DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 67 72
Rank change year-on-year -79 +5 +6
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 599 1,695 2,396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.62% 3.35% 3.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.75% 3.54% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 1,332 1,850
10th Percentile £413 £475 £460
25th Percentile £463 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £686 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 5
10th Percentile £45.88 £50.16 -
25th Percentile £52.72 £52.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £59.75 £57.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% +173.81% -56.92%
75th Percentile £74.44 £71.50 £41.00
90th Percentile £75.36 £77.40 £49.40
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £57.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +7.83% +105.36% -46.67%

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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £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 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps Engineer in England

DevOps Engineer
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 Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 -57 350 £567 -9.28% 82
North of England -27 94 £513 -14.58% 34
North West -24 60 £519 -6.53% 23
South West -36 54 £550 -7.17% 35
South East -46 49 £528 -12.08% 37
Yorkshire +5 31 £500 -20.00% 9
Midlands -13 17 £525 -16.00% 16
West Midlands -6 11 £500 -20.00% 11
East of England -5 8 £450 -25.00% 7
East Midlands +7 6 £538 -23.21% 5
North East -6 3 - - 2
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, DevOps Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 599 (100.00%) DevOps
2 363 (60.60%) Terraform
3 328 (54.76%) AWS
4 311 (51.92%) CI/CD
5 268 (44.74%) Kubernetes
6 257 (42.90%) Security Cleared
7 235 (39.23%) Python
8 209 (34.89%) Azure
9 198 (33.06%) Docker
10 189 (31.55%) SC Cleared
11 165 (27.55%) Ansible
12 155 (25.88%) Linux
12 155 (25.88%) Infrastructure as Code
13 141 (23.54%) Jenkins
14 125 (20.87%) Agile
15 120 (20.03%) GitLab
16 115 (19.20%) Azure DevOps
17 103 (17.20%) PowerShell
18 102 (17.03%) Bash
19 79 (13.19%) Containerisation
20 78 (13.02%) GitHub
20 78 (13.02%) Git
21 75 (12.52%) Prometheus
22 73 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
23 71 (11.85%) Serverless
23 71 (11.85%) Public Sector
24 70 (11.69%) Configuration Management
25 69 (11.52%) Amazon EC2
26 68 (11.35%) Social Skills
27 63 (10.52%) Grafana

DevOps Engineer 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 28 (4.67%) nginx
2 25 (4.17%) Confluence
3 11 (1.84%) Apache
3 11 (1.84%) IIS
4 4 (0.67%) Apache Solr
4 4 (0.67%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.50%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.33%) Traefik
7 1 (0.17%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.17%) Drupal
7 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.17%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 328 (54.76%) AWS
2 209 (34.89%) Azure
3 115 (19.20%) Azure DevOps
4 78 (13.02%) GitHub
5 71 (11.85%) Serverless
6 69 (11.52%) Amazon EC2
7 61 (10.18%) Amazon S3
8 55 (9.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 54 (9.02%) AWS Lambda
10 52 (8.68%) GCP
11 44 (7.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 40 (6.68%) Amazon EKS
13 37 (6.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 36 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
14 36 (6.01%) Route 53
15 30 (5.01%) OpenShift
16 28 (4.67%) Amazon ECS
17 26 (4.34%) PaaS
18 18 (3.01%) Azure AKS
19 16 (2.67%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 32 (5.34%) DNS
2 27 (4.51%) Firewall
3 21 (3.51%) VPN
4 16 (2.67%) TCP/IP
5 14 (2.34%) HTTP
6 13 (2.17%) Network Security
7 5 (0.83%) Internet
7 5 (0.83%) SSH
8 4 (0.67%) AMQP
8 4 (0.67%) HTTPS
8 4 (0.67%) IPsec
8 4 (0.67%) IPv4
9 3 (0.50%) DHCP
9 3 (0.50%) LAN
9 3 (0.50%) OpenLDAP
9 3 (0.50%) SSL
9 3 (0.50%) WLAN
10 2 (0.33%) Reverse Proxy
11 1 (0.17%) PPP
11 1 (0.17%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (8.35%) Amazon RDS
2 21 (3.51%) SQL Server
3 15 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.34%) Amazon Redshift
4 14 (2.34%) MySQL
5 12 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
6 11 (1.84%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.84%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (1.34%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.00%) Amazon QuickSight
8 6 (1.00%) Couchbase
9 5 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.83%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.83%) Redis
10 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.67%) InfluxDB
10 4 (0.67%) Power BI
11 3 (0.50%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.50%) BigQuery
11 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 141 (23.54%) Jenkins
2 120 (20.03%) GitLab
3 78 (13.02%) Git
4 33 (5.51%) TeamCity
5 31 (5.18%) JIRA
6 28 (4.67%) Artifactory
7 17 (2.84%) Bitbucket
7 17 (2.84%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.84%) Maven
8 11 (1.84%) Selenium
9 10 (1.67%) Cucumber
10 9 (1.50%) Gradle
11 8 (1.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 8 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
12 7 (1.17%) CircleCI
13 6 (1.00%) Spinnaker
14 5 (0.83%) Terragrunt
14 5 (0.83%) Travis CI
15 4 (0.67%) Cypress.io
15 4 (0.67%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 71 (11.85%) Public Sector
2 68 (11.35%) Social Skills
3 62 (10.35%) Finance
4 32 (5.34%) Banking
5 20 (3.34%) Investment Banking
6 17 (2.84%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (2.34%) Law
8 10 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.50%) Legal
10 7 (1.17%) Retail
10 7 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.00%) Marketing
12 5 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (0.67%) Electronics
13 4 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 3 (0.50%) Influencing Skills
15 1 (0.17%) Advertising
15 1 (0.17%) Health Technology
15 1 (0.17%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (7.68%) .NET
2 37 (6.18%) YAML
3 28 (4.67%) JSON
4 22 (3.67%) Elastic Stack
5 21 (3.51%) Kafka
6 20 (3.34%) AWS CDK
6 20 (3.34%) RabbitMQ
7 19 (3.17%) ARM Templates
7 19 (3.17%) WCF
7 19 (3.17%) WinForms
8 18 (3.01%) REST
9 16 (2.67%) Node.js
10 14 (2.34%) React
11 8 (1.34%) LDAP
12 7 (1.17%) Spring
13 6 (1.00%) Spring Boot
13 6 (1.00%) XML
14 5 (0.83%) LEMP Stack
14 5 (0.83%) SAML
14 5 (0.83%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.34%) Public Cloud
2 17 (2.84%) Greenfield Project
2 17 (2.84%) Product Ownership
3 16 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 13 (2.17%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (1.67%) PKI
6 9 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (1.50%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (0.83%) Blockchain
8 5 (0.83%) Data Structures
8 5 (0.83%) Tandem
9 4 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (0.67%) Management Information System
9 4 (0.67%) Security Posture
9 4 (0.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 155 (25.88%) Linux
2 48 (8.01%) Windows
3 25 (4.17%) Unix
4 24 (4.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (2.50%) CentOS
6 11 (1.84%) Windows Server
7 6 (1.00%) Android
7 6 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.83%) Alpine Linux
9 3 (0.50%) Debian
9 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.50%) VMS
9 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.17%) AIX
10 1 (0.17%) Rocky
10 1 (0.17%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 599 (100.00%) DevOps
2 311 (51.92%) CI/CD
3 155 (25.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 125 (20.87%) Agile
5 79 (13.19%) Containerisation
6 73 (12.19%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (11.69%) Configuration Management
8 49 (8.18%) Migration
9 48 (8.01%) Test Automation
10 47 (7.85%) Continuous Integration
11 41 (6.84%) Microservices
12 38 (6.34%) Platform Engineering
12 38 (6.34%) Software Engineering
13 34 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 32 (5.34%) Computer Science
15 30 (5.01%) Scrum
15 30 (5.01%) Software Delivery
16 28 (4.67%) Mentoring
17 27 (4.51%) Continuous Improvement
18 25 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 235 (39.23%) Python
2 103 (17.20%) PowerShell
3 102 (17.03%) Bash
4 60 (10.02%) Java
5 59 (9.85%) Go
6 57 (9.52%) SQL
7 49 (8.18%) C#
8 39 (6.51%) JavaScript
9 21 (3.51%) Shell Script
10 19 (3.17%) Ruby
11 16 (2.67%) TypeScript
12 14 (2.34%) C
12 14 (2.34%) C++
13 12 (2.00%) Groovy
14 11 (1.84%) Bicep
15 10 (1.67%) PHP
16 8 (1.34%) Perl
17 4 (0.67%) Rust
18 3 (0.50%) BeanShell
19 2 (0.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 257 (42.90%) Security Cleared
2 189 (31.55%) SC Cleared
3 61 (10.18%) DV Cleared
4 34 (5.68%) Degree
5 26 (4.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 23 (3.84%) AWS Certification
7 11 (1.84%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified Developer
11 1 (0.17%) GIAC
11 1 (0.17%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.17%) MCSE
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (3.84%) QA
2 9 (1.50%) NIST
3 6 (1.00%) GDPR
3 6 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (0.67%) HIPAA
5 3 (0.50%) NCSC
5 3 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.17%) SLA
7 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 198 (33.06%) Docker
2 27 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 17 (2.84%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.67%) NFS
7 3 (0.50%) LXC
7 3 (0.50%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.50%) OpenIDM
8 2 (0.33%) Varnish
8 2 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.33%) vSphere
9 1 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 1 (0.17%) KVM
9 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.17%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 363 (60.60%) Terraform
2 268 (44.74%) Kubernetes
3 165 (27.55%) Ansible
4 75 (12.52%) Prometheus
5 63 (10.52%) Grafana
6 37 (6.18%) Puppet
7 28 (4.67%) Progress Chef
8 16 (2.67%) Docker Swarm
9 13 (2.17%) Packer
10 12 (2.00%) Istio
10 12 (2.00%) Kibana
11 9 (1.50%) Argo
11 9 (1.50%) Rancher
12 8 (1.34%) Nagios
13 7 (1.17%) Consul
14 6 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 6 (1.00%) logstash
14 6 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.83%) SCOM
16 4 (0.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (7.68%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.84%) Oracle
3 29 (4.84%) Splunk
4 25 (4.17%) VMware
5 18 (3.01%) Google
6 17 (2.84%) Red Hat
7 10 (1.67%) SAP
8 8 (1.34%) Dynatrace
9 6 (1.00%) Databricks
9 6 (1.00%) F5
9 6 (1.00%) PagerDuty
9 6 (1.00%) ServiceNow
10 5 (0.83%) AppDynamics
10 5 (0.83%) New Relic
11 4 (0.67%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.67%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.50%) Cisco
12 3 (0.50%) Commvault
12 3 (0.50%) ESRI
12 3 (0.50%) Salesforce