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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 9 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing DevOps 172 341 444
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.10% 12.72% 12.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.32% 13.81% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 264 322
10th Percentile £363 £406 £413
25th Percentile £415 £438 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% - +5.82%
75th Percentile £548 £558 £575
90th Percentile £613 £650 £673
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +9.52%
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 £64.30
% change year-on-year - +1.87% +29.90%

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 1,845 2,470 3,206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 86.91% 92.13% 93.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,723 2,271
10th Percentile £220 £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 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 57 54
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.05 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -8.71%
75th Percentile £44.47 £43.75 £50.27
90th Percentile £60.75 £65.63 £57.05
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -6 79 £450 -7.69% 33
Glasgow -9 60 £479 -8.76% 21
Perthshire 0 8 £513 -4.21%
Lanarkshire +5 3 £400 -31.39% 12
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 (8.14%) Confluence
2 11 (6.40%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.74%) Apache
3 3 (1.74%) GeoServer
3 3 (1.74%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.16%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.58%) JBoss
5 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.58%) WildFly
5 1 (0.58%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (6.40%) Maximo
2 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 80 (46.51%) Azure
2 57 (33.14%) AWS
3 56 (32.56%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (16.28%) OpenShift
5 22 (12.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 20 (11.63%) Serverless
7 18 (10.47%) Amazon S3
7 18 (10.47%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (6.98%) Snowflake
9 10 (5.81%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.07%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (3.49%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.91%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (2.91%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (2.91%) PaaS
12 5 (2.91%) SaaS
13 4 (2.33%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (1.74%) Amazon SageMaker
14 3 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.16%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) 2G
2 1 (0.58%) 5G
2 1 (0.58%) NAS
2 1 (0.58%) Network Security
2 1 (0.58%) SAN
2 1 (0.58%) VPN
2 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.63%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.81%) GIS
2 10 (5.81%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.65%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 6 (3.49%) Power BI
5 6 (3.49%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.74%) InfluxDB
7 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.16%) Big Data
7 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.16%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.58%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 34 (19.77%) Jenkins
2 24 (13.95%) JIRA
3 20 (11.63%) Git
4 14 (8.14%) GitLab
5 8 (4.65%) Selenium
6 7 (4.07%) WebDriver
7 6 (3.49%) Artifactory
8 5 (2.91%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.74%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.74%) Maven
9 3 (1.74%) Subversion
9 3 (1.74%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.16%) Gradle
10 2 (1.16%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.58%) Appium
11 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
11 1 (0.58%) Liquibase
11 1 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 57 (33.14%) Public Sector
2 28 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 23 (13.37%) Finance
4 13 (7.56%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (6.40%) Banking
6 8 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.33%) Electronics
8 4 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.33%) Marketing
8 4 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Automotive
11 1 (0.58%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 35 (20.35%) Developer
2 26 (15.12%) DevOps Engineer
3 18 (10.47%) Analyst
3 18 (10.47%) AWS Engineer
4 15 (8.72%) Platform Engineer
5 14 (8.14%) Senior
6 13 (7.56%) .NET Developer
6 13 (7.56%) Data Engineer
7 12 (6.98%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.40%) Java Developer
8 11 (6.40%) Python Engineer
9 10 (5.81%) Full Stack Developer
10 9 (5.23%) AWS DevOps
10 9 (5.23%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 9 (5.23%) Lead
10 9 (5.23%) Windows Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Security Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Snowflake Engineer
11 8 (4.65%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (13.37%) .NET
2 22 (12.79%) AWS CDK
3 20 (11.63%) REST
4 17 (9.88%) React
5 15 (8.72%) Spring
6 13 (7.56%) Spring Boot
7 11 (6.40%) CSS
8 9 (5.23%) HTML
8 9 (5.23%) RESTful
9 8 (4.65%) OAuth
9 8 (4.65%) OAuth2
9 8 (4.65%) PostGIS
10 6 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (3.49%) SOAP
10 6 (3.49%) Spring Security
11 5 (2.91%) .NET Framework
11 5 (2.91%) Middleware
11 5 (2.91%) Spring MVC
11 5 (2.91%) Spring Web Flow
11 5 (2.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.14%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.98%) Legacy Systems
3 10 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (5.23%) Legacy Applications
4 9 (5.23%) Wiki
5 4 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 4 (2.33%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.74%) PKI
6 3 (1.74%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.16%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.16%) Equities
7 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.16%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.58%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.58%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (12.21%) Linux
2 18 (10.47%) Windows
3 14 (8.14%) Unix
4 10 (5.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.49%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.91%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.33%) VMS
8 2 (1.16%) Android
8 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.58%) AIX
9 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (55.81%) Agile
2 49 (28.49%) CI/CD
3 28 (16.28%) Test Automation
4 26 (15.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (13.95%) Scrum
6 23 (13.37%) User Experience
7 21 (12.21%) Code Quality
8 19 (11.05%) Project Management
8 19 (11.05%) Roadmaps
9 17 (9.88%) Containerisation
9 17 (9.88%) Migration
10 15 (8.72%) Microservices
10 15 (8.72%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 14 (8.14%) Kanban
11 14 (8.14%) User Stories
12 13 (7.56%) Inclusive Design
12 13 (7.56%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (7.56%) Software Delivery
12 13 (7.56%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 68 (39.53%) Python
2 36 (20.93%) Java
3 30 (17.44%) SQL
4 23 (13.37%) C#
5 22 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 13 (7.56%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.98%) Scala
8 9 (5.23%) Bash
9 8 (4.65%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.07%) Groovy
11 6 (3.49%) Perl
12 5 (2.91%) Shell Script
13 4 (2.33%) VB
13 4 (2.33%) VB6
14 3 (1.74%) C++
15 2 (1.16%) C
15 2 (1.16%) Ruby
15 2 (1.16%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.16%) VBA
15 2 (1.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (7.56%) Security Cleared
2 10 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.33%) Degree
3 4 (2.33%) ISEB
4 2 (1.16%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (1.16%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.88%) Disclosure Scotland
2 9 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 8 (4.65%) QA
4 7 (4.07%) PMO
5 2 (1.16%) GDPR
6 1 (0.58%) NCSC
6 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (19.19%) Docker
2 6 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.58%) KVM
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (15.70%) Kubernetes
1 27 (15.70%) Terraform
2 18 (10.47%) Grafana
3 16 (9.30%) Ansible
4 9 (5.23%) Kibana
5 7 (4.07%) SCCM
6 4 (2.33%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (1.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.74%) Packer
8 1 (0.58%) Argo
8 1 (0.58%) Istio
8 1 (0.58%) Nagios
8 1 (0.58%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.58%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.58%) Puppet
8 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (7.56%) Databricks
2 9 (5.23%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.23%) Oracle
2 9 (5.23%) Splunk
3 7 (4.07%) VMware
4 4 (2.33%) Infragistics
4 4 (2.33%) SAP
5 3 (1.74%) HP
6 2 (1.16%) Adobe
6 2 (1.16%) Xamarin
7 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.58%) Dell
7 1 (0.58%) Google
7 1 (0.58%) IBM
7 1 (0.58%) Sybase