DevOps Contracts in Glasgow

DevOps
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Glasgow requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 21 14
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing DevOps 102 57 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Glasgow 13.92% 8.24% 11.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.25% 9.15% 12.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 44 71
10th Percentile £360 £352 £400
25th Percentile £418 £382 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -8.70% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £594
90th Percentile £625 £613 £675
Scotland median daily rate £475 £457 £500
% change year-on-year +4.05% -8.70% -
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 669 623 774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 91.27% 90.03% 92.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 443 519
10th Percentile £300 £246 £338
25th Percentile £363 £361 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £575
90th Percentile £588 £650 £675
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 29
10th Percentile £15.82 £15.38 £11.85
25th Percentile £16.84 £18.50 £12.13
Median hourly rate £19.83 £24.26 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.24% +67.28% -61.26%
75th Percentile £25.68 £57.50 £47.73
90th Percentile £32.47 £62.50 £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.69 £19.06
% change year-on-year +7.02% -1.93% -4.01%

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 28 August 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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 2 (1.96%) Anypoint
2 2 (1.96%) JBoss
2 2 (1.96%) Mule
2 2 (1.96%) OpenROAD
3 1 (0.98%) Apache
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.98%) nginx
3 1 (0.98%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (53.92%) Azure
2 43 (42.16%) AWS
3 29 (28.43%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (15.69%) GitHub
5 10 (9.80%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (8.82%) OpenShift
7 7 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 7 (6.86%) GCP
7 7 (6.86%) SaaS
8 5 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (4.90%) PaaS
9 4 (3.92%) Slack
10 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.94%) IaaS
10 3 (2.94%) Serverless
11 2 (1.96%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (1.96%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) Firewall
2 4 (3.92%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.96%) AMQP
3 2 (1.96%) DSL
4 1 (0.98%) DHCP
4 1 (0.98%) DNS
4 1 (0.98%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.78%) MongoDB
2 9 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.86%) NoSQL
3 7 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (4.90%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.90%) Redis
4 5 (4.90%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.92%) Big Data
5 4 (3.92%) NewSQL
5 4 (3.92%) OLTP
6 3 (2.94%) DB2
6 3 (2.94%) MSDE
7 2 (1.96%) CockroachDB
7 2 (1.96%) MySQL
7 2 (1.96%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.98%) Power BI
8 1 (0.98%) SQLite
8 1 (0.98%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 37 (36.27%) Jenkins
2 28 (27.45%) Git
3 19 (18.63%) JIRA
4 14 (13.73%) Bitbucket
5 13 (12.75%) IntelliJ
5 13 (12.75%) PyCharm
5 13 (12.75%) Visual Studio
5 13 (12.75%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (8.82%) JUnit
7 7 (6.86%) GitLab
7 7 (6.86%) Maven
8 5 (4.90%) Artifactory
9 4 (3.92%) Gradle
9 4 (3.92%) Mockito
9 4 (3.92%) Terragrunt
10 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (35.29%) Finance
2 24 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 15 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 13 (12.75%) Banking
5 5 (4.90%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.94%) Back Office
7 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.98%) Front Office
8 1 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.98%) Legal
8 1 (0.98%) Military
Job Titles
1 35 (34.31%) Developer
2 28 (27.45%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (14.71%) Java Developer
4 14 (13.73%) Python Engineer
5 13 (12.75%) Python Developer
6 10 (9.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 10 (9.80%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (6.86%) Full-Stack Developer
7 7 (6.86%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 5 (4.90%) Analyst
8 5 (4.90%) AWS DevOps
8 5 (4.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Senior
9 4 (3.92%) Architect
9 4 (3.92%) Database Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Data Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Python Data Engineer
10 3 (2.94%) Release Manager
10 3 (2.94%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (17.65%) Spring Boot
2 17 (16.67%) Kafka
3 16 (15.69%) Spring
4 14 (13.73%) OAuth
4 14 (13.73%) RESTful
5 12 (11.76%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.84%) FastAPI
6 8 (7.84%) OAuth2
6 8 (7.84%) REST
7 6 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (5.88%) React
8 5 (4.90%) Flask
8 5 (4.90%) LangChain
8 5 (4.90%) LangGraph
8 5 (4.90%) Loki
8 5 (4.90%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (3.92%) Hugging Face
9 4 (3.92%) OpenID
9 4 (3.92%) PyTorch
9 4 (3.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.71%) Public Cloud
2 10 (9.80%) Cloud Native
2 10 (9.80%) Virtual Team
3 5 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.92%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.92%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (3.92%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.96%) Clustering
6 2 (1.96%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.98%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 33 (32.35%) Linux
2 17 (16.67%) Windows
3 5 (4.90%) Unix
4 3 (2.94%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (68.63%) CI/CD
2 67 (65.69%) Agile
3 29 (28.43%) Test Automation
4 27 (26.47%) SDLC
5 26 (25.49%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (18.63%) Containerisation
6 19 (18.63%) Microservices
7 17 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (15.69%) Scrum
9 14 (13.73%) Computer Science
9 14 (13.73%) Software Engineering
10 13 (12.75%) Observability
11 12 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (9.80%) Full-Stack Development
12 10 (9.80%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (8.82%) Configuration Management
13 9 (8.82%) GitOps
13 9 (8.82%) Migration
13 9 (8.82%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 51 (50.00%) Python
2 45 (44.12%) Java
3 22 (21.57%) SQL
4 16 (15.69%) C#
5 14 (13.73%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.90%) Bash
7 4 (3.92%) ANSI SQL
8 3 (2.94%) Go
8 3 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.94%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.96%) Bicep
9 2 (1.96%) DataWeave
9 2 (1.96%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.96%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.98%) Perl
10 1 (0.98%) PromQL
10 1 (0.98%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (16.67%) Degree
2 13 (12.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (6.86%) Master's Degree
4 5 (4.90%) AWS Certification
5 3 (2.94%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.96%) CISSP
6 2 (1.96%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.84%) QA
2 3 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.98%) NIST
4 1 (0.98%) PMO
4 1 (0.98%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (19.61%) Docker
2 1 (0.98%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 48 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 44 (43.14%) Terraform
3 19 (18.63%) Ansible
4 7 (6.86%) Prometheus
5 6 (5.88%) Grafana
6 4 (3.92%) Argo
6 4 (3.92%) Istio
6 4 (3.92%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.96%) Podman
7 2 (1.96%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.98%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.82%) Oracle
3 6 (5.88%) AppDynamics
4 5 (4.90%) Splunk
5 4 (3.92%) Google
6 3 (2.94%) IBM
6 3 (2.94%) Netskope
6 3 (2.94%) Proofpoint
6 3 (2.94%) Sybase
6 3 (2.94%) Symantec
7 2 (1.96%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.96%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.98%) Avaya
8 1 (0.98%) Cisco
8 1 (0.98%) F5
8 1 (0.98%) Infoblox
8 1 (0.98%) Pega
8 1 (0.98%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.98%) SAP
8 1 (0.98%) Sun