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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 14 12
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 91 68 103
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 15.22% 10.32% 10.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.49% 11.51% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 45 72
10th Percentile £390 £413 £389
25th Percentile £419 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £501 £538
90th Percentile £625 £535 £575
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -

All Process and 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 552 591 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 92.31% 89.68% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 307 528
10th Percentile £225 £205 £212
25th Percentile £411 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £638 £625
Scotland median daily rate £464 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +3.06% -8.63% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 9
10th Percentile £16.68 £16.59 £12.95
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.19 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% -32.60% +64.63%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £71.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £22.94 £19.18
% change year-on-year -12.81% +19.59% +3.68%

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 8 December 2025.

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 9 (9.89%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.20%) Apache
4 1 (1.10%) FileNet
4 1 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.10%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 55 (60.44%) Azure
2 38 (41.76%) AWS
3 24 (26.37%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (18.68%) GCP
5 12 (13.19%) Serverless
6 11 (12.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 9 (9.89%) Amazon S3
8 6 (6.59%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (6.59%) GitHub
8 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.49%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
10 4 (4.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (4.40%) Collibra
11 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (2.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (2.20%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 2 (2.20%) npm
12 2 (2.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (4.40%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (4.40%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.30%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.30%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.30%) Power BI
3 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.20%) MySQL
4 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.10%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.10%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.10%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (19.78%) Jenkins
2 16 (17.58%) JIRA
3 9 (9.89%) Git
4 7 (7.69%) GitLab
5 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.40%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.20%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.20%) git-flow
7 2 (2.20%) Subversion
7 2 (2.20%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.10%) Maven
8 1 (1.10%) Oracle APEX
8 1 (1.10%) Postman
8 1 (1.10%) Selenium
8 1 (1.10%) Snyk
8 1 (1.10%) Storybook
8 1 (1.10%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.10%) webpack
General
1 33 (36.26%) Social Skills
2 25 (27.47%) Public Sector
3 21 (23.08%) Finance
4 9 (9.89%) Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Billing
6 3 (3.30%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Back Office
7 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.10%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (19.78%) Developer
2 13 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (10.99%) Senior
4 8 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) .NET Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Network Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (5.49%) Lead
7 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Java Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Project Officer
8 4 (4.40%) Project Support Officer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Support Officer
9 3 (3.30%) Consultant
9 3 (3.30%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.19%) RESTful
2 11 (12.09%) React
2 11 (12.09%) REST
3 9 (9.89%) .NET
4 7 (7.69%) AWS CDK
4 7 (7.69%) Spring
4 7 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.49%) CSS
5 5 (5.49%) HTML
5 5 (5.49%) OAuth
6 4 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (4.40%) OAuth2
7 2 (2.20%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.20%) FastAPI
7 2 (2.20%) Flask
7 2 (2.20%) Jest
7 2 (2.20%) Pandas
7 2 (2.20%) PyTorch
7 2 (2.20%) Spring Web Flow
7 2 (2.20%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.38%) Cloud Native
1 14 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 10 (10.99%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.59%) Legacy Applications
3 6 (6.59%) Wiki
4 5 (5.49%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.40%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.30%) Legacy Code
6 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.30%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.20%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.10%) Derivative
8 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.10%) PKI
8 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (14.29%) Linux
2 8 (8.79%) Unix
3 3 (3.30%) Windows
4 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (57.14%) Agile
2 48 (52.75%) CI/CD
3 26 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (20.88%) Microservices
5 17 (18.68%) Containerisation
6 16 (17.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (13.19%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (13.19%) Knowledge Transfer
8 12 (13.19%) Software Engineering
9 11 (12.09%) Scrum
9 11 (12.09%) Test Automation
10 10 (10.99%) Data Protection
10 10 (10.99%) Migration
10 10 (10.99%) Observability
10 10 (10.99%) Software Delivery
10 10 (10.99%) User Experience
11 9 (9.89%) Code Quality
11 9 (9.89%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (9.89%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.27%) Python
2 15 (16.48%) Java
3 14 (15.38%) SQL
4 9 (9.89%) JavaScript
5 8 (8.79%) TypeScript
6 6 (6.59%) Shell Script
7 5 (5.49%) Go
8 4 (4.40%) Bash
8 4 (4.40%) Perl
9 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.20%) C#
9 2 (2.20%) C++
9 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.10%) Bicep
10 1 (1.10%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) AWS Certification
2 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.10%) CCNA
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.10%) HND
5 1 (1.10%) ISEB
5 1 (1.10%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.79%) QA
2 7 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.49%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.10%) NCSC
4 1 (1.10%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (18.68%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) KVM
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 25 (27.47%) Terraform
2 19 (20.88%) Kubernetes
3 16 (17.58%) Grafana
4 14 (15.38%) Ansible
5 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.10%) Argo
6 1 (1.10%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.10%) Karpenter
6 1 (1.10%) Kibana
6 1 (1.10%) Kustomize
6 1 (1.10%) linkerd
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.10%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (1.10%) vRealize
6 1 (1.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (6.59%) Databricks
1 6 (6.59%) Oracle
2 5 (5.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.49%) Splunk
3 4 (4.40%) Google
4 3 (3.30%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (3.30%) Spotify
5 2 (2.20%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.20%) Cisco
5 2 (2.20%) Informatica
5 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.10%) Adobe
6 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.10%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.10%) IBM
6 1 (1.10%) Meraki
6 1 (1.10%) Pega
6 1 (1.10%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.10%) VMware
46 DevOps jobs in Edinburgh