Lead DevOps Contracts in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations 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 459 483 563
Rank change year-on-year +24 +80 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 26 59 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.11% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 39 65
10th Percentile £410 £500 £513
25th Percentile £510 £525 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £775
90th Percentile £688 £708 £829
UK median daily rate £575 £625 £650
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% -

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
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 1 May 2025.

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 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
London +11 13 £608 -6.54% 11
North of England +23 9 £565 -9.60% 4
Yorkshire +8 5 £575 -8.00% 2
North East - 4 £545 -
South East +46 2 £675 +3.85% 3
South West +45 1 £425 -31.31% 3
Midlands +22 1 £638 - 2
North West - 1 £575 - 2
East Midlands - 1 £638 -
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 18 (69.23%) Kubernetes
3 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
4 16 (61.54%) AWS
5 15 (57.69%) Terraform
6 9 (34.62%) GitLab
6 9 (34.62%) Azure
6 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (30.77%) Python
8 7 (26.92%) Linux
8 7 (26.92%) Finance
8 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
9 6 (23.08%) Agile
9 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
9 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
9 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
9 6 (23.08%) Ansible
10 5 (19.23%) Docker
10 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
10 5 (19.23%) Bash
10 5 (19.23%) Git
11 4 (15.38%) QA
11 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 4 (15.38%) Packer
11 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
11 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
11 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
12 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (11.54%) Prometheus

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 1 (3.85%) Apache
1 1 (3.85%) JBoss
1 1 (3.85%) nginx
1 1 (3.85%) Traefik
1 1 (3.85%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 16 (61.54%) AWS
2 9 (34.62%) Azure
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (11.54%) Datadog
4 3 (11.54%) Entra ID
4 3 (11.54%) Kong
5 2 (7.69%) Akamai
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.69%) Azure API Management
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless
6 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.85%) CloudFront
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
6 1 (3.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (34.62%) GitLab
2 5 (19.23%) Git
2 5 (19.23%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) Ant
3 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
3 1 (3.85%) JIRA
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) Selenium
3 1 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Electronics
3 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
3 3 (11.54%) Marketing
3 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) Kafka
1 2 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (3.85%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.85%) cloud-init
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (3.85%) Keycloak
2 1 (3.85%) Middleware
2 1 (3.85%) pytest
2 1 (3.85%) Serverless Framework
2 1 (3.85%) TypeORM
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) NHS
2 1 (3.85%) PKI
2 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Linux
2 3 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) CentOS
4 1 (3.85%) Unix
4 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) DevOps
2 17 (65.38%) CI/CD
3 9 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (23.08%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (11.54%) Configuration Management
7 3 (11.54%) Decision-Making
7 3 (11.54%) Deployment Automation
7 3 (11.54%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (11.54%) Identity Management
7 3 (11.54%) Programme Management
7 3 (11.54%) Release Management
7 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (11.54%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (7.69%) B2B
8 2 (7.69%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) Bash
3 3 (11.54%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) Bicep
5 1 (3.85%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) Groovy
5 1 (3.85%) Java
5 1 (3.85%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (69.23%) Kubernetes
2 15 (57.69%) Terraform
3 6 (23.08%) Ansible
4 4 (15.38%) Packer
5 3 (11.54%) Grafana
5 3 (11.54%) Kustomize
5 3 (11.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (7.69%) Puppet
7 1 (3.85%) Argo
7 1 (3.85%) Cilium
7 1 (3.85%) Consul
7 1 (3.85%) HAProxy
7 1 (3.85%) Istio
7 1 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (3.85%) linkerd
7 1 (3.85%) Podman
7 1 (3.85%) Rancher
7 1 (3.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) SAP
1 3 (11.54%) Splunk
2 1 (3.85%) Apple
2 1 (3.85%) ESET
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Okta
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.85%) Rollbar
2 1 (3.85%) VMware