DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

DevOps
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 14 10 7
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 0
Contract jobs citing DevOps 1,540 3,115 6,244
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.20% 12.40% 14.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.59% 13.81% 15.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 2,365 4,668
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +14.89%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £724 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £579 £575
% change year-on-year -4.97% +0.65% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 32 26
10th Percentile £55.75 £40.10 -
25th Percentile £75.00 £58.44 £35.00
Median hourly rate £87.46 £65.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +30.65% +10.56%
75th Percentile £87.53 £65.75 £58.00
90th Percentile - £69.60 £64.58
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.76% +19.09% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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.

DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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.

DevOps hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing DevOps over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

DevOps hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

DevOps
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 83 (5.39%) Confluence
2 35 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 26 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 24 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (1.36%) CMS
6 15 (0.97%) Apache Spark
7 14 (0.91%) nginx
8 12 (0.78%) Apache
9 9 (0.58%) IIS
10 8 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 6 (0.39%) Kentico
11 6 (0.39%) OpenStack
12 5 (0.32%) Headless CMS
12 5 (0.32%) JBoss
12 5 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 5 (0.32%) WebLogic
13 4 (0.26%) Apache Solr
13 4 (0.26%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
15 2 (0.13%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 12 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.65%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.45%) Trello
5 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
8 1 (0.065%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.065%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.065%) InVision
8 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 28 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (1.43%) Dynamics AX
3 12 (0.78%) NetSuite
3 12 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.58%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 7 (0.45%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.39%) Maximo
6 6 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
7 5 (0.32%) Endur
7 5 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
8 3 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
8 3 (0.19%) Shopify
8 3 (0.19%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.19%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
9 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.13%) SAP PM
9 2 (0.13%) SAP Retail
10 1 (0.065%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 850 (55.19%) Azure
2 517 (33.57%) Azure DevOps
3 471 (30.58%) AWS
4 128 (8.31%) GCP
5 126 (8.18%) GitHub
5 126 (8.18%) Serverless
6 117 (7.60%) Power Platform
7 84 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
8 75 (4.87%) PaaS
9 71 (4.61%) Entra ID
10 67 (4.35%) SaaS
11 62 (4.03%) PowerApps
12 60 (3.90%) Azure Monitor
13 59 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
13 59 (3.83%) Azure Service Bus
14 58 (3.77%) Microsoft 365
15 56 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
16 55 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
17 54 (3.51%) Power Automate
18 53 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 114 (7.40%) Firewall
2 53 (3.44%) DNS
3 32 (2.08%) VPN
4 30 (1.95%) Network Security
5 26 (1.69%) DHCP
6 24 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 16 (1.04%) HTTP
8 12 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (0.71%) SAN
10 10 (0.65%) IPsec
11 9 (0.58%) SNMP
11 9 (0.58%) SSL
12 8 (0.52%) BGP
12 8 (0.52%) Kerberos
12 8 (0.52%) OSPF
12 8 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (0.45%) NAS
13 7 (0.45%) VLAN
13 7 (0.45%) WAN
14 6 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 160 (10.39%) SQL Server
2 89 (5.78%) Power BI
3 75 (4.87%) Data Lake
4 73 (4.74%) PostgreSQL
5 53 (3.44%) NoSQL
6 48 (3.12%) MongoDB
6 48 (3.12%) Relational Database
7 43 (2.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 42 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
9 37 (2.40%) MySQL
10 34 (2.21%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (2.21%) Oracle Database
11 32 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
12 31 (2.01%) Big Data
13 21 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
13 21 (1.36%) RDBMS
14 18 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (0.97%) BigQuery
16 15 (0.97%) Redis
Development Applications
1 195 (12.66%) Git
2 182 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 162 (10.52%) JIRA
4 108 (7.01%) GitLab
5 46 (2.99%) Selenium
6 34 (2.21%) Visual Studio
7 33 (2.14%) SonarQube
8 31 (2.01%) TeamCity
9 29 (1.88%) Cucumber
10 28 (1.82%) SpecFlow
11 21 (1.36%) Artifactory
12 19 (1.23%) Bitbucket
13 16 (1.04%) Postman
14 14 (0.91%) Cypress.io
14 14 (0.91%) JUnit
14 14 (0.91%) Maven
15 13 (0.84%) Mockito
15 13 (0.84%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
16 12 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 342 (22.21%) Finance
2 328 (21.30%) Social Skills
3 192 (12.47%) Public Sector
4 109 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (6.10%) Banking
6 61 (3.96%) Retail
7 35 (2.27%) Marketing
8 32 (2.08%) Telecoms
9 29 (1.88%) Law
10 27 (1.75%) Manufacturing
10 27 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.43%) General Ledger
12 20 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (1.23%) Front Office
13 19 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.04%) Electronics
15 15 (0.97%) Back Office
16 13 (0.84%) Investment Banking
17 12 (0.78%) Legal
18 11 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 323 (20.97%) Developer
2 289 (18.77%) DevOps Engineer
3 208 (13.51%) Senior
4 180 (11.69%) Architect
5 126 (8.18%) AWS Engineer
6 124 (8.05%) Lead
7 100 (6.49%) Consultant
8 93 (6.04%) Azure Engineer
9 80 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
9 80 (5.19%) Senior Developer
10 74 (4.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 72 (4.68%) Analyst
12 65 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
13 61 (3.96%) Azure Developer
14 56 (3.64%) Data Engineer
15 53 (3.44%) .NET Developer
16 50 (3.25%) Cloud Engineer
17 48 (3.12%) C# Developer
18 46 (2.99%) Senior DevOps
19 45 (2.92%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (12.73%) .NET
2 95 (6.17%) XML
3 93 (6.04%) React
4 80 (5.19%) ARM Templates
5 73 (4.74%) REST
6 63 (4.09%) CSS
7 59 (3.83%) Kafka
8 58 (3.77%) .NET Framework
8 58 (3.77%) HTML
9 57 (3.70%) JSON
10 55 (3.57%) .NET Core
11 53 (3.44%) Node.js
12 51 (3.31%) AngularJS
13 46 (2.99%) YAML
14 44 (2.86%) RESTful
15 38 (2.47%) Spring Boot
16 35 (2.27%) Web Services
17 34 (2.21%) ASP.NET
18 33 (2.14%) GraphQL
19 29 (1.88%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 80 (5.19%) Product Ownership
2 41 (2.66%) Greenfield Project
3 40 (2.60%) Data Structures
4 38 (2.47%) Public Cloud
5 35 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
6 29 (1.88%) Onboarding
7 27 (1.75%) Cloud Native
8 26 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (1.62%) Clustering
9 25 (1.62%) Management Information System
9 25 (1.62%) Mobile App
10 23 (1.49%) Data Centre
10 23 (1.49%) PKI
11 19 (1.23%) Hedge funds
12 17 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
13 14 (0.91%) Algorithms
14 13 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (0.78%) Credit Derivative
15 12 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.71%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 185 (12.01%) Linux
2 140 (9.09%) Windows
3 65 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 34 (2.21%) Unix
5 27 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.17%) Android
7 17 (1.10%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 17 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.78%) Solaris
9 11 (0.71%) CentOS
9 11 (0.71%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.65%) VMS
11 8 (0.52%) AIX
12 7 (0.45%) Oracle Linux
13 5 (0.32%) Windows 10
14 2 (0.13%) Alpine Linux
14 2 (0.13%) Amazon Linux
15 1 (0.065%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (39.03%) Agile
2 554 (35.97%) CI/CD
3 244 (15.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 198 (12.86%) Test Automation
5 183 (11.88%) Problem-Solving
6 147 (9.55%) Microservices
7 139 (9.03%) Migration
7 139 (9.03%) Scrum
8 132 (8.57%) Containerisation
9 128 (8.31%) Software Engineering
10 121 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
11 104 (6.75%) SDLC
12 102 (6.62%) Analytics
12 102 (6.62%) Continuous Integration
13 89 (5.78%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 86 (5.58%) Mentoring
15 82 (5.32%) Full Stack Development
15 82 (5.32%) TDD
16 74 (4.81%) Computer Science
16 74 (4.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 366 (23.77%) Python
2 264 (17.14%) SQL
3 249 (16.17%) C#
4 193 (12.53%) Java
5 175 (11.36%) PowerShell
6 146 (9.48%) JavaScript
7 95 (6.17%) Bash
8 84 (5.45%) TypeScript
9 75 (4.87%) Bicep
10 64 (4.16%) Go
11 41 (2.66%) Shell Script
12 38 (2.47%) Perl
13 26 (1.69%) C++
14 23 (1.49%) Ruby
15 20 (1.30%) Scala
16 19 (1.23%) PHP
16 19 (1.23%) PL/SQL
16 19 (1.23%) VB
17 17 (1.10%) VBScript
18 13 (0.84%) C
Qualifications
1 277 (17.99%) Security Cleared
2 226 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 124 (8.05%) Degree
4 52 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 50 (3.25%) DV Cleared
6 31 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
7 28 (1.82%) Azure Certification
8 22 (1.43%) AWS Certification
9 16 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 14 (0.91%) Master's Degree
11 13 (0.84%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 13 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (0.71%) CISSP
12 11 (0.71%) PMP
13 10 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.58%) PMI Certification
15 8 (0.52%) CCNP
15 8 (0.52%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.39%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (5.00%) QA
2 30 (1.95%) Accessibility
3 25 (1.62%) GDPR
4 21 (1.36%) NCSC
5 20 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.23%) NIST
7 18 (1.17%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.84%) Data Quality
9 12 (0.78%) SLA
9 12 (0.78%) WCAG
10 9 (0.58%) PMO
11 7 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
13 4 (0.26%) PSD2
13 4 (0.26%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.19%) Disclosure Scotland
15 2 (0.13%) GxP
15 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 224 (14.55%) Docker
2 108 (7.01%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
4 21 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
6 12 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 7 (0.45%) vSphere
8 6 (0.39%) Firmware
8 6 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
8 6 (0.39%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.13%) Squid
11 2 (0.13%) vCloud
12 1 (0.065%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.065%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.065%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 371 (24.09%) Terraform
2 326 (21.17%) Kubernetes
3 166 (10.78%) Ansible
4 76 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 71 (4.61%) Grafana
6 35 (2.27%) Puppet
7 33 (2.14%) Progress Chef
8 23 (1.49%) SCCM
9 21 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 21 (1.36%) Kibana
9 21 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
10 19 (1.23%) SCOM
11 17 (1.10%) Consul
12 16 (1.04%) WSUS
13 15 (0.97%) Docker Swarm
13 15 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
14 9 (0.58%) Nagios
14 9 (0.58%) Tivoli
15 8 (0.52%) Data Guard
15 8 (0.52%) logstash
Vendors
1 302 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 129 (8.38%) Oracle
3 52 (3.38%) SAP
4 48 (3.12%) Databricks
5 46 (2.99%) Splunk
6 43 (2.79%) Google
7 35 (2.27%) VMware
8 31 (2.01%) ServiceNow
9 28 (1.82%) IBM
10 26 (1.69%) Cisco
10 26 (1.69%) CyberArk
11 23 (1.49%) Salesforce
12 20 (1.30%) Dynatrace
13 17 (1.10%) Informatica
14 15 (0.97%) Atlassian
14 15 (0.97%) HP
15 14 (0.91%) Citrix
15 14 (0.91%) Palo Alto
16 13 (0.84%) EMC
16 13 (0.84%) Red Hat