DevSecOps Jobs in Scotland

DevSecOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring DevSecOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DevSecOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 257 194
Rank change year-on-year +123 -63 +14
Permanent jobs citing DevSecOps 11 20 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.39% 0.30% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.32% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 7
10th Percentile - £47,132 £44,250
25th Percentile - £51,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £60,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -20.00% -11.76%
75th Percentile £63,750 £80,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £69,900 £98,474 £105,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year - -11.76% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

DevSecOps 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 2,594 6,257 4,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.05% 92.89% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,341 2,424 2,232
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,750 £32,488
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,654
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.94% +9.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,738 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

DevSecOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DevSecOps in Scotland

DevSecOps
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for DevSecOps in Scotland

DevSecOps
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevSecOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevSecOps in Scotland

DevSecOps
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DevSecOps within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 1 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
Glasgow +169 3 £62,500 -18.03% 4
Fife - 2 £58,000 - 1
Moray - 2 £58,000 -
East Ayrshire - 2 £58,000 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £58,000 -
DevSecOps
UK

DevSecOps
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Senior
1 9 (81.82%) Senior Software Engineer
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) FIDO
1 1 (9.09%) JWT
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth
1 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
1 1 (9.09%) OpenID
1 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (18.18%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
2 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineering
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
2 8 (72.73%) Mathematics
2 8 (72.73%) Software Testing
2 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
3 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
4 2 (18.18%) Application Security
4 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Risk Management
4 2 (18.18%) SIEM
4 2 (18.18%) SOAR
4 2 (18.18%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (18.18%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
1 9 (81.82%) Rust
2 8 (72.73%) Python
3 3 (27.27%) C++
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NCSC
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) ForgeRock
1 1 (9.09%) Ping Identity