DevOps Contracts in England

DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,414 5,632 9,301
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.38% 11.62% 13.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.86% 12.90% 14.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,375 4,126 6,754
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 97 73
10th Percentile £56.38 £50.22 £35.40
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.89
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +13.15% +10.27%
75th Percentile £78.44 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £87.23 £79.19 £77.50
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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the England 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
London -1 1,958 £573 -4.58% 820
South East -2 450 £550 -5.25% 354
North of England +2 423 £515 -6.36% 313
North West -2 241 £525 -2.33% 179
South West -12 236 £550 -8.33% 170
Yorkshire +4 168 £495 -17.50% 102
Midlands -13 137 £475 -11.30% 223
East of England -11 97 £534 -2.91% 77
West Midlands -16 91 £518 -10.97% 161
East Midlands -11 40 £450 +5.88% 61
North East -8 18 £525 -12.50% 32
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 137 (4.01%) Confluence
2 61 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
4 44 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 39 (1.14%) Apache
5 39 (1.14%) nginx
6 38 (1.11%) CMS
7 33 (0.97%) IIS
7 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
8 15 (0.44%) OpenStack
9 11 (0.32%) JBoss
10 9 (0.26%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 9 (0.26%) Site Server
11 8 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.21%) ArcGIS
13 6 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.18%) Jupyter
13 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
14 5 (0.15%) Appian
14 5 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.088%) Trello
7 1 (0.029%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.029%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.029%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.029%) Simulink
7 1 (0.029%) Sketch
7 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 63 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.76%) Dynamics AX
3 20 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.44%) Endur
6 14 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
7 11 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 9 (0.26%) Shopify
9 8 (0.23%) NetSuite
9 8 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
10 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
10 7 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
10 7 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 7 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
10 7 (0.21%) Temenos T24
11 6 (0.18%) NEC Housing
12 4 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 3 (0.088%) BusinessWorks
14 2 (0.059%) Dynamics NAV
14 2 (0.059%) Front Arena
Cloud Services
1 1,724 (50.50%) Azure
2 1,034 (30.29%) Azure DevOps
3 987 (28.91%) AWS
4 299 (8.76%) GCP
5 290 (8.49%) Serverless
6 244 (7.15%) GitHub
7 217 (6.36%) Power Platform
8 141 (4.13%) Amazon S3
9 136 (3.98%) Entra ID
10 133 (3.90%) Dynamics 365
11 129 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
12 126 (3.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 126 (3.69%) Azure Monitor
13 121 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
14 116 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 112 (3.28%) PaaS
16 103 (3.02%) Azure Data Factory
17 102 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
17 102 (2.99%) Azure Functions
18 93 (2.72%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 213 (6.24%) Firewall
2 96 (2.81%) VPN
3 90 (2.64%) DNS
4 66 (1.93%) HTTP
5 49 (1.44%) Network Security
6 42 (1.23%) TCP/IP
7 34 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 34 (1.00%) Modbus
7 34 (1.00%) RS-422
7 34 (1.00%) RS-485
8 33 (0.97%) BGP
9 32 (0.94%) DHCP
10 28 (0.82%) SNMP
11 25 (0.73%) SSL
12 24 (0.70%) HSRP
13 23 (0.67%) Internet
14 22 (0.64%) MPLS
15 21 (0.62%) IPv4
16 18 (0.53%) IPsec
16 18 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 371 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 161 (4.72%) Power BI
3 147 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
4 144 (4.22%) Data Lake
5 141 (4.13%) NoSQL
6 115 (3.37%) Relational Database
7 88 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
8 84 (2.46%) MySQL
9 83 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
10 75 (2.20%) MongoDB
11 71 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 69 (2.02%) Big Data
12 69 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
13 49 (1.44%) Amazon Athena
14 40 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
14 40 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 37 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
16 36 (1.05%) Redis
17 35 (1.03%) Tableau
18 34 (1.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 446 (13.06%) Git
2 436 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 287 (8.41%) JIRA
4 245 (7.18%) GitLab
5 120 (3.51%) Selenium
6 78 (2.28%) SonarQube
7 71 (2.08%) Visual Studio
8 63 (1.85%) TeamCity
9 56 (1.64%) SpecFlow
10 53 (1.55%) Cucumber
11 49 (1.44%) Artifactory
12 48 (1.41%) Bitbucket
13 44 (1.29%) JUnit
14 39 (1.14%) Postman
15 31 (0.91%) Cypress.io
16 25 (0.73%) REST Assured
16 25 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
17 22 (0.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 22 (0.64%) Maven
18 20 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 745 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 680 (19.92%) Finance
3 343 (10.05%) Public Sector
4 298 (8.73%) Analytical Skills
5 233 (6.82%) Banking
6 101 (2.96%) Retail
7 89 (2.61%) Front Office
8 64 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
9 55 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 54 (1.58%) Investment Banking
10 54 (1.58%) Marketing
11 52 (1.52%) Back Office
12 51 (1.49%) Electronics
13 45 (1.32%) Law
14 42 (1.23%) Legal
15 36 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 30 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 26 (0.76%) General Ledger
18 25 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
19 17 (0.50%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 731 (21.41%) Developer
2 634 (18.57%) DevOps Engineer
3 478 (14.00%) Senior
4 410 (12.01%) Architect
5 271 (7.94%) Lead
6 210 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
7 184 (5.39%) Analyst
8 174 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 171 (5.01%) AWS Engineer
10 162 (4.75%) Software Engineer
11 134 (3.93%) Consultant
11 134 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
12 131 (3.84%) AWS DevOps
13 114 (3.34%) .NET Developer
13 114 (3.34%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 110 (3.22%) Data Engineer
15 97 (2.84%) Azure Developer
16 95 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 92 (2.69%) Senior DevOps
18 90 (2.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 501 (14.67%) .NET
2 275 (8.06%) React
3 206 (6.03%) XML
4 192 (5.62%) Kafka
5 181 (5.30%) REST
6 168 (4.92%) .NET Core
7 153 (4.48%) Node.js
8 151 (4.42%) HTML
9 150 (4.39%) AngularJS
10 141 (4.13%) .NET Framework
11 136 (3.98%) CSS
12 115 (3.37%) JSON
13 111 (3.25%) RESTful
14 89 (2.61%) Spring
15 88 (2.58%) ARM Templates
15 88 (2.58%) Spring Boot
16 82 (2.40%) YAML
17 75 (2.20%) ASP.NET
18 74 (2.17%) Web Services
19 70 (2.05%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 220 (6.44%) Product Ownership
2 101 (2.96%) Public Cloud
3 96 (2.81%) Cloud Native
4 78 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
5 66 (1.93%) Distributed Systems
6 63 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 60 (1.76%) Derivative
8 56 (1.64%) Hedge funds
9 54 (1.58%) Mobile App
10 48 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 46 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 41 (1.20%) Onboarding
13 37 (1.08%) PKI
14 36 (1.05%) Fixed Income
14 36 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
15 35 (1.03%) Clustering
16 34 (1.00%) Management Information System
17 33 (0.97%) Data Centre
18 30 (0.88%) Equities
19 29 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 400 (11.72%) Linux
2 281 (8.23%) Windows
3 137 (4.01%) Windows Server
4 82 (2.40%) Unix
5 59 (1.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 50 (1.46%) Apple iOS
7 48 (1.41%) Android
8 23 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 23 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 22 (0.64%) CentOS
10 11 (0.32%) Solaris
11 10 (0.29%) VMS
12 9 (0.26%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.26%) Windows 10
13 6 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.12%) AIX
16 3 (0.088%) Debian
17 2 (0.059%) Mac OS
18 1 (0.029%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,451 (42.50%) Agile
2 1,233 (36.12%) CI/CD
3 447 (13.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 446 (13.06%) Problem-Solving
5 427 (12.51%) Scrum
6 423 (12.39%) Software Engineering
7 379 (11.10%) Microservices
8 365 (10.69%) Test Automation
9 309 (9.05%) Containerisation
10 295 (8.64%) TDD
11 289 (8.47%) Continuous Integration
12 255 (7.47%) Migration
13 240 (7.03%) SDLC
14 227 (6.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 195 (5.71%) Analytics
15 195 (5.71%) Full Stack Development
16 188 (5.51%) Business Intelligence
17 182 (5.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
18 180 (5.27%) Computer Science
19 174 (5.10%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 871 (25.51%) Python
2 616 (18.04%) C#
3 543 (15.91%) SQL
4 483 (14.15%) Java
5 457 (13.39%) PowerShell
6 347 (10.16%) JavaScript
7 227 (6.65%) TypeScript
8 192 (5.62%) Bash
9 156 (4.57%) Go
10 153 (4.48%) Bicep
11 130 (3.81%) C++
12 115 (3.37%) C
13 69 (2.02%) Shell Script
14 54 (1.58%) Scala
15 46 (1.35%) Ruby
16 43 (1.26%) Perl
17 41 (1.20%) T-SQL
18 32 (0.94%) VBScript
19 28 (0.82%) PL/SQL
20 24 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 717 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 498 (14.59%) SC Cleared
3 287 (8.41%) Degree
4 222 (6.50%) DV Cleared
5 121 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 59 (1.73%) AWS Certification
7 53 (1.55%) Azure Certification
8 40 (1.17%) Master's Degree
9 30 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.76%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 26 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 21 (0.62%) PMP
13 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.56%) CCNP
14 19 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 17 (0.50%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.38%) CCNA
17 12 (0.35%) ISEB
17 12 (0.35%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (5.98%) QA
2 47 (1.38%) Accessibility
3 43 (1.26%) GDPR
4 39 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 36 (1.05%) Data Quality
5 36 (1.05%) NIST
6 32 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (0.79%) WCAG
8 24 (0.70%) SLA
9 17 (0.50%) PMO
10 16 (0.47%) MISRA
11 14 (0.41%) NCSC
12 12 (0.35%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.18%) GRC
13 6 (0.18%) ISO 22301
13 6 (0.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.088%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.088%) Solvency II
System Software
1 537 (15.73%) Docker
2 243 (7.12%) Active Directory
3 65 (1.90%) Virtual Machines
4 58 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 23 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 15 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.35%) Firmware
8 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
9 7 (0.21%) vCloud
9 7 (0.21%) vSphere
10 6 (0.18%) NFS
11 4 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.088%) LXC
12 3 (0.088%) OpenAM
12 3 (0.088%) OpenIDM
13 2 (0.059%) HDFS
13 2 (0.059%) Squid
13 2 (0.059%) Varnish
13 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 760 (22.26%) Terraform
2 739 (21.65%) Kubernetes
3 381 (11.16%) Ansible
4 157 (4.60%) Prometheus
5 143 (4.19%) Grafana
6 85 (2.49%) Puppet
7 70 (2.05%) Progress Chef
8 45 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
9 39 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
10 38 (1.11%) Kibana
11 36 (1.05%) Istio
12 31 (0.91%) SCOM
13 30 (0.88%) SCCM
14 27 (0.79%) Consul
14 27 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
15 26 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 26 (0.76%) Packer
16 25 (0.73%) Argo
17 19 (0.56%) ITRS Geneos
17 19 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 662 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 224 (6.56%) Oracle
3 111 (3.25%) Google
4 100 (2.93%) Splunk
5 94 (2.75%) Databricks
6 89 (2.61%) VMware
7 80 (2.34%) SAP
8 68 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 63 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 51 (1.49%) Cisco
11 46 (1.35%) IBM
12 41 (1.20%) Dynatrace
13 37 (1.08%) Red Hat
14 33 (0.97%) Citrix
15 32 (0.94%) F5
16 31 (0.91%) CyberArk
17 27 (0.79%) Palo Alto
18 26 (0.76%) Adobe
19 22 (0.64%) EMC
20 21 (0.62%) Nokia