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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 15 21
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing DevOps 133 110 55
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.16% 14.75% 7.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.31% 16.15% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 41
10th Percentile £363 £359 £356
25th Percentile £402 £416 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £500
90th Percentile £703 £625 £600
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +36.36% - -

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 999 681 616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.81% 91.29% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 415 435
10th Percentile £275 £285 £262
25th Percentile £363 £373 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £565 £538 £557
90th Percentile £675 £613 £674
Scotland median daily rate £470 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +0.53% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 13
10th Percentile £13.39 £14.40 £15.56
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +97.49% -9.53% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 £25.17
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.37 £40.90
Scotland median hourly rate £16.49 £19.97 £19.59
% change year-on-year -17.45% +1.94% +2.14%

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 27 September 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 11 (8.27%) Confluence
2 9 (6.77%) Apache
3 6 (4.51%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.50%) Alfresco
5 2 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.75%) Camunda
6 1 (0.75%) CMS
6 1 (0.75%) JBoss
6 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (45.86%) Azure
2 54 (40.60%) AWS
3 32 (24.06%) GCP
4 28 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (17.29%) GitHub
6 14 (10.53%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (9.02%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.26%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (5.26%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.26%) Kong
9 7 (5.26%) Serverless
10 6 (4.51%) Apigee
10 6 (4.51%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.01%) IaaS
13 3 (2.26%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (2.26%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.26%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.51%) DNS
2 3 (2.26%) DHCP
3 2 (1.50%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.50%) SSH
3 2 (1.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.75%) BGP
4 1 (0.75%) Firewall
4 1 (0.75%) HTTP
4 1 (0.75%) IPv4
4 1 (0.75%) IPv6
4 1 (0.75%) LAN
4 1 (0.75%) OSPF
4 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) VLAN
4 1 (0.75%) VPN
4 1 (0.75%) WAN
4 1 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.02%) MongoDB
1 8 (6.02%) NoSQL
2 5 (3.76%) Flink
2 5 (3.76%) Metadata
2 5 (3.76%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.01%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.01%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.26%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.50%) Big Data
5 2 (1.50%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.50%) DataStage
5 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.50%) MySQL
5 2 (1.50%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.75%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 34 (25.56%) Git
2 22 (16.54%) Jenkins
3 16 (12.03%) JIRA
4 11 (8.27%) Claude Code
5 6 (4.51%) Maven
5 6 (4.51%) Selenium
6 5 (3.76%) GitLab
7 4 (3.01%) Cypress.io
7 4 (3.01%) Gradle
7 4 (3.01%) JUnit
7 4 (3.01%) Postman
7 4 (3.01%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.26%) Appium
8 3 (2.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.26%) GoCD
8 3 (2.26%) JProfiler
8 3 (2.26%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.26%) Subversion
9 2 (1.50%) MSTest
9 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 44 (33.08%) Finance
2 35 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.54%) Banking
4 15 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.76%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.50%) Law
9 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.75%) Front Office
9 1 (0.75%) International Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Legal
9 1 (0.75%) Military
9 1 (0.75%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (18.80%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (15.79%) Developer
3 17 (12.78%) Senior
4 14 (10.53%) Platform Engineer
5 12 (9.02%) Java Developer
6 11 (8.27%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.27%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Architect
7 9 (6.77%) Lead
8 7 (5.26%) Analyst
8 7 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Embedded Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Provisioning Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (3.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) AWS Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (35.34%) Terraform
2 22 (16.54%) RESTful
3 16 (12.03%) Spring
3 16 (12.03%) Spring Boot
4 13 (9.77%) Kafka
5 12 (9.02%) REST
6 10 (7.52%) OpenAPI
6 10 (7.52%) Swagger
7 8 (6.02%) OAuth
7 8 (6.02%) OAuth2
7 8 (6.02%) Playwright
7 8 (6.02%) PySpark
8 7 (5.26%) AngularJS
8 7 (5.26%) Web Services
9 6 (4.51%) .NET
9 6 (4.51%) JWT
9 6 (4.51%) OpenID
9 6 (4.51%) React
10 4 (3.01%) Streamlit
11 3 (2.26%) JSF
Miscellaneous
1 32 (24.06%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.77%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.02%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (8.27%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
6 7 (5.26%) Private Cloud
7 6 (4.51%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (3.01%) Onboarding
8 4 (3.01%) PKI
9 3 (2.26%) Data Centre
9 3 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.50%) AI Agents
10 2 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.50%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
11 1 (0.75%) Distributed Computing
11 1 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.75%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Linux
2 9 (6.77%) Windows
3 4 (3.01%) Unix
4 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.75%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (63.16%) CI/CD
2 46 (34.59%) Agile
3 35 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (24.06%) Containerisation
5 25 (18.80%) Platform Engineering
6 24 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (16.54%) Code Quality
7 22 (16.54%) Test Automation
8 21 (15.79%) AI
9 19 (14.29%) Microservices
10 18 (13.53%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (12.03%) Scrum
12 15 (11.28%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
13 14 (10.53%) Mentoring
14 12 (9.02%) Continuous Delivery
14 12 (9.02%) Observability
14 12 (9.02%) Validation
15 11 (8.27%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.34%) Python
2 28 (21.05%) Java
3 20 (15.04%) SQL
4 15 (11.28%) Bash
4 15 (11.28%) Go
5 9 (6.77%) Shell Script
6 8 (6.02%) C#
6 8 (6.02%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.51%) Lua
7 6 (4.51%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
9 4 (3.01%) Perl
10 2 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.75%) Bicep
11 1 (0.75%) Groovy
11 1 (0.75%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (18.05%) Security Cleared
2 16 (12.03%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.02%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.76%) Degree
5 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.26%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.50%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.75%) APMG
8 1 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.75%) LFCS
8 1 (0.75%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.75%) RHCE
8 1 (0.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.52%) Data Quality
1 10 (7.52%) QA
2 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.76%) GDPR
3 2 (1.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.75%) NCSC
4 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (19.55%) Docker
2 7 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.51%) zsh
4 3 (2.26%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.26%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.26%) vSphere
5 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.50%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.75%) Ceph
6 1 (0.75%) UAG
Systems Management
1 63 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 12 (9.02%) Ansible
3 3 (2.26%) Istio
4 2 (1.50%) Puppet
5 1 (0.75%) Argo
5 1 (0.75%) Grafana
5 1 (0.75%) logstash
5 1 (0.75%) Podman
5 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.75%) SCCM
5 1 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.75%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.03%) Google
3 13 (9.77%) Oracle
4 10 (7.52%) MuleSoft
5 8 (6.02%) Databricks
5 8 (6.02%) VMware
6 6 (4.51%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.26%) SaltStack
7 3 (2.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.26%) Splunk
8 2 (1.50%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.50%) Informatica
8 2 (1.50%) Okta
8 2 (1.50%) RedGate
8 2 (1.50%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.50%) Talend
9 1 (0.75%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.75%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.75%) IBM
9 1 (0.75%) Pega