DevOps Contracts in Edinburgh

DevOps
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 15 6
Rank change year-on-year +4 -9 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 76 75 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.16% 9.20% 17.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.79% 10.42% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 50 184
10th Percentile £400 £363 £406
25th Percentile £415 £413 £437
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £460 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% -3.97% +0.84%
75th Percentile £536 £506 £538
90th Percentile £586 £578 £579
Scotland median daily rate £473 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £39.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -43.93% -

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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
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 10 (13.16%) Confluence
2 4 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 3 (3.95%) WordPress
4 2 (2.63%) Camunda
4 2 (2.63%) GeoServer
5 1 (1.32%) JBoss
5 1 (1.32%) nginx
5 1 (1.32%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 34 (44.74%) Azure
2 27 (35.53%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (25.00%) AWS
4 13 (17.11%) Serverless
5 12 (15.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (14.47%) Amazon S3
6 11 (14.47%) AWS Lambda
6 11 (14.47%) Power Platform
7 7 (9.21%) AWS CodePipeline
7 7 (9.21%) OpenShift
8 5 (6.58%) PaaS
8 5 (6.58%) SaaS
9 4 (5.26%) AWS Step Functions
9 4 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (5.26%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.95%) Amazon SQS
10 3 (3.95%) CloudFront
10 3 (3.95%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.95%) SNA
1 3 (3.95%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.32%) DNS
2 1 (1.32%) Firewall
2 1 (1.32%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.47%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (14.47%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.58%) Oracle Database
2 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
3 4 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.26%) GIS
4 3 (3.95%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (3.95%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.95%) Power BI
4 3 (3.95%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.63%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.63%) MariaDB
5 2 (2.63%) MySQL
5 2 (2.63%) Power Query
5 2 (2.63%) Redis
5 2 (2.63%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 13 (17.11%) JIRA
2 12 (15.79%) Git
2 12 (15.79%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.84%) GitLab
4 5 (6.58%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.26%) Cypress.io
5 4 (5.26%) Postman
5 4 (5.26%) Selenium
6 3 (3.95%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.95%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.95%) Subversion
6 3 (3.95%) WebDriver
7 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.63%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle APEX
7 2 (2.63%) Storybook
8 1 (1.32%) Appium
8 1 (1.32%) MSTest
8 1 (1.32%) Ranorex
8 1 (1.32%) SpecFlow
General
1 32 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 27 (35.53%) Social Skills
3 21 (27.63%) Finance
4 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.84%) Banking
5 4 (5.26%) Back Office
6 3 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Front Office
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (28.95%) Developer
2 10 (13.16%) Lead
2 10 (13.16%) Senior
3 9 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Architect
4 8 (10.53%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.21%) .NET Developer
5 7 (9.21%) Analyst
6 5 (6.58%) React Developer
6 5 (6.58%) Technical Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Business Data Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Re-Platforming Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Senior React Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (17.11%) .NET
2 12 (15.79%) AWS CDK
2 12 (15.79%) REST
3 9 (11.84%) React
4 8 (10.53%) RESTful
5 6 (7.89%) PostGIS
5 6 (7.89%) Spring
5 6 (7.89%) Spring Boot
6 4 (5.26%) AngularJS
6 4 (5.26%) SOAP
7 3 (3.95%) CSS
7 3 (3.95%) JSON
7 3 (3.95%) Playwright
7 3 (3.95%) Web Services
7 3 (3.95%) YAML
8 2 (2.63%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.63%) GraphQL
8 2 (2.63%) HTML5 Canvas
8 2 (2.63%) Jest
8 2 (2.63%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.89%) Legacy Applications
2 6 (7.89%) Mainframe
2 6 (7.89%) Wiki
3 5 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.26%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.95%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.95%) Replication
6 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.63%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) PKI
7 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Windows
2 5 (6.58%) Linux
3 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.26%) Solaris
4 3 (3.95%) HPUX
4 3 (3.95%) zOS
5 2 (2.63%) Unix
6 1 (1.32%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.95%) Agile
2 33 (43.42%) CI/CD
3 16 (21.05%) Analytics
4 15 (19.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (19.74%) Test Automation
5 12 (15.79%) Kanban
5 12 (15.79%) Migration
6 11 (14.47%) Code Quality
6 11 (14.47%) User Experience
7 10 (13.16%) Project Delivery
7 10 (13.16%) Scrum
7 10 (13.16%) Software Delivery
8 9 (11.84%) Data Integration
8 9 (11.84%) Data Migration
8 9 (11.84%) Data Transformation
8 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (10.53%) Microservices
9 8 (10.53%) TDD
10 7 (9.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) SQL
2 17 (22.37%) Python
3 15 (19.74%) Java
4 10 (13.16%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.21%) C#
6 6 (7.89%) Bash
6 6 (7.89%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.58%) Shell Script
8 4 (5.26%) JCL
8 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.95%) C++
9 3 (3.95%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.95%) VBA
9 3 (3.95%) VBScript
10 2 (2.63%) Bicep
10 2 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.63%) Groovy
11 1 (1.32%) Go
11 1 (1.32%) Perl
11 1 (1.32%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (3.95%) Degree
1 3 (3.95%) ISEB
1 3 (3.95%) ISTQB
1 3 (3.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.63%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.32%) CCSP
3 1 (1.32%) CEH
3 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.32%) CISM
3 1 (1.32%) CISSP
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.32%) OCP
3 1 (1.32%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.16%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (10.53%) QA
3 5 (6.58%) Accessibility
4 4 (5.26%) WCAG
5 3 (3.95%) PERC
6 2 (2.63%) PMO
7 1 (1.32%) COBIT
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
7 1 (1.32%) NIST
7 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (10.53%) Docker
2 4 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.32%) KVM
4 1 (1.32%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Grafana
2 6 (7.89%) Ansible
2 6 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Terraform
3 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (3.95%) Tivoli NetView
4 2 (2.63%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.63%) HAProxy
4 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.32%) Data Guard
5 1 (1.32%) Istio
5 1 (1.32%) Kibana
5 1 (1.32%) linkerd
5 1 (1.32%) Nagios
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (1.32%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Oracle
2 7 (9.21%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.89%) IBM
4 5 (6.58%) Google
5 3 (3.95%) Databricks
5 3 (3.95%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.95%) Sun
5 3 (3.95%) Unisys
6 2 (2.63%) Commvault
6 2 (2.63%) Splunk
7 1 (1.32%) ForgeRock
7 1 (1.32%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.32%) HP
7 1 (1.32%) NetApp
7 1 (1.32%) Okta
7 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.32%) Red Hat
202 DevOps jobs in Scotland