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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 14 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 127 110 59
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.01% 14.99% 8.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.12% 16.47% 9.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 84 45
10th Percentile £363 £359 £356
25th Percentile £411 £416 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% +4.86% -9.40%
75th Percentile £600 £570 £500
90th Percentile £717 £625 £635
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -7.50%
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 968 668 624
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.95% 91.01% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 415 444
10th Percentile £272 £300 £272
25th Percentile £363 £375 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +0.89% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £554
90th Percentile £675 £610 £670
Scotland median daily rate £465 £465 £450
% change year-on-year - +3.33% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 20 14
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.01 £15.58
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.77
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £24.17
Median % change year-on-year +97.49% -26.66% +66.66%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.42 £41.66
90th Percentile £77.50 £29.34 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £21.59
% change year-on-year -15.70% -7.36% +13.30%

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 13 September 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 12 (9.45%) Confluence
2 7 (5.51%) Apache
3 5 (3.94%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.15%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.57%) Alfresco
5 2 (1.57%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.79%) Camunda
6 1 (0.79%) CMS
6 1 (0.79%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.03%) Azure
2 53 (41.73%) AWS
3 33 (25.98%) GCP
4 28 (22.05%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (17.32%) GitHub
6 12 (9.45%) Amazon EKS
7 10 (7.87%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (7.09%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.51%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (5.51%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (5.51%) Kong
10 6 (4.72%) Apigee
11 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (3.94%) Serverless
12 4 (3.15%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.15%) IaaS
12 4 (3.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 3 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (2.36%) SaaS
13 3 (2.36%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) DNS
2 3 (2.36%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.36%) SSH
2 3 (2.36%) SSL
3 1 (0.79%) DHCP
3 1 (0.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) MongoDB
2 8 (6.30%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.94%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.15%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.15%) Flink
4 4 (3.15%) Metadata
4 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.36%) Delta Lake
6 2 (1.57%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.57%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.57%) DataStage
6 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.57%) MySQL
6 2 (1.57%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.79%) Big Data
7 1 (0.79%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.79%) Redis
7 1 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (23.62%) Git
2 19 (14.96%) Jenkins
3 17 (13.39%) JIRA
4 11 (8.66%) Claude Code
5 6 (4.72%) Maven
5 6 (4.72%) Selenium
6 5 (3.94%) GitLab
6 5 (3.94%) Postman
6 5 (3.94%) REST Assured
7 4 (3.15%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.15%) Gradle
7 4 (3.15%) JUnit
8 3 (2.36%) Appium
8 3 (2.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.36%) GoCD
8 3 (2.36%) JProfiler
8 3 (2.36%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.36%) Subversion
9 2 (1.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
General
1 40 (31.50%) Finance
2 34 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 18 (14.17%) Banking
4 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.57%) Law
9 1 (0.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.79%) Front Office
9 1 (0.79%) International Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Legal
9 1 (0.79%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (19.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (14.96%) Developer
3 18 (14.17%) Senior
4 13 (10.24%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (9.45%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.66%) Java Developer
7 10 (7.87%) Data Engineer
8 9 (7.09%) Architect
8 9 (7.09%) Lead
9 8 (6.30%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (6.30%) GCP Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Analyst
10 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 7 (5.51%) Embedded Engineer
11 6 (4.72%) Provisioning Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Linux Engineer
12 5 (3.94%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (3.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 4 (3.15%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (37.01%) Terraform
2 21 (16.54%) RESTful
3 15 (11.81%) Spring
3 15 (11.81%) Spring Boot
4 13 (10.24%) Kafka
5 10 (7.87%) REST
6 9 (7.09%) OpenAPI
6 9 (7.09%) Swagger
7 8 (6.30%) Playwright
8 7 (5.51%) PySpark
8 7 (5.51%) Web Services
9 6 (4.72%) AngularJS
9 6 (4.72%) OAuth
9 6 (4.72%) OAuth2
9 6 (4.72%) React
10 4 (3.15%) .NET
10 4 (3.15%) JWT
10 4 (3.15%) OpenID
10 4 (3.15%) Streamlit
11 3 (2.36%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 30 (23.62%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.66%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (8.66%) Enterprise Cloud
2 11 (8.66%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.09%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (4.72%) Private Cloud
5 4 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.36%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.57%) PKI
7 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.79%) Derivative
8 1 (0.79%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.17%) Linux
2 6 (4.72%) Windows
3 4 (3.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.79%) VMS
4 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (61.42%) CI/CD
2 45 (35.43%) Agile
3 35 (27.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (25.20%) Containerisation
5 24 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (18.11%) Platform Engineering
7 21 (16.54%) Code Quality
7 21 (16.54%) Test Automation
8 20 (15.75%) AI
9 17 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (13.39%) Microservices
10 15 (11.81%) Scrum
10 15 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (11.02%) Data Pipeline
11 14 (11.02%) Mentoring
12 12 (9.45%) Analytics
12 12 (9.45%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (8.66%) Continuous Delivery
13 11 (8.66%) Data Modelling
14 10 (7.87%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 48 (37.80%) Python
2 25 (19.69%) Java
3 19 (14.96%) SQL
4 16 (12.60%) Bash
5 12 (9.45%) Go
6 9 (7.09%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.09%) Shell Script
7 6 (4.72%) C#
7 6 (4.72%) Lua
7 6 (4.72%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.15%) Perl
9 3 (2.36%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.57%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.79%) Bicep
11 1 (0.79%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 23 (18.11%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.02%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.51%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.94%) Degree
5 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.36%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.79%) APMG
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) LFCS
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) RHCE
7 1 (0.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (5.51%) QA
3 5 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.57%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (19.69%) Docker
2 8 (6.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.72%) zsh
4 3 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.57%) Ceph
5 2 (1.57%) vSphere
6 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
6 1 (0.79%) Squid
6 1 (0.79%) UAG
Systems Management
1 58 (45.67%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.45%) Ansible
3 3 (2.36%) Istio
4 2 (1.57%) Grafana
4 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.57%) Puppet
5 1 (0.79%) Argo
5 1 (0.79%) logstash
5 1 (0.79%) Podman
5 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.79%) SCCM
5 1 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (19.69%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.39%) Google
3 13 (10.24%) Oracle
4 10 (7.87%) MuleSoft
5 9 (7.09%) Databricks
6 8 (6.30%) VMware
7 6 (4.72%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.36%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.36%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.36%) Splunk
9 2 (1.57%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.57%) Informatica
9 2 (1.57%) Okta
9 2 (1.57%) RedGate
9 2 (1.57%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.57%) Talend
10 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.79%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.79%) IBM
10 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
67 DevOps jobs in Glasgow