Junior DevOps Contracts

Junior Development Operations
UK

The median Junior Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £350 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 577 690 844
Rank change year-on-year +113 +154 -152
Contract jobs requiring a Junior DevOps 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.005% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.005% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 2
10th Percentile £175 £274 £280
25th Percentile £238 £290 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £335 £313
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +7.20% -26.47%
75th Percentile £413 £356 £325
90th Percentile £430 £359 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £305 £300
% change year-on-year +39.34% +1.67% -21.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £22.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.00

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 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
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 £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Junior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps in the UK

Junior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Junior DevOps in the UK

Junior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Junior DevOps over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Junior DevOps in the UK

Junior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior DevOps in the UK

Junior DevOps
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior DevOps within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +106 5 £375 +22.95% 7
Work from Home +128 4 £200 -37.01% 2
London - 4 £363 - 3
UK excluding London +69 1 £425 +39.34% 3
South West +16 1 £425 +54.55% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Junior 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 featuring Junior DevOps in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (75.00%) Python
2 6 (75.00%) AWS
3 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (50.00%) Terraform
4 3 (37.50%) GitLab
4 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
5 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 2 (25.00%) Bash
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (12.50%) Route 53
6 1 (12.50%) Java
6 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (12.50%) Git
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (12.50%) JIRA
6 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 1 (12.50%) Network Security
6 1 (12.50%) OneDrive

Junior DevOps 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 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
5 1 (12.50%) Route 53
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (12.50%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus