DevOps Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £520 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 116 89
Rank change year-on-year +27 -27 -1
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 42 48 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.90% 1.68% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.01% 1.77% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 34 56
10th Percentile £364 £481 £463
25th Percentile £426 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £634 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.92% +15.18% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £676 £625
90th Percentile £650 £693 £674
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +7.83% +105.36% -46.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,090 2,715 3,383
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.70% 95.13% 96.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,278 1,947 2,403
10th Percentile £204 £237 £213
25th Percentile £364 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 54
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.90 £12.24
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.21 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.86 £25.55
Median % change year-on-year +39.35% -6.60% -36.14%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.55 £47.99
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.14
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +6 31 £440 -34.03% 2
Edinburgh +39 8 £530 +4.64% 2
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 Scotland region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 32 (76.19%) Python
3 25 (59.52%) Linux
4 16 (38.10%) Containerisation
4 16 (38.10%) Perl
4 16 (38.10%) Kubernetes
5 15 (35.71%) AWS
6 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
6 14 (33.33%) Terraform
7 12 (28.57%) Jenkins
7 12 (28.57%) Agile
8 10 (23.81%) Banking
8 10 (23.81%) Unix
8 10 (23.81%) OpenShift
9 9 (21.43%) Docker
9 9 (21.43%) Azure
9 9 (21.43%) Finance
9 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 8 (19.05%) SQL
10 8 (19.05%) Java
10 8 (19.05%) VMware
10 8 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
10 8 (19.05%) Bash
11 7 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (16.67%) Git
11 7 (16.67%) Task Automation
12 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
12 6 (14.29%) Grafana
12 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
12 6 (14.29%) Observability

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.76%) Confluence
1 2 (4.76%) SAS
2 1 (2.38%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 10 (23.81%) OpenShift
3 9 (21.43%) Azure
4 6 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 5 (11.90%) Amazon S3
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (11.90%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (11.90%) Serverless
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.76%) Snowflake
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (2.38%) Azure AKS
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (2.38%) npm
9 1 (2.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.76%) DHCP
1 2 (4.76%) DNS
1 2 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (4.76%) iSCSI
2 1 (2.38%) HTTP
2 1 (2.38%) SSL
2 1 (2.38%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (11.90%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.14%) InfluxDB
3 3 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (4.76%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.38%) MariaDB
5 1 (2.38%) Redis
5 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 7 (16.67%) Git
3 6 (14.29%) GitLab
4 5 (11.90%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.76%) JIRA
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (2.38%) CircleCI
6 1 (2.38%) Gradle
6 1 (2.38%) gulp
6 1 (2.38%) Maven
6 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (2.38%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.38%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (23.81%) Banking
2 9 (21.43%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.29%) Middleware
2 5 (11.90%) AWS CDK
3 4 (9.52%) RESTful
4 3 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (4.76%) Flash
5 2 (4.76%) POSIX
6 1 (2.38%) .NET
6 1 (2.38%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.38%) AngularJS
6 1 (2.38%) ARM Templates
6 1 (2.38%) FastAPI
6 1 (2.38%) Redfish
6 1 (2.38%) Twisted
6 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) NVMe
4 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 25 (59.52%) Linux
2 10 (23.81%) Unix
3 7 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (11.90%) Ubuntu
5 4 (9.52%) VMS
6 2 (4.76%) Windows
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 16 (38.10%) Containerisation
3 14 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 12 (28.57%) Agile
5 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 6 (14.29%) Observability
7 6 (14.29%) OO
7 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
9 4 (9.52%) Data Protection
9 4 (9.52%) GitOps
9 4 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (9.52%) Release Management
10 3 (7.14%) Mentoring
10 3 (7.14%) Open Source
10 3 (7.14%) SDLC
10 3 (7.14%) Software Delivery
10 3 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 32 (76.19%) Python
2 16 (38.10%) Perl
3 8 (19.05%) Bash
3 8 (19.05%) Java
3 8 (19.05%) SQL
4 6 (14.29%) Groovy
5 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 2 (4.76%) C
6 2 (4.76%) C#
6 2 (4.76%) Go
6 2 (4.76%) Ruby
6 2 (4.76%) Scala
7 1 (2.38%) Elixir
7 1 (2.38%) PHP
7 1 (2.38%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
1 1 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
1 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (2.38%) NIST
1 1 (2.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (21.43%) Docker
2 8 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (38.10%) Kubernetes
2 14 (33.33%) Terraform
3 6 (14.29%) Ansible
3 6 (14.29%) Grafana
4 5 (11.90%) Kibana
5 2 (4.76%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.38%) Argo
6 1 (2.38%) Istio
6 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) VMware
2 2 (4.76%) Databricks
2 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (2.38%) Dell
3 1 (2.38%) Google
3 1 (2.38%) HP