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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 15 23
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing DevOps 132 113 51
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 11.02% 15.11% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.08% 16.67% 8.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 88 37
10th Percentile £363 £360 £354
25th Percentile £402 £416 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £424
Median % change year-on-year - +12.03% -22.91%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £500
90th Percentile £649 £625 £570
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £456
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.59% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £57.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 £55.00 -
% change year-on-year +36.36% - -

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 1,009 678 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.22% 90.64% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 417 422
10th Percentile £280 £300 £268
25th Percentile £363 £381 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +2.27% -12.00%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £613 £650
Scotland median daily rate £470 £470 £450
% change year-on-year - +4.44% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 13
10th Percentile £13.39 £14.40 £15.56
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £17.72 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year +97.49% -9.53% +35.10%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.95 £25.17
90th Percentile £77.50 £54.37 £40.90
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £19.97 £19.59
% change year-on-year -15.57% +1.94% +3.49%

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 4 October 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
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 10 (7.58%) Confluence
2 9 (6.82%) Apache
3 6 (4.55%) Apache Spark
4 5 (3.79%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.52%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.76%) Camunda
6 1 (0.76%) CMS
6 1 (0.76%) JBoss
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.76%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 61 (46.21%) Azure
2 51 (38.64%) AWS
3 32 (24.24%) GCP
4 27 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (18.94%) GitHub
6 12 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 10 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
9 7 (5.30%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (5.30%) Amazon S3
9 7 (5.30%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (5.30%) Kong
9 7 (5.30%) Serverless
10 6 (4.55%) Apigee
10 6 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (3.03%) IaaS
13 3 (2.27%) OpenShift
13 3 (2.27%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.55%) DNS
2 3 (2.27%) DHCP
3 2 (1.52%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.52%) SSH
3 2 (1.52%) SSL
4 1 (0.76%) BGP
4 1 (0.76%) Firewall
4 1 (0.76%) HTTP
4 1 (0.76%) IPv4
4 1 (0.76%) IPv6
4 1 (0.76%) LAN
4 1 (0.76%) OSPF
4 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.76%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.76%) VLAN
4 1 (0.76%) VPN
4 1 (0.76%) WAN
4 1 (0.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 6 (4.55%) NoSQL
3 5 (3.79%) Flink
3 5 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (3.79%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (2.27%) Delta Lake
5 3 (2.27%) Metadata
5 3 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.52%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.52%) Big Data
6 2 (1.52%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.52%) MySQL
6 2 (1.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.76%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.76%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (0.76%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (27.27%) Git
2 23 (17.42%) Jenkins
3 15 (11.36%) JIRA
4 11 (8.33%) Claude Code
5 7 (5.30%) Maven
6 6 (4.55%) Selenium
7 5 (3.79%) GitLab
7 5 (3.79%) Gradle
8 4 (3.03%) Cypress.io
8 4 (3.03%) JUnit
8 4 (3.03%) Postman
8 4 (3.03%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.27%) Appium
9 3 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 3 (2.27%) GoCD
9 3 (2.27%) JProfiler
9 3 (2.27%) SpecFlow
9 3 (2.27%) Subversion
10 2 (1.52%) MSTest
10 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 42 (31.82%) Finance
2 34 (25.76%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.67%) Banking
4 13 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.30%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.79%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.52%) Law
9 1 (0.76%) Back Office
9 1 (0.76%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.76%) Front Office
9 1 (0.76%) International Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Legal
9 1 (0.76%) Military
9 1 (0.76%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (18.18%) Developer
2 22 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (13.64%) Senior
4 15 (11.36%) Platform Engineer
5 13 (9.85%) Java Developer
6 11 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 11 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 9 (6.82%) Lead
8 7 (5.30%) Analyst
8 7 (5.30%) Architect
8 7 (5.30%) Embedded Engineer
8 7 (5.30%) GCP Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Provisioning Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Senior DevOps
9 6 (4.55%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) Python Developer
10 5 (3.79%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (34.85%) Terraform
2 23 (17.42%) RESTful
3 15 (11.36%) REST
4 14 (10.61%) Spring
4 14 (10.61%) Spring Boot
5 13 (9.85%) Kafka
6 11 (8.33%) OpenAPI
6 11 (8.33%) Swagger
7 9 (6.82%) OAuth
7 9 (6.82%) OAuth2
8 8 (6.06%) AngularJS
8 8 (6.06%) Playwright
8 8 (6.06%) PySpark
9 7 (5.30%) JWT
9 7 (5.30%) OpenID
9 7 (5.30%) Web Services
10 6 (4.55%) .NET
10 6 (4.55%) React
11 4 (3.03%) Node.js
11 4 (3.03%) Streamlit
Miscellaneous
1 34 (25.76%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.85%) Product Ownership
3 12 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
4 11 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (6.06%) Linux Command Line
5 8 (6.06%) Private Cloud
6 6 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.03%) PKI
8 3 (2.27%) Data Centre
8 3 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.27%) Replication
9 2 (1.52%) AI Agents
9 2 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.52%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.52%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
10 1 (0.76%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.64%) Linux
2 9 (6.82%) Windows
3 4 (3.03%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.52%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (64.39%) CI/CD
2 44 (33.33%) Agile
3 34 (25.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (24.24%) Containerisation
5 24 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (17.42%) AI
6 23 (17.42%) Platform Engineering
7 22 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 22 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 19 (14.39%) Microservices
9 18 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (12.12%) Scrum
11 15 (11.36%) Validation
12 14 (10.61%) Deployment Automation
13 13 (9.85%) Continuous Delivery
13 13 (9.85%) Data Pipeline
13 13 (9.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (9.09%) Observability
15 11 (8.33%) Mentoring
15 11 (8.33%) Operational Stability
Programming Languages
1 47 (35.61%) Python
2 28 (21.21%) Java
3 19 (14.39%) SQL
4 17 (12.88%) Bash
5 16 (12.12%) Go
6 11 (8.33%) Shell Script
7 9 (6.82%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.06%) C#
9 6 (4.55%) Lua
9 6 (4.55%) TypeScript
10 5 (3.79%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.03%) Perl
12 2 (1.52%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.76%) Bicep
13 1 (0.76%) Groovy
13 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.76%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (15.91%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.85%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.06%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.79%) Degree
5 4 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.27%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.76%) APMG
8 1 (0.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.76%) LFCS
8 1 (0.76%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.76%) RHCE
8 1 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.58%) QA
2 8 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.79%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (2.27%) GDPR
5 1 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.76%) NCSC
5 1 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (19.70%) Docker
2 7 (5.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.55%) zsh
4 3 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (2.27%) vSphere
5 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.52%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.76%) Ceph
6 1 (0.76%) UAG
Systems Management
1 62 (46.97%) Kubernetes
2 14 (10.61%) Ansible
3 2 (1.52%) Puppet
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) logstash
4 1 (0.76%) Podman
4 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.76%) SCCM
4 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 16 (12.12%) Google
3 12 (9.09%) Oracle
4 10 (7.58%) MuleSoft
5 8 (6.06%) Databricks
5 8 (6.06%) VMware
6 6 (4.55%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.27%) SaltStack
7 3 (2.27%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.27%) Splunk
8 2 (1.52%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.52%) ForgeRock
8 2 (1.52%) Okta
8 2 (1.52%) RedGate
8 2 (1.52%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.76%) Avaloq
9 1 (0.76%) Pega
9 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.76%) webMethods
110 DevOps jobs in Glasgow