DevOps Developer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Development Operations Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate in Scotland is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 147
Rank change year-on-year - - +36
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.13% - 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% - 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £419 - £455
25th Percentile £428 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £475
75th Percentile £503 - £488
90th Percentile £516 - £496
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £571
% change year-on-year +2.00% -12.47% -18.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 1,439 1,757 2,370
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.33% 93.96% 94.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 1,061 1,542
10th Percentile £216 £200 £250
25th Percentile £358 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £534 £550 £550
90th Percentile £599 £670 £634
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 74 64
10th Percentile £16.16 £12.32 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.73 £13.16
Median hourly rate £20.00 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +9.47% +3.10% -6.24%
75th Percentile £27.10 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £60.50 £54.25 £68.09
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured DevOps Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Developer in Scotland

DevOps Developer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Developer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for DevOps Developer job vacancies in Scotland

DevOps Developer
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 DevOps Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Aberdeen - 1 £425 - 1
Glasgow - 1 £500 -
DevOps Developer
UK

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, DevOps Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring DevOps Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (50.00%) PyCharm
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Finance

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) PyCharm
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft