DevOps Consultant Contracts in England

Development Operations Consultant
UK > England

The median Development Operations Consultant daily rate in England is £675, 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 479 522 618
Rank change year-on-year +43 +96 +88
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Consultant 6 20 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.025% 0.054% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.058% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 16
10th Percentile £590 £493 £488
25th Percentile £613 £519 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £690 £613
90th Percentile - £750 £725
UK median daily rate £650 £600 £600
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
UK median hourly rate - - £78.00

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 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
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 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 +30 4 £625 +8.70% 12
Midlands +23 2 £700 +27.27% 1
East Midlands +11 2 £700 +27.27%
DevOps Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) SCOM
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) OpenText
5 1 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (16.67%) C#
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
5 1 (16.67%) GitLab

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 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure AKS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Personalization
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Cloudera
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) OpenText
1 1 (16.67%) VMware