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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing DevOps 173 390 421
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 8.14% 14.38% 12.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.25% 15.55% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 308 303
10th Percentile £363 £406 £409
25th Percentile £415 £436 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% -0.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £584 £563 £575
90th Percentile £625 £661 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £28.53 - -
25th Percentile £32.31 - -
Median hourly rate £39.25 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -43.93% - -
75th Percentile £46.81 - -
90th Percentile £50.98 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +13.91% +27.78%

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 1,870 2,508 3,203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.00% 92.44% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,150 1,773 2,261
10th Percentile £220 £260 £250
25th Percentile £369 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.95% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 55 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.92 £11.25 £17.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £15.99 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% -57.28% -6.43%
75th Percentile £42.71 £50.74 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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
Glasgow -6 74 £487 -11.50% 22
Edinburgh -11 71 £450 -5.66% 38
Perthshire -1 7 £513 -9.77% 2
Lanarkshire +5 3 £400 -31.39% 13
Aberdeenshire - 1 - - 3
Renfrewshire - 1 £600 -
South Lanarkshire - 1 - - 1
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 (8.09%) Confluence
2 11 (6.36%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (2.31%) Apache
4 3 (1.73%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.73%) GeoServer
4 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.16%) SAS
6 1 (0.58%) JBoss
6 1 (0.58%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.58%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.58%) WildFly
6 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 6 (3.47%) Maximo
2 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 75 (43.35%) Azure
2 56 (32.37%) AWS
3 51 (29.48%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (16.18%) OpenShift
5 19 (10.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (9.25%) Serverless
7 15 (8.67%) Amazon S3
7 15 (8.67%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (6.94%) Snowflake
9 10 (5.78%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.05%) AWS CodePipeline
11 6 (3.47%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (3.47%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (3.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 6 (3.47%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (2.89%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (2.89%) GCP
12 5 (2.89%) IaaS
12 5 (2.89%) SaaS
13 3 (1.73%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.73%) DHCP
1 3 (1.73%) DNS
2 2 (1.16%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (1.16%) iSCSI
2 2 (1.16%) SAN
3 1 (0.58%) 2G
3 1 (0.58%) 5G
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) NAS
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.56%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (5.78%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (5.78%) GIS
3 8 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.05%) NoSQL
4 7 (4.05%) SQL Server
5 6 (3.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 6 (3.47%) Power BI
5 6 (3.47%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.73%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.73%) Big Data
6 3 (1.73%) InfluxDB
6 3 (1.73%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.16%) MySQL
7 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.58%) DB2
8 1 (0.58%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.58%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (19.65%) Jenkins
2 21 (12.14%) Git
3 19 (10.98%) JIRA
4 14 (8.09%) GitLab
5 8 (4.62%) Selenium
6 7 (4.05%) Artifactory
6 7 (4.05%) WebDriver
7 5 (2.89%) Visual Studio
8 3 (1.73%) Maven
8 3 (1.73%) Subversion
8 3 (1.73%) TeamCity
9 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.16%) Gradle
9 2 (1.16%) Tricentis qTest
10 1 (0.58%) Appium
10 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.58%) Bitbucket Server
10 1 (0.58%) Liquibase
10 1 (0.58%) Terragrunt
General
1 50 (28.90%) Public Sector
2 34 (19.65%) Social Skills
3 27 (15.61%) Finance
4 16 (9.25%) Banking
5 13 (7.51%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.31%) Electronics
9 4 (2.31%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.31%) Marketing
9 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.16%) Legal
11 1 (0.58%) Automotive
11 1 (0.58%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (21.39%) DevOps Engineer
2 30 (17.34%) Developer
3 20 (11.56%) Python Engineer
4 18 (10.40%) AWS Engineer
5 14 (8.09%) Platform Engineer
6 13 (7.51%) Analyst
6 13 (7.51%) Data Engineer
6 13 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (7.51%) Senior
7 12 (6.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 11 (6.36%) Java Developer
9 9 (5.20%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.20%) AWS DevOps
9 9 (5.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 9 (5.20%) Windows Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Lead
10 8 (4.62%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Snowflake Engineer
10 8 (4.62%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (4.05%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.56%) .NET
1 20 (11.56%) AWS CDK
2 18 (10.40%) REST
3 13 (7.51%) React
3 13 (7.51%) Spring
4 11 (6.36%) Spring Boot
5 8 (4.62%) CSS
5 8 (4.62%) HTML
5 8 (4.62%) PostGIS
6 7 (4.05%) Middleware
6 7 (4.05%) RESTful
7 6 (3.47%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.89%) Node.js
8 5 (2.89%) OAuth
8 5 (2.89%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.89%) Spring Security
9 4 (2.31%) Spring MVC
9 4 (2.31%) Spring Web Flow
9 4 (2.31%) WinForms
9 4 (2.31%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.94%) Legacy Systems
1 12 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 10 (5.78%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (5.20%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (4.62%) Wiki
5 6 (3.47%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.31%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.31%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.73%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.73%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.16%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.16%) Equities
8 2 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.16%) NVMe
8 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.16%) PKI
8 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.58%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 34 (19.65%) Linux
2 18 (10.40%) Windows
3 17 (9.83%) Unix
4 11 (6.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (3.47%) Ubuntu
6 5 (2.89%) Mac OS
7 4 (2.31%) VMS
8 1 (0.58%) AIX
8 1 (0.58%) Android
8 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.58%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (52.60%) Agile
2 41 (23.70%) CI/CD
3 30 (17.34%) Test Automation
4 24 (13.87%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (11.56%) Containerisation
5 20 (11.56%) Scrum
5 20 (11.56%) User Experience
6 19 (10.98%) Project Management
7 18 (10.40%) Code Quality
7 18 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (9.25%) Roadmaps
9 15 (8.67%) Computer Science
10 14 (8.09%) Artificial Intelligence
10 14 (8.09%) Kanban
10 14 (8.09%) Migration
10 14 (8.09%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (7.51%) Software Delivery
11 13 (7.51%) Test Scripting
11 13 (7.51%) User Research
11 13 (7.51%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 82 (47.40%) Python
2 34 (19.65%) Java
3 29 (16.76%) SQL
4 22 (12.72%) C#
5 18 (10.40%) JavaScript
6 17 (9.83%) Perl
7 12 (6.94%) PowerShell
7 12 (6.94%) Scala
8 10 (5.78%) Bash
9 7 (4.05%) Groovy
10 6 (3.47%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.89%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.31%) C
12 4 (2.31%) VB
12 4 (2.31%) VB6
13 3 (1.73%) C++
13 3 (1.73%) Ruby
14 2 (1.16%) VBA
14 2 (1.16%) VBScript
15 1 (0.58%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 12 (6.94%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.20%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.31%) Degree
3 4 (2.31%) ISEB
4 2 (1.16%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (1.16%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.58%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.58%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.58%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 8 (4.62%) QA
3 7 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.05%) PMO
4 2 (1.16%) GDPR
5 1 (0.58%) NCSC
5 1 (0.58%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (19.08%) Docker
2 9 (5.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.16%) NFS
4 1 (0.58%) GPFS
4 1 (0.58%) KVM
4 1 (0.58%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (19.08%) Kubernetes
2 31 (17.92%) Terraform
3 17 (9.83%) Grafana
4 16 (9.25%) Ansible
5 9 (5.20%) Kibana
6 7 (4.05%) SCCM
7 4 (2.31%) HP Quality Center
8 3 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (1.73%) Packer
9 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.16%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.16%) Puppet
10 1 (0.58%) Argo
10 1 (0.58%) Istio
10 1 (0.58%) Knative
10 1 (0.58%) Nagios
10 1 (0.58%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.58%) Veritas Storage Foundation
10 1 (0.58%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (7.51%) Databricks
2 10 (5.78%) Oracle
2 10 (5.78%) Splunk
2 10 (5.78%) VMware
3 9 (5.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.31%) Google
4 4 (2.31%) HP
4 4 (2.31%) Infragistics
4 4 (2.31%) SAP
5 2 (1.16%) Adobe
5 2 (1.16%) Sybase
5 2 (1.16%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.58%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.58%) Brocade
6 1 (0.58%) Dell
6 1 (0.58%) EMC
6 1 (0.58%) IBM
6 1 (0.58%) NetApp
6 1 (0.58%) Veritas