DevOps Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Scotland is £80,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 2 May 2025.

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 134 254 140
Rank change year-on-year +120 -114 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 15 29 80
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.53% 0.43% 1.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.44% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 50
10th Percentile £68,337 £60,250 £51,125
25th Percentile £70,097 £64,625 £57,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £70,576 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.35% +0.82% +12.00%
75th Percentile £100,625 £77,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £112,500 £84,375 £85,375
UK median annual salary £82,500 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year +16.90% -5.90% +3.45%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,560 6,531 4,285
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.27% 96.88% 90.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1,366 2,624 2,338
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,750 £31,569
25th Percentile £44,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,744 £80,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,900 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.70% -11.83% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 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 +11 9 £71,991 +2.01% 5
Glasgow +171 6 £95,000 +22.58% 3
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 Scotland region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (86.67%) Terraform
3 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
4 9 (60.00%) Finance
4 9 (60.00%) Banking
4 9 (60.00%) AWS
5 8 (53.33%) Docker
6 7 (46.67%) Mentoring
6 7 (46.67%) Agile
6 7 (46.67%) Python
7 6 (40.00%) Bash
7 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
8 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
8 5 (33.33%) GitLab
9 4 (26.67%) Confluence
9 4 (26.67%) SaaS
9 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (26.67%) Go
9 4 (26.67%) HTTP
9 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (26.67%) JIRA
9 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
9 4 (26.67%) Customer Experience
9 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (26.67%) Serverless
9 4 (26.67%) Non-Blocking Code
9 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (26.67%) SaaS
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.67%) Azure
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) HTTP
2 1 (6.67%) Firewall
2 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) GitLab
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) CircleCI
4 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 9 (60.00%) Banking
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
2 2 (13.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Automotive
3 1 (6.67%) Front Office
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Kafka
2 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (6.67%) Java EE
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.67%) Life Science
1 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Mentoring
3 6 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (26.67%) Customer Experience
5 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (26.67%) Non-Blocking Code
6 3 (20.00%) Coaching
6 3 (20.00%) Culture Change
6 3 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Microservices
7 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
7 2 (13.33%) Cost Management
7 2 (13.33%) Observability
7 2 (13.33%) Proactive Monitoring
7 2 (13.33%) Quantitative Trading
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) Bash
3 4 (26.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (86.67%) Terraform
2 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Grafana
4 2 (13.33%) Argo
4 2 (13.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Hitachi