Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £643 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 394 515
Rank change year-on-year +85 +121 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 40 65 111
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.28% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 58 89
10th Percentile £483 £525 £500
25th Percentile £550 £600 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £643 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £704 £738
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,696 23,095 42,294
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.27% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,252 16,383 30,711
10th Percentile £325 £360 £359
25th Percentile £425 £444 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 531 565
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £22.84 £25.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +32.91% +70.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.13 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Senior DevOps Engineer.

Senior DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Senior DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Senior 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 31 (77.50%) AWS
3 29 (72.50%) Terraform
4 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
5 21 (52.50%) Python
5 21 (52.50%) Security Cleared
6 17 (42.50%) Ansible
6 17 (42.50%) CI/CD
7 16 (40.00%) Azure
7 16 (40.00%) SC Cleared
8 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 12 (30.00%) Docker
8 12 (30.00%) Bash
8 12 (30.00%) GitHub
9 11 (27.50%) Linux
9 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
10 10 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
10 10 (25.00%) Grafana
11 9 (22.50%) Prometheus
11 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
11 9 (22.50%) PaaS
11 9 (22.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
12 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
12 8 (20.00%) Git
12 8 (20.00%) Agile
12 8 (20.00%) Observability
12 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
13 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps

Senior DevOps Engineer Skill Set
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 2 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 31 (77.50%) AWS
2 16 (40.00%) Azure
3 12 (30.00%) GitHub
4 10 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (22.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (22.50%) PaaS
6 5 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (12.50%) Serverless
7 4 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (10.00%) Miro
7 4 (10.00%) SaaS
8 3 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (7.50%) Amazon S3
8 3 (7.50%) GCP
9 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (5.00%) Datadog
9 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
9 2 (5.00%) Route 53
9 2 (5.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) Network Security
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.00%) Redis
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Git
1 8 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (17.50%) GitLab
3 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
4 2 (5.00%) JIRA
4 2 (5.00%) Selenium
4 2 (5.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.50%) Apache Continuum
5 1 (2.50%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.50%) Burp Suite
5 1 (2.50%) Snyk
5 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (27.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.50%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.50%) Banking
3 1 (2.50%) Electronics
3 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (2.50%) Marketing
3 1 (2.50%) Tech for Good
3 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.00%) Fluent Bit
2 2 (5.00%) Loki
2 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) pytest
2 2 (5.00%) YAML
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) ADO
3 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.50%) AWS SAM
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) LDAP
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.50%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Linux
2 7 (17.50%) Windows
3 3 (7.50%) Unix
4 2 (5.00%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.50%) Android
5 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (42.50%) CI/CD
3 12 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
5 8 (20.00%) Agile
5 8 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 8 (20.00%) Observability
5 8 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (17.50%) Configuration Management
6 7 (17.50%) Mentoring
6 7 (17.50%) Roadmaps
6 7 (17.50%) Service Catalogue
7 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (15.00%) SDLC
8 5 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
9 4 (10.00%) GitOps
9 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
9 4 (10.00%) Project Management
9 4 (10.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 21 (52.50%) Python
2 12 (30.00%) Bash
3 8 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.00%) Bicep
5 2 (5.00%) C++
5 2 (5.00%) Go
5 2 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.50%) C
6 1 (2.50%) Perl
6 1 (2.50%) PHP
6 1 (2.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (52.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) Degree
4 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.50%) NIST
1 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 29 (72.50%) Terraform
2 22 (55.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (42.50%) Ansible
4 10 (25.00%) Grafana
5 9 (22.50%) Prometheus
6 4 (10.00%) Puppet
7 3 (7.50%) Argo
7 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
8 2 (5.00%) Kustomize
8 2 (5.00%) Nagios
9 1 (2.50%) Graylog
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Splunk
2 4 (10.00%) Dynatrace
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.50%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.50%) New Relic
5 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow