DevOps Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Development Operations Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £525 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 162 108 110
Rank change year-on-year -54 +2 0
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 270 565 746
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.30% 2.36% 2.41%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.41% 2.51% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 459 568
10th Percentile £409 £463 £438
25th Percentile £450 £506 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £630
90th Percentile £654 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.33% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 3
10th Percentile £45.88 £49.24 £23.40
25th Percentile £48.41 £52.56 £28.50
Median hourly rate £68.22 £56.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.74% +44.87% -25.71%
75th Percentile £74.44 £63.44 £48.00
90th Percentile £75.97 £71.65 £52.20
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year +7.83% +55.41% -29.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,163 22,551 29,607
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.57% 94.20% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,700 15,818 20,751
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,248 1,160 1,483
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.02
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £39.55 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.94% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK excluding London

DevOps Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
North of England -32 91 £500 -16.67% 40
South West -26 57 £550 -8.33% 34
North West -27 57 £513 -8.48% 27
South East -37 52 £528 -12.08% 40
Scotland +27 41 £520 -17.92% 5
Yorkshire +3 31 £500 -20.00% 11
Midlands -8 17 £525 -16.00% 18
West Midlands -15 11 £500 -20.00% 12
East of England -7 8 £450 -23.40% 10
East Midlands +6 6 £538 -23.21% 6
Wales +22 4 £650 +33.33% 1
North East -7 3 - - 2
DevOps Engineer
UK

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 270 (100.00%) DevOps
2 152 (56.30%) Terraform
3 129 (47.78%) AWS
4 124 (45.93%) Kubernetes
5 120 (44.44%) CI/CD
6 116 (42.96%) Python
7 108 (40.00%) Security Cleared
8 97 (35.93%) Azure
9 90 (33.33%) Docker
10 87 (32.22%) Ansible
11 86 (31.85%) Linux
12 68 (25.19%) Jenkins
12 68 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 66 (24.44%) Agile
14 63 (23.33%) SC Cleared
15 54 (20.00%) PowerShell
15 54 (20.00%) GitLab
16 51 (18.89%) Containerisation
17 50 (18.52%) Bash
18 47 (17.41%) Azure DevOps
19 43 (15.93%) DV Cleared
20 40 (14.81%) Java
21 39 (14.44%) Prometheus
22 36 (13.33%) Grafana
23 35 (12.96%) Go
24 32 (11.85%) Amazon EC2
25 31 (11.48%) Social Skills
26 30 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
26 30 (11.11%) Git
27 27 (10.00%) Configuration Management

DevOps Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 16 (5.93%) Confluence
2 11 (4.07%) nginx
3 7 (2.59%) Apache
4 4 (1.48%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.11%) IIS
6 2 (0.74%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.74%) SAS
6 2 (0.74%) Traefik
7 1 (0.37%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 129 (47.78%) AWS
2 97 (35.93%) Azure
3 47 (17.41%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (11.85%) Amazon EC2
5 26 (9.63%) Amazon S3
6 25 (9.26%) GCP
7 24 (8.89%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (8.52%) Serverless
9 20 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
9 20 (7.41%) OpenShift
10 19 (7.04%) GitHub
11 16 (5.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (5.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 14 (5.19%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (5.19%) Route 53
13 10 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (2.96%) Datadog
15 7 (2.59%) Amazon ELB
16 6 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.22%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (6.67%) DNS
2 11 (4.07%) TCP/IP
2 11 (4.07%) VPN
3 8 (2.96%) Firewall
4 7 (2.59%) HTTP
4 7 (2.59%) Network Security
5 4 (1.48%) AMQP
5 4 (1.48%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.48%) IPsec
6 3 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
6 3 (1.11%) SSL
7 2 (0.74%) DHCP
7 2 (0.74%) iSCSI
7 2 (0.74%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.37%) IPv4
8 1 (0.37%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (0.37%) OSPF
8 1 (0.37%) PPP
8 1 (0.37%) SAN
8 1 (0.37%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
2 15 (5.56%) MySQL
3 12 (4.44%) Elasticsearch
4 11 (4.07%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.59%) InfluxDB
5 7 (2.59%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (1.85%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.48%) Couchbase
7 4 (1.48%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.11%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.11%) DynamoDB
8 3 (1.11%) Redis
9 2 (0.74%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.37%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.37%) ClickHouse
10 1 (0.37%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.37%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 68 (25.19%) Jenkins
2 54 (20.00%) GitLab
3 30 (11.11%) Git
4 20 (7.41%) JIRA
5 16 (5.93%) Artifactory
6 12 (4.44%) SonarQube
7 7 (2.59%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.22%) Travis CI
9 5 (1.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (1.85%) CircleCI
9 5 (1.85%) Selenium
9 5 (1.85%) Spinnaker
10 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.11%) Maven
11 2 (0.74%) Gradle
11 2 (0.74%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.74%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.74%) Visual Studio
12 1 (0.37%) gulp
General
1 31 (11.48%) Social Skills
2 21 (7.78%) Public Sector
3 16 (5.93%) Finance
4 11 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.70%) Banking
6 9 (3.33%) Legal
7 3 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.11%) Retail
8 2 (0.74%) Law
8 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Electronics
9 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.37%) Marketing
9 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.67%) YAML
2 15 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
3 13 (4.81%) JSON
4 12 (4.44%) REST
5 10 (3.70%) .NET
6 9 (3.33%) AWS CDK
6 9 (3.33%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (2.96%) ARM Templates
8 6 (2.22%) Middleware
9 5 (1.85%) Apache NiFi
9 5 (1.85%) OAuth
9 5 (1.85%) RESTful
9 5 (1.85%) SAML
10 4 (1.48%) Kafka
10 4 (1.48%) LEMP Stack
10 4 (1.48%) OpenID
10 4 (1.48%) XML
11 3 (1.11%) OAuth2
12 2 (0.74%) HornetQ
12 2 (0.74%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.81%) Public Cloud
2 10 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
3 8 (2.96%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.22%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (1.85%) Private Cloud
6 5 (1.85%) Product Ownership
6 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.85%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.48%) Data Structures
7 4 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.74%) Clustering
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.74%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.74%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 86 (31.85%) Linux
2 24 (8.89%) Windows
3 18 (6.67%) Unix
4 17 (6.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.07%) CentOS
6 6 (2.22%) Ubuntu
6 6 (2.22%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.85%) VMS
8 3 (1.11%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
9 2 (0.74%) Debian
10 1 (0.37%) AIX
10 1 (0.37%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (100.00%) DevOps
2 120 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 68 (25.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 66 (24.44%) Agile
5 51 (18.89%) Containerisation
6 30 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (10.00%) Configuration Management
8 26 (9.63%) Continuous Integration
9 25 (9.26%) Software Delivery
9 25 (9.26%) Test Automation
10 24 (8.89%) Migration
11 20 (7.41%) Software Engineering
12 19 (7.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 15 (5.56%) Observability
13 15 (5.56%) Scrum
14 14 (5.19%) Computer Science
14 14 (5.19%) Platform Engineering
14 14 (5.19%) Task Automation
15 13 (4.81%) Data Protection
16 12 (4.44%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 116 (42.96%) Python
2 54 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 50 (18.52%) Bash
4 40 (14.81%) Java
5 35 (12.96%) Go
6 25 (9.26%) SQL
7 20 (7.41%) Perl
8 13 (4.81%) C
9 11 (4.07%) PHP
9 11 (4.07%) Ruby
10 9 (3.33%) C++
10 9 (3.33%) Groovy
11 8 (2.96%) Shell Script
12 7 (2.59%) Bicep
13 6 (2.22%) JavaScript
14 5 (1.85%) Scala
15 4 (1.48%) C#
16 3 (1.11%) BeanShell
17 2 (0.74%) TypeScript
18 1 (0.37%) Elixir
Qualifications
1 108 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 63 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 43 (15.93%) DV Cleared
4 10 (3.70%) Degree
5 9 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.59%) AWS Certification
7 6 (2.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 3 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.74%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.37%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.37%) GIAC
10 1 (0.37%) MCSE
10 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.37%) RHCE
10 1 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.67%) QA
2 9 (3.33%) NIST
3 8 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.22%) GDPR
5 4 (1.48%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.74%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.74%) NCSC
8 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 90 (33.33%) Docker
2 15 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.33%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.11%) LXC
5 3 (1.11%) OpenAM
5 3 (1.11%) OpenIDM
6 2 (0.74%) NFS
6 2 (0.74%) Varnish
6 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.37%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 152 (56.30%) Terraform
2 124 (45.93%) Kubernetes
3 87 (32.22%) Ansible
4 39 (14.44%) Prometheus
5 36 (13.33%) Grafana
6 21 (7.78%) Puppet
7 17 (6.30%) Progress Chef
8 14 (5.19%) Docker Swarm
9 12 (4.44%) Istio
10 9 (3.33%) Kibana
11 7 (2.59%) Packer
11 7 (2.59%) Rancher
12 4 (1.48%) HAProxy
12 4 (1.48%) logstash
12 4 (1.48%) Nagios
13 3 (1.11%) Argo
13 3 (1.11%) HP Fortify
13 3 (1.11%) linkerd
13 3 (1.11%) SCOM
14 2 (0.74%) Kiali
Vendors
1 21 (7.78%) VMware
2 16 (5.93%) Splunk
3 14 (5.19%) Oracle
4 9 (3.33%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.33%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.22%) Google
5 6 (2.22%) PagerDuty
6 4 (1.48%) ForgeRock
6 4 (1.48%) New Relic
7 3 (1.11%) Atlassian
7 3 (1.11%) Cisco
7 3 (1.11%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.11%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.74%) Databricks
8 2 (0.74%) F5
8 2 (0.74%) HP
8 2 (0.74%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.37%) Checkmarx
9 1 (0.37%) Confluent
9 1 (0.37%) Zscaler