRA
5 16 (7.48%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (4.67%) Git
7 3 (1.40%) fastlane
8 2 (0.93%) Xcode
9 1 (0.47%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.47%) Appium
9 1 (0.47%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.47%) Gradle
9 1 (0.47%) JMeter
9 1 (0.47%) MLflow
9 1 (0.47%) Postman
9 1 (0.47%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.47%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.47%) TestRail
9 1 (0.47%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (53.27%) Finance
2 53 (24.77%) Social Skills
3 48 (22.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 43 (20.09%) Marketing
5 33 (15.42%) Games
6 23 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.61%) Billing
7 12 (5.61%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.40%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.93%) Banking
10 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (29.91%) Senior
2 37 (17.29%) Applications Engineer
2 37 (17.29%) Architect
3 31 (14.49%) Salesforce Architect
4 26 (12.15%) Applications Support
5 20 (9.35%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (8.88%) Technical Architect
7 18 (8.41%) Cloud Engineer
7 18 (8.41%) Salesforce Engineer
7 18 (8.41%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 14 (6.54%) Applications Support Engineer
8 14 (6.54%) Support Engineer
9 13 (6.07%) Analyst
9 13 (6.07%) Support Analyst
10 12 (5.61%) Applications Support Analyst
11 10 (4.67%) Development Engineer
11 10 (4.67%) Integration Engineer
11 10 (4.67%) Lead
12 9 (4.21%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 9 (4.21%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (27.57%) SOAP
2 52 (24.30%) REST
3 51 (23.83%) Lightning Web Components
4 33 (15.42%) Visualforce
5 30 (14.02%) OAuth
5 30 (14.02%) RESTful
6 19 (8.88%) OAuth2
7 18 (8.41%) JSON
8 17 (7.94%) .NET
9 11 (5.14%) GraphQL
9 11 (5.14%) OpenAPI
9 11 (5.14%) Swagger
10 10 (4.67%) ADO
11 8 (3.74%) SAML
11 8 (3.74%) XML
11 8 (3.74%) YAML
12 6 (2.80%) React
13 3 (1.40%) AWS CDK
13 3 (1.40%) Django
14 2 (0.93%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 81 (37.85%) Product Ownership
2 47 (21.96%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.94%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.61%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.67%) Client/Server
5 10 (4.67%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.74%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.87%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.40%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
10 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.47%) BBC
11 1 (0.47%) Clustering
11 1 (0.47%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.47%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.47%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.47%) PMI
11 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.34%) Windows
2 3 (1.40%) Linux
2 3 (1.40%) Unix
3 2 (0.93%) Android
3 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (79.44%) CI/CD
2 159 (74.30%) Agile
3 106 (49.53%) Asset Management
3 106 (49.53%) Coaching
4 94 (43.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 78 (36.45%) Test Automation
6 73 (34.11%) Observability
7 63 (29.44%) AI
8 54 (25.23%) Data Modelling
9 52 (24.30%) Event-Driven
10 50 (23.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 46 (21.50%) OO
12 45 (21.03%) Mentoring
12 45 (21.03%) Roadmaps
13 44 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
14 43 (20.09%) Analytics
15 42 (19.63%) Clean Code
16 40 (18.69%) Scrum
17 36 (16.82%) Continuous Integration
18 35 (16.36%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 71 (33.18%) SQL
2 67 (31.31%) Python
3 51 (23.83%) Apex Code
4 33 (15.42%) SOQL
4 33 (15.42%) SOSL
5 30 (14.02%) PowerShell
6 19 (8.88%) Java
7 16 (7.48%) C#
7 16 (7.48%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.48%) PL/SQL
7 16 (7.48%) Shell Script
8 12 (5.61%) Bicep
9 7 (3.27%) T-SQL
10 5 (2.34%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.93%) Bash
11 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.47%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (6.07%) Degree
2 12 (5.61%) HND
3 4 (1.87%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.87%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.40%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.40%) CRISC
5 1 (0.47%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.47%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.47%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.68%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.54%) GDPR
3 12 (5.61%) QA
3 12 (5.61%) SLA
4 10 (4.67%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.87%) WCAG
6 3 (1.40%) NCSC
7 1 (0.47%) GRC
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (10.28%) Active Directory
2 17 (7.94%) Docker
3 3 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (36.92%) Terraform
2 21 (9.81%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.48%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (7.01%) Grafana
5 13 (6.07%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.34%) Ansible
7 3 (1.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 53 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 51 (23.83%) Salesforce
3 36 (16.82%) Splunk
4 16 (7.48%) Oracle
5 15 (7.01%) Google
6 14 (6.54%) Ab Initio
7 12 (5.61%) Adobe
7 12 (5.61%) Freshdesk
7 12 (5.61%) Nintex
8 8 (3.74%) Databricks
8 8 (3.74%) Okta
9 7 (3.27%) Pega
10 4 (1.87%) IBM
11 3 (1.40%) F5
11 3 (1.40%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.40%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.93%) Apple
12 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.47%) Cisco