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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 15 6
Rank change year-on-year +5 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing DevOps 86 74 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.50% 8.75% 15.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.21% 10.32% 16.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 53 134
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £436 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.44% -7.69% -2.99%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £675 £585 £575
Scotland median daily rate £494 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.50% -0.25%

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 605 717 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.98% 84.75% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 398 724
10th Percentile £250 £212 £213
25th Percentile £406 £358 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £532 £550 £538
90th Percentile £598 £650 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.89% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 5
10th Percentile £16.93 £13.22 £16.40
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.37 £21.26
Median hourly rate £17.59 £18.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -57.65% +89.31%
75th Percentile £32.73 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £62.50 £38.00 £59.00
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £20.29 £18.33
% change year-on-year -1.40% +10.70% -51.04%

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 27 July 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 (11.63%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.33%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.33%) Camunda
3 2 (2.33%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.16%) JBoss
4 1 (1.16%) nginx
4 1 (1.16%) OpenROAD
Applications
1 3 (3.49%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (50.00%) Azure
2 29 (33.72%) AWS
2 29 (33.72%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (16.28%) Serverless
4 13 (15.12%) AWS CloudFormation
5 11 (12.79%) Amazon S3
5 11 (12.79%) GCP
5 11 (12.79%) Power Platform
6 9 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
7 6 (6.98%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (5.81%) GitHub
9 4 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
9 4 (4.65%) CloudFront
10 3 (3.49%) Amazon EC2
10 3 (3.49%) AWS CodePipeline
10 3 (3.49%) OpenShift
10 3 (3.49%) PaaS
10 3 (3.49%) Power Automate
10 3 (3.49%) PowerApps
10 3 (3.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.49%) SNA
1 3 (3.49%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.16%) DNS
2 1 (1.16%) Kerberos
2 1 (1.16%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (8.14%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (6.98%) Power BI
3 6 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.65%) GIS
5 4 (4.65%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.65%) MySQL
5 4 (4.65%) Redis
6 3 (3.49%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.49%) MariaDB
6 3 (3.49%) Metadata
6 3 (3.49%) Power Query
7 2 (2.33%) InfluxDB
7 2 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.33%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.33%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.16%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 16 (18.60%) Jenkins
2 15 (17.44%) Git
3 12 (13.95%) JIRA
4 6 (6.98%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.65%) GitLab
5 4 (4.65%) Postman
5 4 (4.65%) Selenium
6 3 (3.49%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.49%) Storybook
7 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
7 2 (2.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.33%) Liquibase
7 2 (2.33%) Snyk
7 2 (2.33%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.33%) Subversion
7 2 (2.33%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.33%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.16%) JUnit
8 1 (1.16%) NUnit
General
1 43 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 30 (34.88%) Finance
3 23 (26.74%) Public Sector
4 13 (15.12%) Banking
5 12 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.49%) Legal
6 3 (3.49%) Retail Banking
7 2 (2.33%) Back Office
7 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (17.44%) Developer
2 14 (16.28%) Architect
3 13 (15.12%) Lead
4 12 (13.95%) Senior
5 9 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Analyst
7 6 (6.98%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.81%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.81%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.65%) React Developer
9 4 (4.65%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Business Data Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Data Analyst
10 3 (3.49%) Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (3.49%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.49%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.49%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.49%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.44%) .NET
1 15 (17.44%) RESTful
2 13 (15.12%) React
3 10 (11.63%) AWS CDK
4 9 (10.47%) REST
4 9 (10.47%) Spring Boot
5 8 (9.30%) Spring
6 5 (5.81%) YAML
7 4 (4.65%) Jest
7 4 (4.65%) JSON
7 4 (4.65%) Playwright
7 4 (4.65%) PostGIS
7 4 (4.65%) SOAP
8 3 (3.49%) ARM Templates
8 3 (3.49%) CSS
8 3 (3.49%) GraphQL
8 3 (3.49%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (2.33%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.33%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.33%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Cloud Native
1 10 (11.63%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (10.47%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (10.47%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.98%) Mainframe
4 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.65%) Legacy Applications
5 4 (4.65%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (4.65%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.65%) Replication
5 4 (4.65%) Wiki
6 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
6 3 (3.49%) Legacy Code
6 3 (3.49%) Low-Code
6 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.49%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.33%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.16%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.95%) Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (6.98%) Windows
3 4 (4.65%) Unix
4 3 (3.49%) HPUX
4 3 (3.49%) Solaris
4 3 (3.49%) zOS
5 1 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (56.98%) Agile
2 47 (54.65%) CI/CD
3 20 (23.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (19.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (18.60%) Microservices
5 16 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.12%) Containerisation
7 12 (13.95%) Software Engineering
7 12 (13.95%) Test Automation
8 11 (12.79%) Analytics
9 10 (11.63%) Data Protection
9 10 (11.63%) Migration
9 10 (11.63%) Project Delivery
10 8 (9.30%) Code Quality
10 8 (9.30%) Mentoring
10 8 (9.30%) Scrum
10 8 (9.30%) Unit Testing
10 8 (9.30%) User Experience
11 7 (8.14%) API Development
11 7 (8.14%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (27.91%) Java
2 21 (24.42%) Python
3 15 (17.44%) SQL
4 11 (12.79%) C#
5 10 (11.63%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.47%) Bash
7 7 (8.14%) TypeScript
8 5 (5.81%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.65%) Perl
9 4 (4.65%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.49%) Bicep
10 3 (3.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (3.49%) Go
10 3 (3.49%) JCL
11 2 (2.33%) C++
11 2 (2.33%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.33%) VBA
11 2 (2.33%) VBScript
12 1 (1.16%) Groovy
12 1 (1.16%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (6.98%) Degree
2 5 (5.81%) AWS Certification
3 3 (3.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.33%) Azure Certification
4 2 (2.33%) CISA
4 2 (2.33%) CISM
4 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.33%) ISEB
4 2 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.16%) HND
5 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.16%) OCP
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) QA
2 8 (9.30%) Disclosure Scotland
3 6 (6.98%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.16%) PMO
5 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (5.81%) Docker
2 4 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.16%) KVM
Systems Management
1 13 (15.12%) Terraform
2 12 (13.95%) Ansible
2 12 (13.95%) Grafana
3 11 (12.79%) Kubernetes
4 7 (8.14%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.49%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.49%) Tivoli NetView
6 2 (2.33%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.16%) Kibana
7 1 (1.16%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.16%) linkerd
7 1 (1.16%) Nagios
7 1 (1.16%) Podman
7 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.98%) IBM
3 5 (5.81%) Oracle
4 4 (4.65%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.65%) Google
5 3 (3.49%) Databricks
5 3 (3.49%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.49%) Sun
5 3 (3.49%) Unisys
6 2 (2.33%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.33%) Informatica
6 2 (2.33%) Splunk
6 2 (2.33%) Tenable
7 1 (1.16%) Cisco
7 1 (1.16%) Commvault
7 1 (1.16%) HP
7 1 (1.16%) NetApp
7 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.16%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.16%) Salesforce