Senior DevOps Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Development Operations
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in Work from Home is £600 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 303 381 470
Rank change year-on-year +78 +89 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 47 87 151
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.35% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.36% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 69 115
10th Percentile £475 £507 £490
25th Percentile £513 £575 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £750 £703 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £640
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +16.36%

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
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DevOps trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior 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 Senior DevOps.

Senior DevOps daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Senior DevOps daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Senior DevOps 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 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 in the job title.

1 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (63.83%) AWS
3 27 (57.45%) Terraform
4 26 (55.32%) Azure
5 24 (51.06%) Kubernetes
6 23 (48.94%) Python
7 21 (44.68%) CI/CD
8 17 (36.17%) Ansible
9 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
9 15 (31.91%) Agile
10 13 (27.66%) Linux
10 13 (27.66%) Docker
11 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
11 12 (25.53%) Test Automation
12 11 (23.40%) Bash
13 10 (21.28%) GitHub
13 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
13 10 (21.28%) Git
14 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
14 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (19.15%) Grafana
14 9 (19.15%) PaaS
15 8 (17.02%) Windows
15 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
16 7 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (14.89%) Prometheus
16 7 (14.89%) Firewall
16 7 (14.89%) Degree
16 7 (14.89%) SaaS

Senior 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 3 (6.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (63.83%) AWS
2 26 (55.32%) Azure
3 10 (21.28%) GitHub
4 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (19.15%) PaaS
5 7 (14.89%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (14.89%) SaaS
6 6 (12.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (12.77%) Serverless
7 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (10.64%) GCP
8 4 (8.51%) Miro
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
9 3 (6.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (4.26%) Datadog
10 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) Firewall
2 4 (8.51%) Network Security
3 2 (4.26%) DNS
4 1 (2.13%) HTTP
4 1 (2.13%) Internet
4 1 (2.13%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (2.13%) SSL
4 1 (2.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.26%) Redis
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.13%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) Git
1 10 (21.28%) Jenkins
2 6 (12.77%) GitLab
3 5 (10.64%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
4 3 (6.38%) JIRA
4 3 (6.38%) Selenium
4 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
5 2 (4.26%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.13%) Burp Suite
6 1 (2.13%) Postman
6 1 (2.13%) Snyk
6 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 8 (17.02%) Public Sector
2 6 (12.77%) Finance
3 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (4.26%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.13%) Aerospace
4 1 (2.13%) Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Electronics
4 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.13%) Marketing
4 1 (2.13%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (6.38%) .NET
2 3 (6.38%) YAML
3 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.26%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.26%) AWS SAM
3 2 (4.26%) Node.js
3 2 (4.26%) pytest
3 2 (4.26%) XML
4 1 (2.13%) ADO
4 1 (2.13%) Kafka
4 1 (2.13%) LDAP
4 1 (2.13%) React
4 1 (2.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.26%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.26%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Linux
2 8 (17.02%) Windows
3 6 (12.77%) Unix
4 3 (6.38%) Android
4 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
5 2 (4.26%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) DevOps
2 21 (44.68%) CI/CD
3 15 (31.91%) Agile
4 12 (25.53%) Test Automation
5 9 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
6 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
6 6 (12.77%) Roadmaps
7 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
7 5 (10.64%) Observability
8 4 (8.51%) High Availability
8 4 (8.51%) OOP
8 4 (8.51%) Performance Testing
8 4 (8.51%) Project Management
8 4 (8.51%) Service Catalogue
8 4 (8.51%) Technology Transformation
9 3 (6.38%) Asset Management
9 3 (6.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (6.38%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Python
2 11 (23.40%) Bash
3 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.64%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.51%) Bicep
5 4 (8.51%) JavaScript
6 3 (6.38%) Go
7 2 (4.26%) C#
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) Java
7 2 (4.26%) SQL
8 1 (2.13%) C
8 1 (2.13%) Perl
8 1 (2.13%) PHP
8 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (31.91%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.89%) Degree
4 5 (10.64%) AWS Certification
5 4 (8.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.13%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.13%) NIST
1 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 13 (27.66%) Docker
2 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 27 (57.45%) Terraform
2 24 (51.06%) Kubernetes
3 17 (36.17%) Ansible
4 9 (19.15%) Grafana
5 7 (14.89%) Prometheus
6 4 (8.51%) Progress Chef
6 4 (8.51%) Puppet
7 2 (4.26%) Nagios
8 1 (2.13%) Argo
8 1 (2.13%) Graylog
Vendors
1 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
1 6 (12.77%) Splunk
2 4 (8.51%) Dynatrace
3 3 (6.38%) Virgin Media
4 2 (4.26%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.13%) Cadence
5 1 (2.13%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.13%) New Relic
5 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.13%) SAP