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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 15 54
Rank change year-on-year -5 +39 -44
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 216 199 408
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 6.65% 10.34% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.97% 11.18% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 56 107 218
10th Percentile £27,000 £45,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £52,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,283 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.31% +3.70% +1.07%
75th Percentile £73,563 £93,778 £82,500
90th Percentile £85,125 £110,250 £98,474
UK median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,500
% change year-on-year - +6.87% -6.43%

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 2,408 1,780 5,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 74.14% 92.47% 92.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,292 907 2,406
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £39,448
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -10.26%
75th Percentile £68,474 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £94,267 £80,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 12 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 12 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 -4 138 £60,000 -16.08% 19
Glasgow -27 28 £60,000 -4.00% 26
West Dunbartonshire - 12 - - 2
Stirling - 9 - -
West Lothian +1 7 - -
Fife +2 6 - - 2
Lanarkshire - 5 - - 14
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
South Lanarkshire - 3 £55,000 - 1
Moray - 1 £100,000 - 1
East Ayrshire - 1 £85,700 -
Midlothian - 1 - - 8
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 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (1.85%) Apache
2 4 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.46%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 16 (7.41%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (1.85%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 152 (70.37%) Azure
2 103 (47.69%) Azure DevOps
3 87 (40.28%) GitHub
4 51 (23.61%) GitHub Copilot
5 41 (18.98%) Snowflake
6 38 (17.59%) dbt
7 37 (17.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 31 (14.35%) Power Platform
9 29 (13.43%) AWS
10 23 (10.65%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (9.72%) Entra ID
12 20 (9.26%) GCP
13 19 (8.80%) Azure Key Vault
14 18 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (7.87%) SaaS
16 16 (7.41%) OCI
17 13 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
18 11 (5.09%) Azure Logic Apps
18 11 (5.09%) Datadog
19 10 (4.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.81%) Broadband
2 5 (2.31%) Firewall
3 3 (1.39%) BGP
3 3 (1.39%) LAN
3 3 (1.39%) MPLS
3 3 (1.39%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.39%) WAN
3 3 (1.39%) Wireless
4 2 (0.93%) Network Security
4 2 (0.93%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (0.46%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.43%) Power BI
2 23 (10.65%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (6.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (4.63%) Metadata
5 9 (4.17%) Tableau
6 8 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 7 (3.24%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.39%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.39%) Redis
10 3 (1.39%) SQL Server
11 2 (0.93%) Big Data
12 1 (0.46%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.46%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 51 (23.61%) Jenkins
2 33 (15.28%) GitLab
3 32 (14.81%) SonarQube
4 26 (12.04%) JIRA
5 16 (7.41%) Oracle Forms
6 10 (4.63%) Git
7 3 (1.39%) fastlane
8 2 (0.93%) Xcode
9 1 (0.46%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.46%) Appium
9 1 (0.46%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.46%) Gradle
9 1 (0.46%) JMeter
9 1 (0.46%) MLflow
9 1 (0.46%) Postman
9 1 (0.46%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.46%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.46%) TestRail
9 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 115 (53.24%) Finance
2 53 (24.54%) Social Skills
3 47 (21.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 42 (19.44%) Marketing
5 32 (14.81%) Games
6 23 (10.65%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (5.56%) Billing
7 12 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.39%) Banking
8 3 (1.39%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 64 (29.63%) Senior
2 38 (17.59%) Applications Engineer
3 36 (16.67%) Architect
4 31 (14.35%) Salesforce Architect
5 27 (12.50%) Applications Support
6 20 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
7 19 (8.80%) Technical Architect
8 18 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 18 (8.33%) Salesforce Engineer
8 18 (8.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 15 (6.94%) Applications Support Engineer
9 15 (6.94%) Support Engineer
10 13 (6.02%) Analyst
10 13 (6.02%) Support Analyst
11 12 (5.56%) Applications Support Analyst
12 11 (5.09%) Lead
13 10 (4.63%) Development Engineer
13 10 (4.63%) Integration Engineer
14 9 (4.17%) Salesforce Solution Architect
14 9 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (26.85%) SOAP
2 51 (23.61%) REST
3 50 (23.15%) Lightning Web Components
4 32 (14.81%) Visualforce
5 30 (13.89%) OAuth
5 30 (13.89%) RESTful
6 19 (8.80%) OAuth2
7 18 (8.33%) JSON
8 17 (7.87%) .NET
9 11 (5.09%) GraphQL
9 11 (5.09%) OpenAPI
9 11 (5.09%) Swagger
10 10 (4.63%) ADO
11 8 (3.70%) SAML
11 8 (3.70%) XML
11 8 (3.70%) YAML
12 6 (2.78%) React
13 4 (1.85%) AWS CDK
14 3 (1.39%) Django
15 2 (0.93%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 80 (37.04%) Product Ownership
2 48 (22.22%) Cloud Native
3 17 (7.87%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.09%) Client/Server
6 10 (4.63%) Onboarding
7 8 (3.70%) Low-Code
8 7 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.85%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.93%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.46%) BBC
12 1 (0.46%) Clustering
12 1 (0.46%) Distributed Systems
12 1 (0.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.46%) PMI
12 1 (0.46%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.31%) Windows
2 3 (1.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.39%) Unix
3 2 (0.93%) Android
3 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (78.70%) CI/CD
2 159 (73.61%) Agile
3 106 (49.07%) Asset Management
3 106 (49.07%) Coaching
4 94 (43.52%) Continuous Improvement
5 78 (36.11%) Test Automation
6 74 (34.26%) Observability
7 63 (29.17%) AI
8 54 (25.00%) Data Modelling
9 51 (23.61%) Event-Driven
9 51 (23.61%) Infrastructure as Code
10 47 (21.76%) Mentoring
11 45 (20.83%) OO
11 45 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
11 45 (20.83%) Roadmaps
12 43 (19.91%) Analytics
13 42 (19.44%) Clean Code
14 39 (18.06%) Scrum
15 35 (16.20%) Continuous Integration
15 35 (16.20%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 72 (33.33%) SQL
2 67 (31.02%) Python
3 50 (23.15%) Apex Code
4 32 (14.81%) SOQL
4 32 (14.81%) SOSL
5 30 (13.89%) PowerShell
6 19 (8.80%) Java
7 17 (7.87%) JavaScript
8 16 (7.41%) C#
8 16 (7.41%) PL/SQL
8 16 (7.41%) Shell Script
9 12 (5.56%) Bicep
10 7 (3.24%) T-SQL
11 6 (2.78%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.93%) Bash
12 2 (0.93%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.46%) Scala
13 1 (0.46%) Swift
Qualifications
1 13 (6.02%) Degree
2 12 (5.56%) HND
3 4 (1.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (1.85%) Security Cleared
4 3 (1.39%) AWS Certification
4 3 (1.39%) CRISC
5 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
5 1 (0.46%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (11.57%) Accessibility
2 14 (6.48%) GDPR
3 12 (5.56%) QA
3 12 (5.56%) SLA
4 10 (4.63%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.85%) WCAG
6 3 (1.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.46%) GRC
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (10.65%) Active Directory
2 17 (7.87%) Docker
3 3 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 79 (36.57%) Terraform
2 21 (9.72%) Kubernetes
3 16 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
4 15 (6.94%) Grafana
5 13 (6.02%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.31%) Ansible
7 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 53 (24.54%) Microsoft
2 50 (23.15%) Salesforce
3 35 (16.20%) Splunk
4 16 (7.41%) Oracle
5 15 (6.94%) Google
6 14 (6.48%) Ab Initio
7 12 (5.56%) Adobe
7 12 (5.56%) Freshdesk
7 12 (5.56%) Nintex
8 8 (3.70%) Databricks
8 8 (3.70%) Okta
9 7 (3.24%) Pega
10 4 (1.85%) IBM
11 3 (1.39%) F5
11 3 (1.39%) Fortinet
11 3 (1.39%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.39%) SolarWinds
12 2 (0.93%) Apple
12 2 (0.93%) Dynatrace
13 1 (0.46%) Cisco