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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 53
Rank change year-on-year -7 +38 -45
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 223 202 404
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 7.08% 10.43% 6.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.37% 11.29% 7.28%
Number of salaries quoted 55 111 220
10th Percentile £27,000 £46,250 £43,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.45% +2.88%
75th Percentile £78,790 £91,889 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,150 £108,750 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,250
% change year-on-year - +7.28% -6.79%

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 2,379 1,789 5,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 75.55% 92.36% 93.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1,287 910 2,352
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,175 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £39,323
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -11.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 2 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 2 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 -3 139 £61,250 -14.34% 25
Glasgow -29 29 £67,500 +8.00% 20
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Stirling - 11 - -
West Lothian 0 8 - - 1
Fife +3 7 - -
Lanarkshire - 7 - - 10
North Lanarkshire -8 4 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 £55,000 - 1
Midlothian - 1 - - 15
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 8 (3.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.79%) Apache
2 4 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (5.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (7.17%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.79%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 150 (67.26%) Azure
2 103 (46.19%) Azure DevOps
3 87 (39.01%) GitHub
4 51 (22.87%) GitHub Copilot
5 41 (18.39%) Snowflake
6 39 (17.49%) dbt
7 37 (16.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 32 (14.35%) AWS
9 31 (13.90%) Power Platform
10 23 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (9.42%) GCP
12 19 (8.52%) Azure Key Vault
12 19 (8.52%) Entra ID
13 18 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
14 16 (7.17%) OCI
15 14 (6.28%) SaaS
16 13 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
17 11 (4.93%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (4.93%) Datadog
18 10 (4.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (17.49%) Broadband
2 5 (2.24%) Firewall
3 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.35%) BGP
4 3 (1.35%) LAN
4 3 (1.35%) MPLS
4 3 (1.35%) WAN
4 3 (1.35%) Wireless
5 2 (0.90%) Network Security
5 2 (0.90%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.45%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.00%) Power BI
2 23 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.93%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.48%) Metadata
5 9 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (4.04%) Tableau
6 7 (3.14%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.79%) Redis
10 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.90%) Big Data
11 2 (0.90%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.45%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.45%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 58 (26.01%) Jenkins
2 40 (17.94%) GitLab
3 39 (17.49%) SonarQube
4 25 (11.21%) JIRA
5 16 (7.17%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (4.04%) Git
7 3 (1.35%) fastlane
8 2 (0.90%) Xcode
9 1 (0.45%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.45%) Appium
9 1 (0.45%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.45%) Gradle
9 1 (0.45%) JMeter
9 1 (0.45%) Locust
9 1 (0.45%) Postman
9 1 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.45%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.45%) TestRail
9 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 114 (51.12%) Finance
2 54 (24.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 53 (23.77%) Social Skills
4 49 (21.97%) Marketing
5 39 (17.49%) Games
6 23 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.38%) Billing
8 11 (4.93%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.24%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 65 (29.15%) Senior
2 44 (19.73%) Architect
3 37 (16.59%) Salesforce Architect
4 36 (16.14%) Applications Engineer
5 25 (11.21%) Applications Support
6 22 (9.87%) Technical Architect
7 21 (9.42%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 20 (8.97%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (8.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Applications Support Engineer
10 13 (5.83%) Support Engineer
11 12 (5.38%) Analyst
11 12 (5.38%) Applications Support Analyst
11 12 (5.38%) Support Analyst
12 11 (4.93%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 11 (4.93%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (4.48%) Development Engineer
13 10 (4.48%) Integration Engineer
13 10 (4.48%) Lead
14 8 (3.59%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (29.15%) SOAP
2 58 (26.01%) REST
3 57 (25.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 39 (17.49%) Visualforce
5 30 (13.45%) OAuth
5 30 (13.45%) RESTful
6 19 (8.52%) OAuth2
7 18 (8.07%) JSON
8 16 (7.17%) .NET
9 11 (4.93%) GraphQL
9 11 (4.93%) OpenAPI
9 11 (4.93%) Swagger
10 10 (4.48%) ADO
11 8 (3.59%) SAML
11 8 (3.59%) XML
11 8 (3.59%) YAML
12 7 (3.14%) React
13 4 (1.79%) Django
14 3 (1.35%) Node.js
15 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 87 (39.01%) Product Ownership
2 47 (21.08%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.62%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.38%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.48%) Onboarding
6 9 (4.04%) Client/Server
7 8 (3.59%) Low-Code
8 7 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.90%) Clustering
11 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
12 1 (0.45%) BBC
12 1 (0.45%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.45%) PMI
12 1 (0.45%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.79%) Linux
1 4 (1.79%) Unix
1 4 (1.79%) Windows
2 2 (0.90%) Android
2 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 180 (80.72%) CI/CD
2 167 (74.89%) Agile
3 106 (47.53%) Asset Management
3 106 (47.53%) Coaching
4 102 (45.74%) Continuous Improvement
5 80 (35.87%) Test Automation
6 73 (32.74%) Observability
7 66 (29.60%) AI
8 58 (26.01%) Event-Driven
9 54 (24.22%) Data Modelling
10 52 (23.32%) OO
11 51 (22.87%) Roadmaps
12 50 (22.42%) Infrastructure as Code
13 46 (20.63%) Scrum
14 45 (20.18%) Mentoring
15 44 (19.73%) Continuous Integration
15 44 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (19.28%) Analytics
16 43 (19.28%) Clean Code
17 42 (18.83%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 70 (31.39%) SQL
2 68 (30.49%) Python
3 57 (25.56%) Apex Code
4 39 (17.49%) SOQL
4 39 (17.49%) SOSL
5 30 (13.45%) PowerShell
6 19 (8.52%) Java
7 16 (7.17%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.17%) PL/SQL
7 16 (7.17%) Shell Script
8 15 (6.73%) C#
9 12 (5.38%) Bicep
10 7 (3.14%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.24%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.90%) Bash
12 2 (0.90%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.45%) Scala
13 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (6.28%) Degree
2 12 (5.38%) HND
3 5 (2.24%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.24%) CRISC
3 5 (2.24%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.24%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.90%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.21%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.28%) GDPR
3 12 (5.38%) QA
3 12 (5.38%) SLA
4 10 (4.48%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.79%) WCAG
6 3 (1.35%) NCSC
7 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.45%) GRC
8 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 21 (9.42%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.07%) Docker
3 3 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 80 (35.87%) Terraform
2 22 (9.87%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.17%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (6.73%) Grafana
5 13 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.24%) Ansible
7 3 (1.35%) AWS Copilot
7 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 57 (25.56%) Salesforce
2 53 (23.77%) Microsoft
3 42 (18.83%) Splunk
4 16 (7.17%) Google
4 16 (7.17%) Oracle
5 14 (6.28%) Ab Initio
6 12 (5.38%) Adobe
6 12 (5.38%) Freshdesk
6 12 (5.38%) Nintex
7 8 (3.59%) Databricks
7 8 (3.59%) Okta
8 7 (3.14%) Pega
9 4 (1.79%) IBM
10 3 (1.35%) F5
10 3 (1.35%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.35%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.35%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.90%) Apple
11 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
12 1 (0.45%) Cisco