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

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 18 17
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 113 99 62
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.76% 12.24% 8.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.74% 13.34% 9.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 79 51
10th Percentile £336 £372 £356
25th Percentile £402 £420 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -8.00%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £551
90th Percentile £693 £662 £613
Scotland median daily rate £483 £494 £463
% change year-on-year -2.28% +6.81% -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 £52.50
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -

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 887 742 659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.48% 91.72% 90.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 480 468
10th Percentile £284 £300 £266
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -9.55%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £607 £641
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.81% +2.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 22
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.82 £15.07
25th Percentile £14.45 £16.84 £20.53
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.59 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +78.66% -52.15% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.68 £43.27
90th Percentile £77.50 £32.47 £62.00
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £19.99 £20.29
% change year-on-year -13.13% -1.48% +10.70%

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 26 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 26 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 16 (14.16%) Confluence
2 8 (7.08%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.42%) Apache
4 2 (1.77%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.77%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.88%) CMS
5 1 (0.88%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (57.52%) Azure
2 45 (39.82%) AWS
3 32 (28.32%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (23.01%) GCP
5 18 (15.93%) GitHub
6 11 (9.73%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (7.08%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.19%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.19%) Collibra
9 5 (4.42%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.42%) Serverless
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.54%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.65%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (2.65%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (2.65%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.65%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.65%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.65%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.88%) DNS
1 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.88%) SSH
1 1 (0.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.62%) MongoDB
2 11 (9.73%) NoSQL
3 10 (8.85%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (7.96%) Metadata
5 7 (6.19%) DynamoDB
5 7 (6.19%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.31%) MySQL
7 5 (4.42%) Big Data
8 4 (3.54%) Flink
8 4 (3.54%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.77%) DataStage
10 2 (1.77%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.77%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
11 1 (0.88%) Redis
11 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 29 (25.66%) Git
2 21 (18.58%) JIRA
3 19 (16.81%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.31%) Claude Code
5 5 (4.42%) Maven
5 5 (4.42%) Postman
5 5 (4.42%) REST Assured
6 4 (3.54%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.54%) Gradle
6 4 (3.54%) JUnit
6 4 (3.54%) Selenium
7 3 (2.65%) Appium
7 3 (2.65%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.65%) GoCD
7 3 (2.65%) JProfiler
7 3 (2.65%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.65%) Subversion
8 2 (1.77%) GitLab
8 2 (1.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.77%) Terragrunt
General
1 31 (27.43%) Social Skills
2 30 (26.55%) Finance
3 18 (15.93%) Banking
4 15 (13.27%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.54%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Law
6 3 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.77%) 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 30 (26.55%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (12.39%) Senior
3 13 (11.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (11.50%) Developer
4 11 (9.73%) Azure Engineer
4 11 (9.73%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Java Developer
6 9 (7.96%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Scrum Master
8 7 (6.19%) Analyst
8 7 (6.19%) Architect
8 7 (6.19%) Embedded Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) AWS Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) GCP Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (3.54%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (14.16%) Spring
1 16 (14.16%) Spring Boot
2 15 (13.27%) RESTful
3 11 (9.73%) React
4 10 (8.85%) REST
5 9 (7.96%) PySpark
6 7 (6.19%) Kafka
6 7 (6.19%) Node.js
6 7 (6.19%) Streamlit
7 6 (5.31%) Playwright
7 6 (5.31%) Web Services
8 5 (4.42%) AngularJS
8 5 (4.42%) Django
8 5 (4.42%) OAuth
8 5 (4.42%) OAuth2
9 4 (3.54%) Express.js
9 4 (3.54%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.54%) MERN Stack
9 4 (3.54%) NestJS
9 4 (3.54%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 21 (18.58%) Cloud Native
1 21 (18.58%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.96%) Enterprise Cloud
3 7 (6.19%) Linux Command Line
3 7 (6.19%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (4.42%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.42%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.77%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.88%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.96%) Linux
2 5 (4.42%) Windows
3 2 (1.77%) Unix
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (63.72%) CI/CD
2 50 (44.25%) Agile
3 28 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (23.01%) Containerisation
5 23 (20.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 23 (20.35%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (19.47%) Platform Engineering
6 22 (19.47%) Scrum
7 21 (18.58%) Test Automation
8 19 (16.81%) Data Modelling
8 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (15.04%) Analytics
9 17 (15.04%) Microservices
10 16 (14.16%) Mentoring
11 15 (13.27%) Data Engineering
11 15 (13.27%) Data Governance
12 14 (12.39%) Code Quality
12 14 (12.39%) Kanban
12 14 (12.39%) Migration
13 13 (11.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (39.82%) Python
2 24 (21.24%) Java
3 18 (15.93%) SQL
4 14 (12.39%) JavaScript
5 10 (8.85%) TypeScript
6 9 (7.96%) Bash
7 6 (5.31%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.42%) C#
9 2 (1.77%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.88%) Bicep
10 1 (0.88%) C++
10 1 (0.88%) Groovy
10 1 (0.88%) Perl
10 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (15.93%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.62%) SC Cleared
3 11 (9.73%) Degree
4 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.65%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.88%) APMG
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.39%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.96%) GDPR
3 7 (6.19%) QA
4 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.77%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.88%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (19.47%) Docker
2 3 (2.65%) zsh
3 2 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.88%) Ceph
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.88%) Squid
4 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (35.40%) Kubernetes
2 34 (30.09%) Terraform
3 5 (4.42%) Ansible
3 5 (4.42%) Istio
4 3 (2.65%) Grafana
4 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.77%) Argo
6 1 (0.88%) Podman
6 1 (0.88%) Puppet
6 1 (0.88%) SCCM
6 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (24.78%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.27%) Oracle
3 11 (9.73%) Databricks
4 10 (8.85%) Google
5 5 (4.42%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.54%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.77%) Informatica
7 2 (1.77%) Okta
7 2 (1.77%) RedGate
7 2 (1.77%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.77%) Talend
7 2 (1.77%) VMware
8 1 (0.88%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.88%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.88%) IBM
8 1 (0.88%) Pega
8 1 (0.88%) Splunk