DevOps Consultant Contracts with Work from Home Options

Development Operations Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £618, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 379 550
Rank change year-on-year +75 +171 -17
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 11 18 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.097% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.098% 0.10% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 33
10th Percentile £555 £398 £455
25th Percentile £610 £488 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £510 £580
Median % change year-on-year +21.08% -12.07% +0.87%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £675
90th Percentile £713 £663 £775
UK median daily rate £606 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +15.48% -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £92.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £97.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 £95.00
% change year-on-year - -17.89% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,181 17,532 36,637
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.09% 94.47% 95.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,004 12,268 26,403
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £630 £640 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 389 539
10th Percentile £19.15 £17.11 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.76 £25.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £66.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £44.50 £27.25
% change year-on-year -21.35% +63.30% +36.25%

DevOps Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured DevOps Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps Consultant trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Consultant.

DevOps Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps Consultant over the 6 months to 10 November 2024.

DevOps Consultant daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps Consultant.

DevOps Consultant hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 10 November 2024, DevOps Consultant 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring DevOps Consultant in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Python
3 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 5 (45.45%) Git
4 5 (45.45%) Docker
4 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
5 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (36.36%) GitLab
6 3 (27.27%) OpenStack
6 3 (27.27%) Terraform
6 3 (27.27%) Linux
6 3 (27.27%) Finance
6 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
7 2 (18.18%) Data Collection
7 2 (18.18%) API Management
7 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
7 2 (18.18%) Observability
7 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (18.18%) Bicep
7 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (18.18%) Azure Pipelines
7 2 (18.18%) Unix
7 2 (18.18%) SQL
7 2 (18.18%) SNMP
7 2 (18.18%) AWS

DevOps Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (27.27%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) Apache Spark
2 1 (9.09%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure AKS
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Pipelines
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SNMP
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
1 1 (9.09%) Parquet
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) Presto
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Git
2 4 (36.36%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) Poetry
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
1 2 (18.18%) REST
1 2 (18.18%) YAML
2 1 (9.09%) Dask
2 1 (9.09%) LAPP Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (9.09%) React
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
5 2 (18.18%) API Management
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
5 2 (18.18%) Data Collection
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (18.18%) Observability
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Visualisation
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
6 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
6 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Bash
2 2 (18.18%) Bicep
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (18.18%) R
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (27.27%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) collectd
3 2 (18.18%) Grafana
3 2 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (9.09%) Kustomize
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle