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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 15 34
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 -25
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 272 267 331
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.50% 10.50% 8.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.95% 11.23% 9.54%
Number of salaries quoted 42 129 225
10th Percentile £25,800 £44,600 £45,000
25th Percentile £29,125 £51,698 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £62,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% -10.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £84,310 £74,144 £84,056
90th Percentile £85,655 £93,778 £96,539
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year - +3.70% -3.57%

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 2,277 2,377 3,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.53% 93.51% 93.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,120 990 2,032
10th Percentile £26,725 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +9.45% -12.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £66,778
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 +2 224 £60,000 -9.77% 45
Glasgow -15 21 £67,500 +26.76% 23
West Dunbartonshire - 7 - - 1
Stirling - 4 - - 4
West Lothian +4 3 - - 5
East Ayrshire - 3 £85,700 -
Lanarkshire +2 2 - - 21
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Fife +7 1 - - 4
North Lanarkshire -15 1 - - 4
Moray - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 16
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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 17 (6.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) CICS
4 1 (0.37%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (13.60%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.47%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 229 (84.19%) Azure
2 167 (61.40%) Azure DevOps
3 124 (45.59%) GitHub
4 72 (26.47%) GitHub Copilot
5 65 (23.90%) Snowflake
6 51 (18.75%) dbt
7 47 (17.28%) Entra ID
8 45 (16.54%) AWS
9 44 (16.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 44 (16.18%) Power Platform
10 37 (13.60%) OCI
11 28 (10.29%) GitHub Actions
12 25 (9.19%) Microsoft 365
13 24 (8.82%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (6.99%) Azure Key Vault
15 15 (5.51%) Datadog
16 14 (5.15%) Azure Event Grid
16 14 (5.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 14 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
17 13 (4.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.51%) Broadband
2 9 (3.31%) Firewall
3 6 (2.21%) DNS
4 5 (1.84%) LAN
4 5 (1.84%) VPN
4 5 (1.84%) WAN
5 4 (1.47%) BGP
5 4 (1.47%) MPLS
5 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.47%) Wireless
6 3 (1.10%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.74%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.28%) Data Warehouse
2 43 (15.81%) Power BI
3 29 (10.66%) Tableau
4 14 (5.15%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (4.04%) Metadata
6 10 (3.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.57%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.21%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.47%) Redis
10 1 (0.37%) DB2
10 1 (0.37%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.37%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 58 (21.32%) JIRA
2 53 (19.49%) Jenkins
3 37 (13.60%) Oracle Forms
4 18 (6.62%) Git
5 15 (5.51%) GitLab
5 15 (5.51%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.37%) Ant
6 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.37%) JMeter
6 1 (0.37%) JUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Locust
6 1 (0.37%) Maven
6 1 (0.37%) Selenium
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.37%) TestNG
General
1 203 (74.63%) Finance
2 73 (26.84%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.81%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.60%) Marketing
5 16 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.51%) Games
7 7 (2.57%) Billing
8 5 (1.84%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.47%) Front Office
10 2 (0.74%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.74%) Law
10 2 (0.74%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.37%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (31.99%) Senior
2 57 (20.96%) Applications Engineer
3 47 (17.28%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (9.93%) Analyst
5 26 (9.56%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (8.82%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 21 (7.72%) Architect
8 20 (7.35%) Applications Support
9 14 (5.15%) Development Engineer
9 14 (5.15%) Salesforce Architect
10 13 (4.78%) Applications Support Engineer
10 13 (4.78%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.41%) Business Analyst
12 10 (3.68%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) Senior Development Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (2.94%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.94%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (20.96%) SOAP
2 52 (19.12%) RESTful
3 42 (15.44%) OAuth
4 37 (13.60%) Lightning Web Components
4 37 (13.60%) REST
5 34 (12.50%) JSON
6 31 (11.40%) OAuth2
7 20 (7.35%) XML
8 18 (6.62%) .NET
9 17 (6.25%) SAML
10 15 (5.51%) Visualforce
11 14 (5.15%) ADO
12 11 (4.04%) GraphQL
12 11 (4.04%) OpenAPI
12 11 (4.04%) Swagger
13 8 (2.94%) YAML
14 7 (2.57%) Middleware
14 7 (2.57%) React
15 4 (1.47%) Django
16 3 (1.10%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 101 (37.13%) Product Ownership
2 71 (26.10%) Cloud Native
3 38 (13.97%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (8.09%) Onboarding
5 20 (7.35%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.31%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.84%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.47%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.47%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.10%) Clustering
10 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.74%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.37%) BBC
12 1 (0.37%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.37%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.37%) Mainframe
12 1 (0.37%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.57%) Linux
1 7 (2.57%) Windows
2 4 (1.47%) Unix
2 4 (1.47%) VMS
3 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (74.26%) Agile
2 195 (71.69%) Asset Management
2 195 (71.69%) Coaching
3 194 (71.32%) CI/CD
4 140 (51.47%) Continuous Improvement
5 116 (42.65%) AI
6 115 (42.28%) Test Automation
7 93 (34.19%) Observability
8 76 (27.94%) Analytics
9 68 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 66 (24.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 62 (22.79%) Clean Code
12 60 (22.06%) Data Modelling
13 58 (21.32%) Sprint Planning
13 58 (21.32%) Sprint Retrospective
14 57 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (16.91%) Event-Driven
15 46 (16.91%) Migration
16 43 (15.81%) Business Intelligence
16 43 (15.81%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 124 (45.59%) Python
2 110 (40.44%) SQL
3 55 (20.22%) PowerShell
4 41 (15.07%) Java
5 37 (13.60%) Apex Code
5 37 (13.60%) PL/SQL
5 37 (13.60%) Shell Script
6 20 (7.35%) Bicep
6 20 (7.35%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.99%) Bash
8 15 (5.51%) C#
8 15 (5.51%) SOQL
8 15 (5.51%) SOSL
9 7 (2.57%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.47%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (5.15%) Degree
2 7 (2.57%) HND
3 6 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.21%) Chartered Engineer
3 6 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.84%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.84%) CRISC
4 5 (1.84%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.84%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.37%) CBAP
6 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.37%) PMP
6 1 (0.37%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.29%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.62%) QA
3 14 (5.15%) GDPR
4 7 (2.57%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.57%) SLA
5 6 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 27 (9.93%) Docker
3 11 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.68%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.37%) RACF
Systems Management
1 126 (46.32%) Terraform
2 37 (13.60%) Single Sign-On
3 28 (10.29%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.35%) Grafana
5 18 (6.62%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.68%) Ansible
6 10 (3.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.37%) Podman
8 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 64 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.97%) Salesforce
3 37 (13.60%) Oracle
4 20 (7.35%) Okta
4 20 (7.35%) Splunk
5 18 (6.62%) Ab Initio
6 7 (2.57%) Adobe
6 7 (2.57%) Databricks
6 7 (2.57%) Freshdesk
6 7 (2.57%) Nintex
7 6 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.84%) Google
8 5 (1.84%) IBM
9 4 (1.47%) Charles River
9 4 (1.47%) F5
9 4 (1.47%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.47%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.37%) Broadcom
10 1 (0.37%) Facebook
10 1 (0.37%) Xamarin