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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 20 19
Rank change year-on-year +5 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 116 98 63
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.10% 11.95% 8.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.12% 13.01% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 77 52
10th Percentile £336 £375 £351
25th Percentile £402 £418 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £475 £457
Median % change year-on-year +4.47% +4.05% -8.70%
75th Percentile £603 £550 £551
90th Percentile £693 £663 £613
Scotland median daily rate £475 £485 £461
% change year-on-year -1.96% +5.04% -7.75%
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 884 753 688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.59% 91.83% 90.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 487 482
10th Percentile £284 £300 £268
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -8.16%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £637
Scotland median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 18 26
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.31 £13.19
25th Percentile £14.07 £16.84 £16.76
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.71 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +77.57% -51.86% +182.34%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 £50.55
90th Percentile £77.50 £35.60 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -3.35% +2.09% +10.55%

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 19 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 19 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 16 (13.79%) Confluence
2 8 (6.90%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.31%) Apache
4 2 (1.72%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.72%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.86%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.72%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.86%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 68 (58.62%) Azure
2 48 (41.38%) AWS
3 33 (28.45%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (23.28%) GCP
5 17 (14.66%) GitHub
6 11 (9.48%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (6.90%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (6.03%) Collibra
9 5 (4.31%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (4.31%) Serverless
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.59%) AWS CodeBuild
11 3 (2.59%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 3 (2.59%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (2.59%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.59%) AWS Step Functions
11 3 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.86%) DNS
1 1 (0.86%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (0.86%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.86%) SAN
1 1 (0.86%) SSH
1 1 (0.86%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.34%) MongoDB
2 11 (9.48%) NoSQL
2 11 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.76%) Metadata
4 7 (6.03%) DynamoDB
5 6 (5.17%) MySQL
5 6 (5.17%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.31%) Big Data
7 4 (3.45%) Flink
7 4 (3.45%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.59%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.59%) SQL Server
9 2 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.72%) DataStage
9 2 (1.72%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.86%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.86%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.86%) Power BI
10 1 (0.86%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 29 (25.00%) Git
2 21 (18.10%) JIRA
3 19 (16.38%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.17%) Claude Code
5 5 (4.31%) Maven
5 5 (4.31%) Postman
5 5 (4.31%) REST Assured
6 4 (3.45%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.45%) Gradle
6 4 (3.45%) JUnit
6 4 (3.45%) Selenium
7 3 (2.59%) Appium
7 3 (2.59%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.59%) GoCD
7 3 (2.59%) JProfiler
7 3 (2.59%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.59%) Subversion
8 2 (1.72%) GitLab
8 2 (1.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.72%) Terragrunt
General
1 33 (28.45%) Social Skills
2 31 (26.72%) Finance
3 17 (14.66%) Banking
4 16 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.59%) Law
6 3 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.86%) International Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Legal
8 1 (0.86%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (26.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 13 (11.21%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (11.21%) Developer
2 13 (11.21%) Senior
3 11 (9.48%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (9.48%) Data Engineer
4 10 (8.62%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 10 (8.62%) Java Developer
5 9 (7.76%) Platform Engineer
6 8 (6.90%) Scrum Master
7 7 (6.03%) Analyst
7 7 (6.03%) Architect
7 7 (6.03%) Embedded Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (5.17%) GCP Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (3.45%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (2.59%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.66%) Spring
1 17 (14.66%) Spring Boot
2 16 (13.79%) RESTful
3 12 (10.34%) React
4 11 (9.48%) REST
5 9 (7.76%) PySpark
6 7 (6.03%) AngularJS
6 7 (6.03%) Kafka
6 7 (6.03%) Node.js
6 7 (6.03%) Streamlit
7 6 (5.17%) Playwright
8 5 (4.31%) Django
8 5 (4.31%) OAuth
8 5 (4.31%) OAuth2
8 5 (4.31%) Web Services
9 4 (3.45%) .NET
9 4 (3.45%) Express.js
9 4 (3.45%) Flask
9 4 (3.45%) GraphQL
9 4 (3.45%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 22 (18.97%) Cloud Native
2 21 (18.10%) Product Ownership
3 9 (7.76%) Enterprise Cloud
4 7 (6.03%) Linux Command Line
4 7 (6.03%) Virtual Team
5 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (4.31%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.31%) Reference Data
6 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.86%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.86%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.86%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.86%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.86%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.86%) NVMe
8 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (7.76%) Linux
2 7 (6.03%) Windows
3 2 (1.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.72%) Unix
4 1 (0.86%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (62.93%) CI/CD
2 52 (44.83%) Agile
3 28 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (23.28%) Containerisation
5 25 (21.55%) Continuous Improvement
6 24 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (18.97%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (18.97%) Scrum
8 20 (17.24%) Test Automation
9 19 (16.38%) Data Modelling
9 19 (16.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 18 (15.52%) Microservices
11 17 (14.66%) Analytics
12 16 (13.79%) Mentoring
12 16 (13.79%) Migration
13 15 (12.93%) Code Quality
13 15 (12.93%) Data Engineering
13 15 (12.93%) Data Governance
13 15 (12.93%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (12.93%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 47 (40.52%) Python
2 25 (21.55%) Java
3 17 (14.66%) SQL
4 14 (12.07%) JavaScript
5 11 (9.48%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.62%) Bash
7 6 (5.17%) C#
7 6 (5.17%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.59%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.72%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.86%) Bicep
10 1 (0.86%) C++
10 1 (0.86%) Groovy
10 1 (0.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (15.52%) Security Cleared
2 12 (10.34%) Degree
2 12 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.86%) APMG
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.86%) NCDA
6 1 (0.86%) VCAP
6 1 (0.86%) VCP6
6 1 (0.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.07%) Data Quality
2 9 (7.76%) GDPR
3 7 (6.03%) QA
4 3 (2.59%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (19.83%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) zsh
3 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.86%) Ceph
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.86%) Squid
4 1 (0.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 41 (35.34%) Kubernetes
2 34 (29.31%) Terraform
3 7 (6.03%) Ansible
4 6 (5.17%) Grafana
5 5 (4.31%) Istio
5 5 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.72%) Argo
7 1 (0.86%) Podman
7 1 (0.86%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.86%) Puppet
7 1 (0.86%) SCCM
7 1 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.86%) vMotion
7 1 (0.86%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.93%) Oracle
3 11 (9.48%) Databricks
4 10 (8.62%) Google
5 5 (4.31%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.45%) MuleSoft
6 4 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.72%) Informatica
7 2 (1.72%) Okta
7 2 (1.72%) RedGate
7 2 (1.72%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.72%) Talend
7 2 (1.72%) VMware
8 1 (0.86%) Brocade
8 1 (0.86%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.86%) Cisco
8 1 (0.86%) Commvault
8 1 (0.86%) IBM
8 1 (0.86%) NetApp
8 1 (0.86%) Pega