DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Aberdeen

Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Aberdeen

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Aberdeen is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 10 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Aberdeen 3.33% 3.23% -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.45% 3.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £500 £471 £500
% change year-on-year +6.10% -5.75% -4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Aberdeen

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Aberdeen. 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 Aberdeen with a recognized job title 29 31 34
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.67% 100.00% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 24
10th Percentile £175 £352 £130
25th Percentile £288 £463 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £550 £198
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% +178.48% -51.23%
75th Percentile £500 £597 £500
90th Percentile - £638 £606
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +1.11% -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £28.23 £17.26
25th Percentile - £31.19 £17.34
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.75 £17.47
Median % change year-on-year -31.56% +110.42% -1.44%
75th Percentile - £42.69 £17.59
90th Percentile - £45.88 £17.67
Scotland median hourly rate £20.40 £18.27 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.64% +3.10% -6.24%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Aberdeen

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Aberdeen

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Aberdeen

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Aberdeen

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen

For the 6 months to 8 September 2025, 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 Aberdeen region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Aberdeen 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft