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 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
24 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 23 10
Rank change year-on-year +10 -13 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 111 62 127
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.53% 8.42% 14.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.74% 9.42% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 44 83
10th Percentile £358 £348 £400
25th Percentile £411 £356 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +16.25% -27.27% +0.59%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £665
90th Percentile £625 £546 £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 663 658 794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.78% 89.40% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 428 531
10th Percentile £302 £301 £343
25th Percentile £395 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £443 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -11.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 15
10th Percentile £15.33 £16.75 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £23.75 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +21.24% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £29.16 £26.86 £19.22
90th Percentile £59.50 £40.10 £45.30
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £21.44
% change year-on-year -13.04% +7.30% +15.09%

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 24 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 (3.60%) Confluence
2 2 (1.80%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.80%) Mule
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.90%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.80%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (51.35%) AWS
2 56 (50.45%) Azure
3 23 (20.72%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (19.82%) Serverless
5 15 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (12.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 14 (12.61%) GitHub
7 12 (10.81%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (9.01%) GCP
9 9 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (7.21%) OpenShift
10 8 (7.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 6 (5.41%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (5.41%) SaaS
11 6 (5.41%) Snowflake
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
13 4 (3.60%) Amazon EventBridge
13 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.11%) Firewall
2 3 (2.70%) Kerberos
2 3 (2.70%) VPN
3 2 (1.80%) AMQP
3 2 (1.80%) DSL
4 1 (0.90%) DHCP
4 1 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.90%) HTTP
4 1 (0.90%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.41%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.50%) Redis
6 4 (3.60%) Big Data
6 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.60%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.70%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.70%) MSDE
7 3 (2.70%) NewSQL
7 3 (2.70%) OLTP
8 1 (0.90%) CockroachDB
8 1 (0.90%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 41 (36.94%) Jenkins
2 26 (23.42%) Git
3 25 (22.52%) JIRA
4 18 (16.22%) Bitbucket
5 12 (10.81%) GitLab
6 11 (9.91%) IntelliJ
6 11 (9.91%) PyCharm
6 11 (9.91%) Visual Studio
6 11 (9.91%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (6.31%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (5.41%) JUnit
9 5 (4.50%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.60%) Artifactory
10 4 (3.60%) Terragrunt
11 2 (1.80%) Gradle
11 2 (1.80%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.90%) Maven
General
1 49 (44.14%) Finance
2 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (16.22%) Banking
4 12 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (27.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 25 (22.52%) Developer
3 14 (12.61%) Architect
3 14 (12.61%) Python Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Senior
5 10 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (9.01%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.21%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Java Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.50%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Architect
10 5 (4.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (16.22%) Spring Boot
2 16 (14.41%) Kafka
2 16 (14.41%) RESTful
2 16 (14.41%) Spring
3 14 (12.61%) Node.js
4 11 (9.91%) AngularJS
4 11 (9.91%) OAuth
5 8 (7.21%) OAuth2
6 7 (6.31%) LangChain
6 7 (6.31%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (6.31%) React
7 6 (5.41%) Hugging Face
8 5 (4.50%) FastAPI
8 5 (4.50%) Flask
8 5 (4.50%) Jest
8 5 (4.50%) LangGraph
8 5 (4.50%) Loki
9 4 (3.60%) .NET
9 4 (3.60%) REST
9 4 (3.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.02%) Cloud Native
2 14 (12.61%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.21%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.31%) Virtual Team
5 6 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.50%) Distributed Applications
6 5 (4.50%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.60%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.60%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.70%) IVR
8 3 (2.70%) NHS
9 2 (1.80%) CMDB
9 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (1.80%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.90%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 29 (26.13%) Linux
2 15 (13.51%) Windows
3 8 (7.21%) Unix
4 3 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (69.37%) CI/CD
2 55 (49.55%) Agile
3 36 (32.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (28.83%) Microservices
5 29 (26.13%) Containerisation
6 22 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (18.92%) Migration
8 20 (18.02%) Test Automation
9 15 (13.51%) AI
9 15 (13.51%) High Availability
9 15 (13.51%) SDLC
9 15 (13.51%) Software Engineering
10 14 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (11.71%) Cloud Security
11 13 (11.71%) Design Patterns
11 13 (11.71%) Observability
12 12 (10.81%) Scrum
12 12 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (9.91%) Computer Science
13 11 (9.91%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 66 (59.46%) Python
2 46 (41.44%) Java
3 18 (16.22%) SQL
4 15 (13.51%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.71%) C#
6 12 (10.81%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.41%) Bash
7 6 (5.41%) Perl
7 6 (5.41%) Ruby
8 3 (2.70%) ANSI SQL
9 2 (1.80%) Bicep
9 2 (1.80%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
9 2 (1.80%) Rust
9 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.71%) AWS Certification
1 13 (11.71%) Degree
2 10 (9.01%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 6 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.70%) CISSP
4 3 (2.70%) PMP
4 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
5 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.80%) CISM
5 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.90%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.90%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) QA
2 7 (6.31%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.60%) PMO
5 3 (2.70%) GDPR
5 3 (2.70%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.80%) NIST
7 1 (0.90%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (20.72%) Docker
2 4 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (46.85%) Terraform
2 49 (44.14%) Kubernetes
3 27 (24.32%) Ansible
4 6 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.50%) Grafana
6 4 (3.60%) Argo
6 4 (3.60%) Istio
6 4 (3.60%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.70%) SCCM
8 2 (1.80%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (13.51%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
3 7 (6.31%) Splunk
4 6 (5.41%) Google
4 6 (5.41%) Greenplum
4 6 (5.41%) Oracle
5 5 (4.50%) IBM
6 4 (3.60%) Avaya
6 4 (3.60%) Cisco
6 4 (3.60%) Pega
6 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.70%) Cribl.io
7 3 (2.70%) Genesys
8 2 (1.80%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.80%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.90%) Databricks
9 1 (0.90%) F5
9 1 (0.90%) Infoblox
34 DevOps jobs in Glasgow