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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 16 54
Rank change year-on-year -6 +38 -43
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 206 195 408
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.14% 10.19% 6.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.46% 11.06% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 57 104 218
10th Percentile £27,000 £46,267 £42,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £52,375 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% +1.45% +3.60%
75th Percentile £72,250 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,430 £111,375 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%

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 2,435 1,763 5,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 72.54% 92.11% 92.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,324 897 2,396
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,987 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +4.76% -9.19%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -4 126 £62,500 -12.59% 29
Glasgow -30 28 £32,000 -52.59% 26
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Stirling - 9 - -
West Lothian -8 7 - - 1
Fife - 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire - 5 - - 11
North Lanarkshire - 4 - - 1
South Lanarkshire - 4 £55,000 - 1
Moray - 2 £100,000 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £85,700 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 11
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 8 (3.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.94%) Apache
2 4 (1.94%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.49%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (5.83%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (7.77%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.94%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 144 (69.90%) Azure
2 96 (46.60%) Azure DevOps
3 80 (38.83%) GitHub
4 46 (22.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 38 (18.45%) Snowflake
6 36 (17.48%) dbt
7 33 (16.02%) Azure Data Factory
8 29 (14.08%) Power Platform
9 25 (12.14%) AWS
10 22 (10.68%) Entra ID
11 21 (10.19%) GitHub Actions
12 20 (9.71%) SaaS
13 19 (9.22%) GCP
14 18 (8.74%) Azure Key Vault
14 18 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (7.77%) OCI
16 11 (5.34%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (4.85%) Azure Logic Apps
17 10 (4.85%) Datadog
18 9 (4.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (15.53%) Broadband
2 6 (2.91%) Firewall
3 3 (1.46%) BGP
3 3 (1.46%) LAN
3 3 (1.46%) MPLS
3 3 (1.46%) Network Security
3 3 (1.46%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.46%) WAN
3 3 (1.46%) Wireless
4 2 (0.97%) DNS
4 2 (0.97%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.11%) Power BI
2 22 (10.68%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.28%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.37%) Metadata
4 9 (4.37%) Tableau
5 7 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.91%) Data Lake
7 5 (2.43%) Snowflake Schema
8 4 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.46%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.46%) Redis
9 3 (1.46%) SQL Server
10 2 (0.97%) Big Data
11 1 (0.49%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.49%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (24.76%) Jenkins
2 33 (16.02%) GitLab
3 32 (15.53%) SonarQube
4 25 (12.14%) JIRA
5 16 (7.77%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (4.85%) Git
7 3 (1.46%) fastlane
8 2 (0.97%) Xcode
9 1 (0.49%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.49%) Appium
9 1 (0.49%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.49%) Locust
9 1 (0.49%) MLflow
9 1 (0.49%) Postman
9 1 (0.49%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.49%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.49%) TestRail
9 1 (0.49%) XCTest
9 1 (0.49%) Zephyr
General
1 103 (50.00%) Finance
2 48 (23.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 48 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 41 (19.90%) Marketing
4 32 (15.53%) Games
5 20 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.83%) Billing
6 12 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.94%) Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (30.10%) Senior
2 38 (18.45%) Applications Engineer
3 36 (17.48%) Architect
4 31 (15.05%) Salesforce Architect
5 29 (14.08%) Applications Support
6 19 (9.22%) Technical Architect
7 18 (8.74%) Azure Engineer
7 18 (8.74%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 17 (8.25%) Applications Support Engineer
8 17 (8.25%) Salesforce Engineer
8 17 (8.25%) Support Engineer
9 16 (7.77%) Cloud Engineer
10 13 (6.31%) Analyst
10 13 (6.31%) Lead
10 13 (6.31%) Support Analyst
11 12 (5.83%) Applications Support Analyst
12 9 (4.37%) Development Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) Integration Engineer
12 9 (4.37%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 9 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (27.67%) SOAP
2 50 (24.27%) REST
3 49 (23.79%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (15.53%) Visualforce
5 29 (14.08%) RESTful
6 28 (13.59%) OAuth
7 18 (8.74%) OAuth2
8 17 (8.25%) JSON
9 16 (7.77%) .NET
10 10 (4.85%) GraphQL
10 10 (4.85%) OpenAPI
10 10 (4.85%) Swagger
11 9 (4.37%) ADO
12 8 (3.88%) SAML
12 8 (3.88%) XML
12 8 (3.88%) YAML
13 5 (2.43%) AWS CDK
13 5 (2.43%) React
14 3 (1.46%) Django
15 2 (0.97%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 77 (37.38%) Product Ownership
2 47 (22.82%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.25%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (6.31%) Client/Server
5 12 (5.83%) Management Information System
6 9 (4.37%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.91%) Low-Code
8 5 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.94%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.49%) BBC
12 1 (0.49%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.49%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.49%) PMI
12 1 (0.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.43%) Windows
2 3 (1.46%) Linux
2 3 (1.46%) Unix
3 2 (0.97%) Android
3 2 (0.97%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 159 (77.18%) CI/CD
2 149 (72.33%) Agile
3 96 (46.60%) Asset Management
3 96 (46.60%) Coaching
4 86 (41.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 71 (34.47%) Observability
6 69 (33.50%) Test Automation
7 54 (26.21%) AI
8 51 (24.76%) Data Modelling
9 50 (24.27%) Event-Driven
10 48 (23.30%) Infrastructure as Code
11 47 (22.82%) Mentoring
12 45 (21.84%) Roadmaps
13 44 (21.36%) OO
14 42 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
15 40 (19.42%) Clean Code
16 39 (18.93%) Analytics
16 39 (18.93%) Scrum
17 35 (16.99%) Technology Roadmap
18 34 (16.50%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 70 (33.98%) SQL
2 62 (30.10%) Python
3 49 (23.79%) Apex Code
4 32 (15.53%) SOQL
4 32 (15.53%) SOSL
5 27 (13.11%) PowerShell
6 18 (8.74%) Java
7 16 (7.77%) JavaScript
7 16 (7.77%) PL/SQL
7 16 (7.77%) Shell Script
8 15 (7.28%) C#
9 10 (4.85%) Bicep
10 6 (2.91%) T-SQL
10 6 (2.91%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.97%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.49%) Bash
12 1 (0.49%) Scala
12 1 (0.49%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (6.31%) Degree
2 12 (5.83%) HND
3 5 (2.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (2.43%) Security Cleared
4 2 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.49%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.14%) Accessibility
2 13 (6.31%) GDPR
3 12 (5.83%) SLA
4 11 (5.34%) QA
5 9 (4.37%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.94%) WCAG
7 3 (1.46%) NCSC
8 1 (0.49%) GRC
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.28%) Docker
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (35.92%) Terraform
2 19 (9.22%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.77%) Single Sign-On
4 14 (6.80%) Grafana
5 12 (5.83%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.94%) Ansible
7 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.97%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 52 (25.24%) Microsoft
2 49 (23.79%) Salesforce
3 35 (16.99%) Splunk
4 16 (7.77%) Oracle
5 15 (7.28%) Google
6 13 (6.31%) Ab Initio
7 12 (5.83%) Adobe
7 12 (5.83%) Freshdesk
7 12 (5.83%) Nintex
8 8 (3.88%) Okta
9 7 (3.40%) Databricks
9 7 (3.40%) Pega
10 4 (1.94%) IBM
11 3 (1.46%) F5
11 3 (1.46%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.46%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.97%) Cisco
12 2 (0.97%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.97%) Meraki