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

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 14 49
Rank change year-on-year -6 +35 -41
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 232 203 395
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 7.42% 10.33% 6.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.68% 11.12% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 53 113 216
10th Percentile £26,600 £46,261 £44,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £69,224
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.12% +3.21%
75th Percentile £78,790 £90,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,200 £108,750 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,799
% change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%

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 2,397 1,825 5,265
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 76.68% 92.83% 92.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,260 921 2,301
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,359 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.58%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%

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 March 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 March 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 -1 151 £60,000 -16.08% 25
Glasgow -27 27 £70,000 +16.67% 20
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Stirling - 11 - -
West Lothian 0 8 - - 1
Fife +2 7 - -
Lanarkshire - 7 - - 10
North Lanarkshire -9 4 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 15
Dunbartonshire - 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 9 (3.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.72%) Apache
2 4 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.43%) Confluence
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 19 (8.19%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.72%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 160 (68.97%) Azure
2 113 (48.71%) Azure DevOps
3 93 (40.09%) GitHub
4 54 (23.28%) GitHub Copilot
5 44 (18.97%) Snowflake
6 41 (17.67%) dbt
7 38 (16.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 33 (14.22%) AWS
8 33 (14.22%) Power Platform
9 24 (10.34%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (9.48%) Entra ID
11 21 (9.05%) GCP
12 20 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
13 19 (8.19%) Azure Key Vault
13 19 (8.19%) OCI
14 15 (6.47%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (5.60%) SaaS
16 12 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (4.74%) Azure Event Grid
17 11 (4.74%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 39 (16.81%) Broadband
2 5 (2.16%) Firewall
3 4 (1.72%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.29%) BGP
4 3 (1.29%) LAN
4 3 (1.29%) MPLS
4 3 (1.29%) WAN
4 3 (1.29%) Wireless
5 2 (0.86%) Network Security
5 2 (0.86%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.43%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.36%) Power BI
2 26 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.74%) Metadata
3 11 (4.74%) Tableau
4 10 (4.31%) Azure SQL Database
5 9 (3.88%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (3.02%) Data Lake
6 7 (3.02%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (2.16%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.72%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.72%) Redis
9 3 (1.29%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.86%) Big Data
10 2 (0.86%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.43%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.43%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.43%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 61 (26.29%) Jenkins
2 40 (17.24%) GitLab
3 39 (16.81%) SonarQube
4 28 (12.07%) JIRA
5 19 (8.19%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (4.31%) Git
7 3 (1.29%) fastlane
8 2 (0.86%) Xcode
9 1 (0.43%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.43%) Appium
9 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.43%) Gradle
9 1 (0.43%) JMeter
9 1 (0.43%) Locust
9 1 (0.43%) MLflow
9 1 (0.43%) Postman
9 1 (0.43%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.43%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.43%) XCTest
9 1 (0.43%) Zephyr
General
1 124 (53.45%) Finance
2 56 (24.14%) Social Skills
3 54 (23.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 49 (21.12%) Marketing
5 39 (16.81%) Games
6 24 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.17%) Billing
8 11 (4.74%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.16%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 70 (30.17%) Senior
2 44 (18.97%) Architect
3 38 (16.38%) Applications Engineer
4 37 (15.95%) Salesforce Architect
5 24 (10.34%) Applications Support
6 22 (9.48%) Cloud Engineer
6 22 (9.48%) Technical Architect
7 21 (9.05%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 20 (8.62%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (6.03%) Analyst
10 12 (5.17%) Applications Support Analyst
10 12 (5.17%) Applications Support Engineer
10 12 (5.17%) Support Analyst
10 12 (5.17%) Support Engineer
11 11 (4.74%) Salesforce Solution Architect
11 11 (4.74%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (4.31%) Development Engineer
12 10 (4.31%) Integration Engineer
12 10 (4.31%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 9 (3.88%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (29.31%) SOAP
2 59 (25.43%) REST
3 58 (25.00%) Lightning Web Components
4 39 (16.81%) Visualforce
5 34 (14.66%) RESTful
6 32 (13.79%) OAuth
7 21 (9.05%) JSON
7 21 (9.05%) OAuth2
8 16 (6.90%) .NET
9 11 (4.74%) GraphQL
9 11 (4.74%) OpenAPI
9 11 (4.74%) Swagger
10 10 (4.31%) ADO
10 10 (4.31%) XML
11 9 (3.88%) SAML
12 8 (3.45%) YAML
13 7 (3.02%) React
14 4 (1.72%) Django
15 3 (1.29%) Node.js
16 2 (0.86%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 92 (39.66%) Product Ownership
2 50 (21.55%) Cloud Native
3 20 (8.62%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.17%) Management Information System
5 10 (4.31%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.45%) Low-Code
7 7 (3.02%) Client/Server
7 7 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.72%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.29%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.86%) Clustering
10 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
11 1 (0.43%) BBC
11 1 (0.43%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.43%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.43%) PMI
11 1 (0.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.72%) Linux
1 4 (1.72%) Unix
1 4 (1.72%) Windows
2 2 (0.86%) Android
2 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (80.17%) CI/CD
2 175 (75.43%) Agile
3 117 (50.43%) Asset Management
3 117 (50.43%) Coaching
4 108 (46.55%) Continuous Improvement
5 86 (37.07%) Test Automation
6 76 (32.76%) Observability
7 72 (31.03%) AI
8 60 (25.86%) Event-Driven
9 56 (24.14%) Data Modelling
10 53 (22.84%) Roadmaps
11 52 (22.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 52 (22.41%) OO
12 49 (21.12%) Mentoring
13 48 (20.69%) Analytics
14 46 (19.83%) Clean Code
14 46 (19.83%) Scrum
15 44 (18.97%) Continuous Integration
15 44 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
16 43 (18.53%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 75 (32.33%) Python
1 75 (32.33%) SQL
2 58 (25.00%) Apex Code
3 39 (16.81%) SOQL
3 39 (16.81%) SOSL
4 33 (14.22%) PowerShell
5 22 (9.48%) Java
6 19 (8.19%) PL/SQL
6 19 (8.19%) Shell Script
7 15 (6.47%) C#
7 15 (6.47%) JavaScript
8 13 (5.60%) Bicep
9 7 (3.02%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.72%) Bash
10 4 (1.72%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.86%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.43%) Scala
12 1 (0.43%) Swift
Qualifications
1 14 (6.03%) Degree
2 12 (5.17%) HND
3 5 (2.16%) AWS Certification
3 5 (2.16%) CRISC
3 5 (2.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.16%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (0.86%) Chartered Engineer
4 2 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.21%) Accessibility
2 15 (6.47%) GDPR
3 12 (5.17%) QA
3 12 (5.17%) SLA
4 10 (4.31%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.72%) WCAG
6 3 (1.29%) NCSC
7 2 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.43%) GRC
8 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 22 (9.48%) Active Directory
2 18 (7.76%) Docker
3 4 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 87 (37.50%) Terraform
2 22 (9.48%) Kubernetes
3 19 (8.19%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (6.47%) Grafana
5 13 (5.60%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.16%) Ansible
7 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.29%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 58 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 56 (24.14%) Microsoft
3 42 (18.10%) Splunk
4 19 (8.19%) Oracle
5 16 (6.90%) Google
6 15 (6.47%) Ab Initio
7 12 (5.17%) Adobe
7 12 (5.17%) Freshdesk
7 12 (5.17%) Nintex
8 10 (4.31%) Okta
9 8 (3.45%) Databricks
10 7 (3.02%) Pega
11 4 (1.72%) IBM
12 3 (1.29%) F5
12 3 (1.29%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.29%) ServiceNow
12 3 (1.29%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.86%) Apple
13 2 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 1 (0.43%) Charles River