DevOps Engineer Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 83 78
Rank change year-on-year +13 -5 +21
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 44 36 65
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 2.80% 2.09% 2.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.11% 2.29% 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 41
10th Percentile £310 £341 -
25th Percentile £390 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £626
90th Percentile £624 £550 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -8.33%

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 1,414 1,575 2,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.01% 91.57% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 833 951 1,428
10th Percentile £213 £200 £250
25th Percentile £360 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +0.89% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £581
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 53 61
10th Percentile £17.30 £13.33 £12.26
25th Percentile £20.00 £16.37 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.62 £20.94 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.57% +7.38% +10.05%
75th Percentile £41.65 £24.18 £59.03
90th Percentile £64.67 £28.25 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'DevOps Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

DevOps Engineer job vacancy trend in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Scotland.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for DevOps Engineer job vacancies in Scotland

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 DevOps Engineer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Glasgow +10 30 £500 +25.00% 1
Edinburgh +3 13 £488 -4.41% 2
Aberdeen -2 1 £425 -
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (79.55%) CI/CD
3 31 (70.45%) Kubernetes
4 30 (68.18%) Terraform
5 25 (56.82%) AWS
5 25 (56.82%) Python
6 23 (52.27%) Jenkins
7 22 (50.00%) Java
8 21 (47.73%) Azure
9 18 (40.91%) Docker
9 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (38.64%) Linux
11 16 (36.36%) Agile
12 14 (31.82%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (31.82%) JIRA
13 13 (29.55%) Ansible
13 13 (29.55%) Git
14 12 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (25.00%) Bitbucket
16 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
16 10 (22.73%) Serverless
17 9 (20.45%) AWS Certification
17 9 (20.45%) GitLab
17 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Automation
17 9 (20.45%) PowerShell
17 9 (20.45%) Test Automation
18 8 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
18 8 (18.18%) Grafana

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 3 (6.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (56.82%) AWS
2 21 (47.73%) Azure
3 14 (31.82%) Amazon EKS
3 14 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 10 (22.73%) Serverless
6 8 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 8 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
7 7 (15.91%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (15.91%) GCP
8 6 (13.64%) Amazon MSK
8 6 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (11.36%) GitHub
9 5 (11.36%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (6.82%) OpenShift
10 3 (6.82%) Slack
11 2 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 2 (4.55%) PaaS
12 1 (2.27%) Route 53
12 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.91%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.91%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.27%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 23 (52.27%) Jenkins
2 14 (31.82%) JIRA
3 13 (29.55%) Git
4 11 (25.00%) Bitbucket
5 9 (20.45%) GitLab
6 7 (15.91%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (9.09%) IntelliJ
7 4 (9.09%) PyCharm
7 4 (9.09%) Visual Studio
7 4 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (6.82%) Terragrunt
9 2 (4.55%) Gradle
9 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
10 1 (2.27%) Liquibase
10 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 19 (43.18%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.55%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.55%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) Node.js
2 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
3 3 (6.82%) Spring
4 2 (4.55%) .NET
5 1 (2.27%) AWS CDK
5 1 (2.27%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.27%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.91%) Cloud Native
2 5 (11.36%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Linux
2 6 (13.64%) Unix
3 4 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (100.00%) DevOps
2 35 (79.55%) CI/CD
3 18 (40.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (36.36%) Agile
5 10 (22.73%) Containerisation
6 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Automation
6 9 (20.45%) Test Automation
7 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
8 7 (15.91%) Microservices
8 7 (15.91%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (13.64%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (11.36%) Observability
10 5 (11.36%) SDLC
10 5 (11.36%) Software Delivery
11 4 (9.09%) Migration
12 3 (6.82%) Architecture Roadmap
12 3 (6.82%) Configuration Management
12 3 (6.82%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (6.82%) GitOps
12 3 (6.82%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (56.82%) Python
2 22 (50.00%) Java
3 9 (20.45%) PowerShell
4 7 (15.91%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.64%) Perl
5 6 (13.64%) Ruby
6 5 (11.36%) Shell Script
7 4 (9.09%) Bash
7 4 (9.09%) C#
8 3 (6.82%) Go
9 2 (4.55%) Rust
9 2 (4.55%) SQL
10 1 (2.27%) Bicep
10 1 (2.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.45%) AWS Certification
2 3 (6.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 3 (6.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.27%) Degree
4 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 18 (40.91%) Docker
2 4 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 31 (70.45%) Kubernetes
2 30 (68.18%) Terraform
3 13 (29.55%) Ansible
4 8 (18.18%) Grafana
5 4 (9.09%) Argo
6 3 (6.82%) Istio
7 2 (4.55%) Prometheus
8 1 (2.27%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.27%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Oracle
2 4 (9.09%) Google
3 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.82%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) AppDynamics
4 1 (2.27%) Avaya
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco
4 1 (2.27%) Cribl.io
4 1 (2.27%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.27%) ForgeRock
4 1 (2.27%) Ping Identity