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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 30 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 +18 -31
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 131 209 273
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.37% 8.25% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.89% 9.17% 6.97%
Number of salaries quoted 82 48 124
10th Percentile £27,000 £46,500 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,563 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £76,075 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £104,500 £85,700 £90,000
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 2,680 2,280 3,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.97% 89.98% 86.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,587 989 1,653
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,500 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +26.25% -27.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,800 £81,450
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -4.17%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +18 60 £55,000 -24.14% 46
Edinburgh -17 46 £60,000 -11.11% 22
South Lanarkshire -4 8 £72,500 - 2
Moray +2 4 £81,250 -
Lanarkshire 0 2 - - 20
Fife -10 2 - - 3
West Lothian -1 1 - - 1
Stirling -3 1 - -
North Lanarkshire -5 1 - - 2
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 4 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.29%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 53 (40.46%) Azure
2 31 (23.66%) AWS
3 20 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (11.45%) GCP
4 15 (11.45%) SaaS
5 10 (7.63%) Entra ID
6 9 (6.87%) GitHub
7 6 (4.58%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.29%) dbt
8 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (2.29%) Serverless
9 2 (1.53%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Functions
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.34%) Broadband
2 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) AMQP
3 1 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.76%) Firewall
3 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.76%) MQTT
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.34%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.05%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.29%) Big Data
4 3 (2.29%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.29%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.29%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.53%) Metadata
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.76%) Parquet
6 1 (0.76%) Power BI
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
6 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (9.92%) Jenkins
2 11 (8.40%) SonarQube
3 10 (7.63%) GitLab
4 8 (6.11%) JIRA
5 7 (5.34%) Git
6 3 (2.29%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.29%) fastlane
6 3 (2.29%) JMeter
7 2 (1.53%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.53%) IntelliJ
7 2 (1.53%) JUnit
7 2 (1.53%) Maven
7 2 (1.53%) Mockito
7 2 (1.53%) Xcode
8 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.76%) ERwin
8 1 (0.76%) Gradle
8 1 (0.76%) Selenium
8 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.76%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 27 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 20 (15.27%) Finance
4 11 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.63%) Marketing
6 9 (6.87%) Banking
7 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.34%) Games
8 3 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.53%) Law
9 2 (1.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.76%) Advertising
10 1 (0.76%) Local Government
10 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (24.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (22.90%) Lead
3 17 (12.98%) Senior
3 17 (12.98%) Technical Leader
4 16 (12.21%) Architect
5 11 (8.40%) Developer
6 10 (7.63%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (7.63%) Applications Support
6 10 (7.63%) Applications Support Engineer
6 10 (7.63%) Support Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Salesforce Architect
8 7 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) .NET Developer
9 6 (4.58%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Kubernetes Engineer
10 5 (3.82%) Lead DevOps
10 5 (3.82%) Technical Architect
11 4 (3.05%) Junior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.50%) React
1 19 (14.50%) Terraform
2 14 (10.69%) RESTful
3 11 (8.40%) REST
4 10 (7.63%) Next.js
5 9 (6.87%) .NET
5 9 (6.87%) AWS CDK
5 9 (6.87%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (6.87%) SOAP
6 8 (6.11%) Jakarta EE
6 8 (6.11%) JSP
7 7 (5.34%) Visualforce
8 6 (4.58%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (4.58%) Blazor
8 6 (4.58%) ML.NET
9 3 (2.29%) PySpark
9 3 (2.29%) Spring
9 3 (2.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (25.19%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.45%) Product Ownership
3 10 (7.63%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.58%) BBC
4 6 (4.58%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.58%) Social Media
5 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.53%) IoT
6 2 (1.53%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Bitcoin
7 1 (0.76%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Android
1 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.53%) Linux
1 2 (1.53%) Unix
1 2 (1.53%) Windows
1 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (47.33%) Agile
2 58 (44.27%) CI/CD
3 33 (25.19%) Mentoring
4 31 (23.66%) Software Engineering
5 30 (22.90%) Infrastructure as Code
6 27 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
8 21 (16.03%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (15.27%) AI
10 19 (14.50%) Code Quality
11 18 (13.74%) Observability
11 18 (13.74%) Roadmaps
12 16 (12.21%) Collaborative Culture
12 16 (12.21%) Scrum
13 15 (11.45%) SDLC
13 15 (11.45%) Technical Leadership
14 14 (10.69%) OO
14 14 (10.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (9.92%) Microservices
15 13 (9.92%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.61%) JavaScript
2 24 (18.32%) SQL
3 18 (13.74%) TypeScript
4 17 (12.98%) Python
5 15 (11.45%) Java
6 9 (6.87%) Apex Code
7 8 (6.11%) C#
8 7 (5.34%) SOQL
8 7 (5.34%) SOSL
9 2 (1.53%) Bicep
9 2 (1.53%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.76%) Scala
10 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (5.34%) Degree
2 6 (4.58%) Security Cleared
3 4 (3.05%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.53%) ISEB
5 2 (1.53%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.76%) CISSP
6 1 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.76%) PMP
6 1 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.74%) QA
2 7 (5.34%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.29%) WCAG
5 2 (1.53%) GDPR
5 2 (1.53%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (12.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.29%) Grafana
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (11.45%) Google
2 13 (9.92%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.87%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.34%) Apple
4 7 (5.34%) Splunk
5 6 (4.58%) Facebook
5 6 (4.58%) Sony
5 6 (4.58%) Yahoo!
6 4 (3.05%) Oracle
6 4 (3.05%) Pega
7 3 (2.29%) Databricks
8 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.53%) Intel
8 2 (1.53%) VMware
8 2 (1.53%) YouTube
9 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco
9 1 (0.76%) Meraki