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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 27 27
Rank change year-on-year -20 0 -7
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 116 233 276
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.83% 9.13% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.17% 10.12% 8.33%
Number of salaries quoted 70 50 125
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,775 £46,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £77,144 £80,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,500 £85,070 £86,500
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 2,780 2,302 3,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 67.89% 90.17% 84.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1,651 1,003 1,522
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,750 £32,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +44.74% -30.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,250 £82,450
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.11% -3.39%

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 26 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 26 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 +23 59 £60,000 -7.34% 80
Edinburgh -24 39 £60,000 -5.88% 78
South Lanarkshire -2 8 £72,500 -
Moray +1 4 £81,250 -
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 (1.72%) IIS
2 1 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.86%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 53 (45.69%) Azure
2 39 (33.62%) AWS
3 17 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.07%) GCP
5 12 (10.34%) SaaS
6 8 (6.90%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.17%) Azure AI
8 5 (4.31%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.45%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.45%) GitHub
9 4 (3.45%) Serverless
10 3 (2.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.59%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (2.59%) dbt
11 2 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) Internet
2 2 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) AMQP
3 1 (0.86%) DNS
3 1 (0.86%) Firewall
3 1 (0.86%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.86%) MQTT
3 1 (0.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (6.03%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.31%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.45%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.59%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.72%) Parquet
7 1 (0.86%) Big Data
7 1 (0.86%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.86%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.86%) Redis
7 1 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.34%) Git
2 4 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.45%) JIRA
2 4 (3.45%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.59%) GitLab
3 3 (2.59%) JMeter
4 2 (1.72%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.72%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.72%) JUnit
4 2 (1.72%) Maven
4 2 (1.72%) Mockito
4 2 (1.72%) Selenium
5 1 (0.86%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.86%) ERwin
5 1 (0.86%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 26 (22.41%) Social Skills
2 19 (16.38%) Finance
3 13 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.76%) Banking
5 5 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Marketing
7 2 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Law
7 2 (1.72%) Legal
7 2 (1.72%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.86%) Advertising
8 1 (0.86%) Local Government
8 1 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (31.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (25.86%) Lead
3 16 (13.79%) Technical Leader
4 13 (11.21%) Senior
5 9 (7.76%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (7.76%) Developer
6 8 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Applications Support
6 8 (6.90%) Applications Support Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.03%) Architect
8 6 (5.17%) .NET Developer
8 6 (5.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (4.31%) Lead DevOps
9 5 (4.31%) Trainee
10 4 (3.45%) Junior
10 4 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.10%) React
2 15 (12.93%) Terraform
3 11 (9.48%) RESTful
4 10 (8.62%) .NET
4 10 (8.62%) Next.js
5 8 (6.90%) AWS CDK
5 8 (6.90%) Jakarta EE
5 8 (6.90%) JSP
6 6 (5.17%) .NET Core
6 6 (5.17%) ASP.NET
6 6 (5.17%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (5.17%) Blazor
6 6 (5.17%) ML.NET
7 4 (3.45%) Spring
7 4 (3.45%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.59%) Playwright
8 3 (2.59%) PySpark
8 3 (2.59%) REST
9 2 (1.72%) Node.js
9 2 (1.72%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 8 (6.90%) Client/Server
3 6 (5.17%) BBC
3 6 (5.17%) Social Media
4 5 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.31%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.59%) IoT
5 3 (2.59%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.86%) Bitcoin
7 1 (0.86%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.03%) Linux
2 2 (1.72%) Unix
2 2 (1.72%) Windows
2 2 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.24%) CI/CD
2 45 (38.79%) Agile
3 34 (29.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 34 (29.31%) Mentoring
4 33 (28.45%) Software Engineering
5 21 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (17.24%) Code Quality
6 20 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (15.52%) AI
7 18 (15.52%) SDLC
8 16 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
8 16 (13.79%) Microservices
9 15 (12.93%) Observability
10 14 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
11 13 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (9.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (8.62%) Containerisation
13 10 (8.62%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.14%) JavaScript
2 20 (17.24%) SQL
2 20 (17.24%) TypeScript
3 17 (14.66%) Java
4 16 (13.79%) Python
5 8 (6.90%) C#
6 5 (4.31%) Shell Script
7 4 (3.45%) Bicep
8 2 (1.72%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.86%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (6.03%) Degree
1 7 (6.03%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.31%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.59%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.72%) ISEB
4 2 (1.72%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.86%) CISSP
5 1 (0.86%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.86%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.38%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (12.93%) Docker
2 8 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.72%) Grafana
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.21%) Google
3 6 (5.17%) Apple
3 6 (5.17%) Facebook
3 6 (5.17%) Sony
3 6 (5.17%) Yahoo!
4 4 (3.45%) Oracle
5 3 (2.59%) Databricks
5 3 (2.59%) Intel
6 2 (1.72%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.72%) VMware
6 2 (1.72%) YouTube
7 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.86%) Cisco
7 1 (0.86%) Meraki