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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 15 37
Rank change year-on-year 0 +22 -28
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 281 268 331
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 9.75% 10.74% 8.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.21% 11.43% 9.14%
Number of salaries quoted 42 129 221
10th Percentile £25,800 £44,600 £45,000
25th Percentile £29,125 £51,698 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,250 £62,500 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% -10.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £84,310 £74,144 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,655 £93,778 £96,539
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 2,302 2,344 3,623
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.85% 93.95% 93.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1,134 974 2,064
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,444
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.45% -8.09%

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 29 January 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 January 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 +3 224 £60,000 -9.77% 26
Glasgow -17 20 £67,500 +28.57% 22
West Dunbartonshire - 9 - - 1
West Lothian +8 7 - - 4
Stirling - 7 - - 4
East Ayrshire - 3 £85,700 -
Lanarkshire +2 2 - - 20
North Lanarkshire -13 2 - - 5
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Fife +6 1 - - 3
Midlothian - 1 - - 15
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Moray - 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 (6.05%) Confluence
1 17 (6.05%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) CICS
4 1 (0.36%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (13.17%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.42%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 231 (82.21%) Azure
2 169 (60.14%) Azure DevOps
3 124 (44.13%) GitHub
4 72 (25.62%) GitHub Copilot
5 65 (23.13%) Snowflake
6 51 (18.15%) dbt
7 47 (16.73%) Entra ID
8 46 (16.37%) Power Platform
9 45 (16.01%) AWS
10 44 (15.66%) Azure Data Factory
11 37 (13.17%) OCI
12 28 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
13 27 (9.61%) Microsoft 365
14 24 (8.54%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
16 15 (5.34%) Datadog
17 14 (4.98%) Azure Event Grid
17 14 (4.98%) Azure Logic Apps
17 14 (4.98%) Azure Service Bus
18 13 (4.63%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 23 (8.19%) Broadband
2 9 (3.20%) Firewall
3 6 (2.14%) DNS
4 5 (1.78%) LAN
4 5 (1.78%) VPN
4 5 (1.78%) WAN
5 4 (1.42%) BGP
5 4 (1.42%) MPLS
5 4 (1.42%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.42%) Wireless
6 3 (1.07%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.71%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (16.73%) Data Warehouse
2 45 (16.01%) Power BI
3 29 (10.32%) Tableau
4 14 (4.98%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (3.91%) Metadata
6 10 (3.56%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.49%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.42%) Redis
10 1 (0.36%) DB2
10 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.36%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 61 (21.71%) Jenkins
2 58 (20.64%) JIRA
3 37 (13.17%) Oracle Forms
4 23 (8.19%) GitLab
4 23 (8.19%) SonarQube
5 18 (6.41%) Git
6 1 (0.36%) Ant
6 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) JMeter
6 1 (0.36%) JUnit
6 1 (0.36%) Locust
6 1 (0.36%) Maven
6 1 (0.36%) Selenium
6 1 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.36%) TestNG
General
1 203 (72.24%) Finance
2 73 (25.98%) Social Skills
3 45 (16.01%) Marketing
4 43 (15.30%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (8.19%) Games
7 9 (3.20%) Billing
8 5 (1.78%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.42%) Front Office
10 2 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Tech for Good
11 1 (0.36%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
11 1 (0.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (30.96%) Senior
2 57 (20.28%) Applications Engineer
3 47 (16.73%) Cloud Engineer
4 29 (10.32%) Analyst
4 29 (10.32%) Architect
5 26 (9.25%) Azure Engineer
6 24 (8.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 22 (7.83%) Applications Support
8 21 (7.47%) Salesforce Architect
9 14 (4.98%) Development Engineer
10 13 (4.63%) Applications Support Engineer
10 13 (4.63%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.27%) Business Analyst
11 12 (4.27%) Salesforce Technical Architect
11 12 (4.27%) Technical Architect
12 10 (3.56%) Integration Engineer
13 9 (3.20%) Applications Support Analyst
13 9 (3.20%) Support Analyst
14 8 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.85%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (23.13%) SOAP
2 52 (18.51%) RESTful
3 45 (16.01%) Lightning Web Components
3 45 (16.01%) REST
4 42 (14.95%) OAuth
5 34 (12.10%) JSON
6 31 (11.03%) OAuth2
7 23 (8.19%) Visualforce
8 20 (7.12%) XML
9 18 (6.41%) .NET
10 17 (6.05%) SAML
11 14 (4.98%) ADO
12 11 (3.91%) GraphQL
12 11 (3.91%) OpenAPI
12 11 (3.91%) Swagger
13 8 (2.85%) YAML
14 7 (2.49%) Middleware
14 7 (2.49%) React
15 4 (1.42%) Django
16 3 (1.07%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 111 (39.50%) Product Ownership
2 71 (25.27%) Cloud Native
3 38 (13.52%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (7.83%) Management Information System
4 22 (7.83%) Onboarding
5 12 (4.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (3.20%) Low-Code
6 9 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.42%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.42%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.07%) Clustering
9 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
11 1 (0.36%) BBC
11 1 (0.36%) Distributed Systems
11 1 (0.36%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.36%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.36%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.49%) Linux
1 7 (2.49%) Windows
2 4 (1.42%) Unix
2 4 (1.42%) VMS
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (75.44%) Agile
2 202 (71.89%) CI/CD
3 195 (69.40%) Asset Management
3 195 (69.40%) Coaching
4 148 (52.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 116 (41.28%) AI
6 115 (40.93%) Test Automation
7 93 (33.10%) Observability
8 76 (27.05%) Analytics
9 68 (24.20%) Mentoring
10 66 (23.49%) Infrastructure as Code
11 62 (22.06%) Clean Code
12 60 (21.35%) Data Modelling
13 58 (20.64%) Sprint Planning
13 58 (20.64%) Sprint Retrospective
14 57 (20.28%) Problem-Solving
15 54 (19.22%) Event-Driven
16 50 (17.79%) Roadmaps
17 46 (16.37%) Migration
18 45 (16.01%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 124 (44.13%) Python
2 110 (39.15%) SQL
3 55 (19.57%) PowerShell
4 45 (16.01%) Apex Code
5 41 (14.59%) Java
6 37 (13.17%) PL/SQL
6 37 (13.17%) Shell Script
7 23 (8.19%) SOQL
7 23 (8.19%) SOSL
8 20 (7.12%) Bicep
8 20 (7.12%) JavaScript
9 19 (6.76%) Bash
10 15 (5.34%) C#
11 7 (2.49%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.42%) TypeScript
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (5.69%) Degree
2 9 (3.20%) HND
3 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.14%) Chartered Engineer
3 6 (2.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (1.78%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.78%) CRISC
4 5 (1.78%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.78%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.36%) CBAP
6 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.36%) PMP
6 1 (0.36%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (10.68%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.41%) QA
3 14 (4.98%) GDPR
4 9 (3.20%) SLA
5 7 (2.49%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (12.46%) Active Directory
2 27 (9.61%) Docker
3 11 (3.91%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.36%) RACF
Systems Management
1 126 (44.84%) Terraform
2 37 (13.17%) Single Sign-On
3 28 (9.96%) Kubernetes
4 20 (7.12%) Grafana
5 18 (6.41%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.56%) Ansible
6 10 (3.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.07%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.36%) Podman
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 66 (23.49%) Microsoft
2 45 (16.01%) Salesforce
3 37 (13.17%) Oracle
4 28 (9.96%) Splunk
5 20 (7.12%) Okta
6 18 (6.41%) Ab Initio
7 9 (3.20%) Adobe
7 9 (3.20%) Freshdesk
7 9 (3.20%) Nintex
8 7 (2.49%) Databricks
9 6 (2.14%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.78%) Google
10 5 (1.78%) IBM
11 4 (1.42%) Charles River
11 4 (1.42%) F5
11 4 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
12 1 (0.36%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.36%) Facebook
12 1 (0.36%) Xamarin