DevOps Contracts in Glasgow

DevOps
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 94 61 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 11.91% 7.94% 10.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.93% 8.78% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 50 67
10th Percentile £363 £347 £400
25th Percentile £408 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -10.95% -
75th Percentile £544 £588 £600
90th Percentile £651 £617 £674
Scotland median daily rate £475 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 £39.25 -
% change year-on-year +40.13% - -

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 727 695 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 92.14% 90.49% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 468 567
10th Percentile £300 £263 £348
25th Percentile £378 £377 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -10.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £550 £564 £577
90th Percentile £603 £625 £674
Scotland median daily rate £464 £459 £475
% change year-on-year +1.03% -3.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 39
10th Percentile £16.49 £11.68 -
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £40.94 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.56% +187.30% -61.93%
75th Percentile £26.21 £57.50 £18.84
90th Percentile £59.00 £72.50 £58.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.59 £15.25
% change year-on-year +2.09% +28.50% -59.27%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Glasgow over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
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 (4.26%) Confluence
2 2 (2.13%) JBoss
2 2 (2.13%) OpenROAD
2 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.06%) Anypoint
3 1 (1.06%) Apache
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.06%) Mule
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (53.19%) Azure
2 33 (35.11%) AWS
3 30 (31.91%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (17.02%) GitHub
5 9 (9.57%) SaaS
6 8 (8.51%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (8.51%) IaaS
6 8 (8.51%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (6.38%) PaaS
8 6 (6.38%) Serverless
9 5 (5.32%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (4.26%) Slack
11 3 (3.19%) Azure Service Bus
11 3 (3.19%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (3.19%) GCP
11 3 (3.19%) Power Platform
12 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.32%) Firewall
2 4 (4.26%) DHCP
2 4 (4.26%) DNS
3 2 (2.13%) Kerberos
3 2 (2.13%) Network Security
3 2 (2.13%) VPN
4 1 (1.06%) AMQP
4 1 (1.06%) DSL
4 1 (1.06%) FTP
4 1 (1.06%) HTTP
4 1 (1.06%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.57%) MongoDB
2 8 (8.51%) Relational Database
3 6 (6.38%) DB2
4 5 (5.32%) NoSQL
4 5 (5.32%) RDBMS
4 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.13%) Big Data
6 2 (2.13%) CockroachDB
6 2 (2.13%) MySQL
6 2 (2.13%) NewSQL
6 2 (2.13%) OLTP
6 2 (2.13%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.13%) Power BI
6 2 (2.13%) Redis
7 1 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (1.06%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.06%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.06%) SQLite
7 1 (1.06%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 25 (26.60%) Git
2 24 (25.53%) Jenkins
3 22 (23.40%) JIRA
4 11 (11.70%) Bitbucket
5 10 (10.64%) GitLab
5 10 (10.64%) JUnit
6 9 (9.57%) IntelliJ
6 9 (9.57%) Maven
6 9 (9.57%) PyCharm
6 9 (9.57%) Visual Studio
6 9 (9.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 8 (8.51%) Mockito
8 4 (4.26%) Gradle
8 4 (4.26%) Terragrunt
9 3 (3.19%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (1.06%) GoCD
11 1 (1.06%) Toad
General
1 32 (34.04%) Finance
2 23 (24.47%) Social Skills
3 19 (20.21%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (14.89%) Banking
5 13 (13.83%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.38%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.19%) Back Office
9 2 (2.13%) Legal
10 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.06%) Front Office
10 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.06%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (26.60%) Developer
2 20 (21.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (11.70%) Python Engineer
4 10 (10.64%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.57%) Analyst
5 9 (9.57%) Architect
6 8 (8.51%) Python Developer
7 5 (5.32%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.32%) Scrum Master
8 3 (3.19%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Azure Developer
8 3 (3.19%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.19%) Database Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Senior
8 3 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.77%) Spring
1 12 (12.77%) Spring Boot
2 9 (9.57%) Kafka
3 8 (8.51%) OAuth
4 7 (7.45%) REST
4 7 (7.45%) RESTful
5 6 (6.38%) AngularJS
6 5 (5.32%) FastAPI
6 5 (5.32%) Hibernate
6 5 (5.32%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (4.26%) React
8 3 (3.19%) .NET
8 3 (3.19%) Apache Camel
8 3 (3.19%) Loki
8 3 (3.19%) OAuth2
8 3 (3.19%) OpenID
8 3 (3.19%) OpenTelemetry
8 3 (3.19%) pytest
8 3 (3.19%) SAML
8 3 (3.19%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.77%) Virtual Team
2 9 (9.57%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.45%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.19%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.13%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.13%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.13%) Clustering
6 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.13%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.13%) Mainframe
6 2 (2.13%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.06%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 35 (37.23%) Linux
2 15 (15.96%) Windows
3 5 (5.32%) Unix
4 3 (3.19%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (64.89%) Agile
2 51 (54.26%) CI/CD
3 26 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (26.60%) Test Automation
5 22 (23.40%) Infrastructure as Code
6 21 (22.34%) SDLC
7 16 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (17.02%) Scrum
8 14 (14.89%) Microservices
9 12 (12.77%) Migration
10 10 (10.64%) Roadmaps
11 9 (9.57%) Kanban
11 9 (9.57%) TDD
12 8 (8.51%) Build Automation
12 8 (8.51%) Configuration Management
12 8 (8.51%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (8.51%) Deployment Automation
12 8 (8.51%) High Availability
12 8 (8.51%) Software Engineering
13 7 (7.45%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (37.23%) Python
2 34 (36.17%) Java
3 22 (23.40%) SQL
4 12 (12.77%) C#
5 10 (10.64%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.32%) Shell Script
7 3 (3.19%) Go
7 3 (3.19%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.19%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.13%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (2.13%) Bash
9 1 (1.06%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.06%) Bicep
9 1 (1.06%) DataWeave
9 1 (1.06%) Perl
9 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.06%) SOQL
9 1 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (9.57%) Degree
2 6 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.26%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.19%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.19%) Master's Degree
4 3 (3.19%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.13%) CISSP
5 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.06%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) PMO
4 1 (1.06%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.06%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (17.02%) Docker
2 5 (5.32%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.06%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 36 (38.30%) Kubernetes
2 28 (29.79%) Terraform
3 13 (13.83%) Ansible
4 5 (5.32%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.26%) Argo
5 4 (4.26%) Grafana
5 4 (4.26%) Istio
6 2 (2.13%) Kustomize
6 2 (2.13%) Podman
6 2 (2.13%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.06%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.06%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.83%) Oracle
3 6 (6.38%) AppDynamics
4 5 (5.32%) Splunk
5 4 (4.26%) Databricks
6 3 (3.19%) IBM
6 3 (3.19%) Netskope
6 3 (3.19%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.19%) Sybase
6 3 (3.19%) Symantec
7 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.06%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.06%) Okta
8 1 (1.06%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.06%) Pega
8 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.06%) Talend
8 1 (1.06%) Workday