Senior DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Senior Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Glasgow is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 84
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.55% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £422 - -
25th Percentile £585 - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - £618
75th Percentile £775 - £626
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £725 - £618

All Contract IT Job Roles
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Glasgow with a recognized job title 682 766 866
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.33% 94.68% 95.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 493 575
10th Percentile £309 £308 £275
25th Percentile £375 £373 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £675
Scotland median daily rate £451 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 7 39
10th Percentile £16.16 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.60 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £31.55 £19.83 £24.26
Median % change year-on-year +59.08% -18.24% -15.63%
75th Percentile £60.83 £46.38 £47.35
90th Percentile £61.84 £69.10 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.25 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.95% -37.14% +50.99%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Glasgow

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in Glasgow over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in Glasgow

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 19 April 2026, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Glasgow region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) ADO
3 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Docker
3 2 (50.00%) Metadata
3 2 (50.00%) Playwright
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SonarCloud
3 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 2 (50.00%) SonarCloud
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (25.00%) AWS CodePipeline
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) Node.js
2 1 (25.00%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Coaching
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (25.00%) Data Science
4 1 (25.00%) High Availability
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle