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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 18 11
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 199 173 272
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 12.96% 10.27% 11.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.81% 11.53% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 116 182
10th Percentile £358 £356 £400
25th Percentile £411 £400 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £514 £600
90th Percentile £625 £550 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -6.67% - -6.25%

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 1,344 1,500 2,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.50% 89.07% 91.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 888 1,341
10th Percentile £238 £221 £250
25th Percentile £384 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -9.55% +4.74%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £650 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 44 54
10th Percentile £14.05 £15.07 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.90 £19.59 £16.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £19.06
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +20.70% +3.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £56.05
90th Percentile £48.98 £32.66 £70.38
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

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 14 December 2025.

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
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 14 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 +4 105 £455 +8.33% 40
Edinburgh +7 89 £500 +11.11% 32
South Lanarkshire +5 2 £550 +10.00%
Aberdeen -6 1 £425 - 11
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 12 (6.03%) Confluence
2 3 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.01%) Anypoint
3 2 (1.01%) Apache
3 2 (1.01%) Mule
3 2 (1.01%) nginx
4 1 (0.50%) FileNet
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.01%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 109 (54.77%) Azure
2 95 (47.74%) AWS
3 44 (22.11%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (17.09%) Serverless
5 28 (14.07%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (12.56%) GCP
7 21 (10.55%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (9.55%) GitHub
9 16 (8.04%) Amazon EKS
10 14 (7.04%) OpenShift
11 13 (6.53%) Amazon EC2
11 13 (6.53%) Amazon S3
12 10 (5.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 9 (4.52%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (4.52%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (3.02%) Amazon MSK
14 6 (3.02%) Amazon SQS
14 6 (3.02%) Snowflake
15 5 (2.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 5 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.52%) Firewall
2 3 (1.51%) VPN
3 2 (1.01%) AMQP
3 2 (1.01%) DSL
3 2 (1.01%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.50%) DHCP
4 1 (0.50%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (11.06%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (5.53%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (4.52%) SQL Server
5 8 (4.02%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.02%) NoSQL
5 8 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.52%) Amazon Aurora
7 6 (3.02%) Amazon Athena
8 5 (2.51%) DynamoDB
9 4 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (2.01%) Redis
10 3 (1.51%) MSDE
10 3 (1.51%) Power BI
11 2 (1.01%) Big Data
11 2 (1.01%) MySQL
11 2 (1.01%) NewSQL
11 2 (1.01%) OLTP
12 1 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 55 (27.64%) Jenkins
2 39 (19.60%) JIRA
3 30 (15.08%) Git
4 20 (10.05%) GitLab
5 16 (8.04%) Bitbucket
6 11 (5.53%) Cypress.io
7 9 (4.52%) IntelliJ
7 9 (4.52%) PyCharm
7 9 (4.52%) Visual Studio
7 9 (4.52%) Visual Studio Code
8 7 (3.52%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (2.51%) JUnit
10 4 (2.01%) Liquibase
11 3 (1.51%) Terragrunt
12 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
12 2 (1.01%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.01%) git-flow
12 2 (1.01%) Gradle
12 2 (1.01%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 66 (33.17%) Finance
2 57 (28.64%) Social Skills
3 41 (20.60%) Public Sector
4 27 (13.57%) Banking
5 26 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (2.51%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.01%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.51%) Billing
8 3 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.01%) Back Office
9 2 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Digital Healthcare
10 1 (0.50%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.50%) Legal
10 1 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (21.61%) DevOps Engineer
2 39 (19.60%) Developer
3 23 (11.56%) Senior
4 15 (7.54%) Architect
5 14 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (6.53%) Java Developer
6 13 (6.53%) Python Engineer
7 12 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (6.03%) Data Engineer
8 11 (5.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
9 10 (5.03%) Software Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (4.52%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.52%) Data Architect
10 9 (4.52%) Senior Developer
11 7 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Lead
11 7 (3.52%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (3.52%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.06%) RESTful
1 24 (12.06%) Spring Boot
2 22 (11.06%) Spring
3 18 (9.05%) React
4 16 (8.04%) Node.js
5 15 (7.54%) Kafka
5 15 (7.54%) REST
6 13 (6.53%) AngularJS
6 13 (6.53%) OAuth
7 12 (6.03%) .NET
8 10 (5.03%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.52%) AWS CDK
9 7 (3.52%) Jest
9 7 (3.52%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.02%) HTML
10 6 (3.02%) LangChain
11 5 (2.51%) CSS
11 5 (2.51%) FastAPI
11 5 (2.51%) Flask
12 4 (2.01%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 33 (16.58%) Cloud Native
2 17 (8.54%) Public Cloud
3 16 (8.04%) Product Ownership
4 12 (6.03%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (5.03%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (4.02%) Legacy Systems
7 7 (3.52%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (3.52%) Legacy Applications
7 7 (3.52%) Virtual Team
8 5 (2.51%) Distributed Applications
8 5 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.51%) Wiki
9 4 (2.01%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (2.01%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.51%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.51%) CMDB
10 3 (1.51%) IVR
10 3 (1.51%) NHS
11 2 (1.01%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 40 (20.10%) Linux
2 18 (9.05%) Unix
3 16 (8.04%) Windows
4 3 (1.51%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (62.81%) CI/CD
2 102 (51.26%) Agile
3 64 (32.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (23.12%) Containerisation
5 44 (22.11%) Microservices
6 33 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (15.58%) Migration
8 30 (15.08%) Test Automation
9 25 (12.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (12.56%) Observability
9 25 (12.56%) Software Engineering
10 21 (10.55%) SDLC
11 20 (10.05%) Data Protection
11 20 (10.05%) High Availability
12 19 (9.55%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (9.55%) Scrum
13 17 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
13 17 (8.54%) Performance Tuning
13 17 (8.54%) User Experience
14 16 (8.04%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 86 (43.22%) Python
2 56 (28.14%) Java
3 33 (16.58%) SQL
4 23 (11.56%) TypeScript
5 20 (10.05%) PowerShell
6 14 (7.04%) Bash
7 13 (6.53%) C#
8 12 (6.03%) JavaScript
9 8 (4.02%) Perl
9 8 (4.02%) Shell Script
10 6 (3.02%) Go
10 6 (3.02%) Ruby
11 5 (2.51%) Bicep
12 2 (1.01%) ANSI SQL
12 2 (1.01%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.01%) C++
12 2 (1.01%) DataWeave
12 2 (1.01%) Rust
13 1 (0.50%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (9.55%) Degree
2 18 (9.05%) AWS Certification
3 13 (6.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (6.03%) Security Cleared
5 8 (4.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 6 (3.02%) SC Cleared
8 4 (2.01%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.01%) PMP
9 3 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.51%) CISSP
9 3 (1.51%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 2 (1.01%) CISM
10 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.50%) CCNA
11 1 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.50%) ISEB
11 1 (0.50%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.54%) QA
2 15 (7.54%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.02%) Disclosure Scotland
4 6 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.51%) GDPR
6 4 (2.01%) PMO
7 3 (1.51%) Data Quality
7 3 (1.51%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.51%) NIST
7 3 (1.51%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.50%) NCSC
8 1 (0.50%) SLA
8 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 43 (21.61%) Docker
2 4 (2.01%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.50%) KVM
3 1 (0.50%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 80 (40.20%) Terraform
2 66 (33.17%) Kubernetes
3 41 (20.60%) Ansible
4 19 (9.55%) Grafana
5 11 (5.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.01%) Argo
7 3 (1.51%) Istio
7 3 (1.51%) Kustomize
7 3 (1.51%) SCCM
8 2 (1.01%) Fluentd
8 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (1.01%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.50%) Data Guard
9 1 (0.50%) Karpenter
9 1 (0.50%) Kibana
9 1 (0.50%) linkerd
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.50%) Oracle ZFS
9 1 (0.50%) vRealize
9 1 (0.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.04%) Splunk
3 11 (5.53%) Oracle
4 10 (5.03%) Google
5 9 (4.52%) ServiceNow
6 7 (3.52%) Databricks
6 7 (3.52%) Salesforce
7 6 (3.02%) Cisco
7 6 (3.02%) Greenplum
7 6 (3.02%) IBM
8 5 (2.51%) Pega
9 4 (2.01%) Avaya
10 3 (1.51%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.51%) Cribl.io
10 3 (1.51%) Genesys
10 3 (1.51%) Spotify
11 2 (1.01%) Adobe
11 2 (1.01%) Informatica
11 2 (1.01%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
94 DevOps jobs in Scotland