DevOps Architect Contracts in England

Development Operations Architect
UK > England

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in England is £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 505 599
Rank change year-on-year +29 +94 +129
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 9 37 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% 0.099% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.11% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 29 47
10th Percentile £550 £503 £485
25th Percentile £600 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £625 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% +25.00% -29.82%
75th Percentile £725 £675 £636
90th Percentile £728 £710 £725
UK median daily rate £638 £638 £525
% change year-on-year - +21.43% -25.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

DevOps Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured DevOps Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Architect in England

DevOps Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DevOps Architect in England.

Daily rate trend for DevOps Architect in England

DevOps Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Architect in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Architect in England

DevOps Architect
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DevOps Architect within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +20 5 £700 +7.69% 5
Midlands +23 4 £669 +21.59% 1
East Midlands +12 3 £700 +27.27%
West Midlands +13 1 £600 - 1
DevOps Architect
UK

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, DevOps Architect 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 job ads across the England region featuring DevOps Architect in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Azure
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
4 5 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
5 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (33.33%) Terraform
7 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
8 1 (11.11%) Fintech
8 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
8 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
8 1 (11.11%) Observability
8 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
8 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
8 1 (11.11%) Bicep
8 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (11.11%) RBAC
8 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
8 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
8 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
8 1 (11.11%) Workflow

DevOps Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (88.89%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure App Service
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) DNS
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (55.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 4 (44.44%) Software Delivery
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
4 1 (11.11%) Fintech
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (11.11%) Observability
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) RBAC
4 1 (11.11%) Service-Level Objective
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Bicep
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft