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

 6 months to
20 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 15 19
Rank change year-on-year +2 +4 -7
Contract jobs citing DevOps 131 103 58
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.14% 14.15% 8.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.31% 15.51% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 78 44
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £402 £414 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £470 £452
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% +4.10% -9.70%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £500
90th Percentile £714 £628 £609
Scotland median daily rate £475 £496 £463
% change year-on-year -4.23% +7.24% -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 984 664 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.67% 91.21% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 407 434
10th Percentile £278 £300 £272
25th Percentile £363 £373 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £566
90th Percentile £675 £613 £674
Scotland median daily rate £473 £466 £450
% change year-on-year +1.39% +3.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 21 16
10th Percentile £13.37 £14.32 £15.11
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.45 £21.87
Median % change year-on-year +100.63% -20.23% +50.83%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.15 £36.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £26.21 £53.27
Scotland median hourly rate £16.49 £20.00 £20.29
% change year-on-year -17.58% -1.40% +5.76%

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 20 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 (8.40%) Confluence
2 9 (6.87%) Apache
3 6 (4.58%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.53%) Alfresco
5 2 (1.53%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.76%) Camunda
6 1 (0.76%) CMS
6 1 (0.76%) JBoss
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (47.33%) Azure
2 53 (40.46%) AWS
3 31 (23.66%) GCP
4 30 (22.90%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (18.32%) GitHub
6 14 (10.69%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (9.16%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.34%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (5.34%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.34%) Kong
9 7 (5.34%) Serverless
10 6 (4.58%) Apigee
10 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.05%) IaaS
13 3 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.29%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.82%) DNS
2 2 (1.53%) DHCP
2 2 (1.53%) HTTPS
2 2 (1.53%) SSH
2 2 (1.53%) SSL
3 1 (0.76%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
1 8 (6.11%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.82%) Flink
2 5 (3.82%) Metadata
2 5 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.05%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.05%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.29%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.53%) Big Data
5 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.53%) DataStage
5 2 (1.53%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) MySQL
5 2 (1.53%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 33 (25.19%) Git
2 22 (16.79%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.21%) JIRA
4 11 (8.40%) Claude Code
5 6 (4.58%) Maven
5 6 (4.58%) Selenium
6 5 (3.82%) GitLab
7 4 (3.05%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.05%) Gradle
7 4 (3.05%) JUnit
7 4 (3.05%) Postman
7 4 (3.05%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.29%) Appium
8 3 (2.29%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.29%) GoCD
8 3 (2.29%) JProfiler
8 3 (2.29%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.29%) Subversion
9 2 (1.53%) NUnit
9 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 42 (32.06%) Finance
2 34 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 21 (16.03%) Banking
4 15 (11.45%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.34%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.53%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Front Office
9 1 (0.76%) International Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (19.85%) DevOps Engineer
2 20 (15.27%) Developer
3 17 (12.98%) Senior
4 13 (9.92%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (9.16%) Java Developer
6 11 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.40%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.87%) Architect
7 9 (6.87%) Lead
8 8 (6.11%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Analyst
9 7 (5.34%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) Embedded Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Provisioning Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (3.82%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (35.88%) Terraform
2 21 (16.03%) RESTful
3 16 (12.21%) Spring
3 16 (12.21%) Spring Boot
4 13 (9.92%) Kafka
5 10 (7.63%) REST
6 9 (6.87%) OpenAPI
6 9 (6.87%) Swagger
7 8 (6.11%) Playwright
7 8 (6.11%) PySpark
8 7 (5.34%) .NET
8 7 (5.34%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.34%) OAuth
8 7 (5.34%) OAuth2
8 7 (5.34%) Web Services
9 6 (4.58%) React
10 5 (3.82%) JWT
10 5 (3.82%) OpenID
11 4 (3.05%) Streamlit
12 3 (2.29%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 30 (22.90%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.92%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.11%) Linux Command Line
6 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (4.58%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.29%) PKI
9 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.76%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.76%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.76%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.98%) Linux
2 9 (6.87%) Windows
3 4 (3.05%) Unix
4 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) VMS
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (62.60%) CI/CD
2 46 (35.11%) Agile
3 35 (26.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (24.43%) Containerisation
5 24 (18.32%) Platform Engineering
5 24 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (17.56%) Code Quality
7 22 (16.79%) Test Automation
8 20 (15.27%) AI
9 18 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (13.74%) Microservices
10 16 (12.21%) Scrum
11 15 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
11 15 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (10.69%) Mentoring
13 13 (9.92%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (9.16%) Analytics
15 11 (8.40%) Continuous Delivery
15 11 (8.40%) Migration
15 11 (8.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 46 (35.11%) Python
2 27 (20.61%) Java
3 20 (15.27%) SQL
4 14 (10.69%) Bash
5 13 (9.92%) Go
6 9 (6.87%) C#
6 9 (6.87%) Shell Script
7 8 (6.11%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.58%) Lua
8 6 (4.58%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.05%) Perl
9 4 (3.05%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Bicep
11 1 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (17.56%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.82%) Degree
5 4 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.29%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.53%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) APMG
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.76%) LFCS
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) RHCE
8 1 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.63%) Data Quality
1 10 (7.63%) QA
2 5 (3.82%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.82%) GDPR
3 2 (1.53%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.76%) NCSC
4 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (20.61%) Docker
2 7 (5.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.58%) zsh
4 3 (2.29%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.29%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.29%) vSphere
5 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.76%) Ceph
6 1 (0.76%) UAG
Systems Management
1 60 (45.80%) Kubernetes
2 11 (8.40%) Ansible
3 3 (2.29%) Istio
4 2 (1.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.76%) Argo
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
5 1 (0.76%) logstash
5 1 (0.76%) Podman
5 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.76%) SCCM
5 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.21%) Google
3 13 (9.92%) Oracle
4 10 (7.63%) MuleSoft
5 9 (6.87%) Databricks
6 8 (6.11%) VMware
7 6 (4.58%) Salesforce
8 3 (2.29%) SaltStack
8 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.29%) Splunk
9 2 (1.53%) AppDynamics
9 2 (1.53%) Informatica
9 2 (1.53%) Okta
9 2 (1.53%) RedGate
9 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.53%) Talend
10 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
10 1 (0.76%) IBM
10 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.76%) webMethods
87 DevOps jobs in Glasgow