DevOps Jobs in Scotland

DevOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 51 9
Rank change year-on-year +17 -42 0
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 191 492 731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 6.78% 7.30% 15.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 7.86% 16.41%
Number of salaries quoted 102 211 386
10th Percentile £46,256 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £69,000 £66,694
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% +3.46% +12.09%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £96,539 £97,328
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Process and 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 2,594 6,257 4,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.05% 92.89% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,424 2,232
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,488
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Scotland.

Salary trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 0 141 £71,500 +1.31% 66
Glasgow +64 48 £67,500 +3.85% 39
West Lothian - 1 £50,000 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 15 (7.85%) Oracle Application Server
2 7 (3.66%) Confluence
3 4 (2.09%) Apache
3 4 (2.09%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.05%) CICS
5 2 (1.05%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.52%) CMS
6 1 (0.52%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.52%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.52%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 74 (38.74%) Azure
2 62 (32.46%) AWS
3 36 (18.85%) GCP
4 22 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.90%) SaaS
6 9 (4.71%) GitHub
6 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.71%) Serverless
7 7 (3.66%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (3.66%) Amazon S3
7 7 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.14%) PaaS
9 5 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.62%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.62%) IaaS
10 4 (2.09%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (2.09%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (2.09%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.19%) Internet
2 6 (3.14%) Firewall
3 5 (2.62%) HTTP
3 5 (2.62%) SSL
4 3 (1.57%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (1.05%) Kerberos
5 2 (1.05%) Network Security
6 1 (0.52%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.52%) DNS
6 1 (0.52%) FTP
6 1 (0.52%) LAN
6 1 (0.52%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.52%) SpaceWire
6 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) Data Warehouse
1 17 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 15 (7.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 15 (7.85%) Oracle Reports
3 13 (6.81%) NoSQL
4 11 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.24%) MongoDB
5 10 (5.24%) Relational Database
6 9 (4.71%) MySQL
7 4 (2.09%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.09%) Geospatial Data
7 4 (2.09%) Power BI
8 3 (1.57%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.57%) DB2
8 3 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.05%) Big Data
9 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.05%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (13.61%) Jenkins
2 23 (12.04%) Git
3 13 (6.81%) GitLab
3 13 (6.81%) Maven
4 11 (5.76%) JIRA
5 6 (3.14%) Visual Studio
6 4 (2.09%) Gradle
6 4 (2.09%) JUnit
6 4 (2.09%) Postman
6 4 (2.09%) webpack
7 3 (1.57%) Fiddler
7 3 (1.57%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (1.57%) TeamCity
8 2 (1.05%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.05%) Mockito
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.05%) Selenium
9 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
General
1 80 (41.88%) Finance
2 53 (27.75%) Social Skills
3 50 (26.18%) Banking
4 43 (22.51%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.85%) Military
5 15 (7.85%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.62%) Games
7 5 (2.62%) Legal
8 3 (1.57%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.05%) Digital Health
9 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.05%) Law
9 2 (1.05%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Back Office
10 1 (0.52%) Front Office
10 1 (0.52%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (23.56%) Senior
2 41 (21.47%) Software Engineer
3 29 (15.18%) Developer
4 27 (14.14%) Lead
5 23 (12.04%) Analyst
6 21 (10.99%) Senior Software Engineer
7 15 (7.85%) DevOps Engineer
8 14 (7.33%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (4.19%) Android Engineer
10 8 (4.19%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.66%) Asset Management Analyst
12 6 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (3.14%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (3.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) .NET Developer
13 5 (2.62%) Principal Engineer
13 5 (2.62%) Senior Java Developer
13 5 (2.62%) Software Team Leader
13 5 (2.62%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (17.28%) React
2 31 (16.23%) RESTful
3 30 (15.71%) Spring
3 30 (15.71%) Spring Boot
4 21 (10.99%) .NET
5 18 (9.42%) AngularJS
6 15 (7.85%) CSS
7 14 (7.33%) HTML
8 13 (6.81%) Kafka
9 10 (5.24%) .NET Core
9 10 (5.24%) Hibernate
9 10 (5.24%) REST
10 9 (4.71%) .NET Framework
10 9 (4.71%) Middleware
11 8 (4.19%) Android Jetpack
11 8 (4.19%) Jetpack Compose
11 8 (4.19%) OAuth
11 8 (4.19%) OAuth2
12 7 (3.66%) JWT
12 7 (3.66%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (7.85%) Mobile App
2 11 (5.76%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.76%) Public Cloud
2 11 (5.76%) Virtual Team
3 8 (4.19%) Online Banking
4 5 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (2.62%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (2.62%) Hackathon
4 5 (2.62%) Learning Management System
4 5 (2.62%) Wiki
5 4 (2.09%) Clustering
5 4 (2.09%) Mainframe
6 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.57%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.05%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.05%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.47%) Linux
2 14 (7.33%) Unix
3 9 (4.71%) Android
4 8 (4.19%) Windows
5 6 (3.14%) zOS
6 5 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.09%) Solaris
8 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.52%) Debian
8 1 (0.52%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (62.83%) Agile
2 97 (50.79%) CI/CD
3 72 (37.70%) Software Engineering
4 60 (31.41%) Continuous Integration
5 58 (30.37%) Microservices
6 42 (21.99%) Containerisation
7 40 (20.94%) Roadmaps
8 38 (19.90%) Customer Experience
9 37 (19.37%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (17.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (17.28%) Test Automation
12 30 (15.71%) Continuous Delivery
13 28 (14.66%) Mentoring
14 27 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (14.14%) TDD
15 25 (13.09%) Analytics
15 25 (13.09%) Customer Service
16 23 (12.04%) ITIL
17 22 (11.52%) Unit Testing
18 21 (10.99%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 58 (30.37%) Java
2 39 (20.42%) Python
3 38 (19.90%) JavaScript
4 26 (13.61%) SQL
5 24 (12.57%) TypeScript
6 23 (12.04%) C#
7 15 (7.85%) Go
8 13 (6.81%) Kotlin
9 9 (4.71%) Bash
10 8 (4.19%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.09%) C++
11 4 (2.09%) PHP
12 2 (1.05%) Bicep
12 2 (1.05%) Elixir
12 2 (1.05%) F#
12 2 (1.05%) Groovy
12 2 (1.05%) Ruby
12 2 (1.05%) Scala
12 2 (1.05%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.52%) JCL
Qualifications
1 15 (7.85%) DBS Check
2 14 (7.33%) Degree
3 5 (2.62%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.62%) PhD
4 4 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (1.05%) CCNA
6 2 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.05%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 8 (4.19%) QA
3 5 (2.62%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.05%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.52%) ECSS
5 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.52%) SEPA
5 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.52%) TARGET2
System Software
1 52 (27.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
2 1 (0.52%) NDS
2 1 (0.52%) RACF
2 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 60 (31.41%) Kubernetes
2 32 (16.75%) Terraform
3 5 (2.62%) Grafana
4 4 (2.09%) Ansible
4 4 (2.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.05%) Argo
5 2 (1.05%) Istio
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.52%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.52%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 22 (11.52%) Oracle
2 21 (10.99%) Microsoft
3 11 (5.76%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.19%) Google
5 6 (3.14%) IBM
6 5 (2.62%) Red Hat
7 4 (2.09%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.57%) Cisco
8 3 (1.57%) F5
8 3 (1.57%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.57%) Workday
9 2 (1.05%) Databricks
9 2 (1.05%) Dynatrace
9 2 (1.05%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.05%) Informatica
9 2 (1.05%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (1.05%) Planview
9 2 (1.05%) SAP
9 2 (1.05%) Splunk
9 2 (1.05%) Sybase