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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 20 23
Rank change year-on-year +6 +3 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 92 81 65
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.06% 10.80% 8.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.18% 11.62% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 65 50
10th Percentile £313 £363 £347
25th Percentile £358 £406 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -0.84% -8.76%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £597
90th Percentile £714 £658 £626
Scotland median daily rate £513 £475 £472
% change year-on-year +7.89% +0.58% -5.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile £51.00 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £77.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 - £39.25
% change year-on-year - - -43.93%

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 698 697 746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.89% 92.93% 92.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 435 489
10th Percentile £302 £300 £275
25th Percentile £363 £391 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £467 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% +3.78% -8.54%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £619
Scotland median daily rate £463 £463 £463
% change year-on-year - - -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 35
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.79 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.59 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% -52.15% +195.06%
75th Percentile £77.50 £22.56 £55.63
90th Percentile - £71.14 £70.00
Scotland median hourly rate £19.33 £19.97 £19.50
% change year-on-year -3.20% +2.41% +34.48%

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 7 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 7 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 12 (13.04%) Confluence
2 7 (7.61%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.26%) Apache
4 2 (2.17%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.09%) JBoss
5 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 52 (56.52%) Azure
2 40 (43.48%) AWS
3 25 (27.17%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (15.22%) GCP
5 7 (7.61%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (7.61%) Collibra
5 7 (7.61%) GitHub
5 7 (7.61%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (6.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (4.35%) Serverless
9 3 (3.26%) AWS CodeBuild
9 3 (3.26%) AWS CodeDeploy
9 3 (3.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (3.26%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (3.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) DNS
1 1 (1.09%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (1.09%) Firewall
1 1 (1.09%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.09%) SAN
1 1 (1.09%) SSH
1 1 (1.09%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.78%) Metadata
2 9 (9.78%) MongoDB
2 9 (9.78%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.61%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.52%) Relational Database
5 5 (5.43%) Big Data
5 5 (5.43%) MySQL
6 4 (4.35%) Hadoop
7 3 (3.26%) Amazon Athena
7 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.26%) Flink
8 2 (2.17%) DataStage
8 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (1.09%) MariaDB
9 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) Git
2 17 (18.48%) JIRA
3 13 (14.13%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.17%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.17%) GitLab
4 2 (2.17%) JUnit
4 2 (2.17%) Maven
4 2 (2.17%) Postman
4 2 (2.17%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.17%) Terragrunt
5 1 (1.09%) Ant
5 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.09%) GoCD
5 1 (1.09%) Gradle
5 1 (1.09%) JProfiler
5 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 27 (29.35%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.48%) Finance
3 13 (14.13%) Public Sector
4 11 (11.96%) Banking
5 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.26%) Law
7 1 (1.09%) Legal
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (33.70%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (15.22%) Senior
3 10 (10.87%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 9 (9.78%) Data Engineer
4 9 (9.78%) Developer
5 8 (8.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.61%) Embedded Engineer
6 7 (7.61%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.52%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Analyst
8 5 (5.43%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (5.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Scrum Master
8 5 (5.43%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (15.22%) Spring
1 14 (15.22%) Spring Boot
2 13 (14.13%) RESTful
3 11 (11.96%) React
4 7 (7.61%) PySpark
4 7 (7.61%) REST
5 6 (6.52%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.52%) Kafka
5 6 (6.52%) Node.js
5 6 (6.52%) Streamlit
6 4 (4.35%) Django
6 4 (4.35%) Express.js
6 4 (4.35%) FastAPI
6 4 (4.35%) Flask
6 4 (4.35%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.35%) MERN Stack
6 4 (4.35%) NestJS
6 4 (4.35%) OAuth
6 4 (4.35%) OAuth2
6 4 (4.35%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 15 (16.30%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.43%) Reference Data
3 5 (5.43%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.26%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Clustering
7 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.09%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.09%) NVMe
7 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.78%) Windows
2 7 (7.61%) Linux
3 3 (3.26%) Unix
4 2 (2.17%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 45 (48.91%) Agile
3 24 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (18.48%) Containerisation
5 17 (18.48%) Data Modelling
6 16 (17.39%) Analytics
6 16 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
6 16 (17.39%) Microservices
7 15 (16.30%) Platform Engineering
7 15 (16.30%) Scrum
8 14 (15.22%) Data Engineering
9 13 (14.13%) Data Governance
9 13 (14.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (14.13%) Migration
9 13 (14.13%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.04%) Kanban
10 12 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.87%) Data Pipeline
11 10 (10.87%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.48%) Python
2 20 (21.74%) Java
3 12 (13.04%) SQL
4 9 (9.78%) JavaScript
4 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
5 8 (8.70%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.35%) Bash
7 3 (3.26%) C#
8 2 (2.17%) Perl
9 1 (1.09%) Bicep
9 1 (1.09%) C++
9 1 (1.09%) Groovy
9 1 (1.09%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) Degree
4 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.09%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.09%) NCDA
7 1 (1.09%) VCAP
7 1 (1.09%) VCP6
7 1 (1.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.61%) GDPR
3 5 (5.43%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 20 (21.74%) Docker
2 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Ceph
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.09%) Squid
3 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (30.43%) Kubernetes
2 25 (27.17%) Terraform
3 7 (7.61%) Ansible
4 6 (6.52%) Grafana
5 5 (5.43%) Istio
5 5 (5.43%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.26%) SCCM
7 2 (2.17%) Argo
8 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.09%) Podman
8 1 (1.09%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.09%) Puppet
8 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.09%) vMotion
8 1 (1.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.87%) Databricks
2 10 (10.87%) Oracle
3 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.26%) Splunk
5 2 (2.17%) Informatica
5 2 (2.17%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.17%) Talend
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.09%) Brocade
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco
6 1 (1.09%) Commvault
6 1 (1.09%) Google
6 1 (1.09%) IBM
6 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.09%) NetApp
6 1 (1.09%) Okta
6 1 (1.09%) Pega