DevOps Engineer Contracts in Glasgow

Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 51 57
Rank change year-on-year -21 +6 -14
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 7 31 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 0.88% 3.53% 2.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 3.72% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 19
10th Percentile £339 £358 £581
25th Percentile £354 £410 £645
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £667
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -34.03% +21.27%
75th Percentile £550 £626 £676
90th Percentile £611 £654 £723
Scotland median daily rate £513 £520 £634
% change year-on-year -1.44% -17.92% +15.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 761 833 871
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.36% 94.98% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 479 548 646
10th Percentile £308 £268 £313
25th Percentile £379 £377 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £590
90th Percentile £600 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 39 16
10th Percentile £16.75 £13.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.17 £16.00 £13.97
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% -15.63% +12.55%
75th Percentile £46.38 £47.35 £58.75
90th Percentile £69.10 £65.00 £63.56
Scotland median hourly rate £20.94 £33.25 £23.18
% change year-on-year -37.02% +43.44% -10.53%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Glasgow

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Glasgow

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
3 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
3 5 (71.43%) Python
3 5 (71.43%) Terraform
3 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
4 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (57.14%) Ansible
4 4 (57.14%) AWS
5 3 (42.86%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
5 3 (42.86%) Azure
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (28.57%) SDLC
6 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (28.57%) Observability
6 2 (28.57%) Docker
6 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (28.57%) Microservices
6 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
6 2 (28.57%) Bash
6 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (28.57%) GitHub
6 2 (28.57%) Java
6 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
6 2 (28.57%) Windows
6 2 (28.57%) Finance
6 2 (28.57%) Agile

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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) OpenShift
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (14.29%) PaaS
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) MariaDB
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) Gradle
3 1 (14.29%) IntelliJ
3 1 (14.29%) Maven
3 1 (14.29%) PyCharm
3 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) CentOS
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Unix
3 1 (14.29%) VMS
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Observability
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) ITSM
5 1 (14.29%) OWASP
5 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Kubernetes
1 5 (71.43%) Terraform
2 4 (57.14%) Ansible
3 1 (14.29%) Grafana
3 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (14.29%) Packer
3 1 (14.29%) Progress Chef
3 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas
19 DevOps Engineer jobs in Scotland