DevOps Contracts in Glasgow

DevOps
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 80 88 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 10.03% 10.03% 12.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.71% 10.92% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 64 87
10th Percentile £363 £365 £406
25th Percentile £407 £440 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £524 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.04% -4.82% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £623 £655
90th Percentile £666 £700 £705
Scotland median daily rate £473 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £39.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -43.93% -

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 747 806 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 93.61% 91.90% 94.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 478 515 629
10th Percentile £311 £280 £325
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £603 £675 £701
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 40 27
10th Percentile £16.18 £13.75 -
25th Percentile £16.75 £16.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £19.83 £21.13 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.14% +56.50% -66.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £44.14 £35.00
90th Percentile £76.83 £63.75 £59.47
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Glasgow.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Glasgow over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in Glasgow.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Glasgow

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.50%) JBoss
2 2 (2.50%) OpenROAD
3 1 (1.25%) Camunda
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.25%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 45 (56.25%) Azure
2 26 (32.50%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (23.75%) AWS
4 13 (16.25%) GitHub
5 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 6 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (7.50%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (7.50%) IaaS
7 5 (6.25%) OpenShift
7 5 (6.25%) Serverless
8 4 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (5.00%) SaaS
9 3 (3.75%) Amazon S3
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (3.75%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (3.75%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.75%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) DHCP
1 4 (5.00%) DNS
1 4 (5.00%) Network Security
1 4 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) FTP
2 1 (1.25%) NAS
2 1 (1.25%) SAN
2 1 (1.25%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.75%) Relational Database
2 6 (7.50%) DB2
3 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.25%) RDBMS
3 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 4 (5.00%) Power BI
5 3 (3.75%) MariaDB
5 3 (3.75%) MySQL
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.25%) SQLite
7 1 (1.25%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 17 (21.25%) JIRA
2 14 (17.50%) Git
3 13 (16.25%) Jenkins
4 6 (7.50%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.50%) GitLab
5 5 (6.25%) JUnit
5 5 (6.25%) Maven
6 4 (5.00%) Mockito
7 2 (2.50%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.25%) GoCD
8 1 (1.25%) Gradle
8 1 (1.25%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.25%) PyCharm
8 1 (1.25%) Toad
8 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (30.00%) Finance
2 18 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
2 18 (22.50%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.25%) Banking
3 13 (16.25%) Public Sector
4 9 (11.25%) Investment Banking
5 7 (8.75%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Back Office
6 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) Front Office
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 24 (30.00%) Developer
2 11 (13.75%) Analyst
3 9 (11.25%) Python Developer
4 7 (8.75%) Architect
4 7 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Python Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.25%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.25%) Scrum Master
7 4 (5.00%) Build and Release Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Build Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Lead
7 4 (5.00%) Linux Build Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Linux Scripter
7 4 (5.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.00%) Release Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Data Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Salesforce Developer
8 3 (3.75%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.00%) Spring
1 8 (10.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (6.25%) REST
3 4 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.00%) CSS
3 4 (5.00%) HTML
3 4 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 4 (5.00%) React
3 4 (5.00%) Visualforce
4 3 (3.75%) Express.js
4 3 (3.75%) FastAPI
4 3 (3.75%) Hibernate
4 3 (3.75%) Node.js
4 3 (3.75%) pytest
4 3 (3.75%) Spring Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) .NET
5 2 (2.50%) Java SE
5 2 (2.50%) Kafka
6 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
6 1 (1.25%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
1 6 (7.50%) Virtual Team
2 5 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (5.00%) Mainframe
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) Clustering
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (37.50%) Linux
2 14 (17.50%) Windows
3 5 (6.25%) Unix
4 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.25%) CentOS
5 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.25%) VMS
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (53.75%) Agile
2 29 (36.25%) CI/CD
3 21 (26.25%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (23.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 14 (17.50%) SDLC
7 9 (11.25%) Software Engineering
8 8 (10.00%) Microservices
8 8 (10.00%) Scrum
8 8 (10.00%) Service Delivery
8 8 (10.00%) Waterfall
9 7 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.75%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.50%) Backlog Management
10 6 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (7.50%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (7.50%) Investment Management
10 6 (7.50%) Project Management
10 6 (7.50%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (30.00%) Python
2 21 (26.25%) Java
3 14 (17.50%) SQL
4 10 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.00%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.75%) C#
6 7 (8.75%) Shell Script
7 4 (5.00%) Apex Code
8 3 (3.75%) Bash
8 3 (3.75%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.25%) C++
9 1 (1.25%) CoffeeScript
9 1 (1.25%) Go
9 1 (1.25%) Perl
9 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.25%) Ruby
9 1 (1.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 4 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.25%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) GDPR
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.50%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) PMO
4 1 (1.25%) NCSC
4 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (13.75%) Docker
2 5 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.25%) Firmware
3 1 (1.25%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 21 (26.25%) Kubernetes
2 16 (20.00%) Terraform
3 10 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (2.50%) Grafana
4 2 (2.50%) Podman
4 2 (2.50%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.50%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.25%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.25%) Packer
5 1 (1.25%) Puppet
5 1 (1.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Oracle
2 7 (8.75%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.00%) Databricks
3 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
3 4 (5.00%) Splunk
4 3 (3.75%) Netskope
4 3 (3.75%) Proofpoint
4 3 (3.75%) Sybase
4 3 (3.75%) Symantec
5 2 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.50%) IBM
5 2 (2.50%) Veritas
6 1 (1.25%) Adobe
6 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.25%) Pega
6 1 (1.25%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.25%) SAP
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Sun
6 1 (1.25%) Talend