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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 19 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 92 89 112
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 12.55% 11.04% 12.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.84% 11.99% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 65 72
10th Percentile £311 £349 £406
25th Percentile £358 £363 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -26.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £539 £525 £656
90th Percentile £609 £658 £705
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 620 742 832
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.58% 92.06% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 451 543
10th Percentile £306 £313 £343
25th Percentile £386 £365 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £564 £550 £600
90th Percentile £639 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £480
% change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 11 27
10th Percentile £14.17 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £14.71
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +50.94% +50.52%
75th Percentile £50.00 £35.13 £26.63
90th Percentile £61.35 £65.00 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +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 21 February 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 21 February 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 5 (5.43%) Apache Spark
1 5 (5.43%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.17%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (61.96%) AWS
2 47 (51.09%) Azure
3 24 (26.09%) Serverless
4 20 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 17 (18.48%) AWS Lambda
6 16 (17.39%) GCP
7 11 (11.96%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (11.96%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (9.78%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (7.61%) Amazon MSK
10 7 (7.61%) OpenShift
11 6 (6.52%) Snowflake
12 5 (5.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (5.43%) Collibra
13 4 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (4.35%) GitHub
13 4 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (4.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) Firewall
2 3 (3.26%) VPN
3 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.09%) Network Security
3 1 (1.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (9.78%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (9.78%) DynamoDB
4 8 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (6.52%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.43%) Metadata
6 5 (5.43%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.43%) NoSQL
6 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.35%) Big Data
7 4 (4.35%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.35%) MySQL
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.09%) Power BI
9 1 (1.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (26.09%) Jenkins
2 20 (21.74%) Git
3 16 (17.39%) JIRA
4 11 (11.96%) GitLab
5 8 (8.70%) Bitbucket
5 8 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (4.35%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.35%) JUnit
7 2 (2.17%) Gradle
7 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 34 (36.96%) Finance
2 30 (32.61%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.48%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (18.48%) Banking
4 10 (10.87%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (23.91%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (14.13%) Senior
3 11 (11.96%) Architect
3 11 (11.96%) Developer
4 9 (9.78%) Security Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Data Architect
5 8 (8.70%) Windows Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (7.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.52%) Senior DevOps
7 6 (6.52%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Scrum Master
8 5 (5.43%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.57%) Node.js
2 12 (13.04%) React
2 12 (13.04%) RESTful
3 10 (10.87%) Spring
3 10 (10.87%) Spring Boot
4 9 (9.78%) AngularJS
5 5 (5.43%) .NET
5 5 (5.43%) REST
6 4 (4.35%) Jest
6 4 (4.35%) PySpark
7 3 (3.26%) Django
7 3 (3.26%) Express.js
7 3 (3.26%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.26%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.26%) JWT
7 3 (3.26%) MERN Stack
7 3 (3.26%) NestJS
7 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
7 3 (3.26%) Redux
7 3 (3.26%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (11.96%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.52%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.43%) Reference Data
4 5 (5.43%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.26%) IVR
5 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.26%) NHS
5 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Clustering
6 2 (2.17%) CMDB
7 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.09%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.09%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.22%) Linux
2 11 (11.96%) Windows
3 10 (10.87%) Unix
4 4 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 38 (41.30%) Agile
3 36 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (29.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (26.09%) Containerisation
5 24 (26.09%) Microservices
6 22 (23.91%) Migration
7 17 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (17.39%) Analytics
8 16 (17.39%) Data Modelling
8 16 (17.39%) Observability
9 15 (16.30%) High Availability
10 14 (15.22%) Cloud Security
11 13 (14.13%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (14.13%) Test Automation
12 12 (13.04%) Design Patterns
12 12 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (11.96%) Data Governance
13 11 (11.96%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.78%) Python
2 23 (25.00%) Java
3 20 (21.74%) PowerShell
4 12 (13.04%) SQL
5 10 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.78%) Bash
7 8 (8.70%) Perl
8 7 (7.61%) Ruby
9 6 (6.52%) JavaScript
10 3 (3.26%) C#
11 2 (2.17%) Rust
12 1 (1.09%) C++
12 1 (1.09%) Go
12 1 (1.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) AWS Certification
2 10 (10.87%) Degree
3 5 (5.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (5.43%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.26%) CISSP
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.17%) CISM
6 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.17%) PMP
6 2 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.09%) NCDA
7 1 (1.09%) SSCP
7 1 (1.09%) VCAP
7 1 (1.09%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.70%) GDPR
2 8 (8.70%) QA
3 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
4 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.26%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.26%) PMO
6 2 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.17%) NIST
7 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (27.17%) Docker
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (36.96%) Kubernetes
2 31 (33.70%) Terraform
3 17 (18.48%) Ansible
4 5 (5.43%) Grafana
4 5 (5.43%) SCCM
5 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (2.17%) Fluentd
7 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.09%) vMotion
8 1 (1.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.87%) Oracle
2 10 (10.87%) Splunk
3 7 (7.61%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.52%) Databricks
4 6 (6.52%) Google
4 6 (6.52%) Greenplum
5 4 (4.35%) Cisco
5 4 (4.35%) IBM
5 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.26%) Avaya
6 3 (3.26%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.26%) Genesys
6 3 (3.26%) Pega
7 2 (2.17%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.17%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.09%) Brocade
8 1 (1.09%) Commvault
8 1 (1.09%) NetApp
8 1 (1.09%) VMware