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 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
30 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 17 19
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 118 102 57
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 10.66% 13.88% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.65% 15.18% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 77 43
10th Percentile £368 £360 £351
25th Percentile £413 £418 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +4.86% -13.71%
75th Percentile £605 £550 £519
90th Percentile £721 £625 £613
Scotland median daily rate £494 £475 £457
% change year-on-year +3.95% +4.05% -8.70%
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 933 672 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 84.28% 91.43% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 417 441
10th Percentile £268 £300 £256
25th Percentile £363 £363 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.00%
75th Percentile £570 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £588 £650
Scotland median daily rate £460 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -0.54% +2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 20 12
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.01 £15.19
25th Percentile £13.70 £16.84 £18.11
Median hourly rate £35.00 £18.64 £21.92
Median % change year-on-year +87.79% -14.98% +51.19%
75th Percentile £43.96 £25.42 £48.66
90th Percentile £77.50 £29.34 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £17.36 £20.00 £18.69
% change year-on-year -13.20% +7.02% +5.46%

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 30 August 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 12 (10.17%) Confluence
2 5 (4.24%) Apache
3 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.69%) Alfresco
4 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.69%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.85%) Camunda
5 1 (0.85%) CMS
5 1 (0.85%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 62 (52.54%) Azure
2 49 (41.53%) AWS
3 31 (26.27%) GCP
4 30 (25.42%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (16.95%) GitHub
6 12 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.08%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (4.24%) Amazon MSK
10 4 (3.39%) Apigee
10 4 (3.39%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.39%) Kong
11 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.54%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (2.54%) IaaS
11 3 (2.54%) SaaS
11 3 (2.54%) Serverless
11 3 (2.54%) Snowflake
12 2 (1.69%) Amazon S3
12 2 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) DNS
2 3 (2.54%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.54%) SSH
2 3 (2.54%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) MongoDB
2 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.39%) Flink
3 4 (3.39%) Metadata
3 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.54%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.69%) DataStage
5 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.85%) Apache Iceberg
6 1 (0.85%) Big Data
6 1 (0.85%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.85%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.85%) MySQL
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (25.42%) Git
2 18 (15.25%) JIRA
3 16 (13.56%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.32%) Claude Code
5 5 (4.24%) Maven
5 5 (4.24%) Postman
5 5 (4.24%) REST Assured
6 4 (3.39%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.39%) Gradle
6 4 (3.39%) JUnit
6 4 (3.39%) Selenium
7 3 (2.54%) Appium
7 3 (2.54%) Cucumber
7 3 (2.54%) GoCD
7 3 (2.54%) JProfiler
7 3 (2.54%) SpecFlow
7 3 (2.54%) Subversion
8 2 (1.69%) GitLab
8 2 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (1.69%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (29.66%) Finance
2 29 (24.58%) Social Skills
3 16 (13.56%) Banking
4 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.69%) Law
8 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.85%) Front Office
8 1 (0.85%) International Banking
8 1 (0.85%) Legal
8 1 (0.85%) Military
8 1 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (25.42%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.41%) Senior
3 16 (13.56%) Developer
4 12 (10.17%) Cloud Engineer
4 12 (10.17%) Platform Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Azure Engineer
5 11 (9.32%) Java Developer
6 10 (8.47%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) Architect
7 8 (6.78%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.78%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Analyst
8 7 (5.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Embedded Engineer
8 7 (5.93%) Lead
9 6 (5.08%) Provisioning Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (4.24%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (37.29%) Terraform
2 18 (15.25%) RESTful
3 16 (13.56%) Spring
3 16 (13.56%) Spring Boot
4 10 (8.47%) Kafka
5 7 (5.93%) Web Services
6 6 (5.08%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.08%) Playwright
6 6 (5.08%) React
6 6 (5.08%) REST
7 5 (4.24%) OpenAPI
7 5 (4.24%) PySpark
7 5 (4.24%) Swagger
8 4 (3.39%) .NET
8 4 (3.39%) Streamlit
9 3 (2.54%) FreeMarker
9 3 (2.54%) JSF
9 3 (2.54%) Middleware
9 3 (2.54%) Node.js
9 3 (2.54%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (19.49%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.32%) Product Ownership
3 10 (8.47%) Enterprise Cloud
4 9 (7.63%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (5.93%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (3.39%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.54%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.85%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.85%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.85%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
10 1 (0.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.56%) Linux
2 5 (4.24%) Windows
3 3 (2.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (61.02%) CI/CD
2 43 (36.44%) Agile
3 29 (24.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (23.73%) Containerisation
5 23 (19.49%) Platform Engineering
6 19 (16.10%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.25%) Code Quality
7 18 (15.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.25%) Test Automation
8 17 (14.41%) AI
9 16 (13.56%) Mentoring
9 16 (13.56%) Scrum
10 14 (11.86%) Microservices
11 12 (10.17%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (10.17%) Stakeholder Management
12 11 (9.32%) Data Modelling
13 10 (8.47%) Analytics
13 10 (8.47%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (8.47%) Design Patterns
13 10 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 41 (34.75%) Python
2 25 (21.19%) Java
3 16 (13.56%) SQL
4 15 (12.71%) Bash
5 10 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.63%) Shell Script
7 6 (5.08%) C#
7 6 (5.08%) Go
7 6 (5.08%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.39%) Lua
9 2 (1.69%) Perl
9 2 (1.69%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.85%) Bicep
10 1 (0.85%) Groovy
10 1 (0.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (19.49%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.86%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.08%) DV Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) Degree
5 4 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.54%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) APMG
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.85%) LFCS
8 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.85%) RHCE
8 1 (0.85%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) Data Quality
1 7 (5.93%) QA
2 5 (4.24%) GDPR
3 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.69%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (16.95%) Docker
2 6 (5.08%) zsh
3 5 (4.24%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.54%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.69%) Ceph
5 2 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.85%) Squid
6 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (42.37%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.63%) Ansible
3 5 (4.24%) Istio
4 2 (1.69%) Argo
5 1 (0.85%) Grafana
5 1 (0.85%) logstash
5 1 (0.85%) Podman
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.85%) Puppet
5 1 (0.85%) SCCM
5 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (22.88%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.56%) Google
3 13 (11.02%) Oracle
4 8 (6.78%) MuleSoft
5 7 (5.93%) Databricks
6 6 (5.08%) Salesforce
7 5 (4.24%) VMware
8 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.69%) Informatica
9 2 (1.69%) Okta
9 2 (1.69%) RedGate
9 2 (1.69%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.69%) Splunk
9 2 (1.69%) Talend
10 1 (0.85%) Avaloq
10 1 (0.85%) Checkmarx
10 1 (0.85%) IBM
10 1 (0.85%) Pega
10 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.85%) SaltStack
49 DevOps jobs in Glasgow