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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,054 6,451 11,633
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.47% 11.46% 13.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.05% 12.78% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,814 4,686 8,342
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £683 £688
90th Percentile £744 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 103 74
10th Percentile £56.28 £51.04 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.25 £65.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +2.99% +41.33%
75th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £73.94
90th Percentile £86.86 £79.90 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.25 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.77% +23.81%

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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 3,451 £550 -8.33% 1,632
London -1 1,988 £573 -4.58% 686
Work from Home -3 1,554 £550 -4.35% 966
UK excluding London -7 1,549 £525 -4.55% 1,014
South East -1 455 £568 -2.66% 213
North of England +1 430 £515 -6.36% 290
South West -10 245 £550 -8.33% 144
North West 0 236 £525 - 163
Yorkshire +5 178 £495 -17.50% 95
Scotland -11 176 £475 -5.00% 72
Midlands -10 142 £523 -2.88% 175
West Midlands -16 96 £525 -10.64% 130
East of England -12 95 £534 -7.13% 78
East Midlands -11 39 £450 +5.88% 45
North East -5 20 £525 -12.50% 32
Wales -14 20 £538 -7.80% 28
Northern Ireland +12 13 £575 -4.17% 28
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
1 159 (3.92%) Confluence
2 74 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 70 (1.73%) Apache Airflow
4 56 (1.38%) Apache
5 52 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 43 (1.06%) CMS
7 41 (1.01%) nginx
8 37 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
9 36 (0.89%) IIS
10 15 (0.37%) JBoss
11 13 (0.32%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 9 (0.22%) Site Server
13 8 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.20%) Kentico
14 7 (0.17%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.17%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.17%) Jupyter
14 7 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.17%) WebLogic
Applications
1 36 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (0.57%) MS Visio
4 13 (0.32%) Chatbot
5 12 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.22%) Trello
7 5 (0.12%) CPLEX
7 5 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 2 (0.049%) Gliffy
9 1 (0.025%) PlantUML
9 1 (0.025%) Simulink
9 1 (0.025%) Sketch
9 1 (0.025%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 66 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 27 (0.67%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.37%) Endur
6 14 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
7 13 (0.32%) Maximo
8 12 (0.30%) NetSuite
9 11 (0.27%) Teamcenter
10 9 (0.22%) Shopify
11 8 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
12 7 (0.17%) Aladdin
12 7 (0.17%) NEC Housing
12 7 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
12 7 (0.17%) SimCorp Dimension
12 7 (0.17%) Temenos T24
13 6 (0.15%) SAP PM
14 5 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
15 4 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
16 3 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,031 (50.10%) Azure
2 1,219 (30.07%) AWS
3 1,206 (29.75%) Azure DevOps
4 373 (9.20%) GCP
5 330 (8.14%) GitHub
6 321 (7.92%) Serverless
7 240 (5.92%) Power Platform
8 175 (4.32%) Amazon S3
9 171 (4.22%) Entra ID
10 148 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
11 145 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
12 142 (3.50%) Azure Monitor
13 139 (3.43%) PaaS
14 137 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
14 137 (3.38%) AWS CloudFormation
15 136 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
16 133 (3.28%) OpenShift
17 125 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 113 (2.79%) Microsoft 365
19 106 (2.61%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 230 (5.67%) Firewall
2 98 (2.42%) VPN
3 94 (2.32%) DNS
4 72 (1.78%) HTTP
5 57 (1.41%) Network Security
6 50 (1.23%) TCP/IP
7 35 (0.86%) DHCP
8 34 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
8 34 (0.84%) Modbus
8 34 (0.84%) RS-422
8 34 (0.84%) RS-485
9 33 (0.81%) BGP
10 28 (0.69%) SSL
11 27 (0.67%) SNMP
12 24 (0.59%) Internet
13 22 (0.54%) HSRP
13 22 (0.54%) MPLS
14 19 (0.47%) IPv4
15 18 (0.44%) IPsec
15 18 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 397 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 187 (4.61%) PostgreSQL
3 179 (4.42%) Power BI
4 157 (3.87%) NoSQL
5 151 (3.72%) Data Lake
6 133 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 110 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (2.44%) MySQL
9 93 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
10 86 (2.12%) Elasticsearch
11 81 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
12 80 (1.97%) MongoDB
13 78 (1.92%) Big Data
14 48 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
15 47 (1.16%) Oracle Database
16 44 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
17 42 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
17 42 (1.04%) BigQuery
18 40 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 40 (0.99%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 543 (13.39%) Git
2 535 (13.20%) Jenkins
3 352 (8.68%) JIRA
4 298 (7.35%) GitLab
5 154 (3.80%) Selenium
6 96 (2.37%) SonarQube
7 77 (1.90%) TeamCity
8 76 (1.87%) Visual Studio
9 63 (1.55%) Artifactory
10 60 (1.48%) Cucumber
10 60 (1.48%) SpecFlow
11 52 (1.28%) Bitbucket
12 47 (1.16%) JUnit
13 45 (1.11%) Postman
14 43 (1.06%) Cypress.io
15 38 (0.94%) Maven
16 32 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
17 29 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 27 (0.67%) REST Assured
19 24 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 868 (21.41%) Social Skills
2 758 (18.70%) Finance
3 431 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 342 (8.44%) Analytical Skills
5 303 (7.47%) Banking
6 114 (2.81%) Retail
7 89 (2.20%) Front Office
8 75 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 64 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
10 60 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 59 (1.46%) Marketing
12 55 (1.36%) Electronics
13 51 (1.26%) Back Office
14 46 (1.13%) Law
14 46 (1.13%) Legal
15 45 (1.11%) Manufacturing
16 35 (0.86%) Influencing Skills
17 32 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 28 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
19 27 (0.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 840 (20.72%) Developer
2 778 (19.19%) DevOps Engineer
3 517 (12.75%) Senior
4 485 (11.96%) Architect
5 301 (7.42%) Lead
6 243 (5.99%) Azure Engineer
7 220 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
8 214 (5.28%) Analyst
9 185 (4.56%) Senior Developer
10 172 (4.24%) Software Engineer
11 169 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
12 162 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
13 158 (3.90%) Consultant
14 145 (3.58%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 143 (3.53%) Data Engineer
16 133 (3.28%) .NET Developer
17 120 (2.96%) Azure DevOps Engineer
18 115 (2.84%) Full Stack Developer
19 114 (2.81%) Java Developer
20 107 (2.64%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 554 (13.67%) .NET
2 324 (7.99%) React
3 225 (5.55%) REST
4 222 (5.48%) Kafka
5 215 (5.30%) XML
6 177 (4.37%) HTML
7 175 (4.32%) .NET Core
8 173 (4.27%) AngularJS
9 171 (4.22%) Node.js
10 163 (4.02%) CSS
11 156 (3.85%) .NET Framework
12 138 (3.40%) RESTful
13 124 (3.06%) Spring Boot
14 116 (2.86%) JSON
15 113 (2.79%) Spring
16 109 (2.69%) ARM Templates
17 98 (2.42%) YAML
18 91 (2.24%) Web Services
19 83 (2.05%) ASP.NET
20 80 (1.97%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 255 (6.29%) Product Ownership
2 109 (2.69%) Public Cloud
3 102 (2.52%) Cloud Native
4 88 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 75 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 63 (1.55%) Mobile App
8 62 (1.53%) Greenfield Project
9 60 (1.48%) Derivative
9 60 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 57 (1.41%) Hedge funds
11 56 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 52 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 41 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
14 40 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
15 39 (0.96%) PKI
16 37 (0.91%) Clustering
16 37 (0.91%) Fixed Income
17 35 (0.86%) Data Centre
18 33 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 489 (12.06%) Linux
2 342 (8.44%) Windows
3 152 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 113 (2.79%) Unix
5 90 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 55 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 53 (1.31%) Android
8 27 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
9 25 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 23 (0.57%) CentOS
11 14 (0.35%) AIX
12 13 (0.32%) Solaris
12 13 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 13 (0.32%) VMS
13 10 (0.25%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
14 6 (0.15%) Oracle Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
16 3 (0.074%) Debian
17 2 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,695 (41.81%) Agile
2 1,437 (35.45%) CI/CD
3 566 (13.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 514 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
5 480 (11.84%) Test Automation
6 478 (11.79%) Scrum
7 470 (11.59%) Software Engineering
8 439 (10.83%) Microservices
9 386 (9.52%) Containerisation
10 330 (8.14%) Continuous Integration
11 325 (8.02%) TDD
12 316 (7.79%) Migration
13 262 (6.46%) SDLC
14 257 (6.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 238 (5.87%) Computer Science
16 235 (5.80%) Analytics
17 226 (5.57%) Full Stack Development
18 213 (5.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
19 212 (5.23%) Unit Testing
20 210 (5.18%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,039 (25.63%) Python
2 667 (16.45%) C#
3 633 (15.61%) SQL
4 583 (14.38%) Java
5 508 (12.53%) PowerShell
6 409 (10.09%) JavaScript
7 252 (6.22%) TypeScript
8 232 (5.72%) Bash
9 175 (4.32%) Go
10 161 (3.97%) Bicep
11 142 (3.50%) C++
12 125 (3.08%) C
13 92 (2.27%) Shell Script
14 70 (1.73%) Scala
15 68 (1.68%) Perl
16 59 (1.46%) Ruby
17 47 (1.16%) T-SQL
18 37 (0.91%) VBScript
19 32 (0.79%) PHP
20 31 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 842 (20.77%) Security Cleared
2 590 (14.55%) SC Cleared
3 346 (8.53%) Degree
4 244 (6.02%) DV Cleared
5 152 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 74 (1.83%) Azure Certification
7 66 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 56 (1.38%) Master's Degree
9 42 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 34 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
11 30 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 28 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 25 (0.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 21 (0.52%) CCNP
14 21 (0.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 19 (0.47%) PMP
16 18 (0.44%) CISSP
17 16 (0.39%) ISEB
17 16 (0.39%) ISTQB
18 15 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 231 (5.70%) QA
2 64 (1.58%) Accessibility
3 56 (1.38%) GDPR
4 50 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 40 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 38 (0.94%) NIST
7 34 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.74%) WCAG
9 28 (0.69%) NCSC
10 24 (0.59%) PMO
10 24 (0.59%) SLA
11 18 (0.44%) MISRA
12 17 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
14 10 (0.25%) SOC 2
15 7 (0.17%) GRC
15 7 (0.17%) ISO 9001
16 6 (0.15%) ISO 22301
16 6 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 4 (0.099%) PSD2
System Software
1 648 (15.98%) Docker
2 260 (6.41%) Active Directory
3 70 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
3 70 (1.73%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.35%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 12 (0.30%) Firmware
8 10 (0.25%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.22%) vCloud
10 8 (0.20%) vSphere
11 7 (0.17%) NFS
12 6 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
13 5 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (0.074%) LXC
14 3 (0.074%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.074%) OpenIDM
15 2 (0.049%) HDFS
15 2 (0.049%) KVM
15 2 (0.049%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 918 (22.64%) Terraform
2 898 (22.15%) Kubernetes
3 458 (11.30%) Ansible
4 184 (4.54%) Grafana
5 180 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 106 (2.61%) Puppet
7 85 (2.10%) Progress Chef
8 49 (1.21%) Kibana
9 48 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
10 40 (0.99%) Docker Swarm
11 38 (0.94%) Istio
11 38 (0.94%) SCCM
12 35 (0.86%) Packer
12 35 (0.86%) SCOM
13 32 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
14 28 (0.69%) Argo
15 26 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 26 (0.64%) Consul
16 21 (0.52%) WSUS
17 18 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 744 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 262 (6.46%) Oracle
3 145 (3.58%) Google
4 135 (3.33%) Splunk
5 112 (2.76%) Databricks
6 101 (2.49%) VMware
7 92 (2.27%) SAP
8 77 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 75 (1.85%) ServiceNow
10 64 (1.58%) Cisco
11 54 (1.33%) Red Hat
12 53 (1.31%) IBM
13 49 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 42 (1.04%) CyberArk
15 36 (0.89%) Citrix
15 36 (0.89%) F5
16 32 (0.79%) Palo Alto
17 30 (0.74%) Informatica
18 27 (0.67%) Adobe
19 23 (0.57%) EMC