AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for AWS Certified DevOps Engineer qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 110 136
Rank change year-on-year -4 +26 +41
Contract jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.31% 0.054% 0.044%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.23% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £378 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £385 £430
Median % change year-on-year +26.62% -10.47% -21.82%
75th Percentile £525 £393 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £625
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.00% +17.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 405 465 575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 25.50% 24.93% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 288 342
10th Percentile £173 £179 £200
25th Percentile £313 £322 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +2.15%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £587
90th Percentile £614 £651 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 19 20
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.24 £40.34
25th Percentile £19.38 £14.00 £49.69
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £57.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -68.81% +103.49%
75th Percentile £25.15 £32.63 £74.81
90th Percentile £28.77 £53.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.70
% change year-on-year -47.05% -11.55% +19.33%

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing AWS Certified DevOps Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 12 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 5 £488 -
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
UK

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 2 (40.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
2 4 (80.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (80.00%) Serverless
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (20.00%) CloudFront
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (20.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Liquibase
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (60.00%) Fintech
4 2 (40.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Cryptography
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) High Availability
5 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) SIEM
5 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Go
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Grafana
2 2 (40.00%) linkerd
2 2 (40.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (20.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Dynatrace
1 3 (60.00%) ForgeRock
2 1 (20.00%) Ping Identity
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk