Senior DevOps Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Development Operations
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK excluding London is £615 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 395 469
Rank change year-on-year +40 +74 -95
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 33 58 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.25% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.26% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 41 31
10th Percentile £494 £520 £500
25th Percentile £550 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +8.33% +18.81%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £675
90th Percentile £750 - £738
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £640
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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 18,947 22,165 29,135
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,483 20,411
10th Percentile £213 £225 £202
25th Percentile £363 £400 £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 2,261 1,134 1,449
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK excluding London

Senior DevOps
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 Senior DevOps within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
South East +22 12 £600 -12.73% 2
North West +21 12 £663 +3.92% 8
North of England +14 12 £663 +1.92% 10
South West +6 5 £565 -16.30% 4
Midlands +21 2 £350 -48.15% 6
West Midlands +9 2 £350 -50.00% 4
Wales - 2 £821 -
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Senior DevOps 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 18 (54.55%) Terraform
4 16 (48.48%) AWS
5 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
5 15 (45.45%) Python
6 14 (42.42%) Azure
7 11 (33.33%) Docker
7 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
8 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
8 10 (30.30%) Bash
9 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
9 9 (27.27%) Ansible
9 9 (27.27%) DV Cleared
10 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (21.21%) AWS Certification
11 7 (21.21%) SDLC
12 6 (18.18%) Git
12 6 (18.18%) Network Security
12 6 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
13 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 5 (15.15%) Agile
14 4 (12.12%) GitLab
14 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
14 4 (12.12%) Go
14 4 (12.12%) Configuration Management
14 4 (12.12%) Migration

Senior DevOps 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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) AWS
2 14 (42.42%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.09%) GCP
4 3 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.06%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.06%) PaaS
6 1 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.03%) Datadog
6 1 (3.03%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.03%) MySQL
1 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
1 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) GitLab
3 3 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.03%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.03%) Burp Suite
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) Selenium
5 1 (3.03%) Snyk
5 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 4 (12.12%) Finance
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
2 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (3.03%) Electronics
3 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.03%) Marketing
3 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (6.06%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (6.06%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 9 (27.27%) Containerisation
4 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (21.21%) SDLC
6 5 (15.15%) Agile
6 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Configuration Management
7 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (12.12%) Migration
8 3 (9.09%) Data Migration
8 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
9 2 (6.06%) Cloud Operations
9 2 (6.06%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 2 (6.06%) GitOps
9 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Automation
9 2 (6.06%) Scrum
9 2 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
9 2 (6.06%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 15 (45.45%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) Bash
2 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.12%) Go
4 3 (9.09%) Bicep
5 2 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) C
6 1 (3.03%) Perl
6 1 (3.03%) PHP
6 1 (3.03%) Ruby
6 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) AWS Certification
4 6 (18.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.03%) Degree
6 1 (3.03%) MCSE
6 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.03%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 18 (54.55%) Terraform
2 15 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 9 (27.27%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Puppet
5 2 (6.06%) Grafana
5 2 (6.06%) Nagios
5 2 (6.06%) Progress Chef
5 2 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.03%) Argo
6 1 (3.03%) Graylog
6 1 (3.03%) Packer
6 1 (3.03%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.06%) Red Hat
1 2 (6.06%) Splunk
1 2 (6.06%) VMware
2 1 (3.03%) Checkmarx
2 1 (3.03%) Citrix
2 1 (3.03%) Guidewire
2 1 (3.03%) New Relic
2 1 (3.03%) SAP