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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 11 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 4,061 6,437 11,541
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 9.46% 11.46% 13.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.05% 12.78% 14.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,816 4,676 8,274
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £579
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +1.56% +10.19%
75th Percentile £650 £687 £688
90th Percentile £743 £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 114 108 74
10th Percentile £56.33 £51.13 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £44.00
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £63.60
Median % change year-on-year - +2.99% +41.33%
75th Percentile £76.88 £75.54 £73.94
90th Percentile £86.59 £79.65 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.50 £65.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +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 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
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 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +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 29 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 29 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 29 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 3,460 £550 -8.33% 1,590
London -1 1,993 £573 -4.58% 667
UK excluding London -7 1,554 £525 -4.55% 992
Work from Home -4 1,548 £550 -4.35% 944
South East -2 454 £555 -4.80% 205
North of England +1 431 £515 -6.36% 282
South West -9 247 £550 -8.33% 137
North West -2 236 £525 - 158
Yorkshire +6 179 £495 -17.50% 93
Scotland -12 175 £472 -5.55% 73
Midlands -9 146 £525 -2.05% 173
West Midlands -14 100 £525 -9.68% 130
East of England -14 95 £534 -5.07% 78
East Midlands -16 39 £450 +5.88% 43
North East -5 20 £525 -12.50% 31
Wales -14 20 £538 -8.04% 28
Northern Ireland +10 13 £575 -4.17% 30
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 73 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 70 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
4 55 (1.35%) Apache
5 52 (1.28%) Apache Spark
6 43 (1.06%) CMS
7 40 (0.98%) nginx
8 38 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
9 36 (0.89%) IIS
10 15 (0.37%) JBoss
11 11 (0.27%) OpenStack
12 9 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 8 (0.20%) ArcGIS
13 8 (0.20%) Kentico
13 8 (0.20%) Site Server
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 (0.66%) Dynamics AX
3 19 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.42%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 15 (0.37%) Endur
6 14 (0.34%) 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 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
16 3 (0.074%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2,026 (49.89%) Azure
2 1,219 (30.02%) AWS
3 1,208 (29.75%) Azure DevOps
4 373 (9.18%) GCP
5 333 (8.20%) GitHub
6 320 (7.88%) Serverless
7 240 (5.91%) Power Platform
8 175 (4.31%) Amazon S3
9 170 (4.19%) Entra ID
10 148 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
11 147 (3.62%) Dynamics 365
12 140 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
13 139 (3.42%) PaaS
14 138 (3.40%) Amazon EC2
15 137 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 136 (3.35%) Azure Service Bus
17 133 (3.28%) OpenShift
18 121 (2.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 114 (2.81%) Microsoft 365
20 105 (2.59%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 229 (5.64%) Firewall
2 98 (2.41%) VPN
3 93 (2.29%) DNS
4 73 (1.80%) HTTP
5 57 (1.40%) Network Security
6 49 (1.21%) 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 29 (0.71%) SSL
11 27 (0.66%) 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
1 395 (9.73%) SQL Server
2 186 (4.58%) PostgreSQL
3 179 (4.41%) Power BI
4 153 (3.77%) NoSQL
5 152 (3.74%) Data Lake
6 135 (3.32%) Relational Database
7 109 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
8 97 (2.39%) MySQL
9 93 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
10 85 (2.09%) Elasticsearch
11 83 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
12 81 (1.99%) MongoDB
13 78 (1.92%) Big Data
14 48 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
15 46 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
15 46 (1.13%) Oracle Database
16 42 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 42 (1.03%) BigQuery
17 40 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 40 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 539 (13.27%) Git
2 534 (13.15%) Jenkins
3 353 (8.69%) JIRA
4 298 (7.34%) GitLab
5 154 (3.79%) Selenium
6 95 (2.34%) SonarQube
7 76 (1.87%) TeamCity
7 76 (1.87%) Visual Studio
8 63 (1.55%) Artifactory
9 60 (1.48%) Cucumber
9 60 (1.48%) SpecFlow
10 52 (1.28%) Bitbucket
11 48 (1.18%) Postman
12 47 (1.16%) JUnit
13 43 (1.06%) Cypress.io
14 38 (0.94%) Maven
15 32 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
16 29 (0.71%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 27 (0.66%) REST Assured
18 24 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 871 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 755 (18.59%) Finance
3 432 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 341 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
5 300 (7.39%) Banking
6 115 (2.83%) Retail
7 89 (2.19%) Front Office
8 75 (1.85%) Telecoms
9 62 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
10 60 (1.48%) Investment Banking
11 59 (1.45%) Marketing
12 55 (1.35%) Electronics
13 51 (1.26%) Back Office
14 47 (1.16%) Law
15 46 (1.13%) Legal
16 45 (1.11%) Manufacturing
17 34 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
18 33 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 28 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
20 27 (0.66%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 841 (20.71%) Developer
2 780 (19.21%) DevOps Engineer
3 522 (12.85%) Senior
4 487 (11.99%) Architect
5 301 (7.41%) Lead
6 241 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
7 220 (5.42%) AWS Engineer
8 215 (5.29%) Analyst
9 186 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 174 (4.28%) Software Engineer
11 172 (4.24%) Solutions Architect
12 162 (3.99%) AWS DevOps
13 158 (3.89%) Consultant
14 145 (3.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 145 (3.57%) Data Engineer
15 134 (3.30%) .NET Developer
16 119 (2.93%) Azure DevOps Engineer
17 116 (2.86%) Java Developer
18 110 (2.71%) Full Stack Developer
19 109 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 554 (13.64%) .NET
2 321 (7.90%) React
3 225 (5.54%) Kafka
3 225 (5.54%) REST
4 216 (5.32%) XML
5 177 (4.36%) .NET Core
5 177 (4.36%) HTML
6 172 (4.24%) AngularJS
6 172 (4.24%) Node.js
7 165 (4.06%) CSS
8 158 (3.89%) .NET Framework
9 141 (3.47%) RESTful
10 127 (3.13%) Spring Boot
11 117 (2.88%) JSON
12 113 (2.78%) ARM Templates
12 113 (2.78%) Spring
13 98 (2.41%) YAML
14 92 (2.27%) Web Services
15 82 (2.02%) ASP.NET
16 78 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 254 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 108 (2.66%) Public Cloud
3 102 (2.51%) Cloud Native
4 89 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
5 75 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
6 66 (1.63%) Data Structures
7 65 (1.60%) Mobile App
8 61 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
8 61 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 60 (1.48%) Derivative
10 57 (1.40%) Hedge funds
11 56 (1.38%) Management Information System
12 54 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 43 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
14 40 (0.98%) PKI
15 39 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
16 37 (0.91%) Fixed Income
17 36 (0.89%) Clustering
18 34 (0.84%) Data Centre
19 33 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 489 (12.04%) Linux
2 340 (8.37%) Windows
3 150 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 114 (2.81%) Unix
5 89 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 55 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 53 (1.31%) Android
8 28 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
9 26 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (0.52%) CentOS
11 14 (0.34%) AIX
12 12 (0.30%) Solaris
12 12 (0.30%) Ubuntu
12 12 (0.30%) VMS
13 10 (0.25%) Windows 10
14 6 (0.15%) Mac OS
15 5 (0.12%) Alpine Linux
15 5 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
16 3 (0.074%) Debian
17 2 (0.049%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,703 (41.94%) Agile
2 1,432 (35.26%) CI/CD
3 562 (13.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 514 (12.66%) Problem-Solving
5 479 (11.80%) Scrum
5 479 (11.80%) Test Automation
6 475 (11.70%) Software Engineering
7 438 (10.79%) Microservices
8 388 (9.55%) Containerisation
9 328 (8.08%) Continuous Integration
10 327 (8.05%) TDD
11 317 (7.81%) Migration
12 258 (6.35%) SDLC
13 256 (6.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 241 (5.93%) Computer Science
15 236 (5.81%) Analytics
16 222 (5.47%) Full Stack Development
17 211 (5.20%) Roadmaps
18 210 (5.17%) Business Intelligence
18 210 (5.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1,037 (25.54%) Python
2 667 (16.42%) C#
3 635 (15.64%) SQL
4 587 (14.45%) Java
5 507 (12.48%) PowerShell
6 412 (10.15%) JavaScript
7 252 (6.21%) TypeScript
8 229 (5.64%) Bash
9 176 (4.33%) Go
10 161 (3.96%) Bicep
11 147 (3.62%) C++
12 128 (3.15%) C
13 92 (2.27%) Shell Script
14 71 (1.75%) Scala
15 66 (1.63%) Perl
16 58 (1.43%) Ruby
17 49 (1.21%) T-SQL
18 38 (0.94%) VBScript
19 32 (0.79%) PHP
19 32 (0.79%) VB
Qualifications
1 846 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 590 (14.53%) SC Cleared
3 350 (8.62%) Degree
4 247 (6.08%) DV Cleared
5 156 (3.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 73 (1.80%) Azure Certification
7 66 (1.63%) AWS Certification
8 57 (1.40%) Master's Degree
9 41 (1.01%) 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 22 (0.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 21 (0.52%) CCNP
16 19 (0.47%) CISSP
16 19 (0.47%) PMP
17 16 (0.39%) ISEB
17 16 (0.39%) ISTQB
18 15 (0.37%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 233 (5.74%) QA
2 65 (1.60%) Accessibility
3 55 (1.35%) GDPR
4 51 (1.26%) PCI DSS
5 40 (0.98%) Data Quality
6 38 (0.94%) NIST
7 34 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 30 (0.74%) WCAG
9 27 (0.66%) NCSC
10 24 (0.59%) PMO
10 24 (0.59%) SLA
11 20 (0.49%) MISRA
12 17 (0.42%) HIPAA
13 16 (0.39%) 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
17 5 (0.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 4 (0.098%) PSD2
System Software
1 649 (15.98%) Docker
2 259 (6.38%) Active Directory
3 69 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
3 69 (1.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.34%) 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
1 921 (22.68%) Terraform
2 903 (22.24%) Kubernetes
3 457 (11.25%) Ansible
4 183 (4.51%) Grafana
5 178 (4.38%) Prometheus
6 105 (2.59%) Puppet
7 84 (2.07%) Progress Chef
8 48 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
9 47 (1.16%) Kibana
10 40 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
11 39 (0.96%) SCCM
12 38 (0.94%) Istio
13 36 (0.89%) Packer
13 36 (0.89%) SCOM
14 33 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
15 28 (0.69%) Argo
16 26 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 26 (0.64%) Consul
17 22 (0.54%) WSUS
18 18 (0.44%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 743 (18.30%) Microsoft
2 259 (6.38%) Oracle
3 147 (3.62%) Google
4 134 (3.30%) Splunk
5 111 (2.73%) Databricks
6 99 (2.44%) VMware
7 91 (2.24%) SAP
8 77 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 74 (1.82%) ServiceNow
10 62 (1.53%) Cisco
11 54 (1.33%) Red Hat
12 52 (1.28%) IBM
13 49 (1.21%) Dynatrace
14 41 (1.01%) CyberArk
15 36 (0.89%) F5
16 35 (0.86%) Citrix
17 32 (0.79%) Palo Alto
18 30 (0.74%) Informatica
19 27 (0.66%) Adobe
20 23 (0.57%) Atlassian