DevOps
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,989 6,876 11,513
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.28% 11.88% 13.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.75% 13.22% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,747 5,035 8,289
10th Percentile £400 £425 £423
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +9.63%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 105 80
10th Percentile £56.25 £49.65 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £45.69
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.34
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +14.23% +27.42%
75th Percentile £77.81 £75.00 £67.75
90th Percentile £87.14 £79.19 £78.98
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.34
% change year-on-year -0.76% +14.23% +18.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in the UK

DevOps
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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 -3 3,391 £550 -8.33% 1,548
London -2 1,966 £573 -4.58% 617
Work from Home -4 1,549 £550 -4.35% 925
UK excluding London -7 1,506 £525 -4.55% 991
South East -5 439 £550 -5.17% 209
North of England -2 409 £523 -5.00% 265
North West -4 239 £525 -4.55% 165
South West -11 235 £550 -8.33% 153
Scotland -14 179 £475 -4.62% 63
Yorkshire +2 156 £495 -17.50% 80
Midlands -12 129 £513 -4.52% 183
East of England -10 98 £534 -2.91% 68
West Midlands -17 91 £513 -10.87% 120
East Midlands -11 32 £450 +2.86% 62
Wales -10 23 £538 -8.04% 36
North East -6 18 £525 -12.50% 20
Northern Ireland +1 5 £550 -8.33% 34
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -

DevOps
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
1 170 (4.26%) Confluence
2 75 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 59 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
4 47 (1.18%) Apache
5 41 (1.03%) Apache Spark
5 41 (1.03%) CMS
5 41 (1.03%) nginx
6 37 (0.93%) IIS
7 34 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
8 17 (0.43%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.38%) JBoss
10 11 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 8 (0.20%) Kentico
11 8 (0.20%) Site Server
12 7 (0.18%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.18%) Headless CMS
12 7 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 7 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 7 (0.18%) WebSphere
13 6 (0.15%) Tornado
Applications
1 39 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (0.53%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.33%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.23%) Trello
7 6 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.075%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.050%) Sketch
10 1 (0.025%) Gliffy
10 1 (0.025%) InVision
10 1 (0.025%) PlantUML
10 1 (0.025%) Simulink
10 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.65%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.68%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.33%) Endur
7 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
8 11 (0.28%) Teamcenter
9 9 (0.23%) Maximo
10 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
10 8 (0.20%) Shopify
11 7 (0.18%) Aladdin
11 7 (0.18%) NEC Housing
11 7 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
11 7 (0.18%) SAP PM
12 6 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
13 5 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 5 (0.13%) Temenos T24
14 4 (0.10%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
15 3 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,042 (51.19%) Azure
2 1,207 (30.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1,202 (30.13%) AWS
4 356 (8.92%) GCP
5 331 (8.30%) Serverless
6 308 (7.72%) GitHub
7 242 (6.07%) Power Platform
8 167 (4.19%) Amazon S3
9 159 (3.99%) Entra ID
10 156 (3.91%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
12 144 (3.61%) PaaS
13 138 (3.46%) Amazon EC2
13 138 (3.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 136 (3.41%) Azure Service Bus
15 134 (3.36%) Azure Monitor
16 127 (3.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 123 (3.08%) OpenShift
18 114 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
19 113 (2.83%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 223 (5.59%) Firewall
2 100 (2.51%) VPN
3 99 (2.48%) DNS
4 71 (1.78%) HTTP
5 64 (1.60%) Network Security
6 52 (1.30%) TCP/IP
7 41 (1.03%) BGP
8 36 (0.90%) DHCP
9 35 (0.88%) Modbus
9 35 (0.88%) RS-422
9 35 (0.88%) RS-485
10 34 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
11 32 (0.80%) SNMP
12 30 (0.75%) MPLS
13 28 (0.70%) HSRP
13 28 (0.70%) SSL
14 25 (0.63%) IPv4
15 20 (0.50%) Internet
15 20 (0.50%) RSVP
16 18 (0.45%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 411 (10.30%) SQL Server
2 182 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
2 182 (4.56%) Power BI
3 144 (3.61%) NoSQL
4 137 (3.43%) Relational Database
5 136 (3.41%) Data Lake
6 108 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 96 (2.41%) MySQL
8 90 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
9 83 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
9 83 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
10 80 (2.01%) MongoDB
11 66 (1.65%) Big Data
12 50 (1.25%) Oracle Database
13 43 (1.08%) Amazon Athena
13 43 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 40 (1.00%) Apache Cassandra
15 39 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
16 37 (0.93%) Tableau
17 36 (0.90%) Redis
Development Applications
1 512 (12.84%) Git
2 494 (12.38%) Jenkins
3 357 (8.95%) JIRA
4 282 (7.07%) GitLab
5 137 (3.43%) Selenium
6 93 (2.33%) SonarQube
7 78 (1.96%) Visual Studio
8 75 (1.88%) TeamCity
9 61 (1.53%) Cucumber
10 59 (1.48%) SpecFlow
11 58 (1.45%) Artifactory
12 55 (1.38%) Bitbucket
13 46 (1.15%) JUnit
14 43 (1.08%) Postman
15 39 (0.98%) Cypress.io
16 35 (0.88%) Maven
17 28 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 28 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
18 27 (0.68%) REST Assured
19 25 (0.63%) WebDriver
General
1 878 (22.01%) Social Skills
2 753 (18.88%) Finance
3 441 (11.06%) Public Sector
4 323 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
5 258 (6.47%) Banking
6 115 (2.88%) Retail
7 92 (2.31%) Front Office
8 77 (1.93%) Presentation Skills
9 71 (1.78%) Telecoms
10 62 (1.55%) Marketing
11 60 (1.50%) Electronics
12 56 (1.40%) Investment Banking
13 51 (1.28%) Back Office
14 47 (1.18%) Law
15 46 (1.15%) Manufacturing
16 45 (1.13%) Legal
17 35 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
18 34 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 30 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
20 27 (0.68%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 827 (20.73%) Developer
2 770 (19.30%) DevOps Engineer
3 515 (12.91%) Senior
4 457 (11.46%) Architect
5 309 (7.75%) Lead
6 244 (6.12%) Azure Engineer
7 223 (5.59%) AWS Engineer
8 205 (5.14%) Analyst
9 189 (4.74%) Senior Developer
10 169 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 164 (4.11%) AWS DevOps
12 162 (4.06%) Consultant
13 156 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
14 145 (3.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 143 (3.58%) .NET Developer
16 141 (3.53%) Data Engineer
17 122 (3.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 108 (2.71%) Azure Developer
19 105 (2.63%) Full Stack Developer
19 105 (2.63%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 564 (14.14%) .NET
2 314 (7.87%) React
3 216 (5.41%) XML
4 214 (5.36%) REST
5 198 (4.96%) Kafka
6 176 (4.41%) Node.js
7 175 (4.39%) .NET Core
8 174 (4.36%) AngularJS
9 163 (4.09%) HTML
10 152 (3.81%) .NET Framework
11 151 (3.79%) CSS
12 130 (3.26%) RESTful
13 128 (3.21%) JSON
14 106 (2.66%) ARM Templates
15 101 (2.53%) Spring
16 96 (2.41%) Spring Boot
17 94 (2.36%) YAML
18 86 (2.16%) ASP.NET
19 83 (2.08%) Web Services
20 82 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 244 (6.12%) Product Ownership
2 113 (2.83%) Public Cloud
3 105 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 80 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 79 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 65 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 63 (1.58%) Greenfield Project
8 62 (1.55%) Derivative
8 62 (1.55%) Onboarding
9 61 (1.53%) Mobile App
10 57 (1.43%) Management Information System
11 53 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 52 (1.30%) Hedge funds
13 43 (1.08%) Data Centre
14 41 (1.03%) Fixed Income
15 40 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
15 40 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
16 38 (0.95%) PKI
17 35 (0.88%) Clustering
17 35 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 471 (11.81%) Linux
2 351 (8.80%) Windows
3 158 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 106 (2.66%) Unix
5 75 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 51 (1.28%) Android
6 51 (1.28%) Apple iOS
7 25 (0.63%) CentOS
8 24 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 23 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
10 18 (0.45%) Solaris
11 16 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 15 (0.38%) VMS
13 14 (0.35%) AIX
14 13 (0.33%) Windows 10
15 8 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
16 7 (0.18%) Mac OS
17 5 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
18 3 (0.075%) Debian
19 2 (0.050%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,703 (42.69%) Agile
2 1,410 (35.35%) CI/CD
3 529 (13.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 510 (12.79%) Problem-Solving
5 478 (11.98%) Scrum
6 468 (11.73%) Software Engineering
7 467 (11.71%) Test Automation
8 414 (10.38%) Microservices
9 352 (8.82%) Containerisation
10 326 (8.17%) Continuous Integration
11 324 (8.12%) TDD
12 318 (7.97%) Migration
13 262 (6.57%) SDLC
14 252 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 227 (5.69%) Analytics
16 224 (5.62%) Computer Science
17 220 (5.52%) Business Intelligence
18 216 (5.41%) Full Stack Development
19 203 (5.09%) Unit Testing
20 202 (5.06%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1,008 (25.27%) Python
2 680 (17.05%) C#
3 641 (16.07%) SQL
4 523 (13.11%) Java
5 490 (12.28%) PowerShell
6 399 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 260 (6.52%) TypeScript
8 224 (5.62%) Bash
9 161 (4.04%) Go
10 157 (3.94%) Bicep
11 126 (3.16%) C++
12 116 (2.91%) C
13 84 (2.11%) Shell Script
14 72 (1.80%) Perl
15 67 (1.68%) Scala
16 60 (1.50%) Ruby
17 45 (1.13%) T-SQL
18 33 (0.83%) VBScript
19 32 (0.80%) PHP
20 30 (0.75%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 817 (20.48%) Security Cleared
2 581 (14.57%) SC Cleared
3 330 (8.27%) Degree
4 226 (5.67%) DV Cleared
5 144 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 69 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 64 (1.60%) AWS Certification
8 49 (1.23%) Master's Degree
9 42 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
10 36 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 27 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 24 (0.60%) PMP
15 21 (0.53%) CCNP
16 19 (0.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 19 (0.48%) PMI Certification
17 18 (0.45%) ISTQB
18 17 (0.43%) CISSP
19 16 (0.40%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (5.99%) QA
2 64 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.38%) GDPR
4 46 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 42 (1.05%) Data Quality
6 39 (0.98%) NIST
7 37 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 28 (0.70%) NCSC
8 28 (0.70%) WCAG
9 25 (0.63%) SLA
10 24 (0.60%) PMO
11 16 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
11 16 (0.40%) HIPAA
12 14 (0.35%) MISRA
13 10 (0.25%) SOC 2
14 8 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 6 (0.15%) GRC
15 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.15%) ISO 9001
16 4 (0.10%) PSD2
System Software
1 618 (15.49%) Docker
2 249 (6.24%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 64 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
5 23 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
6 18 (0.45%) VMware NSX
7 16 (0.40%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (0.30%) Firmware
9 11 (0.28%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.23%) vCloud
10 9 (0.23%) vSphere
11 8 (0.20%) NFS
12 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
12 6 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.075%) HDFS
13 3 (0.075%) LXC
13 3 (0.075%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.075%) OpenIDM
13 3 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.050%) KVM
Systems Management
1 880 (22.06%) Terraform
2 851 (21.33%) Kubernetes
3 440 (11.03%) Ansible
4 171 (4.29%) Grafana
5 170 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 92 (2.31%) Puppet
7 74 (1.86%) Progress Chef
8 46 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 45 (1.13%) Kibana
10 39 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
10 39 (0.98%) SCCM
11 35 (0.88%) Istio
12 34 (0.85%) Packer
12 34 (0.85%) SCOM
13 32 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
14 30 (0.75%) Consul
15 26 (0.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 23 (0.58%) Argo
17 19 (0.48%) ITRS Geneos
17 19 (0.48%) Nagios
Vendors
1 739 (18.53%) Microsoft
2 263 (6.59%) Oracle
3 127 (3.18%) Splunk
4 123 (3.08%) Google
5 120 (3.01%) Databricks
6 107 (2.68%) VMware
7 106 (2.66%) SAP
8 81 (2.03%) ServiceNow
9 73 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 66 (1.65%) Cisco
11 55 (1.38%) IBM
12 49 (1.23%) Dynatrace
13 45 (1.13%) CyberArk
14 41 (1.03%) Red Hat
15 37 (0.93%) Citrix
16 32 (0.80%) F5
17 31 (0.78%) Adobe
18 29 (0.73%) Palo Alto
19 27 (0.68%) Informatica
20 26 (0.65%) EMC