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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 17 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 -11
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 249 298 259
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.23% 8.87% 10.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.80% 10.32% 11.40%
Number of salaries quoted 60 141 217
10th Percentile £26,200 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £46,125 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £60,000 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +12.08% -8.19% +8.92%
75th Percentile £82,305 £73,886 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,025 £85,253 £102,516
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -

All Process and 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 2,305 2,887 2,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 85.47% 85.90% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1,123 1,363 1,780
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,013
90th Percentile £81,250 £83,392 £82,573
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 23 November 2025.

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 23 November 2025. 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 +2 190 £66,000 +10.00% 39
Glasgow -29 38 £67,500 +22.73% 44
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian +1 3 - -
Fife +13 2 £50,000 - 2
Lanarkshire +3 2 - - 17
East Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 - 5
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 - 2
North Lanarkshire -12 1 - -
Moray - 1 - - 2
Midlothian - 1 - - 29
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 17 (6.83%) Confluence
2 12 (4.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 8 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.21%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.61%) Apache
5 3 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.20%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.80%) CICS
6 2 (0.80%) nginx
7 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 27 (10.84%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.80%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 194 (77.91%) Azure
2 135 (54.22%) Azure DevOps
3 96 (38.55%) GitHub
4 55 (22.09%) AWS
5 50 (20.08%) GitHub Copilot
6 45 (18.07%) Snowflake
7 42 (16.87%) Entra ID
8 35 (14.06%) dbt
9 33 (13.25%) Power Platform
10 27 (10.84%) Azure Data Factory
10 27 (10.84%) OCI
11 25 (10.04%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (9.24%) GCP
13 22 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
14 19 (7.63%) Azure Monitor
15 15 (6.02%) SaaS
16 11 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (4.42%) Azure Service Bus
17 10 (4.02%) Datadog
17 10 (4.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.02%) Broadband
2 11 (4.42%) Firewall
3 8 (3.21%) DNS
4 7 (2.81%) BGP
4 7 (2.81%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.41%) LAN
5 6 (2.41%) Software-Defined Networking
5 6 (2.41%) WAN
6 5 (2.01%) VPN
7 4 (1.61%) MPLS
7 4 (1.61%) Wireless
8 3 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (1.20%) NX-OS
8 3 (1.20%) OSPF
8 3 (1.20%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.80%) DHCP
9 2 (0.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (0.80%) Network Security
10 1 (0.40%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.86%) Data Warehouse
2 30 (12.05%) Power BI
3 24 (9.64%) Tableau
4 13 (5.22%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (4.42%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (2.81%) Metadata
6 7 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.61%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.61%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (1.61%) Redis
8 3 (1.20%) Big Data
8 3 (1.20%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.20%) Relational Database
8 3 (1.20%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.80%) DB2
10 1 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 53 (21.29%) JIRA
2 44 (17.67%) Jenkins
3 27 (10.84%) Oracle Forms
4 17 (6.83%) GitLab
5 15 (6.02%) SonarQube
6 14 (5.62%) Git
7 2 (0.80%) JUnit
7 2 (0.80%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) Ant
8 1 (0.40%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) JMeter
8 1 (0.40%) Locust
8 1 (0.40%) Selenium
8 1 (0.40%) Snyk
8 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.40%) TestNG
General
1 164 (65.86%) Finance
2 68 (27.31%) Social Skills
3 39 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (15.26%) Marketing
5 22 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (6.43%) Games
7 8 (3.21%) Law
8 5 (2.01%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.01%) Tech for Good
9 4 (1.61%) Front Office
9 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.80%) Back Office
11 2 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.40%) Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Retail
Job Titles
1 65 (26.10%) Senior
2 42 (16.87%) Applications Engineer
3 38 (15.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (8.84%) Architect
5 21 (8.43%) Analyst
6 19 (7.63%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (7.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 18 (7.23%) Software Engineer
8 16 (6.43%) Lead
9 14 (5.62%) Salesforce Architect
10 12 (4.82%) Business Analyst
11 10 (4.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (4.02%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.61%) Applications Support
12 9 (3.61%) Applications Support Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Development Engineer
12 9 (3.61%) Support Engineer
13 8 (3.21%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (17.67%) RESTful
2 42 (16.87%) SOAP
3 28 (11.24%) REST
4 27 (10.84%) Lightning Web Components
4 27 (10.84%) OAuth
5 25 (10.04%) JSON
6 21 (8.43%) OAuth2
7 20 (8.03%) .NET
8 18 (7.23%) React
9 17 (6.83%) XML
10 15 (6.02%) Visualforce
11 12 (4.82%) SAML
12 11 (4.42%) Middleware
13 10 (4.02%) ADO
13 10 (4.02%) AngularJS
14 8 (3.21%) Blazor
15 7 (2.81%) .NET Core
16 6 (2.41%) Kafka
16 6 (2.41%) OpenAPI
16 6 (2.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 80 (32.13%) Product Ownership
2 58 (23.29%) Cloud Native
3 30 (12.05%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (6.83%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.22%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.21%) Low-Code
8 8 (3.21%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (2.81%) Public Cloud
10 6 (2.41%) Data Centre
11 5 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.61%) Client/Server
13 3 (1.20%) Algorithms
13 3 (1.20%) Clustering
13 3 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (1.20%) Mainframe
14 2 (0.80%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
14 2 (0.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.81%) Linux
2 4 (1.61%) Unix
2 4 (1.61%) VMS
3 3 (1.20%) Windows
4 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.40%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (71.08%) Agile
2 163 (65.46%) CI/CD
3 147 (59.04%) Coaching
4 144 (57.83%) Asset Management
5 124 (49.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 97 (38.96%) AI
7 93 (37.35%) Test Automation
8 69 (27.71%) Observability
9 65 (26.10%) Analytics
10 58 (23.29%) Mentoring
11 57 (22.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 55 (22.09%) Roadmaps
13 48 (19.28%) Clean Code
14 47 (18.88%) Sprint Planning
15 46 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (18.47%) Sprint Retrospective
16 42 (16.87%) Migration
17 36 (14.46%) Event-Driven
18 35 (14.06%) Data Modelling
18 35 (14.06%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 103 (41.37%) Python
2 90 (36.14%) SQL
3 42 (16.87%) Java
3 42 (16.87%) PowerShell
4 27 (10.84%) Apex Code
4 27 (10.84%) PL/SQL
4 27 (10.84%) Shell Script
5 20 (8.03%) Bash
6 19 (7.63%) C#
6 19 (7.63%) JavaScript
7 16 (6.43%) Bicep
8 15 (6.02%) SOQL
8 15 (6.02%) SOSL
9 6 (2.41%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.80%) C
12 1 (0.40%) Groovy
12 1 (0.40%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (3.61%) Degree
2 8 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.41%) SC Cleared
3 6 (2.41%) Security Cleared
4 5 (2.01%) AWS Certification
4 5 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.01%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (2.01%) CRISC
5 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (0.80%) CCNA
6 2 (0.80%) CCNP
6 2 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.40%) CBAP
7 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.40%) PMP
7 1 (0.40%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.83%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.22%) QA
3 9 (3.61%) GDPR
4 6 (2.41%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 2 (0.80%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.80%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.80%) SEPA
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (14.86%) Docker
2 26 (10.44%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (4.02%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.20%) RACF
6 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 100 (40.16%) Terraform
2 42 (16.87%) Kubernetes
3 27 (10.84%) Single Sign-On
4 17 (6.83%) Grafana
5 14 (5.62%) Prometheus
6 13 (5.22%) Ansible
7 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.20%) AWS Copilot
9 1 (0.40%) Podman
9 1 (0.40%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 29 (11.65%) Oracle
3 28 (11.24%) Salesforce
4 22 (8.84%) Splunk
5 15 (6.02%) Okta
6 9 (3.61%) Ab Initio
7 6 (2.41%) F5
7 6 (2.41%) ServiceNow
8 5 (2.01%) Google
8 5 (2.01%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.61%) Charles River
9 4 (1.61%) Fortinet
10 3 (1.20%) Cisco
10 3 (1.20%) Databricks
10 3 (1.20%) IBM
11 2 (0.80%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.40%) VMware