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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 19 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 106 96 61
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.85% 12.02% 7.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.88% 13.04% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 76 49
10th Percentile £319 £363 £344
25th Percentile £402 £408 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +3.26% -12.38%
75th Percentile £600 £541 £588
90th Percentile £700 £649 £622
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £61.25 - -
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 823 736 696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.24% 92.12% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 470 473
10th Percentile £283 £300 £264
25th Percentile £358 £378 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £606 £629
Scotland median daily rate £455 £463 £458
% change year-on-year -1.67% +1.15% -3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 19 33
10th Percentile £13.46 £16.49 £11.68
25th Percentile £13.65 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.63 £19.83 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -16.16% -51.56% +195.06%
75th Percentile £43.96 £26.21 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.00 £72.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.93 £20.00 £20.62
% change year-on-year -10.35% -2.98% +42.17%

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 5 July 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 5 July 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 63 (59.43%) Azure
2 46 (43.40%) AWS
3 33 (31.13%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (20.75%) GCP
5 14 (13.21%) 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 27 (25.47%) 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%) Claude Code
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%) 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 34 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.58%) Finance
3 16 (15.09%) Banking
4 15 (14.15%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.60%) 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 31 (29.25%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (12.26%) Senior
3 12 (11.32%) Developer
4 11 (10.38%) Azure Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Data Engineer
5 10 (9.43%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Analyst
7 7 (6.60%) Embedded Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Scrum Master
8 6 (5.66%) Architect
8 6 (5.66%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (4.72%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Windows Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) GCP 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%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.77%) Flask
9 4 (3.77%) NestJS
9 4 (3.77%) OAuth
9 4 (3.77%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 21 (19.81%) Product Ownership
2 19 (17.92%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.66%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.72%) Enterprise Cloud
4 5 (4.72%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.72%) Reference Data
5 4 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.77%) Onboarding
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 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%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.60%) Linux
1 7 (6.60%) Windows
2 2 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (1.89%) Unix
3 1 (0.94%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.94%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (62.26%) CI/CD
2 50 (47.17%) Agile
3 29 (27.36%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (22.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 21 (19.81%) Containerisation
6 20 (18.87%) Scrum
7 19 (17.92%) Data Modelling
7 19 (17.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (17.92%) Test Automation
8 18 (16.98%) Analytics
9 17 (16.04%) Microservices
9 17 (16.04%) Platform Engineering
10 16 (15.09%) Data Engineering
10 16 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (14.15%) Data Governance
11 15 (14.15%) Migration
12 14 (13.21%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (13.21%) Kanban
13 13 (12.26%) Mentoring
14 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 8 (7.55%) Bash
6 6 (5.66%) C#
7 5 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 4 (3.77%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.94%) Bicep
9 1 (0.94%) C++
9 1 (0.94%) Groovy
9 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 35 (33.02%) Kubernetes
2 28 (26.42%) 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
7 1 (0.94%) Podman
7 1 (0.94%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.94%) Puppet
7 1 (0.94%) SCCM
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 6 (5.66%) Google
5 4 (3.77%) Salesforce
5 4 (3.77%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.83%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.89%) Informatica
7 2 (1.89%) Talend
7 2 (1.89%) VMware
8 1 (0.94%) Brocade
8 1 (0.94%) Cisco
8 1 (0.94%) Commvault
8 1 (0.94%) IBM
8 1 (0.94%) NetApp
8 1 (0.94%) Okta
8 1 (0.94%) Pega
8 1 (0.94%) Splunk