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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 30 59
Rank change year-on-year -4 +29 -45
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 138 202 283
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.08% 8.07% 5.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.77% 9.00% 6.11%
Number of salaries quoted 83 65 140
10th Percentile £27,000 £49,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +2.56% +5.00%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,751 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,300 £109,500 £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 2,392 2,245 4,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.69% 89.69% 87.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,391 993 2,102
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,851 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £54,175
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.32% -1.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,594
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 30 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 30 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 +14 47 £55,000 -26.67% 25
Edinburgh -8 47 £60,000 -14.29% 24
South Lanarkshire +1 8 £72,500 -
Stirling -2 6 - -
Fife -3 6 - -
Lanarkshire +6 5 - - 11
Moray - 4 £81,250 -
West Lothian +3 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire +2 3 - -
North Lanarkshire -5 3 - -
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 16
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 (2.90%) Apache
1 4 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.45%) IIS
3 1 (0.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (40.58%) Azure
2 25 (18.12%) AWS
3 23 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (12.32%) SaaS
5 16 (11.59%) GCP
6 11 (7.97%) Entra ID
7 10 (7.25%) GitHub
8 8 (5.80%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.35%) Azure AI
9 6 (4.35%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.90%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.17%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.17%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (2.17%) Dataform
11 3 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.39%) Broadband
2 3 (2.17%) Firewall
2 3 (2.17%) Network Security
3 2 (1.45%) DNS
3 2 (1.45%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.72%) AMQP
4 1 (0.72%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.72%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.04%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.62%) Power BI
4 3 (2.17%) Big Data
4 3 (2.17%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.17%) Metadata
4 3 (2.17%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.45%) 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 30 (21.74%) Jenkins
2 28 (20.29%) GitLab
3 27 (19.57%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.80%) JIRA
5 5 (3.62%) Git
6 3 (2.17%) fastlane
6 3 (2.17%) JMeter
7 2 (1.45%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.45%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.45%) 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 41 (29.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 27 (19.57%) Marketing
2 27 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 24 (17.39%) Games
4 18 (13.04%) Finance
5 13 (9.42%) Public Sector
6 8 (5.80%) Banking
7 6 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (2.17%) Billing
10 2 (1.45%) 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 32 (23.19%) Architect
2 26 (18.84%) Salesforce Architect
3 25 (18.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 25 (18.12%) Lead
4 17 (12.32%) Technical Leader
5 15 (10.87%) Senior
5 15 (10.87%) Technical Architect
6 14 (10.14%) Applications Support
6 14 (10.14%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 11 (7.97%) Applications Engineer
7 11 (7.97%) Applications Support Engineer
7 11 (7.97%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (7.97%) Support Engineer
8 10 (7.25%) Developer
9 9 (6.52%) Salesforce Solution Architect
10 7 (5.07%) Analyst
10 7 (5.07%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) .NET Developer
12 5 (3.62%) Junior
12 5 (3.62%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.57%) REST
2 26 (18.84%) Lightning Web Components
2 26 (18.84%) SOAP
3 24 (17.39%) Visualforce
4 17 (12.32%) React
5 13 (9.42%) RESTful
6 11 (7.97%) .NET
7 9 (6.52%) AWS CDK
8 8 (5.80%) Next.js
9 7 (5.07%) Jakarta EE
9 7 (5.07%) JSP
10 6 (4.35%) .NET Core
10 6 (4.35%) ASP.NET
10 6 (4.35%) ASP.NET Core
10 6 (4.35%) Blazor
10 6 (4.35%) ML.NET
11 2 (1.45%) Great Expectations
11 2 (1.45%) Node.js
11 2 (1.45%) Playwright
11 2 (1.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (24.64%) Product Ownership
2 26 (18.84%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.97%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.35%) BBC
4 6 (4.35%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.35%) Social Media
5 4 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.45%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.45%) IoT
7 1 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
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 (1.45%) Android
1 2 (1.45%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.45%) Linux
1 2 (1.45%) Unix
1 2 (1.45%) Windows
1 2 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (54.35%) Agile
2 72 (52.17%) CI/CD
3 39 (28.26%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (26.81%) Roadmaps
5 33 (23.91%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (23.91%) Scrum
6 31 (22.46%) Mentoring
6 31 (22.46%) OO
7 27 (19.57%) Design Patterns
7 27 (19.57%) Technology Roadmap
8 26 (18.84%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
8 26 (18.84%) Technical Analysis
9 25 (18.12%) Event-Driven
9 25 (18.12%) TOGAF
10 24 (17.39%) Community of Practice
10 24 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
10 24 (17.39%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (17.39%) PLM
10 24 (17.39%) Static Code Analysis
11 22 (15.94%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.84%) Apex Code
2 25 (18.12%) JavaScript
2 25 (18.12%) SQL
3 24 (17.39%) SOQL
3 24 (17.39%) SOSL
4 18 (13.04%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.14%) Python
6 9 (6.52%) C#
6 9 (6.52%) Java
7 2 (1.45%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.72%) Bicep
8 1 (0.72%) Scala
8 1 (0.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (5.07%) Degree
2 4 (2.90%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.17%) HND
3 3 (2.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.45%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.45%) ISEB
4 2 (1.45%) ISTQB
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 (10.87%) QA
2 9 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.62%) GDPR
4 4 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.17%) NCSC
5 3 (2.17%) SLA
5 3 (2.17%) WCAG
6 1 (0.72%) GRC
6 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.72%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (7.97%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (16.67%) Terraform
2 18 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.17%) Grafana
4 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (18.84%) Salesforce
2 24 (17.39%) Splunk
3 21 (15.22%) Microsoft
4 19 (13.77%) Google
5 7 (5.07%) Apple
5 7 (5.07%) Pega
6 6 (4.35%) Facebook
6 6 (4.35%) Sony
6 6 (4.35%) Yahoo!
7 3 (2.17%) Adobe
7 3 (2.17%) Freshdesk
7 3 (2.17%) Nintex
8 2 (1.45%) Cisco
8 2 (1.45%) Databricks
8 2 (1.45%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.45%) Meraki
8 2 (1.45%) Oracle
8 2 (1.45%) VMware
9 1 (0.72%) AppDynamics