Lead DevOps Contracts in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in England is £625 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 558 606
Rank change year-on-year +74 +48 -82
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 59 90 178
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.16% 0.18% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 65 139
10th Percentile £500 £513 £507
25th Percentile £525 £600 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £775 £733
90th Percentile £708 £829 £825
UK median daily rate £625 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +10.64%

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 34,513 47,748 67,861
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.62% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,922 33,906 48,257
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,408 1,904
10th Percentile £12.96 £14.34 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.65 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Lead DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead DevOps in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead DevOps in England

Lead DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Lead DevOps in England

Lead 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 Lead DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +100 40 £650 - 14
Yorkshire +19 5 £625 - 1
North of England +19 5 £625 -3.85% 6
South West +12 2 £619 -19.51%
South East +8 2 £650 -18.75% 3
West Midlands +24 1 - - 1
Midlands +22 1 - - 3
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Lead 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 Lead DevOps in the job title.

1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (76.27%) CI/CD
3 30 (50.85%) AWS
4 26 (44.07%) Terraform
5 22 (37.29%) Python
6 21 (35.59%) Agile
7 20 (33.90%) Kubernetes
8 19 (32.20%) Finance
8 19 (32.20%) Linux
8 19 (32.20%) Azure
9 17 (28.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (25.42%) Ansible
10 15 (25.42%) Docker
10 15 (25.42%) Containerisation
11 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
12 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
12 12 (20.34%) Jenkins
12 12 (20.34%) DevSecOps
13 10 (16.95%) Microservices
13 10 (16.95%) Serverless
13 10 (16.95%) Bash
13 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
14 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
14 9 (15.25%) GitLab
14 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
15 8 (13.56%) SDLC
15 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
16 7 (11.86%) AWS Lambda

Lead 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 2 (3.39%) Confluence
1 2 (3.39%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (50.85%) AWS
2 19 (32.20%) Azure
3 10 (16.95%) Serverless
4 8 (13.56%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.86%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (11.86%) GitHub
5 7 (11.86%) SaaS
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (8.47%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.78%) Amazon EventBridge
8 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (6.78%) PaaS
9 3 (5.08%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (5.08%) GCP
9 3 (5.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.39%) CloudBees
10 2 (3.39%) Google Compute Engine
10 2 (3.39%) IaaS
10 2 (3.39%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.08%) Firewall
1 3 (5.08%) VPN
2 1 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) Internet
2 1 (1.69%) IPv4
2 1 (1.69%) OSPF
2 1 (1.69%) SSL
2 1 (1.69%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.08%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.39%) BigQuery
3 2 (3.39%) DynamoDB
3 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.69%) DataStax
4 1 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (20.34%) Jenkins
2 9 (15.25%) GitLab
3 5 (8.47%) Git
4 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.78%) JIRA
5 3 (5.08%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.39%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.39%) GoCD
6 2 (3.39%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.39%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.69%) JMeter
7 1 (1.69%) Maven
7 1 (1.69%) Selenium
7 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 19 (32.20%) Finance
2 9 (15.25%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.39%) Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.69%) Electronics
5 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.69%) Marketing
5 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.47%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (6.78%) Node.js
3 2 (3.39%) ARM Templates
3 2 (3.39%) AWS CDK
3 2 (3.39%) AWS SAM
3 2 (3.39%) Kafka
3 2 (3.39%) YAML
4 1 (1.69%) .NET
4 1 (1.69%) ADO
4 1 (1.69%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.69%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.69%) Keycloak
4 1 (1.69%) Next.js
4 1 (1.69%) React
4 1 (1.69%) REST
4 1 (1.69%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Derivative
2 3 (5.08%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.39%) Blockchain
3 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.39%) Sports Betting
4 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.69%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 19 (32.20%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Unix
3 2 (3.39%) CentOS
3 2 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.39%) Windows
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) DevOps
2 45 (76.27%) CI/CD
3 21 (35.59%) Agile
4 17 (28.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 15 (25.42%) Containerisation
6 12 (20.34%) DevSecOps
7 10 (16.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (16.95%) Microservices
8 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
8 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.56%) SDLC
10 7 (11.86%) Configuration Management
10 7 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (10.17%) Continuous Delivery
11 6 (10.17%) Continuous Deployment
12 5 (8.47%) Cloud Security
12 5 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (8.47%) Observability
12 5 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
13 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (37.29%) Python
2 10 (16.95%) Bash
3 6 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.47%) SQL
5 3 (5.08%) Go
5 3 (5.08%) Groovy
5 3 (5.08%) Java
5 3 (5.08%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.69%) C#
6 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (20.34%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.69%) GIAC
5 1 (1.69%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.08%) QA
2 1 (1.69%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (25.42%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.39%) NFS
2 2 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.69%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 26 (44.07%) Terraform
2 20 (33.90%) Kubernetes
3 15 (25.42%) Ansible
4 4 (6.78%) Grafana
5 3 (5.08%) Argo
5 3 (5.08%) Prometheus
5 3 (5.08%) Puppet
6 2 (3.39%) Kibana
6 2 (3.39%) logstash
6 2 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.69%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.69%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.69%) Mesos
7 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.47%) VMware
2 4 (6.78%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.08%) Teradata
4 2 (3.39%) Amdocs
4 2 (3.39%) Google
5 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.69%) Citrix
5 1 (1.69%) Confluent
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle
5 1 (1.69%) SAP
5 1 (1.69%) Virgin Media