Lead DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

Lead Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625 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 391 403 491
Rank change year-on-year +12 +88 -89
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 9 35 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.16% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 26
10th Percentile £480 £563 £469
25th Percentile £568 £625 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £644 £723 £750
90th Percentile £670 £831 £794
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,247 21,469 29,158
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.25% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,616 14,937 20,515
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,085 1,398
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Lead DevOps in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead DevOps in the UK excluding London

Lead 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 Lead DevOps within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +17 4 £625 -7.41% 8
Yorkshire +16 4 £625 -7.41% 6
Midlands +18 2 £425 -24.44% 9
West Midlands +11 2 £425 -22.73% 6
South East +2 2 £635 -4.15% 4
South West +5 1 £550 -28.46% 2
Lead DevOps
UK

Lead DevOps Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Lead 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 UK excluding London region featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
4 4 (44.44%) Terraform
4 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Docker
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) Python
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) Linux
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Ansible
6 2 (22.22%) SDLC
6 2 (22.22%) ETL Development
6 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
6 2 (22.22%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
6 2 (22.22%) Coaching
6 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
6 2 (22.22%) GCP
6 2 (22.22%) CloudBees
6 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
6 2 (22.22%) Bash
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) NoSQL

Lead DevOps Skill Set
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 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) CloudBees
3 2 (22.22%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Pipelines
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) IPv4
1 1 (11.11%) OSPF
1 1 (11.11%) VLAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) BigQuery
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ARM Templates
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Auto-Scaling
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) ETL
5 2 (22.22%) ETL Development
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) Bash
3 2 (22.22%) Groovy
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) GIAC
2 1 (11.11%) RHCE
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 4 (44.44%) Terraform
3 3 (33.33%) Ansible
4 1 (11.11%) logstash
4 1 (11.11%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) VMware