DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

DevOps
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DevOps skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DevOps over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 13 14
Rank change year-on-year -5 +1 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,611 2,312 3,169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 7.55% 10.19% 10.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.14% 11.44% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 1,717 2,245
10th Percentile £381 £413 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -6.14% +1.91% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 88 61
10th Percentile £56.65 £53.75 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.60 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £66.50 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.53% +0.77% +20.93%
75th Percentile £74.86 £75.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £86.59 £78.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.05% +0.77% +30.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 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
South East -2 462 £550 -6.38% 173
North of England +2 454 £507 -7.82% 248
South West -5 260 £550 -8.33% 137
North West -3 239 £525 - 137
Yorkshire +6 198 £485 -19.17% 83
Scotland -10 174 £472 -5.55% 70
Midlands -8 162 £525 -2.78% 157
West Midlands -9 115 £525 -10.83% 111
East of England -18 94 £534 -2.91% 49
East Midlands -16 41 £450 +5.88% 46
North East -8 22 £525 -12.50% 28
Wales -15 18 £563 -4.01% 26
Northern Ireland +4 14 £575 -8.00% 23
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 70 (4.35%) Confluence
2 32 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
4 24 (1.49%) Apache
5 21 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
6 20 (1.24%) Apache Spark
7 11 (0.68%) nginx
8 10 (0.62%) IIS
9 9 (0.56%) CMS
10 8 (0.50%) JBoss
11 6 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 5 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 4 (0.25%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.25%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.25%) GeoServer
13 4 (0.25%) Jupyter
13 4 (0.25%) Oracle Workflow
14 3 (0.19%) Drupal
14 3 (0.19%) Kentico
14 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.062%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.062%) Simulink
6 1 (0.062%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.062%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 18 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 17 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (0.74%) Maximo
4 12 (0.74%) Oracle EBS R12
5 10 (0.62%) NetSuite
5 10 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.62%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.37%) SAP Hybris
6 6 (0.37%) SAP PM
6 6 (0.37%) Temenos T24
7 4 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.062%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle Payroll
8 1 (0.062%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.062%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 729 (45.25%) Azure
2 407 (25.26%) Azure DevOps
3 392 (24.33%) AWS
4 117 (7.26%) Serverless
5 102 (6.33%) GitHub
6 93 (5.77%) OpenShift
7 90 (5.59%) GCP
8 74 (4.59%) Power Platform
9 67 (4.16%) Amazon S3
10 64 (3.97%) Azure Monitor
11 60 (3.72%) Entra ID
12 54 (3.35%) Amazon EC2
12 54 (3.35%) AWS CloudFormation
13 51 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
14 43 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
15 42 (2.61%) Azure Functions
16 40 (2.48%) PaaS
17 39 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
18 38 (2.36%) Azure Data Factory
19 34 (2.11%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 148 (9.19%) Firewall
2 75 (4.66%) VPN
3 47 (2.92%) DNS
4 33 (2.05%) Modbus
4 33 (2.05%) RS-422
4 33 (2.05%) RS-485
5 30 (1.86%) Intrusion Detection
6 24 (1.49%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.43%) HTTP
7 23 (1.43%) Network Security
8 21 (1.30%) DHCP
9 18 (1.12%) SSL
10 17 (1.06%) IPsec
11 14 (0.87%) OSPF
12 13 (0.81%) SNMP
13 12 (0.74%) BGP
13 12 (0.74%) Cisco ASA
13 12 (0.74%) Cisco Firepower
13 12 (0.74%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.34%) PostgreSQL
2 82 (5.09%) SQL Server
3 62 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 59 (3.66%) Relational Database
5 52 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
6 48 (2.98%) Power BI
7 44 (2.73%) Data Lake
8 36 (2.23%) MySQL
9 33 (2.05%) Amazon RDS
10 31 (1.92%) MongoDB
11 30 (1.86%) Data Warehouse
12 25 (1.55%) Big Data
13 21 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
14 18 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
14 18 (1.12%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.06%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.06%) Hadoop
16 16 (0.99%) GIS
16 16 (0.99%) Oracle Database
17 13 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 241 (14.96%) Jenkins
2 214 (13.28%) Git
3 198 (12.29%) JIRA
4 114 (7.08%) GitLab
5 74 (4.59%) Selenium
6 56 (3.48%) SonarQube
7 35 (2.17%) Visual Studio
8 32 (1.99%) Cucumber
9 27 (1.68%) GoogleTest
10 25 (1.55%) Artifactory
11 24 (1.49%) REST Assured
12 21 (1.30%) Bitbucket
13 19 (1.18%) Maven
14 17 (1.06%) JUnit
15 16 (0.99%) Postman
16 15 (0.93%) TeamCity
17 13 (0.81%) Cypress.io
18 12 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
18 12 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
18 12 (0.74%) Travis CI
General
1 319 (19.80%) Social Skills
2 179 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 173 (10.74%) Finance
4 160 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
5 69 (4.28%) Banking
6 40 (2.48%) Electronics
7 30 (1.86%) Retail
8 27 (1.68%) Law
9 25 (1.55%) Legal
10 22 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 21 (1.30%) Telecoms
12 18 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (0.99%) Marketing
13 16 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (0.81%) Police
16 10 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
17 7 (0.43%) Automotive
18 5 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 305 (18.93%) DevOps Engineer
2 285 (17.69%) Developer
3 234 (14.53%) Architect
4 143 (8.88%) Senior
5 115 (7.14%) Lead
6 97 (6.02%) Software Engineer
7 88 (5.46%) Analyst
8 69 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
9 63 (3.91%) AWS Engineer
9 63 (3.91%) Azure Engineer
10 55 (3.41%) Java Engineer
11 54 (3.35%) Java Developer
12 52 (3.23%) AWS DevOps
13 46 (2.86%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 46 (2.86%) Consultant
14 45 (2.79%) Full Stack Developer
14 45 (2.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
14 45 (2.79%) Technical Architect
15 41 (2.55%) C++ Software Engineer
16 39 (2.42%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (8.57%) .NET
2 121 (7.51%) REST
3 106 (6.58%) React
4 80 (4.97%) Kafka
5 70 (4.35%) Node.js
6 65 (4.03%) Spring Boot
7 59 (3.66%) CSS
8 58 (3.60%) HTML
9 55 (3.41%) Spring
10 51 (3.17%) ARM Templates
11 49 (3.04%) XML
12 44 (2.73%) AngularJS
13 40 (2.48%) JSON
14 39 (2.42%) .NET Framework
14 39 (2.42%) Elastic Stack
15 36 (2.23%) RESTful
15 36 (2.23%) YAML
16 29 (1.80%) Qt
17 28 (1.74%) RabbitMQ
17 28 (1.74%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 89 (5.52%) Product Ownership
2 71 (4.41%) Public Cloud
3 63 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
4 54 (3.35%) Cloud Native
5 37 (2.30%) Linux Command Line
6 31 (1.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 28 (1.74%) PKI
8 26 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
9 25 (1.55%) Mobile App
10 20 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (1.24%) Management Information System
11 18 (1.12%) Client/Server
11 18 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (0.99%) Data Structures
13 15 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
14 13 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
15 12 (0.74%) Onboarding
15 12 (0.74%) Robotics
16 11 (0.68%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 238 (14.77%) Linux
2 180 (11.17%) Windows
3 93 (5.77%) Windows Server
4 53 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 40 (2.48%) Apple iOS
6 39 (2.42%) Android
7 37 (2.30%) Unix
8 28 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 27 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.74%) CentOS
11 8 (0.50%) Ubuntu
12 6 (0.37%) AIX
12 6 (0.37%) Mac OS
12 6 (0.37%) VMS
12 6 (0.37%) Windows 10
13 3 (0.19%) Solaris
14 2 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.062%) VxWorks
15 1 (0.062%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (42.71%) Agile
2 538 (33.40%) CI/CD
3 256 (15.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 235 (14.59%) Software Engineering
5 216 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
6 201 (12.48%) Containerisation
7 182 (11.30%) Test Automation
8 164 (10.18%) Microservices
9 162 (10.06%) Continuous Integration
10 150 (9.31%) Scrum
11 119 (7.39%) Continuous Improvement
12 117 (7.26%) Migration
13 109 (6.77%) Unit Testing
14 102 (6.33%) Software Testing
15 98 (6.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 93 (5.77%) Full Stack Development
17 92 (5.71%) Project Management
17 92 (5.71%) Technical Leadership
18 91 (5.65%) SDLC
19 88 (5.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 394 (24.46%) Python
2 266 (16.51%) Java
3 192 (11.92%) C#
4 182 (11.30%) SQL
5 162 (10.06%) PowerShell
6 111 (6.89%) C++
7 107 (6.64%) C
8 99 (6.15%) JavaScript
9 95 (5.90%) Bash
10 64 (3.97%) TypeScript
11 47 (2.92%) Go
12 43 (2.67%) Bicep
13 39 (2.42%) VBScript
14 34 (2.11%) Perl
15 26 (1.61%) Scala
16 25 (1.55%) Shell Script
16 25 (1.55%) VB
17 23 (1.43%) Ruby
18 22 (1.37%) Groovy
19 17 (1.06%) PHP
Qualifications
1 492 (30.54%) Security Cleared
2 289 (17.94%) SC Cleared
3 215 (13.35%) DV Cleared
4 132 (8.19%) Degree
5 54 (3.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 28 (1.74%) AWS Certification
7 23 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 21 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 13 (0.81%) CCNA
9 13 (0.81%) Cisco Certification
9 13 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 12 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 12 (0.74%) ISEB
11 11 (0.68%) CCNP
12 10 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (0.43%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (0.43%) Master's Degree
15 6 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (6.70%) QA
2 30 (1.86%) MISRA
3 21 (1.30%) Accessibility
4 18 (1.12%) PMO
5 17 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
6 16 (0.99%) GDPR
7 13 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (0.81%) NIST
8 9 (0.56%) Data Quality
8 9 (0.56%) NCSC
9 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.31%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.25%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.19%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.19%) WCAG
13 2 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.12%) GRC
13 2 (0.12%) RMADS
13 2 (0.12%) SLA
14 1 (0.062%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 274 (17.01%) Docker
2 85 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 52 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 39 (2.42%) Virtual Machines
5 25 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.81%) VMware NSX
7 12 (0.74%) Firmware
8 7 (0.43%) vCloud
9 6 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
10 5 (0.31%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.19%) Apache ZooKeeper
11 3 (0.19%) HDFS
11 3 (0.19%) OpenAM
11 3 (0.19%) OpenIDM
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.062%) KVM
12 1 (0.062%) LXC
12 1 (0.062%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.062%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.062%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 355 (22.04%) Kubernetes
2 332 (20.61%) Terraform
3 216 (13.41%) Ansible
4 83 (5.15%) Grafana
5 74 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 51 (3.17%) Progress Chef
7 44 (2.73%) Puppet
8 42 (2.61%) Kibana
9 35 (2.17%) SCCM
10 34 (2.11%) Istio
11 32 (1.99%) Docker Swarm
12 30 (1.86%) SCOM
13 25 (1.55%) Microsoft Intune
13 25 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
14 23 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 22 (1.37%) WSUS
16 20 (1.24%) Argo
16 20 (1.24%) Rancher
17 14 (0.87%) logstash
17 14 (0.87%) Podman
Vendors
1 235 (14.59%) Microsoft
2 105 (6.52%) Oracle
3 73 (4.53%) Google
4 68 (4.22%) VMware
5 57 (3.54%) Splunk
6 37 (2.30%) SAP
7 31 (1.92%) Red Hat
8 25 (1.55%) Databricks
9 21 (1.30%) ServiceNow
10 19 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 18 (1.12%) Citrix
12 15 (0.93%) EMC
12 15 (0.93%) IBM
13 14 (0.87%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.87%) Cisco
13 14 (0.87%) F5
13 14 (0.87%) Palo Alto
13 14 (0.87%) SolarWinds
14 8 (0.50%) Adobe
14 8 (0.50%) Informatica