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

 6 months to
6 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 +3 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 120 106 59
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.71% 14.32% 8.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 15.70% 9.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 80 44
10th Percentile £370 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £412 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +3.26% -10.24%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £541
90th Percentile £719 £625 £639
Scotland median daily rate £485 £475 £469
% change year-on-year +2.16% +1.28% -6.20%
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 938 675 625
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.75% 91.22% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 416 439
10th Percentile £269 £300 £270
25th Percentile £363 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £452 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +0.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £567 £538 £551
90th Percentile £675 £600 £657
Scotland median daily rate £463 £464 £450
% change year-on-year -0.22% +3.00% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 21 14
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.09 £15.58
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.77
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.00 £24.17
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -25.51% +66.66%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £41.66
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.06 £20.80 £21.59
% change year-on-year -17.96% -3.68% +21.84%

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 6 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 11 (9.17%) Confluence
2 5 (4.17%) Apache
3 3 (2.50%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.67%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.83%) Camunda
5 1 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.83%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (51.67%) Azure
2 50 (41.67%) AWS
3 31 (25.83%) GCP
4 30 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (16.67%) GitHub
6 12 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.83%) Amazon ECS
9 6 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
9 6 (5.00%) Kong
10 5 (4.17%) Apigee
11 4 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (3.33%) IaaS
12 3 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (2.50%) SaaS
12 3 (2.50%) Serverless
12 3 (2.50%) Snowflake
13 2 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
13 2 (1.67%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) DNS
2 3 (2.50%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.50%) SSH
2 3 (2.50%) SSL
3 1 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.83%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.33%) Flink
3 4 (3.33%) Metadata
3 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.67%) DataStage
5 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.83%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.83%) Big Data
6 1 (0.83%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.83%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.83%) MySQL
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.83%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (24.17%) Git
2 16 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.33%) JIRA
3 11 (9.17%) Claude Code
4 5 (4.17%) Maven
4 5 (4.17%) Postman
4 5 (4.17%) REST Assured
4 5 (4.17%) Selenium
5 4 (3.33%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.33%) Gradle
5 4 (3.33%) JUnit
6 3 (2.50%) Appium
6 3 (2.50%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.50%) GoCD
6 3 (2.50%) JProfiler
6 3 (2.50%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.50%) Subversion
7 2 (1.67%) GitLab
7 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 36 (30.00%) Finance
2 29 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.33%) Banking
4 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.67%) Law
8 1 (0.83%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.83%) Front Office
8 1 (0.83%) International Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Legal
8 1 (0.83%) Military
8 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (24.17%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (15.00%) Senior
3 17 (14.17%) Developer
4 12 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (9.17%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (9.17%) Java Developer
6 10 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Architect
7 8 (6.67%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Lead
8 7 (5.83%) Analyst
8 7 (5.83%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Provisioning Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (37.50%) Terraform
2 19 (15.83%) RESTful
3 16 (13.33%) Spring
3 16 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 10 (8.33%) Kafka
5 7 (5.83%) OpenAPI
5 7 (5.83%) Playwright
5 7 (5.83%) REST
5 7 (5.83%) Swagger
5 7 (5.83%) Web Services
6 6 (5.00%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.00%) React
7 5 (4.17%) PySpark
8 4 (3.33%) .NET
8 4 (3.33%) OAuth
8 4 (3.33%) OAuth2
8 4 (3.33%) Streamlit
9 3 (2.50%) FreeMarker
9 3 (2.50%) JSF
9 3 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (21.67%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.17%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.33%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.83%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.83%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.83%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Linux
2 5 (4.17%) Windows
3 3 (2.50%) Unix
4 1 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.83%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (61.67%) CI/CD
2 42 (35.00%) Agile
3 30 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (24.17%) Containerisation
5 23 (19.17%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (15.83%) Code Quality
6 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (15.83%) Test Automation
7 17 (14.17%) AI
7 17 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (12.50%) Mentoring
8 15 (12.50%) Microservices
8 15 (12.50%) Scrum
9 12 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 12 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (9.17%) Data Modelling
10 11 (9.17%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (8.33%) Analytics
11 10 (8.33%) Continuous Delivery
11 10 (8.33%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.00%) Python
2 25 (20.83%) Java
3 16 (13.33%) SQL
4 15 (12.50%) Bash
5 10 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.50%) Shell Script
7 8 (6.67%) Go
8 6 (5.00%) C#
8 6 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.17%) Lua
10 3 (2.50%) Perl
11 2 (1.67%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.83%) Bicep
12 1 (0.83%) Groovy
12 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.17%) Degree
5 4 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.83%) APMG
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.83%) LFCS
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) RHCE
7 1 (0.83%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.00%) QA
3 5 (4.17%) GDPR
4 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (18.33%) Docker
2 6 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (5.00%) zsh
3 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.50%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.67%) Ceph
4 2 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.83%) Squid
5 1 (0.83%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (43.33%) Kubernetes
2 10 (8.33%) Ansible
3 4 (3.33%) Istio
4 1 (0.83%) Argo
4 1 (0.83%) Grafana
4 1 (0.83%) logstash
4 1 (0.83%) Podman
4 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.83%) Puppet
4 1 (0.83%) SCCM
4 1 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.33%) Google
3 13 (10.83%) Oracle
4 9 (7.50%) MuleSoft
5 7 (5.83%) Databricks
6 6 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 6 (5.00%) VMware
7 3 (2.50%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.67%) Informatica
8 2 (1.67%) Okta
8 2 (1.67%) RedGate
8 2 (1.67%) SaltStack
8 2 (1.67%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.67%) Splunk
8 2 (1.67%) Talend
9 1 (0.83%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.83%) IBM
9 1 (0.83%) Pega
9 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
64 DevOps jobs in Glasgow