DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £550, 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 121 145 67
Rank change year-on-year +24 -78 +3
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Engineer 552 604 1,690
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.27% 1.62% 3.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.45% 1.75% 3.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 442 466 1,326
10th Percentile £410 £413 £475
25th Percentile £475 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -9.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £625 £700
90th Percentile £774 £681 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £539 £600
% change year-on-year +2.04% -10.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £82.10 £45.88 £50.16
25th Percentile £82.24 £52.72 £52.75
Median hourly rate £82.48 £59.75 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.04% +3.91% +91.67%
75th Percentile £82.72 £74.44 £71.50
90th Percentile £82.86 £75.36 £77.40
UK median hourly rate £82.48 £62.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year +33.03% +7.83% +64.29%

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 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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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 +8 330 £565 -0.18% 144
North of England +14 89 £525 +2.44% 65
South East +44 49 £550 +4.27% 75
Yorkshire +20 43 £525 +5.00% 22
North West -8 34 £500 -3.61% 39
South West +22 31 £600 +9.09% 37
Midlands +27 22 £575 +9.52% 25
West Midlands +20 17 £575 +15.00% 15
North East +12 15 £550 - 6
East of England +30 8 £481 +6.94% 22
East Midlands +9 5 £375 -30.23% 10
DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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.

1 552 (100.00%) DevOps
2 380 (68.84%) Terraform
3 375 (67.93%) CI/CD
4 337 (61.05%) Kubernetes
5 330 (59.78%) AWS
6 250 (45.29%) Python
7 205 (37.14%) Docker
8 202 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 182 (32.97%) Security Cleared
10 179 (32.43%) Azure
11 148 (26.81%) GitLab
12 146 (26.45%) SC Cleared
13 144 (26.09%) Jenkins
14 140 (25.36%) Ansible
15 139 (25.18%) Linux
16 131 (23.73%) Agile
17 120 (21.74%) Containerisation
18 115 (20.83%) Finance
19 112 (20.29%) Azure DevOps
20 111 (20.11%) Bash
21 92 (16.67%) PowerShell
22 91 (16.49%) Java
23 80 (14.49%) Software Engineering
24 78 (14.13%) Public Sector
25 77 (13.95%) Serverless
25 77 (13.95%) Go
26 74 (13.41%) Continuous Integration
27 73 (13.22%) AWS CloudFormation
27 73 (13.22%) Prometheus
27 73 (13.22%) Site Reliability Engineering

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 50 (9.06%) Apache
2 49 (8.88%) Apache Spark
3 41 (7.43%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (5.07%) nginx
5 15 (2.72%) Confluence
6 8 (1.45%) Traefik
7 5 (0.91%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.54%) JBoss
9 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.36%) IIS
9 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.18%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.18%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.18%) SharePoint
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.18%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.18%) SAP R/3
1 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 330 (59.78%) AWS
2 179 (32.43%) Azure
3 112 (20.29%) Azure DevOps
4 77 (13.95%) Serverless
5 73 (13.22%) AWS CloudFormation
6 71 (12.86%) Amazon ECS
6 71 (12.86%) AWS Lambda
7 63 (11.41%) OpenShift
8 62 (11.23%) Amazon EC2
9 61 (11.05%) Amazon S3
10 59 (10.69%) GitHub
11 56 (10.14%) Amazon EKS
12 55 (9.96%) GCP
13 38 (6.88%) Azure AKS
14 32 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 31 (5.62%) dbt
16 28 (5.07%) PaaS
17 26 (4.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 24 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
19 23 (4.17%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 33 (5.98%) DNS
2 28 (5.07%) TCP/IP
3 21 (3.80%) HTTP
4 20 (3.62%) Firewall
5 10 (1.81%) DHCP
6 7 (1.27%) Internet
7 5 (0.91%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.91%) SAN
8 4 (0.72%) Network Security
8 4 (0.72%) SSL
8 4 (0.72%) VPN
9 3 (0.54%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.36%) VLAN
11 1 (0.18%) 3GPP
11 1 (0.18%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (0.18%) SMTP
11 1 (0.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (6.88%) Amazon RDS
2 35 (6.34%) Apache Iceberg
3 31 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
4 30 (5.43%) Dremio
5 28 (5.07%) Apache Arrow
5 28 (5.07%) Apache Ignite
6 22 (3.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 21 (3.80%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.72%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.36%) Big Data
11 11 (1.99%) SQL Server
12 10 (1.81%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.81%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
13 8 (1.45%) Apache Hive
13 8 (1.45%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
14 7 (1.27%) MySQL
15 6 (1.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 148 (26.81%) GitLab
2 144 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 70 (12.68%) Git
4 40 (7.25%) Artifactory
5 25 (4.53%) JIRA
6 15 (2.72%) SonarQube
7 12 (2.17%) Selenium
7 12 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
8 10 (1.81%) Bitbucket
8 10 (1.81%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.27%) Maven
10 5 (0.91%) Poetry
11 4 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.72%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.54%) Chocolatey
12 3 (0.54%) Gradle
12 3 (0.54%) Terragrunt
13 2 (0.36%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.36%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 115 (20.83%) Finance
2 78 (14.13%) Public Sector
3 65 (11.78%) Social Skills
4 44 (7.97%) Front Office
5 32 (5.80%) Banking
6 21 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (1.99%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.99%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.81%) Electronics
8 10 (1.81%) Marketing
9 9 (1.63%) Military
10 6 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 5 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.91%) Law
12 4 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (0.72%) Retail
13 2 (0.36%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.18%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (10.87%) Kafka
2 35 (6.34%) Elastic Stack
2 35 (6.34%) J2EE
3 29 (5.25%) PySpark
4 20 (3.62%) YAML
5 19 (3.44%) .NET
6 17 (3.08%) cloud-init
7 14 (2.54%) ARM Templates
8 13 (2.36%) Keycloak
9 11 (1.99%) OAuth
10 10 (1.81%) React
11 9 (1.63%) Spring
12 8 (1.45%) ADO
13 7 (1.27%) pytest
14 6 (1.09%) Node.js
14 6 (1.09%) REST
15 5 (0.91%) Dask
15 5 (0.91%) LAPP Stack
15 5 (0.91%) LDAP
15 5 (0.91%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (3.80%) Cloud Native
2 16 (2.90%) PKI
2 16 (2.90%) Public Cloud
3 12 (2.17%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (1.09%) Replication
5 5 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (0.91%) Product Ownership
5 5 (0.91%) Tandem
6 4 (0.72%) Data Centre
6 4 (0.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (0.72%) Mainframe
6 4 (0.72%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.54%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.54%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.54%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 139 (25.18%) Linux
2 54 (9.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 42 (7.61%) Windows
4 31 (5.62%) Unix
5 23 (4.17%) CentOS
6 14 (2.54%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.91%) VMS
8 3 (0.54%) Android
8 3 (0.54%) SUSE
8 3 (0.54%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.36%) Debian
9 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
10 1 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 552 (100.00%) DevOps
2 375 (67.93%) CI/CD
3 202 (36.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 131 (23.73%) Agile
5 120 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 80 (14.49%) Software Engineering
7 74 (13.41%) Continuous Integration
8 73 (13.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 67 (12.14%) Problem-Solving
10 63 (11.41%) Configuration Management
11 62 (11.23%) Infrastructure Automation
12 48 (8.70%) Deployment Automation
13 47 (8.51%) Asset Management
14 46 (8.33%) Test Automation
15 42 (7.61%) Data Engineering
15 42 (7.61%) Microservices
16 39 (7.07%) High Availability
16 39 (7.07%) Observability
17 38 (6.88%) Task Automation
18 36 (6.52%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 250 (45.29%) Python
2 111 (20.11%) Bash
3 92 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 91 (16.49%) Java
5 77 (13.95%) Go
6 44 (7.97%) SQL
7 40 (7.25%) JavaScript
8 27 (4.89%) C#
9 19 (3.44%) Shell Script
10 13 (2.36%) Bicep
11 12 (2.17%) TypeScript
12 8 (1.45%) Groovy
13 5 (0.91%) PHP
14 4 (0.72%) Perl
14 4 (0.72%) Ruby
15 3 (0.54%) Kotlin
15 3 (0.54%) Rust
16 1 (0.18%) C
16 1 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 182 (32.97%) Security Cleared
2 146 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 30 (5.43%) DV Cleared
4 25 (4.53%) AWS Certification
5 23 (4.17%) Degree
6 14 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (2.36%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (0.91%) RHCA
9 5 (0.91%) RHCE
10 4 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.54%) CCNP
11 3 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.54%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.54%) OCA
12 1 (0.18%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.17%) QA
2 10 (1.81%) NCSC
3 4 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.36%) GDPR
4 2 (0.36%) NIST
4 2 (0.36%) SLA
5 1 (0.18%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.18%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 205 (37.14%) Docker
2 14 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.99%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.91%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.72%) Lustre
7 3 (0.54%) vSphere
8 2 (0.36%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.18%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 380 (68.84%) Terraform
2 337 (61.05%) Kubernetes
3 140 (25.36%) Ansible
4 73 (13.22%) Prometheus
5 71 (12.86%) Grafana
6 41 (7.43%) Puppet
7 30 (5.43%) Packer
8 22 (3.99%) Progress Chef
9 18 (3.26%) Istio
10 16 (2.90%) Consul
11 14 (2.54%) Rancher
12 12 (2.17%) HAProxy
12 12 (2.17%) Kibana
12 12 (2.17%) ZABBIX
13 11 (1.99%) Argo
14 10 (1.81%) Jamf Pro
14 10 (1.81%) linkerd
15 7 (1.27%) Kustomize
15 7 (1.27%) Podman
16 5 (0.91%) logstash
Vendors
1 35 (6.34%) Splunk
2 34 (6.16%) Red Hat
3 26 (4.71%) VMware
4 22 (3.99%) Microsoft
5 19 (3.44%) Google
6 17 (3.08%) Databricks
7 13 (2.36%) SAP
8 12 (2.17%) Dynatrace
9 10 (1.81%) Okta
9 10 (1.81%) Oracle
10 9 (1.63%) Cloudera
10 9 (1.63%) Virgin Media
11 8 (1.45%) AppDynamics
11 8 (1.45%) Apple
11 8 (1.45%) ESET
12 6 (1.09%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.09%) Cisco
13 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
14 3 (0.54%) Confluent
14 3 (0.54%) UiPath