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 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 81 87 101
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.46% 10.65% 10.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.97% 11.40% 11.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 66 67
10th Percentile £311 £349 £413
25th Percentile £350 £363 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £444 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -22.83% -2.13%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £650
90th Percentile £606 £657 £700
Scotland median daily rate £443 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £37.00 - -
25th Percentile £40.00 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £52.50
75th Percentile £50.00 - £53.75
90th Percentile £53.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £45.00 - £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 580 763 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 82.04% 93.39% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 367 487 544
10th Percentile £306 £313 £313
25th Percentile £378 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £600
90th Percentile £668 £606 £691
Scotland median daily rate £450 £453 £480
% change year-on-year -0.55% -5.73% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 39
10th Percentile £16.11 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.88 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.25 £23.17 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.85% +28.69% +44.00%
75th Percentile £46.61 £67.56 £47.35
90th Percentile £54.00 £77.63 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +18.18%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 7 (8.64%) Confluence
2 5 (6.17%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 53 (65.43%) AWS
2 46 (56.79%) Azure
3 19 (23.46%) Serverless
4 18 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
5 14 (17.28%) AWS Lambda
6 13 (16.05%) Azure DevOps
7 12 (14.81%) GCP
8 11 (13.58%) Amazon EC2
8 11 (13.58%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (13.58%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (9.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (8.64%) Amazon MSK
11 6 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (7.41%) GitHub
11 6 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (6.17%) Collibra
12 5 (6.17%) OpenShift
13 4 (4.94%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (4.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (4.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (11.11%) Firewall
2 2 (2.47%) VPN
3 1 (1.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.23%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.23%) Network Security
3 1 (1.23%) SAN
3 1 (1.23%) SSH
3 1 (1.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (12.35%) DynamoDB
3 8 (9.88%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (8.64%) Relational Database
5 6 (7.41%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 5 (6.17%) Metadata
6 5 (6.17%) MySQL
6 5 (6.17%) NoSQL
7 4 (4.94%) Big Data
7 4 (4.94%) Hadoop
7 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.23%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.23%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.23%) Power BI
8 1 (1.23%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 19 (23.46%) JIRA
2 18 (22.22%) Git
3 16 (19.75%) Jenkins
4 9 (11.11%) GitLab
5 8 (9.88%) Bitbucket
5 8 (9.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.70%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.70%) JUnit
7 1 (1.23%) Gradle
7 1 (1.23%) Postman
7 1 (1.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.23%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 27 (33.33%) Finance
2 24 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Banking
4 11 (13.58%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 15 (18.52%) Senior
3 9 (11.11%) Developer
4 8 (9.88%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Architect
5 7 (8.64%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (8.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Security Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
6 6 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Scrum Master
7 5 (6.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.28%) Node.js
2 12 (14.81%) React
2 12 (14.81%) RESTful
3 9 (11.11%) Spring
3 9 (11.11%) Spring Boot
4 7 (8.64%) AngularJS
4 7 (8.64%) REST
5 5 (6.17%) .NET
6 4 (4.94%) Django
6 4 (4.94%) Express.js
6 4 (4.94%) FastAPI
6 4 (4.94%) Flask
6 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
6 4 (4.94%) MERN Stack
6 4 (4.94%) NestJS
6 4 (4.94%) PySpark
6 4 (4.94%) Redux
7 3 (3.70%) Jest
7 3 (3.70%) JWT
7 3 (3.70%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.58%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.17%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.17%) Reference Data
3 5 (6.17%) Virtual Team
4 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.70%) IVR
5 3 (3.70%) NHS
6 2 (2.47%) Clustering
6 2 (2.47%) CMDB
6 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.47%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.47%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.23%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.23%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.23%) NVMe
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) Linux
2 8 (9.88%) Windows
3 6 (7.41%) Unix
4 1 (1.23%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (74.07%) CI/CD
2 37 (45.68%) Agile
3 27 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (32.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 21 (25.93%) Containerisation
5 21 (25.93%) Microservices
6 19 (23.46%) Migration
7 17 (20.99%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (19.75%) Analytics
9 13 (16.05%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (16.05%) High Availability
10 12 (14.81%) Data Modelling
10 12 (14.81%) Observability
10 12 (14.81%) Test Automation
11 10 (12.35%) Data Governance
11 10 (12.35%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (12.35%) Scrum
11 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
12 9 (11.11%) Kanban
12 9 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (58.02%) Python
2 22 (27.16%) Java
3 16 (19.75%) PowerShell
4 12 (14.81%) SQL
5 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.88%) Perl
5 8 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 7 (8.64%) Ruby
7 5 (6.17%) Bash
8 4 (4.94%) C#
9 1 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) Rust
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.35%) Degree
2 7 (8.64%) AWS Certification
3 6 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.47%) CISSP
5 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.47%) PMP
5 2 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) CISM
6 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) NCDA
6 1 (1.23%) SSCP
6 1 (1.23%) VCAP
6 1 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 8 (9.88%) GDPR
3 6 (7.41%) QA
4 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (3.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (3.70%) HIPAA
5 3 (3.70%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.70%) PMO
6 1 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (1.23%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (30.86%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.23%) Ceph
4 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.23%) Squid
4 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (37.04%) Kubernetes
2 26 (32.10%) Terraform
3 14 (17.28%) Ansible
4 6 (7.41%) Grafana
5 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.47%) Istio
6 2 (2.47%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.47%) SCCM
7 1 (1.23%) Argo
7 1 (1.23%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.23%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.23%) vMotion
7 1 (1.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 15 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) Oracle
3 7 (8.64%) ServiceNow
4 6 (7.41%) Databricks
5 5 (6.17%) Splunk
6 4 (4.94%) Cisco
6 4 (4.94%) Greenplum
6 4 (4.94%) IBM
6 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.70%) Avaya
7 3 (3.70%) Genesys
7 3 (3.70%) Pega
8 2 (2.47%) Ab Initio
8 2 (2.47%) VMware
9 1 (1.23%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.23%) Brocade
9 1 (1.23%) Commvault
9 1 (1.23%) Cribl.io
9 1 (1.23%) Google
9 1 (1.23%) NetApp