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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +11 -19
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 273 289 272
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 10.00% 10.18% 10.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.18% 11.21% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 53 137 210
10th Percentile £26,250 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -13.60% +11.12%
75th Percentile £82,241 £74,144 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,200 £86,152 £106,289
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 2,241 2,577 2,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 82.12% 90.74% 96.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,151 1,142 1,723
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,275 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,063 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,225 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -2.04%

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 15 December 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 15 December 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 +4 222 £66,000 +1.54% 35
Glasgow -15 27 £67,500 +22.73% 44
Stirling - 4 - - 1
West Lothian +2 3 - - 2
East Ayrshire - 3 £85,700 -
Fife +11 2 £50,000 - 2
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 16
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - - 5
North Lanarkshire -9 1 - -
Moray - 1 - -
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 18
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 (6.23%) Confluence
2 16 (5.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.93%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.73%) CICS
6 1 (0.37%) Apache
6 1 (0.37%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.10%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (12.82%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (1.10%) Markit EDM
3 2 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 226 (82.78%) Azure
2 162 (59.34%) Azure DevOps
3 123 (45.05%) GitHub
4 68 (24.91%) GitHub Copilot
5 61 (22.34%) Snowflake
6 50 (18.32%) AWS
7 48 (17.58%) dbt
8 46 (16.85%) Entra ID
9 42 (15.38%) Azure Data Factory
10 39 (14.29%) Power Platform
11 35 (12.82%) OCI
12 30 (10.99%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (8.42%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
15 18 (6.59%) GCP
16 17 (6.23%) Azure Key Vault
17 15 (5.49%) SaaS
18 14 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
18 14 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
18 14 (5.13%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.49%) Broadband
2 11 (4.03%) Firewall
3 6 (2.20%) DNS
3 6 (2.20%) LAN
3 6 (2.20%) WAN
4 5 (1.83%) VPN
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 (0.73%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (16.85%) Data Warehouse
2 37 (13.55%) Power BI
3 28 (10.26%) Tableau
4 14 (5.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (4.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (3.66%) Metadata
7 7 (2.56%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.20%) 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 2 (0.73%) DB2
10 2 (0.73%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 59 (21.61%) JIRA
2 51 (18.68%) Jenkins
3 35 (12.82%) Oracle Forms
4 18 (6.59%) Git
5 15 (5.49%) GitLab
5 15 (5.49%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.37%) Ant
6 1 (0.37%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
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
1 195 (71.43%) Finance
2 72 (26.37%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.19%) Marketing
5 16 (5.86%) Games
5 16 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.83%) Financial Institution
6 5 (1.83%) Tech for Good
7 4 (1.47%) Front Office
8 2 (0.73%) Back Office
8 2 (0.73%) Billing
8 2 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Fire and Rescue
8 2 (0.73%) Health Technology
8 2 (0.73%) Law
8 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 85 (31.14%) Senior
2 54 (19.78%) Applications Engineer
3 46 (16.85%) Cloud Engineer
4 26 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
5 23 (8.42%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 22 (8.06%) Analyst
7 21 (7.69%) Architect
8 14 (5.13%) Applications Support
8 14 (5.13%) Salesforce Architect
9 13 (4.76%) Development Engineer
10 12 (4.40%) Applications Support Engineer
10 12 (4.40%) Business Analyst
10 12 (4.40%) Support Engineer
11 11 (4.03%) Lead
12 10 (3.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.66%) Software Engineer
13 9 (3.30%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (2.93%) Technical Analyst
14 8 (2.93%) Technical Architect
14 8 (2.93%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (19.78%) SOAP
2 52 (19.05%) RESTful
3 39 (14.29%) OAuth
4 35 (12.82%) Lightning Web Components
4 35 (12.82%) REST
5 32 (11.72%) JSON
6 29 (10.62%) OAuth2
7 21 (7.69%) XML
8 20 (7.33%) .NET
9 16 (5.86%) SAML
10 15 (5.49%) Visualforce
11 14 (5.13%) ADO
12 12 (4.40%) React
13 10 (3.66%) GraphQL
13 10 (3.66%) OpenAPI
13 10 (3.66%) Swagger
14 8 (2.93%) Middleware
15 7 (2.56%) AngularJS
15 7 (2.56%) YAML
16 5 (1.83%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 93 (34.07%) Product Ownership
2 69 (25.27%) Cloud Native
3 36 (13.19%) Enterprise Software
4 21 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 15 (5.49%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.30%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.30%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.83%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.47%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.10%) Clustering
11 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
11 3 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.73%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
12 2 (0.73%) NHS
13 1 (0.37%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.37%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.56%) Linux
2 6 (2.20%) Windows
3 4 (1.47%) Unix
3 4 (1.47%) VMS
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (72.16%) Agile
2 195 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 186 (68.13%) Coaching
4 185 (67.77%) Asset Management
5 137 (50.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 113 (41.39%) AI
6 113 (41.39%) Test Automation
7 91 (33.33%) Observability
8 75 (27.47%) Analytics
9 70 (25.64%) Mentoring
10 65 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 62 (22.71%) Clean Code
12 57 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
13 56 (20.51%) Sprint Planning
13 56 (20.51%) Sprint Retrospective
14 55 (20.15%) Data Modelling
15 46 (16.85%) Roadmaps
16 45 (16.48%) Migration
17 44 (16.12%) Event-Driven
18 39 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 120 (43.96%) Python
2 108 (39.56%) SQL
3 52 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 46 (16.85%) Java
5 35 (12.82%) Apex Code
5 35 (12.82%) PL/SQL
5 35 (12.82%) Shell Script
6 20 (7.33%) Bicep
6 20 (7.33%) C#
7 19 (6.96%) Bash
7 19 (6.96%) JavaScript
8 15 (5.49%) SOQL
8 15 (5.49%) SOSL
9 6 (2.20%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.20%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.73%) C
11 1 (0.37%) Groovy
11 1 (0.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (4.40%) Degree
2 9 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.20%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (1.83%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.83%) CRISC
4 5 (1.83%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.83%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.73%) HND
5 2 (0.73%) 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 23 (8.42%) Accessibility
2 17 (6.23%) QA
3 13 (4.76%) GDPR
4 6 (2.20%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 2 (0.73%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.73%) SLA
6 1 (0.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (12.82%) Docker
2 33 (12.09%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.73%) RACF
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 121 (44.32%) Terraform
2 36 (13.19%) Kubernetes
3 35 (12.82%) Single Sign-On
4 21 (7.69%) Grafana
5 18 (6.59%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.66%) Ansible
6 10 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.10%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.37%) Podman
8 1 (0.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (20.88%) Microsoft
2 36 (13.19%) Salesforce
3 35 (12.82%) Oracle
4 22 (8.06%) Splunk
5 19 (6.96%) Okta
6 16 (5.86%) Ab Initio
7 6 (2.20%) Databricks
7 6 (2.20%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.83%) Google
8 5 (1.83%) IBM
8 5 (1.83%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.47%) Charles River
9 4 (1.47%) F5
9 4 (1.47%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.73%) Adobe
10 2 (0.73%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.73%) Freshdesk
10 2 (0.73%) Nintex
11 1 (0.37%) OpenAI
11 1 (0.37%) VMware