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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 19 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 87 78 122
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.08% 10.48% 13.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.18% 11.47% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 54 77
10th Percentile £313 £349 £400
25th Percentile £361 £357 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -26.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £675
90th Percentile £606 £550 £707
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £516
% change year-on-year +5.56% -12.83% +3.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -62.86%

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 573 680 812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.17% 91.40% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 356 411 529
10th Percentile £303 £311 £343
25th Percentile £400 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £614
90th Percentile £638 £631 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 21
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.09 £18.77 £15.42
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.17 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.72% +51.03% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £40.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £58.71 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +15.15%

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 24 January 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 1 (1.15%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.15%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (63.22%) AWS
2 44 (50.57%) Azure
3 22 (25.29%) Serverless
4 17 (19.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (17.24%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (13.79%) GCP
7 10 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (9.20%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.20%) OpenShift
8 8 (9.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (8.05%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (6.90%) Snowflake
11 5 (5.75%) GitHub
12 4 (4.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.60%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.60%) PaaS
13 3 (3.45%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.49%) Firewall
2 3 (3.45%) VPN
3 1 (1.15%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.49%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.90%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (5.75%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.60%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.45%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.45%) MSDE
8 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.15%) Big Data
9 1 (1.15%) Power BI
9 1 (1.15%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (29.89%) Jenkins
2 16 (18.39%) Git
3 15 (17.24%) JIRA
4 11 (12.64%) Bitbucket
4 11 (12.64%) GitLab
5 8 (9.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (6.90%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.90%) JUnit
7 3 (3.45%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.45%) PyCharm
7 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.30%) Gradle
8 2 (2.30%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (42.53%) Finance
2 27 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (20.69%) Banking
5 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.60%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.30%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (20.69%) Developer
3 14 (16.09%) Senior
4 11 (12.64%) Architect
5 9 (10.34%) Security Engineer
6 8 (9.20%) Data Architect
6 8 (9.20%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Snowflake Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) Node.js
2 13 (14.94%) Spring
2 13 (14.94%) Spring Boot
3 12 (13.79%) AngularJS
3 12 (13.79%) RESTful
4 9 (10.34%) React
5 6 (6.90%) Jest
5 6 (6.90%) Kafka
6 5 (5.75%) .NET
7 3 (3.45%) Hugging Face
7 3 (3.45%) LangChain
7 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.45%) REST
8 2 (2.30%) JSON
8 2 (2.30%) Next.js
8 2 (2.30%) OAuth
8 2 (2.30%) OAuth2
9 1 (1.15%) ADO
9 1 (1.15%) HTML
9 1 (1.15%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.45%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.45%) IVR
4 3 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.45%) NHS
5 2 (2.30%) Clustering
5 2 (2.30%) CMDB
5 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.15%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.54%) Linux
2 14 (16.09%) Windows
3 11 (12.64%) Unix
4 4 (4.60%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (62.07%) CI/CD
2 34 (39.08%) Agile
3 29 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (31.03%) Containerisation
5 25 (28.74%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (26.44%) Microservices
7 16 (18.39%) Migration
8 15 (17.24%) Cloud Security
8 15 (17.24%) Observability
9 14 (16.09%) High Availability
10 13 (14.94%) Disaster Recovery
11 12 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (12.64%) AI
12 11 (12.64%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (12.64%) Test Automation
13 10 (11.49%) Analytics
13 10 (11.49%) Data Protection
13 10 (11.49%) Performance Tuning
13 10 (11.49%) Software Engineering
14 9 (10.34%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 52 (59.77%) Python
2 29 (33.33%) Java
3 21 (24.14%) PowerShell
4 10 (11.49%) SQL
5 9 (10.34%) Bash
5 9 (10.34%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.20%) Perl
7 7 (8.05%) Ruby
8 6 (6.90%) C#
9 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.30%) Rust
10 1 (1.15%) Bicep
10 1 (1.15%) Go
10 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) AWS Certification
2 6 (6.90%) Degree
3 5 (5.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.45%) CISSP
5 3 (3.45%) PMP
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.30%) CISM
6 2 (2.30%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.15%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.15%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.15%) SSCP
7 1 (1.15%) VCP6
7 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) QA
2 8 (9.20%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.60%) PMO
5 3 (3.45%) GDPR
5 3 (3.45%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.45%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.30%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.30%) NIST
7 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (28.74%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (40.23%) Terraform
2 33 (37.93%) Kubernetes
3 23 (26.44%) Ansible
4 5 (5.75%) SCCM
5 4 (4.60%) Grafana
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.30%) Fluentd
7 2 (2.30%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.15%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.15%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.15%) vMotion
8 1 (1.15%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
1 11 (12.64%) Splunk
2 8 (9.20%) ServiceNow
3 7 (8.05%) Oracle
4 6 (6.90%) Google
4 6 (6.90%) Greenplum
5 4 (4.60%) Cisco
5 4 (4.60%) IBM
5 4 (4.60%) Pega
5 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.45%) Avaya
6 3 (3.45%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.45%) Genesys
7 2 (2.30%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.30%) Databricks
7 2 (2.30%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.15%) Brocade
8 1 (1.15%) Commvault
8 1 (1.15%) NetApp
8 1 (1.15%) VMware