DevOps Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

DevOps
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 7 19
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing DevOps 71 93 64
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 10.53% 15.02% 7.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.35% 15.87% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 48 44
10th Percentile £366 £411 £402
25th Percentile £421 £444 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -5.13%
75th Percentile £525 £591 £524
90th Percentile £559 £625 £568
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 575 586 699
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.31% 94.67% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 290 370
10th Percentile £238 £306 £213
25th Percentile £384 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £530
90th Percentile £638 £600 £613
Scotland median daily rate £467 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -0.11% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 23
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £16.03 - £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.77% -48.24%
75th Percentile £22.54 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £73.40 £65.00 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.59
% change year-on-year -15.70% +2.09% +6.90%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DevOps.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing DevOps

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (8.45%) Confluence
2 3 (4.23%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) nginx
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 40 (56.34%) Azure
2 25 (35.21%) AWS
3 21 (29.58%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (14.08%) OpenShift
5 9 (12.68%) Amazon S3
5 9 (12.68%) GCP
6 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
7 6 (8.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (8.45%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (8.45%) Power Automate
7 6 (8.45%) PowerApps
8 5 (7.04%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (7.04%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (7.04%) GitHub
8 5 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (7.04%) OCI
8 5 (7.04%) Serverless
9 4 (5.63%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (5.63%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.04%) DNS
2 2 (2.82%) Firewall
3 1 (1.41%) DHCP
3 1 (1.41%) HTTP
3 1 (1.41%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.49%) SQL Server
2 9 (12.68%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (8.45%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (5.63%) MongoDB
5 3 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (4.23%) Power BI
5 3 (4.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.82%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.82%) Power Query
7 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.41%) Db2
7 1 (1.41%) Metadata
7 1 (1.41%) MySQL
7 1 (1.41%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.41%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (1.41%) Redis
7 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (25.35%) Jenkins
2 10 (14.08%) Git
3 8 (11.27%) GitLab
4 7 (9.86%) JIRA
5 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.41%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.41%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.41%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.41%) JMeter
6 1 (1.41%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.41%) Selenium
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.41%) webpack
General
1 23 (32.39%) Public Sector
2 21 (29.58%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.31%) Finance
4 5 (7.04%) Banking
5 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.41%) Front Office
7 1 (1.41%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 12 (16.90%) Developer
3 6 (8.45%) DBA
3 6 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (8.45%) Senior
4 5 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Analyst
5 4 (5.63%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (5.63%) Lead
5 4 (5.63%) SQL DBA
5 4 (5.63%) Technical Leader
6 2 (2.82%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.82%) Business Analyst
6 2 (2.82%) Business Systems Analyst
6 2 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (2.82%) Project Manager
6 2 (2.82%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (26.76%) Terraform
2 13 (18.31%) REST
3 9 (12.68%) Spring
3 9 (12.68%) Spring Boot
4 8 (11.27%) React
5 6 (8.45%) Next.js
5 6 (8.45%) OAuth
6 5 (7.04%) .NET
6 5 (7.04%) CSS
6 5 (7.04%) HTML
6 5 (7.04%) Node.js
6 5 (7.04%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.63%) AWS CDK
7 4 (5.63%) Spring Security
8 3 (4.23%) ADO
8 3 (4.23%) Playwright
8 3 (4.23%) RabbitMQ
8 3 (4.23%) SOAP
8 3 (4.23%) Spring MVC
8 3 (4.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.49%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (8.45%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (4.23%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (4.23%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.82%) Clustering
6 2 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.41%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.41%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.41%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.41%) NHS
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Linux
2 8 (11.27%) Windows
3 5 (7.04%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.41%) Unix
5 1 (1.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (59.15%) CI/CD
2 28 (39.44%) Agile
3 22 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (25.35%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (19.72%) Data Protection
6 12 (16.90%) Containerisation
6 12 (16.90%) Observability
6 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (15.49%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (15.49%) Platform Engineering
7 11 (15.49%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (14.08%) Migration
9 8 (11.27%) Kanban
9 8 (11.27%) Microservices
10 7 (9.86%) Event-Driven
10 7 (9.86%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (9.86%) Scrum
10 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 6 (8.45%) DevSecOps
11 6 (8.45%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (26.76%) Python
2 13 (18.31%) SQL
3 12 (16.90%) PowerShell
4 10 (14.08%) Java
5 9 (12.68%) Bash
5 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.27%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.45%) Bicep
8 4 (5.63%) C#
9 3 (4.23%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.82%) Go
10 2 (2.82%) Search Processing Language
11 1 (1.41%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.41%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (7.04%) AWS Certification
1 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
1 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.63%) Azure Certification
2 4 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
2 4 (5.63%) Degree
3 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
4 2 (2.82%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.82%) PMP
5 1 (1.41%) RHCE
5 1 (1.41%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (5.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.23%) GDPR
3 3 (4.23%) QA
4 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.82%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (22.54%) Docker
2 3 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.41%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (26.76%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.68%) Grafana
3 5 (7.04%) Ansible
4 3 (4.23%) Kibana
4 3 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.41%) Argo
5 1 (1.41%) Avamar
5 1 (1.41%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.41%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.41%) linkerd
5 1 (1.41%) Nagios
5 1 (1.41%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.41%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.41%) yum
5 1 (1.41%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.27%) Oracle
3 3 (4.23%) Dynatrace
3 3 (4.23%) Red Hat
3 3 (4.23%) RedGate
3 3 (4.23%) SolarWinds
3 3 (4.23%) Splunk
3 3 (4.23%) VMware
4 2 (2.82%) Google
4 2 (2.82%) Pega
5 1 (1.41%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.41%) Databricks
5 1 (1.41%) IBM
5 1 (1.41%) Informatica
5 1 (1.41%) New Relic
5 1 (1.41%) Okta
5 1 (1.41%) ServiceNow