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

 6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 17 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 105 74 128
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.32% 9.85% 14.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.51% 10.96% 15.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 53 84
10th Percentile £335 £348 £400
25th Percentile £400 £356 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £420 £558
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -24.66% +0.90%
75th Percentile £564 £500 £660
90th Percentile £612 £550 £704
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

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 636 675 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.77% 89.88% 91.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 433 539
10th Percentile £297 £302 £344
25th Percentile £381 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -11.20% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £626
90th Percentile £625 £661 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 17
10th Percentile £14.66 £16.75 £12.08
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.32 £12.13
Median hourly rate £26.21 £19.59 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.79% +22.44% -46.16%
75th Percentile £46.61 £26.86 £19.50
90th Percentile £60.00 £40.10 £36.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.06
% change year-on-year -13.04% +20.70% +3.00%

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 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 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.90%) Mule
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.95%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (55.24%) AWS
2 54 (51.43%) Azure
3 22 (20.95%) Serverless
4 21 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (16.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (11.43%) GitHub
8 11 (10.48%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (9.52%) GCP
10 8 (7.62%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (7.62%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (7.62%) OpenShift
10 8 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (5.71%) Amazon MSK
12 6 (5.71%) Snowflake
13 5 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (3.81%) Amazon S3
14 4 (3.81%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.57%) Firewall
2 3 (2.86%) VPN
3 2 (1.90%) AMQP
3 2 (1.90%) DSL
3 2 (1.90%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.95%) DHCP
4 1 (0.95%) DNS
4 1 (0.95%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (8.57%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (5.71%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 4 (3.81%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.86%) MSDE
7 3 (2.86%) Redis
8 2 (1.90%) Big Data
8 2 (1.90%) NewSQL
8 2 (1.90%) OLTP
9 1 (0.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 37 (35.24%) Jenkins
2 23 (21.90%) Git
3 22 (20.95%) JIRA
4 16 (15.24%) Bitbucket
5 13 (12.38%) GitLab
6 9 (8.57%) IntelliJ
6 9 (8.57%) PyCharm
6 9 (8.57%) Visual Studio
6 9 (8.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 7 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (4.76%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.76%) JUnit
9 3 (2.86%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.90%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.90%) Gradle
10 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
11 1 (0.95%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (41.90%) Finance
2 24 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 18 (17.14%) Banking
4 16 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.81%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.90%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.95%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (27.62%) DevOps Engineer
2 22 (20.95%) Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Architect
3 13 (12.38%) Senior
4 12 (11.43%) Python Engineer
5 10 (9.52%) Azure Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Java Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Data Architect
8 6 (5.71%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (5.71%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Python Developer
8 6 (5.71%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Data Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Kubernetes Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.76%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.19%) Spring Boot
2 15 (14.29%) Spring
3 14 (13.33%) Node.js
3 14 (13.33%) RESTful
4 13 (12.38%) Kafka
5 11 (10.48%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.62%) OAuth
7 7 (6.67%) React
8 6 (5.71%) OAuth2
8 6 (5.71%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.76%) Jest
9 5 (4.76%) LangChain
10 4 (3.81%) .NET
10 4 (3.81%) Hugging Face
10 4 (3.81%) REST
10 4 (3.81%) SOAP
11 3 (2.86%) ActiveMQ
11 3 (2.86%) Apache Camel
11 3 (2.86%) JSON
11 3 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.43%) Public Cloud
3 8 (7.62%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.71%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.81%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.86%) IVR
7 3 (2.86%) NHS
7 3 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.90%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.90%) Clustering
8 2 (1.90%) CMDB
8 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.90%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 27 (25.71%) Linux
2 13 (12.38%) Windows
3 10 (9.52%) Unix
4 3 (2.86%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 47 (44.76%) Agile
3 38 (36.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (27.62%) Containerisation
5 27 (25.71%) Microservices
6 20 (19.05%) Migration
7 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.14%) Test Automation
9 16 (15.24%) High Availability
9 16 (15.24%) Observability
10 14 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (13.33%) SDLC
11 13 (12.38%) AI
11 13 (12.38%) Cloud Security
11 13 (12.38%) Software Engineering
12 12 (11.43%) Design Patterns
12 12 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (10.48%) Computer Science
13 11 (10.48%) Data Protection
14 10 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 62 (59.05%) Python
2 43 (40.95%) Java
3 16 (15.24%) SQL
4 14 (13.33%) PowerShell
4 14 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 11 (10.48%) C#
6 8 (7.62%) Bash
7 6 (5.71%) Perl
7 6 (5.71%) Ruby
8 2 (1.90%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (1.90%) Bicep
8 2 (1.90%) DataWeave
8 2 (1.90%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.90%) Rust
8 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.95%) Go
9 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.38%) AWS Certification
1 13 (12.38%) Degree
2 10 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (4.76%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.81%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.86%) CISSP
6 3 (2.86%) PMP
7 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.90%) CISM
7 2 (1.90%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (1.90%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.95%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.95%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.95%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) QA
2 7 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.81%) PMO
5 3 (2.86%) GDPR
5 3 (2.86%) HIPAA
5 3 (2.86%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (1.90%) NIST
7 1 (0.95%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (24.76%) Docker
2 4 (3.81%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (49.52%) Terraform
2 47 (44.76%) Kubernetes
3 27 (25.71%) Ansible
4 4 (3.81%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.86%) Argo
5 3 (2.86%) Grafana
5 3 (2.86%) Istio
5 3 (2.86%) SCCM
6 2 (1.90%) Fluentd
6 2 (1.90%) Kustomize
6 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.90%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 14 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.57%) Splunk
3 8 (7.62%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.71%) Google
4 6 (5.71%) Greenplum
5 5 (4.76%) Oracle
6 4 (3.81%) Avaya
6 4 (3.81%) Cisco
6 4 (3.81%) IBM
6 4 (3.81%) Pega
6 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.86%) Cribl.io
7 3 (2.86%) Genesys
8 2 (1.90%) Ab Initio
8 2 (1.90%) MuleSoft
8 2 (1.90%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.95%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.95%) Databricks
9 1 (0.95%) F5
9 1 (0.95%) Infoblox
34 DevOps jobs in Glasgow