DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 67 71
Rank change year-on-year -79 +4 +7
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 604 1,691 2,398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.62% 3.35% 3.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 3.54% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 1,328 1,850
10th Percentile £413 £475 £456
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £683 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +10.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 4
10th Percentile £45.88 £50.16 -
25th Percentile £52.72 £52.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% +91.67% -38.46%
75th Percentile £74.44 £71.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £75.36 £77.40 £50.80
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.83% +64.29% -33.33%

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £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 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 -64 350 £567 -9.28% 89
North of England -33 94 £513 -14.58% 33
North West -19 59 £519 -6.53% 23
South West -41 55 £550 -6.78% 32
South East -50 52 £528 -12.08% 36
Yorkshire +7 32 £500 -20.00% 8
Midlands -7 17 £525 -16.00% 15
West Midlands -7 11 £500 -20.00% 10
East of England -9 8 £450 -25.00% 10
East Midlands +11 6 £538 -23.21% 5
North East -6 3 - - 2
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, 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 job ads across the England region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 604 (100.00%) DevOps
2 368 (60.93%) Terraform
3 333 (55.13%) AWS
4 316 (52.32%) CI/CD
5 274 (45.36%) Kubernetes
6 262 (43.38%) Security Cleared
7 237 (39.24%) Python
8 210 (34.77%) Azure
9 200 (33.11%) Docker
10 191 (31.62%) SC Cleared
11 169 (27.98%) Ansible
12 158 (26.16%) Linux
13 157 (25.99%) Infrastructure as Code
14 143 (23.68%) Jenkins
15 129 (21.36%) Agile
16 123 (20.36%) GitLab
17 115 (19.04%) Azure DevOps
18 104 (17.22%) PowerShell
19 103 (17.05%) Bash
20 81 (13.41%) Containerisation
21 78 (12.91%) GitHub
21 78 (12.91%) Git
22 77 (12.75%) Prometheus
23 74 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
24 73 (12.09%) Configuration Management
25 71 (11.75%) Public Sector
26 70 (11.59%) Serverless
27 69 (11.42%) Social Skills
27 69 (11.42%) Amazon EC2
28 64 (10.60%) Grafana

DevOps Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 28 (4.64%) Confluence
1 28 (4.64%) nginx
2 11 (1.82%) Apache
2 11 (1.82%) IIS
3 4 (0.66%) Apache Solr
3 4 (0.66%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.33%) Traefik
6 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.17%) Drupal
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 333 (55.13%) AWS
2 210 (34.77%) Azure
3 115 (19.04%) Azure DevOps
4 78 (12.91%) GitHub
5 70 (11.59%) Serverless
6 69 (11.42%) Amazon EC2
7 61 (10.10%) Amazon S3
8 56 (9.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 53 (8.77%) AWS Lambda
9 53 (8.77%) GCP
10 44 (7.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 40 (6.62%) Amazon EKS
12 36 (5.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 36 (5.96%) GitHub Actions
12 36 (5.96%) Route 53
13 30 (4.97%) Amazon ECS
13 30 (4.97%) OpenShift
14 26 (4.30%) PaaS
15 18 (2.98%) Azure AKS
16 15 (2.48%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.30%) DNS
2 27 (4.47%) Firewall
3 21 (3.48%) VPN
4 16 (2.65%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.32%) HTTP
6 13 (2.15%) Network Security
7 5 (0.83%) Internet
7 5 (0.83%) SSH
8 4 (0.66%) AMQP
8 4 (0.66%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.66%) IPsec
8 4 (0.66%) IPv4
9 3 (0.50%) DHCP
9 3 (0.50%) LAN
9 3 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.50%) SSL
9 3 (0.50%) WLAN
10 2 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.17%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (0.17%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (3.48%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.48%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.32%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (2.32%) MySQL
5 12 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.82%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.32%) MongoDB
8 6 (0.99%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (0.99%) Couchbase
9 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.83%) Redis
10 4 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.66%) DynamoDB
10 4 (0.66%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.66%) Power BI
11 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 143 (23.68%) Jenkins
2 123 (20.36%) GitLab
3 78 (12.91%) Git
4 34 (5.63%) JIRA
5 33 (5.46%) TeamCity
6 28 (4.64%) Artifactory
7 17 (2.81%) Bitbucket
7 17 (2.81%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.82%) Maven
8 11 (1.82%) Selenium
9 10 (1.66%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.49%) Gradle
11 8 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.16%) CircleCI
13 6 (0.99%) Spinnaker
14 5 (0.83%) Terragrunt
14 5 (0.83%) Travis CI
15 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.66%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (11.75%) Public Sector
2 69 (11.42%) Social Skills
3 62 (10.26%) Finance
4 32 (5.30%) Banking
5 20 (3.31%) Investment Banking
6 17 (2.81%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.32%) Law
8 10 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.49%) Legal
10 7 (1.16%) Retail
10 7 (1.16%) Telecoms
11 6 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.99%) Marketing
12 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.66%) Electronics
13 4 (0.66%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Advertising
15 1 (0.17%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.17%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (7.62%) .NET
2 37 (6.13%) YAML
3 28 (4.64%) JSON
4 25 (4.14%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (3.48%) Kafka
6 20 (3.31%) RabbitMQ
7 19 (3.15%) ARM Templates
7 19 (3.15%) AWS CDK
7 19 (3.15%) WCF
7 19 (3.15%) WinForms
8 18 (2.98%) REST
9 16 (2.65%) Node.js
10 14 (2.32%) React
11 8 (1.32%) LDAP
12 7 (1.16%) Spring
13 6 (0.99%) Spring Boot
13 6 (0.99%) XML
14 5 (0.83%) Apache NiFi
14 5 (0.83%) LEMP Stack
14 5 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.31%) Public Cloud
2 17 (2.81%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (2.81%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.65%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.15%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.15%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (1.66%) PKI
6 9 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.49%) Private Cloud
7 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.83%) Blockchain
8 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.83%) Tandem
9 4 (0.66%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.66%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 158 (26.16%) Linux
2 48 (7.95%) Windows
3 25 (4.14%) Unix
4 24 (3.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.48%) CentOS
6 11 (1.82%) Windows Server
7 6 (0.99%) Android
7 6 (0.99%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.83%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.50%) Debian
9 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.50%) VMS
9 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (100.00%) DevOps
2 316 (52.32%) CI/CD
3 157 (25.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 129 (21.36%) Agile
5 81 (13.41%) Containerisation
6 74 (12.25%) Problem-Solving
7 73 (12.09%) Configuration Management
8 51 (8.44%) Test Automation
9 50 (8.28%) Continuous Integration
9 50 (8.28%) Migration
10 41 (6.79%) Microservices
11 38 (6.29%) Platform Engineering
11 38 (6.29%) Software Engineering
12 34 (5.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 33 (5.46%) Computer Science
13 33 (5.46%) Software Delivery
14 30 (4.97%) Scrum
15 28 (4.64%) Mentoring
16 27 (4.47%) Continuous Improvement
17 26 (4.30%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 237 (39.24%) Python
2 104 (17.22%) PowerShell
3 103 (17.05%) Bash
4 63 (10.43%) Go
5 62 (10.26%) Java
6 57 (9.44%) SQL
7 49 (8.11%) C#
8 39 (6.46%) JavaScript
9 21 (3.48%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.15%) Ruby
11 16 (2.65%) TypeScript
12 14 (2.32%) C
12 14 (2.32%) C++
13 12 (1.99%) Groovy
14 11 (1.82%) Bicep
15 10 (1.66%) PHP
16 8 (1.32%) Perl
17 4 (0.66%) Rust
18 3 (0.50%) BeanShell
18 3 (0.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 262 (43.38%) Security Cleared
2 191 (31.62%) SC Cleared
3 62 (10.26%) DV Cleared
4 35 (5.79%) Degree
5 27 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.81%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.66%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.66%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.17%) GIAC
11 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.17%) MCSE
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.81%) QA
2 9 (1.49%) NIST
3 6 (0.99%) GDPR
3 6 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.66%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.50%) NCSC
5 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 200 (33.11%) Docker
2 27 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.81%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.66%) NFS
7 3 (0.50%) LXC
7 3 (0.50%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.50%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.33%) Varnish
8 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.33%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 368 (60.93%) Terraform
2 274 (45.36%) Kubernetes
3 169 (27.98%) Ansible
4 77 (12.75%) Prometheus
5 64 (10.60%) Grafana
6 37 (6.13%) Puppet
7 28 (4.64%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.65%) Docker Swarm
9 13 (2.15%) Packer
10 12 (1.99%) Istio
10 12 (1.99%) Kibana
10 12 (1.99%) Rancher
11 9 (1.49%) Argo
12 8 (1.32%) Nagios
13 7 (1.16%) Consul
14 6 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (0.99%) logstash
14 6 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.83%) SCOM
16 4 (0.66%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (7.62%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.79%) Oracle
3 29 (4.80%) Splunk
4 28 (4.64%) VMware
5 19 (3.15%) Google
6 17 (2.81%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.66%) SAP
8 9 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.49%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.99%) Databricks
9 6 (0.99%) F5
9 6 (0.99%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.83%) New Relic
11 4 (0.66%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.66%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.50%) Cisco
12 3 (0.50%) Commvault
12 3 (0.50%) Palo Alto
12 3 (0.50%) Virgin Media