DevOps Engineer Contracts

Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £540 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 65 70
Rank change year-on-year -75 +5 -4
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 743 2,009 3,029
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.70% 3.31% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.83% 3.50% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 1,549 2,322
10th Percentile £405 £475 £456
25th Percentile £463 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.63%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £675
90th Percentile £688 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +13.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 6
10th Percentile £45.88 £52.00 -
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% +105.36% -46.67%
75th Percentile £74.44 £73.50 £39.50
90th Percentile £75.05 £78.75 £48.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.22 £57.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +18.64% +173.81% -60.00%

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 40,501 57,364 85,821
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.55% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,442 40,011 60,276
10th Percentile £275 £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 £748 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,615 1,620 2,120
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.33 £15.47
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.77 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -14.12% +117.95% +2.63%

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in the UK

DevOps Engineer
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 19 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
England -81 601 £545 -11.02% 233
London -57 351 £563 -10.00% 86
Work from Home -53 287 £550 -8.33% 141
UK excluding London -58 266 £525 -12.50% 156
North of England -22 93 £500 -16.67% 48
North West -24 62 £513 -11.83% 32
South West -35 55 £550 -7.17% 38
South East -65 46 £530 -11.67% 37
Scotland +31 42 £516 -14.10% 7
Yorkshire +11 29 £500 -21.57% 11
Midlands -3 17 £525 -16.00% 16
West Midlands -11 11 £500 -20.79% 9
East of England -4 10 £450 -25.00% 5
East Midlands +3 6 £538 -23.21% 7
Wales - 3 £650 - 3
North East -3 2 - - 5

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 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 featuring DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 743 (100.00%) DevOps
2 432 (58.14%) Terraform
3 411 (55.32%) AWS
4 371 (49.93%) CI/CD
5 334 (44.95%) Kubernetes
6 296 (39.84%) Python
7 288 (38.76%) Security Cleared
8 264 (35.53%) Azure
9 236 (31.76%) Docker
10 220 (29.61%) SC Cleared
11 199 (26.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 187 (25.17%) Linux
13 178 (23.96%) Ansible
13 178 (23.96%) Jenkins
14 162 (21.80%) Agile
15 143 (19.25%) Azure DevOps
16 137 (18.44%) GitLab
17 121 (16.29%) Bash
18 109 (14.67%) PowerShell
19 108 (14.54%) Containerisation
20 106 (14.27%) Git
21 95 (12.79%) GitHub
22 84 (11.31%) Prometheus
22 84 (11.31%) Serverless
22 84 (11.31%) Public Sector
22 84 (11.31%) Social Skills
23 81 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
23 81 (10.90%) Amazon EC2
24 79 (10.63%) Finance
25 78 (10.50%) Configuration Management

DevOps Engineer 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 32 (4.31%) nginx
2 26 (3.50%) Confluence
3 15 (2.02%) IIS
4 14 (1.88%) Apache
5 6 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Solr
7 4 (0.54%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.40%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.27%) Traefik
10 1 (0.13%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.13%) Drupal
10 1 (0.13%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (0.94%) Trello
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 411 (55.32%) AWS
2 264 (35.53%) Azure
3 143 (19.25%) Azure DevOps
4 95 (12.79%) GitHub
5 84 (11.31%) Serverless
6 81 (10.90%) Amazon EC2
7 76 (10.23%) Amazon S3
8 70 (9.42%) Amazon EKS
9 69 (9.29%) AWS CloudFormation
10 67 (9.02%) GCP
11 66 (8.88%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (7.54%) OpenShift
13 53 (7.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 47 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
15 44 (5.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 44 (5.92%) Route 53
16 43 (5.79%) Amazon ECS
17 30 (4.04%) PaaS
18 22 (2.96%) Azure AKS
19 18 (2.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.31%) DNS
2 24 (3.23%) Firewall
3 19 (2.56%) Network Security
4 15 (2.02%) VPN
5 14 (1.88%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.62%) HTTP
7 8 (1.08%) Internet
8 6 (0.81%) SSL
9 5 (0.67%) DHCP
9 5 (0.67%) SSH
10 4 (0.54%) AMQP
10 4 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.54%) IPsec
11 3 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
11 3 (0.40%) IPv4
11 3 (0.40%) LAN
11 3 (0.40%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (0.40%) WLAN
12 2 (0.27%) iSCSI
12 2 (0.27%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (7.67%) Amazon RDS
2 29 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 24 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (2.69%) MySQL
4 20 (2.69%) Relational Database
5 18 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.02%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.94%) InfluxDB
10 6 (0.81%) Amazon QuickSight
10 6 (0.81%) Couchbase
10 6 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (0.81%) DynamoDB
10 6 (0.81%) Oracle Database
10 6 (0.81%) Redis
11 5 (0.67%) Power BI
12 4 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 178 (23.96%) Jenkins
2 137 (18.44%) GitLab
3 106 (14.27%) Git
4 39 (5.25%) JIRA
5 32 (4.31%) Artifactory
6 29 (3.90%) TeamCity
7 20 (2.69%) SonarQube
8 18 (2.42%) Bitbucket
9 14 (1.88%) Maven
10 11 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (1.35%) Cucumber
11 10 (1.35%) Gradle
11 10 (1.35%) Selenium
12 6 (0.81%) Spinnaker
12 6 (0.81%) Terragrunt
13 5 (0.67%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.54%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.54%) JMeter
15 3 (0.40%) Visual Studio
General
1 84 (11.31%) Public Sector
1 84 (11.31%) Social Skills
2 79 (10.63%) Finance
3 47 (6.33%) Banking
4 21 (2.83%) Investment Banking
5 14 (1.88%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (1.88%) Law
6 12 (1.62%) Legal
7 9 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.21%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.08%) Marketing
9 7 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (0.94%) Retail
10 6 (0.81%) Manufacturing
11 5 (0.67%) Electronics
11 5 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.40%) Tech for Good
13 2 (0.27%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.00%) .NET
2 38 (5.11%) YAML
3 27 (3.63%) ARM Templates
3 27 (3.63%) AWS CDK
3 27 (3.63%) Kafka
4 25 (3.36%) JSON
4 25 (3.36%) RabbitMQ
5 22 (2.96%) REST
6 21 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
6 21 (2.83%) Node.js
7 18 (2.42%) WCF
7 18 (2.42%) WinForms
8 15 (2.02%) React
9 12 (1.62%) RESTful
10 11 (1.48%) LDAP
11 7 (0.94%) Spring
12 6 (0.81%) Middleware
12 6 (0.81%) Spring Boot
13 5 (0.67%) OAuth
13 5 (0.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
2 22 (2.96%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.42%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
5 15 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 13 (1.75%) Product Ownership
7 11 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
7 11 (1.48%) PKI
7 11 (1.48%) Private Cloud
8 8 (1.08%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.08%) Virtual Team
9 6 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (0.67%) Blockchain
10 5 (0.67%) Life Science
10 5 (0.67%) Security Posture
10 5 (0.67%) Tandem
11 4 (0.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 187 (25.17%) Linux
2 55 (7.40%) Windows
3 32 (4.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 30 (4.04%) Unix
5 15 (2.02%) CentOS
5 15 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 7 (0.94%) VMS
8 5 (0.67%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.40%) Android
9 3 (0.40%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.40%) Debian
10 2 (0.27%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.13%) AIX
11 1 (0.13%) Rocky
11 1 (0.13%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 743 (100.00%) DevOps
2 371 (49.93%) CI/CD
3 199 (26.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 162 (21.80%) Agile
5 108 (14.54%) Containerisation
6 81 (10.90%) Problem-Solving
7 78 (10.50%) Configuration Management
8 65 (8.75%) Test Automation
9 58 (7.81%) Migration
10 51 (6.86%) Continuous Integration
11 46 (6.19%) Platform Engineering
12 45 (6.06%) Computer Science
13 42 (5.65%) Microservices
14 40 (5.38%) Software Engineering
15 39 (5.25%) Software Delivery
16 35 (4.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 33 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
17 33 (4.44%) Mentoring
17 33 (4.44%) Scrum
18 32 (4.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 296 (39.84%) Python
2 121 (16.29%) Bash
3 109 (14.67%) PowerShell
4 78 (10.50%) Java
5 74 (9.96%) SQL
6 70 (9.42%) Go
7 50 (6.73%) C#
8 48 (6.46%) JavaScript
9 31 (4.17%) Perl
10 27 (3.63%) Ruby
11 23 (3.10%) Shell Script
12 18 (2.42%) Groovy
12 18 (2.42%) TypeScript
13 15 (2.02%) C
14 14 (1.88%) Bicep
15 13 (1.75%) C++
16 12 (1.62%) PHP
17 4 (0.54%) Rust
17 4 (0.54%) Scala
18 3 (0.40%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 288 (38.76%) Security Cleared
2 220 (29.61%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.34%) DV Cleared
4 52 (7.00%) Degree
5 34 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 31 (4.17%) AWS Certification
7 17 (2.29%) Azure Certification
8 12 (1.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (0.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Developer
12 2 (0.27%) RHCE
12 2 (0.27%) RHCSA
13 1 (0.13%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.13%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.13%) MCSE
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (3.23%) QA
2 11 (1.48%) NIST
3 8 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (0.81%) GDPR
5 4 (0.54%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.40%) NCSC
6 3 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.27%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.13%) GxP
8 1 (0.13%) SLA
System Software
1 236 (31.76%) Docker
2 31 (4.17%) Active Directory
3 20 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.81%) NFS
6 5 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.54%) vSphere
8 3 (0.40%) LXC
8 3 (0.40%) OpenAM
8 3 (0.40%) OpenIDM
8 3 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.27%) Varnish
9 2 (0.27%) vCloud
9 2 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 1 (0.13%) KVM
10 1 (0.13%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 432 (58.14%) Terraform
2 334 (44.95%) Kubernetes
3 178 (23.96%) Ansible
4 84 (11.31%) Prometheus
5 74 (9.96%) Grafana
6 37 (4.98%) Puppet
7 33 (4.44%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.15%) Packer
9 13 (1.75%) Istio
9 13 (1.75%) Kibana
10 12 (1.62%) Docker Swarm
11 11 (1.48%) Argo
12 9 (1.21%) Consul
12 9 (1.21%) Nagios
12 9 (1.21%) Rancher
13 8 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.67%) SCOM
16 4 (0.54%) Salt
16 4 (0.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 58 (7.81%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.65%) Oracle
3 36 (4.85%) Splunk
4 35 (4.71%) VMware
5 22 (2.96%) Google
6 18 (2.42%) Dynatrace
6 18 (2.42%) Red Hat
7 13 (1.75%) SAP
8 8 (1.08%) Atlassian
8 8 (1.08%) Databricks
9 6 (0.81%) AppDynamics
9 6 (0.81%) F5
9 6 (0.81%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.67%) New Relic
10 5 (0.67%) PagerDuty
10 5 (0.67%) Palo Alto
10 5 (0.67%) Salesforce
11 4 (0.54%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.40%) Cisco
12 3 (0.40%) Commvault
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