Senior DevOps Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Senior Development Operations
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Glasgow is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 April 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - 83
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.97% - 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £312 - -
25th Percentile £336 - £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £618
75th Percentile £750 - £626
90th Percentile £775 - -
Scotland median daily rate £400 - £618
% change year-on-year - - +37.22%

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 678 766 880
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 94.22% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 487 582
10th Percentile £306 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £686
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 7 39
10th Percentile £16.15 £16.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £18.17 £16.00
Median hourly rate £26.09 £19.83 £24.26
Median % change year-on-year +31.57% -18.24% -15.63%
75th Percentile £56.40 £46.38 £47.35
90th Percentile £61.19 £69.10 £65.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.25 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -7.95% -37.14% +58.19%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Senior DevOps job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 14 April 2026, Senior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 5 (71.43%) Python
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon MSK
3 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
3 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (57.14%) Bitbucket
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (57.14%) Linux
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
3 4 (57.14%) Node.js
3 4 (57.14%) Perl
3 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (57.14%) Ruby
3 4 (57.14%) Serverless
3 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (42.86%) Azure

Senior DevOps 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 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon ECS
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon EKS
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon MSK
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS CloudFormation
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) BrowserStack
3 2 (28.57%) SonarCloud
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (28.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Bitbucket
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (42.86%) GitLab
General
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Node.js
2 2 (28.57%) ADO
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) YAML
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 4 (57.14%) Microservices
4 3 (42.86%) Code Quality
4 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) Coaching
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Agile
6 1 (14.29%) Analytics
6 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (14.29%) High Availability
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
6 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
6 1 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Java
2 4 (57.14%) Perl
2 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 4 (57.14%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
3 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) Salesforce
3 1 (14.29%) Databricks
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft