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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 18 9
Rank change year-on-year +7 -9 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 86 76 124
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 13.09% 10.58% 14.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.19% 11.60% 15.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 53 79
10th Percentile £313 £348 £400
25th Percentile £363 £356 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -26.09% -3.16%
75th Percentile £573 £500 £665
90th Percentile £606 £550 £706
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +5.56% -14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - -

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 566 655 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 86.15% 91.23% 91.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 366 400 513
10th Percentile £295 £311 £350
25th Percentile £383 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -11.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £554 £538 £625
90th Percentile £625 £639 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +3.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 16
10th Percentile £14.05 £16.75 £13.71
25th Percentile £16.04 £18.50 £15.86
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.15 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.33% +42.06% -42.80%
75th Percentile £53.75 £34.50 £19.50
90th Percentile £61.93 £43.73 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +4.00%

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 12 January 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 1 (1.16%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 51 (59.30%) AWS
2 43 (50.00%) Azure
3 22 (25.58%) Serverless
4 17 (19.77%) AWS CloudFormation
5 15 (17.44%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (12.79%) GCP
7 10 (11.63%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (9.30%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (9.30%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (9.30%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (9.30%) OpenShift
8 8 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (8.14%) Amazon MSK
10 6 (6.98%) Snowflake
11 5 (5.81%) GitHub
12 4 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 4 (4.65%) Amazon EventBridge
12 4 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
13 3 (3.49%) AWS CloudTrail
13 3 (3.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.63%) Firewall
2 3 (3.49%) VPN
3 1 (1.16%) DHCP
3 1 (1.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.16%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.12%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.47%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (9.30%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.98%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.65%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (3.49%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.49%) MSDE
6 3 (3.49%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.33%) Redis
8 1 (1.16%) Big Data
8 1 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 29 (33.72%) Jenkins
2 16 (18.60%) Git
3 14 (16.28%) JIRA
4 11 (12.79%) Bitbucket
4 11 (12.79%) GitLab
5 8 (9.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (6.98%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.98%) JUnit
7 3 (3.49%) IntelliJ
7 3 (3.49%) PyCharm
7 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.49%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (2.33%) Gradle
8 2 (2.33%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (43.02%) Finance
2 24 (27.91%) Social Skills
3 20 (23.26%) Banking
4 18 (20.93%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.65%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.33%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (22.09%) Developer
3 14 (16.28%) Senior
4 11 (12.79%) Architect
5 9 (10.47%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Data Architect
7 7 (8.14%) Security Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Senior Developer
8 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps
8 6 (6.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 6 (6.98%) Windows Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) AWS DevOps
9 5 (5.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.81%) Snowflake Architect
9 5 (5.81%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.65%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.60%) Spring Boot
2 15 (17.44%) Node.js
3 14 (16.28%) Spring
4 12 (13.95%) RESTful
5 11 (12.79%) AngularJS
6 8 (9.30%) Kafka
6 8 (9.30%) React
7 6 (6.98%) Jest
8 4 (4.65%) .NET
8 4 (4.65%) LangChain
9 3 (3.49%) Hugging Face
9 3 (3.49%) OAuth
9 3 (3.49%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.49%) REST
10 2 (2.33%) FastAPI
10 2 (2.33%) Flask
10 2 (2.33%) LangGraph
10 2 (2.33%) Loki
10 2 (2.33%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (6.98%) Public Cloud
3 4 (4.65%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (3.49%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.49%) IVR
4 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.49%) NHS
5 2 (2.33%) CMDB
5 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.77%) Linux
2 11 (12.79%) Unix
2 11 (12.79%) Windows
3 4 (4.65%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (66.28%) CI/CD
2 32 (37.21%) Agile
3 31 (36.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (31.40%) Containerisation
5 24 (27.91%) Microservices
6 21 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (18.60%) Observability
8 15 (17.44%) Cloud Security
9 14 (16.28%) High Availability
9 14 (16.28%) Migration
10 13 (15.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (15.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (13.95%) AI
11 12 (13.95%) Software Engineering
11 12 (13.95%) Test Automation
12 10 (11.63%) Data Protection
12 10 (11.63%) Design Patterns
12 10 (11.63%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (11.63%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (10.47%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 51 (59.30%) Python
2 33 (38.37%) Java
3 19 (22.09%) PowerShell
4 11 (12.79%) SQL
5 8 (9.30%) Bash
5 8 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.14%) Perl
6 7 (8.14%) Ruby
7 5 (5.81%) C#
8 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.33%) Rust
9 1 (1.16%) Bicep
9 1 (1.16%) Go
9 1 (1.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (15.12%) AWS Certification
2 7 (8.14%) Degree
3 6 (6.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 5 (5.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.65%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.49%) CISSP
6 3 (3.49%) PMP
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.33%) CISM
7 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.33%) PMI Certification
7 2 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (1.16%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.16%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (1.16%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.16%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) Accessibility
1 8 (9.30%) QA
2 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.65%) PMO
4 3 (3.49%) GDPR
4 3 (3.49%) HIPAA
4 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.33%) NIST
6 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.16%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (27.91%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (44.19%) Terraform
2 32 (37.21%) Kubernetes
3 21 (24.42%) Ansible
4 5 (5.81%) SCCM
5 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (2.33%) Fluentd
6 2 (2.33%) Grafana
6 2 (2.33%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.79%) Splunk
3 8 (9.30%) ServiceNow
4 6 (6.98%) Google
4 6 (6.98%) Greenplum
4 6 (6.98%) Oracle
5 4 (4.65%) Avaya
5 4 (4.65%) Cisco
5 4 (4.65%) IBM
5 4 (4.65%) Pega
5 4 (4.65%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.49%) Cribl.io
6 3 (3.49%) Genesys
7 2 (2.33%) Ab Initio
7 2 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.16%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.16%) Databricks
8 1 (1.16%) F5
8 1 (1.16%) Infoblox