DevOps Contract Job Trends in Scotland

DevOps
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring DevOps skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 17 18
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 -9
Contract jobs citing DevOps 196 176 245
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 12.69% 10.88% 10.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.97% 11.87% 11.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 120 160
10th Percentile £312 £356 £405
25th Percentile £365 £399 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £588
90th Percentile £639 £563 £700
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £37.00 - £28.53
25th Percentile £40.00 - £32.31
Median hourly rate £45.00 - £39.25
75th Percentile £50.00 - £46.81
90th Percentile £53.00 - £50.98
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £73.23 £65.00
% change year-on-year -28.30% +12.65% -0.76%

All Process & 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 1,309 1,483 2,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 84.72% 91.66% 89.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 869 1,308
10th Percentile £225 £223 £282
25th Percentile £378 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £544 £588
90th Percentile £663 £633 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 41 81
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.10 £12.00
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.94 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.59 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +20.97% +12.54%
75th Percentile £47.45 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.10 £42.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £33.07
% change year-on-year -22.62% -1.71% +1.74%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

DevOps job vacancy trend in Scotland

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DevOps

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Scotland

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DevOps.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing DevOps

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 10 February 2026. 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 +9 94 £449 +8.85% 34
Edinburgh +9 90 £500 +9.89% 24
South Lanarkshire -5 5 £413 -17.50%
Perthshire +4 4 £763 +103.33%
Aberdeen -3 1 £425 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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 17 (8.67%) Confluence
2 3 (1.53%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.51%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (0.51%) FileNet
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.51%) nginx
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (1.02%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.51%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 125 (63.78%) Azure
2 80 (40.82%) AWS
3 57 (29.08%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (14.80%) Serverless
5 26 (13.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (12.76%) GCP
7 20 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (9.18%) GitHub
9 14 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
10 12 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
10 12 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (6.12%) OpenShift
10 12 (6.12%) Power Platform
11 11 (5.61%) Amazon EKS
12 9 (4.59%) Power Automate
12 9 (4.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.57%) Amazon MSK
13 7 (3.57%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.57%) Collibra
14 6 (3.06%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.61%) Firewall
2 7 (3.57%) Network Security
3 4 (2.04%) VPN
4 3 (1.53%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (1.53%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.73%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.61%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (5.10%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.59%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (4.59%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (4.59%) DynamoDB
4 9 (4.59%) Power BI
5 8 (4.08%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.57%) Metadata
6 7 (3.57%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.06%) Tick Data
8 5 (2.55%) MySQL
9 4 (2.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 4 (2.04%) Big Data
10 3 (1.53%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.53%) Hadoop
11 2 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (1.02%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 41 (20.92%) Jenkins
2 39 (19.90%) JIRA
3 25 (12.76%) Git
4 21 (10.71%) GitLab
5 9 (4.59%) Bitbucket
5 9 (4.59%) Cypress.io
6 8 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 7 (3.57%) Visual Studio
8 5 (2.55%) JUnit
9 3 (1.53%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.53%) Snyk
9 3 (1.53%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.02%) Gradle
10 2 (1.02%) Selenium
10 2 (1.02%) WebDriver
11 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.51%) MSTest
11 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
11 1 (0.51%) SonarQube
11 1 (0.51%) webpack
General
1 68 (34.69%) Finance
2 54 (27.55%) Social Skills
3 40 (20.41%) Public Sector
4 23 (11.73%) Banking
5 21 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (2.04%) Legal
6 4 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Billing
7 3 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.53%) Retail Banking
8 2 (1.02%) Back Office
9 1 (0.51%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.51%) Marketing
9 1 (0.51%) Military
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (15.82%) DevOps Engineer
2 29 (14.80%) Developer
3 21 (10.71%) Senior
4 19 (9.69%) Analyst
5 17 (8.67%) Architect
6 14 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 12 (6.12%) Data Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 9 (4.59%) Java Developer
9 9 (4.59%) Platform Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Data Architect
10 8 (4.08%) Windows Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) AWS DevOps
11 7 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 7 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
11 7 (3.57%) Report Analyst
11 7 (3.57%) Security Analyst
12 6 (3.06%) Senior DevOps
12 6 (3.06%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (13.27%) React
2 24 (12.24%) .NET
3 23 (11.73%) RESTful
4 20 (10.20%) Node.js
5 16 (8.16%) Spring
5 16 (8.16%) Spring Boot
6 13 (6.63%) REST
7 12 (6.12%) AngularJS
8 7 (3.57%) Jest
8 7 (3.57%) OAuth
9 6 (3.06%) OAuth2
10 5 (2.55%) Express.js
10 5 (2.55%) FastAPI
10 5 (2.55%) Flask
10 5 (2.55%) Kafka
11 4 (2.04%) AWS CDK
11 4 (2.04%) JWT
11 4 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (2.04%) Redux
11 4 (2.04%) SLSA
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.82%) Cloud Native
2 20 (10.20%) Product Ownership
3 10 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 9 (4.59%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 6 (3.06%) Wiki
8 5 (2.55%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.04%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.53%) CMDB
10 3 (1.53%) IVR
10 3 (1.53%) NHS
10 3 (1.53%) NVMe
10 3 (1.53%) Reference Data
11 2 (1.02%) Clustering
11 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
11 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.71%) Linux
2 16 (8.16%) Windows
3 13 (6.63%) Unix
4 4 (2.04%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.51%) Solaris
6 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (51.53%) CI/CD
2 86 (43.88%) Agile
3 49 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (23.47%) Problem-Solving
5 39 (19.90%) Microservices
6 35 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 33 (16.84%) Migration
8 28 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (12.76%) Analytics
10 24 (12.24%) AI
11 22 (11.22%) Observability
12 21 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
13 20 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
14 19 (9.69%) Data Protection
14 19 (9.69%) Software Engineering
14 19 (9.69%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (9.18%) High Availability
15 18 (9.18%) Test Automation
15 18 (9.18%) User Experience
16 17 (8.67%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 87 (44.39%) Python
2 40 (20.41%) SQL
3 32 (16.33%) Java
4 29 (14.80%) PowerShell
5 18 (9.18%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.67%) C#
7 16 (8.16%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.65%) Bash
9 9 (4.59%) Perl
10 8 (4.08%) C++
11 7 (3.57%) Ruby
12 6 (3.06%) Bicep
13 5 (2.55%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.02%) Apex Code
14 2 (1.02%) Go
14 2 (1.02%) Rust
15 1 (0.51%) JCL
15 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.51%) VBA
15 1 (0.51%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (8.67%) Degree
2 13 (6.63%) AWS Certification
3 11 (5.61%) Security Cleared
4 7 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 6 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (3.06%) CISSP
5 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (2.55%) CISM
7 4 (2.04%) PMP
8 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.53%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (1.53%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.02%) NCDA
9 2 (1.02%) VCP6
9 2 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.51%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.16%) QA
2 12 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 11 (5.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 9 (4.59%) Data Quality
4 9 (4.59%) GDPR
5 7 (3.57%) NIST
6 6 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (3.06%) PMO
7 3 (1.53%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.53%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.51%) NCSC
8 1 (0.51%) SLA
System Software
1 34 (17.35%) Docker
2 4 (2.04%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.53%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (27.55%) Terraform
2 47 (23.98%) Kubernetes
3 25 (12.76%) Ansible
4 14 (7.14%) Grafana
5 6 (3.06%) Prometheus
6 5 (2.55%) SCCM
7 4 (2.04%) vRealize
8 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.53%) vMotion
9 2 (1.02%) Argo
9 2 (1.02%) Data Guard
9 2 (1.02%) Fluentd
9 2 (1.02%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (1.02%) PowerCLI
9 2 (1.02%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.51%) Istio
10 1 (0.51%) Karpenter
10 1 (0.51%) Kustomize
10 1 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.51%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.65%) Oracle
3 12 (6.12%) Splunk
4 11 (5.61%) Databricks
5 9 (4.59%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.08%) Cisco
6 8 (4.08%) Google
7 6 (3.06%) Greenplum
7 6 (3.06%) IBM
7 6 (3.06%) Salesforce
8 5 (2.55%) OpenAI
9 4 (2.04%) Commvault
9 4 (2.04%) Pega
9 4 (2.04%) VMware
10 3 (1.53%) Avaya
10 3 (1.53%) Black Duck
10 3 (1.53%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.53%) Genesys
10 3 (1.53%) NetApp
10 3 (1.53%) Spotify