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 18 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 147 66
Rank change year-on-year +69 -81 +38
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 5 2 6
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.67% 0.11% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.11% 0.80%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile £81,000 £63,375 £51,750
25th Percentile £86,250 £64,688 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £100,000 £68,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +25.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £108,750 £72,188 £60,000
90th Percentile £111,000 £73,125 £63,000
Scotland median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year +7.14% -0.82% +12.92%

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 707 1,846 753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.65% 98.51% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 289 653 589
10th Percentile £29,700 £31,496 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,000 £67,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer 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
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Glasgow

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, DevOps Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (60.00%) Bash
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (60.00%) Python
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 2 (40.00%) Docker
3 2 (40.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
4 1 (20.00%) Argo
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (20.00%) Podman
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Go
4 1 (20.00%) PaaS
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Kafka

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) JBoss
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Ant
3 1 (20.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (20.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 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 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 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%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (20.00%) Electronic Trading
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
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 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Go
2 1 (20.00%) Groovy
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
3 1 (20.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Podman
3 1 (20.00%) Puppet
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform