Senior DevOps Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 507 555
Rank change year-on-year +53 +48 -80
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 97 130 226
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.29% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 106 191
10th Percentile £509 £519 £500
25th Percentile £550 £588 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £750
90th Percentile £760 £738 £850
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £73.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,226 44,888 67,264
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.56% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,546 31,942 48,134
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,576 1,314 1,782
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.51
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £62.00 £65.57 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior 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 Senior DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +81 57 £650 - 32
South East +17 14 £600 -12.73% 4
North West +23 12 £663 +1.92% 7
North of England +16 12 £663 -5.36% 11
South West +2 7 £625 -7.41% 5
Midlands +13 1 - - 5
West Midlands +5 1 - - 4
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Senior DevOps 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 in the job title.

1 97 (100.00%) DevOps
2 61 (62.89%) Terraform
3 59 (60.82%) CI/CD
4 47 (48.45%) Kubernetes
4 47 (48.45%) Python
4 47 (48.45%) AWS
5 41 (42.27%) Security Cleared
6 35 (36.08%) Azure
7 33 (34.02%) Ansible
8 28 (28.87%) Jenkins
9 27 (27.84%) Docker
10 26 (26.80%) SC Cleared
11 24 (24.74%) Git
12 22 (22.68%) PowerShell
12 22 (22.68%) Bash
13 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
14 19 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
14 19 (19.59%) Linux
15 18 (18.56%) Agile
16 17 (17.53%) SDLC
16 17 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
16 17 (17.53%) Product Ownership
17 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
17 16 (16.49%) Public Sector
18 15 (15.46%) Configuration Management
18 15 (15.46%) Finance
19 14 (14.43%) Roadmaps
20 13 (13.40%) Unix
20 13 (13.40%) Windows
20 13 (13.40%) C#

Senior DevOps 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 (4.12%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) Apache
2 2 (2.06%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.03%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 47 (48.45%) AWS
2 35 (36.08%) Azure
3 17 (17.53%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (13.40%) GitHub
5 10 (10.31%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (10.31%) PaaS
6 9 (9.28%) GCP
7 8 (8.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 7 (7.22%) Serverless
9 6 (6.19%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.15%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
11 4 (4.12%) Entra ID
11 4 (4.12%) OCI
11 4 (4.12%) OpenShift
12 3 (3.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 3 (3.09%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (3.09%) AWS Control Tower
13 2 (2.06%) Datadog
13 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.28%) Firewall
2 5 (5.15%) Network Security
3 1 (1.03%) DNS
3 1 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.34%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.15%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.09%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.06%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.06%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.03%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 28 (28.87%) Jenkins
2 24 (24.74%) Git
3 13 (13.40%) GitLab
3 13 (13.40%) TeamCity
4 10 (10.31%) Artifactory
5 8 (8.25%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.09%) CircleCI
6 3 (3.09%) JIRA
6 3 (3.09%) Selenium
7 2 (2.06%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.03%) Apache Continuum
8 1 (1.03%) Jaeger
8 1 (1.03%) Snyk
8 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.03%) Subversion
8 1 (1.03%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 16 (16.49%) Public Sector
2 15 (15.46%) Finance
3 11 (11.34%) Banking
4 10 (10.31%) Investment Banking
5 9 (9.28%) Social Skills
6 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.03%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.03%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.03%) Electronics
7 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.03%) Marketing
7 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
7 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.37%) .NET
2 5 (5.15%) Node.js
2 5 (5.15%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (5.15%) WCF
2 5 (5.15%) WinForms
3 4 (4.12%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.12%) XML
4 3 (3.09%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.06%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.06%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.06%) Apache NiFi
5 2 (2.06%) AWS SAM
5 2 (2.06%) Fluent Bit
5 2 (2.06%) Kafka
5 2 (2.06%) Loki
5 2 (2.06%) pytest
5 2 (2.06%) REST
5 2 (2.06%) YAML
6 1 (1.03%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.53%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.19%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.06%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.03%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (19.59%) Linux
2 13 (13.40%) Unix
2 13 (13.40%) Windows
3 6 (6.19%) Android
3 6 (6.19%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.06%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.03%) VMS
6 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (60.82%) CI/CD
3 21 (21.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (19.59%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.56%) Agile
6 17 (17.53%) SDLC
7 16 (16.49%) Containerisation
8 15 (15.46%) Configuration Management
9 14 (14.43%) Roadmaps
10 11 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (11.34%) Test Automation
11 9 (9.28%) Migration
11 9 (9.28%) Observability
12 8 (8.25%) Mentoring
12 8 (8.25%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (8.25%) Service Catalogue
13 7 (7.22%) Load Balancing
14 6 (6.19%) Scrum
14 6 (6.19%) Technical Leadership
15 5 (5.15%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 47 (48.45%) Python
2 22 (22.68%) Bash
2 22 (22.68%) PowerShell
3 13 (13.40%) C#
4 10 (10.31%) Go
4 10 (10.31%) SQL
5 9 (9.28%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.25%) Java
7 4 (4.12%) Bicep
7 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.09%) C++
9 1 (1.03%) C
9 1 (1.03%) Groovy
9 1 (1.03%) Perl
9 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 41 (42.27%) Security Cleared
2 26 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 12 (12.37%) DV Cleared
4 7 (7.22%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Degree
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Certification
7 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.03%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.03%) NIST
2 1 (1.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (27.84%) Docker
2 9 (9.28%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 61 (62.89%) Terraform
2 47 (48.45%) Kubernetes
3 33 (34.02%) Ansible
4 13 (13.40%) Grafana
5 10 (10.31%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.12%) Argo
6 4 (4.12%) Puppet
7 3 (3.09%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.06%) Kustomize
9 1 (1.03%) BladeLogic
9 1 (1.03%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.03%) Kibana
9 1 (1.03%) Nagios
9 1 (1.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.15%) Oracle
2 3 (3.09%) VMware
3 2 (2.06%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.06%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.06%) Splunk
3 2 (2.06%) Virgin Media
4 1 (1.03%) Altiris
4 1 (1.03%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.03%) Citrix
4 1 (1.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.03%) Google
4 1 (1.03%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.03%) New Relic
4 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.03%) SAP
4 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.03%) Sun