DevOps Engineer Contracts

Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 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
18 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 75 72
Rank change year-on-year -49 -3 -2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 773 1,779 2,912
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 3.12% 3.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% 3.30% 3.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 1,384 2,213
10th Percentile £405 £469 £463
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £593 £550
% change year-on-year -11.39% +7.73% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £45.88 £50.47 £35.20
25th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £35.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £70.50 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.06% +90.54% -29.52%
75th Percentile £74.44 £77.88 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.05 £86.50 £40.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £63.75 £39.00
% change year-on-year +7.01% +63.46% -25.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England -60 632 £538 -12.24% 265
London -51 368 £550 -12.00% 128
Work from Home -41 299 £538 -10.38% 180
UK excluding London -38 277 £525 -11.39% 171
North of England -25 94 £500 -16.67% 43
South West -31 64 £550 -8.33% 29
South East -13 57 £525 -11.02% 51
North West -22 57 £513 -6.82% 26
Scotland +29 37 £513 -10.87% 9
Yorkshire 0 34 £500 -20.00% 13
Midlands -13 18 £525 -16.00% 22
West Midlands -12 12 £525 -16.00% 17
East of England -21 7 £450 -21.74% 12
East Midlands +2 6 £538 -23.21% 5
North East -10 3 - - 4
Wales +15 2 £821 +64.25% 1

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, 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 featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 773 (100.00%) DevOps
2 454 (58.73%) Terraform
3 443 (57.31%) AWS
4 388 (50.19%) CI/CD
5 360 (46.57%) Kubernetes
6 311 (40.23%) Security Cleared
7 307 (39.72%) Python
8 271 (35.06%) Azure
9 267 (34.54%) Docker
10 228 (29.50%) SC Cleared
11 210 (27.17%) Linux
12 202 (26.13%) Ansible
13 201 (26.00%) Jenkins
14 198 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
15 174 (22.51%) Agile
16 145 (18.76%) GitLab
17 135 (17.46%) Bash
18 132 (17.08%) Git
19 126 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
20 125 (16.17%) Containerisation
21 115 (14.88%) PowerShell
22 107 (13.84%) GitHub
23 98 (12.68%) Prometheus
24 95 (12.29%) Social Skills
25 88 (11.38%) Public Sector
26 85 (11.00%) Grafana
27 83 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
27 83 (10.74%) Amazon EC2
28 82 (10.61%) Serverless
29 81 (10.48%) Configuration Management

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 43 (5.56%) Confluence
2 35 (4.53%) nginx
3 21 (2.72%) Apache
4 11 (1.42%) IIS
5 5 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (0.65%) SharePoint
6 4 (0.52%) Apache Solr
6 4 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.52%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.26%) Traefik
7 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) JBoss
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.91%) Trello
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.13%) R3 Corda
Cloud Services
1 443 (57.31%) AWS
2 271 (35.06%) Azure
3 126 (16.30%) Azure DevOps
4 107 (13.84%) GitHub
5 83 (10.74%) Amazon EC2
6 82 (10.61%) Serverless
7 77 (9.96%) Amazon S3
8 76 (9.83%) GCP
9 75 (9.70%) AWS CloudFormation
10 69 (8.93%) Amazon EKS
11 63 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
12 62 (8.02%) OpenShift
13 51 (6.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 48 (6.21%) GitHub Actions
15 45 (5.82%) Route 53
16 44 (5.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 44 (5.69%) Amazon ECS
17 38 (4.92%) PaaS
18 20 (2.59%) Azure AKS
19 19 (2.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.92%) DNS
2 35 (4.53%) Firewall
3 24 (3.10%) HTTP
3 24 (3.10%) VPN
4 19 (2.46%) Network Security
5 18 (2.33%) TCP/IP
6 7 (0.91%) Internet
6 7 (0.91%) SSL
7 6 (0.78%) SSH
8 5 (0.65%) DHCP
9 4 (0.52%) AMQP
9 4 (0.52%) HTTPS
9 4 (0.52%) IPsec
9 4 (0.52%) IPv4
9 4 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.39%) LAN
10 3 (0.39%) OpenLDAP
10 3 (0.39%) WLAN
11 2 (0.26%) BIG-IP
11 2 (0.26%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (3.75%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
4 20 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (2.33%) MySQL
5 18 (2.33%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (1.03%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.91%) InfluxDB
9 7 (0.91%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.91%) Power BI
9 7 (0.91%) Triplestore
10 6 (0.78%) Couchbase
11 5 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
11 5 (0.65%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
11 5 (0.65%) DynamoDB
11 5 (0.65%) Redis
12 4 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 201 (26.00%) Jenkins
2 145 (18.76%) GitLab
3 132 (17.08%) Git
4 52 (6.73%) JIRA
5 38 (4.92%) Artifactory
6 35 (4.53%) TeamCity
7 23 (2.98%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.85%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (1.42%) Maven
11 10 (1.29%) Selenium
12 9 (1.16%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.16%) Sonatype Nexus
13 8 (1.03%) CircleCI
13 8 (1.03%) Travis CI
14 6 (0.78%) Gradle
14 6 (0.78%) Spinnaker
14 6 (0.78%) Terragrunt
15 4 (0.52%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 95 (12.29%) Social Skills
2 88 (11.38%) Public Sector
3 77 (9.96%) Finance
4 48 (6.21%) Banking
5 23 (2.98%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (2.59%) Investment Banking
7 13 (1.68%) Law
8 11 (1.42%) Telecoms
9 9 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.16%) Legal
10 8 (1.03%) Marketing
11 6 (0.78%) Electronics
11 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
12 5 (0.65%) Retail
13 4 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (0.39%) Tech for Good
15 2 (0.26%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.34%) .NET
2 43 (5.56%) YAML
3 40 (5.17%) Kafka
4 31 (4.01%) JSON
5 29 (3.75%) Elastic Stack
6 26 (3.36%) AWS CDK
6 26 (3.36%) REST
7 25 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
8 22 (2.85%) ARM Templates
9 20 (2.59%) WinForms
10 19 (2.46%) Node.js
10 19 (2.46%) WCF
11 16 (2.07%) React
12 14 (1.81%) Apache NiFi
13 11 (1.42%) RESTful
14 10 (1.29%) XML
15 9 (1.16%) CSS
15 9 (1.16%) HTML
16 8 (1.03%) LDAP
17 7 (0.91%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (2.85%) Public Cloud
3 17 (2.20%) Cloud Native
4 16 (2.07%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (1.94%) Data Centre
6 14 (1.81%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.42%) Private Cloud
8 9 (1.16%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.16%) PKI
9 8 (1.03%) Management Information System
10 6 (0.78%) Blockchain
10 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (0.78%) Virtual Team
11 5 (0.65%) Security Posture
12 4 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 210 (27.17%) Linux
2 65 (8.41%) Windows
3 40 (5.17%) Unix
4 30 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.94%) CentOS
6 13 (1.68%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.03%) VMS
8 5 (0.65%) Alpine Linux
9 4 (0.52%) Android
9 4 (0.52%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.39%) Debian
10 3 (0.39%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
11 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 773 (100.00%) DevOps
2 388 (50.19%) CI/CD
3 198 (25.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 174 (22.51%) Agile
5 125 (16.17%) Containerisation
6 83 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (10.48%) Configuration Management
8 71 (9.18%) Test Automation
9 61 (7.89%) Migration
10 60 (7.76%) Continuous Integration
11 53 (6.86%) Computer Science
12 50 (6.47%) Platform Engineering
13 45 (5.82%) Software Engineering
14 41 (5.30%) Scrum
15 40 (5.17%) Software Delivery
15 40 (5.17%) Task Automation
16 39 (5.05%) Microservices
16 39 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 35 (4.53%) SDLC
18 34 (4.40%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 307 (39.72%) Python
2 135 (17.46%) Bash
3 115 (14.88%) PowerShell
4 76 (9.83%) SQL
5 75 (9.70%) Java
6 72 (9.31%) Go
7 52 (6.73%) JavaScript
8 51 (6.60%) C#
9 28 (3.62%) Perl
10 27 (3.49%) Shell Script
11 26 (3.36%) Ruby
12 20 (2.59%) TypeScript
13 18 (2.33%) C
13 18 (2.33%) Groovy
14 14 (1.81%) C++
15 11 (1.42%) Bicep
15 11 (1.42%) PHP
16 7 (0.91%) Scala
16 7 (0.91%) SPARQL
17 4 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 311 (40.23%) Security Cleared
2 228 (29.50%) SC Cleared
3 71 (9.18%) DV Cleared
4 56 (7.24%) Degree
5 40 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.10%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.81%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (0.65%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.13%) GIAC
11 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.13%) MCSE
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.13%) RHCE
11 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.01%) QA
2 9 (1.16%) NIST
3 6 (0.78%) GDPR
3 6 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.52%) HIPAA
4 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.39%) NCSC
6 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 267 (34.54%) Docker
2 29 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.65%) NFS
6 3 (0.39%) LXC
6 3 (0.39%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.39%) OpenIDM
6 3 (0.39%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) Varnish
7 2 (0.26%) vCloud
7 2 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.26%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.13%) KVM
8 1 (0.13%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 454 (58.73%) Terraform
2 360 (46.57%) Kubernetes
3 202 (26.13%) Ansible
4 98 (12.68%) Prometheus
5 85 (11.00%) Grafana
6 48 (6.21%) Puppet
7 38 (4.92%) Progress Chef
8 26 (3.36%) Packer
9 18 (2.33%) Docker Swarm
10 16 (2.07%) Consul
10 16 (2.07%) Kibana
11 13 (1.68%) Argo
11 13 (1.68%) Istio
12 10 (1.29%) Rancher
13 9 (1.16%) Nagios
13 9 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
14 8 (1.03%) logstash
15 5 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.52%) HAProxy
16 4 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 55 (7.12%) Microsoft
2 49 (6.34%) Oracle
3 44 (5.69%) Splunk
4 32 (4.14%) VMware
5 20 (2.59%) Dynatrace
5 20 (2.59%) Google
6 19 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.81%) SAP
8 8 (1.03%) Databricks
9 7 (0.91%) Atlassian
9 7 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.78%) F5
10 6 (0.78%) PagerDuty
11 5 (0.65%) Palo Alto
11 5 (0.65%) Salesforce
12 4 (0.52%) AppDynamics
12 4 (0.52%) ForgeRock
12 4 (0.52%) Guidewire
12 4 (0.52%) New Relic
13 3 (0.39%) CyberArk
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