DevOps Contracts in Scotland

DevOps
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 10 8
Rank change year-on-year -12 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 176 350 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.21% 12.98% 12.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.42% 14.04% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 271 313
10th Percentile £363 £413 £413
25th Percentile £417 £438 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £550 £562 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £587 £580
% change year-on-year -6.30% +1.21% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £28.53 - -
25th Percentile £32.31 - £40.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £70.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.93% +72.84% -33.27%
75th Percentile £46.81 - £40.75
90th Percentile £50.98 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £63.60
% change year-on-year - +2.99% +32.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,869 2,492 3,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 87.17% 92.43% 93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,156 1,739 2,252
10th Percentile £219 £250 £250
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 54 51
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.24 £11.25 £17.61
Median hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +34.48% -61.26% -6.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £35.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £66.09 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

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 2 June 2024. 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 -8 78 £450 -7.69% 41
Glasgow -8 66 £483 -8.00% 26
Perthshire 0 8 £513 -3.76% 2
Lanarkshire +5 3 £400 -31.39% 14
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 3
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 14 (7.95%) Confluence
2 11 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.70%) Apache
3 3 (1.70%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.70%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.14%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.14%) SAS
5 1 (0.57%) JBoss
5 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.57%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.57%) WildFly
5 1 (0.57%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (6.25%) Maximo
2 1 (0.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 80 (45.45%) Azure
2 58 (32.95%) AWS
3 55 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 29 (16.48%) OpenShift
5 22 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (11.36%) Serverless
7 18 (10.23%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (6.82%) Snowflake
9 10 (5.68%) Power Platform
10 7 (3.98%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (3.41%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.84%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.84%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.84%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (2.84%) PaaS
12 5 (2.84%) SaaS
13 4 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.70%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (1.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.14%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (1.14%) Firewall
1 2 (1.14%) iSCSI
1 2 (1.14%) SAN
2 1 (0.57%) 2G
2 1 (0.57%) 5G
2 1 (0.57%) DHCP
2 1 (0.57%) DNS
2 1 (0.57%) NAS
2 1 (0.57%) Network Security
2 1 (0.57%) VPN
2 1 (0.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (11.93%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.68%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.68%) GIS
3 9 (5.11%) SQL Server
4 8 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (3.98%) NoSQL
6 6 (3.41%) Power BI
6 6 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.70%) InfluxDB
8 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.14%) Big Data
8 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.14%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.57%) DB2
9 1 (0.57%) MySQL
9 1 (0.57%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.57%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 34 (19.32%) Jenkins
2 23 (13.07%) JIRA
3 19 (10.80%) Git
4 14 (7.95%) GitLab
5 8 (4.55%) Selenium
6 7 (3.98%) Artifactory
6 7 (3.98%) WebDriver
7 5 (2.84%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.70%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.70%) Maven
8 3 (1.70%) Subversion
8 3 (1.70%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.14%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.14%) Gradle
9 2 (1.14%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (0.57%) Appium
10 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.57%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.57%) Terragrunt
General
1 56 (31.82%) Public Sector
2 32 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 24 (13.64%) Finance
4 13 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (7.39%) Banking
5 8 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (2.27%) Electronics
7 4 (2.27%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.27%) Marketing
7 4 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.27%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.14%) Legal
9 1 (0.57%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 34 (19.32%) Developer
2 30 (17.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (10.23%) AWS Engineer
4 17 (9.66%) Analyst
5 15 (8.52%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (8.52%) Python Engineer
6 14 (7.95%) Senior
7 13 (7.39%) Data Engineer
8 12 (6.82%) .NET Developer
8 12 (6.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 11 (6.25%) Java Developer
10 10 (5.68%) Full Stack Developer
10 10 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
11 9 (5.11%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 9 (5.11%) Lead
11 9 (5.11%) Windows Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Business Analyst
12 8 (4.55%) Snowflake Engineer
12 8 (4.55%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.07%) .NET
2 22 (12.50%) AWS CDK
3 21 (11.93%) REST
4 17 (9.66%) React
5 15 (8.52%) Spring
6 13 (7.39%) Spring Boot
7 12 (6.82%) CSS
8 10 (5.68%) HTML
9 9 (5.11%) RESTful
10 8 (4.55%) OAuth
10 8 (4.55%) OAuth2
10 8 (4.55%) PostGIS
11 6 (3.41%) RabbitMQ
11 6 (3.41%) SOAP
11 6 (3.41%) Spring Security
12 5 (2.84%) Middleware
12 5 (2.84%) Node.js
12 5 (2.84%) Spring MVC
12 5 (2.84%) Spring Web Flow
12 5 (2.84%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.95%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.68%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.11%) Legacy Applications
4 9 (5.11%) Wiki
5 4 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.27%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.70%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.70%) PKI
6 3 (1.70%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.14%) Equities
7 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.14%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.14%) NVMe
7 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.57%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.34%) Linux
2 19 (10.80%) Windows
3 15 (8.52%) Unix
4 11 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.41%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.84%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.27%) VMS
8 2 (1.14%) Android
8 2 (1.14%) Apple iOS
8 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.57%) AIX
9 1 (0.57%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (54.55%) Agile
2 48 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 28 (15.91%) Test Automation
4 26 (14.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (13.64%) Scrum
6 23 (13.07%) User Experience
7 21 (11.93%) Code Quality
8 19 (10.80%) Project Management
8 19 (10.80%) Roadmaps
9 17 (9.66%) Containerisation
10 16 (9.09%) Migration
11 15 (8.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 15 (8.52%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (7.95%) Computer Science
12 14 (7.95%) Kanban
12 14 (7.95%) Microservices
12 14 (7.95%) User Stories
13 13 (7.39%) Analytics
13 13 (7.39%) Artificial Intelligence
13 13 (7.39%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 74 (42.05%) Python
2 38 (21.59%) Java
3 32 (18.18%) SQL
4 24 (13.64%) C#
5 23 (13.07%) JavaScript
6 14 (7.95%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.82%) Scala
8 11 (6.25%) Perl
9 9 (5.11%) Bash
10 8 (4.55%) TypeScript
11 7 (3.98%) Groovy
12 5 (2.84%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.27%) VB
13 4 (2.27%) VB6
14 3 (1.70%) C++
15 2 (1.14%) C
15 2 (1.14%) Ruby
15 2 (1.14%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.14%) VBA
15 2 (1.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (7.39%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.68%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.27%) Degree
3 4 (2.27%) ISEB
4 2 (1.14%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (1.14%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.66%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (5.11%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.55%) QA
4 7 (3.98%) PMO
5 2 (1.14%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) NCSC
6 1 (0.57%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (19.32%) Docker
2 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.14%) NFS
4 1 (0.57%) GPFS
4 1 (0.57%) KVM
4 1 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (16.48%) Kubernetes
2 26 (14.77%) Terraform
3 19 (10.80%) Grafana
4 16 (9.09%) Ansible
5 9 (5.11%) Kibana
6 7 (3.98%) SCCM
7 4 (2.27%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (1.70%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.70%) Packer
9 2 (1.14%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.57%) Argo
10 1 (0.57%) Istio
10 1 (0.57%) Nagios
10 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.57%) Puppet
10 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.57%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 1 (0.57%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (7.39%) Databricks
2 10 (5.68%) Splunk
3 9 (5.11%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.11%) Oracle
4 7 (3.98%) VMware
5 4 (2.27%) Infragistics
5 4 (2.27%) SAP
6 3 (1.70%) HP
7 2 (1.14%) Adobe
7 2 (1.14%) Google
7 2 (1.14%) IBM
7 2 (1.14%) Sybase
7 2 (1.14%) Xamarin
8 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.57%) Brocade
8 1 (0.57%) Dell
8 1 (0.57%) EMC
8 1 (0.57%) NetApp
8 1 (0.57%) Veritas