DevOps Contracts in England

DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,320 5,941 9,231
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 8.98% 11.75% 12.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.38% 13.02% 14.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,291 4,357 6,723
10th Percentile £404 £425 £425
25th Percentile £475 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +15.94%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 102 66
10th Percentile £56.25 £51.27 £35.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +21.30% +16.13%
75th Percentile £84.55 £71.20 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.46 £78.00 £67.88
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year -0.76% +24.66% +16.77%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 -1 1,922 £575 -4.17% 673
South East -5 428 £575 -1.37% 218
North of England -1 419 £525 -4.55% 294
North West -2 250 £533 -3.09% 187
South West -13 215 £550 -8.33% 162
Yorkshire +3 155 £475 -20.83% 87
Midlands -15 128 £524 -2.19% 172
East of England -3 99 £525 - 88
West Midlands -13 89 £475 -14.61% 108
East Midlands -12 32 £450 -2.17% 64
North East -4 18 £525 -12.50% 22
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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
1 128 (3.86%) Confluence
2 59 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 39 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 37 (1.11%) CMS
5 35 (1.05%) IIS
6 33 (0.99%) nginx
7 30 (0.90%) Apache
7 30 (0.90%) Apache Spark
8 28 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
9 20 (0.60%) OpenStack
10 12 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 11 (0.33%) Site Server
12 9 (0.27%) JBoss
13 8 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 7 (0.21%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.21%) ArcGIS
15 6 (0.18%) Tornado
15 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
16 5 (0.15%) Appian
16 5 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 34 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 12 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.090%) Trello
6 2 (0.060%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.030%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.030%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.030%) Gliffy
7 1 (0.030%) PlantUML
7 1 (0.030%) Simulink
7 1 (0.030%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 58 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 29 (0.87%) Dynamics AX
3 23 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 13 (0.39%) Endur
6 12 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
6 12 (0.36%) Teamcenter
7 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
7 8 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
7 8 (0.24%) Shopify
8 7 (0.21%) SAP PM
9 6 (0.18%) Aladdin
9 6 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 5 (0.15%) SimCorp Dimension
10 5 (0.15%) Temenos T24
11 4 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
12 3 (0.090%) BusinessWorks
13 2 (0.060%) Advent Geneva
13 2 (0.060%) Front Arena
13 2 (0.060%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 1,723 (51.90%) Azure
2 1,034 (31.14%) Azure DevOps
3 951 (28.64%) AWS
4 297 (8.95%) Serverless
5 285 (8.58%) GCP
6 227 (6.84%) GitHub
7 198 (5.96%) Power Platform
8 140 (4.22%) Amazon S3
9 130 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
10 128 (3.86%) AWS Lambda
11 125 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
12 119 (3.58%) Entra ID
13 118 (3.55%) Azure Service Bus
14 117 (3.52%) Amazon EC2
15 115 (3.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 108 (3.25%) PaaS
17 104 (3.13%) Azure Functions
18 98 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
19 95 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
20 90 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 206 (6.20%) Firewall
2 93 (2.80%) VPN
3 90 (2.71%) DNS
4 53 (1.60%) HTTP
5 52 (1.57%) Network Security
6 44 (1.33%) BGP
7 41 (1.23%) TCP/IP
8 36 (1.08%) Modbus
8 36 (1.08%) RS-422
8 36 (1.08%) RS-485
9 35 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
10 33 (0.99%) DHCP
10 33 (0.99%) MPLS
11 32 (0.96%) SNMP
12 29 (0.87%) HSRP
13 25 (0.75%) IPv4
14 23 (0.69%) SSL
15 22 (0.66%) RSVP
16 19 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
16 19 (0.57%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 364 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 162 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 147 (4.43%) Power BI
4 133 (4.01%) NoSQL
5 116 (3.49%) Data Lake
6 114 (3.43%) Relational Database
7 83 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
8 78 (2.35%) MySQL
9 76 (2.29%) MongoDB
10 75 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
11 67 (2.02%) Azure SQL Database
12 64 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
13 48 (1.45%) Big Data
13 48 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.11%) Amazon Athena
14 37 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
15 33 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
15 33 (0.99%) DynamoDB
15 33 (0.99%) Oracle Database
16 28 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 422 (12.71%) Git
2 399 (12.02%) Jenkins
3 282 (8.49%) JIRA
4 236 (7.11%) GitLab
5 115 (3.46%) Selenium
6 74 (2.23%) SonarQube
7 65 (1.96%) Visual Studio
8 64 (1.93%) TeamCity
9 56 (1.69%) SpecFlow
10 54 (1.63%) Cucumber
11 47 (1.42%) JUnit
12 43 (1.30%) Bitbucket
12 43 (1.30%) Postman
13 42 (1.27%) Artifactory
14 33 (0.99%) Maven
15 27 (0.81%) Cypress.io
16 26 (0.78%) REST Assured
17 21 (0.63%) SoapUI
18 20 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
19 19 (0.57%) Mockito
General
1 736 (22.17%) Social Skills
2 658 (19.82%) Finance
3 353 (10.63%) Public Sector
4 283 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
5 210 (6.33%) Banking
6 97 (2.92%) Retail
7 87 (2.62%) Front Office
8 68 (2.05%) Presentation Skills
9 57 (1.72%) Investment Banking
10 55 (1.66%) Electronics
11 51 (1.54%) Marketing
12 50 (1.51%) Back Office
13 49 (1.48%) Law
14 48 (1.45%) Telecoms
15 41 (1.23%) Legal
16 38 (1.14%) Manufacturing
17 32 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 27 (0.81%) Influencing Skills
19 26 (0.78%) General Ledger
20 21 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 716 (21.57%) Developer
2 599 (18.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 450 (13.55%) Senior
4 380 (11.45%) Architect
5 272 (8.19%) Lead
6 211 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
7 165 (4.97%) Analyst
8 164 (4.94%) Senior Developer
9 162 (4.88%) AWS Engineer
10 155 (4.67%) Software Engineer
11 130 (3.92%) Consultant
12 126 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
13 119 (3.58%) .NET Developer
14 112 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
15 108 (3.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 100 (3.01%) Azure DevOps Engineer
16 100 (3.01%) Data Engineer
17 94 (2.83%) Java Developer
18 91 (2.74%) Azure Developer
18 91 (2.74%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 475 (14.31%) .NET
2 266 (8.01%) React
3 196 (5.90%) XML
4 186 (5.60%) REST
5 172 (5.18%) Node.js
6 164 (4.94%) Kafka
7 160 (4.82%) AngularJS
8 157 (4.73%) .NET Core
9 134 (4.04%) .NET Framework
10 130 (3.92%) HTML
11 126 (3.80%) JSON
12 116 (3.49%) CSS
13 111 (3.34%) RESTful
14 89 (2.68%) Spring
15 88 (2.65%) ARM Templates
16 82 (2.47%) YAML
17 79 (2.38%) Spring Boot
18 71 (2.14%) ASP.NET
19 69 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
20 65 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 207 (6.23%) Product Ownership
2 107 (3.22%) Public Cloud
3 100 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 73 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
5 66 (1.99%) Distributed Systems
6 61 (1.84%) Derivative
7 55 (1.66%) Data Structures
8 50 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
8 50 (1.51%) Mobile App
9 48 (1.45%) Hedge funds
10 44 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 43 (1.30%) Fixed Income
12 41 (1.23%) Onboarding
13 37 (1.11%) Data Centre
14 35 (1.05%) PKI
15 34 (1.02%) Management Information System
16 33 (0.99%) Linux Command Line
17 32 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
17 32 (0.96%) Equities
18 28 (0.84%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 379 (11.42%) Linux
2 295 (8.89%) Windows
3 143 (4.31%) Windows Server
4 74 (2.23%) Unix
5 63 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.48%) Apple iOS
7 47 (1.42%) Android
8 24 (0.72%) CentOS
9 21 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 21 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (0.42%) Solaris
11 11 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 10 (0.30%) VMS
13 8 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.24%) Windows 10
14 5 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.12%) AIX
16 3 (0.090%) Debian
17 2 (0.060%) Mac OS
18 1 (0.030%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,413 (42.56%) Agile
2 1,185 (35.69%) CI/CD
3 439 (13.22%) Problem-Solving
4 432 (13.01%) Infrastructure as Code
5 422 (12.71%) Scrum
6 418 (12.59%) Software Engineering
7 356 (10.72%) Microservices
8 349 (10.51%) Test Automation
9 292 (8.80%) TDD
10 276 (8.31%) Continuous Integration
11 271 (8.16%) Containerisation
12 258 (7.77%) Migration
13 231 (6.96%) Continuous Improvement
14 230 (6.93%) SDLC
15 198 (5.96%) Full Stack Development
16 175 (5.27%) Business Intelligence
17 173 (5.21%) Unit Testing
18 172 (5.18%) Analytics
19 167 (5.03%) Stakeholder Management
20 165 (4.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 826 (24.88%) Python
2 600 (18.07%) C#
3 543 (16.36%) SQL
4 440 (13.25%) PowerShell
5 436 (13.13%) Java
6 329 (9.91%) JavaScript
7 220 (6.63%) TypeScript
8 182 (5.48%) Bash
9 136 (4.10%) Go
10 135 (4.07%) Bicep
11 114 (3.43%) C++
12 109 (3.28%) C
13 65 (1.96%) Shell Script
14 52 (1.57%) Ruby
15 48 (1.45%) Scala
16 46 (1.39%) Perl
17 43 (1.30%) T-SQL
18 30 (0.90%) VBScript
19 28 (0.84%) PL/SQL
20 27 (0.81%) PHP
Qualifications
1 707 (21.30%) Security Cleared
2 497 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 262 (7.89%) Degree
4 214 (6.45%) DV Cleared
5 101 (3.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 46 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 34 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (0.96%) Master's Degree
10 27 (0.81%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 27 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (0.75%) PMP
12 23 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 22 (0.66%) CCNP
14 20 (0.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 20 (0.60%) PMI Certification
15 16 (0.48%) ISTQB
16 15 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
17 13 (0.39%) CCNA
18 12 (0.36%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (6.30%) QA
2 47 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 38 (1.14%) GDPR
5 36 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 34 (1.02%) NIST
7 29 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 26 (0.78%) SLA
9 25 (0.75%) WCAG
10 18 (0.54%) PMO
11 15 (0.45%) NCSC
12 9 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.21%) MISRA
15 6 (0.18%) GRC
15 6 (0.18%) ISO 22301
16 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
17 3 (0.090%) COBIT
17 3 (0.090%) IFRS
17 3 (0.090%) Solvency II
System Software
1 488 (14.70%) Docker
2 222 (6.69%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
3 61 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (0.66%) Virtual Desktop
5 17 (0.51%) VMware NSX
6 14 (0.42%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 12 (0.36%) Firmware
8 10 (0.30%) Hyper-V
9 8 (0.24%) vSphere
10 7 (0.21%) vCloud
11 6 (0.18%) NFS
12 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.090%) LXC
13 3 (0.090%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.090%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.060%) HDFS
14 2 (0.060%) Squid
14 2 (0.060%) Varnish
14 2 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 717 (21.60%) Terraform
2 677 (20.39%) Kubernetes
3 374 (11.27%) Ansible
4 132 (3.98%) Prometheus
5 127 (3.83%) Grafana
6 80 (2.41%) Puppet
7 63 (1.90%) Progress Chef
8 37 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
8 37 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (1.02%) Kibana
10 31 (0.93%) Istio
11 30 (0.90%) SCCM
11 30 (0.90%) SCOM
12 25 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 22 (0.66%) Microsoft Intune
14 20 (0.60%) Argo
15 19 (0.57%) Consul
15 19 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
16 18 (0.54%) Packer
17 16 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 632 (19.04%) Microsoft
2 212 (6.39%) Oracle
3 95 (2.86%) VMware
4 93 (2.80%) Databricks
5 91 (2.74%) Splunk
6 90 (2.71%) SAP
7 89 (2.68%) Google
8 69 (2.08%) ServiceNow
9 66 (1.99%) Salesforce
10 53 (1.60%) Cisco
11 48 (1.45%) IBM
12 40 (1.20%) Red Hat
13 38 (1.14%) Dynatrace
14 35 (1.05%) Citrix
15 34 (1.02%) CyberArk
16 30 (0.90%) Nokia
17 29 (0.87%) Adobe
18 28 (0.84%) F5
19 25 (0.75%) Palo Alto
20 24 (0.72%) EMC