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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 19 9
Rank change year-on-year +8 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 99 75 127
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 14.12% 9.93% 14.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.20% 10.93% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 52 82
10th Percentile £317 £348 £400
25th Percentile £391 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £569
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -25.27% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £505 £670
90th Percentile £619 £550 £705
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +2.50%

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 611 686 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 87.16% 90.86% 91.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 427 535
10th Percentile £284 £311 £350
25th Percentile £394 £363 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £625
90th Percentile £630 £657 £700
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 15
10th Percentile £14.49 £16.75 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.13 £17.32 £15.42
Median hourly rate £25.92 £21.87 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +36.69% -46.16%
75th Percentile £52.65 £32.81 £19.50
90th Percentile £62.31 £43.58 £45.30
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year -15.22% +22.99% +2.98%

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 30 December 2025.

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 3 (3.03%) Confluence
2 2 (2.02%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.02%) Mule
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.01%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (58.59%) AWS
2 50 (50.51%) Azure
3 23 (23.23%) Serverless
4 18 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
5 16 (16.16%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (16.16%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (12.12%) Amazon EKS
7 11 (11.11%) GCP
8 9 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (9.09%) GitHub
8 9 (9.09%) OpenShift
8 9 (9.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (7.07%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (6.06%) Snowflake
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (5.05%) Amazon SQS
12 4 (4.04%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (4.04%) Amazon S3
12 4 (4.04%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.10%) Firewall
2 3 (3.03%) VPN
3 2 (2.02%) AMQP
3 2 (2.02%) DSL
3 2 (2.02%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.01%) DHCP
4 1 (1.01%) DNS
4 1 (1.01%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.15%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.06%) Amazon Athena
4 5 (5.05%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.04%) DynamoDB
5 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
5 4 (4.04%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.03%) MSDE
6 3 (3.03%) Redis
7 2 (2.02%) Big Data
7 2 (2.02%) NewSQL
7 2 (2.02%) OLTP
8 1 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (35.35%) Jenkins
2 23 (23.23%) Git
3 20 (20.20%) JIRA
4 14 (14.14%) Bitbucket
4 14 (14.14%) GitLab
5 8 (8.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (6.06%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.06%) IntelliJ
6 6 (6.06%) JUnit
6 6 (6.06%) PyCharm
6 6 (6.06%) Visual Studio
6 6 (6.06%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (3.03%) Terragrunt
8 2 (2.02%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.02%) Gradle
8 2 (2.02%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (43.43%) Finance
2 25 (25.25%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.20%) Banking
4 17 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (14.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.05%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.04%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.02%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.01%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (28.28%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (21.21%) Developer
3 15 (15.15%) Senior
4 13 (13.13%) Architect
5 10 (10.10%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.08%) Azure Engineer
6 8 (8.08%) Data Architect
6 8 (8.08%) Python Engineer
7 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) AWS DevOps
8 6 (6.06%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.06%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (5.05%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.05%) Snowflake Architect
9 5 (5.05%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 16 (16.16%) Spring
3 15 (15.15%) Node.js
3 15 (15.15%) RESTful
4 13 (13.13%) Kafka
5 12 (12.12%) AngularJS
6 8 (8.08%) OAuth
6 8 (8.08%) React
7 6 (6.06%) Jest
7 6 (6.06%) OAuth2
7 6 (6.06%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (5.05%) LangChain
9 4 (4.04%) .NET
9 4 (4.04%) Hugging Face
9 4 (4.04%) REST
9 4 (4.04%) SOAP
10 3 (3.03%) ActiveMQ
10 3 (3.03%) Apache Camel
10 3 (3.03%) JSON
10 3 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (19.19%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.10%) Public Cloud
3 8 (8.08%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (5.05%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.03%) IVR
6 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.03%) NHS
6 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 2 (2.02%) Clustering
7 2 (2.02%) CMDB
7 2 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.02%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.02%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.02%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (25.25%) Linux
2 11 (11.11%) Unix
2 11 (11.11%) Windows
3 4 (4.04%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 43 (43.43%) Agile
3 38 (38.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (31.31%) Containerisation
5 29 (29.29%) Microservices
6 20 (20.20%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (17.17%) High Availability
7 17 (17.17%) Migration
7 17 (17.17%) Observability
8 15 (15.15%) Test Automation
9 14 (14.14%) Cloud Security
9 14 (14.14%) Disaster Recovery
9 14 (14.14%) Software Engineering
10 13 (13.13%) AI
10 13 (13.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (12.12%) Design Patterns
12 11 (11.11%) Computer Science
12 11 (11.11%) Data Protection
12 11 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 58 (58.59%) Python
2 43 (43.43%) Java
3 16 (16.16%) PowerShell
4 14 (14.14%) SQL
5 11 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.08%) Bash
6 8 (8.08%) C#
7 7 (7.07%) Perl
7 7 (7.07%) Ruby
8 2 (2.02%) ANSI SQL
8 2 (2.02%) DataWeave
8 2 (2.02%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.02%) Rust
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.01%) Bicep
9 1 (1.01%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) AWS Certification
2 13 (13.13%) Degree
3 10 (10.10%) Computer Science Degree
4 7 (7.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.04%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.03%) CISSP
7 3 (3.03%) PMP
8 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.02%) CISM
8 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (2.02%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.01%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.01%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.01%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.10%) QA
2 8 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.04%) PMO
5 3 (3.03%) GDPR
5 3 (3.03%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.03%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
6 2 (2.02%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (2.02%) NIST
7 1 (1.01%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (27.27%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (50.51%) Terraform
2 44 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 26 (26.26%) Ansible
4 4 (4.04%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.04%) SCCM
5 3 (3.03%) Argo
5 3 (3.03%) Grafana
5 3 (3.03%) Istio
5 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.02%) Fluentd
6 2 (2.02%) Kustomize
6 2 (2.02%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 13 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.10%) Splunk
3 8 (8.08%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.06%) Google
4 6 (6.06%) Greenplum
4 6 (6.06%) Oracle
5 4 (4.04%) Avaya
5 4 (4.04%) Cisco
5 4 (4.04%) IBM
5 4 (4.04%) Pega
5 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.03%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.03%) Genesys
7 2 (2.02%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.02%) MuleSoft
7 2 (2.02%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.01%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.01%) Databricks
8 1 (1.01%) F5
8 1 (1.01%) Infoblox