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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 27 25
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 -5
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 114 231 268
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.77% 9.14% 7.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 10.07% 8.55%
Number of salaries quoted 67 50 120
10th Percentile £27,300 £27,775 £47,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £64,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% -0.38% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,625 £78,869
90th Percentile £102,000 £85,070 £85,250
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £68,000
% change year-on-year - +2.94% -2.86%

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 2,797 2,294 3,136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 67.90% 90.74% 84.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,658 987 1,481
10th Percentile £29,175 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £40,000
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 £60,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,250 £76,100 £82,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -3.33%

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 29 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 29 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 58 £60,000 -7.34% 76
Edinburgh -24 39 £60,000 -5.88% 63
South Lanarkshire -6 7 £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 (1.75%) IIS
2 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.88%) Ethereum
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.74%) Azure
2 39 (34.21%) AWS
3 17 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (12.28%) GCP
5 10 (8.77%) SaaS
6 6 (5.26%) Azure AI
6 6 (5.26%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.39%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Functions
8 4 (3.51%) GitHub
8 4 (3.51%) Serverless
9 3 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.63%) dbt
10 2 (1.75%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.39%) Internet
2 2 (1.75%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) AMQP
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.88%) MQTT
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (11.40%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (6.14%) MongoDB
3 5 (4.39%) Data Lake
4 4 (3.51%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.75%) Parquet
7 1 (0.88%) Big Data
7 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.88%) Redis
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.53%) Git
2 4 (3.51%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.51%) JIRA
2 4 (3.51%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.63%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.63%) GitLab
3 3 (2.63%) JMeter
4 2 (1.75%) Burp Suite
4 2 (1.75%) IntelliJ
4 2 (1.75%) JUnit
4 2 (1.75%) Maven
4 2 (1.75%) Mockito
4 2 (1.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.88%) ERwin
5 1 (0.88%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 26 (22.81%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.79%) Finance
3 13 (11.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.02%) Banking
5 5 (4.39%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Marketing
7 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Law
7 2 (1.75%) Legal
7 2 (1.75%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.88%) Advertising
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
8 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (32.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (26.32%) Lead
3 15 (13.16%) Technical Leader
4 14 (12.28%) Senior
5 9 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
5 9 (7.89%) Developer
6 7 (6.14%) Architect
7 6 (5.26%) .NET Developer
7 6 (5.26%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Applications Support
7 6 (5.26%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Data Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.26%) Lead DevOps
7 6 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (18.42%) React
2 15 (13.16%) Terraform
3 11 (9.65%) RESTful
4 10 (8.77%) .NET
4 10 (8.77%) Next.js
5 8 (7.02%) Jakarta EE
5 8 (7.02%) JSP
6 7 (6.14%) AWS CDK
7 6 (5.26%) .NET Core
7 6 (5.26%) ASP.NET
7 6 (5.26%) ASP.NET Core
7 6 (5.26%) Blazor
7 6 (5.26%) ML.NET
8 4 (3.51%) Spring
8 4 (3.51%) Spring Boot
9 3 (2.63%) Playwright
9 3 (2.63%) PySpark
9 3 (2.63%) REST
10 2 (1.75%) Kafka
10 2 (1.75%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 31 (27.19%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.26%) BBC
2 6 (5.26%) Client/Server
2 6 (5.26%) Social Media
3 5 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.39%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.39%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.63%) IoT
4 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (0.88%) Bitcoin
6 1 (0.88%) Blockchain
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.14%) Linux
2 2 (1.75%) Unix
2 2 (1.75%) Windows
2 2 (1.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (42.11%) CI/CD
2 44 (38.60%) Agile
3 33 (28.95%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (28.95%) Mentoring
4 32 (28.07%) Software Engineering
5 21 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (17.54%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 19 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (15.79%) AI
8 18 (15.79%) SDLC
9 16 (14.04%) Collaborative Culture
10 15 (13.16%) Microservices
11 14 (12.28%) Observability
12 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (11.40%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 12 (10.53%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 10 (8.77%) Containerisation
14 10 (8.77%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.68%) JavaScript
2 19 (16.67%) TypeScript
3 18 (15.79%) SQL
4 17 (14.91%) Java
5 16 (14.04%) Python
6 8 (7.02%) C#
7 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.51%) Bicep
9 2 (1.75%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.75%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.75%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (6.14%) Degree
1 7 (6.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.39%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 3 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.75%) ISEB
4 2 (1.75%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.88%) CISSP
5 1 (0.88%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (16.67%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (13.16%) Docker
2 6 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (14.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.75%) Grafana
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.40%) Google
3 6 (5.26%) Apple
3 6 (5.26%) Facebook
3 6 (5.26%) Sony
3 6 (5.26%) Yahoo!
4 4 (3.51%) Intel
4 4 (3.51%) Oracle
5 3 (2.63%) Databricks
6 2 (1.75%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.75%) VMware
6 2 (1.75%) YouTube
7 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco
7 1 (0.88%) Meraki