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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 16 55
Rank change year-on-year -7 +39 -41
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 194 192 405
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.80% 10.27% 6.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.10% 11.17% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 55 101 210
10th Percentile £27,000 £46,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £29,375 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £69,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +1.45% +3.46%
75th Percentile £70,625 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,520 £112,500 £96,732
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 2,394 1,719 5,881
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 71.53% 91.93% 92.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1,334 877 2,405
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,987 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,788 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% +4.76% -8.94%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,950 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,946 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.42% +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 30 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 30 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 -4 111 £57,500 -18.73% 18
Glasgow -27 29 £29,000 -57.04% 23
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - -
Stirling - 9 - -
West Lothian -2 7 - -
Fife - 6 - -
South Lanarkshire - 5 £55,000 - 1
Lanarkshire - 5 - - 9
North Lanarkshire - 4 - - 1
Moray - 2 £100,000 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 14
East Ayrshire - 1 £85,700 -
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 (4.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (2.06%) Apache
2 4 (2.06%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.52%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (6.19%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (8.25%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.06%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 132 (68.04%) Azure
2 90 (46.39%) Azure DevOps
3 74 (38.14%) GitHub
4 42 (21.65%) GitHub Copilot
5 34 (17.53%) Snowflake
6 30 (15.46%) Azure Data Factory
7 29 (14.95%) dbt
8 28 (14.43%) Power Platform
9 21 (10.82%) AWS
9 21 (10.82%) Entra ID
10 19 (9.79%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (9.79%) SaaS
11 17 (8.76%) Microsoft 365
12 16 (8.25%) Azure Key Vault
12 16 (8.25%) OCI
13 15 (7.73%) GCP
14 9 (4.64%) Azure Logic Apps
14 9 (4.64%) Azure Monitor
15 8 (4.12%) Azure Service Bus
15 8 (4.12%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 32 (16.49%) Broadband
2 5 (2.58%) Firewall
3 3 (1.55%) Network Security
4 2 (1.03%) BGP
4 2 (1.03%) DNS
4 2 (1.03%) LAN
4 2 (1.03%) MPLS
4 2 (1.03%) WAN
4 2 (1.03%) Wireless
5 1 (0.52%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (13.40%) Power BI
2 21 (10.82%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (7.73%) Azure SQL Database
4 9 (4.64%) Tableau
5 8 (4.12%) Metadata
6 5 (2.58%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
8 3 (1.55%) BigQuery
8 3 (1.55%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.03%) Big Data
10 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.52%) Data Vault
10 1 (0.52%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (26.29%) Jenkins
2 33 (17.01%) GitLab
3 32 (16.49%) SonarQube
4 23 (11.86%) JIRA
5 16 (8.25%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (5.15%) Git
7 3 (1.55%) fastlane
8 2 (1.03%) Xcode
9 1 (0.52%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.52%) Appium
9 1 (0.52%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.52%) Gradle
9 1 (0.52%) MLflow
9 1 (0.52%) Postman
9 1 (0.52%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.52%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.52%) TestRail
9 1 (0.52%) XCTest
9 1 (0.52%) Zephyr
General
1 94 (48.45%) Finance
2 48 (24.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 43 (22.16%) Social Skills
4 40 (20.62%) Marketing
5 32 (16.49%) Games
6 18 (9.28%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (6.19%) Billing
7 12 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 5 (2.58%) Banking
9 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (28.87%) Senior
2 37 (19.07%) Applications Engineer
3 36 (18.56%) Architect
4 31 (15.98%) Salesforce Architect
5 29 (14.95%) Applications Support
6 19 (9.79%) Technical Architect
7 18 (9.28%) Salesforce Technical Architect
8 17 (8.76%) Applications Support Engineer
8 17 (8.76%) Support Engineer
9 16 (8.25%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (8.25%) Cloud Engineer
9 16 (8.25%) Salesforce Engineer
10 14 (7.22%) Lead
11 13 (6.70%) Analyst
11 13 (6.70%) Support Analyst
12 12 (6.19%) Applications Support Analyst
13 9 (4.64%) Salesforce Solution Architect
13 9 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (4.12%) Integration Engineer
14 8 (4.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (28.87%) SOAP
2 49 (25.26%) REST
3 48 (24.74%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (16.49%) Visualforce
5 28 (14.43%) RESTful
6 25 (12.89%) OAuth
7 17 (8.76%) OAuth2
8 16 (8.25%) .NET
8 16 (8.25%) JSON
9 8 (4.12%) ADO
9 8 (4.12%) GraphQL
9 8 (4.12%) OpenAPI
9 8 (4.12%) SAML
9 8 (4.12%) Swagger
9 8 (4.12%) XML
9 8 (4.12%) YAML
10 6 (3.09%) AWS CDK
11 5 (2.58%) React
12 2 (1.03%) Great Expectations
12 2 (1.03%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 73 (37.63%) Product Ownership
2 46 (23.71%) Cloud Native
3 17 (8.76%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (6.70%) Client/Server
5 12 (6.19%) Management Information System
6 8 (4.12%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.58%) Low-Code
8 4 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (2.06%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.03%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.03%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) BBC
10 1 (0.52%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.52%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.52%) PMI
10 1 (0.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.58%) Windows
2 2 (1.03%) Android
2 2 (1.03%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (75.77%) CI/CD
2 141 (72.68%) Agile
3 87 (44.85%) Coaching
4 86 (44.33%) Asset Management
5 80 (41.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 64 (32.99%) Observability
6 64 (32.99%) Test Automation
7 50 (25.77%) AI
8 49 (25.26%) Event-Driven
9 48 (24.74%) Data Modelling
10 45 (23.20%) Mentoring
11 43 (22.16%) Roadmaps
12 42 (21.65%) OO
13 40 (20.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 38 (19.59%) Scrum
15 37 (19.07%) Problem-Solving
16 35 (18.04%) Analytics
16 35 (18.04%) Clean Code
17 34 (17.53%) Technical Analysis
17 34 (17.53%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 66 (34.02%) SQL
2 53 (27.32%) Python
3 48 (24.74%) Apex Code
4 32 (16.49%) SOQL
4 32 (16.49%) SOSL
5 23 (11.86%) PowerShell
6 17 (8.76%) Java
6 17 (8.76%) JavaScript
7 16 (8.25%) PL/SQL
7 16 (8.25%) Shell Script
8 13 (6.70%) C#
9 9 (4.64%) Bicep
10 7 (3.61%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.58%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.03%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.52%) Scala
13 1 (0.52%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (6.70%) Degree
2 12 (6.19%) HND
3 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.52%) PMP
4 1 (0.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (12.37%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.19%) GDPR
2 12 (6.19%) SLA
3 10 (5.15%) QA
4 8 (4.12%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.55%) NCSC
5 3 (1.55%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) GRC
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (12.89%) Active Directory
2 10 (5.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 63 (32.47%) Terraform
2 17 (8.76%) Kubernetes
3 16 (8.25%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (5.67%) Grafana
5 10 (5.15%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.03%) Ansible
6 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 50 (25.77%) Microsoft
2 48 (24.74%) Salesforce
3 34 (17.53%) Splunk
4 16 (8.25%) Oracle
5 12 (6.19%) Ab Initio
5 12 (6.19%) Adobe
5 12 (6.19%) Freshdesk
5 12 (6.19%) Google
5 12 (6.19%) Nintex
6 8 (4.12%) Okta
7 7 (3.61%) Pega
8 6 (3.09%) Databricks
9 4 (2.06%) IBM
10 2 (1.03%) Apple
10 2 (1.03%) Cisco
10 2 (1.03%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.03%) F5
10 2 (1.03%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.03%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.03%) SolarWinds