Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £635, 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 412 487 513
Rank change year-on-year +75 +26 +64
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 73 55 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.15% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.16% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 36 119
10th Percentile £498 £494 £520
25th Percentile £539 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £725 £678 £725
90th Percentile £753 £760 £775
UK median daily rate £635 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -2.31% - +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £74.44 -
UK median hourly rate - £74.44 -

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%

Senior DevOps Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior DevOps Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps Engineer in England

Senior 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 Senior 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 +50 44 £635 -2.31% 31
North of England +31 20 £575 -4.17% 9
Yorkshire - 11 £675 - 3
North West +15 6 £575 -4.17% 6
North East - 4 £538 -
South West +45 3 £675 +35.00% 4
South East +44 2 £700 +5.66% 18
Midlands +21 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £438 - 5
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

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

1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 62 (84.93%) Terraform
2 62 (84.93%) AWS
3 55 (75.34%) Kubernetes
4 53 (72.60%) CI/CD
5 51 (69.86%) Python
6 41 (56.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 39 (53.42%) Jenkins
8 38 (52.05%) Security Cleared
9 36 (49.32%) SC Cleared
10 34 (46.58%) Linux
11 31 (42.47%) Docker
11 31 (42.47%) AWS CloudFormation
12 30 (41.10%) GitLab
12 30 (41.10%) Bash
13 27 (36.99%) Ansible
14 25 (34.25%) Grafana
15 23 (31.51%) Go
15 23 (31.51%) Agile
16 22 (30.14%) Continuous Integration
17 21 (28.77%) Prometheus
18 18 (24.66%) Containerisation
19 17 (23.29%) Amazon ECS
19 17 (23.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 17 (23.29%) Azure
19 17 (23.29%) Unix
20 16 (21.92%) Configuration Management
20 16 (21.92%) Amazon EC2
20 16 (21.92%) Packer
21 15 (20.55%) Observability

Senior 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 7 (9.59%) nginx
1 7 (9.59%) Traefik
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.37%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 62 (84.93%) AWS
2 31 (42.47%) AWS CloudFormation
3 17 (23.29%) Amazon ECS
3 17 (23.29%) Azure
4 16 (21.92%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (16.44%) Amazon S3
5 12 (16.44%) Entra ID
5 12 (16.44%) GCP
6 11 (15.07%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (15.07%) AWS Fargate
6 11 (15.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 10 (13.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (13.70%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (13.70%) Serverless
8 7 (9.59%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (9.59%) GitHub
9 6 (8.22%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (6.85%) OpenShift
11 4 (5.48%) AWS KMS
11 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (20.55%) DNS
2 14 (19.18%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.85%) HTTP
3 5 (6.85%) Internet
4 4 (5.48%) Firewall
5 1 (1.37%) DHCP
5 1 (1.37%) Network Security
5 1 (1.37%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.37%) SMTP
5 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.18%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (15.07%) MongoDB
3 5 (6.85%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (6.85%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (4.11%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 39 (53.42%) Jenkins
2 30 (41.10%) GitLab
3 7 (9.59%) Git
4 5 (6.85%) JIRA
5 3 (4.11%) CircleCI
6 2 (2.74%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.74%) Maven
6 2 (2.74%) Selenium
6 2 (2.74%) Subversion
7 1 (1.37%) Gradle
7 1 (1.37%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.37%) TeamCity
General
1 13 (17.81%) Public Sector
2 12 (16.44%) Finance
3 10 (13.70%) Banking
4 7 (9.59%) Military
5 5 (6.85%) Front Office
6 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.11%) Social Skills
7 2 (2.74%) Electronics
7 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.74%) Marketing
7 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Games
8 1 (1.37%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) cloud-init
2 12 (16.44%) Elastic Stack
2 12 (16.44%) Kafka
3 9 (12.33%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.74%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.74%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.74%) pytest
4 2 (2.74%) Spring
5 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.37%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.37%) Bazel
5 1 (1.37%) LDAP
5 1 (1.37%) Node.js
5 1 (1.37%) OAuth
5 1 (1.37%) OpenID
5 1 (1.37%) RESTful
5 1 (1.37%) Swagger
5 1 (1.37%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) PKI
2 4 (5.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.37%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.37%) FMCG
5 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (46.58%) Linux
2 17 (23.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 17 (23.29%) Unix
3 15 (20.55%) CentOS
4 5 (6.85%) Windows
5 2 (2.74%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.37%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (1.37%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (72.60%) CI/CD
3 41 (56.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (31.51%) Agile
5 22 (30.14%) Continuous Integration
6 18 (24.66%) Containerisation
7 16 (21.92%) Configuration Management
8 15 (20.55%) Observability
9 12 (16.44%) Cloud Security
10 10 (13.70%) Secrets Management
10 10 (13.70%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 9 (12.33%) Deployment Automation
11 9 (12.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 9 (12.33%) Identity Management
11 9 (12.33%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (12.33%) Static Application Security Testing
11 9 (12.33%) Task Automation
12 8 (10.96%) Mentoring
12 8 (10.96%) Problem-Solving
12 8 (10.96%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 51 (69.86%) Python
2 30 (41.10%) Bash
3 23 (31.51%) Go
4 10 (13.70%) Java
5 9 (12.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.22%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.11%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.37%) Bicep
8 1 (1.37%) C#
8 1 (1.37%) Groovy
8 1 (1.37%) Ruby
8 1 (1.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (52.05%) Security Cleared
2 36 (49.32%) SC Cleared
3 11 (15.07%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.85%) Degree
5 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.33%) NCSC
2 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 31 (42.47%) Docker
2 2 (2.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Lustre
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 62 (84.93%) Terraform
2 55 (75.34%) Kubernetes
3 27 (36.99%) Ansible
4 25 (34.25%) Grafana
5 21 (28.77%) Prometheus
6 16 (21.92%) Packer
7 14 (19.18%) Puppet
8 10 (13.70%) Rancher
9 9 (12.33%) Consul
9 9 (12.33%) Istio
9 9 (12.33%) Jamf Pro
9 9 (12.33%) linkerd
9 9 (12.33%) ZABBIX
10 8 (10.96%) Progress Chef
11 7 (9.59%) HAProxy
12 2 (2.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (2.74%) Karpenter
12 2 (2.74%) Podman
13 1 (1.37%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (1.37%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (16.44%) Splunk
2 10 (13.70%) Red Hat
3 9 (12.33%) Okta
4 7 (9.59%) Apple
4 7 (9.59%) ESET
5 4 (5.48%) Oracle
6 3 (4.11%) Google
7 2 (2.74%) Confluent
7 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.74%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.74%) SAP
8 1 (1.37%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.37%) MKS
8 1 (1.37%) Perforce
8 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.37%) VMware