DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 August 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
31 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 52 53
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 -17
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 28 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 3.80% 2.32% 3.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.05% 2.47% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 17
10th Percentile £350 £355 -
25th Percentile £423 £365 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £391 £550
Median % change year-on-year +27.88% -28.91% -
75th Percentile £575 £421 £650
90th Percentile £659 £440 £674
Scotland median daily rate £500 £440 £500
% change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% -4.76%

All DemandTrendContract 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 691 649 812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.89% 93.92% 94.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 460 546
10th Percentile £269 £230 £325
25th Percentile £358 £374 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £533 £564 £575
90th Percentile £582 £650 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 26
10th Percentile - £11.78 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £14.34 £13.13
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +22.44% -57.25%
75th Percentile £26.21 £46.16 £41.74
90th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £17.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +17.65% -4.06% -6.24%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 31 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Glasgow

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 31 August 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 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (89.29%) CI/CD
3 22 (78.57%) Terraform
4 16 (57.14%) Java
4 16 (57.14%) Python
4 16 (57.14%) AWS
5 15 (53.57%) Azure
5 15 (53.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 14 (50.00%) Agile
7 13 (46.43%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (42.86%) Finance
8 12 (42.86%) Jenkins
9 10 (35.71%) Linux
10 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
10 9 (32.14%) JIRA
11 8 (28.57%) Git
11 8 (28.57%) SDLC
12 6 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (21.43%) AppDynamics
12 6 (21.43%) Observability
12 6 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
12 6 (21.43%) Ansible
12 6 (21.43%) GitHub
13 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
13 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
13 5 (17.86%) Firewall
13 5 (17.86%) TDD
13 5 (17.86%) IntelliJ
13 5 (17.86%) Visual Studio

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 4 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (57.14%) AWS
2 15 (53.57%) Azure
3 13 (46.43%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (21.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 6 (21.43%) GitHub
5 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
6 4 (14.29%) Slack
7 3 (10.71%) OpenShift
7 3 (10.71%) PaaS
8 2 (7.14%) GCP
8 2 (7.14%) SaaS
9 1 (3.57%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 9 (32.14%) JIRA
3 8 (28.57%) Git
4 5 (17.86%) Bitbucket
4 5 (17.86%) IntelliJ
4 5 (17.86%) PyCharm
4 5 (17.86%) Visual Studio
4 5 (17.86%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (14.29%) Terragrunt
6 2 (7.14%) Gradle
6 2 (7.14%) Maven
7 1 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Banking
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Public Cloud
2 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (89.29%) CI/CD
3 15 (53.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (50.00%) Agile
5 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
6 8 (28.57%) SDLC
7 6 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (21.43%) Observability
8 5 (17.86%) Configuration Management
8 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
8 5 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (17.86%) TDD
9 4 (14.29%) Architecture Roadmap
9 4 (14.29%) Coaching
9 4 (14.29%) GitOps
9 4 (14.29%) Migration
9 4 (14.29%) Prototyping
9 4 (14.29%) Roadmaps
9 4 (14.29%) Runbook
9 4 (14.29%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) Java
1 16 (57.14%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) C#
2 5 (17.86%) TypeScript
3 3 (10.71%) Bash
3 3 (10.71%) Go
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (78.57%) Terraform
2 14 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (21.43%) Ansible
4 4 (14.29%) Argo
4 4 (14.29%) Istio
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) AppDynamics
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Avaya
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco
4 1 (3.57%) Genesys