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 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +4 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 114 100 59
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.20% 12.09% 7.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.27% 13.14% 8.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 79 48
10th Percentile £332 £363 £341
25th Percentile £402 £408 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £603 £544 £564
90th Percentile £707 £662 £627
Scotland median daily rate £475 £485 £463
% change year-on-year -1.96% +4.76% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £61.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 £39.25
% change year-on-year +36.36% +40.13% -

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 859 761 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.38% 92.02% 90.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 490 478
10th Percentile £284 £300 £266
25th Percentile £358 £378 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -9.27%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £573
90th Percentile £675 £613 £630
Scotland median daily rate £451 £465 £450
% change year-on-year -3.01% +3.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 31
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.49 £11.50
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £15.84
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -51.56% +187.30%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £55.63
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.00 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £20.62
% change year-on-year -3.35% -2.98% +28.92%

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 12 July 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 12 July 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 15 (13.16%) Confluence
2 8 (7.02%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.39%) Apache
4 2 (1.75%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.75%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 66 (57.89%) Azure
2 49 (42.98%) AWS
3 33 (28.95%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (21.93%) GCP
5 16 (14.04%) GitHub
6 11 (9.65%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.14%) Collibra
9 5 (4.39%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (4.39%) Serverless
10 4 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.63%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (2.63%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (2.63%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (2.63%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.63%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DNS
1 1 (0.88%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.88%) SAN
1 1 (0.88%) SSH
1 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.53%) MongoDB
2 11 (9.65%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.65%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.89%) Metadata
4 7 (6.14%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.26%) MySQL
5 6 (5.26%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.39%) Big Data
7 4 (3.51%) Flink
7 4 (3.51%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.63%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.75%) DataStage
9 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.75%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.88%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.88%) Power BI
10 1 (0.88%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 28 (24.56%) Git
2 21 (18.42%) JIRA
3 19 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.39%) Claude Code
4 5 (4.39%) Maven
4 5 (4.39%) Postman
4 5 (4.39%) REST Assured
5 4 (3.51%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.51%) Gradle
5 4 (3.51%) JUnit
5 4 (3.51%) Selenium
6 3 (2.63%) Appium
6 3 (2.63%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.63%) GoCD
6 3 (2.63%) JProfiler
6 3 (2.63%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.63%) Subversion
7 2 (1.75%) GitLab
7 2 (1.75%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 34 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.56%) Finance
3 17 (14.91%) Banking
4 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.63%) Law
6 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.88%) International Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Legal
8 1 (0.88%) Military
8 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (28.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (11.40%) Developer
2 13 (11.40%) Senior
3 12 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (9.65%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (9.65%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (8.77%) Java Developer
6 8 (7.02%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Analyst
7 7 (6.14%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (6.14%) Scrum Master
8 6 (5.26%) Architect
8 6 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (3.51%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.91%) Spring
1 17 (14.91%) Spring Boot
2 16 (14.04%) RESTful
3 12 (10.53%) React
4 11 (9.65%) REST
5 9 (7.89%) PySpark
6 7 (6.14%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.14%) Kafka
6 7 (6.14%) Node.js
6 7 (6.14%) Streamlit
7 6 (5.26%) Playwright
8 5 (4.39%) Django
8 5 (4.39%) OAuth
8 5 (4.39%) OAuth2
8 5 (4.39%) Web Services
9 4 (3.51%) .NET
9 4 (3.51%) Express.js
9 4 (3.51%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.51%) MERN Stack
9 4 (3.51%) NestJS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.30%) Product Ownership
2 21 (18.42%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.14%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (6.14%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.39%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.88%) Clustering
8 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.88%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.88%) NVMe
8 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.02%) Linux
2 7 (6.14%) Windows
3 2 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.75%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (62.28%) CI/CD
2 53 (46.49%) Agile
3 29 (25.44%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (22.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 25 (21.93%) Containerisation
6 22 (19.30%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (19.30%) Scrum
7 20 (17.54%) Data Modelling
7 20 (17.54%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (17.54%) Test Automation
8 18 (15.79%) Analytics
8 18 (15.79%) Microservices
8 18 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (14.04%) Data Engineering
9 16 (14.04%) Mentoring
9 16 (14.04%) Migration
10 15 (13.16%) Data Governance
10 15 (13.16%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (13.16%) Kanban
11 14 (12.28%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 46 (40.35%) Python
2 25 (21.93%) Java
3 16 (14.04%) SQL
4 14 (12.28%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.65%) TypeScript
6 9 (7.89%) Bash
7 6 (5.26%) C#
8 5 (4.39%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.51%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.88%) Bicep
10 1 (0.88%) C++
10 1 (0.88%) Groovy
10 1 (0.88%) Perl
10 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.53%) Degree
2 12 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.63%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.88%) APMG
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) NCDA
6 1 (0.88%) VCAP
6 1 (0.88%) VCP6
6 1 (0.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.28%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.89%) GDPR
3 8 (7.02%) QA
4 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (20.18%) Docker
2 3 (2.63%) zsh
3 2 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Ceph
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.88%) Squid
4 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 40 (35.09%) Kubernetes
2 32 (28.07%) Terraform
3 7 (6.14%) Ansible
4 6 (5.26%) Grafana
5 5 (4.39%) Istio
5 5 (4.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.75%) Argo
7 1 (0.88%) Podman
7 1 (0.88%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.88%) Puppet
7 1 (0.88%) SCCM
7 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.88%) vMotion
7 1 (0.88%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (21.93%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.28%) Oracle
3 12 (10.53%) Databricks
4 8 (7.02%) Google
5 5 (4.39%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.51%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.75%) Informatica
7 2 (1.75%) Okta
7 2 (1.75%) Talend
7 2 (1.75%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) Brocade
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco
8 1 (0.88%) Commvault
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) NetApp
8 1 (0.88%) Pega
8 1 (0.88%) RedGate
8 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.88%) Splunk