DevOps Contracts in England

DevOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for DevOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DevOps over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 15 12 8
Rank change year-on-year -3 -4 +1
Contract jobs citing DevOps 3,390 5,755 9,151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 9.22% 11.77% 13.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.66% 13.06% 14.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,351 4,228 6,656
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.94%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £581 £575
% change year-on-year -5.34% +1.04% +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 102 75
10th Percentile £56.35 £48.99 £35.80
25th Percentile £61.25 £60.91 £45.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +13.91% +7.98%
75th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
90th Percentile £87.28 £79.19 £80.10
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.50 £57.34
% change year-on-year -0.76% +14.23% +27.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

DevOps is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,798 44,069 63,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 30,926 45,337
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,559 1,731
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing DevOps as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for DevOps in England

DevOps
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing DevOps in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for DevOps in England

DevOps
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 11 May 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 -2 1,965 £573 -4.58% 621
South East -5 439 £550 -5.50% 216
North of England -2 409 £523 -5.00% 270
North West -2 239 £525 -4.55% 167
South West -11 235 £550 -8.33% 153
Yorkshire +2 156 £495 -17.50% 82
Midlands -13 129 £513 -4.52% 181
East of England -10 98 £534 -2.91% 64
West Midlands -18 91 £513 -10.87% 118
East Midlands -11 32 £450 +2.86% 62
North East -6 18 £525 -12.50% 21
DevOps
UK

DevOps
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
1 135 (3.98%) Confluence
2 59 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 42 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
4 38 (1.12%) nginx
5 37 (1.09%) Apache
6 36 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 36 (1.06%) CMS
7 34 (1.00%) IIS
8 32 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
9 17 (0.50%) OpenStack
10 11 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 11 (0.32%) JBoss
11 8 (0.24%) Site Server
12 7 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 7 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (0.18%) Apache Solr
13 6 (0.18%) Tornado
13 6 (0.18%) WebLogic
13 6 (0.18%) WebSphere
14 5 (0.15%) Drupal
Applications
1 34 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.15%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.088%) Trello
7 2 (0.059%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.029%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.029%) Gliffy
8 1 (0.029%) PlantUML
8 1 (0.029%) Simulink
8 1 (0.029%) Sketch
8 1 (0.029%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 62 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.77%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 17 (0.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 14 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.38%) Endur
7 11 (0.32%) Teamcenter
8 8 (0.24%) NetSuite
8 8 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
8 8 (0.24%) Shopify
9 7 (0.21%) Aladdin
9 7 (0.21%) SAP Hybris
9 7 (0.21%) SAP PM
10 6 (0.18%) NEC Housing
10 6 (0.18%) SimCorp Dimension
11 5 (0.15%) Temenos T24
12 4 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
13 3 (0.088%) BusinessWorks
14 2 (0.059%) Front Arena
14 2 (0.059%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 1,735 (51.18%) Azure
2 1,038 (30.62%) Azure DevOps
3 971 (28.64%) AWS
4 292 (8.61%) Serverless
5 291 (8.58%) GCP
6 242 (7.14%) GitHub
7 211 (6.22%) Power Platform
8 137 (4.04%) Amazon S3
9 135 (3.98%) Entra ID
10 133 (3.92%) Dynamics 365
11 127 (3.75%) Azure Service Bus
12 126 (3.72%) AWS Lambda
13 124 (3.66%) Azure Monitor
14 123 (3.63%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 114 (3.36%) Amazon EC2
16 109 (3.22%) PaaS
17 105 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
17 105 (3.10%) Azure Functions
18 103 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
19 93 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 210 (6.19%) Firewall
2 94 (2.77%) VPN
3 90 (2.65%) DNS
4 63 (1.86%) HTTP
5 51 (1.50%) Network Security
6 42 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 39 (1.15%) BGP
8 35 (1.03%) Modbus
8 35 (1.03%) RS-422
8 35 (1.03%) RS-485
9 34 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 33 (0.97%) DHCP
11 31 (0.91%) SNMP
12 28 (0.83%) HSRP
12 28 (0.83%) MPLS
13 25 (0.74%) IPv4
14 24 (0.71%) SSL
15 20 (0.59%) RSVP
16 19 (0.56%) Internet
17 18 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 376 (11.09%) SQL Server
2 156 (4.60%) Power BI
3 145 (4.28%) PostgreSQL
4 134 (3.95%) NoSQL
5 126 (3.72%) Data Lake
6 115 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 87 (2.57%) Data Warehouse
8 81 (2.39%) MySQL
9 77 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
10 71 (2.09%) MongoDB
11 70 (2.06%) Azure SQL Database
12 65 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
13 59 (1.74%) Big Data
14 42 (1.24%) Amazon Athena
15 40 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 38 (1.12%) Apache Cassandra
17 35 (1.03%) Redis
18 34 (1.00%) Oracle Database
19 32 (0.94%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 426 (12.57%) Git
2 405 (11.95%) Jenkins
3 283 (8.35%) JIRA
4 241 (7.11%) GitLab
5 120 (3.54%) Selenium
6 78 (2.30%) SonarQube
7 71 (2.09%) Visual Studio
8 65 (1.92%) TeamCity
9 58 (1.71%) SpecFlow
10 55 (1.62%) Cucumber
11 47 (1.39%) Artifactory
12 46 (1.36%) Bitbucket
13 45 (1.33%) JUnit
14 38 (1.12%) Postman
15 31 (0.91%) Cypress.io
16 25 (0.74%) REST Assured
17 23 (0.68%) Maven
18 22 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
19 21 (0.62%) Atlassian Bamboo
20 19 (0.56%) JMeter
General
1 749 (22.09%) Social Skills
2 669 (19.73%) Finance
3 343 (10.12%) Public Sector
4 287 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
5 213 (6.28%) Banking
6 101 (2.98%) Retail
7 91 (2.68%) Front Office
8 70 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
9 54 (1.59%) Electronics
9 54 (1.59%) Telecoms
10 53 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 53 (1.56%) Marketing
11 51 (1.50%) Back Office
12 47 (1.39%) Law
13 41 (1.21%) Legal
14 37 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 32 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 26 (0.77%) General Ledger
17 25 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
18 19 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 731 (21.56%) Developer
2 632 (18.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 467 (13.78%) Senior
4 393 (11.59%) Architect
5 273 (8.05%) Lead
6 208 (6.14%) Azure Engineer
7 176 (5.19%) Analyst
8 175 (5.16%) Senior Developer
9 167 (4.93%) AWS Engineer
10 163 (4.81%) Software Engineer
11 138 (4.07%) Consultant
12 129 (3.81%) AWS DevOps
13 121 (3.57%) .NET Developer
14 120 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
15 111 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 110 (3.24%) Data Engineer
17 99 (2.92%) Azure Developer
18 98 (2.89%) Azure DevOps Engineer
19 90 (2.65%) Full Stack Developer
20 88 (2.60%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 502 (14.81%) .NET
2 275 (8.11%) React
3 207 (6.11%) XML
4 181 (5.34%) REST
5 178 (5.25%) Kafka
6 165 (4.87%) .NET Core
7 157 (4.63%) Node.js
8 155 (4.57%) AngularJS
9 141 (4.16%) HTML
10 140 (4.13%) .NET Framework
11 128 (3.78%) CSS
12 119 (3.51%) JSON
13 112 (3.30%) RESTful
14 86 (2.54%) ARM Templates
14 86 (2.54%) Spring
15 84 (2.48%) YAML
16 80 (2.36%) Spring Boot
17 77 (2.27%) ASP.NET
18 71 (2.09%) Web Services
19 70 (2.06%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.37%) Product Ownership
2 102 (3.01%) Public Cloud
3 98 (2.89%) Cloud Native
4 76 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
6 62 (1.83%) Derivative
7 61 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 54 (1.59%) Mobile App
9 52 (1.53%) Hedge funds
10 49 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 49 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
11 43 (1.27%) Onboarding
12 40 (1.18%) Fixed Income
13 37 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
14 36 (1.06%) PKI
15 35 (1.03%) Data Centre
16 34 (1.00%) Management Information System
17 33 (0.97%) Clustering
18 32 (0.94%) Equities
19 29 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 396 (11.68%) Linux
2 291 (8.58%) Windows
3 143 (4.22%) Windows Server
4 78 (2.30%) Unix
5 63 (1.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 49 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 47 (1.39%) Android
8 23 (0.68%) CentOS
9 22 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 14 (0.41%) Solaris
11 10 (0.29%) Ubuntu
12 9 (0.27%) VMS
12 9 (0.27%) Windows 10
13 8 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.15%) Alpine Linux
15 4 (0.12%) AIX
16 3 (0.088%) Debian
17 2 (0.059%) Mac OS
18 1 (0.029%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,459 (43.04%) Agile
2 1,225 (36.14%) CI/CD
3 440 (12.98%) Problem-Solving
4 439 (12.95%) Infrastructure as Code
5 428 (12.63%) Software Engineering
6 426 (12.57%) Scrum
7 369 (10.88%) Microservices
8 362 (10.68%) Test Automation
9 300 (8.85%) TDD
10 289 (8.53%) Continuous Integration
11 284 (8.38%) Containerisation
12 258 (7.61%) Migration
13 237 (6.99%) SDLC
14 224 (6.61%) Continuous Improvement
15 194 (5.72%) Full Stack Development
16 185 (5.46%) Business Intelligence
17 183 (5.40%) Analytics
18 178 (5.25%) Computer Science
19 176 (5.19%) Unit Testing
20 174 (5.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 841 (24.81%) Python
2 618 (18.23%) C#
3 538 (15.87%) SQL
4 455 (13.42%) Java
5 450 (13.27%) PowerShell
6 341 (10.06%) JavaScript
7 232 (6.84%) TypeScript
8 189 (5.58%) Bash
9 150 (4.42%) Bicep
10 147 (4.34%) Go
11 123 (3.63%) C++
12 111 (3.27%) C
13 64 (1.89%) Shell Script
14 53 (1.56%) Scala
15 46 (1.36%) Ruby
16 44 (1.30%) Perl
17 40 (1.18%) T-SQL
18 31 (0.91%) VBScript
19 29 (0.86%) PL/SQL
20 25 (0.74%) PHP
Qualifications
1 719 (21.21%) Security Cleared
2 505 (14.90%) SC Cleared
3 282 (8.32%) Degree
4 218 (6.43%) DV Cleared
5 119 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 57 (1.68%) AWS Certification
7 52 (1.53%) Azure Certification
8 38 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 31 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 26 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
11 24 (0.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 23 (0.68%) PMP
13 20 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (0.56%) CCNP
14 19 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 18 (0.53%) PMI Certification
16 13 (0.38%) CCNA
16 13 (0.38%) ISTQB
17 12 (0.35%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (6.17%) QA
2 47 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 45 (1.33%) GDPR
4 39 (1.15%) Data Quality
5 38 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 37 (1.09%) NIST
7 35 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 25 (0.74%) SLA
8 25 (0.74%) WCAG
9 17 (0.50%) PMO
10 14 (0.41%) MISRA
10 14 (0.41%) NCSC
11 12 (0.35%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 6 (0.18%) GRC
13 6 (0.18%) ISO 22301
14 5 (0.15%) ISO 9001
14 5 (0.15%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.088%) IFRS 17
15 3 (0.088%) Solvency II
System Software
1 519 (15.31%) Docker
2 242 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 61 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 59 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 22 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.47%) VMware NSX
7 15 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 12 (0.35%) Firmware
9 11 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.21%) vCloud
10 7 (0.21%) vSphere
11 6 (0.18%) NFS
12 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
13 3 (0.088%) LXC
13 3 (0.088%) OpenAM
13 3 (0.088%) OpenIDM
14 2 (0.059%) HDFS
14 2 (0.059%) Squid
14 2 (0.059%) Varnish
14 2 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 743 (21.92%) Terraform
2 720 (21.24%) Kubernetes
3 376 (11.09%) Ansible
4 145 (4.28%) Prometheus
5 131 (3.86%) Grafana
6 79 (2.33%) Puppet
7 62 (1.83%) Progress Chef
8 43 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
9 38 (1.12%) Docker Swarm
10 35 (1.03%) Kibana
11 33 (0.97%) Istio
12 31 (0.91%) SCCM
12 31 (0.91%) SCOM
13 27 (0.80%) Consul
14 26 (0.77%) Packer
15 25 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 25 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
16 21 (0.62%) Argo
17 18 (0.53%) ITRS Geneos
18 17 (0.50%) Rancher
Vendors
1 654 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 219 (6.46%) Oracle
3 101 (2.98%) Google
4 97 (2.86%) Databricks
5 95 (2.80%) Splunk
6 92 (2.71%) VMware
7 86 (2.54%) SAP
8 66 (1.95%) Salesforce
9 65 (1.92%) ServiceNow
10 54 (1.59%) Cisco
11 49 (1.45%) IBM
12 41 (1.21%) Dynatrace
13 38 (1.12%) Red Hat
14 34 (1.00%) Citrix
15 33 (0.97%) CyberArk
16 30 (0.88%) F5
17 28 (0.83%) Adobe
18 25 (0.74%) Nokia
18 25 (0.74%) Palo Alto
19 24 (0.71%) EMC