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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 19 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 101 80 59
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.04% 10.48% 7.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.08% 11.35% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 64 47
10th Percentile £314 £363 £338
25th Percentile £358 £406 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £610 £525 £600
90th Percentile £712 £652 £638
Scotland median daily rate £500 £494 £472
% change year-on-year +1.21% +4.61% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile £51.00 - -
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 £39.25
% change year-on-year +36.36% +40.13% -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 772 705 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.37% 92.40% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 447 471
10th Percentile £290 £300 £270
25th Percentile £363 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +3.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £560
90th Percentile £675 £600 £623
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £460
% change year-on-year - +0.65% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 18 32
10th Percentile £13.48 £16.31 £11.59
25th Percentile £14.07 £16.84 £15.92
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.90 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% -51.39% +184.80%
75th Percentile £66.25 £26.21 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.07 £73.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.35% +2.56% +18.18%

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 June 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 June 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 13 (12.87%) Confluence
2 7 (6.93%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.97%) Apache
4 2 (1.98%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.99%) JBoss
5 1 (0.99%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.98%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.99%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 58 (57.43%) Azure
2 44 (43.56%) AWS
3 30 (29.70%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (16.83%) GCP
5 9 (8.91%) GitHub
5 9 (8.91%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (6.93%) Collibra
7 6 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.95%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.97%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (2.97%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 3 (2.97%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (2.97%) AWS KMS
9 3 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.97%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (2.97%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.97%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.99%) DNS
1 1 (0.99%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (0.99%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.99%) SAN
1 1 (0.99%) SSH
1 1 (0.99%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.89%) MongoDB
1 11 (10.89%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.91%) Metadata
4 7 (6.93%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.94%) MySQL
5 6 (5.94%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.95%) Big Data
7 4 (3.96%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.97%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.97%) Flink
9 2 (1.98%) DataStage
9 2 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.99%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.99%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 22 (21.78%) Git
2 19 (18.81%) JIRA
3 16 (15.84%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.95%) Maven
5 4 (3.96%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.96%) Gradle
5 4 (3.96%) JUnit
5 4 (3.96%) Postman
5 4 (3.96%) REST Assured
6 3 (2.97%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.97%) GoCD
6 3 (2.97%) JProfiler
6 3 (2.97%) Selenium
6 3 (2.97%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.97%) Subversion
7 2 (1.98%) Appium
7 2 (1.98%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.99%) GitLab
8 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (35.64%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Finance
3 15 (14.85%) Public Sector
4 12 (11.88%) Banking
5 8 (7.92%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Law
6 3 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.99%) Legal
8 1 (0.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (28.71%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (13.86%) Senior
3 13 (12.87%) Developer
4 11 (10.89%) Java Developer
5 10 (9.90%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (9.90%) Data Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Analyst
7 7 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (6.93%) Windows Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.94%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Architect
9 5 (4.95%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.95%) Scrum Master
9 5 (4.95%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.83%) Spring
1 17 (16.83%) Spring Boot
2 16 (15.84%) RESTful
3 13 (12.87%) React
4 9 (8.91%) REST
5 8 (7.92%) PySpark
6 7 (6.93%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.93%) Node.js
6 7 (6.93%) Streamlit
7 6 (5.94%) Kafka
8 5 (4.95%) Playwright
8 5 (4.95%) Web Services
9 4 (3.96%) .NET
9 4 (3.96%) Django
9 4 (3.96%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.96%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.96%) Jest
9 4 (3.96%) MERN Stack
9 4 (3.96%) NestJS
9 4 (3.96%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.83%) Product Ownership
2 16 (15.84%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.94%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.95%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.97%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.99%) Clustering
8 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.99%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.99%) NVMe
8 1 (0.99%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.99%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.91%) Windows
2 6 (5.94%) Linux
3 3 (2.97%) Unix
4 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (62.38%) CI/CD
2 52 (51.49%) Agile
3 28 (27.72%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (21.78%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (18.81%) Data Modelling
6 18 (17.82%) Scrum
6 18 (17.82%) Test Automation
7 17 (16.83%) Analytics
7 17 (16.83%) Containerisation
7 17 (16.83%) Microservices
8 16 (15.84%) Data Engineering
9 15 (14.85%) Data Governance
9 15 (14.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (14.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (14.85%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (13.86%) Migration
10 14 (13.86%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (11.88%) Kanban
11 12 (11.88%) Mentoring
12 11 (10.89%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 41 (40.59%) Python
2 23 (22.77%) Java
3 14 (13.86%) SQL
4 13 (12.87%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.90%) TypeScript
6 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.95%) C#
8 4 (3.96%) Bash
9 1 (0.99%) Bicep
9 1 (0.99%) C++
9 1 (0.99%) Groovy
9 1 (0.99%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.88%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.90%) Degree
4 5 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.96%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.97%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.99%) NCDA
7 1 (0.99%) VCAP
7 1 (0.99%) VCP6
7 1 (0.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.87%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.92%) QA
3 7 (6.93%) GDPR
4 4 (3.96%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.97%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 21 (20.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.99%) Ceph
3 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.99%) Squid
3 1 (0.99%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (28.71%) Kubernetes
2 23 (22.77%) Terraform
3 8 (7.92%) Ansible
4 6 (5.94%) Grafana
5 5 (4.95%) Istio
5 5 (4.95%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.97%) SCCM
7 2 (1.98%) Argo
8 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.99%) Podman
8 1 (0.99%) PowerCLI
8 1 (0.99%) Puppet
8 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.99%) vMotion
8 1 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) Oracle
3 11 (10.89%) Databricks
4 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.96%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.97%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.97%) Splunk
6 2 (1.98%) Informatica
6 2 (1.98%) Talend
6 2 (1.98%) VMware
7 1 (0.99%) Brocade
7 1 (0.99%) Cisco
7 1 (0.99%) Commvault
7 1 (0.99%) Google
7 1 (0.99%) IBM
7 1 (0.99%) NetApp
7 1 (0.99%) Okta
7 1 (0.99%) Pega