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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 20 17
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 85 80 90
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.41% 10.10% 10.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.80% 10.77% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 59 65
10th Percentile £312 £363 £367
25th Percentile £352 £407 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £569 £538 £623
90th Percentile £714 £666 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £41.00 - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £65.00 - £39.25
% change year-on-year - - -43.93%

All Process & 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 616 743 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.68% 93.81% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 479 518
10th Percentile £307 £308 £281
25th Percentile £367 £389 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £603 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 9 40
10th Percentile £16.12 £16.18 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £28.09 £19.83 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +41.65% -6.14% +56.50%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £44.14
90th Percentile £70.74 £76.83 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £21.59 £19.34
% change year-on-year -7.36% +11.66% +9.11%

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 30 April 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Glasgow over the 6 months to 30 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in Glasgow

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 10 (11.76%) Confluence
2 7 (8.24%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.35%) Alfresco
3 2 (2.35%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.18%) JBoss
4 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.35%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.12%) AWS
1 46 (54.12%) Azure
2 22 (25.88%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (18.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 12 (14.12%) Serverless
5 11 (12.94%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (11.76%) GCP
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (8.24%) Collibra
9 6 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (7.06%) OpenShift
9 6 (7.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (5.88%) GitHub
10 5 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
11 4 (4.71%) Amazon MSK
11 4 (4.71%) AWS CodePipeline
11 4 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (3.53%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.18%) DNS
2 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.18%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.18%) SAN
2 1 (1.18%) SSH
2 1 (1.18%) SSL
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) DynamoDB
1 10 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.59%) Metadata
2 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
3 8 (9.41%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.06%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (7.06%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.88%) Big Data
5 5 (5.88%) MySQL
6 4 (4.71%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.53%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.35%) DataStage
8 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.35%) Flink
8 2 (2.35%) Power BI
9 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.18%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 18 (21.18%) Git
1 18 (21.18%) JIRA
2 13 (15.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (7.06%) GitLab
3 6 (7.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.35%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.35%) JUnit
5 2 (2.35%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.18%) Ant
6 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.18%) Maven
6 1 (1.18%) Postman
6 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Finance
3 15 (17.65%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.94%) Banking
5 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (37.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (14.12%) Senior
3 10 (11.76%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) AWS Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) AWS DevOps
5 8 (9.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.06%) Security Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.88%) Scrum Master
9 4 (4.71%) Architect
9 4 (4.71%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.94%) Node.js
1 11 (12.94%) React
1 11 (12.94%) RESTful
1 11 (12.94%) Spring
1 11 (12.94%) Spring Boot
2 7 (8.24%) REST
3 6 (7.06%) AngularJS
4 5 (5.88%) .NET
5 4 (4.71%) Django
5 4 (4.71%) Express.js
5 4 (4.71%) FastAPI
5 4 (4.71%) Flask
5 4 (4.71%) GraphQL
5 4 (4.71%) MERN Stack
5 4 (4.71%) NestJS
5 4 (4.71%) PySpark
5 4 (4.71%) Redux
6 3 (3.53%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.53%) JWT
6 3 (3.53%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 14 (16.47%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.88%) Reference Data
3 5 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.53%) IVR
5 3 (3.53%) NHS
6 2 (2.35%) Clustering
6 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.18%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.18%) NVMe
7 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Linux
2 8 (9.41%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Unix
4 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 38 (44.71%) Agile
3 23 (27.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (24.71%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (23.53%) Containerisation
5 20 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (21.18%) Microservices
7 16 (18.82%) Analytics
8 15 (17.65%) Migration
8 15 (17.65%) Test Automation
9 14 (16.47%) Data Modelling
10 13 (15.29%) Observability
10 13 (15.29%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (12.94%) Data Engineering
12 11 (12.94%) Data Governance
12 11 (12.94%) Scrum
13 10 (11.76%) Decision-Making
13 10 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (49.41%) Python
2 21 (24.71%) Java
3 13 (15.29%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.59%) SQL
5 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.24%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.06%) Bash
8 5 (5.88%) Perl
9 4 (4.71%) Ruby
10 3 (3.53%) C#
11 1 (1.18%) C++
11 1 (1.18%) Go
11 1 (1.18%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (16.47%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.59%) Degree
2 9 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.18%) CISM
5 1 (1.18%) CISSP
5 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.18%) NCDA
5 1 (1.18%) VCAP
5 1 (1.18%) VCP6
5 1 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) Data Quality
1 10 (11.76%) GDPR
2 5 (5.88%) QA
3 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.53%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.53%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.53%) PMO
5 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (27.06%) Docker
2 2 (2.35%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) Ceph
3 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.18%) Squid
3 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (38.82%) Kubernetes
2 28 (32.94%) Terraform
3 9 (10.59%) Ansible
4 6 (7.06%) Grafana
5 5 (5.88%) Istio
5 5 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.35%) Argo
6 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.35%) SCCM
7 1 (1.18%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.18%) Podman
7 1 (1.18%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.18%) Puppet
7 1 (1.18%) vMotion
7 1 (1.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.94%) Oracle
3 8 (9.41%) Salesforce
4 7 (8.24%) Databricks
5 5 (5.88%) Splunk
6 4 (4.71%) Cisco
6 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.53%) Avaya
7 3 (3.53%) Genesys
7 3 (3.53%) Pega
8 2 (2.35%) Informatica
8 2 (2.35%) Talend
8 2 (2.35%) VMware
9 1 (1.18%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.18%) Brocade
9 1 (1.18%) Commvault
9 1 (1.18%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.18%) Google
9 1 (1.18%) IBM
9 1 (1.18%) NetApp