Lead DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Lead Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in Work from Home is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 430 511
Rank change year-on-year +107 +81 -86
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 26 34 99
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.14% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 26 79
10th Percentile £501 £506 £507
25th Percentile £533 £563 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £663 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.55% +1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £710 £725
90th Percentile £699 £763 £793
UK median daily rate £638 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -1.92% - +8.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,932 23,816 42,408
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,353 16,817 30,671
10th Percentile £325 £362 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 545 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.22 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +50.00% +44.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.15 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Lead DevOps
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Lead DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Lead 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 Lead DevOps.

Lead DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Lead DevOps over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Lead DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Lead 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) Terraform
4 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
5 13 (50.00%) Python
6 12 (46.15%) Azure
7 10 (38.46%) Ansible
7 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
8 9 (34.62%) AWS
9 8 (30.77%) Git
9 8 (30.77%) Finance
9 8 (30.77%) Agile
9 8 (30.77%) Docker
10 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
10 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (26.92%) SQL
11 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
11 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
11 6 (23.08%) Bash
12 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
12 5 (19.23%) Grafana
12 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
12 5 (19.23%) Unix
12 5 (19.23%) Linux
12 5 (19.23%) Firewall
13 4 (15.38%) ETL
13 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
13 4 (15.38%) TeamCity
13 4 (15.38%) PaaS

Lead DevOps 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 2 (7.69%) Apache
1 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 7 (26.92%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (15.38%) PaaS
5 3 (11.54%) GCP
5 3 (11.54%) SaaS
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Control Tower
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.69%) CloudBees
6 2 (7.69%) Google Compute Engine
6 2 (7.69%) Snowflake
6 2 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure App Service
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Service Fabric
7 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 2 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.85%) DataStax
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (30.77%) Git
3 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
4 4 (15.38%) Artifactory
4 4 (15.38%) TeamCity
5 3 (11.54%) GitLab
6 1 (3.85%) JIRA
6 1 (3.85%) Selenium
6 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (7.69%) Banking
2 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (11.54%) ARM Templates
3 2 (7.69%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (7.69%) AWS SAM
4 1 (3.85%) Entity Framework
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) SailPoint
4 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
1 5 (19.23%) Unix
2 3 (11.54%) Android
2 3 (11.54%) Apple iOS
2 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (30.77%) Agile
5 7 (26.92%) Containerisation
6 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
7 4 (15.38%) ETL
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 3 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (11.54%) Load Balancing
8 3 (11.54%) Migration
8 3 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (11.54%) Supply Chain Management
9 2 (7.69%) BDD
9 2 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
9 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (7.69%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (26.92%) SQL
3 6 (23.08%) Bash
4 3 (11.54%) Go
4 3 (11.54%) Groovy
5 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (57.69%) Terraform
2 14 (53.85%) Kubernetes
3 10 (38.46%) Ansible
4 5 (19.23%) Grafana
5 4 (15.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (3.85%) Puppet
6 1 (3.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Google
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) Confluent
2 1 (3.85%) Virgin Media