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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 21 22
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 99 83 60
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.22% 10.99% 7.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.31% 11.81% 8.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 65 48
10th Percentile £313 £363 £341
25th Percentile £358 £406 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £614 £525 £600
90th Percentile £713 £658 £634
Scotland median daily rate £500 £494 £475
% change year-on-year +1.21% +4.00% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £51.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +36.36% +40.13% -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 744 703 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.35% 93.11% 91.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 442 483
10th Percentile £296 £300 £275
25th Percentile £359 £382 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £466 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +3.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £565
90th Percentile £675 £605 £619
Scotland median daily rate £459 £463 £465
% change year-on-year -0.81% -0.54% -2.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 17 34
10th Percentile £13.48 £16.14 £11.76
25th Percentile £14.86 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.79 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% -51.56% +187.30%
75th Percentile £73.27 £26.21 £56.56
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.10 £71.25
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.35% +2.56% +21.95%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 13 (13.13%) Confluence
2 7 (7.07%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.03%) Apache
4 2 (2.02%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.01%) JBoss
5 1 (1.01%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 57 (57.58%) Azure
2 44 (44.44%) AWS
3 29 (29.29%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (17.17%) GCP
5 9 (9.09%) GitHub
5 9 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.07%) Collibra
7 6 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.04%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.04%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (4.04%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.04%) Serverless
10 3 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
10 3 (3.03%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 3 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (3.03%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.01%) DNS
1 1 (1.01%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (1.01%) Firewall
1 1 (1.01%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.01%) SAN
1 1 (1.01%) SSH
1 1 (1.01%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.10%) MongoDB
2 10 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (9.09%) Metadata
4 7 (7.07%) DynamoDB
5 6 (6.06%) MySQL
5 6 (6.06%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.05%) Big Data
7 4 (4.04%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.03%) Flink
9 2 (2.02%) DataStage
9 2 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.01%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.01%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 23 (23.23%) Git
2 19 (19.19%) JIRA
3 16 (16.16%) Jenkins
4 4 (4.04%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.04%) Maven
4 4 (4.04%) Postman
4 4 (4.04%) REST Assured
5 3 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 3 (3.03%) Gradle
5 3 (3.03%) JUnit
5 3 (3.03%) Selenium
5 3 (3.03%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.02%) Appium
6 2 (2.02%) GitLab
6 2 (2.02%) GoCD
6 2 (2.02%) JProfiler
6 2 (2.02%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (2.02%) Subversion
6 2 (2.02%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.01%) Ant
General
1 33 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.19%) Finance
3 14 (14.14%) Public Sector
4 12 (12.12%) Banking
5 8 (8.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.03%) Law
7 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Legal
8 1 (1.01%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (31.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (15.15%) Senior
3 11 (11.11%) Developer
4 10 (10.10%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (10.10%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 9 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Analyst
8 6 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Scrum Master
9 5 (5.05%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.16%) Spring
1 16 (16.16%) Spring Boot
2 15 (15.15%) RESTful
3 12 (12.12%) React
4 8 (8.08%) REST
5 7 (7.07%) Node.js
5 7 (7.07%) PySpark
6 6 (6.06%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.06%) Kafka
6 6 (6.06%) Streamlit
7 5 (5.05%) Playwright
8 4 (4.04%) Express.js
8 4 (4.04%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.04%) Flask
8 4 (4.04%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.04%) MERN Stack
8 4 (4.04%) NestJS
8 4 (4.04%) OAuth
8 4 (4.04%) OAuth2
8 4 (4.04%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.16%) Cloud Native
1 16 (16.16%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.06%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.05%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.02%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.01%) Clustering
7 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.01%) NVMe
7 1 (1.01%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Windows
2 7 (7.07%) Linux
3 3 (3.03%) Unix
4 2 (2.02%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.01%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 50 (50.51%) Agile
3 27 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (20.20%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (18.18%) Containerisation
5 18 (18.18%) Data Modelling
6 17 (17.17%) Microservices
6 17 (17.17%) Scrum
7 16 (16.16%) Analytics
7 16 (16.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 16 (16.16%) Test Automation
8 15 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
9 14 (14.14%) Data Engineering
9 14 (14.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (14.14%) Migration
10 13 (13.13%) Data Governance
10 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (12.12%) Kanban
12 11 (11.11%) Mentoring
13 10 (10.10%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (42.42%) Python
2 24 (24.24%) Java
3 13 (13.13%) SQL
4 12 (12.12%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.10%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
7 5 (5.05%) C#
8 4 (4.04%) Bash
9 2 (2.02%) Perl
10 1 (1.01%) Bicep
10 1 (1.01%) C++
10 1 (1.01%) Groovy
10 1 (1.01%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.12%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.10%) Degree
4 5 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.03%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.01%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.01%) NCDA
7 1 (1.01%) VCAP
7 1 (1.01%) VCP6
7 1 (1.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.07%) GDPR
2 7 (7.07%) QA
3 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 22 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) Ceph
3 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.01%) Squid
3 1 (1.01%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 25 (25.25%) Terraform
3 8 (8.08%) Ansible
4 6 (6.06%) Grafana
5 5 (5.05%) Istio
5 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.03%) SCCM
7 2 (2.02%) Argo
8 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.01%) Podman
8 1 (1.01%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.01%) Puppet
8 1 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.01%) vMotion
8 1 (1.01%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (19.19%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.12%) Oracle
3 10 (10.10%) Databricks
4 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.03%) Splunk
6 2 (2.02%) Informatica
6 2 (2.02%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.02%) Talend
6 2 (2.02%) VMware
7 1 (1.01%) Brocade
7 1 (1.01%) Cisco
7 1 (1.01%) Commvault
7 1 (1.01%) Google
7 1 (1.01%) IBM
7 1 (1.01%) NetApp
7 1 (1.01%) Okta
7 1 (1.01%) Pega