DevOps Architect Contracts

Development Operations Architect
UK

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in the UK is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 656 803
Rank change year-on-year +120 +147 -181
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 42 60 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.10% 0.072%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.11% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 51 38
10th Percentile £501 - £539
25th Percentile £550 - £583
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £500 £700
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -28.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £678 £650 £763
90th Percentile £709 £725 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £625 £588
% change year-on-year -4.00% +6.38% -2.08%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Architect in the UK

DevOps Architect
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +95 37 £625 +25.00% 11
London +96 23 £650 +30.00% 6
Work from Home +131 17 £650 +14.04% 8
UK excluding London +66 14 £600 -4.00% 6
South East +28 10 £600 +9.09%
Midlands +33 3 £550 - 1
West Midlands +21 2 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 - -

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, DevOps Architect 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 featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (59.52%) CI/CD
3 12 (28.57%) Azure
4 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
5 9 (21.43%) Terraform
6 8 (19.05%) AWS
6 8 (19.05%) Finance
6 8 (19.05%) Salesforce
7 7 (16.67%) Python
7 7 (16.67%) DV Cleared
7 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
7 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
7 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
8 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
8 6 (14.29%) SDLC
8 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
8 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 6 (14.29%) Linux
9 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
9 5 (11.90%) DNS
9 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
9 5 (11.90%) Scrum
9 5 (11.90%) Docker
9 5 (11.90%) Splunk
9 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (11.90%) Microservices
9 5 (11.90%) GCP

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) OpenStack
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) AWS
3 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.90%) GCP
4 5 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (9.52%) Serverless
6 3 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (4.76%) Datadog
7 2 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 1 (2.38%) OneDrive
8 1 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (4.76%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 4 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (9.52%) Bitbucket
3 3 (7.14%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.38%) Git
5 1 (2.38%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (19.05%) Finance
2 7 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.38%) Law
5 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (7.14%) ARM Templates
2 3 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (7.14%) Node.js
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
3 2 (4.76%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.76%) .NET Framework
3 2 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (4.76%) CSS
3 2 (4.76%) Entity Framework
3 2 (4.76%) jQuery
3 2 (4.76%) React
3 2 (4.76%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (2.38%) ADO
4 1 (2.38%) LDAP
4 1 (2.38%) OAuth
4 1 (2.38%) OpenID
4 1 (2.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.76%) N-Tier
3 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.38%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.29%) Linux
2 4 (9.52%) CentOS
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (7.14%) Unix
4 1 (2.38%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (59.52%) CI/CD
3 7 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (14.29%) SDLC
5 5 (11.90%) Microservices
5 5 (11.90%) Observability
5 5 (11.90%) Scrum
5 5 (11.90%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (9.52%) Agile
6 4 (9.52%) B2B
6 4 (9.52%) Business Analysis
6 4 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (9.52%) CRM
6 4 (9.52%) GAP Analysis
6 4 (9.52%) Project Management
6 4 (9.52%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
2 5 (11.90%) Shell Script
3 4 (9.52%) Apex Code
3 4 (9.52%) Java
4 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.76%) Bash
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 7 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (2.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Docker
2 3 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Terraform
2 7 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (9.52%) Ansible
3 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.14%) Grafana
4 3 (7.14%) Kibana
4 3 (7.14%) logstash
5 1 (2.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (19.05%) Salesforce
2 5 (11.90%) Splunk
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.76%) BigPanda
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (4.76%) Oracle
4 2 (4.76%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) ForgeRock