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 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 24 10
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 -1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 120 54 120
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 15.83% 7.65% 14.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.91% 8.59% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 40 80
10th Percentile £359 £336 £400
25th Percentile £415 £356 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £393 £550
Median % change year-on-year +21.02% -28.64% +6.80%
75th Percentile £575 £496 £675
90th Percentile £625 £503 £706
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process and 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 670 629 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 88.39% 89.09% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 415 525
10th Percentile £300 £280 £350
25th Percentile £381 £356 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £625 £675 £700
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 11 17
10th Percentile £15.09 £16.92 £11.40
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.59 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.12% +35.10% -61.26%
75th Percentile £26.21 £29.34 £17.72
90th Percentile £57.50 £42.50 £36.36
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.88 £19.75
% change year-on-year -12.57% +15.82% +5.33%

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 4 November 2025.

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 4 (3.33%) Confluence
2 2 (1.67%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.67%) Mule
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.83%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 62 (51.67%) Azure
2 60 (50.00%) AWS
3 28 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (13.33%) GitHub
5 15 (12.50%) Serverless
6 11 (9.17%) GCP
6 11 (9.17%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 10 (8.33%) OpenShift
8 8 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.83%) SaaS
10 6 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (5.00%) Snowflake
11 5 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (4.17%) PaaS
12 4 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.50%) Firewall
2 4 (3.33%) Kerberos
3 3 (2.50%) VPN
4 2 (1.67%) AMQP
4 2 (1.67%) DSL
5 1 (0.83%) DHCP
5 1 (0.83%) DNS
5 1 (0.83%) HTTP
5 1 (0.83%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.83%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.00%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.17%) Redis
7 4 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.33%) Big Data
7 4 (3.33%) NewSQL
7 4 (3.33%) OLTP
7 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
8 3 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.50%) MSDE
9 2 (1.67%) CockroachDB
10 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.83%) MySQL
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 45 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 27 (22.50%) Git
3 23 (19.17%) JIRA
4 17 (14.17%) Bitbucket
5 13 (10.83%) IntelliJ
5 13 (10.83%) PyCharm
5 13 (10.83%) Visual Studio
5 13 (10.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 12 (10.00%) GitLab
7 9 (7.50%) JUnit
8 5 (4.17%) Cypress.io
8 5 (4.17%) Maven
8 5 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (3.33%) Artifactory
9 4 (3.33%) Gradle
9 4 (3.33%) Terragrunt
10 3 (2.50%) Mockito
11 2 (1.67%) TeamCity
General
1 51 (42.50%) Finance
2 30 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 20 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.67%) Banking
4 10 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.67%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 33 (27.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (25.00%) Developer
3 15 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 14 (11.67%) Java Developer
5 13 (10.83%) Senior
6 12 (10.00%) Architect
6 12 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (9.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 8 (6.67%) Data Architect
8 8 (6.67%) Python Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.00%) Senior Developer
11 5 (4.17%) Analyst
11 5 (4.17%) Java Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
11 5 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.50%) Spring Boot
2 19 (15.83%) RESTful
2 19 (15.83%) Spring
3 17 (14.17%) Kafka
4 14 (11.67%) AngularJS
4 14 (11.67%) OAuth
5 9 (7.50%) React
6 8 (6.67%) Node.js
6 8 (6.67%) OAuth2
6 8 (6.67%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (5.83%) LangChain
8 6 (5.00%) Hugging Face
8 6 (5.00%) REST
9 5 (4.17%) .NET
9 5 (4.17%) FastAPI
9 5 (4.17%) Flask
9 5 (4.17%) Jest
9 5 (4.17%) LangGraph
9 5 (4.17%) Loki
9 5 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.50%) Cloud Native
2 16 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 9 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.50%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.17%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (4.17%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.33%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.33%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.67%) CMDB
8 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.83%) Clustering
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.83%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (24.17%) Linux
2 17 (14.17%) Windows
3 9 (7.50%) Unix
4 3 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 67 (55.83%) Agile
3 35 (29.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (24.17%) Microservices
5 28 (23.33%) Containerisation
5 28 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 22 (18.33%) SDLC
8 18 (15.00%) Observability
9 17 (14.17%) Migration
10 16 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 15 (12.50%) AI
12 14 (11.67%) Design Patterns
13 13 (10.83%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (10.83%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (10.83%) High Availability
13 13 (10.83%) Scrum
13 13 (10.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (10.00%) Cloud Security
14 12 (10.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 63 (52.50%) Python
2 50 (41.67%) Java
3 21 (17.50%) SQL
4 17 (14.17%) TypeScript
5 16 (13.33%) C#
6 9 (7.50%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.00%) Bash
8 4 (3.33%) ANSI SQL
9 3 (2.50%) Perl
9 3 (2.50%) Ruby
10 2 (1.67%) Bicep
10 2 (1.67%) DataWeave
10 2 (1.67%) Go
10 2 (1.67%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.67%) Rust
10 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.83%) PromQL
11 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (11.67%) Degree
2 13 (10.83%) AWS Certification
3 11 (9.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 6 (5.00%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.17%) CISSP
6 4 (3.33%) Security Cleared
7 3 (2.50%) PMP
7 3 (2.50%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.67%) CISM
8 2 (1.67%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.83%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.83%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.83%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.00%) QA
2 7 (5.83%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.67%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.67%) NIST
4 1 (0.83%) PMO
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (45.00%) Terraform
2 52 (43.33%) Kubernetes
3 29 (24.17%) Ansible
4 7 (5.83%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.00%) Grafana
6 4 (3.33%) Argo
6 4 (3.33%) Istio
6 4 (3.33%) Kustomize
7 3 (2.50%) SCCM
8 2 (1.67%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.67%) Splunk
3 6 (5.00%) Google
3 6 (5.00%) Greenplum
3 6 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (4.17%) AppDynamics
4 5 (4.17%) IBM
4 5 (4.17%) Oracle
5 3 (2.50%) Cribl.io
6 2 (1.67%) Ab Initio
6 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.67%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.83%) Avaya
7 1 (0.83%) Cisco
7 1 (0.83%) Databricks
7 1 (0.83%) F5
7 1 (0.83%) Genesys
7 1 (0.83%) Infoblox
7 1 (0.83%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.83%) Pega