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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 31
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 -21
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 276 277 297
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 10.12% 10.46% 9.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.61% 11.31% 10.26%
Number of salaries quoted 44 131 210
10th Percentile £25,900 £45,000 £44,875
25th Percentile £31,375 £52,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £68,750 £60,000 £69,724
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -13.95% +10.27%
75th Percentile £83,125 £73,886 £91,934
90th Percentile £85,565 £85,253 £106,289
UK median annual salary £70,000 £69,308 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% -0.99% -

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 2,188 2,449 2,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 80.21% 92.52% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,065 1,031 1,796
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £41,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £82,396 £88,750 £83,903
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 5 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 5 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 +3 228 £60,000 -8.75% 33
Glasgow -17 23 £73,750 +35.32% 28
West Dunbartonshire - 5 - - 2
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian +2 3 - - 1
East Ayrshire - 3 £85,700 -
Lanarkshire +4 2 - - 5
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Fife +7 1 - - 2
North Lanarkshire -12 1 - - 1
Moray - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 12
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 (6.16%) Confluence
1 17 (6.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.72%) CICS
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
Applications
1 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 37 (13.41%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.45%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 230 (83.33%) Azure
2 167 (60.51%) Azure DevOps
3 127 (46.01%) GitHub
4 72 (26.09%) GitHub Copilot
5 65 (23.55%) Snowflake
6 51 (18.48%) dbt
7 47 (17.03%) Entra ID
8 46 (16.67%) AWS
9 44 (15.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 42 (15.22%) Power Platform
11 37 (13.41%) OCI
12 30 (10.87%) GitHub Actions
13 24 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
15 19 (6.88%) Azure Key Vault
16 15 (5.43%) Datadog
17 14 (5.07%) Azure Event Grid
17 14 (5.07%) Azure Logic Apps
17 14 (5.07%) Azure Service Bus
17 14 (5.07%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.43%) Broadband
2 10 (3.62%) Firewall
3 6 (2.17%) DNS
3 6 (2.17%) LAN
3 6 (2.17%) WAN
4 5 (1.81%) VPN
5 4 (1.45%) BGP
5 4 (1.45%) MPLS
5 4 (1.45%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.45%) Wireless
6 3 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (0.72%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (17.03%) Data Warehouse
2 41 (14.86%) Power BI
3 29 (10.51%) Tableau
4 14 (5.07%) Snowflake Schema
5 11 (3.99%) Metadata
6 9 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.54%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 4 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.45%) Redis
10 2 (0.72%) DB2
10 2 (0.72%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 60 (21.74%) JIRA
2 53 (19.20%) Jenkins
3 37 (13.41%) Oracle Forms
4 18 (6.52%) Git
5 15 (5.43%) GitLab
5 15 (5.43%) SonarQube
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
1 205 (74.28%) Finance
2 74 (26.81%) Social Skills
3 43 (15.58%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (13.41%) Marketing
5 16 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (5.43%) Games
7 5 (1.81%) Billing
7 5 (1.81%) Financial Institution
8 4 (1.45%) Front Office
9 2 (0.72%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (0.72%) Health Technology
9 2 (0.72%) Law
9 2 (0.72%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.36%) Back Office
10 1 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Legal
10 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.36%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 88 (31.88%) Senior
2 57 (20.65%) Applications Engineer
3 47 (17.03%) Cloud Engineer
4 27 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
5 25 (9.06%) Analyst
6 24 (8.70%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 21 (7.61%) Architect
8 18 (6.52%) Applications Support
9 14 (5.07%) Development Engineer
9 14 (5.07%) Salesforce Architect
10 13 (4.71%) Applications Support Engineer
10 13 (4.71%) Support Engineer
11 12 (4.35%) Business Analyst
12 10 (3.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (3.62%) Integration Engineer
13 8 (2.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 8 (2.90%) Senior Development Engineer
13 8 (2.90%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (2.90%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.90%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (20.65%) SOAP
2 53 (19.20%) RESTful
3 42 (15.22%) OAuth
4 37 (13.41%) Lightning Web Components
4 37 (13.41%) REST
5 34 (12.32%) JSON
6 31 (11.23%) OAuth2
7 21 (7.61%) XML
8 19 (6.88%) .NET
9 17 (6.16%) SAML
10 15 (5.43%) Visualforce
11 14 (5.07%) ADO
12 11 (3.99%) GraphQL
12 11 (3.99%) OpenAPI
12 11 (3.99%) Swagger
13 8 (2.90%) Middleware
13 8 (2.90%) React
13 8 (2.90%) YAML
14 4 (1.45%) AngularJS
14 4 (1.45%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 99 (35.87%) Product Ownership
2 73 (26.45%) Cloud Native
3 38 (13.77%) Enterprise Software
4 22 (7.97%) Onboarding
5 18 (6.52%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.26%) Low-Code
7 9 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.81%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.81%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.45%) Client/Server
10 3 (1.09%) Clustering
10 3 (1.09%) Data Centre
10 3 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.72%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.72%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.72%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.36%) NHS
12 1 (0.36%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.54%) Linux
1 7 (2.54%) Windows
2 4 (1.45%) Unix
2 4 (1.45%) VMS
3 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (73.19%) Agile
2 199 (72.10%) CI/CD
3 195 (70.65%) Asset Management
3 195 (70.65%) Coaching
4 140 (50.72%) Continuous Improvement
5 117 (42.39%) Test Automation
6 116 (42.03%) AI
7 96 (34.78%) Observability
8 76 (27.54%) Analytics
9 69 (25.00%) Mentoring
10 67 (24.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 63 (22.83%) Clean Code
12 60 (21.74%) Data Modelling
13 58 (21.01%) Sprint Planning
13 58 (21.01%) Sprint Retrospective
14 57 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
15 46 (16.67%) Event-Driven
15 46 (16.67%) Migration
16 45 (16.30%) Roadmaps
17 42 (15.22%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 124 (44.93%) Python
2 110 (39.86%) SQL
3 55 (19.93%) PowerShell
4 42 (15.22%) Java
5 37 (13.41%) Apex Code
5 37 (13.41%) PL/SQL
5 37 (13.41%) Shell Script
6 20 (7.25%) Bicep
7 19 (6.88%) Bash
7 19 (6.88%) JavaScript
8 17 (6.16%) C#
9 15 (5.43%) SOQL
9 15 (5.43%) SOSL
10 7 (2.54%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.36%) C
12 1 (0.36%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 13 (4.71%) Degree
2 7 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (2.17%) Chartered Engineer
4 5 (1.81%) AWS Certification
4 5 (1.81%) CRISC
4 5 (1.81%) HND
4 5 (1.81%) SC Cleared
4 5 (1.81%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.72%) 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 26 (9.42%) Accessibility
2 18 (6.52%) QA
3 14 (5.07%) GDPR
4 7 (2.54%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 5 (1.81%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (12.68%) Active Directory
2 30 (10.87%) Docker
3 11 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (3.62%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.72%) RACF
5 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 127 (46.01%) Terraform
2 37 (13.41%) Single Sign-On
3 31 (11.23%) Kubernetes
4 22 (7.97%) Grafana
5 19 (6.88%) Prometheus
6 10 (3.62%) Ansible
6 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.09%) AWS Copilot
8 1 (0.36%) Podman
8 1 (0.36%) Puppet
Vendors
1 63 (22.83%) Microsoft
2 38 (13.77%) Salesforce
3 37 (13.41%) Oracle
4 22 (7.97%) Splunk
5 20 (7.25%) Okta
6 18 (6.52%) Ab Initio
7 7 (2.54%) Databricks
8 6 (2.17%) IBM
8 6 (2.17%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.81%) Adobe
9 5 (1.81%) Freshdesk
9 5 (1.81%) Google
9 5 (1.81%) Nintex
9 5 (1.81%) SolarWinds
10 4 (1.45%) Charles River
10 4 (1.45%) F5
10 4 (1.45%) Fortinet
11 2 (0.72%) Broadcom
12 1 (0.36%) OpenAI
12 1 (0.36%) Xamarin