DevOps Engineer Job Trends in Glasgow

Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Glasgow is £100,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 80 67
Rank change year-on-year 0 -13 +30
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 5 2 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.63% 0.20% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.21% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £46,750 £41,900
25th Percentile £95,000 £49,375 £45,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +81.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £105,000 £61,875 £61,250
90th Percentile - £65,250 £63,500
Scotland median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year - -0.82% +8.58%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 732 975 662
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.89% 97.60% 98.07%
Number of salaries quoted 320 535 512
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,125
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £74,900
Scotland median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -9.09%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Salary distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 27 October 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) Ant
4 1 (20.00%) Apache
4 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Bash
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Docker
4 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (20.00%) Git
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Go
4 1 (20.00%) Groovy
4 1 (20.00%) JBoss
4 1 (20.00%) JIRA
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka
4 1 (20.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Maven
4 1 (20.00%) Middleware
4 1 (20.00%) Podman

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Ant
2 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Maven
2 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Release Management
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Groovy
1 1 (20.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Podman
2 1 (20.00%) Puppet