Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 522 571
Rank change year-on-year +42 +49 -95
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 55 141 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.28% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.29% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 120 176
10th Percentile £494 £520 £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £678 £725 £700
90th Percentile £760 £775 £775
UK median daily rate £650 £650 £625
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.44 - -
UK median hourly rate £74.44 - -

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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
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 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 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 +49 32 £650 - 18
North of England +23 8 £600 -11.11% 5
North West +15 8 £600 -6.80% 2
South East +22 4 £663 -1.85% 3
South West +14 4 £500 -25.93% 7
West Midlands +25 2 £350 -50.00% 1
Midlands +17 2 £350 -48.15% 2
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 55 (100.00%) DevOps
2 38 (69.09%) Terraform
3 32 (58.18%) Python
4 30 (54.55%) CI/CD
5 29 (52.73%) Kubernetes
6 26 (47.27%) AWS
7 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
8 19 (34.55%) Ansible
9 17 (30.91%) Azure
9 17 (30.91%) Jenkins
10 16 (29.09%) SC Cleared
10 16 (29.09%) Docker
11 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (27.27%) PowerShell
12 12 (21.82%) Bash
12 12 (21.82%) Git
13 11 (20.00%) GitHub
13 11 (20.00%) Banking
13 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
14 10 (18.18%) Grafana
14 10 (18.18%) Investment Banking
14 10 (18.18%) Linux
14 10 (18.18%) Configuration Management
15 9 (16.36%) Finance
15 9 (16.36%) Migration
15 9 (16.36%) Go
15 9 (16.36%) TeamCity
15 9 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (16.36%) GitLab
15 9 (16.36%) Product Ownership

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 4 (7.27%) Confluence
2 2 (3.64%) Apache
2 2 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.82%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 26 (47.27%) AWS
2 17 (30.91%) Azure
3 11 (20.00%) GitHub
4 9 (16.36%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (14.55%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (10.91%) GCP
7 5 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (9.09%) PaaS
7 5 (9.09%) Serverless
8 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (7.27%) OCI
9 3 (5.45%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (5.45%) Amazon S3
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (3.64%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Storage
10 2 (3.64%) Datadog
10 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
11 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) Firewall
2 2 (3.64%) Network Security
3 1 (1.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.82%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.91%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.64%) Redis
5 1 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.82%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.82%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Jenkins
2 12 (21.82%) Git
3 9 (16.36%) GitLab
3 9 (16.36%) TeamCity
4 5 (9.09%) Artifactory
5 4 (7.27%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.64%) JIRA
6 2 (3.64%) Selenium
7 1 (1.82%) CircleCI
7 1 (1.82%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.82%) Snyk
7 1 (1.82%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (20.00%) Banking
1 11 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (18.18%) Investment Banking
3 9 (16.36%) Finance
4 3 (5.45%) Social Skills
5 1 (1.82%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.82%) Electronics
5 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.82%) Marketing
5 1 (1.82%) Tech for Good
5 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) .NET
2 5 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (9.09%) WCF
2 5 (9.09%) WinForms
3 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.64%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (3.64%) Kafka
4 2 (3.64%) Node.js
4 2 (3.64%) pytest
4 2 (3.64%) REST
4 2 (3.64%) YAML
5 1 (1.82%) AWS SAM
5 1 (1.82%) LDAP
5 1 (1.82%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.82%) React
5 1 (1.82%) RESTful
5 1 (1.82%) SAML
5 1 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.91%) Public Cloud
3 5 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.45%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.64%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.82%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.82%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.18%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Unix
3 5 (9.09%) Windows
4 3 (5.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.64%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (3.64%) Android
5 2 (3.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) DevOps
2 30 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 15 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 9 (16.36%) Migration
6 7 (12.73%) Agile
6 7 (12.73%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.73%) Roadmaps
6 7 (12.73%) Test Automation
7 6 (10.91%) Mentoring
7 6 (10.91%) SDLC
8 5 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 5 (9.09%) Observability
8 5 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
8 5 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
8 5 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (7.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (7.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 3 (5.45%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 32 (58.18%) Python
2 15 (27.27%) PowerShell
3 12 (21.82%) Bash
4 9 (16.36%) Go
5 7 (12.73%) SQL
6 6 (10.91%) C#
6 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.45%) Bicep
8 2 (3.64%) C++
8 2 (3.64%) Java
8 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.82%) C
9 1 (1.82%) Groovy
9 1 (1.82%) Perl
9 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 16 (29.09%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
4 2 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) MCSE
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) QA
2 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (29.09%) Docker
2 5 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.45%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 38 (69.09%) Terraform
2 29 (52.73%) Kubernetes
3 19 (34.55%) Ansible
4 10 (18.18%) Grafana
5 8 (14.55%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.27%) Puppet
7 3 (5.45%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.64%) Argo
9 1 (1.82%) Kibana
9 1 (1.82%) Nagios
9 1 (1.82%) Packer
Vendors
1 5 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (3.64%) Atlassian
2 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
2 2 (3.64%) Splunk
2 2 (3.64%) VMware
3 1 (1.82%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.82%) Citrix
3 1 (1.82%) CyberArk
3 1 (1.82%) Google
3 1 (1.82%) Guidewire
3 1 (1.82%) New Relic
3 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.82%) SAP