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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
5 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 20 10
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 111 72 125
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.61% 9.52% 14.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.77% 10.65% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 51 82
10th Percentile £343 £348 £400
25th Percentile £401 £356 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £420 £553
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -23.98% -
75th Percentile £569 £500 £670
90th Percentile £620 £550 £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 662 676 797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.11% 89.42% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 438 531
10th Percentile £300 £309 £350
25th Percentile £381 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £539 £550 £626
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 17
10th Percentile £15.16 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.18 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +10.55% -40.38%
75th Percentile £47.45 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.34
% change year-on-year -12.81% +18.60% +4.54%

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 5 December 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 3 (2.70%) 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 60 (54.05%) AWS
2 56 (50.45%) Azure
3 23 (20.72%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (20.72%) Serverless
4 17 (15.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
6 14 (12.61%) GitHub
7 11 (9.91%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (9.01%) GCP
8 10 (9.01%) OpenShift
9 9 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.21%) Amazon ECS
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 CloudWatch
12 5 (4.50%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (4.50%) PaaS
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%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.41%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.11%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.21%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.41%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.50%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.50%) Redis
5 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.50%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.60%) Big Data
6 4 (3.60%) DynamoDB
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%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (36.94%) Jenkins
2 25 (22.52%) Git
3 24 (21.62%) JIRA
4 18 (16.22%) Bitbucket
5 13 (11.71%) 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 5 (4.50%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.50%) JUnit
9 4 (3.60%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.70%) Terragrunt
11 2 (1.80%) Gradle
11 2 (1.80%) TeamCity
12 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (43.24%) Finance
2 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
3 18 (16.22%) Banking
4 16 (14.41%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.50%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.80%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.90%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (27.03%) DevOps Engineer
2 23 (20.72%) Developer
3 14 (12.61%) Architect
3 14 (12.61%) Python Engineer
4 13 (11.71%) Senior
5 10 (9.01%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.11%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.21%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.31%) Python Developer
9 6 (5.41%) AWS DevOps
9 6 (5.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
9 6 (5.41%) Site Reliability 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 DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.50%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.32%) Spring Boot
2 16 (14.41%) RESTful
3 15 (13.51%) Kafka
3 15 (13.51%) Spring
4 14 (12.61%) Node.js
5 11 (9.91%) AngularJS
5 11 (9.91%) OAuth
6 8 (7.21%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.31%) LangChain
7 7 (6.31%) React
8 6 (5.41%) Hugging Face
8 6 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.50%) FastAPI
9 5 (4.50%) Flask
9 5 (4.50%) Jest
9 5 (4.50%) LangGraph
9 5 (4.50%) Loki
10 4 (3.60%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (3.60%) PyTorch
10 4 (3.60%) TensorFlow
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
7 4 (3.60%) AI Agents
7 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (3.60%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.70%) IVR
8 3 (2.70%) NHS
9 2 (1.80%) Clustering
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%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 30 (27.03%) Linux
2 15 (13.51%) Windows
3 10 (9.01%) Unix
4 3 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (72.07%) CI/CD
2 53 (47.75%) Agile
3 38 (34.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (27.93%) Containerisation
5 30 (27.03%) Microservices
6 20 (18.02%) Migration
6 20 (18.02%) Test Automation
7 19 (17.12%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (15.32%) High Availability
9 16 (14.41%) Observability
9 16 (14.41%) SDLC
10 15 (13.51%) AI
10 15 (13.51%) Software Engineering
11 14 (12.61%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (12.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 13 (11.71%) Cloud Security
12 13 (11.71%) Computer Science
13 12 (10.81%) Design Patterns
14 11 (9.91%) Data Protection
14 11 (9.91%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 67 (60.36%) Python
2 45 (40.54%) Java
3 19 (17.12%) SQL
4 16 (14.41%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.61%) PowerShell
6 13 (11.71%) C#
7 8 (7.21%) Bash
8 6 (5.41%) Perl
8 6 (5.41%) Ruby
9 3 (2.70%) ANSI SQL
10 2 (1.80%) Bicep
10 2 (1.80%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.80%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.80%) Rust
10 2 (1.80%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.90%) Go
11 1 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (13.51%) Degree
2 13 (11.71%) AWS Certification
3 12 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.50%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.70%) CISSP
6 3 (2.70%) PMP
7 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.80%) CISM
7 2 (1.80%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.80%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.90%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.90%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.90%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.11%) 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 26 (23.42%) Docker
2 4 (3.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (48.65%) Terraform
2 52 (46.85%) Kubernetes
3 29 (26.13%) Ansible
4 6 (5.41%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.50%) Grafana
6 4 (3.60%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.70%) Argo
7 3 (2.70%) Istio
7 3 (2.70%) SCCM
8 2 (1.80%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.80%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (12.61%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) ServiceNow
2 9 (8.11%) Splunk
3 6 (5.41%) Google
3 6 (5.41%) Greenplum
4 5 (4.50%) Oracle
5 4 (3.60%) Avaya
5 4 (3.60%) Cisco
5 4 (3.60%) IBM
5 4 (3.60%) Pega
5 4 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.70%) Cribl.io
6 3 (2.70%) Genesys
7 2 (1.80%) Ab Initio
7 2 (1.80%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.80%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.90%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.90%) Databricks
8 1 (0.90%) F5
8 1 (0.90%) Infoblox
40 DevOps jobs in Glasgow