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

 6 months to
16 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 17 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +3 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 105 96 55
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 9.92% 12.72% 8.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.68% 13.93% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 75 45
10th Percentile £372 £375 £352
25th Percentile £413 £424 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £483
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.66% -3.40%
75th Percentile £621 £575 £600
90th Percentile £728 £651 £641
Scotland median daily rate £498 £485 £460
% change year-on-year +2.68% +5.33% -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 899 689 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.97% 91.26% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 444 436
10th Percentile £275 £300 £261
25th Percentile £349 £363 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £464 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £600 £638
Scotland median daily rate £451 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.12% +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 23
10th Percentile £13.46 £15.73 £15.13
25th Percentile £14.07 £16.84 £19.05
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 -
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.60 £61.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.06 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -14.70% +0.31% +4.63%

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 16 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 11 (10.48%) Confluence
2 5 (4.76%) Apache
3 4 (3.81%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.90%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.90%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.95%) Camunda
5 1 (0.95%) CMS
5 1 (0.95%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.95%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (58.10%) Azure
2 43 (40.95%) AWS
3 29 (27.62%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (27.62%) GCP
4 21 (20.00%) GitHub
5 9 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (3.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.86%) Collibra
8 3 (2.86%) SaaS
8 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.90%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (1.90%) dbt
9 2 (1.90%) IaaS
9 2 (1.90%) Miro
9 2 (1.90%) PaaS
9 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) DNS
1 1 (0.95%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.95%) SSH
1 1 (0.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.62%) NoSQL
3 5 (4.76%) Metadata
3 5 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.81%) Flink
4 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.90%) DataStage
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.90%) MySQL
6 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.95%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.95%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.95%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.95%) Power BI
7 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (26.67%) Git
2 16 (15.24%) Jenkins
2 16 (15.24%) JIRA
3 11 (10.48%) Claude Code
4 5 (4.76%) Maven
4 5 (4.76%) Postman
4 5 (4.76%) REST Assured
5 4 (3.81%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.81%) Gradle
5 4 (3.81%) JUnit
5 4 (3.81%) Selenium
6 3 (2.86%) Appium
6 3 (2.86%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.86%) GoCD
6 3 (2.86%) JProfiler
6 3 (2.86%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.86%) Subversion
7 2 (1.90%) GitLab
7 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 2 (1.90%) Terragrunt
General
1 29 (27.62%) Finance
2 27 (25.71%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.33%) Banking
3 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.86%) Law
5 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.95%) Front Office
7 1 (0.95%) International Banking
7 1 (0.95%) Legal
7 1 (0.95%) Military
7 1 (0.95%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (15.24%) Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Senior
4 12 (11.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (10.48%) Java Developer
6 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Architect
7 8 (7.62%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Analyst
8 7 (6.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.67%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Provisioning Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Lead
10 4 (3.81%) Scrum Master
11 3 (2.86%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.86%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.24%) Spring
1 16 (15.24%) Spring Boot
2 13 (12.38%) RESTful
3 10 (9.52%) Kafka
4 7 (6.67%) React
4 7 (6.67%) REST
4 7 (6.67%) Web Services
5 6 (5.71%) Playwright
5 6 (5.71%) PySpark
6 5 (4.76%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.81%) Node.js
7 4 (3.81%) Streamlit
8 3 (2.86%) .NET
8 3 (2.86%) Django
8 3 (2.86%) FreeMarker
8 3 (2.86%) Jest
8 3 (2.86%) JSF
8 3 (2.86%) Middleware
9 2 (1.90%) Hibernate
9 2 (1.90%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 13 (12.38%) Product Ownership
3 10 (9.52%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (5.71%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.95%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.95%) Derivative
9 1 (0.95%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.95%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.48%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (2.86%) Unix
4 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.95%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 40 (38.10%) Agile
3 29 (27.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 19 (18.10%) Platform Engineering
6 18 (17.14%) Code Quality
6 18 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (16.19%) Mentoring
7 17 (16.19%) Scrum
7 17 (16.19%) Test Automation
8 16 (15.24%) AI
9 15 (14.29%) Microservices
10 12 (11.43%) Data Modelling
10 12 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (10.48%) Data Pipeline
12 10 (9.52%) Analytics
12 10 (9.52%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (9.52%) Design Patterns
12 10 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.14%) Python
2 24 (22.86%) Java
3 17 (16.19%) SQL
4 13 (12.38%) Bash
5 10 (9.52%) JavaScript
6 9 (8.57%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.71%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.76%) C#
9 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.95%) Bicep
10 1 (0.95%) Groovy
10 1 (0.95%) Perl
10 1 (0.95%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 5 (4.76%) Degree
4 4 (3.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.86%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.95%) APMG
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.71%) GDPR
2 6 (5.71%) QA
3 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (19.05%) Docker
2 6 (5.71%) zsh
3 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.95%) Ceph
4 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.95%) Squid
4 1 (0.95%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 42 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 39 (37.14%) Terraform
3 5 (4.76%) Ansible
3 5 (4.76%) Istio
4 2 (1.90%) Argo
5 1 (0.95%) Grafana
5 1 (0.95%) Podman
5 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.95%) Puppet
5 1 (0.95%) SCCM
5 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.29%) Google
3 12 (11.43%) Oracle
4 8 (7.62%) Databricks
5 6 (5.71%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.81%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.81%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.90%) Informatica
7 2 (1.90%) Okta
7 2 (1.90%) RedGate
7 2 (1.90%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.90%) Talend
7 2 (1.90%) VMware
8 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.95%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.95%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.95%) IBM
8 1 (0.95%) Pega
8 1 (0.95%) Solace
8 1 (0.95%) Splunk
62 DevOps jobs in Glasgow