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 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 23 14
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 86 82 106
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.06% 9.87% 11.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.50% 10.62% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 61 69
10th Percentile £312 £348 £404
25th Percentile £358 £363 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -26.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £539 £538 £660
90th Percentile £606 £664 £706
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £37.00 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £50.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile £53.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £45.00 - £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 593 772 829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.17% 92.90% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 381 483 533
10th Percentile £306 £311 £325
25th Percentile £381 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £650 £624 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 35
10th Percentile £14.79 £16.75 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.99 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% +22.17% +69.33%
75th Percentile £48.30 £31.44 £40.94
90th Percentile £58.35 £62.75 £68.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.50
% change year-on-year -12.57% +17.31% +10.05%

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 7 March 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 7 March 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 6 (6.98%) Confluence
2 5 (5.81%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (67.44%) AWS
2 46 (53.49%) Azure
3 24 (27.91%) Serverless
4 20 (23.26%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (19.77%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (12.79%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (12.79%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (12.79%) GCP
7 10 (11.63%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (8.14%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (8.14%) OpenShift
10 6 (6.98%) Snowflake
11 5 (5.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (5.81%) Collibra
11 5 (5.81%) GitHub
11 5 (5.81%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (4.65%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (4.65%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.63%) Firewall
2 3 (3.49%) VPN
3 1 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
3 1 (1.16%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (22.09%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.63%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (11.63%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.47%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (6.98%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.98%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.81%) Metadata
6 5 (5.81%) MySQL
6 5 (5.81%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.65%) Big Data
7 4 (4.65%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.16%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.16%) Power BI
9 1 (1.16%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (24.42%) Git
1 21 (24.42%) Jenkins
2 18 (20.93%) JIRA
3 11 (12.79%) GitLab
4 8 (9.30%) Bitbucket
4 8 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (4.65%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.65%) JUnit
6 2 (2.33%) Gradle
6 2 (2.33%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.16%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (36.05%) Finance
2 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.93%) Banking
4 14 (16.28%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.33%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Law
8 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (23.26%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (15.12%) Senior
3 11 (12.79%) Architect
3 11 (12.79%) Developer
4 9 (10.47%) Security Engineer
5 8 (9.30%) Data Architect
6 7 (8.14%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (8.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) Scrum Master
8 5 (5.81%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.09%) Node.js
2 13 (15.12%) React
2 13 (15.12%) RESTful
3 9 (10.47%) AngularJS
3 9 (10.47%) Spring
3 9 (10.47%) Spring Boot
4 6 (6.98%) REST
5 5 (5.81%) .NET
6 4 (4.65%) Django
6 4 (4.65%) Express.js
6 4 (4.65%) FastAPI
6 4 (4.65%) Flask
6 4 (4.65%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.65%) Jest
6 4 (4.65%) MERN Stack
6 4 (4.65%) NestJS
6 4 (4.65%) PySpark
6 4 (4.65%) Redux
7 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.49%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.58%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.95%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.98%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.81%) Reference Data
4 5 (5.81%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.49%) IVR
5 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.49%) NHS
5 3 (3.49%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.33%) Clustering
6 2 (2.33%) CMDB
7 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 15 (17.44%) Linux
2 10 (11.63%) Windows
3 8 (9.30%) Unix
4 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (68.60%) CI/CD
2 38 (44.19%) Agile
3 35 (40.70%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (31.40%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (29.07%) Containerisation
5 25 (29.07%) Microservices
6 23 (26.74%) Migration
7 17 (19.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (17.44%) Analytics
8 15 (17.44%) Data Modelling
8 15 (17.44%) High Availability
8 15 (17.44%) Observability
9 14 (16.28%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (15.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (15.12%) Test Automation
11 12 (13.95%) Design Patterns
12 11 (12.79%) Cloud Security
13 10 (11.63%) AI
13 10 (11.63%) Data Governance
13 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (58.14%) Python
2 23 (26.74%) Java
3 19 (22.09%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.79%) SQL
4 11 (12.79%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.30%) Perl
6 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.14%) Ruby
7 4 (4.65%) Bash
8 3 (3.49%) C#
9 2 (2.33%) Rust
10 1 (1.16%) C++
10 1 (1.16%) Go
10 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (13.95%) AWS Certification
2 10 (11.63%) Degree
3 6 (6.98%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.49%) CISSP
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.33%) CISM
7 2 (2.33%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.33%) PMP
7 2 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 2 (2.33%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.16%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.16%) NCDA
8 1 (1.16%) VCAP
8 1 (1.16%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) Data Quality
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 8 (9.30%) GDPR
3 6 (6.98%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.49%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.49%) PMO
6 2 (2.33%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.33%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (30.23%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.16%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (34.88%) Kubernetes
2 25 (29.07%) Terraform
3 17 (19.77%) Ansible
4 5 (5.81%) Grafana
5 4 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.65%) SCCM
6 2 (2.33%) Fluentd
6 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.16%) Argo
7 1 (1.16%) Istio
7 1 (1.16%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.16%) vMotion
7 1 (1.16%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.63%) Oracle
3 9 (10.47%) Splunk
4 7 (8.14%) ServiceNow
5 6 (6.98%) Greenplum
6 5 (5.81%) Databricks
7 4 (4.65%) Cisco
7 4 (4.65%) IBM
7 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.49%) Avaya
8 3 (3.49%) Cribl.io
8 3 (3.49%) Genesys
8 3 (3.49%) Pega
9 2 (2.33%) Ab Initio
9 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
10 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
10 1 (1.16%) Brocade
10 1 (1.16%) Commvault
10 1 (1.16%) NetApp
10 1 (1.16%) VMware