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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 118 249 266
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.80% 9.53% 7.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.11% 10.52% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 66 49 121
10th Percentile £27,250 £25,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,241 £78,750
90th Percentile £102,500 £85,700 £87,500
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £68,500
% change year-on-year - +2.19% -2.14%

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 2,872 2,368 2,885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.22% 90.59% 83.87%
Number of salaries quoted 1,672 1,015 1,411
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £78,575 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -

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 October 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 October 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 +25 60 £60,000 -9.43% 85
Edinburgh -23 42 £60,000 -5.88% 81
South Lanarkshire -5 6 £72,500 -
Moray +1 4 £81,250 -
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 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.85%) Ethereum
1 1 (0.85%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 52 (44.07%) Azure
2 42 (35.59%) AWS
3 18 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (13.56%) GCP
5 9 (7.63%) SaaS
6 6 (5.08%) Azure AI
7 5 (4.24%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.24%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.39%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.39%) GitHub
8 4 (3.39%) Serverless
9 3 (2.54%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.54%) dbt
9 3 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.69%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.69%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.69%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.24%) Internet
2 2 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) AMQP
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) Firewall
3 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.85%) MQTT
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.17%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.93%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.24%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.39%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.69%) Parquet
6 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.85%) Big Data
7 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.85%) Redis
7 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Git
2 4 (3.39%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.39%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.54%) GitLab
3 3 (2.54%) JIRA
3 3 (2.54%) JMeter
4 2 (1.69%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.69%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.69%) JUnit
4 2 (1.69%) Maven
4 2 (1.69%) Mockito
4 2 (1.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) ERwin
5 1 (0.85%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 16 (13.56%) Finance
3 13 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.93%) Banking
5 4 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Marketing
7 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Law
7 2 (1.69%) Legal
7 2 (1.69%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.85%) Advertising
8 1 (0.85%) Agriculture
8 1 (0.85%) Local Government
8 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (34.75%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (25.42%) Lead
3 16 (13.56%) Senior
4 14 (11.86%) Technical Leader
5 9 (7.63%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (7.63%) Developer
6 7 (5.93%) Architect
6 7 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (5.93%) Lead DevOps
6 7 (5.93%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) .NET Developer
7 6 (5.08%) AWS DevOps
7 6 (5.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) AWS Infrastructure Lead
8 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (19.49%) React
2 17 (14.41%) Terraform
3 11 (9.32%) RESTful
4 10 (8.47%) Next.js
5 9 (7.63%) .NET
6 8 (6.78%) Jakarta EE
6 8 (6.78%) JSP
7 6 (5.08%) .NET Core
7 6 (5.08%) ASP.NET
7 6 (5.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (5.08%) AWS CDK
7 6 (5.08%) Blazor
7 6 (5.08%) ML.NET
8 4 (3.39%) Node.js
8 4 (3.39%) Spring
8 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.54%) Playwright
9 3 (2.54%) PySpark
9 3 (2.54%) REST
10 2 (1.69%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 30 (25.42%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.08%) BBC
2 6 (5.08%) Social Media
3 5 (4.24%) Client/Server
3 5 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.24%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (2.54%) IoT
4 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.69%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (1.69%) Hackathon
5 2 (1.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.85%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.93%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.53%) CI/CD
2 46 (38.98%) Agile
3 36 (30.51%) Software Engineering
4 32 (27.12%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (27.12%) Mentoring
5 20 (16.95%) AI
5 20 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (15.25%) Code Quality
6 18 (15.25%) Full-Stack Development
6 18 (15.25%) SDLC
7 15 (12.71%) Collaborative Culture
7 15 (12.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 14 (11.86%) Microservices
8 14 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (11.02%) Observability
9 13 (11.02%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (10.17%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (9.32%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (8.47%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.73%) JavaScript
2 20 (16.95%) TypeScript
3 18 (15.25%) Python
4 17 (14.41%) Java
4 17 (14.41%) SQL
5 7 (5.93%) C#
6 5 (4.24%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.39%) Bicep
8 2 (1.69%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.69%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (7.63%) Degree
2 7 (5.93%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.24%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.54%) Azure Certification
4 3 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.69%) ISEB
5 2 (1.69%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.85%) CISSP
6 1 (0.85%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.10%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (14.41%) Docker
2 5 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 22 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.71%) Google
3 6 (5.08%) Apple
3 6 (5.08%) Facebook
3 6 (5.08%) Sony
3 6 (5.08%) Yahoo!
4 5 (4.24%) Intel
5 4 (3.39%) Oracle
6 3 (2.54%) Databricks
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.69%) YouTube
8 1 (0.85%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.85%) Cisco
8 1 (0.85%) Meraki
8 1 (0.85%) VMware