Senior DevOps Contracts

Senior Development Operations
UK

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in the UK is £609 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 474 542 567
Rank change year-on-year +68 +25 -80
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 104 174 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.29% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.31% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 136 243
10th Percentile £500 £519 £500
25th Percentile £550 £563 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £609 £650 £640
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% +1.56% +11.30%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £725
90th Percentile £775 £750 £824
UK excluding London median daily rate £630 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -1.18% +6.25% +18.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.69 - -
25th Percentile £73.97 - -
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in the UK

Senior DevOps
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 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 +43 85 £600 -7.69% 52
Work from Home +89 47 £600 -4.00% 41
London +77 46 £638 -1.92% 27
UK excluding London +33 34 £630 -1.18% 29
North West +26 12 £663 +3.92% 6
North of England +18 12 £663 +1.92% 9
South East +21 11 £600 -11.11% 2
South West +15 5 £565 -14.72% 6
Wales - 3 £650 -
Midlands +22 2 £350 -48.15% 5
West Midlands +12 2 £350 -50.00% 3
Scotland +39 1 £618 +37.22% 5

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

For the 6 months to 6 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 featuring Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 52 (50.00%) Terraform
4 48 (46.15%) Kubernetes
4 48 (46.15%) Azure
5 44 (42.31%) AWS
5 44 (42.31%) Python
6 35 (33.65%) Security Cleared
7 29 (27.88%) Ansible
7 29 (27.88%) Docker
8 24 (23.08%) Jenkins
9 22 (21.15%) SC Cleared
10 21 (20.19%) Agile
10 21 (20.19%) PowerShell
11 20 (19.23%) Bash
12 19 (18.27%) Git
12 19 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (16.35%) Banking
15 16 (15.38%) Linux
15 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (14.42%) Test Automation
17 14 (13.46%) SDLC
17 14 (13.46%) Product Ownership
18 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
18 13 (12.50%) GitHub
18 13 (12.50%) C#
18 13 (12.50%) Windows
18 13 (12.50%) Configuration Management
18 13 (12.50%) Finance

Senior 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 5 (4.81%) Confluence
2 2 (1.92%) Apache
2 2 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.96%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.96%) SAS
3 1 (0.96%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 48 (46.15%) Azure
2 44 (42.31%) AWS
3 18 (17.31%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (12.50%) GitHub
5 11 (10.58%) PaaS
6 10 (9.62%) GCP
7 9 (8.65%) GitHub Actions
7 9 (8.65%) OpenShift
8 8 (7.69%) Serverless
9 7 (6.73%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (6.73%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (6.73%) SaaS
10 6 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.81%) Amazon S3
12 4 (3.85%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.85%) Miro
12 4 (3.85%) OCI
13 3 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 3 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.69%) Firewall
2 6 (5.77%) Network Security
3 2 (1.92%) DNS
4 1 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (0.96%) HTTP
4 1 (0.96%) Internet
4 1 (0.96%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (0.96%) SSL
4 1 (0.96%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.54%) SQL Server
2 9 (8.65%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (5.77%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.81%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (2.88%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.92%) Redis
7 1 (0.96%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.96%) MySQL
7 1 (0.96%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.96%) QGIS
7 1 (0.96%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 24 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 19 (18.27%) Git
3 12 (11.54%) GitLab
4 11 (10.58%) TeamCity
5 8 (7.69%) Artifactory
6 7 (6.73%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.85%) JIRA
8 3 (2.88%) CircleCI
8 3 (2.88%) Selenium
9 2 (1.92%) SonarQube
9 2 (1.92%) Travis CI
10 1 (0.96%) Burp Suite
10 1 (0.96%) Jaeger
10 1 (0.96%) Postman
10 1 (0.96%) Snyk
10 1 (0.96%) Subversion
10 1 (0.96%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 17 (16.35%) Banking
2 13 (12.50%) Finance
2 13 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 10 (9.62%) Investment Banking
4 5 (4.81%) Social Skills
5 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.96%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.96%) Electronics
6 1 (0.96%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.96%) Marketing
6 1 (0.96%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.54%) .NET
2 9 (8.65%) Kafka
3 5 (4.81%) Elastic Stack
3 5 (4.81%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (4.81%) WCF
3 5 (4.81%) WinForms
4 4 (3.85%) Node.js
4 4 (3.85%) XML
5 3 (2.88%) YAML
6 2 (1.92%) .NET Core
6 2 (1.92%) .NET Framework
6 2 (1.92%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.92%) Apache NiFi
6 2 (1.92%) ARM Templates
6 2 (1.92%) AWS SAM
6 2 (1.92%) pytest
6 2 (1.92%) REST
7 1 (0.96%) ADO
7 1 (0.96%) LDAP
7 1 (0.96%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 14 (13.46%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.73%) Greenfield Project
2 7 (6.73%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.81%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.88%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.88%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.96%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (15.38%) Linux
2 13 (12.50%) Windows
3 11 (10.58%) Unix
4 4 (3.85%) Android
4 4 (3.85%) Apple iOS
4 4 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.88%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.92%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.96%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (100.00%) DevOps
2 56 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 21 (20.19%) Agile
4 19 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.42%) Test Automation
7 14 (13.46%) SDLC
8 13 (12.50%) Configuration Management
9 10 (9.62%) Containerisation
9 10 (9.62%) Open Source
9 10 (9.62%) Roadmaps
10 9 (8.65%) Migration
11 7 (6.73%) Scrum
12 6 (5.77%) Platform Engineering
12 6 (5.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (5.77%) Software Engineering
13 5 (4.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 5 (4.81%) Observability
13 5 (4.81%) Service Catalogue
13 5 (4.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 44 (42.31%) Python
2 21 (20.19%) PowerShell
3 20 (19.23%) Bash
4 13 (12.50%) C#
5 11 (10.58%) SQL
6 10 (9.62%) Go
7 8 (7.69%) Java
8 6 (5.77%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.81%) Bicep
10 4 (3.85%) JavaScript
11 3 (2.88%) C++
12 1 (0.96%) C
12 1 (0.96%) Groovy
12 1 (0.96%) Perl
12 1 (0.96%) PHP
12 1 (0.96%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (33.65%) Security Cleared
2 22 (21.15%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.58%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.69%) AWS Certification
5 7 (6.73%) Degree
6 6 (5.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.96%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.96%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.96%) MCSE
8 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.96%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) QA
2 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.96%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.96%) NIST
2 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (27.88%) Docker
2 9 (8.65%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.96%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.96%) NFS
Systems Management
1 52 (50.00%) Terraform
2 48 (46.15%) Kubernetes
3 29 (27.88%) Ansible
4 12 (11.54%) Grafana
5 9 (8.65%) Prometheus
6 4 (3.85%) Progress Chef
6 4 (3.85%) Puppet
7 2 (1.92%) Argo
7 2 (1.92%) Nagios
8 1 (0.96%) BladeLogic
8 1 (0.96%) Graylog
8 1 (0.96%) ITRS Geneos
8 1 (0.96%) Kibana
8 1 (0.96%) Packer
8 1 (0.96%) vRealize
Vendors
1 8 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.73%) Splunk
3 5 (4.81%) Dynatrace
3 5 (4.81%) Oracle
4 3 (2.88%) Virgin Media
4 3 (2.88%) VMware
5 2 (1.92%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.92%) Citrix
5 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.96%) Altiris
6 1 (0.96%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.96%) Cadence
6 1 (0.96%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.96%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.96%) Google
6 1 (0.96%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.96%) New Relic
6 1 (0.96%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.96%) SAP