DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 12 14
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,533 2,462 3,154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.56% 10.64% 10.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.98% 11.90% 11.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 1,832 2,240
10th Percentile £375 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £649 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 89 66
10th Percentile £56.53 £52.24 £36.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £46.36
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £59.83
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +9.49% +15.11%
75th Percentile £80.95 £70.30 £68.94
90th Percentile £87.37 £78.00 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK excluding London

DevOps
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps within the UK excluding London 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
South East -2 450 £550 -5.25% 349
North of England +2 423 £515 -6.36% 312
North West -2 241 £525 -2.33% 181
South West -12 236 £550 -8.33% 173
Scotland -14 173 £475 -4.52% 68
Yorkshire +4 168 £495 -17.50% 100
Midlands -13 137 £475 -11.30% 226
East of England -11 97 £534 -2.91% 72
West Midlands -16 91 £518 -10.97% 163
East Midlands -11 40 £450 +5.88% 62
Wales -13 20 £538 -8.04% 47
North East -8 18 £525 -12.50% 31
Northern Ireland +6 12 £588 -2.08% 30
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
DevOps
UK

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 68 (4.44%) Confluence
2 31 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 27 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 23 (1.50%) Apache
5 20 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (0.98%) Apache Spark
7 13 (0.85%) nginx
8 11 (0.72%) IIS
9 9 (0.59%) CMS
10 8 (0.52%) JBoss
11 6 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
12 4 (0.26%) Jupyter
13 3 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 3 (0.20%) Drupal
13 3 (0.20%) Kentico
13 3 (0.20%) Umbraco
14 2 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (0.72%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.065%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.065%) Simulink
5 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.065%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 13 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
4 11 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.65%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.65%) Teamcenter
6 8 (0.52%) Oracle EBS R12
7 7 (0.46%) Maximo
7 7 (0.46%) SAP PM
8 6 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
8 6 (0.39%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
10 2 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Payroll
11 1 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
11 1 (0.065%) SAP EHS
11 1 (0.065%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 720 (46.97%) Azure
2 411 (26.81%) Azure DevOps
3 375 (24.46%) AWS
4 121 (7.89%) Serverless
5 92 (6.00%) GitHub
6 89 (5.81%) GCP
7 84 (5.48%) OpenShift
8 74 (4.83%) Power Platform
9 63 (4.11%) Amazon S3
10 57 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
11 56 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
12 54 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 49 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
14 46 (3.00%) Entra ID
15 45 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
16 44 (2.87%) Azure Functions
17 40 (2.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 40 (2.61%) PaaS
18 39 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
19 38 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 143 (9.33%) Firewall
2 74 (4.83%) VPN
3 50 (3.26%) DNS
4 34 (2.22%) Modbus
4 34 (2.22%) RS-422
4 34 (2.22%) RS-485
5 30 (1.96%) Intrusion Detection
6 26 (1.70%) TCP/IP
7 25 (1.63%) Network Security
8 23 (1.50%) HTTP
9 20 (1.30%) DHCP
10 18 (1.17%) SSL
11 17 (1.11%) IPsec
12 14 (0.91%) OSPF
13 13 (0.85%) SNMP
14 12 (0.78%) BGP
14 12 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (0.78%) EIGRP
14 12 (0.78%) NetScaler
14 12 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (6.13%) PostgreSQL
2 85 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 68 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 60 (3.91%) Relational Database
5 52 (3.39%) Power BI
6 46 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
7 42 (2.74%) Data Lake
8 39 (2.54%) MySQL
9 37 (2.41%) MongoDB
10 35 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
11 28 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (1.50%) RDBMS
13 22 (1.44%) Big Data
14 20 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
15 18 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
15 18 (1.17%) Oracle Database
16 17 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 16 (1.04%) GIS
18 15 (0.98%) BigQuery
19 14 (0.91%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 216 (14.09%) Jenkins
2 202 (13.18%) Git
3 179 (11.68%) JIRA
4 108 (7.05%) GitLab
5 71 (4.63%) Selenium
6 56 (3.65%) SonarQube
7 38 (2.48%) Visual Studio
8 32 (2.09%) Cucumber
9 24 (1.57%) REST Assured
10 23 (1.50%) Artifactory
11 19 (1.24%) Bitbucket
12 17 (1.11%) Postman
13 16 (1.04%) JUnit
14 15 (0.98%) TeamCity
15 13 (0.85%) GoogleTest
15 13 (0.85%) Maven
15 13 (0.85%) Travis CI
16 12 (0.78%) Cypress.io
16 12 (0.78%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 308 (20.09%) Social Skills
2 180 (11.74%) Finance
3 170 (11.09%) Public Sector
4 153 (9.98%) Analytical Skills
5 65 (4.24%) Banking
6 42 (2.74%) Electronics
7 28 (1.83%) Retail
8 26 (1.70%) Law
9 25 (1.63%) Legal
10 21 (1.37%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.30%) Marketing
12 19 (1.24%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 16 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
15 13 (0.85%) Police
16 12 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 7 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
18 6 (0.39%) Automotive
19 5 (0.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 283 (18.46%) Developer
2 277 (18.07%) DevOps Engineer
3 214 (13.96%) Architect
4 141 (9.20%) Senior
5 109 (7.11%) Lead
6 86 (5.61%) Analyst
7 85 (5.54%) Software Engineer
8 62 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
9 61 (3.98%) Azure Engineer
10 55 (3.59%) AWS Engineer
11 48 (3.13%) Consultant
12 47 (3.07%) Full Stack Developer
12 47 (3.07%) Java Developer
13 45 (2.94%) AWS DevOps
14 44 (2.87%) Technical Architect
15 43 (2.80%) Java Engineer
16 41 (2.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
17 37 (2.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 37 (2.41%) Data Engineer
18 36 (2.35%) Azure Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (9.33%) .NET
2 116 (7.57%) REST
3 103 (6.72%) React
4 74 (4.83%) Kafka
5 65 (4.24%) Node.js
6 59 (3.85%) HTML
7 58 (3.78%) CSS
8 55 (3.59%) Spring
9 52 (3.39%) Spring Boot
10 50 (3.26%) AngularJS
10 50 (3.26%) XML
11 48 (3.13%) JSON
12 47 (3.07%) ARM Templates
13 35 (2.28%) .NET Framework
14 34 (2.22%) RESTful
15 33 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
16 30 (1.96%) .NET Core
17 29 (1.89%) YAML
18 28 (1.83%) RabbitMQ
19 26 (1.70%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 87 (5.68%) Product Ownership
2 74 (4.83%) Public Cloud
3 58 (3.78%) Self-Motivation
4 51 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 25 (1.63%) Mobile App
5 25 (1.63%) PKI
6 23 (1.50%) Legacy Systems
7 22 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
8 21 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
9 20 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
10 19 (1.24%) Client/Server
11 17 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (1.04%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
13 14 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
14 13 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
15 12 (0.78%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.78%) Onboarding
15 12 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 217 (14.16%) Linux
2 173 (11.29%) Windows
3 88 (5.74%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (2.54%) Android
5 39 (2.54%) Apple iOS
6 36 (2.35%) Unix
7 23 (1.50%) Windows Server 2016
7 23 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (0.85%) CentOS
9 8 (0.52%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.46%) Mac OS
10 7 (0.46%) Windows 10
11 6 (0.39%) AIX
11 6 (0.39%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) Solaris
13 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Debian
14 1 (0.065%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.065%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 664 (43.31%) Agile
2 498 (32.49%) CI/CD
3 224 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 216 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
5 209 (13.63%) Software Engineering
6 182 (11.87%) Test Automation
7 178 (11.61%) Containerisation
8 164 (10.70%) Continuous Integration
9 156 (10.18%) Microservices
10 153 (9.98%) Scrum
11 115 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (7.50%) Migration
12 110 (7.18%) Unit Testing
13 107 (6.98%) Software Testing
14 101 (6.59%) Project Management
14 101 (6.59%) SDLC
15 100 (6.52%) Stakeholder Management
16 92 (6.00%) Full Stack Development
17 89 (5.81%) Change Management
18 88 (5.74%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 380 (24.79%) Python
2 229 (14.94%) Java
3 196 (12.79%) C#
4 183 (11.94%) SQL
5 150 (9.78%) PowerShell
6 103 (6.72%) C
7 96 (6.26%) JavaScript
8 91 (5.94%) Bash
9 86 (5.61%) C++
10 60 (3.91%) TypeScript
11 49 (3.20%) Go
12 45 (2.94%) Perl
13 38 (2.48%) Bicep
14 34 (2.22%) VBScript
15 27 (1.76%) Scala
15 27 (1.76%) Shell Script
16 23 (1.50%) Ruby
17 21 (1.37%) VB
18 18 (1.17%) PHP
19 15 (0.98%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 445 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 263 (17.16%) SC Cleared
3 193 (12.59%) DV Cleared
4 125 (8.15%) Degree
5 45 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 21 (1.37%) AWS Certification
7 17 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 16 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
9 15 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 14 (0.91%) CCNP
10 14 (0.91%) ISTQB
11 12 (0.78%) Azure Certification
11 12 (0.78%) CCNA
11 12 (0.78%) ISEB
12 11 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.59%) Master's Degree
14 7 (0.46%) CBAP
14 7 (0.46%) ITIL Certification
15 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (7.18%) QA
2 20 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.24%) PMO
4 16 (1.04%) MISRA
5 15 (0.98%) Disclosure Scotland
6 13 (0.85%) GDPR
6 13 (0.85%) NCSC
6 13 (0.85%) NIST
7 10 (0.65%) Data Quality
7 10 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.33%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.26%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.20%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.13%) RMADS
12 2 (0.13%) SLA
12 2 (0.13%) WCAG
13 1 (0.065%) GxP
13 1 (0.065%) HL7
System Software
1 256 (16.70%) Docker
2 74 (4.83%) Active Directory
3 52 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 31 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 21 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.98%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.78%) Firmware
8 7 (0.46%) vCloud
9 6 (0.39%) Hyper-V
10 5 (0.33%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.20%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.20%) LXC
11 3 (0.20%) NFS
11 3 (0.20%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.20%) OpenIDM
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.13%) HDFS
12 2 (0.13%) Varnish
12 2 (0.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 322 (21.00%) Kubernetes
2 299 (19.50%) Terraform
3 209 (13.63%) Ansible
4 79 (5.15%) Grafana
5 70 (4.57%) Prometheus
6 48 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 43 (2.80%) Puppet
8 36 (2.35%) Kibana
9 32 (2.09%) Istio
9 32 (2.09%) SCCM
10 31 (2.02%) Docker Swarm
11 28 (1.83%) SCOM
12 23 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
13 22 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
14 19 (1.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (1.17%) Argo
15 18 (1.17%) WSUS
16 15 (0.98%) Rancher
17 14 (0.91%) Podman
18 12 (0.78%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 229 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 110 (7.18%) Oracle
3 73 (4.76%) VMware
4 59 (3.85%) Google
5 55 (3.59%) Splunk
6 41 (2.67%) SAP
7 30 (1.96%) Databricks
8 21 (1.37%) Red Hat
9 20 (1.30%) Citrix
10 19 (1.24%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.24%) ServiceNow
11 16 (1.04%) Cisco
11 16 (1.04%) EMC
12 15 (0.98%) IBM
13 14 (0.91%) F5
13 14 (0.91%) Palo Alto
14 12 (0.78%) Atlassian
14 12 (0.78%) SolarWinds
15 9 (0.59%) Adobe
16 8 (0.52%) Informatica