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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 54
Rank change year-on-year -7 +39 -42
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 202 197 408
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.02% 10.27% 6.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.30% 11.15% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 53 105 218
10th Percentile £27,000 £46,272 £42,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.45% +3.60%
75th Percentile £70,000 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,610 £111,000 £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 2,433 1,767 5,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.45% 92.13% 92.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,323 897 2,406
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,987 £28,625
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,750 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 23 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 23 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 -2 122 £57,500 -18.73% 23
Glasgow -30 28 £32,000 -52.59% 27
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Stirling - 9 - -
West Lothian -8 7 - - 1
Fife - 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 5 - - 11
North Lanarkshire - 4 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 4 £55,000 - 1
Moray - 2 £100,000 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £85,700 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 12
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 (3.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.98%) Apache
2 4 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.50%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (5.94%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (7.92%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.98%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 141 (69.80%) Azure
2 96 (47.52%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (39.60%) GitHub
4 46 (22.77%) GitHub Copilot
5 38 (18.81%) Snowflake
6 33 (16.34%) Azure Data Factory
7 32 (15.84%) dbt
8 29 (14.36%) Power Platform
9 22 (10.89%) Entra ID
10 21 (10.40%) AWS
10 21 (10.40%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (9.41%) SaaS
12 18 (8.91%) Azure Key Vault
12 18 (8.91%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (7.92%) GCP
13 16 (7.92%) OCI
14 11 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (4.95%) Azure Logic Apps
16 9 (4.46%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 9 (4.46%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.84%) Broadband
2 6 (2.97%) Firewall
3 3 (1.49%) BGP
3 3 (1.49%) LAN
3 3 (1.49%) MPLS
3 3 (1.49%) Network Security
3 3 (1.49%) WAN
3 3 (1.49%) Wireless
4 2 (0.99%) DNS
4 2 (0.99%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.37%) Power BI
2 22 (10.89%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.46%) Metadata
4 9 (4.46%) Tableau
5 6 (2.97%) Data Lake
6 5 (2.48%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.49%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.99%) Big Data
10 1 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.50%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.50%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (25.25%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.34%) GitLab
3 32 (15.84%) SonarQube
4 25 (12.38%) JIRA
5 16 (7.92%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (4.95%) Git
7 3 (1.49%) fastlane
8 2 (0.99%) Xcode
9 1 (0.50%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.50%) Appium
9 1 (0.50%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.50%) Gradle
9 1 (0.50%) MLflow
9 1 (0.50%) Postman
9 1 (0.50%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.50%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.50%) TestRail
9 1 (0.50%) XCTest
9 1 (0.50%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (50.99%) Finance
2 48 (23.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 47 (23.27%) Social Skills
4 41 (20.30%) Marketing
5 32 (15.84%) Games
6 20 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.94%) Billing
7 12 (5.94%) Public Sector
8 4 (1.98%) Banking
9 1 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (29.21%) Senior
2 38 (18.81%) Applications Engineer
3 36 (17.82%) Architect
4 31 (15.35%) Salesforce Architect
5 29 (14.36%) Applications Support
6 19 (9.41%) Technical Architect
7 18 (8.91%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (8.91%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 17 (8.42%) Applications Support Engineer
8 17 (8.42%) Salesforce Engineer
8 17 (8.42%) Support Engineer
9 16 (7.92%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.44%) Analyst
10 13 (6.44%) Support Analyst
11 12 (5.94%) Applications Support Analyst
11 12 (5.94%) Lead
12 9 (4.46%) Development Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 9 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (28.22%) SOAP
2 50 (24.75%) REST
3 49 (24.26%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (15.84%) Visualforce
5 29 (14.36%) RESTful
6 28 (13.86%) OAuth
7 18 (8.91%) OAuth2
8 17 (8.42%) JSON
9 16 (7.92%) .NET
10 10 (4.95%) GraphQL
10 10 (4.95%) OpenAPI
10 10 (4.95%) Swagger
11 9 (4.46%) ADO
12 8 (3.96%) SAML
12 8 (3.96%) XML
12 8 (3.96%) YAML
13 5 (2.48%) AWS CDK
13 5 (2.48%) React
14 2 (0.99%) Great Expectations
14 2 (0.99%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 77 (38.12%) Product Ownership
2 47 (23.27%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.42%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (6.44%) Client/Server
5 12 (5.94%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.46%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.97%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.98%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.99%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.50%) BBC
12 1 (0.50%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.50%) PMI
12 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.48%) Windows
2 2 (0.99%) Android
2 2 (0.99%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (76.73%) CI/CD
2 148 (73.27%) Agile
3 96 (47.52%) Asset Management
3 96 (47.52%) Coaching
4 85 (42.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 68 (33.66%) Test Automation
6 67 (33.17%) Observability
7 54 (26.73%) AI
8 51 (25.25%) Data Modelling
9 50 (24.75%) Event-Driven
10 47 (23.27%) Mentoring
11 45 (22.28%) Roadmaps
12 44 (21.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 44 (21.78%) OO
13 40 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
14 39 (19.31%) Analytics
14 39 (19.31%) Scrum
15 37 (18.32%) Clean Code
16 35 (17.33%) Technology Roadmap
17 34 (16.83%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (34.65%) SQL
2 58 (28.71%) Python
3 49 (24.26%) Apex Code
4 32 (15.84%) SOQL
4 32 (15.84%) SOSL
5 27 (13.37%) PowerShell
6 17 (8.42%) Java
7 16 (7.92%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.92%) PL/SQL
7 16 (7.92%) Shell Script
8 15 (7.43%) C#
9 10 (4.95%) Bicep
10 6 (2.97%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.97%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.99%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.50%) Bash
12 1 (0.50%) Scala
12 1 (0.50%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (6.44%) Degree
2 12 (5.94%) HND
3 2 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.50%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.50%) PMP
4 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (11.88%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.44%) GDPR
3 12 (5.94%) SLA
4 10 (4.95%) QA
5 9 (4.46%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.49%) NCSC
6 3 (1.49%) WCAG
7 1 (0.50%) GRC
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (12.38%) Active Directory
2 11 (5.45%) Docker
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (34.65%) Terraform
2 18 (8.91%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.92%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (6.44%) Grafana
5 12 (5.94%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.98%) Ansible
7 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 52 (25.74%) Microsoft
2 49 (24.26%) Salesforce
3 35 (17.33%) Splunk
4 16 (7.92%) Oracle
5 13 (6.44%) Ab Initio
6 12 (5.94%) Adobe
6 12 (5.94%) Freshdesk
6 12 (5.94%) Google
6 12 (5.94%) Nintex
7 8 (3.96%) Okta
8 7 (3.47%) Databricks
8 7 (3.47%) Pega
9 4 (1.98%) IBM
10 3 (1.49%) F5
10 3 (1.49%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.49%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.99%) Apple
11 2 (0.99%) Cisco
11 2 (0.99%) Meraki