DevOps Engineer Contracts in Edinburgh

Development Operations Engineer
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Edinburgh is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 64 74
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 +11
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 14 14 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 2.14% 1.67% 2.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.33% 1.77% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 21
10th Percentile £463 £485 £400
25th Percentile £469 £510 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £540 £538
90th Percentile £538 £578 £585
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -5.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 602 789 1,080
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.91% 94.15% 95.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 432 716
10th Percentile £256 £175 £213
25th Percentile £408 £325 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £590 £637 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 39 11
10th Percentile - £13.45 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.71
Median hourly rate £27.35 £18.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +51.94% +1.58% -22.96%
75th Percentile £63.13 £20.05 £30.74
90th Percentile £74.00 £51.00 £53.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.71 £18.13 £17.72
% change year-on-year +8.71% +2.31% -34.19%

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 4 August 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 Edinburgh region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
3 12 (85.71%) Terraform
4 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
4 11 (78.57%) Ansible
5 9 (64.29%) Docker
5 9 (64.29%) Azure
5 9 (64.29%) Grafana
6 8 (57.14%) AWS
7 7 (50.00%) Python
7 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (42.86%) Serverless
8 6 (42.86%) Prometheus
8 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 6 (42.86%) Agile
8 6 (42.86%) Bash
9 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
9 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
10 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
10 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
10 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
10 4 (28.57%) SQL
10 4 (28.57%) Unix
10 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
11 3 (21.43%) MariaDB
11 3 (21.43%) Analytics
11 3 (21.43%) Java

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (42.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (42.86%) Serverless
5 5 (35.71%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (21.43%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (21.43%) Power Automate
6 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
7 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
7 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (14.29%) CloudFront
7 2 (14.29%) GCP
7 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (7.14%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
8 1 (7.14%) Route 53
8 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (21.43%) MariaDB
1 3 (21.43%) MongoDB
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (21.43%) Power Query
1 3 (21.43%) Redis
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (7.14%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 1 (7.14%) GitLab
2 1 (7.14%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) ARM Templates
1 3 (21.43%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (21.43%) JSON
1 3 (21.43%) YAML
2 2 (14.29%) AWS CDK
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Loki
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
1 3 (21.43%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (21.43%) Low-Code
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Unix
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (92.86%) CI/CD
3 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (42.86%) Agile
5 5 (35.71%) Containerisation
6 3 (21.43%) Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
6 3 (21.43%) Fintech
6 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Kanban
6 3 (21.43%) Log Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
6 3 (21.43%) Software Delivery
7 2 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
8 1 (7.14%) Data Security
8 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Architecture
8 1 (7.14%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Python
2 6 (42.86%) Bash
3 5 (35.71%) PowerShell
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) Bicep
5 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (21.43%) Go
5 3 (21.43%) Java
5 3 (21.43%) Shell Script
6 1 (7.14%) Groovy
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 4 (28.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) OCP
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (85.71%) Terraform
2 11 (78.57%) Ansible
2 11 (78.57%) Kubernetes
3 9 (64.29%) Grafana
4 6 (42.86%) Prometheus
5 3 (21.43%) Progress Chef
6 2 (14.29%) linkerd
7 1 (7.14%) HAProxy
7 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Dynatrace
1 3 (21.43%) ForgeRock
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Ping Identity
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk
19 DevOps Engineer jobs in Scotland