DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,560 3,068 6,278
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.59% 12.38% 14.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.05% 13.81% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,120 2,330 4,654
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +12.20%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £585 £575
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 33 38
10th Percentile £55.75 £39.60 £35.00
25th Percentile £75.00 £53.75 £46.67
Median hourly rate £87.46 £65.00 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +17.65% +22.78%
75th Percentile £87.53 £65.75 £75.00
90th Percentile - £69.20 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -0.76% +13.91% +27.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps.

DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps.

DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

DevOps hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 88 (5.64%) Confluence
2 40 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.67%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.35%) CMS
6 20 (1.28%) Apache Spark
7 17 (1.09%) Apache
8 15 (0.96%) nginx
9 8 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.38%) Kentico
10 6 (0.38%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.38%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 5 (0.32%) Headless CMS
11 5 (0.32%) IIS
11 5 (0.32%) JBoss
11 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
12 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
12 4 (0.26%) Umbraco
13 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
14 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 11 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.45%) Chatbot
4 7 (0.45%) Trello
5 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
8 1 (0.064%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.064%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.064%) InVision
8 1 (0.064%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 27 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.41%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (0.77%) NetSuite
4 10 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
5 9 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
7 6 (0.38%) Maximo
7 6 (0.38%) SAP Hybris
8 5 (0.32%) Endur
8 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
9 4 (0.26%) Shopify
9 4 (0.26%) Temenos T24
10 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
11 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
11 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
11 2 (0.13%) SAP PM
12 1 (0.064%) Dynamics NAV
12 1 (0.064%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 847 (54.29%) Azure
2 509 (32.63%) Azure DevOps
3 494 (31.67%) AWS
4 138 (8.85%) GCP
5 135 (8.65%) GitHub
6 122 (7.82%) Serverless
7 117 (7.50%) Power Platform
8 82 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
9 71 (4.55%) PaaS
10 69 (4.42%) Entra ID
11 62 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 62 (3.97%) SaaS
12 61 (3.91%) PowerApps
13 59 (3.78%) Azure Service Bus
13 59 (3.78%) Microsoft 365
14 58 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
15 54 (3.46%) AWS Lambda
16 53 (3.40%) Amazon EKS
16 53 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
16 53 (3.40%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 111 (7.12%) Firewall
2 51 (3.27%) DNS
3 32 (2.05%) VPN
4 27 (1.73%) Network Security
5 26 (1.67%) DHCP
6 23 (1.47%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.28%) HTTP
8 12 (0.77%) Intrusion Detection
9 10 (0.64%) IPsec
9 10 (0.64%) SAN
9 10 (0.64%) SNMP
10 8 (0.51%) BGP
10 8 (0.51%) Kerberos
10 8 (0.51%) OSPF
10 8 (0.51%) WAN
10 8 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.45%) SSL
12 6 (0.38%) EIGRP
12 6 (0.38%) LAN
12 6 (0.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 154 (9.87%) SQL Server
2 89 (5.71%) Power BI
3 82 (5.26%) Data Lake
4 72 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (3.46%) NoSQL
6 48 (3.08%) MongoDB
7 47 (3.01%) Relational Database
8 43 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
9 42 (2.69%) Big Data
10 41 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 35 (2.24%) Amazon RDS
12 34 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
12 34 (2.18%) MySQL
12 34 (2.18%) Oracle Database
13 27 (1.73%) Amazon Athena
14 20 (1.28%) RDBMS
15 19 (1.22%) Amazon Redshift
16 18 (1.15%) Apache Arrow
16 18 (1.15%) BigQuery
16 18 (1.15%) Dremio
Development Applications
1 201 (12.88%) Git
2 194 (12.44%) Jenkins
3 164 (10.51%) JIRA
4 110 (7.05%) GitLab
5 45 (2.88%) Selenium
6 33 (2.12%) SonarQube
6 33 (2.12%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.99%) TeamCity
8 27 (1.73%) Cucumber
9 25 (1.60%) SpecFlow
10 23 (1.47%) Artifactory
11 21 (1.35%) Bitbucket
12 16 (1.03%) Maven
12 16 (1.03%) Postman
13 14 (0.90%) Cypress.io
13 14 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
13 14 (0.90%) Team Foundation Server
14 13 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 13 (0.83%) JUnit
15 12 (0.77%) Mockito
General
1 343 (21.99%) Finance
2 337 (21.60%) Social Skills
3 197 (12.63%) Public Sector
4 113 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
5 98 (6.28%) Banking
6 60 (3.85%) Retail
7 36 (2.31%) Marketing
8 33 (2.12%) Telecoms
9 28 (1.79%) Law
10 26 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (1.60%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.41%) General Ledger
13 18 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
14 17 (1.09%) Front Office
15 15 (0.96%) Back Office
16 14 (0.90%) Electronics
17 12 (0.77%) Legal
18 11 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
19 10 (0.64%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 321 (20.58%) Developer
2 302 (19.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 213 (13.65%) Senior
4 188 (12.05%) Architect
5 130 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 120 (7.69%) Lead
7 98 (6.28%) Consultant
8 92 (5.90%) Azure Engineer
9 83 (5.32%) AWS DevOps
10 77 (4.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 76 (4.87%) Senior Developer
12 74 (4.74%) Analyst
13 71 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
14 58 (3.72%) Azure Developer
15 57 (3.65%) Data Engineer
16 52 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
17 49 (3.14%) Cloud Engineer
18 48 (3.08%) .NET Developer
19 44 (2.82%) C# Developer
19 44 (2.82%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (12.24%) .NET
2 98 (6.28%) React
3 96 (6.15%) XML
4 83 (5.32%) REST
5 76 (4.87%) ARM Templates
6 70 (4.49%) CSS
7 69 (4.42%) Kafka
8 64 (4.10%) HTML
9 58 (3.72%) .NET Framework
10 57 (3.65%) .NET Core
10 57 (3.65%) JSON
11 55 (3.53%) Node.js
12 50 (3.21%) Spring Boot
13 46 (2.95%) AngularJS
14 44 (2.82%) RESTful
14 44 (2.82%) YAML
15 39 (2.50%) Web Services
16 34 (2.18%) GraphQL
17 32 (2.05%) ASP.NET
18 30 (1.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 84 (5.38%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.63%) Data Structures
3 38 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 37 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
5 35 (2.24%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (1.86%) Onboarding
7 28 (1.79%) Clustering
8 26 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 26 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.60%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.60%) Mobile App
10 24 (1.54%) PKI
11 23 (1.47%) Hedge funds
12 21 (1.35%) Data Centre
13 14 (0.90%) Algorithms
13 14 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
14 13 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.77%) Credit Derivative
16 11 (0.71%) Contactless
17 10 (0.64%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 189 (12.12%) Linux
2 130 (8.33%) Windows
3 62 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.37%) Unix
5 22 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (1.22%) Android
7 18 (1.15%) Apple iOS
7 18 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
8 10 (0.64%) CentOS
8 10 (0.64%) Ubuntu
9 8 (0.51%) AIX
9 8 (0.51%) Solaris
10 6 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
12 3 (0.19%) VMS
13 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.064%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (38.33%) Agile
2 558 (35.77%) CI/CD
3 249 (15.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (12.69%) Test Automation
5 188 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
6 151 (9.68%) Containerisation
7 145 (9.29%) Microservices
8 140 (8.97%) Scrum
9 131 (8.40%) Software Engineering
10 130 (8.33%) Migration
11 119 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
12 114 (7.31%) SDLC
13 108 (6.92%) Analytics
14 107 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
15 96 (6.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 83 (5.32%) Stakeholder Management
17 81 (5.19%) Full Stack Development
17 81 (5.19%) Mentoring
18 80 (5.13%) Computer Science
19 78 (5.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 386 (24.74%) Python
2 260 (16.67%) SQL
3 243 (15.58%) C#
4 210 (13.46%) Java
5 173 (11.09%) PowerShell
6 155 (9.94%) JavaScript
7 95 (6.09%) Bash
8 79 (5.06%) Bicep
8 79 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 71 (4.55%) Go
10 45 (2.88%) Shell Script
11 36 (2.31%) Perl
12 31 (1.99%) C++
13 21 (1.35%) Ruby
13 21 (1.35%) Scala
14 20 (1.28%) VB
15 19 (1.22%) C
15 19 (1.22%) PL/SQL
16 18 (1.15%) PHP
16 18 (1.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 284 (18.21%) Security Cleared
2 224 (14.36%) SC Cleared
3 131 (8.40%) Degree
4 58 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 58 (3.72%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 26 (1.67%) AWS Certification
8 18 (1.15%) Master's Degree
9 17 (1.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 15 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 14 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 14 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 12 (0.77%) CISSP
13 11 (0.71%) PMP
14 10 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
15 9 (0.58%) PMI Certification
16 8 (0.51%) CCNP
16 8 (0.51%) ISTQB
17 6 (0.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (4.94%) QA
2 28 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 27 (1.73%) GDPR
4 22 (1.41%) PCI DSS
5 21 (1.35%) NCSC
6 20 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 19 (1.22%) NIST
8 14 (0.90%) Data Quality
9 12 (0.77%) SLA
10 11 (0.71%) WCAG
11 10 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 9 (0.58%) PMO
13 6 (0.38%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.38%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.26%) PSD2
15 2 (0.13%) COBIT
15 2 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.13%) GxP
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 240 (15.38%) Docker
2 106 (6.79%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 20 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
5 19 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.77%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 7 (0.45%) vSphere
8 6 (0.38%) Firmware
8 6 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.13%) Postfix
11 2 (0.13%) Squid
11 2 (0.13%) vCloud
12 1 (0.064%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.064%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 385 (24.68%) Terraform
2 344 (22.05%) Kubernetes
3 166 (10.64%) Ansible
4 87 (5.58%) Prometheus
5 77 (4.94%) Grafana
6 35 (2.24%) Puppet
7 34 (2.18%) Progress Chef
8 22 (1.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 22 (1.41%) Kibana
8 22 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 20 (1.28%) SCCM
9 20 (1.28%) SCOM
10 18 (1.15%) Consul
11 17 (1.09%) WSUS
12 16 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
13 15 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
14 10 (0.64%) Argo
15 9 (0.58%) Packer
16 8 (0.51%) Istio
16 8 (0.51%) Podman
Vendors
1 308 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 127 (8.14%) Oracle
3 51 (3.27%) Google
4 50 (3.21%) Splunk
5 49 (3.14%) Databricks
6 48 (3.08%) SAP
7 33 (2.12%) VMware
8 30 (1.92%) ServiceNow
9 29 (1.86%) Cisco
10 26 (1.67%) IBM
11 25 (1.60%) CyberArk
11 25 (1.60%) Salesforce
12 21 (1.35%) Dynatrace
13 19 (1.22%) Informatica
14 15 (0.96%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.90%) Adobe
15 14 (0.90%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.90%) Citrix
16 13 (0.83%) Genesys
16 13 (0.83%) HP