Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 474 521 606
Rank change year-on-year +47 +85 -106
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 76 115 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 100 150
10th Percentile £513 £520 £500
25th Percentile £550 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £681 £725 £725
90th Percentile £760 £739 £800
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £645
% change year-on-year - +0.81% +12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £74.09 - -
25th Percentile £74.22 - -
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Senior DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +68 47 £650 - 25
North West +16 9 £600 -7.69% 8
North of England +9 9 £600 -14.29% 13
South East +10 7 £650 -10.34% 2
South West +1 7 £625 -7.41% 7
Midlands +12 2 - - 6
East Midlands +5 2 - - 1
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Senior DevOps Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) DevOps
2 54 (71.05%) Terraform
3 44 (57.89%) AWS
4 42 (55.26%) Python
4 42 (55.26%) CI/CD
5 38 (50.00%) Kubernetes
6 33 (43.42%) Security Cleared
7 29 (38.16%) Ansible
8 25 (32.89%) SC Cleared
9 24 (31.58%) Azure
9 24 (31.58%) Jenkins
10 23 (30.26%) Docker
11 20 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
12 18 (23.68%) Git
12 18 (23.68%) Bash
12 18 (23.68%) PowerShell
13 17 (22.37%) Linux
14 15 (19.74%) GitHub
14 15 (19.74%) Public Sector
15 14 (18.42%) Configuration Management
16 13 (17.11%) Agile
16 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
17 12 (15.79%) Grafana
17 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
17 12 (15.79%) GitLab
17 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
18 11 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
18 11 (14.47%) SDLC
18 11 (14.47%) Banking
18 11 (14.47%) Finance

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 4 (5.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.95%) Apache
3 2 (2.63%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.32%) Cloud Foundry
Cloud Services
1 44 (57.89%) AWS
2 24 (31.58%) Azure
3 15 (19.74%) GitHub
4 11 (14.47%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (13.16%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (11.84%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (11.84%) GCP
7 8 (10.53%) PaaS
8 6 (7.89%) Serverless
9 5 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.58%) OpenShift
10 4 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (5.26%) OCI
11 3 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.95%) AWS Control Tower
11 3 (3.95%) IaaS
12 2 (2.63%) Datadog
12 2 (2.63%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.26%) Firewall
2 3 (3.95%) DNS
3 2 (2.63%) Network Security
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.89%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.63%) Redis
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.32%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) DB2
5 1 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.32%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (31.58%) Jenkins
2 18 (23.68%) Git
3 12 (15.79%) GitLab
4 9 (11.84%) TeamCity
5 7 (9.21%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.89%) Artifactory
7 3 (3.95%) Maven
8 2 (2.63%) Gradle
8 2 (2.63%) JIRA
8 2 (2.63%) Selenium
8 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.32%) Apache Continuum
9 1 (1.32%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.32%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.32%) Snyk
9 1 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (19.74%) Public Sector
2 11 (14.47%) Banking
2 11 (14.47%) Finance
3 10 (13.16%) Investment Banking
4 9 (11.84%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.32%) Electronics
5 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.32%) Marketing
5 1 (1.32%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.21%) .NET
2 5 (6.58%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (6.58%) WCF
2 5 (6.58%) WinForms
3 3 (3.95%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (3.95%) Kafka
3 3 (3.95%) Node.js
3 3 (3.95%) REST
4 2 (2.63%) ARM Templates
4 2 (2.63%) Fluent Bit
4 2 (2.63%) Loki
4 2 (2.63%) pytest
4 2 (2.63%) RESTful
4 2 (2.63%) YAML
5 1 (1.32%) JPA
5 1 (1.32%) JSON
5 1 (1.32%) React
5 1 (1.32%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.32%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.89%) Public Cloud
3 5 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.95%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.95%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.63%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.32%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.32%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 17 (22.37%) Linux
2 10 (13.16%) Unix
3 9 (11.84%) Windows
4 4 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.63%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.63%) Android
5 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.32%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (55.26%) CI/CD
3 20 (26.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (18.42%) Configuration Management
5 13 (17.11%) Agile
5 13 (17.11%) Containerisation
6 12 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (14.47%) SDLC
8 10 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.16%) Roadmaps
9 9 (11.84%) Mentoring
9 9 (11.84%) Migration
9 9 (11.84%) Service Catalogue
10 8 (10.53%) Observability
10 8 (10.53%) Test Automation
11 7 (9.21%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (7.89%) GitOps
13 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Automation
13 5 (6.58%) Product Roadmap
13 5 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 42 (55.26%) Python
2 18 (23.68%) Bash
2 18 (23.68%) PowerShell
3 12 (15.79%) TypeScript
4 9 (11.84%) Go
5 8 (10.53%) Java
5 8 (10.53%) SQL
6 6 (7.89%) C#
7 5 (6.58%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.26%) Ruby
9 3 (3.95%) Groovy
10 2 (2.63%) Bicep
10 2 (2.63%) C++
11 1 (1.32%) C
11 1 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 33 (43.42%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.89%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.26%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.95%) Degree
6 2 (2.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.32%) NIST
2 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 23 (30.26%) Docker
2 5 (6.58%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.32%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 54 (71.05%) Terraform
2 38 (50.00%) Kubernetes
3 29 (38.16%) Ansible
4 12 (15.79%) Grafana
5 10 (13.16%) Prometheus
6 5 (6.58%) Puppet
7 4 (5.26%) Argo
8 3 (3.95%) Progress Chef
9 2 (2.63%) Kustomize
10 1 (1.32%) Kibana
10 1 (1.32%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) Oracle
2 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.63%) Splunk
3 2 (2.63%) VMware
4 1 (1.32%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco
4 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.32%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.32%) Google
4 1 (1.32%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.32%) New Relic
4 1 (1.32%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.32%) SAP
4 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.32%) Sun