DevOps Contracts in Edinburgh

DevOps
Scotland > Edinburgh

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 17 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing DevOps 77 171 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 8.90% 14.53% 13.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.43% 15.46% 14.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 136 188
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £410 £442 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £506
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -3.70% +11.88%
75th Percentile £510 £539 £575
90th Percentile £572 £591 £738
Scotland median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £39.25 £70.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -43.93% +72.84% -33.27%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 738 1,106 1,785
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 85.32% 93.97% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 776 1,224
10th Percentile £214 £225 £272
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £480
Median % change year-on-year - -1.04% +12.94%
75th Percentile £556 £538 £570
90th Percentile £656 £604 £638
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 6 13
10th Percentile £13.30 £11.83 £15.53
25th Percentile £16.25 £14.30 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.17 £19.49 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -25.04% -52.27%
75th Percentile £60.75 £21.57 £48.75
90th Percentile - £37.71 £53.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
% change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in Edinburgh

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 4 (5.19%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) Apache
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.60%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) JBoss
3 1 (1.30%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.30%) WildFly
3 1 (1.30%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 38 (49.35%) Azure
2 34 (44.16%) Azure DevOps
3 27 (35.06%) AWS
4 14 (18.18%) AWS CloudFormation
4 14 (18.18%) Serverless
5 13 (16.88%) OpenShift
6 12 (15.58%) Amazon S3
6 12 (15.58%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (6.49%) AWS CodePipeline
8 4 (5.19%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 4 (5.19%) PaaS
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (3.90%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (3.90%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (3.90%) Entra ID
9 3 (3.90%) GitHub
9 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
9 3 (3.90%) SaaS
10 2 (2.60%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) 2G
1 1 (1.30%) 5G
1 1 (1.30%) Firewall
1 1 (1.30%) Network Security
1 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.49%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (5.19%) GIS
5 3 (3.90%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.60%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.60%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.60%) Power BI
7 1 (1.30%) Big Data
7 1 (1.30%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.30%) InfluxDB
7 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 21 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 10 (12.99%) GitLab
3 9 (11.69%) JIRA
4 7 (9.09%) Git
4 7 (9.09%) Selenium
4 7 (9.09%) WebDriver
5 4 (5.19%) Artifactory
6 3 (3.90%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.90%) Maven
6 3 (3.90%) Subversion
6 3 (3.90%) TeamCity
7 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.60%) Gradle
8 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.30%) JUnit
8 1 (1.30%) Liquibase
8 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (50.65%) Public Sector
2 14 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.99%) Finance
4 7 (9.09%) Banking
4 7 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Automotive
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Developer
2 11 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 11 (14.29%) Senior
3 8 (10.39%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Data Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) Full Stack Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Automation Tester
6 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (6.49%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.49%) React Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Senior React Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Tester
7 4 (5.19%) Agile Project Manager
7 4 (5.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) .NET
2 13 (16.88%) AWS CDK
2 13 (16.88%) React
3 10 (12.99%) REST
4 8 (10.39%) Spring
4 8 (10.39%) Spring Boot
5 6 (7.79%) CSS
5 6 (7.79%) PostGIS
6 5 (6.49%) OAuth
6 5 (6.49%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.19%) HTML
8 3 (3.90%) .NET Framework
8 3 (3.90%) Node.js
8 3 (3.90%) RESTful
8 3 (3.90%) Spring MVC
8 3 (3.90%) Spring Security
8 3 (3.90%) Spring Web Flow
8 3 (3.90%) Thymeleaf
8 3 (3.90%) Web Services
9 2 (2.60%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.69%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (11.69%) Wiki
3 4 (5.19%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.90%) PKI
5 2 (2.60%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.60%) Equities
5 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Linux
2 5 (6.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (5.19%) Ubuntu
4 2 (2.60%) Unix
4 2 (2.60%) Windows
5 1 (1.30%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.75%) Agile
2 28 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 15 (19.48%) Test Automation
4 13 (16.88%) Scrum
5 12 (15.58%) Code Quality
5 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (15.58%) Migration
6 11 (14.29%) Software Delivery
6 11 (14.29%) User Experience
7 10 (12.99%) Knowledge Transfer
8 9 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (11.69%) Project Delivery
8 9 (11.69%) Project Management
8 9 (11.69%) Risk Management
9 8 (10.39%) Data Migration
9 8 (10.39%) Kanban
10 7 (9.09%) Coaching
10 7 (9.09%) Dependency Management
10 7 (9.09%) Supplier Management
10 7 (9.09%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 24 (31.17%) Python
2 17 (22.08%) SQL
3 15 (19.48%) Java
4 14 (18.18%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.58%) C#
6 6 (7.79%) Bash
7 5 (6.49%) Groovy
7 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
8 4 (5.19%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.90%) C++
9 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.60%) Ruby
10 2 (2.60%) T-SQL
10 2 (2.60%) VBA
10 2 (2.60%) VBScript
11 1 (1.30%) Bicep
11 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (5.19%) ISEB
2 3 (3.90%) Degree
2 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.60%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.30%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (6.49%) PMO
3 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.60%) QA
5 1 (1.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) NCSC
5 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (12.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (12.99%) Ansible
2 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 9 (11.69%) Terraform
3 8 (10.39%) Grafana
4 5 (6.49%) Kibana
5 2 (2.60%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (1.30%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (2.60%) Databricks
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle
1 2 (2.60%) Splunk
2 1 (1.30%) Google
2 1 (1.30%) VMware