DevOps Contracts in Scotland

DevOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 19 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 175 191 430
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.84% 8.60% 15.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.60% 9.71% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 134 347
10th Percentile £363 £363 £406
25th Percentile £413 £421 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £569
90th Percentile £630 £650 £674
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.76% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £39.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -43.93% -
UK median hourly rate £71.61 £65.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +10.17% -0.76% +24.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,509 1,967 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.49% 88.60% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,198 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -3 80 £450 -14.29% 36
Edinburgh +3 76 £480 +4.24% 61
Lanarkshire +3 6 £525 +31.25% 2
Perthshire 0 5 £375 -25.00%
Stirling - 3 £400 -
West Lothian - 1 £500 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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 11 (6.29%) Confluence
1 11 (6.29%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.71%) Camunda
2 3 (1.71%) JBoss
2 3 (1.71%) OpenROAD
2 3 (1.71%) WordPress
3 2 (1.14%) GeoServer
4 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.57%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 89 (50.86%) Azure
2 58 (33.14%) Azure DevOps
3 46 (26.29%) AWS
4 25 (14.29%) Serverless
5 24 (13.71%) Power Platform
6 21 (12.00%) Amazon S3
6 21 (12.00%) GitHub
7 20 (11.43%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 12 (6.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 12 (6.86%) OpenShift
10 11 (6.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 10 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
11 10 (5.71%) PowerApps
12 9 (5.14%) IaaS
12 9 (5.14%) SaaS
13 8 (4.57%) Amazon Cognito
14 7 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
14 7 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
14 7 (4.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.86%) DNS
2 4 (2.29%) DHCP
2 4 (2.29%) Network Security
2 4 (2.29%) VPN
3 3 (1.71%) SNA
3 3 (1.71%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.14%) Firewall
5 1 (0.57%) FTP
5 1 (0.57%) NAS
5 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.57%) SAN
5 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.57%) Relational Database
2 14 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (6.86%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.86%) RDBMS
4 11 (6.29%) Oracle Database
5 10 (5.71%) Power BI
6 8 (4.57%) MongoDB
6 8 (4.57%) SQL Server
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 7 (4.00%) Parquet
8 6 (3.43%) DB2
8 6 (3.43%) NoSQL
9 5 (2.86%) MariaDB
9 5 (2.86%) MySQL
10 4 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (2.29%) GIS
11 3 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 33 (18.86%) Git
2 32 (18.29%) JIRA
3 24 (13.71%) Jenkins
4 16 (9.14%) GitLab
5 8 (4.57%) Bitbucket
6 6 (3.43%) JUnit
6 6 (3.43%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (2.86%) Maven
7 5 (2.86%) TeamCity
8 4 (2.29%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.29%) Mockito
8 4 (2.29%) Postman
8 4 (2.29%) Selenium
9 3 (1.71%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.71%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.71%) Subversion
9 3 (1.71%) WebDriver
10 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (1.14%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
General
1 53 (30.29%) Public Sector
1 53 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 48 (27.43%) Finance
3 28 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (12.57%) Banking
5 13 (7.43%) Back Office
6 9 (5.14%) Investment Banking
7 8 (4.57%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.14%) Front Office
10 2 (1.14%) Legal
11 1 (0.57%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.57%) Marketing
11 1 (0.57%) Retail
11 1 (0.57%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (31.43%) Developer
2 24 (13.71%) Analyst
3 16 (9.14%) DevOps Engineer
3 16 (9.14%) Senior
4 15 (8.57%) Architect
5 14 (8.00%) Lead
6 9 (5.14%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Python Developer
7 8 (4.57%) .NET Developer
7 8 (4.57%) Java Developer
7 8 (4.57%) Senior Developer
8 7 (4.00%) Python Engineer
8 7 (4.00%) React Developer
8 7 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
9 6 (3.43%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.43%) Cloud Developer
9 6 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.86%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (2.86%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (2.86%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (12.57%) REST
2 20 (11.43%) AWS CDK
3 18 (10.29%) .NET
4 14 (8.00%) Spring
4 14 (8.00%) Spring Boot
5 13 (7.43%) React
6 11 (6.29%) AngularJS
7 10 (5.71%) JSON
8 9 (5.14%) RESTful
9 8 (4.57%) CSS
9 8 (4.57%) HTML
10 7 (4.00%) Node.js
11 6 (3.43%) PostGIS
12 4 (2.29%) ASP.NET
12 4 (2.29%) Express.js
12 4 (2.29%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (2.29%) SOAP
12 4 (2.29%) Visualforce
13 3 (1.71%) Blazor
13 3 (1.71%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) Product Ownership
2 11 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.71%) Mainframe
4 7 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.43%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.43%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (3.43%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.43%) Wiki
6 4 (2.29%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.29%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.29%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.29%) Replication
7 3 (1.71%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.71%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.14%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.00%) Linux
2 20 (11.43%) Windows
3 7 (4.00%) Unix
4 5 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.29%) Solaris
6 3 (1.71%) HPUX
6 3 (1.71%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.71%) zOS
7 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.57%) CentOS
8 1 (0.57%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (53.71%) Agile
2 74 (42.29%) CI/CD
3 36 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (17.71%) Test Automation
6 22 (12.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (11.43%) Analytics
8 19 (10.86%) Migration
8 19 (10.86%) Scrum
9 18 (10.29%) Kanban
10 17 (9.71%) SDLC
11 16 (9.14%) Software Engineering
12 15 (8.57%) Microservices
13 14 (8.00%) Data Transformation
13 14 (8.00%) Software Delivery
14 13 (7.43%) Code Quality
15 12 (6.86%) Data Migration
15 12 (6.86%) High Availability
15 12 (6.86%) Project Delivery
15 12 (6.86%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 51 (29.14%) Python
2 47 (26.86%) SQL
3 37 (21.14%) Java
4 22 (12.57%) JavaScript
5 16 (9.14%) C#
5 16 (9.14%) TypeScript
6 12 (6.86%) Shell Script
7 10 (5.71%) PL/SQL
8 9 (5.14%) Bash
9 5 (2.86%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.29%) Apex Code
10 4 (2.29%) C++
10 4 (2.29%) JCL
11 3 (1.71%) VBA
11 3 (1.71%) VBScript
12 2 (1.14%) Bicep
12 2 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.14%) Go
12 2 (1.14%) Groovy
12 2 (1.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (5.71%) AWS Certification
2 9 (5.14%) Degree
3 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.29%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.71%) ISEB
5 3 (1.71%) ISTQB
5 3 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (1.14%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.14%) Oracle Certification
6 2 (1.14%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.57%) CCSP
7 1 (0.57%) CEH
7 1 (0.57%) CISM
7 1 (0.57%) CISSP
7 1 (0.57%) OCP
7 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.86%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (4.57%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.57%) QA
3 5 (2.86%) PMO
4 4 (2.29%) GDPR
4 4 (2.29%) WCAG
5 3 (1.71%) NIST
5 3 (1.71%) PERC
6 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.57%) COBIT
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.57%) NCSC
7 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (16.00%) Docker
2 5 (2.86%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.57%) Firmware
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) KVM
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 28 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 22 (12.57%) Terraform
3 16 (9.14%) Ansible
4 11 (6.29%) Grafana
5 5 (2.86%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.29%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.71%) Tivoli NetView
8 2 (1.14%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.14%) HAProxy
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (1.14%) Podman
8 2 (1.14%) RSA Archer
8 2 (1.14%) SCCM
9 1 (0.57%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.57%) Kibana
9 1 (0.57%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.57%) Packer
9 1 (0.57%) Puppet
9 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 26 (14.86%) Oracle
2 17 (9.71%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.57%) IBM
4 7 (4.00%) Databricks
5 6 (3.43%) Splunk
6 5 (2.86%) Google
7 4 (2.29%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.29%) Sun
8 3 (1.71%) Dynatrace
8 3 (1.71%) Netskope
8 3 (1.71%) Proofpoint
8 3 (1.71%) Sybase
8 3 (1.71%) Symantec
8 3 (1.71%) Unisys
9 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.14%) Commvault
9 2 (1.14%) Okta
9 2 (1.14%) Veritas
10 1 (0.57%) Fortinet
10 1 (0.57%) VMware