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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 29 58
Rank change year-on-year -5 +29 -44
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 135 194 278
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.85% 7.60% 5.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.49% 8.49% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 82 59 133
10th Percentile £27,000 £48,750 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £58,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +1.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,625 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,900 £103,000 £98,279
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 2,458 2,284 4,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.11% 89.50% 87.31%
Number of salaries quoted 1,406 1,014 1,979
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £32,851 £41,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -9.09%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +13 51 £55,000 -26.67% 51
Edinburgh -6 46 £60,000 -14.29% 31
South Lanarkshire +1 8 £72,500 - 2
Fife -4 6 - - 2
Lanarkshire +5 4 - - 10
Stirling -1 4 - -
Moray - 4 £81,250 - 1
West Lothian +3 2 - -
West Dunbartonshire +2 2 - -
North Lanarkshire -4 2 - -
Scottish Borders - 1 - - 1
Midlothian - 1 - - 13
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 (2.96%) Apache
1 4 (2.96%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.48%) IIS
3 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.48%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 53 (39.26%) Azure
2 26 (19.26%) AWS
3 22 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (11.85%) GCP
4 16 (11.85%) SaaS
5 11 (8.15%) Entra ID
6 10 (7.41%) GitHub
7 6 (4.44%) Azure AI
7 6 (4.44%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (2.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.22%) Cloud Composer
9 3 (2.22%) Dataform
9 3 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (2.22%) Serverless
10 2 (1.48%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.48%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (14.07%) Broadband
2 2 (1.48%) Firewall
2 2 (1.48%) Network Security
2 2 (1.48%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.74%) AMQP
3 1 (0.74%) DNS
3 1 (0.74%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.74%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (12.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.44%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.22%) Big Data
4 3 (2.22%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.22%) Metadata
4 3 (2.22%) Power BI
5 2 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.48%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.48%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.74%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (18.52%) Jenkins
2 23 (17.04%) GitLab
3 22 (16.30%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.93%) JIRA
5 5 (3.70%) Git
6 3 (2.22%) fastlane
6 3 (2.22%) JMeter
7 2 (1.48%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.48%) Xcode
8 1 (0.74%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.74%) ERwin
8 1 (0.74%) Gradle
8 1 (0.74%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.74%) JUnit
8 1 (0.74%) Maven
8 1 (0.74%) Mockito
8 1 (0.74%) Selenium
8 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.74%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 36 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.30%) Marketing
4 19 (14.07%) Games
5 18 (13.33%) Finance
6 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.93%) Banking
8 6 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.48%) Billing
10 2 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Advertising
11 1 (0.74%) Legal
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (20.00%) Architect
3 25 (18.52%) Lead
4 21 (15.56%) Salesforce Architect
5 18 (13.33%) Technical Leader
6 15 (11.11%) Senior
7 13 (9.63%) Applications Support
8 12 (8.89%) Technical Architect
9 11 (8.15%) Applications Engineer
9 11 (8.15%) Applications Support Engineer
9 11 (8.15%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 11 (8.15%) Support Engineer
10 10 (7.41%) Developer
10 10 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (5.93%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 7 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (4.44%) .NET Developer
13 6 (4.44%) Analyst
14 5 (3.70%) Junior
14 5 (3.70%) Kubernetes Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (16.30%) REST
2 21 (15.56%) Lightning Web Components
2 21 (15.56%) SOAP
3 19 (14.07%) Visualforce
4 18 (13.33%) React
5 13 (9.63%) RESTful
6 10 (7.41%) .NET
7 9 (6.67%) AWS CDK
7 9 (6.67%) Next.js
8 8 (5.93%) Jakarta EE
8 8 (5.93%) JSP
9 6 (4.44%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.44%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.44%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (4.44%) Blazor
9 6 (4.44%) ML.NET
10 2 (1.48%) Great Expectations
10 2 (1.48%) Node.js
10 2 (1.48%) Playwright
10 2 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 28 (20.74%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.15%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.44%) BBC
4 6 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.44%) Social Media
5 3 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.48%) IoT
7 1 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.74%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.74%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.74%) PMI
7 1 (0.74%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.48%) Android
1 2 (1.48%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.48%) Linux
1 2 (1.48%) Unix
1 2 (1.48%) Windows
1 2 (1.48%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (51.11%) Agile
2 66 (48.89%) CI/CD
3 34 (25.19%) Continuous Improvement
4 33 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (22.96%) Mentoring
6 30 (22.22%) Roadmaps
7 28 (20.74%) Scrum
8 26 (19.26%) OO
9 23 (17.04%) Software Engineering
10 22 (16.30%) Design Patterns
10 22 (16.30%) Technology Roadmap
11 21 (15.56%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
11 21 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
11 21 (15.56%) Technical Analysis
12 20 (14.81%) Event-Driven
12 20 (14.81%) TOGAF
13 19 (14.07%) Community of Practice
13 19 (14.07%) Continuous Integration
13 19 (14.07%) PLM
13 19 (14.07%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 26 (19.26%) JavaScript
2 24 (17.78%) SQL
3 21 (15.56%) Apex Code
4 19 (14.07%) SOQL
4 19 (14.07%) SOSL
4 19 (14.07%) TypeScript
5 13 (9.63%) Python
6 10 (7.41%) Java
7 8 (5.93%) C#
8 2 (1.48%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.74%) Bicep
9 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.74%) Scala
9 1 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 6 (4.44%) Degree
2 4 (2.96%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.48%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.48%) HND
4 2 (1.48%) ISEB
4 2 (1.48%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.74%) CISSP
5 1 (0.74%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.74%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.74%) PMP
5 1 (0.74%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.85%) QA
2 8 (5.93%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.70%) GDPR
4 4 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.22%) NCSC
5 3 (2.22%) WCAG
6 2 (1.48%) SLA
7 1 (0.74%) GRC
7 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.74%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (8.15%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (17.04%) Terraform
2 17 (12.59%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 21 (15.56%) Salesforce
2 19 (14.07%) Google
2 19 (14.07%) Splunk
3 18 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 7 (5.19%) Apple
4 7 (5.19%) Pega
5 6 (4.44%) Facebook
5 6 (4.44%) Sony
5 6 (4.44%) Yahoo!
6 2 (1.48%) Adobe
6 2 (1.48%) Databricks
6 2 (1.48%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.48%) Freshdesk
6 2 (1.48%) Nintex
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle
6 2 (1.48%) VMware
7 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.74%) Cisco
7 1 (0.74%) Meraki