Lead DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Lead Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £575, 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 469 517 614
Rank change year-on-year +48 +97 +94
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps Engineer 16 25 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.066% 0.067% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.072% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 27
10th Percentile £508 £513 £516
25th Percentile £535 £561 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £700
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +7.69%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £800
90th Percentile £688 £730 £828
UK median daily rate £575 £650 £700
% change year-on-year -11.54% -7.14% +7.69%

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%

Lead DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps Engineer in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps Engineer in England

Lead 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 Lead 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
North of England +24 7 £565 -1.74% 3
London +26 6 £600 -7.69% 8
North East - 4 £545 -
Yorkshire +9 3 £575 - 1
South East - 2 £675 - 2
South West +46 1 £425 -22.73% 2
North West - 1 £575 - 2
Lead DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 Lead DevOps Engineer in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 14 (87.50%) Terraform
2 14 (87.50%) Kubernetes
3 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
3 13 (81.25%) AWS
4 9 (56.25%) GitLab
5 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (43.75%) Python
6 7 (43.75%) Linux
7 6 (37.50%) Ansible
8 5 (31.25%) Finance
8 5 (31.25%) Azure
8 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
8 5 (31.25%) Git
9 4 (25.00%) Bash
9 4 (25.00%) Agile
9 4 (25.00%) Packer
9 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
10 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
10 3 (18.75%) Kustomize
10 3 (18.75%) Kong
10 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
10 3 (18.75%) Grafana
10 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
10 3 (18.75%) Marketing
10 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
10 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (18.75%) Programme Management

Lead 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 1 (6.25%) Apache
1 1 (6.25%) JBoss
1 1 (6.25%) nginx
1 1 (6.25%) Traefik
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 13 (81.25%) AWS
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 3 (18.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 3 (18.75%) Kong
4 2 (12.50%) Akamai
4 2 (12.50%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (12.50%) Datadog
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 1 (6.25%) Serverless
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) GitLab
2 5 (31.25%) Git
2 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Ant
3 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
3 1 (6.25%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Electronics
2 3 (18.75%) Manufacturing
2 3 (18.75%) Marketing
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (6.25%) cloud-init
2 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (6.25%) Keycloak
2 1 (6.25%) Middleware
2 1 (6.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (12.50%) CentOS
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) DevOps
2 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (25.00%) Agile
4 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
5 3 (18.75%) Digital Marketing
5 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
5 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
5 3 (18.75%) Release Management
5 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 2 (12.50%) B2B
6 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (12.50%) Microservices
6 2 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (12.50%) The Twelve-Factor App
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (6.25%) Bicep
5 1 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (6.25%) Groovy
5 1 (6.25%) Java
5 1 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Certification
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (87.50%) Kubernetes
1 14 (87.50%) Terraform
2 6 (37.50%) Ansible
3 4 (25.00%) Packer
4 3 (18.75%) Grafana
4 3 (18.75%) Kustomize
4 3 (18.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (12.50%) Puppet
6 1 (6.25%) Argo
6 1 (6.25%) Cilium
6 1 (6.25%) Consul
6 1 (6.25%) HAProxy
6 1 (6.25%) Istio
6 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (6.25%) linkerd
6 1 (6.25%) Podman
6 1 (6.25%) Rancher
6 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
1 3 (18.75%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Apple
2 1 (6.25%) ESET
2 1 (6.25%) Okta
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Red Hat