DevOps Jobs in Scotland

DevOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 50 10
Rank change year-on-year +17 -40 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 234 490 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 7.95% 7.31% 15.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.57% 7.91% 16.01%
Number of salaries quoted 99 205 366
10th Percentile £46,000 £43,500 £43,602
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,500 £69,000 £65,175
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% +5.87% +9.54%
75th Percentile £93,778 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £118,135 £96,084 £97,328
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

All Process and 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 2,732 6,198 4,359
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.86% 92.47% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1,371 2,412 2,190
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,231
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +8.49%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £73,525
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Scotland.

Salary trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

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 9 May 2025. 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 0 136 £71,991 +2.01% 70
Glasgow +66 49 £67,500 - 58
Lanarkshire -7 18 - - 4
Renfrewshire - 4 - - 26
North Lanarkshire - 4 - -
Stirling - 3 - -
Fife -12 2 - - 2
West Dunbartonshire - 2 - -
West Lothian - 2 - -
Strathclyde - 1 - -
Inverclyde - 1 - -
Ayrshire - 1 - -
Clackmannanshire - 1 - -
Falkirk - 1 - -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
North Ayrshire - 1 - -
East Ayrshire - 1 - -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (23.50%) Confluence
2 15 (6.41%) Oracle Application Server
3 4 (1.71%) Apache
3 4 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.28%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.28%) CICS
4 3 (1.28%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) Cloudability
Cloud Services
1 120 (51.28%) Azure
2 109 (46.58%) AWS
3 84 (35.90%) GCP
4 21 (8.97%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.84%) SaaS
6 9 (3.85%) GitHub
6 9 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.85%) Serverless
7 7 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (2.99%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.99%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (2.56%) PaaS
9 5 (2.14%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.14%) IaaS
10 4 (1.71%) Azure Machine Learning
10 4 (1.71%) GitHub Actions
10 4 (1.71%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.71%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.42%) Internet
2 6 (2.56%) Firewall
3 5 (2.14%) HTTP
4 4 (1.71%) SSL
5 3 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.85%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.85%) Network Security
7 1 (0.43%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.43%) DNS
7 1 (0.43%) FTP
7 1 (0.43%) LAN
7 1 (0.43%) PuTTY
7 1 (0.43%) SpaceWire
7 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.26%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.41%) Oracle Reports
4 13 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 11 (4.70%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (4.27%) MongoDB
6 10 (4.27%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.42%) MySQL
8 4 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.71%) DB2
8 4 (1.71%) Geospatial Data
8 4 (1.71%) Power BI
9 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.85%) Big Data
10 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 62 (26.50%) GitLab
1 62 (26.50%) Maven
2 60 (25.64%) JIRA
3 52 (22.22%) SonarQube
3 52 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
4 51 (21.79%) Selenium
5 49 (20.94%) Bitbucket
5 49 (20.94%) Cucumber
6 26 (11.11%) Jenkins
7 23 (9.83%) Git
8 6 (2.56%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.71%) Gradle
9 4 (1.71%) JUnit
9 4 (1.71%) Postman
9 4 (1.71%) webpack
10 3 (1.28%) Fiddler
10 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.85%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.85%) Mockito
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 127 (54.27%) Finance
2 99 (42.31%) Banking
3 56 (23.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 53 (22.65%) Social Skills
5 41 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (6.41%) Military
6 15 (6.41%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.14%) Games
7 5 (2.14%) Legal
8 3 (1.28%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.85%) Digital Health
9 2 (0.85%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.85%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.85%) Law
9 2 (0.85%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.43%) Back Office
10 1 (0.43%) Billing
10 1 (0.43%) Front Office
10 1 (0.43%) Marketing
10 1 (0.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 89 (38.03%) Software Engineer
2 44 (18.80%) Senior
3 28 (11.97%) Developer
4 26 (11.11%) Lead
5 21 (8.97%) Senior Software Engineer
6 19 (8.12%) Analyst
7 15 (6.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 13 (5.56%) Senior Developer
9 8 (3.42%) Android Engineer
9 8 (3.42%) Java Developer
10 7 (2.99%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 6 (2.56%) Cloud Engineer
11 6 (2.56%) Senior DevOps
11 6 (2.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 5 (2.14%) .NET Developer
12 5 (2.14%) Architect
12 5 (2.14%) Asset Management Analyst
12 5 (2.14%) Consultant
12 5 (2.14%) DevOps Developer
12 5 (2.14%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (34.62%) React
2 79 (33.76%) Spring
2 79 (33.76%) Spring Boot
3 63 (26.92%) CSS
4 62 (26.50%) HTML
5 61 (26.07%) Kafka
6 59 (25.21%) Hibernate
7 55 (23.50%) Redux
8 52 (22.22%) JPA
9 30 (12.82%) RESTful
10 19 (8.12%) .NET
11 16 (6.84%) AngularJS
12 10 (4.27%) REST
13 9 (3.85%) .NET Core
13 9 (3.85%) .NET Framework
14 8 (3.42%) Android Jetpack
14 8 (3.42%) Jetpack Compose
14 8 (3.42%) Middleware
14 8 (3.42%) OAuth
14 8 (3.42%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 61 (26.07%) Product Ownership
2 50 (21.37%) Enterprise Software
3 15 (6.41%) Mobile App
4 11 (4.70%) Public Cloud
4 11 (4.70%) Virtual Team
5 8 (3.42%) Online Banking
6 5 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.14%) Hackathon
6 5 (2.14%) Learning Management System
6 5 (2.14%) Mainframe
6 5 (2.14%) Wiki
7 4 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.28%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.28%) Clustering
8 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.28%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.85%) IVR
9 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.12%) Linux
2 13 (5.56%) Unix
3 9 (3.85%) Android
4 8 (3.42%) Windows
5 5 (2.14%) zOS
6 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.28%) Solaris
8 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.43%) Debian
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (70.51%) Agile
2 144 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 118 (50.43%) Software Engineering
4 105 (44.87%) Microservices
5 91 (38.89%) Containerisation
6 82 (35.04%) Test Automation
7 76 (32.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 75 (32.05%) TDD
9 62 (26.50%) SDLC
10 61 (26.07%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (25.21%) Front End Development
12 57 (24.36%) Continuous Integration
13 55 (23.50%) Clean Code
14 52 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
15 38 (16.24%) Customer Experience
15 38 (16.24%) Roadmaps
16 37 (15.81%) Problem-Solving
17 30 (12.82%) Stakeholder Management
18 28 (11.97%) Continuous Delivery
19 26 (11.11%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 106 (45.30%) Java
2 86 (36.75%) JavaScript
3 75 (32.05%) SQL
4 40 (17.09%) Python
5 22 (9.40%) TypeScript
6 21 (8.97%) C#
7 15 (6.41%) Go
8 13 (5.56%) Kotlin
9 9 (3.85%) Bash
9 9 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.28%) C++
10 3 (1.28%) PHP
11 2 (0.85%) Bicep
11 2 (0.85%) Elixir
11 2 (0.85%) F#
11 2 (0.85%) Groovy
11 2 (0.85%) Ruby
11 2 (0.85%) Scala
11 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.43%) JCL
Qualifications
1 15 (6.41%) DBS Check
2 14 (5.98%) Degree
3 5 (2.14%) Master's Degree
3 5 (2.14%) PhD
4 4 (1.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (0.85%) CCNA
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (0.85%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.43%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (24.36%) QA
2 13 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.43%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.43%) ECSS
4 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 101 (43.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.85%) RACF
3 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
3 1 (0.43%) NDS
3 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 109 (46.58%) Kubernetes
2 33 (14.10%) Terraform
3 6 (2.56%) Grafana
4 5 (2.14%) Ansible
5 4 (1.71%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.85%) Argo
6 2 (0.85%) Istio
6 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.43%) CA Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.43%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.43%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 49 (20.94%) Solace
2 22 (9.40%) Oracle
3 19 (8.12%) Microsoft
4 10 (4.27%) ServiceNow
5 8 (3.42%) Google
6 7 (2.99%) IBM
7 4 (1.71%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco
8 3 (1.28%) F5
8 3 (1.28%) Ping Identity
8 3 (1.28%) Splunk
8 3 (1.28%) Workday
9 2 (0.85%) Databricks
9 2 (0.85%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.85%) ForgeRock
9 2 (0.85%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (0.85%) SAP
9 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.85%) Sybase