Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in the UK is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 664 771
Rank change year-on-year +91 +107 -141
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 27 49 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.062% 0.082% 0.096%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.087% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 36 55
10th Percentile £517 £521 £531
25th Percentile £563 £613 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £700 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +6.12%
75th Percentile £688 £761 £733
90th Percentile £720 £825 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 £715 £640
% change year-on-year -21.33% +11.72% +20.19%

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 40,448 56,471 84,729
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,348 39,474 59,497
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 £750 £750 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,658 1,569 2,098
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.29 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.94
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -9.41% +117.95% +2.63%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in the UK

Lead DevOps Engineer
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 29 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 +91 25 £650 -7.14% 19
London +105 18 £650 - 8
Work from Home +112 10 £575 -17.86% 14
UK excluding London +47 3 £563 -21.33% 10
North of England +24 2 £575 -17.86% 5
Yorkshire +20 2 £575 -14.81% 1
South West +11 1 £550 -28.46%

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 21 (77.78%) AWS
4 19 (70.37%) Terraform
5 15 (55.56%) Kubernetes
6 13 (48.15%) Python
6 13 (48.15%) Containerisation
7 12 (44.44%) Linux
8 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (40.74%) Docker
9 10 (37.04%) Bash
9 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
10 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
11 6 (22.22%) GitHub
11 6 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (22.22%) GitLab
12 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 5 (18.52%) Ansible
12 5 (18.52%) Agile
12 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
13 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
13 4 (14.81%) Finance
13 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
13 4 (14.81%) Azure
13 4 (14.81%) Git
13 4 (14.81%) SaaS
13 4 (14.81%) Microservices
13 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
13 4 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment

Lead 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 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 21 (77.78%) AWS
2 6 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
2 6 (22.22%) GitHub
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (14.81%) SaaS
3 4 (14.81%) Serverless
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Direct Connect
4 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Control Tower
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Fabric
5 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.70%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) IPv4
2 1 (3.70%) OSPF
2 1 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (3.70%) DataStax
1 1 (3.70%) DynamoDB
1 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) GitLab
2 4 (14.81%) Git
3 2 (7.41%) CircleCI
3 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.70%) Cypress.io
4 1 (3.70%) JIRA
4 1 (3.70%) JMeter
General
1 4 (14.81%) Finance
1 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Banking
2 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
2 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) YAML
3 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.70%) AWS SAM
3 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) React
3 1 (3.70%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Blockchain
1 2 (7.41%) Sports Betting
2 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.70%) Derivative
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.70%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 12 (44.44%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 13 (48.15%) Containerisation
4 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (18.52%) Agile
5 5 (18.52%) Cloud Security
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Microservices
6 4 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 3 (11.11%) Migration
7 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (7.41%) Continuous Delivery
8 2 (7.41%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Python
2 10 (37.04%) Bash
3 2 (7.41%) Go
3 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Groovy
4 1 (3.70%) Java
4 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) AWS Certification
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) GIAC
5 1 (3.70%) RHCE
System Software
1 11 (40.74%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (70.37%) Terraform
2 15 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 5 (18.52%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) Argo
5 2 (7.41%) Grafana
5 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
5 2 (7.41%) Puppet
5 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.70%) Confluent
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.70%) VMware