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 15 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
15 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 74 72
Rank change year-on-year -53 -2 -2
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 769 1,811 2,921
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.81% 3.17% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.95% 3.35% 3.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 1,413 2,219
10th Percentile £405 £471 £459
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 39,476 54,050 83,442
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,679 37,739 58,629
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.35%
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 2,653 1,507 2,053
10th Percentile £12.83 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.88
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.70 £76.10 £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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -63 628 £538 -11.89% 239
London -47 369 £550 -12.00% 103
Work from Home -43 297 £538 -10.42% 162
UK excluding London -50 273 £525 -11.39% 135
North of England -33 91 £500 -16.67% 40
South West -32 62 £550 -8.33% 30
North West -27 56 £513 -6.82% 25
South East -30 55 £525 -10.64% 27
Scotland +36 38 £513 -10.87% 8
Yorkshire +3 32 £500 -20.00% 12
Midlands -5 18 £525 -16.00% 20
West Midlands -18 12 £525 -16.00% 13
East of England -13 7 £450 -21.74% 7
East Midlands +4 6 £538 -23.21% 7
North East -11 3 - - 3
Wales +21 2 £821 +68.46% 2

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

For the 6 months to 15 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.

1 769 (100.00%) DevOps
2 452 (58.78%) Terraform
3 441 (57.35%) AWS
4 387 (50.33%) CI/CD
5 358 (46.55%) Kubernetes
6 310 (40.31%) Security Cleared
7 304 (39.53%) Python
8 270 (35.11%) Azure
9 265 (34.46%) Docker
10 229 (29.78%) SC Cleared
11 208 (27.05%) Linux
12 200 (26.01%) Ansible
13 198 (25.75%) Jenkins
14 194 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
15 177 (23.02%) Agile
16 146 (18.99%) GitLab
17 134 (17.43%) Bash
18 129 (16.78%) Git
19 126 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
20 122 (15.86%) Containerisation
21 113 (14.69%) PowerShell
22 109 (14.17%) GitHub
23 97 (12.61%) Prometheus
23 97 (12.61%) Social Skills
24 87 (11.31%) Public Sector
25 84 (10.92%) Grafana
26 83 (10.79%) Serverless
27 82 (10.66%) Amazon EC2
28 80 (10.40%) Configuration Management
28 80 (10.40%) Problem-Solving

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 (5.59%) Confluence
2 35 (4.55%) nginx
3 21 (2.73%) Apache
4 10 (1.30%) 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
1 441 (57.35%) AWS
2 270 (35.11%) Azure
3 126 (16.38%) Azure DevOps
4 109 (14.17%) GitHub
5 83 (10.79%) Serverless
6 82 (10.66%) Amazon EC2
7 76 (9.88%) Amazon S3
7 76 (9.88%) GCP
8 75 (9.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 69 (8.97%) Amazon EKS
10 64 (8.32%) AWS Lambda
11 60 (7.80%) OpenShift
12 51 (6.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 48 (6.24%) GitHub Actions
14 45 (5.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 45 (5.85%) Route 53
15 44 (5.72%) Amazon ECS
16 36 (4.68%) PaaS
17 20 (2.60%) Azure AKS
18 19 (2.47%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.94%) DNS
2 35 (4.55%) Firewall
3 24 (3.12%) HTTP
3 24 (3.12%) VPN
4 19 (2.47%) Network Security
5 18 (2.34%) 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 57 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
2 28 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 26 (3.38%) Elasticsearch
4 21 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (2.47%) MySQL
6 18 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.95%) NoSQL
8 13 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 9 (1.17%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.91%) InfluxDB
10 7 (0.91%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.91%) Power BI
10 7 (0.91%) Triplestore
11 6 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
11 6 (0.78%) Couchbase
11 6 (0.78%) Redis
12 5 (0.65%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
12 5 (0.65%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.52%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 198 (25.75%) Jenkins
2 146 (18.99%) GitLab
3 129 (16.78%) Git
4 52 (6.76%) JIRA
5 38 (4.94%) Artifactory
6 36 (4.68%) TeamCity
7 23 (2.99%) Bitbucket
8 22 (2.86%) SonarQube
9 19 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 13 (1.69%) Maven
11 10 (1.30%) Selenium
11 10 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
12 9 (1.17%) CircleCI
12 9 (1.17%) Cucumber
12 9 (1.17%) Travis CI
13 8 (1.04%) 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 97 (12.61%) Social Skills
2 87 (11.31%) Public Sector
3 76 (9.88%) Finance
4 45 (5.85%) Banking
5 22 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (2.34%) Investment Banking
7 14 (1.82%) Law
8 11 (1.43%) Telecoms
9 10 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (1.17%) Legal
11 8 (1.04%) Marketing
12 6 (0.78%) Electronics
12 6 (0.78%) Manufacturing
13 5 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (0.65%) Retail
14 4 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.39%) Tech for Good
16 2 (0.26%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (6.37%) .NET
2 42 (5.46%) YAML
3 41 (5.33%) Kafka
4 31 (4.03%) JSON
5 29 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
6 27 (3.51%) REST
7 26 (3.38%) AWS CDK
8 25 (3.25%) RabbitMQ
9 23 (2.99%) ARM Templates
10 20 (2.60%) WinForms
11 19 (2.47%) Node.js
11 19 (2.47%) WCF
12 16 (2.08%) React
13 14 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
14 11 (1.43%) RESTful
15 10 (1.30%) XML
16 9 (1.17%) CSS
16 9 (1.17%) HTML
17 8 (1.04%) LDAP
18 7 (0.91%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 29 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 17 (2.21%) Cloud Native
3 17 (2.21%) Linux Command Line
4 15 (1.95%) Data Centre
5 14 (1.82%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.43%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (1.43%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.17%) Data Structures
7 9 (1.17%) PKI
8 8 (1.04%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.78%) Blockchain
9 6 (0.78%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
9 6 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (0.78%) Virtual Team
10 5 (0.65%) Security Posture
11 4 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 208 (27.05%) Linux
2 63 (8.19%) Windows
3 39 (5.07%) Unix
4 31 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (1.95%) CentOS
6 13 (1.69%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.04%) 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
1 769 (100.00%) DevOps
2 387 (50.33%) CI/CD
3 194 (25.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 177 (23.02%) Agile
5 122 (15.86%) Containerisation
6 80 (10.40%) Configuration Management
6 80 (10.40%) Problem-Solving
7 71 (9.23%) Test Automation
8 61 (7.93%) Continuous Integration
9 60 (7.80%) Migration
10 54 (7.02%) Computer Science
11 50 (6.50%) Platform Engineering
12 44 (5.72%) Software Engineering
13 41 (5.33%) Scrum
14 40 (5.20%) Software Delivery
15 39 (5.07%) Microservices
15 39 (5.07%) Task Automation
16 38 (4.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 33 (4.29%) Observability
17 33 (4.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 304 (39.53%) Python
2 134 (17.43%) Bash
3 113 (14.69%) PowerShell
4 76 (9.88%) Java
5 75 (9.75%) SQL
6 73 (9.49%) Go
7 53 (6.89%) JavaScript
8 52 (6.76%) C#
9 28 (3.64%) Perl
10 27 (3.51%) Ruby
11 25 (3.25%) Shell Script
12 21 (2.73%) TypeScript
13 19 (2.47%) Groovy
14 18 (2.34%) C
15 14 (1.82%) C++
16 12 (1.56%) PHP
17 11 (1.43%) Bicep
18 7 (0.91%) Scala
18 7 (0.91%) SPARQL
19 4 (0.52%) Rust
Qualifications
1 310 (40.31%) Security Cleared
2 229 (29.78%) SC Cleared
3 69 (8.97%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.54%) Degree
5 41 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (3.12%) AWS Certification
7 14 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 10 (1.30%) 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 32 (4.16%) QA
2 9 (1.17%) 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%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 265 (34.46%) Docker
2 28 (3.64%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (2.08%) 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
8 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 452 (58.78%) Terraform
2 358 (46.55%) Kubernetes
3 200 (26.01%) Ansible
4 97 (12.61%) Prometheus
5 84 (10.92%) Grafana
6 47 (6.11%) Puppet
7 39 (5.07%) Progress Chef
8 26 (3.38%) Packer
9 18 (2.34%) Docker Swarm
10 16 (2.08%) Consul
10 16 (2.08%) Kibana
11 13 (1.69%) Istio
12 11 (1.43%) Argo
13 10 (1.30%) Rancher
14 9 (1.17%) Nagios
14 9 (1.17%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (1.04%) logstash
16 5 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
17 4 (0.52%) HAProxy
17 4 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 57 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 48 (6.24%) Oracle
3 44 (5.72%) Splunk
4 32 (4.16%) VMware
5 20 (2.60%) Dynatrace
5 20 (2.60%) Google
6 18 (2.34%) Red Hat
7 14 (1.82%) SAP
8 8 (1.04%) 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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