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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 18 12
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 -4
Contract jobs citing DevOps 103 58 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 14.15% 8.53% 12.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.54% 9.52% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 44 71
10th Percentile £356 £356 £400
25th Percentile £414 £374 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £452 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.10% -9.70% -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £588
90th Percentile £628 £609 £673
Scotland median daily rate £498 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +7.68% -7.50% -
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 663 609 750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.07% 89.56% 91.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 434 501
10th Percentile £300 £269 £338
25th Percentile £370 £363 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £558 £580
90th Percentile £613 £670 £688
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 25
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.77 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.05 £12.13
Median hourly rate £17.45 £24.15 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.76% +66.55% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.15 £38.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £26.21 £55.12 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.94 £19.59
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.88% -8.88%

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
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 September 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 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 (3.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.94%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.94%) Mule
3 1 (0.97%) Apache
3 1 (0.97%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.97%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 52 (50.49%) Azure
2 46 (44.66%) AWS
3 28 (27.18%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (14.56%) GitHub
5 10 (9.71%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (9.71%) OpenShift
6 9 (8.74%) GCP
7 7 (6.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (6.80%) SaaS
8 5 (4.85%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.85%) PaaS
9 4 (3.88%) Serverless
9 4 (3.88%) Slack
10 3 (2.91%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.91%) IaaS
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon Bedrock
11 2 (1.94%) Amazon SageMaker
11 2 (1.94%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) Firewall
2 4 (3.88%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.94%) AMQP
3 2 (1.94%) DSL
4 1 (0.97%) DHCP
4 1 (0.97%) DNS
4 1 (0.97%) HTTP
4 1 (0.97%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) MongoDB
2 8 (7.77%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.77%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.83%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.85%) Redis
5 4 (3.88%) Big Data
5 4 (3.88%) NewSQL
5 4 (3.88%) OLTP
6 3 (2.91%) MSDE
6 3 (2.91%) RDBMS
7 2 (1.94%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.94%) MySQL
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.97%) DB2
8 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.97%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.97%) Power BI
8 1 (0.97%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 39 (37.86%) Jenkins
2 26 (25.24%) Git
3 19 (18.45%) JIRA
4 14 (13.59%) Bitbucket
5 13 (12.62%) IntelliJ
5 13 (12.62%) PyCharm
5 13 (12.62%) Visual Studio
5 13 (12.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 8 (7.77%) GitLab
6 8 (7.77%) JUnit
7 7 (6.80%) Maven
8 4 (3.88%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.88%) Gradle
8 4 (3.88%) Mockito
8 4 (3.88%) Terragrunt
9 2 (1.94%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (39.81%) Finance
2 24 (23.30%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.56%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.62%) Banking
5 10 (9.71%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.85%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.94%) Back Office
7 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.97%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.97%) Front Office
8 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.97%) Legal
8 1 (0.97%) Military
8 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (32.04%) Developer
2 29 (28.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (13.59%) Java Developer
3 14 (13.59%) Python Engineer
4 12 (11.65%) Python Developer
5 11 (10.68%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 11 (10.68%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 5 (4.85%) Analyst
7 5 (4.85%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (4.85%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Senior
7 5 (4.85%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Database Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Site Engineer
9 3 (2.91%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.45%) Spring Boot
2 17 (16.50%) Kafka
2 17 (16.50%) Spring
3 15 (14.56%) RESTful
4 14 (13.59%) OAuth
5 13 (12.62%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.77%) FastAPI
6 8 (7.77%) OAuth2
7 7 (6.80%) LangChain
7 7 (6.80%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (6.80%) React
7 7 (6.80%) REST
8 6 (5.83%) Hugging Face
9 5 (4.85%) Flask
9 5 (4.85%) LangGraph
9 5 (4.85%) Loki
9 5 (4.85%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (3.88%) OpenID
10 4 (3.88%) PyTorch
10 4 (3.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.53%) Public Cloud
2 15 (14.56%) Cloud Native
3 9 (8.74%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.83%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.85%) Distributed Applications
6 4 (3.88%) AI Agents
6 4 (3.88%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.88%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.94%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.97%) Clustering
9 1 (0.97%) Distributed Computing
9 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.97%) Equity Derivative
9 1 (0.97%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.97%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (27.18%) Linux
2 18 (17.48%) Windows
3 5 (4.85%) Unix
4 4 (3.88%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (70.87%) CI/CD
2 67 (65.05%) Agile
3 29 (28.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (27.18%) Test Automation
5 26 (25.24%) SDLC
6 20 (19.42%) Microservices
7 19 (18.45%) Containerisation
8 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (14.56%) Observability
10 14 (13.59%) Scrum
11 12 (11.65%) Computer Science
11 12 (11.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (11.65%) Deployment Automation
11 12 (11.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (11.65%) Software Engineering
12 10 (9.71%) Artificial Intelligence
13 9 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
13 9 (8.74%) Full-Stack Development
13 9 (8.74%) GitOps
13 9 (8.74%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 51 (49.51%) Python
2 44 (42.72%) Java
3 20 (19.42%) SQL
4 16 (15.53%) TypeScript
5 15 (14.56%) C#
6 5 (4.85%) Bash
7 4 (3.88%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (2.91%) Go
8 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.94%) Bicep
9 2 (1.94%) DataWeave
10 1 (0.97%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.97%) PromQL
10 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.97%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) Degree
2 11 (10.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.80%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.83%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.91%) CISSP
6 2 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.94%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.94%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.97%) CISM
7 1 (0.97%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.97%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.74%) QA
2 3 (2.91%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.94%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (1.94%) NIST
4 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.97%) PMO
4 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (19.42%) Docker
2 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (48.54%) Kubernetes
2 47 (45.63%) Terraform
3 19 (18.45%) Ansible
4 7 (6.80%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.83%) Grafana
6 4 (3.88%) Argo
6 4 (3.88%) Istio
6 4 (3.88%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.94%) Podman
7 2 (1.94%) RSA Archer
7 2 (1.94%) SCCM
8 1 (0.97%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (16.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.77%) Splunk
3 7 (6.80%) Oracle
4 6 (5.83%) AppDynamics
4 6 (5.83%) Google
5 3 (2.91%) Netskope
5 3 (2.91%) Proofpoint
5 3 (2.91%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.91%) Symantec
6 2 (1.94%) Cribl.io
6 2 (1.94%) IBM
6 2 (1.94%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.94%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (0.97%) Databricks
7 1 (0.97%) F5
7 1 (0.97%) Greenplum
7 1 (0.97%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.97%) Pega
7 1 (0.97%) Rapid7