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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 26 57
Rank change year-on-year -4 +31 -42
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 146 209 385
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.60% 10.14% 5.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.47% 10.83% 6.60%
Number of salaries quoted 58 71 190
10th Percentile £27,000 £49,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,438 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £71,991 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.60% +4.33% +6.15%
75th Percentile £70,938 £93,778 £81,875
90th Percentile £90,740 £112,500 £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 2,257 1,930 5,831
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.15% 93.60% 90.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,266 824 2,443
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,851 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £91,996 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,610 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.15% +4.75% -9.69%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -5 59 £55,000 -23.60% 23
Glasgow -7 30 £29,000 -61.33% 23
West Dunbartonshire +1 12 - -
Stirling -2 9 - -
South Lanarkshire +3 8 £72,500 -
West Lothian +2 7 - -
Fife 0 6 - -
Lanarkshire +6 5 - - 10
North Lanarkshire -6 4 - -
Moray - 2 £100,000 - 2
East Ayrshire -2 1 £85,700 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 11
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 (2.74%) Apache
1 4 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.68%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (8.22%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (4.11%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.05%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 74 (50.68%) Azure
2 45 (30.82%) Azure DevOps
3 30 (20.55%) GitHub
4 19 (13.01%) Power Platform
5 17 (11.64%) AWS
5 17 (11.64%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (11.64%) SaaS
6 14 (9.59%) Entra ID
7 13 (8.90%) Azure Data Factory
8 12 (8.22%) GCP
8 12 (8.22%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (8.22%) Snowflake
9 9 (6.16%) dbt
9 9 (6.16%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (4.11%) Azure Key Vault
10 6 (4.11%) OCI
11 4 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 3 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 32 (21.92%) Broadband
2 3 (2.05%) Firewall
2 3 (2.05%) Network Security
3 2 (1.37%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) AMQP
4 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.68%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (11.64%) Power BI
2 15 (10.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (4.11%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (4.11%) Metadata
4 4 (2.74%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.74%) Tableau
5 3 (2.05%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.05%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.05%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.05%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.37%) Big Data
7 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (28.08%) Jenkins
2 33 (22.60%) GitLab
2 33 (22.60%) SonarQube
3 8 (5.48%) JIRA
4 6 (4.11%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (3.42%) Git
6 3 (2.05%) fastlane
7 2 (1.37%) Xcode
8 1 (0.68%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.68%) Appium
8 1 (0.68%) Crashlytics
8 1 (0.68%) Gradle
8 1 (0.68%) MLflow
8 1 (0.68%) Postman
8 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.68%) TestRail
8 1 (0.68%) XCTest
8 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 48 (32.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 42 (28.77%) Finance
3 35 (23.97%) Marketing
4 32 (21.92%) Games
5 19 (13.01%) Social Skills
6 12 (8.22%) Billing
6 12 (8.22%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.48%) Banking
8 4 (2.74%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (24.66%) Architect
2 31 (21.23%) Salesforce Architect
3 28 (19.18%) Senior
4 26 (17.81%) Applications Support
5 20 (13.70%) Applications Engineer
6 19 (13.01%) Technical Architect
7 18 (12.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 15 (10.27%) Lead
9 14 (9.59%) Applications Support Engineer
9 14 (9.59%) Support Engineer
10 13 (8.90%) Analyst
10 13 (8.90%) Support Analyst
11 12 (8.22%) Applications Support Analyst
11 12 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 10 (6.85%) Technical Leader
13 9 (6.16%) Salesforce Solution Architect
13 9 (6.16%) Solutions Architect
14 7 (4.79%) Developer
15 6 (4.11%) Azure Engineer
15 6 (4.11%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (28.08%) SOAP
2 39 (26.71%) REST
3 38 (26.03%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (21.92%) Visualforce
5 15 (10.27%) RESTful
6 11 (7.53%) .NET
7 10 (6.85%) OAuth
8 9 (6.16%) AWS CDK
9 7 (4.79%) OAuth2
10 6 (4.11%) JSON
10 6 (4.11%) React
11 3 (2.05%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.05%) ASP.NET Core
11 3 (2.05%) Blazor
11 3 (2.05%) GraphQL
11 3 (2.05%) OpenAPI
11 3 (2.05%) SAML
11 3 (2.05%) Swagger
11 3 (2.05%) XML
11 3 (2.05%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (38.36%) Product Ownership
2 29 (19.86%) Cloud Native
3 12 (8.22%) Management Information System
4 11 (7.53%) Client/Server
5 7 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.05%) BBC
7 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.05%) Social Media
8 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) IoT
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.68%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.74%) Windows
2 2 (1.37%) Android
2 2 (1.37%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (67.12%) Agile
2 94 (64.38%) CI/CD
3 51 (34.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 42 (28.77%) Roadmaps
5 39 (26.71%) Event-Driven
5 39 (26.71%) OO
6 37 (25.34%) Scrum
7 34 (23.29%) Design Patterns
7 34 (23.29%) Technical Analysis
7 34 (23.29%) Technology Roadmap
8 33 (22.60%) Observability
9 32 (21.92%) Community of Practice
9 32 (21.92%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 32 (21.92%) Continuous Delivery
9 32 (21.92%) Continuous Integration
9 32 (21.92%) PLM
9 32 (21.92%) Static Code Analysis
9 32 (21.92%) TOGAF
10 31 (21.23%) Coaching
11 30 (20.55%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (26.03%) Apex Code
1 38 (26.03%) SQL
2 32 (21.92%) SOQL
2 32 (21.92%) SOSL
3 24 (16.44%) Python
4 17 (11.64%) JavaScript
5 10 (6.85%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.16%) C#
6 9 (6.16%) TypeScript
7 7 (4.79%) Java
8 6 (4.11%) PL/SQL
8 6 (4.11%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.05%) Bicep
9 3 (2.05%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.37%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.68%) Scala
11 1 (0.68%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (8.90%) Degree
2 12 (8.22%) HND
3 2 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.68%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.68%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.68%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.68%) PMP
4 1 (0.68%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.68%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.01%) Accessibility
2 12 (8.22%) SLA
3 7 (4.79%) GDPR
4 6 (4.11%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.42%) QA
6 3 (2.05%) NCSC
6 3 (2.05%) WCAG
7 1 (0.68%) GRC
7 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 17 (11.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (21.23%) Terraform
2 13 (8.90%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (2.74%) Grafana
5 3 (2.05%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (26.03%) Salesforce
2 37 (25.34%) Microsoft
3 32 (21.92%) Splunk
4 14 (9.59%) Google
5 12 (8.22%) Adobe
5 12 (8.22%) Freshdesk
5 12 (8.22%) Nintex
6 7 (4.79%) Oracle
6 7 (4.79%) Pega
7 6 (4.11%) Ab Initio
8 4 (2.74%) Apple
8 4 (2.74%) Databricks
9 3 (2.05%) Facebook
9 3 (2.05%) IBM
9 3 (2.05%) Okta
9 3 (2.05%) Sony
9 3 (2.05%) Yahoo!
10 2 (1.37%) Cisco
10 2 (1.37%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.37%) Meraki