DevOps Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £530 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
11 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 92 92
Rank change year-on-year +28 0 -24
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 8 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.97% 1.19% 1.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 1.24% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 24
10th Percentile £513 £481 £458
25th Percentile £518 £483 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £501 £531
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% -5.79% +7.05%
75th Percentile £549 £530 £575
90th Percentile £565 £588 £613
Scotland median daily rate £513 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -10.87% +4.55% +10.83%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 779 1,211 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.88% 95.88% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 855 1,254
10th Percentile £200 £237 £230
25th Percentile £363 £403 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £567
90th Percentile £661 £625 £638
Scotland median daily rate £475 £475 £463
% change year-on-year - +2.70% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 9 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.63 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £21.26 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +135.18% -18.23% -54.78%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £57.10 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £27.90 £21.75 £26.85
% change year-on-year +28.25% -18.99% -30.71%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings that featured DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 6 (75.00%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 4 (50.00%) Grafana
4 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 4 (50.00%) Ansible
4 4 (50.00%) Groovy
4 4 (50.00%) Bash
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
5 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
5 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
5 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (37.50%) Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Artifactory
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (37.50%) Terraform
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (37.50%) GitLab
5 3 (37.50%) Kibana
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
5 3 (37.50%) Serverless
5 3 (37.50%) AWS Fargate
5 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (37.50%) Public Sector

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon ECS
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 3 (37.50%) Amazon S3
2 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Fargate
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 3 (37.50%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) npm
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (12.50%) InfluxDB
3 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
3 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (12.50%) MySQL
3 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) Artifactory
2 3 (37.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) CircleCI
3 1 (12.50%) Gradle
3 1 (12.50%) gulp
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
3 1 (12.50%) Travis CI
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CDK
2 1 (12.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (12.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
4 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 2 (25.00%) Observability
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Analytics
5 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Kanban
5 1 (12.50%) Machine Learning
5 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (12.50%) Scrum
5 1 (12.50%) Software Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Bash
2 4 (50.00%) Groovy
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) Go
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) PHP
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) Grafana
3 3 (37.50%) Kibana
3 3 (37.50%) Terraform
4 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
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