DevOps Engineer Jobs in Scotland

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Development Operations Engineer salary in Scotland is £71,538 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 258 139 89
Rank change year-on-year -119 -50 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 23 82 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.33% 1.90% 3.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 2.12% 3.39%
Number of salaries quoted 18 42 105
10th Percentile £53,250 £51,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £61,563 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,538 £75,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +20.00% +17.92%
75th Percentile £81,563 £80,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £88,000 £87,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% +11.54%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 6,722 3,872 5,931
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 97.01% 89.57% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,881 2,116 3,083
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,500 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,000 £84,528 £82,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%

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 7 June 2024.

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 7 June 2024. 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 -1 14 £70,576 -5.90% 5
Glasgow -119 9 £77,500 +24.00% 2
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 2024, 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 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (69.57%) Python
2 16 (69.57%) AWS
3 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
4 12 (52.17%) Agile
5 11 (47.83%) Terraform
6 10 (43.48%) Azure
7 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
8 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
8 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
8 8 (34.78%) Ansible
9 7 (30.43%) Docker
9 7 (30.43%) GCP
9 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
10 6 (26.09%) JIRA
11 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (21.74%) Bash
11 5 (21.74%) Git
11 5 (21.74%) Finance
11 5 (21.74%) SQL
11 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
11 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
12 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
12 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
12 4 (17.39%) Software Delivery
12 4 (17.39%) Java
12 4 (17.39%) PowerShell

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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (69.57%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
3 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 5 (21.74%) OpenShift
5 3 (13.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (8.70%) AWS CodeStar
6 2 (8.70%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (8.70%) IaaS
6 2 (8.70%) OCI
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.35%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (4.35%) npm
7 1 (4.35%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
1 6 (26.09%) JIRA
2 5 (21.74%) Git
3 4 (17.39%) SonarQube
4 3 (13.04%) Maven
4 3 (13.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (8.70%) GitLab
5 2 (8.70%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (8.70%) Terragrunt
6 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
6 1 (4.35%) Gradle
6 1 (4.35%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (4.35%) Spinnaker
6 1 (4.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (13.04%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Law
4 2 (8.70%) Legal
4 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) ARM Templates
1 2 (8.70%) JSON
1 2 (8.70%) Kafka
1 2 (8.70%) Node.js
1 2 (8.70%) REST
1 2 (8.70%) Spring
1 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.35%) Middleware
2 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 3 (13.04%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
2 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.35%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 12 (52.17%) Agile
4 8 (34.78%) Mentoring
5 7 (30.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (17.39%) Software Delivery
8 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (13.04%) Observability
8 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
8 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
9 2 (8.70%) Community of Practice
9 2 (8.70%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 16 (69.57%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) Bash
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 4 (17.39%) Java
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
4 3 (13.04%) Groovy
4 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) AWS Certification
2 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) OCP
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 7 (30.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (47.83%) Terraform
2 8 (34.78%) Ansible
2 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
3 2 (8.70%) Rancher
4 1 (4.35%) Grafana
4 1 (4.35%) Kibana
4 1 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Black Duck
1 2 (8.70%) Google
1 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.35%) Adobe
2 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
2 1 (4.35%) IBM
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce