Senior DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Work from Home is £631 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 293 385 495
Rank change year-on-year +92 +110 -95
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 56 74 132
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.38% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.32% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 62 104
10th Percentile £500 £513 £500
25th Percentile £550 £577 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £753 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +13.04%

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
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior DevOps.

Senior DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps 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 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 in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 37 (66.07%) Terraform
2 37 (66.07%) AWS
3 30 (53.57%) Python
3 30 (53.57%) Kubernetes
4 27 (48.21%) CI/CD
5 24 (42.86%) Azure
6 22 (39.29%) Security Cleared
6 22 (39.29%) Ansible
7 17 (30.36%) SC Cleared
8 16 (28.57%) Linux
9 15 (26.79%) Docker
9 15 (26.79%) Bash
10 14 (25.00%) Git
10 14 (25.00%) Agile
11 13 (23.21%) Test Automation
11 13 (23.21%) PaaS
11 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
11 13 (23.21%) GitHub
11 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 11 (19.64%) Roadmaps
12 11 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (19.64%) Public Sector
12 11 (19.64%) Grafana
12 11 (19.64%) Windows
13 10 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
13 10 (17.86%) Product Ownership
14 9 (16.07%) Prometheus

Senior DevOps 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 3 (5.36%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (66.07%) AWS
2 24 (42.86%) Azure
3 13 (23.21%) GitHub
3 13 (23.21%) PaaS
4 11 (19.64%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (17.86%) AWS CloudFormation
6 9 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (12.50%) Serverless
8 5 (8.93%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (8.93%) SaaS
9 4 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (7.14%) Amazon S3
9 4 (7.14%) GCP
9 4 (7.14%) Miro
10 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (5.36%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (5.36%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (3.57%) Amazon ECR
11 2 (3.57%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 2 (3.57%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 4 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (1.79%) DNS
3 1 (1.79%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (5.36%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.57%) Redis
4 1 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.79%) Big Data
4 1 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.79%) MySQL
4 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (25.00%) Git
2 13 (23.21%) Jenkins
3 7 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 7 (12.50%) GitLab
4 5 (8.93%) Artifactory
4 5 (8.93%) TeamCity
5 3 (5.36%) Selenium
6 2 (3.57%) JIRA
6 2 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.79%) Apache Continuum
7 1 (1.79%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.79%) Snyk
7 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 11 (19.64%) Public Sector
2 8 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (5.36%) Social Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.79%) Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Electronics
5 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
5 1 (1.79%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.36%) .NET
3 2 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.57%) AWS SAM
3 2 (3.57%) Fluent Bit
3 2 (3.57%) Loki
3 2 (3.57%) Node.js
3 2 (3.57%) pytest
3 2 (3.57%) XML
3 2 (3.57%) YAML
4 1 (1.79%) ADO
4 1 (1.79%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.79%) CSS
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) Kafka
4 1 (1.79%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (1.79%) LDAP
4 1 (1.79%) React
4 1 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.36%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.57%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Linux
2 11 (19.64%) Windows
3 8 (14.29%) Unix
4 5 (8.93%) Android
4 5 (8.93%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.57%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) DevOps
2 27 (48.21%) CI/CD
3 14 (25.00%) Agile
4 13 (23.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (23.21%) Test Automation
5 11 (19.64%) Roadmaps
6 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
7 9 (16.07%) Observability
8 8 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 8 (14.29%) Mentoring
9 7 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
10 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.71%) SDLC
11 5 (8.93%) GitOps
11 5 (8.93%) Load Balancing
11 5 (8.93%) Platform Engineering
12 4 (7.14%) OOP
12 4 (7.14%) Performance Testing
12 4 (7.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (53.57%) Python
2 15 (26.79%) Bash
3 9 (16.07%) PowerShell
4 8 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.14%) Bicep
5 4 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.36%) Go
6 3 (5.36%) Java
7 2 (3.57%) C#
7 2 (3.57%) C++
8 1 (1.79%) C
8 1 (1.79%) Perl
8 1 (1.79%) PHP
8 1 (1.79%) Ruby
8 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (39.29%) Security Cleared
2 17 (30.36%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.50%) Degree
4 5 (8.93%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.79%) NIST
1 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 15 (26.79%) Docker
2 3 (5.36%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 37 (66.07%) Terraform
2 30 (53.57%) Kubernetes
3 22 (39.29%) Ansible
4 11 (19.64%) Grafana
5 9 (16.07%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.14%) Puppet
7 3 (5.36%) Argo
7 3 (5.36%) Kustomize
7 3 (5.36%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.57%) Nagios
9 1 (1.79%) Graylog
Vendors
1 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (10.71%) Splunk
2 4 (7.14%) Dynatrace
3 2 (3.57%) Virgin Media
3 2 (3.57%) VMware
4 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.79%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.79%) New Relic
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle
4 1 (1.79%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.79%) SAP
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow