Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 612 706
Rank change year-on-year +85 +94 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 27 33 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.073% 0.067% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.071% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 46
10th Percentile £515 £516 £525
25th Percentile £562 £625 £560
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year - +1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £700 £756 £711
90th Percentile £825 £825 £736
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £650
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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 34,147 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,648 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 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 +102 20 £650 - 7
North of England +26 2 £575 -14.81% 8
Yorkshire +24 2 £575 -14.81% 2
South West +18 1 £550 -28.46%
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 21 (77.78%) AWS
4 18 (66.67%) Terraform
5 15 (55.56%) Kubernetes
6 14 (51.85%) Linux
6 14 (51.85%) Python
7 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
8 11 (40.74%) Docker
9 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (37.04%) Bash
10 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
11 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
12 7 (25.93%) Ansible
13 6 (22.22%) GitLab
13 6 (22.22%) Finance
14 5 (18.52%) Azure
14 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
14 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
14 5 (18.52%) Agile
14 5 (18.52%) GitHub
14 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
15 4 (14.81%) Amazon EventBridge
15 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
15 4 (14.81%) Microservices
15 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
15 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
15 4 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
15 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 4 (14.81%) Serverless

Lead 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 1 (3.70%) Apache
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
1 1 (3.70%) JBoss
1 1 (3.70%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) GitHub
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EKS
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (14.81%) SaaS
3 4 (14.81%) Serverless
4 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (7.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) IPv4
2 1 (3.70%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.70%) OSPF
2 1 (3.70%) SSL
2 1 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.70%) DataStax
1 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) GitLab
2 4 (14.81%) Git
3 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.41%) CircleCI
4 2 (7.41%) JIRA
5 1 (3.70%) Ant
5 1 (3.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
5 1 (3.70%) Maven
5 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
2 2 (7.41%) YAML
3 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.70%) AWS SAM
3 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.70%) Middleware
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Blockchain
1 2 (7.41%) Sports Betting
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Derivative
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Machine to Machine
2 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Linux
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 12 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
5 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Microservices
7 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 2 (7.41%) Architectural Design
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (7.41%) Migration
8 2 (7.41%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Go
3 2 (7.41%) Groovy
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.70%) GIAC
4 1 (3.70%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (66.67%) Terraform
2 15 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 7 (25.93%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) Argo
4 3 (11.11%) Puppet
5 2 (7.41%) Grafana
5 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.70%) Packer
6 1 (3.70%) Podman
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Confluent
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle
1 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.70%) VMware