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 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 22 18
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 -5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 84 82 94
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.67% 10.09% 10.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.19% 10.79% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 60 66
10th Percentile £311 £355 £413
25th Percentile £350 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -21.74% -2.13%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £644
90th Percentile £713 £665 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £469 £483
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.95% -3.40%
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 592 760 853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.22% 93.48% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 484 548
10th Percentile £310 £300 £309
25th Percentile £375 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £604 £688
Scotland median daily rate £450 £460 £480
% change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 40
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.18 £13.75
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.75 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £19.83 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -6.14% +56.50%
75th Percentile £46.61 £65.00 £44.14
90th Percentile £54.00 £76.83 £63.75
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.44 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.86% +15.06% +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 15 April 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 15 April 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 10 (11.90%) Confluence
2 5 (5.95%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.38%) Alfresco
Applications
1 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (60.71%) AWS
2 46 (54.76%) Azure
3 19 (22.62%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (21.43%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (17.86%) Serverless
6 14 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
6 14 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (13.10%) Amazon EC2
7 11 (13.10%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (13.10%) GCP
8 8 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (8.33%) Collibra
10 6 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (5.95%) GitHub
11 5 (5.95%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (5.95%) OpenShift
12 4 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
12 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.71%) Firewall
2 2 (2.38%) VPN
3 1 (1.19%) DNS
3 1 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.19%) Network Security
3 1 (1.19%) SAN
3 1 (1.19%) SSH
3 1 (1.19%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.90%) DynamoDB
1 10 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.71%) Metadata
3 8 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 6 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.14%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
6 5 (5.95%) MySQL
7 4 (4.76%) Big Data
7 4 (4.76%) Hadoop
8 3 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (3.57%) SQL Server
9 2 (2.38%) DataStage
9 2 (2.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (1.19%) MariaDB
10 1 (1.19%) Power BI
10 1 (1.19%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (26.19%) JIRA
2 18 (21.43%) Git
3 15 (17.86%) Jenkins
4 8 (9.52%) Bitbucket
4 8 (9.52%) GitLab
4 8 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.57%) JUnit
6 2 (2.38%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.19%) Postman
7 1 (1.19%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
General
1 26 (30.95%) Finance
2 25 (29.76%) Social Skills
3 15 (17.86%) Banking
3 15 (17.86%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.19%) Law
5 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (35.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (17.86%) Senior
3 8 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (9.52%) Developer
4 7 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 7 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (8.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Data Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.95%) Scrum Master
6 5 (5.95%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.95%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.67%) Node.js
2 12 (14.29%) React
3 11 (13.10%) RESTful
3 11 (13.10%) Spring
3 11 (13.10%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.33%) REST
5 4 (4.76%) Django
5 4 (4.76%) Express.js
5 4 (4.76%) FastAPI
5 4 (4.76%) Flask
5 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
5 4 (4.76%) MERN Stack
5 4 (4.76%) NestJS
5 4 (4.76%) PySpark
5 4 (4.76%) Redux
6 3 (3.57%) .NET
6 3 (3.57%) Jest
6 3 (3.57%) JWT
6 3 (3.57%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 13 (15.48%) Cloud Native
3 5 (5.95%) Reference Data
3 5 (5.95%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.76%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.57%) IVR
5 3 (3.57%) NHS
6 2 (2.38%) Clustering
6 2 (2.38%) CMDB
6 2 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.38%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.19%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.19%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.05%) Linux
2 8 (9.52%) Windows
3 4 (4.76%) Unix
4 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 41 (48.81%) Agile
3 24 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (25.00%) Microservices
4 21 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (23.81%) Containerisation
6 17 (20.24%) Migration
7 16 (19.05%) Analytics
8 13 (15.48%) Data Modelling
8 13 (15.48%) Test Automation
9 12 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (14.29%) Observability
9 12 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (13.10%) Scrum
10 11 (13.10%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (11.90%) Data Governance
11 10 (11.90%) Decision-Making
12 9 (10.71%) Coaching
12 9 (10.71%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 42 (50.00%) Python
2 24 (28.57%) Java
3 16 (19.05%) PowerShell
4 11 (13.10%) SQL
5 8 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.52%) Perl
6 7 (8.33%) Ruby
6 7 (8.33%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.95%) Bash
8 3 (3.57%) C#
9 1 (1.19%) C++
9 1 (1.19%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (15.48%) Security Cleared
2 9 (10.71%) Degree
2 9 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.38%) PMP
6 2 (2.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.19%) CISM
7 1 (1.19%) CISSP
7 1 (1.19%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.19%) NCDA
7 1 (1.19%) VCAP
7 1 (1.19%) VCP6
7 1 (1.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.90%) Data Quality
1 10 (11.90%) GDPR
2 6 (7.14%) QA
3 4 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.57%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 3 (3.57%) PMO
5 1 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.19%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (27.38%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.19%) Ceph
4 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.19%) Squid
4 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (36.90%) Kubernetes
2 26 (30.95%) Terraform
3 9 (10.71%) Ansible
4 6 (7.14%) Grafana
5 5 (5.95%) Istio
5 5 (5.95%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.38%) Argo
6 2 (2.38%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.38%) SCCM
7 1 (1.19%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.19%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.19%) vMotion
7 1 (1.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.48%) Oracle
3 8 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 6 (7.14%) Databricks
4 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 5 (5.95%) Splunk
6 4 (4.76%) Cisco
6 4 (4.76%) IBM
7 3 (3.57%) Avaya
7 3 (3.57%) Genesys
7 3 (3.57%) Pega
8 2 (2.38%) Informatica
8 2 (2.38%) Talend
8 2 (2.38%) VMware
9 1 (1.19%) Ab Initio
9 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.19%) Brocade
9 1 (1.19%) Commvault
9 1 (1.19%) Google
9 1 (1.19%) NetApp