DevOps Job Trends in Glasgow

DevOps
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 17 36
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 -23
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 30 74 53
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 3.98% 8.43% 7.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.95% 9.48% 7.26%
Number of salaries quoted 16 29 33
10th Percentile £27,315 £41,750 £39,400
25th Percentile £58,313 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +34.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile - £90,250 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% +10.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 606 781 730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 80.37% 88.95% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 341 393 464
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,300
25th Percentile £32,851 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £75,000
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Glasgow

DevOps
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Glasgow over the 6 months to 8 December 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
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 2 (6.67%) Apache
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.33%) JBoss
2 1 (3.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 15 (50.00%) AWS
2 12 (40.00%) Azure
3 7 (23.33%) GitHub
4 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (13.33%) OpenShift
6 4 (13.33%) PaaS
6 4 (13.33%) SaaS
7 3 (10.00%) Azure AI
7 3 (10.00%) ChatGPT
7 3 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (10.00%) GCP
7 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (3.33%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
8 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Big Data
2 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Ant
1 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (3.33%) Git
1 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.33%) JIRA
1 1 (3.33%) JUnit
1 1 (3.33%) Maven
1 1 (3.33%) Selenium
1 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (3.33%) TestNG
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Financial Institution
2 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Back Office
4 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Fire and Rescue
4 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.67%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Software Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Lead
3 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 6 (20.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Head of Data Management
4 5 (16.67%) Head of Risk Management
5 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Developer
5 4 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Lead Software Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior
7 2 (6.67%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (33.33%) React
2 8 (26.67%) .NET
2 8 (26.67%) AngularJS
3 5 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 5 (16.67%) Blazor
3 5 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (6.67%) Node.js
4 2 (6.67%) Vue
4 2 (6.67%) XML
5 1 (3.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (3.33%) Hugging Face
5 1 (3.33%) Kafka
5 1 (3.33%) LangChain
5 1 (3.33%) Middleware
5 1 (3.33%) Next.js
5 1 (3.33%) PySpark
5 1 (3.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (10.00%) Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.67%) Low-Code
3 2 (6.67%) NHS
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (43.33%) Agile
3 12 (40.00%) AI
4 9 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 9 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 7 (23.33%) Full-Stack Development
5 7 (23.33%) Microservices
6 6 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 6 (20.00%) Risk Management
7 5 (16.67%) Application Security
7 5 (16.67%) Change Management
7 5 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (16.67%) Customer Experience
7 5 (16.67%) Decision-Making
7 5 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 4 (13.33%) Release Management
8 4 (13.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) C#
2 4 (13.33%) Java
2 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (13.33%) Python
3 3 (10.00%) SQL
4 2 (6.67%) Bicep
4 2 (6.67%) C
4 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (3.33%) Groovy
5 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 5 (16.67%) CRISC
2 2 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) ISO 9001
1 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) Podman
2 1 (3.33%) Puppet
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.33%) Salesforce