Principal DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Principal Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Principal Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £600, 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 476 - 650
Rank change year-on-year - - +131
Contract jobs requiring a Principal DevOps Engineer 9 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.037% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile £487 - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £750
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
UK median daily rate £600 - £750

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%

Principal DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in England

Principal DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Principal DevOps Engineer in England

Principal DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Principal DevOps Engineer in England

Principal 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 Principal 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
London - 6 £600 - 10
North West - 2 £625 - 1
South West - 2 £625 -
North of England - 2 £625 - 1
Principal DevOps Engineer
UK

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

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

1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 7 (77.78%) AWS
4 6 (66.67%) Terraform
5 5 (55.56%) Azure
5 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Automation
5 5 (55.56%) Ansible
6 4 (44.44%) GCP
6 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (44.44%) Windows
6 4 (44.44%) Linux
6 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
6 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
7 3 (33.33%) ITSM
7 3 (33.33%) High Availability
7 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
7 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
7 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
7 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
8 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
8 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
8 2 (22.22%) ZABBIX
8 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
8 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3

Principal 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) AWS
2 5 (55.56%) Azure
3 4 (44.44%) GCP
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (11.11%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub
5 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Replication
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 8 (88.89%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (44.44%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (33.33%) ITSM
5 3 (33.33%) Software Delivery
6 2 (22.22%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Workflow
7 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
7 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
7 1 (11.11%) Migration
7 1 (11.11%) Project Management
7 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Ansible
3 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 2 (22.22%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
2 1 (11.11%) Confluent
2 1 (11.11%) Dynatrace
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk