DevOps Architect Contracts in England

Development Operations Architect
UK > England

The median Development Operations Architect daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 602 730
Rank change year-on-year +101 +128 -168
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Architect 37 53 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.11% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.11% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 46 33
10th Percentile £503 £481 £571
25th Percentile £550 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £713
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -29.82% +11.33%
75th Percentile £675 £637 £763
90th Percentile £710 £725 £813
UK median daily rate £638 £550 £700
% change year-on-year +15.91% -21.43% +11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,279 47,758 67,889
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,753 33,910 48,235
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,414 1,409 1,903
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.35 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.60 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +89 23 £650 +30.00% 5
South East +25 10 £600 +4.80%
Midlands +29 3 £550 -
West Midlands +32 2 - -
East of England - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
DevOps Architect
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
3 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
4 10 (27.03%) Azure
5 8 (21.62%) Salesforce
6 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
6 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
7 6 (16.22%) AWS
7 6 (16.22%) Finance
7 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (16.22%) SDLC
8 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
8 5 (13.51%) Terraform
8 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
8 5 (13.51%) Linux
8 5 (13.51%) Python
8 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
9 4 (10.81%) Apex Code
9 4 (10.81%) CentOS
9 4 (10.81%) QA
9 4 (10.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (10.81%) Splunk
9 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
9 4 (10.81%) Java
9 4 (10.81%) CRM

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.51%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (10.81%) Serverless
5 3 (8.11%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (8.11%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.70%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (2.70%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (2.70%) Datadog
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (2.70%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (2.70%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 4 (10.81%) Bitbucket
1 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.41%) GitLab
3 1 (2.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (2.70%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.70%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (18.92%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.70%) Law
5 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Lightning Web Components
2 3 (8.11%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (8.11%) Node.js
3 1 (2.70%) ADO
3 1 (2.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.70%) LDAP
3 1 (2.70%) OAuth
3 1 (2.70%) OpenID
3 1 (2.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.41%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.51%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) CentOS
3 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (5.41%) Unix
5 1 (2.70%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 24 (64.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (16.22%) SDLC
4 5 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (13.51%) Test Automation
5 4 (10.81%) B2B
5 4 (10.81%) Business Analysis
5 4 (10.81%) Code Quality
5 4 (10.81%) Continuous Deployment
5 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (10.81%) CRM
5 4 (10.81%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (10.81%) GAP Analysis
5 4 (10.81%) Observability
5 4 (10.81%) Project Management
5 4 (10.81%) Release Automation
5 4 (10.81%) Scrum
5 4 (10.81%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) Python
1 5 (13.51%) Shell Script
2 4 (10.81%) Apex Code
2 4 (10.81%) Java
3 3 (8.11%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.11%) TypeScript
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
3 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.11%) Degree
4 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.81%) QA
2 1 (2.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
1 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Kubernetes
1 5 (13.51%) Terraform
2 4 (10.81%) Ansible
2 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.11%) Grafana
3 3 (8.11%) Kibana
3 3 (8.11%) logstash
4 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Salesforce
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Splunk
3 1 (2.70%) BigPanda
3 1 (2.70%) Cisco
3 1 (2.70%) ForgeRock