DevOps Developer Contracts in England

Development Operations Developer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Developer daily rate in England is £518 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 604 657
Rank change year-on-year +82 +53 -125
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Developer 14 50 125
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.100% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 32 75
10th Percentile - £479 £493
25th Percentile £500 £575 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £669 £710
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -5.81% +36.15%
75th Percentile £551 £775 £825
90th Percentile £575 £786 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% +27.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,391 47,499 67,898
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,834 33,731 48,300
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,404 1,900
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.66 £76.85 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

DevOps Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured DevOps Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Developer in England

DevOps Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Developer in England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Developer in England

DevOps Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Developer in England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Developer in England

DevOps Developer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Developer within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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
London +85 11 £509 -27.32% 3
South East +23 2 £550 -11.79%
North of England +29 1 £500 -25.93% 1
North West +16 1 £500 -25.93%
DevOps Developer
UK

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, DevOps Developer 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 job ads across the England region featuring DevOps Developer in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (71.43%) Agile
3 9 (64.29%) Azure
3 9 (64.29%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
5 7 (50.00%) C#
5 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
6 6 (42.86%) .NET
6 6 (42.86%) XML
6 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
6 6 (42.86%) Scrum
7 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
7 4 (28.57%) B2C
7 4 (28.57%) AWS
7 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
8 3 (21.43%) Serverless
8 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
8 3 (21.43%) Git
8 3 (21.43%) SQL
8 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (21.43%) Java
8 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
9 2 (14.29%) TDD
9 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
9 2 (14.29%) Oracle
9 2 (14.29%) SOAP
9 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 2 (14.29%) RESTful

DevOps Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
1 9 (64.29%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 3 (21.43%) Serverless
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (14.29%) Amazon S3
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (7.14%) Azure API Management
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Batch
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.14%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
5 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (7.14%) Big Data
5 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
5 1 (7.14%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) SonarQube
3 1 (7.14%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
3 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) .NET
1 6 (42.86%) XML
2 3 (21.43%) .NET Framework
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) Node.js
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) DevOps
2 10 (71.43%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
4 6 (42.86%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) B2C
6 2 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 2 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
6 2 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.14%) API Management
7 1 (7.14%) Architectural Patterns
7 1 (7.14%) Computer Science
7 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Fintech
7 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Microservices
7 1 (7.14%) SDET
7 1 (7.14%) Secure Coding
7 1 (7.14%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) C#
1 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (21.43%) Java
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) Bicep
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle