Junior DevOps Contracts in England

Junior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Junior Development Operations daily rate in England is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 644 775
Rank change year-on-year +100 +131 -153
Contract jobs requiring a Junior DevOps 5 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.004% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.004% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £268 £280
25th Percentile £300 £276 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £305 £313
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -2.40% -30.56%
75th Percentile £425 £336 £325
90th Percentile £433 £346 -
UK median daily rate £350 £335 £313
% change year-on-year +4.48% +7.20% -26.47%

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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Junior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Junior DevOps in England

Junior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Junior DevOps in England

Junior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Junior DevOps in England

Junior 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 Junior DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 10 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 - 4 £363 - 3
South West +18 1 £425 +54.55% 2
Junior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Junior DevOps 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 Junior DevOps in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
4 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
5 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (20.00%) Grafana
5 1 (20.00%) Service Design
5 1 (20.00%) Ansible
5 1 (20.00%) Docker
5 1 (20.00%) SharePoint

Junior DevOps 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ARM Templates
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Grafana
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Prometheus