Senior DevOps Contracts

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £625 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 464 526 561
Rank change year-on-year +62 +35 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 107 161 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.28% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 123 233
10th Percentile £500 £519 £500
25th Percentile £550 £569 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £737 £845
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.69 - -
25th Percentile £73.97 - -
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior DevOps 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 +62 90 £600 -7.69% 52
Work from Home +79 50 £600 -4.00% 43
London +76 48 £650 - 28
UK excluding London +37 35 £625 -3.85% 35
South East +38 14 £600 -12.73% 8
North of England +23 12 £663 +1.92% 9
North West +20 12 £663 +3.92% 6
South West +3 7 £625 -7.41% 6
West Midlands +15 2 £350 -50.00% 6
Midlands +14 2 £350 -48.15% 6
Wales - 2 £821 -

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

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

1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (55.14%) CI/CD
3 55 (51.40%) Terraform
4 52 (48.60%) Kubernetes
5 50 (46.73%) Azure
6 48 (44.86%) AWS
7 47 (43.93%) Python
8 36 (33.64%) Security Cleared
9 33 (30.84%) Ansible
10 32 (29.91%) Docker
11 28 (26.17%) Jenkins
12 23 (21.50%) PowerShell
12 23 (21.50%) Git
13 22 (20.56%) Bash
14 21 (19.63%) SC Cleared
14 21 (19.63%) Agile
15 20 (18.69%) Linux
15 20 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
16 18 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
18 16 (14.95%) SDLC
18 16 (14.95%) Test Automation
18 16 (14.95%) Windows
18 16 (14.95%) Banking
19 15 (14.02%) Configuration Management
19 15 (14.02%) Public Sector
19 15 (14.02%) Product Ownership
20 14 (13.08%) Grafana
20 14 (13.08%) PaaS
20 14 (13.08%) Finance

Senior DevOps 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 5 (4.67%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) Apache
2 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.74%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 50 (46.73%) Azure
2 48 (44.86%) AWS
3 17 (15.89%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (13.08%) PaaS
5 13 (12.15%) GitHub
6 11 (10.28%) OpenShift
7 10 (9.35%) GCP
8 9 (8.41%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (7.48%) Serverless
10 7 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (6.54%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (6.54%) SaaS
11 6 (5.61%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (4.67%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.74%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.74%) Miro
13 4 (3.74%) OCI
14 3 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 3 (2.80%) Amazon EKS
14 3 (2.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) Firewall
2 6 (5.61%) Network Security
3 2 (1.87%) DNS
4 1 (0.93%) HTTP
4 1 (0.93%) Internet
4 1 (0.93%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.93%) SSL
4 1 (0.93%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.21%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.41%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.87%) Redis
7 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.93%) MySQL
7 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.93%) QGIS
7 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 28 (26.17%) Jenkins
2 23 (21.50%) Git
3 12 (11.21%) GitLab
3 12 (11.21%) TeamCity
4 9 (8.41%) Artifactory
5 8 (7.48%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.74%) JIRA
7 3 (2.80%) CircleCI
7 3 (2.80%) Selenium
8 2 (1.87%) SonarQube
8 2 (1.87%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.93%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.93%) Jaeger
9 1 (0.93%) Postman
9 1 (0.93%) Snyk
9 1 (0.93%) Subversion
9 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 16 (14.95%) Banking
2 15 (14.02%) Public Sector
3 14 (13.08%) Finance
4 10 (9.35%) Investment Banking
5 5 (4.67%) Social Skills
6 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.87%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.93%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.93%) Electronics
7 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Marketing
7 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) .NET
2 9 (8.41%) Kafka
3 5 (4.67%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.67%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.67%) WCF
3 5 (4.67%) WinForms
4 4 (3.74%) Node.js
4 4 (3.74%) XML
5 3 (2.80%) YAML
6 2 (1.87%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.87%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.87%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.87%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.87%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.87%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.87%) Fluent Bit
6 2 (1.87%) Loki
6 2 (1.87%) pytest
6 2 (1.87%) REST
7 1 (0.93%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.02%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.54%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.54%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.67%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.80%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.80%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.80%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.69%) Linux
2 16 (14.95%) Windows
3 12 (11.21%) Unix
4 5 (4.67%) Android
4 5 (4.67%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.87%) Alpine Linux
6 2 (1.87%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (100.00%) DevOps
2 59 (55.14%) CI/CD
3 21 (19.63%) Agile
4 20 (18.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 18 (16.82%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (14.95%) SDLC
6 16 (14.95%) Test Automation
7 15 (14.02%) Configuration Management
8 13 (12.15%) Containerisation
9 10 (9.35%) Open Source
9 10 (9.35%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.41%) Migration
11 6 (5.61%) Load Balancing
11 6 (5.61%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (5.61%) Scrum
11 6 (5.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (5.61%) Software Engineering
12 5 (4.67%) GitOps
12 5 (4.67%) Observability
12 5 (4.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 47 (43.93%) Python
2 23 (21.50%) PowerShell
3 22 (20.56%) Bash
4 13 (12.15%) C#
5 10 (9.35%) Go
5 10 (9.35%) SQL
6 7 (6.54%) Java
7 6 (5.61%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.67%) Bicep
9 4 (3.74%) JavaScript
10 3 (2.80%) C++
11 1 (0.93%) C
11 1 (0.93%) Groovy
11 1 (0.93%) Perl
11 1 (0.93%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (33.64%) Security Cleared
2 21 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 13 (12.15%) DV Cleared
4 9 (8.41%) AWS Certification
5 8 (7.48%) Degree
6 6 (5.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) MCSE
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) QA
2 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.93%) NIST
2 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (29.91%) Docker
2 9 (8.41%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 55 (51.40%) Terraform
2 52 (48.60%) Kubernetes
3 33 (30.84%) Ansible
4 14 (13.08%) Grafana
5 11 (10.28%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.74%) Argo
6 4 (3.74%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.74%) Puppet
7 2 (1.87%) Kustomize
7 2 (1.87%) Nagios
8 1 (0.93%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.93%) Graylog
8 1 (0.93%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.93%) Kibana
8 1 (0.93%) Packer
8 1 (0.93%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (7.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.54%) Splunk
3 5 (4.67%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.67%) Oracle
4 3 (2.80%) Virgin Media
4 3 (2.80%) VMware
5 2 (1.87%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.87%) Citrix
5 2 (1.87%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.93%) Altiris
6 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.93%) Cadence
6 1 (0.93%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.93%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.93%) Google
6 1 (0.93%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.93%) New Relic
6 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.93%) SAP