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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
11 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 13 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 131 115 54
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.93% 15.48% 7.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.96% 17.27% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 90 40
10th Percentile £330 £361 £348
25th Percentile £402 £419 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £475 £393
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% +21.02% -26.98%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £496
90th Percentile £630 £625 £503
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
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 1,011 666 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.32% 89.64% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 411 428
10th Percentile £280 £300 £278
25th Percentile £363 £383 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £440
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +3.18% -12.00%
75th Percentile £553 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £656
Scotland median daily rate £467 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -0.11% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 21 12
10th Percentile £13.39 £15.09 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.00 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% -8.12% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £26.76
90th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 £41.70
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -15.70% +2.09% +6.90%

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 11 October 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 9 (6.87%) Apache
2 8 (6.11%) Confluence
3 6 (4.58%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.82%) Apache Airflow
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
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 56 (42.75%) Azure
2 51 (38.93%) AWS
3 32 (24.43%) GCP
4 26 (19.85%) GitHub
5 22 (16.79%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (9.16%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (8.40%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (8.40%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.34%) Amazon MSK
8 7 (5.34%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.34%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (5.34%) Kong
8 7 (5.34%) Serverless
9 6 (4.58%) Apigee
9 6 (4.58%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (4.58%) IaaS
10 5 (3.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (2.29%) OpenShift
11 3 (2.29%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.29%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.58%) DNS
2 3 (2.29%) DHCP
3 2 (1.53%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.53%) SSH
3 2 (1.53%) SSL
4 1 (0.76%) BGP
4 1 (0.76%) Firewall
4 1 (0.76%) HTTP
4 1 (0.76%) IPv4
4 1 (0.76%) IPv6
4 1 (0.76%) LAN
4 1 (0.76%) OSPF
4 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) VLAN
4 1 (0.76%) VPN
4 1 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.58%) Elasticsearch
2 6 (4.58%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.82%) Flink
3 5 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.82%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.29%) Delta Lake
4 3 (2.29%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.53%) Big Data
5 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) MySQL
5 2 (1.53%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.76%) Redis
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 39 (29.77%) Git
2 26 (19.85%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.45%) JIRA
4 11 (8.40%) Claude Code
5 7 (5.34%) Maven
6 6 (4.58%) Selenium
7 5 (3.82%) GitLab
7 5 (3.82%) Gradle
8 4 (3.05%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.05%) JUnit
8 4 (3.05%) Postman
8 4 (3.05%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.29%) Appium
9 3 (2.29%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.29%) GoCD
9 3 (2.29%) JProfiler
9 3 (2.29%) MSTest
9 3 (2.29%) NUnit
9 3 (2.29%) Subversion
9 3 (2.29%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (33.59%) Finance
2 34 (25.95%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.56%) Banking
4 11 (8.40%) 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%) Back Office
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 25 (19.08%) Developer
2 19 (14.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (12.98%) Senior
4 15 (11.45%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.92%) Java Developer
6 12 (9.16%) Data Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Lead
9 7 (5.34%) Architect
9 7 (5.34%) Embedded Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Analyst
10 6 (4.58%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Provisioning Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Python Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Senior Platform Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) AWS Engineer
12 4 (3.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (34.35%) Terraform
2 23 (17.56%) RESTful
3 15 (11.45%) REST
4 14 (10.69%) Spring
4 14 (10.69%) Spring Boot
5 13 (9.92%) Kafka
6 11 (8.40%) OpenAPI
6 11 (8.40%) Swagger
7 9 (6.87%) OAuth
7 9 (6.87%) OAuth2
8 8 (6.11%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.11%) PySpark
9 7 (5.34%) .NET
9 7 (5.34%) JWT
9 7 (5.34%) OpenID
9 7 (5.34%) Web Services
10 6 (4.58%) Playwright
10 6 (4.58%) React
11 4 (3.05%) Node.js
11 4 (3.05%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 34 (25.95%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.92%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (9.16%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (8.40%) Product Ownership
5 10 (7.63%) Private Cloud
6 8 (6.11%) Linux Command Line
7 6 (4.58%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.05%) PKI
9 3 (2.29%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (2.29%) Replication
10 2 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.53%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.79%) Linux
2 10 (7.63%) Windows
3 4 (3.05%) Unix
4 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) macOS
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (64.89%) CI/CD
2 41 (31.30%) Agile
3 34 (25.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (24.43%) Containerisation
5 25 (19.08%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (18.32%) Problem-Solving
7 23 (17.56%) AI
7 23 (17.56%) Test Automation
8 21 (16.03%) Code Quality
9 19 (14.50%) Microservices
10 18 (13.74%) Validation
11 15 (11.45%) Data Pipeline
12 14 (10.69%) Continuous Delivery
12 14 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (10.69%) Scrum
13 13 (9.92%) Migration
13 13 (9.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (9.16%) Deployment Automation
14 12 (9.16%) Observability
15 11 (8.40%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 51 (38.93%) Python
2 28 (21.37%) Java
3 19 (14.50%) SQL
4 17 (12.98%) Bash
5 16 (12.21%) Go
6 11 (8.40%) Shell Script
7 9 (6.87%) C#
7 9 (6.87%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.58%) Lua
8 6 (4.58%) Perl
8 6 (4.58%) TypeScript
9 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.53%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Bicep
11 1 (0.76%) Groovy
11 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (12.98%) Security Cleared
2 9 (6.87%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.11%) 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%) LFCS
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) RHCE
8 1 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) QA
2 8 (6.11%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.82%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.29%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.29%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (19.85%) Docker
2 9 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.58%) zsh
4 5 (3.82%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (3.82%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (2.29%) vSphere
6 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
6 2 (1.53%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.76%) Ceph
7 1 (0.76%) UAG
Systems Management
1 62 (47.33%) Kubernetes
2 18 (13.74%) Ansible
3 3 (2.29%) logstash
4 2 (1.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.76%) Grafana
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 23 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.21%) Google
3 12 (9.16%) Oracle
4 10 (7.63%) MuleSoft
4 10 (7.63%) VMware
5 8 (6.11%) Databricks
6 5 (3.82%) SaltStack
6 5 (3.82%) Splunk
7 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.53%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.53%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.53%) Okta
8 2 (1.53%) RedGate
8 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.53%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.76%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.76%) Pega
9 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.76%) webMethods
74 DevOps jobs in Glasgow