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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 31 51
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 -34
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 131 181 265
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.60% 7.17% 5.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 7.97% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 83 50 136
10th Percentile £27,000 £48,700 £47,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £58,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +5.77% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,500 £98,875 £91,875
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 2,537 2,270 4,271
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 69.74% 89.90% 86.42%
Number of salaries quoted 1,455 1,008 1,923
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,851 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.62% -22.05% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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
Glasgow +21 54 £55,000 -29.03% 25
Edinburgh -8 47 £60,000 -12.73% 10
South Lanarkshire -1 8 £72,500 -
Fife -7 4 - -
Moray - 4 £81,250 -
Stirling -3 3 - -
Lanarkshire +3 2 - - 16
West Lothian +3 2 - -
North Lanarkshire -6 1 - -
Scottish Borders - 1 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 4
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 5 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.05%) Apache
3 2 (1.53%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 52 (39.69%) Azure
2 27 (20.61%) AWS
3 20 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (13.74%) GCP
5 17 (12.98%) SaaS
6 11 (8.40%) Entra ID
7 10 (7.63%) GitHub
8 6 (4.58%) Azure AI
9 4 (3.05%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.29%) Cloud Composer
10 3 (2.29%) Dataform
10 3 (2.29%) dbt
10 3 (2.29%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (2.29%) Serverless
11 2 (1.53%) Dagster
11 2 (1.53%) OCI
11 2 (1.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.92%) Broadband
2 2 (1.53%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) Network Security
2 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.76%) AMQP
3 1 (0.76%) DNS
3 1 (0.76%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.74%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (5.34%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.05%) BigQuery
5 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.29%) Big Data
5 3 (2.29%) Metadata
5 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.53%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.76%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.76%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.76%) Power BI
7 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.76%) Redis
7 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (14.50%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.98%) GitLab
3 16 (12.21%) SonarQube
4 8 (6.11%) JIRA
5 6 (4.58%) Git
6 3 (2.29%) fastlane
6 3 (2.29%) JMeter
7 2 (1.53%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.53%) Xcode
8 1 (0.76%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.76%) ERwin
8 1 (0.76%) Gradle
8 1 (0.76%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.76%) JUnit
8 1 (0.76%) Maven
8 1 (0.76%) Mockito
8 1 (0.76%) Selenium
8 1 (0.76%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.76%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 31 (23.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 29 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 19 (14.50%) Finance
4 16 (12.21%) Marketing
5 13 (9.92%) Games
6 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
7 9 (6.87%) Banking
8 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Advertising
11 1 (0.76%) Law
11 1 (0.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 29 (22.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (19.08%) Lead
3 22 (16.79%) Architect
4 18 (13.74%) Technical Leader
5 15 (11.45%) Salesforce Architect
6 13 (9.92%) Senior
7 11 (8.40%) Applications Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Applications Support
7 11 (8.40%) Applications Support Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Support Engineer
8 10 (7.63%) Developer
8 10 (7.63%) Technical Architect
9 8 (6.11%) Salesforce Technical Architect
9 8 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (5.34%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (4.58%) .NET Developer
11 6 (4.58%) Salesforce Solution Architect
12 5 (3.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Data Engineer
12 5 (3.82%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (17.56%) Terraform
2 18 (13.74%) React
3 16 (12.21%) REST
4 15 (11.45%) Lightning Web Components
4 15 (11.45%) SOAP
5 13 (9.92%) RESTful
5 13 (9.92%) Visualforce
6 9 (6.87%) .NET
6 9 (6.87%) AWS CDK
6 9 (6.87%) Next.js
7 8 (6.11%) Jakarta EE
7 8 (6.11%) JSP
8 6 (4.58%) .NET Core
8 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET
8 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET Core
8 6 (4.58%) Blazor
8 6 (4.58%) ML.NET
9 2 (1.53%) Great Expectations
9 2 (1.53%) Playwright
9 2 (1.53%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 29 (22.14%) Cloud Native
2 21 (16.03%) Product Ownership
3 11 (8.40%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.58%) BBC
4 6 (4.58%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.58%) Social Media
5 4 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.53%) IoT
7 1 (0.76%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.76%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.76%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.76%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.76%) PMI
7 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.76%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.53%) Android
1 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.53%) Linux
1 2 (1.53%) Unix
1 2 (1.53%) Windows
1 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (49.62%) Agile
2 64 (48.85%) CI/CD
3 34 (25.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (24.43%) Mentoring
5 30 (22.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 25 (19.08%) Roadmaps
6 25 (19.08%) Software Engineering
7 23 (17.56%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (16.79%) Scrum
9 20 (15.27%) Code Quality
9 20 (15.27%) OO
10 19 (14.50%) Observability
11 18 (13.74%) Full-Stack Development
12 17 (12.98%) AI
12 17 (12.98%) Design Patterns
13 16 (12.21%) Technology Roadmap
14 15 (11.45%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
14 15 (11.45%) Event-Driven
14 15 (11.45%) Technical Analysis
14 15 (11.45%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.08%) JavaScript
1 25 (19.08%) SQL
2 18 (13.74%) TypeScript
3 15 (11.45%) Apex Code
3 15 (11.45%) Python
4 13 (9.92%) SOQL
4 13 (9.92%) SOSL
5 11 (8.40%) Java
6 8 (6.11%) C#
7 1 (0.76%) Bicep
7 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.76%) Scala
7 1 (0.76%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (5.34%) Degree
2 4 (3.05%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.53%) ISEB
4 2 (1.53%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.76%) CISSP
5 1 (0.76%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.76%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.76%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.76%) PMP
5 1 (0.76%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.98%) QA
2 6 (4.58%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.82%) GDPR
4 3 (2.29%) NCSC
4 3 (2.29%) WCAG
5 1 (0.76%) GRC
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (8.40%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.87%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (12.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.29%) Grafana
3 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 19 (14.50%) Google
2 15 (11.45%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.45%) Salesforce
3 13 (9.92%) Splunk
4 7 (5.34%) Apple
4 7 (5.34%) Pega
5 6 (4.58%) Facebook
5 6 (4.58%) Sony
5 6 (4.58%) Yahoo!
6 4 (3.05%) Oracle
7 3 (2.29%) Databricks
8 2 (1.53%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.53%) VMware
9 1 (0.76%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.76%) Cisco
9 1 (0.76%) Meraki