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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
23 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 17 20
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 113 101 54
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.50% 13.59% 7.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.43% 14.94% 8.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 76 42
10th Percentile £365 £368 £351
25th Percentile £413 £422 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +3.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £610 £556 £547
90th Percentile £723 £625 £613
Scotland median daily rate £494 £475 £460
% change year-on-year +3.95% +3.26% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +36.36% - -

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 909 676 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.48% 90.98% 90.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 430 443
10th Percentile £268 £300 £250
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £589 £638
Scotland median daily rate £457 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -1.14% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 18
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.73 £16.34
25th Percentile £14.07 £16.84 £19.59
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.64 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +87.79% -54.48% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 £43.27
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.60 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £19.99 £19.38
% change year-on-year -13.13% +3.12% +1.04%

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 23 August 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
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 12 (10.62%) Confluence
2 5 (4.42%) Apache
3 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.77%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.77%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.88%) Camunda
5 1 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (53.98%) Azure
2 48 (42.48%) AWS
3 31 (27.43%) GCP
4 29 (25.66%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (18.58%) GitHub
6 11 (9.73%) Amazon EKS
7 9 (7.96%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.54%) Amazon MSK
9 4 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.65%) Apigee
10 3 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.65%) Kong
10 3 (2.65%) SaaS
10 3 (2.65%) Serverless
10 3 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.77%) IaaS
11 2 (1.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.54%) DNS
2 3 (2.65%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.65%) SSH
2 3 (2.65%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.96%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.08%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.54%) Flink
4 4 (3.54%) Metadata
4 4 (3.54%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.77%) DataStage
6 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.77%) MySQL
6 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.88%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.88%) Big Data
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.88%) Redis
7 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 28 (24.78%) Git
2 17 (15.04%) JIRA
3 16 (14.16%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.73%) Claude Code
5 5 (4.42%) Maven
5 5 (4.42%) Postman
5 5 (4.42%) REST Assured
6 4 (3.54%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.54%) Gradle
6 4 (3.54%) JUnit
6 4 (3.54%) Selenium
7 3 (2.65%) Appium
7 3 (2.65%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.65%) GoCD
7 3 (2.65%) JProfiler
7 3 (2.65%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.65%) Subversion
8 2 (1.77%) GitLab
8 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.77%) Terragrunt
General
1 32 (28.32%) Finance
2 26 (23.01%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.27%) Banking
3 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.42%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.65%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.77%) Law
7 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.88%) Front Office
7 1 (0.88%) International Banking
7 1 (0.88%) Legal
7 1 (0.88%) Military
7 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (25.66%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (14.16%) Developer
3 15 (13.27%) Senior
4 12 (10.62%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (9.73%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (9.73%) Java Developer
5 11 (9.73%) Platform Engineer
6 10 (8.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Architect
7 8 (7.08%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Analyst
8 7 (6.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Data Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Lead
9 6 (5.31%) Provisioning Engineer
10 5 (4.42%) Linux Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (37.17%) Terraform
2 16 (14.16%) RESTful
2 16 (14.16%) Spring
2 16 (14.16%) Spring Boot
3 10 (8.85%) Kafka
4 7 (6.19%) React
4 7 (6.19%) REST
4 7 (6.19%) Web Services
5 6 (5.31%) Playwright
6 5 (4.42%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.42%) PySpark
7 4 (3.54%) Node.js
7 4 (3.54%) Streamlit
8 3 (2.65%) .NET
8 3 (2.65%) Django
8 3 (2.65%) FreeMarker
8 3 (2.65%) Jest
8 3 (2.65%) Middleware
8 3 (2.65%) OpenAPI
8 3 (2.65%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 20 (17.70%) Cloud Native
2 12 (10.62%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (7.96%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.31%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.77%) Private Cloud
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.88%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 14 (12.39%) Linux
2 5 (4.42%) Windows
3 3 (2.65%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (60.18%) CI/CD
2 43 (38.05%) Agile
3 29 (25.66%) Containerisation
4 28 (24.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (18.58%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.04%) Code Quality
7 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (15.04%) Test Automation
8 16 (14.16%) AI
8 16 (14.16%) Mentoring
8 16 (14.16%) Scrum
9 15 (13.27%) Microservices
10 12 (10.62%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (9.73%) Data Modelling
11 11 (9.73%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (8.85%) Analytics
12 10 (8.85%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (8.85%) Design Patterns
12 10 (8.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (36.28%) Python
2 24 (21.24%) Java
3 16 (14.16%) SQL
4 15 (13.27%) Bash
5 11 (9.73%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.96%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.31%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.42%) C#
9 4 (3.54%) Go
10 3 (2.65%) Lua
11 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.88%) Bicep
12 1 (0.88%) Groovy
12 1 (0.88%) Perl
12 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (20.35%) Security Cleared
2 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.31%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.42%) Degree
5 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.65%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.88%) APMG
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.88%) LFCS
8 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.88%) RHCE
8 1 (0.88%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) Data Quality
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 5 (4.42%) GDPR
3 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (18.58%) Docker
2 6 (5.31%) zsh
3 4 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.77%) Ceph
6 1 (0.88%) Squid
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 48 (42.48%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.19%) Ansible
3 5 (4.42%) Istio
4 2 (1.77%) Argo
5 1 (0.88%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Podman
5 1 (0.88%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.88%) Puppet
5 1 (0.88%) SCCM
5 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) Google
3 13 (11.50%) Oracle
4 7 (6.19%) Databricks
4 7 (6.19%) MuleSoft
5 6 (5.31%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.54%) VMware
7 2 (1.77%) Informatica
7 2 (1.77%) Okta
7 2 (1.77%) RedGate
7 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.77%) Talend
8 1 (0.88%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.88%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) Pega
8 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.88%) Solace
8 1 (0.88%) Splunk
22 DevOps jobs in Glasgow