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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 30 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 +28 -44
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 139 205 287
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.14% 8.20% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.86% 9.12% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 82 67 144
10th Percentile £27,000 £49,500 £45,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,125 £52,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.56% +9.20%
75th Percentile £73,750 £83,875 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,900 £126,020 £98,474
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 2,371 2,247 4,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.59% 89.92% 87.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,392 999 2,126
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,625 £32,851 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -12.04% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +12 46 £55,000 -26.67% 24
Edinburgh -9 45 £60,000 -14.29% 29
South Lanarkshire +1 8 £72,500 -
West Lothian +4 6 - -
Stirling -1 6 - -
Fife -2 6 - -
Lanarkshire +5 5 - - 12
West Dunbartonshire +2 4 - -
Moray - 4 £81,250 -
North Lanarkshire -5 3 - -
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 18
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 (2.88%) Apache
1 4 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.44%) IIS
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (2.88%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (41.01%) Azure
2 25 (17.99%) Azure DevOps
3 24 (17.27%) AWS
4 17 (12.23%) SaaS
5 15 (10.79%) GCP
6 11 (7.91%) Entra ID
7 10 (7.19%) GitHub
8 9 (6.47%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (5.76%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.32%) Azure AI
11 4 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (2.88%) Microsoft Purview
12 3 (2.16%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (2.16%) Azure AKS
12 3 (2.16%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (2.16%) Azure Sentinel
12 3 (2.16%) Cloud Composer
12 3 (2.16%) Dataform
12 3 (2.16%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (2.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.42%) Broadband
2 3 (2.16%) Firewall
2 3 (2.16%) Network Security
3 2 (1.44%) DNS
4 1 (0.72%) AMQP
4 1 (0.72%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.72%) MQTT
4 1 (0.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.32%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.32%) Power BI
3 5 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.16%) Big Data
4 3 (2.16%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.16%) Metadata
4 3 (2.16%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.72%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.72%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.72%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (23.74%) Jenkins
2 31 (22.30%) GitLab
3 30 (21.58%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.76%) JIRA
5 4 (2.88%) Git
6 3 (2.16%) fastlane
6 3 (2.16%) JMeter
7 2 (1.44%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.44%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.44%) Xcode
8 1 (0.72%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.72%) ERwin
8 1 (0.72%) Gradle
8 1 (0.72%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.72%) JUnit
8 1 (0.72%) Maven
8 1 (0.72%) Mockito
8 1 (0.72%) Selenium
8 1 (0.72%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.72%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 44 (31.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 29 (20.86%) Marketing
3 27 (19.42%) Games
4 26 (18.71%) Social Skills
5 18 (12.95%) Finance
6 14 (10.07%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.76%) Banking
8 6 (4.32%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.88%) Billing
9 4 (2.88%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Advertising
11 1 (0.72%) Legal
11 1 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.72%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 35 (25.18%) Architect
2 28 (20.14%) Salesforce Architect
3 25 (17.99%) Lead
4 23 (16.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (12.23%) Technical Leader
6 16 (11.51%) Technical Architect
7 15 (10.79%) Applications Support
7 15 (10.79%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 15 (10.79%) Senior
8 12 (8.63%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (7.91%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (7.91%) Applications Support Engineer
9 11 (7.91%) Support Engineer
10 10 (7.19%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 9 (6.47%) Developer
12 8 (5.76%) Analyst
13 7 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (4.32%) .NET Developer
14 6 (4.32%) Support Analyst
15 5 (3.60%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.58%) REST
2 29 (20.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 29 (20.86%) SOAP
3 27 (19.42%) Visualforce
4 16 (11.51%) React
5 12 (8.63%) RESTful
6 11 (7.91%) .NET
7 9 (6.47%) AWS CDK
8 8 (5.76%) Next.js
9 7 (5.04%) Jakarta EE
9 7 (5.04%) JSP
10 6 (4.32%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.32%) ASP.NET
10 6 (4.32%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (4.32%) Blazor
10 6 (4.32%) ML.NET
11 2 (1.44%) Great Expectations
11 2 (1.44%) Node.js
11 2 (1.44%) Playwright
11 2 (1.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 38 (27.34%) Product Ownership
2 25 (17.99%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.91%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.32%) BBC
4 6 (4.32%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.32%) Social Media
5 5 (3.60%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.44%) IoT
7 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.72%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.72%) PMI
7 1 (0.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.44%) Android
1 2 (1.44%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.44%) Windows
1 2 (1.44%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.72%) Linux
2 1 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (56.12%) Agile
2 74 (53.24%) CI/CD
3 41 (29.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 40 (28.78%) Roadmaps
5 36 (25.90%) Scrum
6 34 (24.46%) OO
7 32 (23.02%) Infrastructure as Code
8 30 (21.58%) Mentoring
8 30 (21.58%) Technology Roadmap
9 29 (20.86%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
9 29 (20.86%) Design Patterns
9 29 (20.86%) Technical Analysis
10 28 (20.14%) Event-Driven
10 28 (20.14%) TOGAF
11 27 (19.42%) Community of Practice
11 27 (19.42%) Continuous Delivery
11 27 (19.42%) Continuous Integration
11 27 (19.42%) PLM
11 27 (19.42%) Static Code Analysis
12 22 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (20.86%) Apex Code
2 27 (19.42%) SOQL
2 27 (19.42%) SOSL
3 25 (17.99%) SQL
4 24 (17.27%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.23%) TypeScript
6 13 (9.35%) Python
7 9 (6.47%) C#
7 9 (6.47%) Java
8 2 (1.44%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.72%) Bicep
9 1 (0.72%) Scala
9 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (5.76%) Degree
2 4 (2.88%) HND
3 3 (2.16%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.44%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.44%) ISEB
4 2 (1.44%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.44%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.72%) CISSP
5 1 (0.72%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.72%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.72%) PMP
5 1 (0.72%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.79%) QA
2 9 (6.47%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.60%) GDPR
4 4 (2.88%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.88%) SLA
5 3 (2.16%) NCSC
5 3 (2.16%) WCAG
6 1 (0.72%) GRC
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (7.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (15.83%) Terraform
2 17 (12.23%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.16%) Grafana
4 2 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 29 (20.86%) Salesforce
2 27 (19.42%) Splunk
3 23 (16.55%) Microsoft
4 18 (12.95%) Google
5 7 (5.04%) Apple
5 7 (5.04%) Pega
6 6 (4.32%) Facebook
6 6 (4.32%) Sony
6 6 (4.32%) Yahoo!
7 4 (2.88%) Adobe
7 4 (2.88%) Freshdesk
7 4 (2.88%) Nintex
8 2 (1.44%) Cisco
8 2 (1.44%) Databricks
8 2 (1.44%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.44%) Meraki
8 2 (1.44%) Oracle
8 2 (1.44%) VMware