DevOps Consultant Contracts in England

Development Operations Consultant
UK > England

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in England is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 623 698
Rank change year-on-year +101 +75 -156
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 21 35 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.068% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.072% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 64
10th Percentile £493 £488 £513
25th Percentile £511 £536 £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £660 £613 £700
90th Percentile £750 £725 £771
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £600
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £78.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £78.00 -

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 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £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 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

DevOps Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Consultant in England

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Consultant in England

DevOps Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Consultant in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Consultant in England

DevOps Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DevOps Consultant in England.

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Consultant in England

DevOps Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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 +95 13 £575 -4.17% 4
North of England +39 5 £700 +34.55% 2
North West +23 4 £700 +34.55% 2
South West +25 2 £570 -12.31% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 -
DevOps Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, DevOps Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 12 (57.14%) Azure
3 10 (47.62%) Terraform
4 9 (42.86%) AWS
5 8 (38.10%) Git
5 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
6 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
6 7 (33.33%) Docker
6 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (33.33%) Agile
7 6 (28.57%) Python
7 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (19.05%) Virgin Media
8 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
8 4 (19.05%) Technology Transformation
8 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
8 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
8 4 (19.05%) Network Security
8 4 (19.05%) Bash
8 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
8 4 (19.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 3 (14.29%) Finance
9 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
9 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
9 3 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
9 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
10 2 (9.52%) Service Design
10 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management

DevOps Consultant 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 9 (42.86%) AWS
3 7 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (14.29%) Power Automate
4 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 2 (9.52%) Azure API Management
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Batch
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Storage
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) PowerApps
5 2 (9.52%) Serverless
6 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (4.76%) GCP
6 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.76%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (9.52%) Big Data
3 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.52%) OLTP
4 1 (4.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
3 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Police
3 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) ARM Templates
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) Web Services
1 2 (9.52%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) OAuth
2 1 (4.76%) OpenID
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (9.52%) BDD
7 2 (9.52%) Data Migration
7 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
7 2 (9.52%) Kanban
7 2 (9.52%) Migration
7 2 (9.52%) OWASP
7 2 (9.52%) Scrum
7 2 (9.52%) Secure Coding
7 2 (9.52%) Service Design
7 2 (9.52%) SOA
7 2 (9.52%) TDD
7 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) C#
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Ruby
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) AWS Certification
1 4 (19.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (47.62%) Terraform
2 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
4 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Virgin Media
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) EMC
4 1 (4.76%) ForgeRock
4 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Splunk