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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 31 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 +27 -44
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 140 198 276
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.10% 7.80% 5.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.81% 8.70% 6.10%
Number of salaries quoted 84 62 134
10th Percentile £27,000 £48,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.32% +6.27%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £95,700 £104,750 £98,474
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 2,410 2,276 4,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.59% 89.71% 87.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,394 1,014 2,011
10th Percentile £28,000 £26,929 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,750 £32,851 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £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 2 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 2 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 +8 49 £55,000 -26.67% 50
Edinburgh -7 47 £60,000 -14.29% 27
South Lanarkshire +1 8 £72,500 -
Stirling 0 6 - -
Fife -4 6 - -
Lanarkshire +5 5 - - 11
Moray - 4 £81,250 -
West Dunbartonshire +2 3 - -
West Lothian +1 3 - -
North Lanarkshire -3 3 - -
Midlothian - 1 - - 15
Scottish Borders - 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 4 (2.86%) Apache
1 4 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (40.00%) Azure
2 26 (18.57%) AWS
3 23 (16.43%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (12.14%) SaaS
5 16 (11.43%) GCP
6 11 (7.86%) Entra ID
7 10 (7.14%) GitHub
8 8 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (4.29%) Azure AI
9 6 (4.29%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (2.14%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (2.14%) Cloud Composer
11 3 (2.14%) Dataform
11 3 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.14%) Broadband
2 3 (2.14%) Firewall
2 3 (2.14%) Network Security
3 2 (1.43%) DNS
3 2 (1.43%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.71%) AMQP
4 1 (0.71%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.71%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) Azure SQL Database
2 6 (4.29%) MongoDB
3 5 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.57%) Power BI
4 3 (2.14%) Big Data
4 3 (2.14%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.14%) Metadata
4 3 (2.14%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.71%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.71%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.71%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 28 (20.00%) GitLab
3 27 (19.29%) SonarQube
4 8 (5.71%) JIRA
5 5 (3.57%) Git
6 3 (2.14%) fastlane
6 3 (2.14%) JMeter
7 2 (1.43%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.43%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.43%) Xcode
8 1 (0.71%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.71%) ERwin
8 1 (0.71%) Gradle
8 1 (0.71%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.71%) JUnit
8 1 (0.71%) Maven
8 1 (0.71%) Mockito
8 1 (0.71%) Selenium
8 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.71%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 41 (29.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 28 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.29%) Marketing
4 24 (17.14%) Games
5 18 (12.86%) Finance
6 13 (9.29%) Public Sector
7 8 (5.71%) Banking
8 6 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.14%) Billing
11 2 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Advertising
12 1 (0.71%) Legal
12 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (22.86%) Architect
2 26 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 26 (18.57%) Lead
2 26 (18.57%) Salesforce Architect
3 18 (12.86%) Technical Leader
4 15 (10.71%) Senior
4 15 (10.71%) Technical Architect
5 14 (10.00%) Applications Support
5 14 (10.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
6 11 (7.86%) Applications Engineer
6 11 (7.86%) Applications Support Engineer
6 11 (7.86%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (7.86%) Support Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Developer
8 9 (6.43%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 7 (5.00%) Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (4.29%) .NET Developer
11 5 (3.57%) Junior
11 5 (3.57%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (19.29%) REST
2 26 (18.57%) Lightning Web Components
2 26 (18.57%) SOAP
3 24 (17.14%) Visualforce
4 18 (12.86%) React
5 13 (9.29%) RESTful
6 11 (7.86%) .NET
7 9 (6.43%) AWS CDK
7 9 (6.43%) Next.js
8 8 (5.71%) Jakarta EE
8 8 (5.71%) JSP
9 6 (4.29%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.29%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.29%) ASP.NET Core
9 6 (4.29%) Blazor
9 6 (4.29%) ML.NET
10 2 (1.43%) Great Expectations
10 2 (1.43%) Node.js
10 2 (1.43%) Playwright
10 2 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (24.29%) Product Ownership
2 28 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 11 (7.86%) Client/Server
4 6 (4.29%) BBC
4 6 (4.29%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.29%) Social Media
5 4 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.43%) IoT
7 1 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.71%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.71%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.71%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.71%) PMI
7 1 (0.71%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.43%) Android
1 2 (1.43%) Apple iOS
1 2 (1.43%) Linux
1 2 (1.43%) Unix
1 2 (1.43%) Windows
1 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (54.29%) Agile
2 73 (52.14%) CI/CD
3 39 (27.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 37 (26.43%) Roadmaps
5 34 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
6 33 (23.57%) Scrum
7 32 (22.86%) Mentoring
8 31 (22.14%) OO
9 27 (19.29%) Design Patterns
9 27 (19.29%) Technology Roadmap
10 26 (18.57%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
10 26 (18.57%) Technical Analysis
11 25 (17.86%) Event-Driven
11 25 (17.86%) TOGAF
12 24 (17.14%) Community of Practice
12 24 (17.14%) Continuous Delivery
12 24 (17.14%) Continuous Integration
12 24 (17.14%) PLM
12 24 (17.14%) Static Code Analysis
13 23 (16.43%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.57%) Apex Code
1 26 (18.57%) JavaScript
2 25 (17.86%) SQL
3 24 (17.14%) SOQL
3 24 (17.14%) SOSL
4 19 (13.57%) TypeScript
5 14 (10.00%) Python
6 10 (7.14%) Java
7 9 (6.43%) C#
8 2 (1.43%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.71%) Bicep
9 1 (0.71%) Scala
9 1 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (5.00%) Degree
2 4 (2.86%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.14%) HND
3 3 (2.14%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.43%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.43%) ISEB
4 2 (1.43%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.71%) CISSP
5 1 (0.71%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (0.71%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.71%) PMP
5 1 (0.71%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (11.43%) QA
2 9 (6.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.57%) GDPR
4 4 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.14%) NCSC
5 3 (2.14%) SLA
5 3 (2.14%) WCAG
6 1 (0.71%) GRC
6 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.71%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (7.86%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (16.43%) Terraform
2 18 (12.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.14%) Grafana
4 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 26 (18.57%) Salesforce
2 24 (17.14%) Splunk
3 21 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 19 (13.57%) Google
5 7 (5.00%) Apple
5 7 (5.00%) Pega
6 6 (4.29%) Facebook
6 6 (4.29%) Sony
6 6 (4.29%) Yahoo!
7 3 (2.14%) Adobe
7 3 (2.14%) Freshdesk
7 3 (2.14%) Nintex
8 2 (1.43%) Cisco
8 2 (1.43%) Databricks
8 2 (1.43%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.43%) Meraki
8 2 (1.43%) Oracle
8 2 (1.43%) VMware
9 1 (0.71%) AppDynamics