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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 19 18
Rank change year-on-year +3 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 106 87 60
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.21% 11.23% 7.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.28% 12.18% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 71 49
10th Percentile £316 £363 £344
25th Percentile £401 £407 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +3.26% -12.38%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £588
90th Percentile £707 £625 £622
Scotland median daily rate £493 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +3.68% +2.70% -7.50%
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% -

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 798 714 699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.36% 92.13% 90.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 460 469
10th Percentile £285 £300 £263
25th Percentile £358 £377 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £553
90th Percentile £675 £600 £620
Scotland median daily rate £459 £463 £453
% change year-on-year -0.81% +2.10% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 19 33
10th Percentile £13.49 £16.49 £11.68
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.63 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -51.56% +184.80%
75th Percentile £60.63 £26.21 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.00 £72.50
Scotland median hourly rate £18.50 £20.00 £19.55
% change year-on-year -7.50% +2.33% +22.23%

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 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 28 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 15 (14.15%) Confluence
2 7 (6.60%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.89%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.94%) JBoss
5 1 (0.94%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.94%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (58.49%) Azure
2 46 (43.40%) AWS
3 33 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (18.87%) GCP
5 13 (12.26%) GitHub
6 10 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (6.60%) Collibra
8 6 (5.66%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.72%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (3.77%) Serverless
11 3 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.83%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (2.83%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (2.83%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (2.83%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.83%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.94%) DNS
1 1 (0.94%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (0.94%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.94%) SAN
1 1 (0.94%) SSH
1 1 (0.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) MongoDB
1 11 (10.38%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.49%) Metadata
4 7 (6.60%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.66%) MySQL
5 6 (5.66%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.72%) Big Data
7 4 (3.77%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.83%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (2.83%) Flink
9 2 (1.89%) DataStage
9 2 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.94%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.94%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.94%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.94%) SQL Server
10 1 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 26 (24.53%) Git
2 21 (19.81%) JIRA
3 17 (16.04%) Jenkins
4 5 (4.72%) Maven
4 5 (4.72%) Postman
4 5 (4.72%) REST Assured
5 4 (3.77%) Cypress.io
5 4 (3.77%) Gradle
5 4 (3.77%) JUnit
5 4 (3.77%) Selenium
6 3 (2.83%) Appium
6 3 (2.83%) Claude Code
6 3 (2.83%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.83%) GoCD
6 3 (2.83%) JProfiler
6 3 (2.83%) SpecFlow
6 3 (2.83%) Subversion
7 2 (1.89%) Terragrunt
8 1 (0.94%) GitLab
8 1 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 23 (21.70%) Finance
3 16 (15.09%) Banking
4 15 (14.15%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.55%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.83%) Law
6 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.89%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Military
8 1 (0.94%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (28.30%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (12.26%) Senior
3 12 (11.32%) Developer
4 10 (9.43%) Azure Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Data Engineer
4 10 (9.43%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.49%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Analyst
6 7 (6.60%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Embedded Engineer
6 7 (6.60%) Scrum Master
7 6 (5.66%) Architect
7 6 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (5.66%) Windows Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.72%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.09%) Spring
1 16 (15.09%) Spring Boot
2 15 (14.15%) RESTful
3 12 (11.32%) React
4 10 (9.43%) REST
5 8 (7.55%) PySpark
6 7 (6.60%) Node.js
6 7 (6.60%) Streamlit
7 6 (5.66%) AngularJS
7 6 (5.66%) Kafka
7 6 (5.66%) Playwright
8 5 (4.72%) Web Services
9 4 (3.77%) .NET
9 4 (3.77%) Django
9 4 (3.77%) Express.js
9 4 (3.77%) Flask
9 4 (3.77%) MERN Stack
9 4 (3.77%) NestJS
9 4 (3.77%) OAuth
9 4 (3.77%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.81%) Product Ownership
2 17 (16.04%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.66%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.72%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.77%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Cloud
6 3 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.89%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.94%) Clustering
8 1 (0.94%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.94%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.94%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.94%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.94%) NVMe
8 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.55%) Windows
2 6 (5.66%) Linux
3 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.89%) Unix
4 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (60.38%) CI/CD
2 52 (49.06%) Agile
3 29 (27.36%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (18.87%) Scrum
6 19 (17.92%) Containerisation
6 19 (17.92%) Data Modelling
6 19 (17.92%) Test Automation
7 18 (16.98%) Analytics
8 17 (16.04%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (16.04%) Microservices
9 16 (15.09%) Data Engineering
9 16 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (14.15%) Data Governance
10 15 (14.15%) Migration
10 15 (14.15%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (13.21%) Kanban
12 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
13 11 (10.38%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 44 (41.51%) Python
2 23 (21.70%) Java
3 14 (13.21%) JavaScript
3 14 (13.21%) SQL
4 10 (9.43%) TypeScript
5 7 (6.60%) Bash
5 7 (6.60%) PowerShell
6 6 (5.66%) C#
7 3 (2.83%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.94%) Bicep
8 1 (0.94%) C++
8 1 (0.94%) Groovy
8 1 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 12 (11.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.38%) Degree
4 6 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.77%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.83%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (0.94%) NCDA
7 1 (0.94%) VCAP
7 1 (0.94%) VCP6
7 1 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.26%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.55%) GDPR
2 8 (7.55%) QA
3 3 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.83%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (19.81%) Docker
2 3 (2.83%) zsh
3 2 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.94%) Ceph
4 1 (0.94%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.94%) Squid
4 1 (0.94%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (31.13%) Kubernetes
2 26 (24.53%) Terraform
3 7 (6.60%) Ansible
4 6 (5.66%) Grafana
5 5 (4.72%) Istio
5 5 (4.72%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.89%) Argo
6 2 (1.89%) SCCM
7 1 (0.94%) Podman
7 1 (0.94%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.94%) Puppet
7 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.94%) vMotion
7 1 (0.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.32%) Oracle
3 11 (10.38%) Databricks
4 4 (3.77%) Google
4 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.83%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.89%) Informatica
6 2 (1.89%) Splunk
6 2 (1.89%) Talend
6 2 (1.89%) VMware
7 1 (0.94%) Brocade
7 1 (0.94%) Cisco
7 1 (0.94%) Commvault
7 1 (0.94%) IBM
7 1 (0.94%) NetApp
7 1 (0.94%) Okta
7 1 (0.94%) Pega