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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 27 42
Rank change year-on-year -14 +15 -25
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 124 209 271
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.18% 8.25% 6.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 9.17% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 75 49 125
10th Percentile £27,000 £46,200 £47,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £106,500 £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 2,667 2,279 3,837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 68.42% 89.94% 85.88%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 995 1,616
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,600 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,217 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +38.16% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £82,250
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 14 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 14 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 +20 61 £55,000 -18.52% 98
Edinburgh -21 39 £60,000 -11.11% 80
South Lanarkshire -3 8 £72,500 - 2
Moray +1 4 £81,250 -
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 54
Fife -11 2 - - 5
Stirling -3 1 - -
West Lothian -3 1 - - 3
North Lanarkshire -5 1 - - 3
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 2 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (1.61%) IIS
2 1 (0.81%) Apache
2 1 (0.81%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.81%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 52 (41.94%) Azure
2 31 (25.00%) AWS
3 18 (14.52%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (12.10%) SaaS
5 12 (9.68%) GCP
6 10 (8.06%) Entra ID
7 6 (4.84%) Azure AI
7 6 (4.84%) GitHub
8 4 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.42%) Azure Functions
9 3 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.42%) dbt
9 3 (2.42%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (2.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.42%) Serverless
10 2 (1.61%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.61%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.61%) OCI
10 2 (1.61%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.65%) Broadband
2 2 (1.61%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.81%) AMQP
3 1 (0.81%) DNS
3 1 (0.81%) Firewall
3 1 (0.81%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.81%) MQTT
3 1 (0.81%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.71%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.03%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.23%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.42%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.42%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.61%) Big Data
6 2 (1.61%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.61%) Parquet
7 1 (0.81%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.81%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.81%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.81%) Metadata
7 1 (0.81%) Power BI
7 1 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.81%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (8.87%) Jenkins
1 11 (8.87%) SonarQube
2 10 (8.06%) GitLab
3 7 (5.65%) Git
4 6 (4.84%) JIRA
5 3 (2.42%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.42%) JMeter
6 2 (1.61%) Burp Suite
6 2 (1.61%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.61%) JUnit
6 2 (1.61%) Maven
6 2 (1.61%) Mockito
7 1 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.81%) ERwin
7 1 (0.81%) Selenium
7 1 (0.81%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 27 (21.77%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.13%) Finance
3 14 (11.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 10 (8.06%) Marketing
5 9 (7.26%) Banking
6 8 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.65%) Games
8 6 (4.84%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.61%) Law
10 2 (1.61%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Advertising
11 1 (0.81%) Local Government
11 1 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 31 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (24.19%) Lead
3 17 (13.71%) Technical Leader
4 15 (12.10%) Architect
5 12 (9.68%) Senior
6 10 (8.06%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Applications Support
6 10 (8.06%) Applications Support Engineer
6 10 (8.06%) Support Engineer
7 9 (7.26%) Salesforce Architect
8 8 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
8 8 (6.45%) Developer
9 7 (5.65%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) .NET Developer
10 6 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (4.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Kubernetes Engineer
11 5 (4.03%) Lead DevOps
11 5 (4.03%) Technical Architect
12 4 (3.23%) Junior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.32%) React
2 17 (13.71%) Terraform
3 11 (8.87%) RESTful
4 10 (8.06%) Next.js
4 10 (8.06%) REST
5 9 (7.26%) .NET
5 9 (7.26%) Lightning Web Components
5 9 (7.26%) SOAP
6 8 (6.45%) AWS CDK
6 8 (6.45%) Jakarta EE
6 8 (6.45%) JSP
7 7 (5.65%) Visualforce
8 6 (4.84%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.84%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.84%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (4.84%) Blazor
8 6 (4.84%) ML.NET
9 4 (3.23%) PySpark
10 3 (2.42%) Spring
10 3 (2.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.81%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.68%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.06%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.84%) BBC
4 6 (4.84%) Social Media
5 4 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.42%) IoT
6 3 (2.42%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.61%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Autonomous Agent
8 1 (0.81%) Bitcoin
8 1 (0.81%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.81%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.81%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.81%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.81%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.81%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.61%) Linux
1 2 (1.61%) Unix
1 2 (1.61%) Windows
1 2 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (44.35%) Agile
2 53 (42.74%) CI/CD
3 31 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 31 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 29 (23.39%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (21.77%) Continuous Improvement
6 23 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (16.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 19 (15.32%) AI
8 19 (15.32%) Code Quality
9 18 (14.52%) Roadmaps
10 16 (12.90%) Collaborative Culture
10 16 (12.90%) Observability
11 15 (12.10%) SDLC
11 15 (12.10%) Technical Leadership
12 14 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (10.48%) Microservices
13 13 (10.48%) OO
14 12 (9.68%) Change Management
14 12 (9.68%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 27 (21.77%) JavaScript
2 24 (19.35%) SQL
3 18 (14.52%) TypeScript
4 16 (12.90%) Python
5 15 (12.10%) Java
6 9 (7.26%) Apex Code
7 8 (6.45%) C#
8 7 (5.65%) SOQL
8 7 (5.65%) SOSL
9 3 (2.42%) Bicep
10 1 (0.81%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.81%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.81%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (5.65%) Degree
1 7 (5.65%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.03%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.42%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.61%) ISEB
4 2 (1.61%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.81%) CISSP
5 1 (0.81%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.81%) PMP
5 1 (0.81%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (14.52%) QA
2 5 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.23%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 8 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (12.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.61%) Grafana
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.87%) Google
3 9 (7.26%) Salesforce
4 7 (5.65%) Splunk
5 6 (4.84%) Apple
5 6 (4.84%) Facebook
5 6 (4.84%) Sony
5 6 (4.84%) Yahoo!
6 4 (3.23%) Databricks
6 4 (3.23%) Oracle
7 2 (1.61%) Intel
7 2 (1.61%) Pega
7 2 (1.61%) VMware
7 2 (1.61%) YouTube
8 1 (0.81%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.81%) Cisco
8 1 (0.81%) Meraki