DevOps Specialist Contracts in England

Development Operations Specialist
UK > England

The median Development Operations Specialist daily rate in England is £688, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 541 626
Rank change year-on-year +58 +85 +140
Contract jobs requiring a DevOps Specialist 9 10 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.027% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.029% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £388 £564 £436
25th Percentile £597 £593 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £688 £675 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +25.58% -10.42%
75th Percentile £738 £688 £628
90th Percentile - - £634
UK median daily rate £688 £675 £600
% change year-on-year +1.85% +12.50% +1.61%

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 23,106 34,702 44,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.89% 94.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,171 22,647 31,568
10th Percentile £293 £291 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,050 2,652 1,333
10th Percentile £13.99 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.11 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.55 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.31% -9.35% +78.37%
75th Percentile £58.66 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.03% -12.79% +72.00%

DevOps Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for DevOps Specialist in England

DevOps Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps Specialist in England

DevOps Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps Specialist in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps Specialist in England

DevOps Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 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 +53 6 £713 +5.56% 5
North West - 3 £380 - 6
North of England - 3 £380 - 6
DevOps Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, DevOps Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (77.78%) Microservices
3 7 (77.78%) Progress Chef
3 7 (77.78%) Java
4 6 (66.67%) Linux
4 6 (66.67%) Git
4 6 (66.67%) AWS
4 6 (66.67%) Puppet
4 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (55.56%) Istio
5 5 (55.56%) Azure
5 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
5 5 (55.56%) Banking
5 5 (55.56%) Maven
6 4 (44.44%) Perl
6 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
6 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
6 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
7 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 3 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra

DevOps Specialist 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 2 (22.22%) WebSphere
1 2 (22.22%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (11.11%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) OpenShift
4 3 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Kong
4 3 (33.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 2 (22.22%) IBM Cloud
5 2 (22.22%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (22.22%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (33.33%) Hazelcast
1 3 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (66.67%) Git
3 5 (55.56%) Maven
4 3 (33.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (22.22%) GitLab
6 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (11.11%) JIRA
6 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
6 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Banking
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 3 (33.33%) J2EE
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
1 3 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 3 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (22.22%) Distributed Applications
2 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (33.33%) Unix
3 2 (22.22%) Android
3 2 (22.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (77.78%) Microservices
4 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (44.44%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (33.33%) Batch Management
7 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
7 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
7 3 (33.33%) Containerisation
7 3 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
7 3 (33.33%) DevSecOps
7 3 (33.33%) High Availability
7 3 (33.33%) Log Aggregation
8 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
8 2 (22.22%) Project Management
9 1 (11.11%) Analytics
9 1 (11.11%) Build Automation
9 1 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Python
2 7 (77.78%) Java
3 5 (55.56%) Shell Script
4 4 (44.44%) Perl
5 3 (33.33%) Bash
5 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Developer
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 3 (33.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) Docker
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (88.89%) Terraform
3 7 (77.78%) Progress Chef
4 6 (66.67%) Puppet
5 5 (55.56%) Istio
6 3 (33.33%) Ansible
6 3 (33.33%) Control-M
6 3 (33.33%) Grafana
6 3 (33.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (33.33%) Rundeck
7 1 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 2 (22.22%) IBM
3 1 (11.11%) AppDynamics
3 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk