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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 16 26
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -19
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 281 290 273
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 10.20% 10.47% 10.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.47% 11.42% 10.59%
Number of salaries quoted 50 138 206
10th Percentile £26,200 £45,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £43,500 £51,362 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £60,000 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -13.60% +10.93%
75th Percentile £82,435 £74,144 £85,000
90th Percentile £85,295 £85,927 £103,145
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 2,254 2,539 2,578
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 81.79% 91.66% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1,143 1,110 1,719
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,175 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,625 £83,150
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -3.23%

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 20 December 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 20 December 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 +4 230 £66,000 +3.53% 23
Glasgow -17 26 £73,750 +34.09% 17
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian +4 3 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 3 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 3 £85,700 -
Fife +9 2 £50,000 -
Lanarkshire +1 2 - - 13
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
North Lanarkshire -10 1 - -
Moray - 1 - -
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 19
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 3 (1.07%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.71%) CICS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.42%) 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 2 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 234 (83.27%) Azure
2 170 (60.50%) Azure DevOps
3 130 (46.26%) GitHub
4 72 (25.62%) GitHub Copilot
5 65 (23.13%) Snowflake
6 51 (18.15%) dbt
7 48 (17.08%) AWS
8 47 (16.73%) Entra ID
9 46 (16.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 41 (14.59%) Power Platform
11 37 (13.17%) OCI
12 32 (11.39%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (8.54%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (6.76%) Azure Key Vault
16 15 (5.34%) Azure Logic Apps
16 15 (5.34%) Azure Service Bus
16 15 (5.34%) Datadog
16 15 (5.34%) GCP
17 14 (4.98%) Azure Event Grid
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.34%) Broadband
2 11 (3.91%) Firewall
3 6 (2.14%) DNS
3 6 (2.14%) LAN
3 6 (2.14%) WAN
4 5 (1.78%) VPN
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 48 (17.08%) Data Warehouse
2 39 (13.88%) Power BI
3 29 (10.32%) Tableau
4 14 (4.98%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (3.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 11 (3.91%) Metadata
6 8 (2.85%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 4 (1.42%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.42%) Redis
9 2 (0.71%) DB2
9 2 (0.71%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (21.35%) JIRA
2 53 (18.86%) Jenkins
3 37 (13.17%) Oracle Forms
4 19 (6.76%) Git
5 15 (5.34%) GitLab
5 15 (5.34%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.36%) Ant
6 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
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
1 205 (72.95%) Finance
2 75 (26.69%) Social Skills
3 44 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.17%) Marketing
5 16 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.34%) Games
7 5 (1.78%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.42%) Front Office
8 4 (1.42%) Tech for Good
9 3 (1.07%) Billing
10 2 (0.71%) Back Office
10 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.71%) Health Technology
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 88 (31.32%) Senior
2 57 (20.28%) Applications Engineer
3 48 (17.08%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (9.96%) Azure Engineer
5 24 (8.54%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 23 (8.19%) Analyst
7 21 (7.47%) Architect
8 16 (5.69%) Applications Support
9 14 (4.98%) Development Engineer
9 14 (4.98%) Salesforce Architect
10 13 (4.63%) Applications Support Engineer
10 13 (4.63%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.27%) Business Analyst
12 11 (3.91%) Lead
13 10 (3.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.56%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (2.85%) Senior Development Engineer
14 8 (2.85%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.85%) Technical Analyst
14 8 (2.85%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (20.28%) SOAP
2 55 (19.57%) RESTful
3 42 (14.95%) OAuth
4 37 (13.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 37 (13.17%) REST
5 34 (12.10%) JSON
6 31 (11.03%) OAuth2
7 22 (7.83%) XML
8 20 (7.12%) .NET
9 17 (6.05%) SAML
10 15 (5.34%) ADO
10 15 (5.34%) Visualforce
11 11 (3.91%) GraphQL
11 11 (3.91%) OpenAPI
11 11 (3.91%) Swagger
12 10 (3.56%) React
13 8 (2.85%) Middleware
13 8 (2.85%) YAML
14 6 (2.14%) AngularJS
15 4 (1.42%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 97 (34.52%) Product Ownership
2 73 (25.98%) Cloud Native
3 38 (13.52%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (7.83%) Onboarding
5 16 (5.69%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.20%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.78%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.42%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.07%) Clustering
10 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.07%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.71%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.71%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.71%) NHS
12 1 (0.36%) IoT
12 1 (0.36%) Mobile App
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
1 205 (72.95%) CI/CD
2 203 (72.24%) Agile
3 195 (69.40%) Asset Management
3 195 (69.40%) Coaching
4 141 (50.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 119 (42.35%) Test Automation
6 117 (41.64%) AI
7 97 (34.52%) Observability
8 78 (27.76%) Analytics
9 72 (25.62%) Mentoring
10 68 (24.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 64 (22.78%) Clean Code
12 60 (21.35%) Data Modelling
12 60 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (20.64%) Sprint Planning
13 58 (20.64%) Sprint Retrospective
14 46 (16.37%) Event-Driven
14 46 (16.37%) Migration
15 45 (16.01%) Roadmaps
16 41 (14.59%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 125 (44.48%) Python
2 113 (40.21%) SQL
3 55 (19.57%) PowerShell
4 46 (16.37%) Java
5 37 (13.17%) Apex Code
5 37 (13.17%) PL/SQL
5 37 (13.17%) Shell Script
6 21 (7.47%) Bicep
7 20 (7.12%) C#
8 19 (6.76%) Bash
8 19 (6.76%) JavaScript
9 15 (5.34%) SOQL
9 15 (5.34%) SOSL
10 7 (2.49%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.14%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.71%) C
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 13 (4.63%) Degree
2 9 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.14%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (1.78%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.78%) CRISC
4 5 (1.78%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.78%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.07%) HND
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.36%) CBAP
7 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.36%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.36%) PMP
7 1 (0.36%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.90%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.41%) QA
3 14 (4.98%) GDPR
4 7 (2.49%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.07%) SLA
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (12.46%) Active Directory
2 34 (12.10%) Docker
3 12 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.71%) RACF
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 127 (45.20%) Terraform
2 37 (13.17%) Single Sign-On
3 35 (12.46%) Kubernetes
4 22 (7.83%) Grafana
5 19 (6.76%) 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 62 (22.06%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.52%) Salesforce
3 37 (13.17%) Oracle
4 22 (7.83%) Splunk
5 20 (7.12%) Okta
6 18 (6.41%) Ab Initio
7 7 (2.49%) Databricks
8 6 (2.14%) IBM
8 6 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.78%) Google
9 5 (1.78%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.42%) Charles River
10 4 (1.42%) F5
10 4 (1.42%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.07%) Adobe
11 3 (1.07%) Freshdesk
11 3 (1.07%) Nintex
12 2 (0.71%) Broadcom
13 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
13 1 (0.36%) VMware