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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 20 21
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 90 81 66
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.06% 10.64% 8.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.20% 11.39% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 65 51
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £358 £406 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £483
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -4.24% -8.87%
75th Percentile £609 £525 £600
90th Percentile £714 £658 £650
Scotland median daily rate £500 £475 £472
% change year-on-year +5.26% +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 682 711 752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 83.78% 93.43% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 453 493
10th Percentile £306 £300 £275
25th Percentile £363 £381 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +3.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £622
Scotland median daily rate £461 £460 £464
% change year-on-year +0.27% -0.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 37
10th Percentile £13.70 £15.44 £12.03
25th Percentile £16.13 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £19.33 £19.83 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% -37.05% +127.03%
75th Percentile £77.50 £25.15 £53.75
90th Percentile - £73.19 £67.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.97 £19.34
% change year-on-year +0.15% +3.28% +33.34%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 11 (12.22%) Confluence
2 7 (7.78%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.33%) Apache
4 2 (2.22%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.11%) JBoss
5 1 (1.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 47 (52.22%) Azure
2 40 (44.44%) AWS
3 22 (24.44%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (12.22%) GCP
5 9 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (7.78%) Collibra
7 6 (6.67%) GitHub
7 6 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (5.56%) OpenShift
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (4.44%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (4.44%) AWS CodePipeline
9 4 (4.44%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (4.44%) Serverless
10 3 (3.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.33%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 3 (3.33%) AWS Step Functions
10 3 (3.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.11%) DNS
1 1 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (1.11%) Firewall
1 1 (1.11%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.11%) SAN
1 1 (1.11%) SSH
1 1 (1.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 9 (10.00%) Metadata
4 8 (8.89%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.78%) DynamoDB
6 6 (6.67%) Relational Database
7 5 (5.56%) Big Data
7 5 (5.56%) MySQL
8 4 (4.44%) Hadoop
9 3 (3.33%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (3.33%) Flink
9 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
10 2 (2.22%) DataStage
10 2 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
11 1 (1.11%) MariaDB
11 1 (1.11%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (18.89%) Git
2 15 (16.67%) JIRA
3 12 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.33%) GitLab
5 2 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.22%) Terragrunt
6 1 (1.11%) Ant
6 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.11%) JUnit
6 1 (1.11%) Maven
6 1 (1.11%) Postman
6 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
General
1 24 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.78%) Finance
3 13 (14.44%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.11%) Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (1.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (36.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (13.33%) Senior
3 10 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 9 (10.00%) Data Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Developer
6 7 (7.78%) Embedded Engineer
6 7 (7.78%) Windows Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.67%) Security Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.56%) Scrum Master
8 5 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.33%) Spring
1 12 (13.33%) Spring Boot
2 11 (12.22%) RESTful
3 10 (11.11%) React
4 7 (7.78%) PySpark
5 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
5 6 (6.67%) REST
5 6 (6.67%) Streamlit
6 5 (5.56%) Kafka
6 5 (5.56%) Node.js
7 4 (4.44%) .NET
7 4 (4.44%) Django
7 4 (4.44%) Express.js
7 4 (4.44%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.44%) Flask
7 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
7 4 (4.44%) MERN Stack
7 4 (4.44%) OAuth
7 4 (4.44%) OAuth2
7 4 (4.44%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.78%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.56%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.56%) Reference Data
3 5 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Clustering
6 2 (2.22%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.22%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.11%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.11%) NVMe
7 1 (1.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Linux
1 9 (10.00%) Windows
2 5 (5.56%) Unix
3 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 43 (47.78%) Agile
3 24 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 18 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (18.89%) Containerisation
5 17 (18.89%) Data Modelling
6 16 (17.78%) Analytics
7 14 (15.56%) Data Engineering
7 14 (15.56%) Microservices
7 14 (15.56%) Platform Engineering
8 13 (14.44%) Data Governance
8 13 (14.44%) Scrum
9 12 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
9 12 (13.33%) Migration
9 12 (13.33%) Observability
9 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (13.33%) Test Automation
10 11 (12.22%) Kanban
11 10 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 41 (45.56%) Python
2 18 (20.00%) Java
3 13 (14.44%) SQL
4 11 (12.22%) PowerShell
5 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.78%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.67%) Bash
7 2 (2.22%) C#
7 2 (2.22%) Perl
8 1 (1.11%) C++
8 1 (1.11%) Go
8 1 (1.11%) Groovy
8 1 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (11.11%) Degree
3 9 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.11%) NCDA
6 1 (1.11%) VCAP
6 1 (1.11%) VCP6
6 1 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.78%) GDPR
3 4 (4.44%) QA
4 2 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 21 (23.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.11%) Ceph
3 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.11%) Squid
3 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 27 (30.00%) Terraform
3 8 (8.89%) Ansible
4 6 (6.67%) Grafana
5 5 (5.56%) Istio
5 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.33%) SCCM
7 2 (2.22%) Argo
7 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (1.11%) Podman
8 1 (1.11%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.11%) Puppet
8 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.11%) vMotion
8 1 (1.11%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.11%) Databricks
3 9 (10.00%) Oracle
4 5 (5.56%) Splunk
5 4 (4.44%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.22%) Informatica
6 2 (2.22%) Talend
6 2 (2.22%) VMware
7 1 (1.11%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.11%) Brocade
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco
7 1 (1.11%) Commvault
7 1 (1.11%) Google
7 1 (1.11%) IBM
7 1 (1.11%) NetApp
7 1 (1.11%) Okta
7 1 (1.11%) Pega
7 1 (1.11%) ServiceNow