Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in Work from Home is £640 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 391 489
Rank change year-on-year +73 +98 -108
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 32 77 132
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.32% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 64 103
10th Percentile £475 £533 £500
25th Percentile £550 £595 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% +4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £670 £688 £675
90th Percentile £724 £709 £735
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £614
% change year-on-year - +5.91% +11.59%

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 14,074 23,868 42,064
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.55% 95.34% 95.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,444 16,854 30,396
10th Percentile £325 £360 £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 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 547 598
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.46
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.71 £19.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.95 £67.50 £57.47
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.10 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DevOps Engineer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps Engineer
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 Senior DevOps Engineer.

Senior DevOps Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior DevOps Engineer over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Senior DevOps Engineer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Senior 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Senior DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (75.00%) AWS
3 22 (68.75%) Terraform
4 19 (59.38%) Kubernetes
5 18 (56.25%) Python
6 16 (50.00%) Azure
7 14 (43.75%) Ansible
7 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
8 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
9 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
10 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
10 10 (31.25%) GitHub
10 10 (31.25%) Docker
10 10 (31.25%) Linux
11 9 (28.13%) Agile
12 8 (25.00%) Bash
12 8 (25.00%) Grafana
12 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
13 7 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
13 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
13 7 (21.88%) PaaS
13 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
14 6 (18.75%) Splunk
14 6 (18.75%) Git
14 6 (18.75%) GitLab
14 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (18.75%) Degree
14 6 (18.75%) Windows
14 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps

Senior DevOps Engineer 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 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 24 (75.00%) AWS
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 10 (31.25%) GitHub
4 7 (21.88%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (21.88%) PaaS
5 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (15.63%) Serverless
7 4 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (12.50%) GCP
7 4 (12.50%) Miro
7 4 (12.50%) SaaS
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Storage
9 2 (6.25%) Datadog
9 2 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (6.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (6.25%) DNS
2 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.13%) Internet
3 1 (3.13%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (3.13%) SSL
3 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.25%) Redis
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.13%) MySQL
3 1 (3.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Jenkins
2 6 (18.75%) Git
2 6 (18.75%) GitLab
3 3 (9.38%) Bitbucket
3 3 (9.38%) JIRA
4 2 (6.25%) Selenium
4 2 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.13%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.13%) Burp Suite
5 1 (3.13%) Postman
5 1 (3.13%) Snyk
5 1 (3.13%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.13%) Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Electronics
4 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.13%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (9.38%) YAML
2 2 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 2 (6.25%) Node.js
2 2 (6.25%) pytest
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) AWS SAM
3 1 (3.13%) Kafka
3 1 (3.13%) LDAP
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Linux
2 6 (18.75%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Unix
4 2 (6.25%) Alpine Linux
4 2 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Android
5 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
3 10 (31.25%) Test Automation
4 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (15.63%) Configuration Management
7 5 (15.63%) Mentoring
8 4 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 4 (12.50%) Observability
8 4 (12.50%) OOP
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 4 (12.50%) Project Management
8 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 4 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
9 3 (9.38%) High Availability
9 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) Kanban
9 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
9 3 (9.38%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 8 (25.00%) Bash
3 5 (15.63%) PowerShell
3 5 (15.63%) TypeScript
4 3 (9.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) Bicep
5 2 (6.25%) C++
5 2 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) Java
6 1 (3.13%) C
6 1 (3.13%) Perl
6 1 (3.13%) PHP
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (43.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (34.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) Degree
4 3 (9.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (3.13%) NIST
1 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 10 (31.25%) Docker
2 3 (9.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 22 (68.75%) Terraform
2 19 (59.38%) Kubernetes
3 14 (43.75%) Ansible
4 8 (25.00%) Grafana
5 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
6 4 (12.50%) Progress Chef
6 4 (12.50%) Puppet
7 2 (6.25%) Nagios
8 1 (3.13%) Argo
8 1 (3.13%) Graylog
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) Splunk
2 4 (12.50%) Dynatrace
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.25%) VMware
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) Cadence
5 1 (3.13%) Checkmarx
5 1 (3.13%) New Relic
5 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.13%) SAP