Lead DevOps Contracts in England

Lead Development Operations
UK > England

The median Lead Development Operations daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 466 488 541
Rank change year-on-year +22 +53 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Lead DevOps 37 45 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.14% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 33 42
10th Percentile £400 £500 £479
25th Percentile £450 £563 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% - -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £734
90th Percentile £675 £750 £827
UK median daily rate £513 £650 £632
% change year-on-year -21.15% +2.93% -6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.00
UK median hourly rate - - £52.00

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 25,459 31,161 42,955
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.66% 92.94% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,518 20,586 30,286
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,307 1,856 1,344
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.16 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.65 £21.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +2 21 £548 -15.77% 15
North of England -2 9 £475 -5.00% 2
Yorkshire -2 7 £500 -
North West - 3 £450 - 1
South West +28 2 £525 -4.55% 4
Midlands -10 2 £638 +30.77% 1
West Midlands -9 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £638 - 1
Lead DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 2 August 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 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 25 (67.57%) AWS
3 23 (62.16%) Terraform
3 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
4 18 (48.65%) Kubernetes
5 14 (37.84%) Ansible
5 14 (37.84%) Azure
5 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
6 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
6 13 (35.14%) Agile
6 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (32.43%) Python
7 12 (32.43%) Jenkins
8 10 (27.03%) GitLab
8 10 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
9 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
9 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
10 8 (21.62%) Git
10 8 (21.62%) Prometheus
10 8 (21.62%) Docker
11 7 (18.92%) GitHub
11 7 (18.92%) Splunk
11 7 (18.92%) Linux
11 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
12 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
12 6 (16.22%) Puppet
12 6 (16.22%) AWS Certification
12 6 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation

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 (2.70%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 25 (67.57%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Azure
3 10 (27.03%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (18.92%) GitHub
5 6 (16.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 5 (13.51%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (13.51%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (13.51%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (13.51%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (13.51%) Serverless
7 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
7 4 (10.81%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (10.81%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (10.81%) Datadog
7 4 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 3 (8.11%) Amazon SQS
8 3 (8.11%) AWS KMS
8 3 (8.11%) GCP
9 2 (5.41%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) DNS
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
2 2 (5.41%) SSL
2 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (8.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (5.41%) DynamoDB
2 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) Flink
3 1 (2.70%) Metadata
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) Power BI
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (32.43%) Jenkins
2 10 (27.03%) GitLab
3 8 (21.62%) Git
4 5 (13.51%) JIRA
5 2 (5.41%) Bitbucket
5 2 (5.41%) JMeter
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.70%) Vagrant
6 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (24.32%) Public Sector
2 6 (16.22%) Social Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.51%) Finance
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Front Office
5 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (10.81%) Kafka
2 3 (8.11%) .NET
3 2 (5.41%) cloud-init
3 2 (5.41%) Keycloak
4 1 (2.70%) Apache Beam
4 1 (2.70%) JDBC
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (2.70%) Spring
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) TypeORM
4 1 (2.70%) Web Services
4 1 (2.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 2 (5.41%) PKI
2 1 (2.70%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Derivative
2 1 (2.70%) Equities
2 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
2 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.70%) NHS
2 1 (2.70%) Security Posture
2 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) Unix
3 3 (8.11%) CentOS
4 2 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) DevOps
2 23 (62.16%) CI/CD
3 13 (35.14%) Agile
3 13 (35.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (24.32%) Test Automation
5 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
6 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
6 6 (16.22%) DevSecOps
6 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (16.22%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.51%) Observability
8 4 (10.81%) Cloud Security
8 4 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (10.81%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (10.81%) ITIL
9 3 (8.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 3 (8.11%) Release Management
9 3 (8.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) Bash
3 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
3 4 (10.81%) SQL
4 3 (8.11%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) Go
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.70%) Bicep
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (37.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (35.14%) SC Cleared
3 6 (16.22%) AWS Certification
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.41%) Degree
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.70%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) GDPR
2 4 (10.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.81%) QA
3 3 (8.11%) NIST
3 3 (8.11%) SOC 2
4 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (5.41%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (5.41%) NCSC
5 1 (2.70%) Basel III
5 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.70%) MiFID
5 1 (2.70%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (21.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) Terraform
2 18 (48.65%) Kubernetes
3 14 (37.84%) Ansible
4 8 (21.62%) Prometheus
5 6 (16.22%) Puppet
6 5 (13.51%) Grafana
6 5 (13.51%) Kustomize
6 5 (13.51%) Packer
7 2 (5.41%) Argo
7 2 (5.41%) Cilium
7 2 (5.41%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (5.41%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (18.92%) Splunk
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.11%) InterSystems
4 2 (5.41%) Okta
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.70%) Rollbar
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce