DevOps Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

DevOps
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 25 9
Rank change year-on-year +14 -16 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 116 56 123
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 15.34% 7.72% 14.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.60% 8.71% 15.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 41 82
10th Percentile £358 £348 £400
25th Percentile £410 £356 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £398 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.98% -27.73% -
75th Percentile £575 £500 £669
90th Percentile £625 £538 £705
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 659 643 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.17% 88.69% 91.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 422 538
10th Percentile £300 £288 £350
25th Percentile £388 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £540 £550 £614
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +2.78% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 19
10th Percentile £15.33 £17.08 £11.70
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £19.97 £21.87 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year -8.69% +41.83% -50.43%
75th Percentile £26.21 £29.44 £18.33
90th Percentile £59.50 £41.70 £28.10
Scotland median hourly rate £20.40 £22.88 £19.34
% change year-on-year -10.83% +18.28% +3.84%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Glasgow

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing DevOps

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 4 (3.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.72%) Mule
3 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.86%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (52.59%) AWS
2 57 (49.14%) Azure
3 24 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (18.97%) Serverless
5 15 (12.93%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (12.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (12.07%) GitHub
7 12 (10.34%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (8.62%) GCP
9 9 (7.76%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (6.90%) OpenShift
10 8 (6.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (5.17%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (5.17%) SaaS
11 6 (5.17%) Snowflake
12 5 (4.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (4.31%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.45%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.62%) Firewall
2 4 (3.45%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.59%) VPN
4 2 (1.72%) AMQP
4 2 (1.72%) DSL
5 1 (0.86%) DHCP
5 1 (0.86%) DNS
5 1 (0.86%) HTTP
5 1 (0.86%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.93%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.76%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.90%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.17%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.17%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.17%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.31%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.31%) Redis
6 4 (3.45%) Big Data
6 4 (3.45%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.45%) NewSQL
6 4 (3.45%) OLTP
6 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.59%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.59%) MSDE
8 2 (1.72%) CockroachDB
9 1 (0.86%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 42 (36.21%) Jenkins
2 26 (22.41%) Git
3 25 (21.55%) JIRA
4 19 (16.38%) Bitbucket
5 12 (10.34%) GitLab
6 11 (9.48%) IntelliJ
6 11 (9.48%) PyCharm
6 11 (9.48%) Visual Studio
6 11 (9.48%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (6.03%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (5.17%) JUnit
9 5 (4.31%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.45%) Artifactory
10 4 (3.45%) Terragrunt
11 2 (1.72%) Gradle
11 2 (1.72%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.86%) Maven
General
1 51 (43.97%) Finance
2 29 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (17.24%) Banking
4 12 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (27.59%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (21.55%) Developer
3 14 (12.07%) Architect
3 14 (12.07%) Python Engineer
4 13 (11.21%) Senior
5 11 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (8.62%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.90%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.03%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.17%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (4.31%) Snowflake Architect
10 5 (4.31%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.52%) Spring Boot
2 16 (13.79%) Kafka
2 16 (13.79%) RESTful
2 16 (13.79%) Spring
3 14 (12.07%) Node.js
4 12 (10.34%) OAuth
5 11 (9.48%) AngularJS
6 8 (6.90%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.03%) LangChain
7 7 (6.03%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (6.03%) React
8 6 (5.17%) Hugging Face
9 5 (4.31%) FastAPI
9 5 (4.31%) Flask
9 5 (4.31%) Jest
9 5 (4.31%) LangGraph
9 5 (4.31%) Loki
9 5 (4.31%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (3.45%) OpenID
10 4 (3.45%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.10%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.07%) Public Cloud
3 8 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.03%) Virtual Team
5 6 (5.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.31%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (4.31%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.45%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.45%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.59%) IVR
8 3 (2.59%) NHS
9 2 (1.72%) CMDB
9 2 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.86%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 31 (26.72%) Linux
2 15 (12.93%) Windows
3 9 (7.76%) Unix
4 3 (2.59%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (68.10%) CI/CD
2 58 (50.00%) Agile
3 36 (31.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (27.59%) Microservices
5 29 (25.00%) Containerisation
6 25 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (18.97%) Test Automation
8 21 (18.10%) Migration
9 17 (14.66%) AI
9 17 (14.66%) SDLC
10 16 (13.79%) High Availability
11 15 (12.93%) Cloud Security
11 15 (12.93%) Observability
11 15 (12.93%) Software Engineering
12 14 (12.07%) Disaster Recovery
13 13 (11.21%) Design Patterns
13 13 (11.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (10.34%) Scrum
15 11 (9.48%) Data Protection
15 11 (9.48%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 67 (57.76%) Python
2 46 (39.66%) Java
3 19 (16.38%) SQL
4 15 (12.93%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.21%) C#
6 12 (10.34%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.17%) Bash
7 6 (5.17%) Perl
7 6 (5.17%) Ruby
8 4 (3.45%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.72%) Bicep
9 2 (1.72%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.72%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.72%) Rust
9 2 (1.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.86%) PromQL
10 1 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (12.93%) AWS Certification
2 13 (11.21%) Degree
3 10 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.17%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.31%) CISSP
6 3 (2.59%) PMP
6 3 (2.59%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.72%) CISM
7 2 (1.72%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.72%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.86%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.86%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.86%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.48%) QA
2 7 (6.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.45%) PMO
5 3 (2.59%) GDPR
5 3 (2.59%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.59%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.72%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.72%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.72%) NIST
7 1 (0.86%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (19.83%) Docker
2 4 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (44.83%) Terraform
2 50 (43.10%) Kubernetes
3 27 (23.28%) Ansible
4 7 (6.03%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.17%) Grafana
6 4 (3.45%) Argo
6 4 (3.45%) Istio
6 4 (3.45%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.59%) SCCM
8 2 (1.72%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 16 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.76%) ServiceNow
3 8 (6.90%) Splunk
4 6 (5.17%) Google
4 6 (5.17%) Greenplum
4 6 (5.17%) Oracle
5 5 (4.31%) IBM
6 4 (3.45%) Avaya
6 4 (3.45%) Cisco
6 4 (3.45%) Pega
6 4 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.59%) Cribl.io
7 3 (2.59%) Genesys
8 2 (1.72%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.72%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.72%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.86%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.86%) F5
9 1 (0.86%) Infoblox
9 1 (0.86%) PagerDuty
55 DevOps jobs in Glasgow