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 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 20 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 83 86 93
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.50% 10.72% 10.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.00% 11.47% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 64 65
10th Percentile £312 £359 £367
25th Percentile £350 £400 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £522
Median % change year-on-year - -13.79% -5.09%
75th Percentile £583 £538 £623
90th Percentile £714 £660 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £469 £475
% change year-on-year +1.33% -1.32% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £39.00 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £66.25 - £53.75
90th Percentile £73.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £39.25
% change year-on-year - - -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 593 750 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.13% 93.52% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 488 533
10th Percentile £312 £308 £286
25th Percentile £375 £377 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £601 £675
Scotland median daily rate £450 £457 £475
% change year-on-year -1.53% -3.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 40
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.18 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.17 £19.83 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% -6.14% +56.50%
75th Percentile £49.15 £65.00 £44.14
90th Percentile £58.91 £76.83 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% +7.68%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 10 (12.05%) Confluence
2 6 (7.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.41%) Alfresco
4 1 (1.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.20%) JBoss
4 1 (1.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 49 (59.04%) AWS
2 46 (55.42%) Azure
3 20 (24.10%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (19.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 12 (14.46%) Serverless
6 11 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (12.05%) GCP
8 8 (9.64%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (9.64%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (8.43%) Collibra
10 6 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (7.23%) OpenShift
10 6 (7.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (6.02%) GitHub
11 5 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.82%) Amazon MSK
12 4 (4.82%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (3.61%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.20%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.20%) SAN
2 1 (1.20%) SSH
2 1 (1.20%) SSL
2 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.05%) DynamoDB
1 10 (12.05%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.84%) Metadata
3 8 (9.64%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.43%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.23%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.23%) Relational Database
6 5 (6.02%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (6.02%) Big Data
6 5 (6.02%) MySQL
7 4 (4.82%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.61%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.41%) DataStage
9 2 (2.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.41%) Power BI
10 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.20%) Flink
10 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.20%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) JIRA
2 17 (20.48%) Git
3 13 (15.66%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.23%) GitLab
4 6 (7.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (6.02%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.61%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.61%) JUnit
7 2 (2.41%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.20%) Ant
8 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.20%) Maven
8 1 (1.20%) Postman
8 1 (1.20%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (30.12%) Social Skills
2 23 (27.71%) Finance
3 15 (18.07%) Public Sector
4 12 (14.46%) Banking
5 6 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 29 (34.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (14.46%) Senior
3 9 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) AWS DevOps
4 8 (9.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 8 (9.64%) Developer
5 7 (8.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (8.43%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.23%) Security Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Windows Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Data Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Scrum Master
8 4 (4.82%) PowerShell Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.46%) React
2 11 (13.25%) Node.js
2 11 (13.25%) RESTful
2 11 (13.25%) Spring
2 11 (13.25%) Spring Boot
3 7 (8.43%) AngularJS
3 7 (8.43%) REST
4 4 (4.82%) Django
4 4 (4.82%) Express.js
4 4 (4.82%) FastAPI
4 4 (4.82%) Flask
4 4 (4.82%) GraphQL
4 4 (4.82%) MERN Stack
4 4 (4.82%) NestJS
4 4 (4.82%) PySpark
4 4 (4.82%) Redux
5 3 (3.61%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (3.61%) Jest
5 3 (3.61%) JWT
5 3 (3.61%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.87%) Cloud Native
1 14 (16.87%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.02%) Reference Data
2 5 (6.02%) Virtual Team
3 4 (4.82%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.61%) IVR
4 3 (3.61%) NHS
5 2 (2.41%) Clustering
5 2 (2.41%) CMDB
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.20%) NVMe
6 1 (1.20%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.46%) Linux
2 8 (9.64%) Windows
3 3 (3.61%) Unix
4 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (71.08%) CI/CD
2 41 (49.40%) Agile
3 24 (28.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (25.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (22.89%) Containerisation
5 19 (22.89%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (21.69%) Microservices
7 17 (20.48%) Migration
8 15 (18.07%) Analytics
9 14 (16.87%) Test Automation
10 13 (15.66%) Data Modelling
10 13 (15.66%) Observability
11 12 (14.46%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (14.46%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (13.25%) Scrum
12 11 (13.25%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (12.05%) Data Engineering
13 10 (12.05%) Data Governance
13 10 (12.05%) Decision-Making
14 9 (10.84%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 41 (49.40%) Python
2 21 (25.30%) Java
3 13 (15.66%) PowerShell
4 9 (10.84%) SQL
5 8 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.43%) TypeScript
7 6 (7.23%) Bash
8 5 (6.02%) Perl
9 4 (4.82%) Ruby
10 3 (3.61%) C#
11 1 (1.20%) C++
11 1 (1.20%) Go
11 1 (1.20%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 14 (16.87%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.84%) Degree
2 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.82%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.41%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.41%) PMP
5 2 (2.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.20%) CISM
6 1 (1.20%) CISSP
6 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) NCDA
6 1 (1.20%) VCAP
6 1 (1.20%) VCP6
6 1 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) GDPR
2 9 (10.84%) Data Quality
3 6 (7.23%) QA
4 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.61%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.61%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.61%) PMO
6 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (25.30%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.20%) Ceph
3 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.20%) Squid
3 1 (1.20%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (36.14%) Kubernetes
2 27 (32.53%) Terraform
3 10 (12.05%) Ansible
4 6 (7.23%) Grafana
5 5 (6.02%) Istio
5 5 (6.02%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.41%) Argo
6 2 (2.41%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.41%) SCCM
7 1 (1.20%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.20%) Podman
7 1 (1.20%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.20%) Puppet
7 1 (1.20%) vMotion
7 1 (1.20%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.25%) Oracle
3 8 (9.64%) Salesforce
4 7 (8.43%) Databricks
5 6 (7.23%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.02%) Splunk
7 4 (4.82%) Cisco
8 3 (3.61%) Avaya
8 3 (3.61%) Genesys
8 3 (3.61%) IBM
8 3 (3.61%) Pega
9 2 (2.41%) Informatica
9 2 (2.41%) Talend
9 2 (2.41%) VMware
10 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.20%) Brocade
10 1 (1.20%) Commvault
10 1 (1.20%) Cribl.io
10 1 (1.20%) Google
10 1 (1.20%) NetApp