DevOps Engineer Contracts in Scotland

Development Operations Engineer
UK > Scotland

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Scotland is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 May 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 91 115
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 -18
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 20 33 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.22% 1.57% 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.29% 1.66% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 33
10th Percentile £337 £360 £456
25th Percentile £375 £412 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -11.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £538 £578 £676
90th Percentile £576 £650 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £600
% change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £82.48 £62.00 £70.50
% change year-on-year +33.03% -12.06% +90.54%

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 1,547 1,985 2,551
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.68% 94.43% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 883 1,226 1,793
10th Percentile £256 £200 £230
25th Percentile £368 £351 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% +2.70%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £600 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.31% +3.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 113 45
10th Percentile £15.68 £12.30 £12.90
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.74 £24.29 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -22.87% +12.09% -34.33%
75th Percentile £24.66 £60.00 £59.03
90th Percentile £40.63 £66.00 £68.25
UK median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.08% -18.89% +87.50%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in Scotland over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in Scotland

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer 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 22 May 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 +12 10 £525 -0.94% 28
Glasgow -15 10 £475 +7.95% 22
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2025, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
3 15 (75.00%) Terraform
4 14 (70.00%) AWS
4 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (60.00%) Jenkins
6 11 (55.00%) Ansible
6 11 (55.00%) Python
7 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
8 9 (45.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 8 (40.00%) Java
9 8 (40.00%) Agile
9 8 (40.00%) Azure
9 8 (40.00%) Bash
9 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
10 7 (35.00%) Finance
10 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
11 6 (30.00%) Docker
11 6 (30.00%) Observability
12 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
12 5 (25.00%) AppDynamics
12 5 (25.00%) GitLab
12 5 (25.00%) Grafana
12 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
12 5 (25.00%) SDLC
12 5 (25.00%) PaaS
13 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
13 4 (20.00%) Kanban
13 4 (20.00%) Linux

DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (70.00%) AWS
2 9 (45.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 8 (40.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 8 (40.00%) Azure
4 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) OpenShift
5 5 (25.00%) PaaS
6 4 (20.00%) Serverless
7 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
7 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (15.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (15.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (15.00%) GitHub
7 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (15.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 3 (15.00%) SaaS
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (10.00%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MariaDB
1 4 (20.00%) MySQL
2 3 (15.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (15.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (15.00%) Power Query
2 3 (15.00%) Redis
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (5.00%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 5 (25.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (10.00%) Git
3 2 (10.00%) Gradle
3 2 (10.00%) IntelliJ
3 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 2 (10.00%) PyCharm
3 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) ARM Templates
1 3 (15.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (15.00%) JSON
1 3 (15.00%) YAML
2 2 (10.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (5.00%) Loki
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Linux Command Line
1 3 (15.00%) Low-Code
2 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 1 (5.00%) CentOS
3 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (40.00%) Agile
4 8 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (30.00%) Observability
6 5 (25.00%) SDLC
7 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 4 (20.00%) Kanban
7 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (20.00%) TDD
8 3 (15.00%) Analytics
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (15.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (15.00%) Log Analytics
8 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
9 2 (10.00%) Auto-Scaling
9 2 (10.00%) Build Automation
9 2 (10.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) Bash
2 8 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (20.00%) Go
3 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (15.00%) Bicep
4 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (15.00%) SQL
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) C#
5 2 (10.00%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.00%) OCP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (5.00%) NCSC
1 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (75.00%) Terraform
2 11 (55.00%) Ansible
3 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
4 5 (25.00%) Grafana
4 5 (25.00%) Prometheus
5 4 (20.00%) Progress Chef
6 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
7 1 (5.00%) HAProxy
7 1 (5.00%) Kibana
7 1 (5.00%) linkerd
7 1 (5.00%) Packer
7 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) AppDynamics
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.00%) Splunk
4 1 (5.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (5.00%) ForgeRock
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) Genesys