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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 20 12
Rank change year-on-year +9 -8 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 92 80 118
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.55% 10.70% 13.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.83% 11.68% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 56 75
10th Percentile £314 £349 £400
25th Percentile £358 £359 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -26.09% -4.17%
75th Percentile £572 £500 £675
90th Percentile £606 £550 £707
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £508
% change year-on-year +5.56% -11.42% +1.60%
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 581 685 824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 85.57% 91.58% 92.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 415 538
10th Percentile £302 £312 £350
25th Percentile £400 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +2.83%
75th Percentile £568 £538 £606
90th Percentile £638 £625 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.16% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 24
10th Percentile £14.09 £16.75 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.50 £14.57
Median hourly rate £23.75 £24.15 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +50.94% +50.52%
75th Percentile £52.50 £34.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.74 £60.50 £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.30 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.14% +19.46% +12.54%

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 28 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 4 (4.35%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.17%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 55 (59.78%) AWS
2 47 (51.09%) Azure
3 22 (23.91%) Serverless
4 17 (18.48%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (16.30%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (13.04%) GCP
8 8 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (8.70%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (8.70%) OpenShift
8 8 (8.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (7.61%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (6.52%) Snowflake
11 5 (5.43%) GitHub
12 4 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.35%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.35%) PaaS
13 3 (3.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
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 14 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.70%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.52%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (5.43%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.43%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.35%) Big Data
7 3 (3.26%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (3.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (3.26%) DynamoDB
7 3 (3.26%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.26%) Metadata
7 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.26%) MSDE
8 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
9 1 (1.09%) Power BI
9 1 (1.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (28.26%) Jenkins
2 19 (20.65%) Git
2 19 (20.65%) JIRA
3 11 (11.96%) Bitbucket
3 11 (11.96%) GitLab
4 8 (8.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (6.52%) Cypress.io
5 6 (6.52%) JUnit
6 3 (3.26%) IntelliJ
6 3 (3.26%) PyCharm
6 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.26%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (2.17%) Gradle
7 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
General
1 38 (41.30%) Finance
2 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
3 22 (23.91%) Banking
4 20 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.87%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.17%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (19.57%) Developer
3 15 (16.30%) Senior
4 11 (11.96%) Architect
5 9 (9.78%) Security Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Data Architect
6 8 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.70%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Senior 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%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Snowflake Architect
9 4 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.35%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.30%) Node.js
2 14 (15.22%) Spring
2 14 (15.22%) Spring Boot
3 13 (14.13%) RESTful
4 12 (13.04%) AngularJS
5 9 (9.78%) React
6 6 (6.52%) Jest
6 6 (6.52%) Kafka
7 5 (5.43%) .NET
8 3 (3.26%) Hugging Face
8 3 (3.26%) LangChain
8 3 (3.26%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (3.26%) REST
9 2 (2.17%) JSON
9 2 (2.17%) Next.js
9 2 (2.17%) OAuth
9 2 (2.17%) OAuth2
10 1 (1.09%) ADO
10 1 (1.09%) jQuery
10 1 (1.09%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.52%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.43%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.43%) Public Cloud
4 4 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.26%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (3.26%) IVR
5 3 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.26%) NHS
5 3 (3.26%) Reference Data
6 2 (2.17%) Clustering
6 2 (2.17%) CMDB
6 2 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.09%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.48%) Linux
2 14 (15.22%) Windows
3 11 (11.96%) Unix
4 4 (4.35%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (63.04%) CI/CD
2 39 (42.39%) Agile
3 30 (32.61%) Infrastructure as Code
3 30 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (30.43%) Containerisation
5 24 (26.09%) Microservices
6 19 (20.65%) Migration
7 15 (16.30%) Cloud Security
7 15 (16.30%) High Availability
7 15 (16.30%) Observability
8 14 (15.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (15.22%) Test Automation
9 13 (14.13%) Analytics
9 13 (14.13%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (13.04%) Data Modelling
10 12 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (11.96%) AI
12 10 (10.87%) Data Protection
12 10 (10.87%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 52 (56.52%) Python
2 30 (32.61%) Java
3 21 (22.83%) PowerShell
4 10 (10.87%) SQL
5 9 (9.78%) Bash
5 9 (9.78%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.70%) Perl
7 7 (7.61%) Ruby
8 6 (6.52%) C#
9 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.17%) Rust
10 1 (1.09%) Bicep
10 1 (1.09%) Go
10 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%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.35%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.26%) CISSP
5 3 (3.26%) PMP
6 2 (2.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.17%) CISM
6 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.09%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.09%) NCDA
7 1 (1.09%) SSCP
7 1 (1.09%) VCP6
7 1 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) QA
2 8 (8.70%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.52%) GDPR
4 5 (5.43%) Data Quality
4 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (4.35%) PMO
6 3 (3.26%) HIPAA
6 3 (3.26%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (2.17%) NIST
8 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 36 (39.13%) Terraform
2 34 (36.96%) Kubernetes
3 23 (25.00%) Ansible
4 5 (5.43%) SCCM
5 4 (4.35%) Grafana
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.26%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.17%) Fluentd
7 2 (2.17%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.09%) Kustomize
8 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.09%) vMotion
8 1 (1.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.96%) Splunk
3 8 (8.70%) Oracle
3 8 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.52%) Google
4 6 (6.52%) Greenplum
5 4 (4.35%) Cisco
5 4 (4.35%) IBM
5 4 (4.35%) Pega
5 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.26%) Avaya
6 3 (3.26%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.26%) Genesys
7 2 (2.17%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.17%) Databricks
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