Senior DevOps Engineer Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations Engineer
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations Engineer daily rate in England is £607, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 410 475 520
Rank change year-on-year +65 +45 +56
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps Engineer 61 58 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 40 102
10th Percentile £491 £475 £520
25th Percentile £516 £550 £591
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £700
90th Percentile £738 £762 £738
UK median daily rate £607 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -6.60% - +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 22,435 33,769 45,858
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.34% 92.77% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,906 22,420 32,568
10th Percentile £295 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £644 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 2,442 1,343
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.92 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.73% -17.97% +95.42%
75th Percentile £63.13 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

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 20 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 20 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 +51 34 £635 -2.31% 58
North of England +25 18 £550 -8.33% 14
Yorkshire - 11 £575 - 6
North West +12 5 £575 -4.17% 8
South West +39 3 £675 +8.00% 8
North East - 3 £525 -
South East +37 1 - - 32
Midlands +15 1 - - 8
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £438 - 10
Senior DevOps Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 53 (86.89%) Terraform
2 53 (86.89%) AWS
3 43 (70.49%) Kubernetes
4 42 (68.85%) CI/CD
5 40 (65.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 36 (59.02%) Security Cleared
7 35 (57.38%) Python
8 34 (55.74%) SC Cleared
9 33 (54.10%) Jenkins
10 28 (45.90%) Linux
11 27 (44.26%) Ansible
11 27 (44.26%) Docker
12 25 (40.98%) GitLab
13 23 (37.70%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (37.70%) Bash
14 22 (36.07%) Grafana
15 18 (29.51%) Prometheus
15 18 (29.51%) Azure
15 18 (29.51%) Containerisation
16 17 (27.87%) Agile
17 16 (26.23%) Configuration Management
17 16 (26.23%) Continuous Integration
18 15 (24.59%) Go
19 14 (22.95%) Puppet
20 13 (21.31%) Amazon RDS
20 13 (21.31%) Amazon EC2
20 13 (21.31%) Amazon EKS
21 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
21 12 (19.67%) Elastic Stack

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 3 (4.92%) nginx
1 3 (4.92%) Traefik
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 53 (86.89%) AWS
2 23 (37.70%) AWS CloudFormation
3 18 (29.51%) Azure
4 13 (21.31%) Amazon EC2
4 13 (21.31%) Amazon EKS
5 11 (18.03%) GCP
6 10 (16.39%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (13.11%) Amazon S3
7 8 (13.11%) GitHub
8 7 (11.48%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (11.48%) Entra ID
8 7 (11.48%) Serverless
9 6 (9.84%) AWS Fargate
9 6 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (8.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (8.20%) Amazon SQS
10 5 (8.20%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (8.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (6.56%) AWS KMS
12 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) DNS
2 11 (18.03%) TCP/IP
3 6 (9.84%) HTTP
3 6 (9.84%) Internet
4 4 (6.56%) Firewall
5 1 (1.64%) DHCP
5 1 (1.64%) Network Security
5 1 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (1.64%) SMTP
5 1 (1.64%) SSL
5 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (21.31%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (9.84%) Amazon Aurora
2 6 (9.84%) MongoDB
3 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (54.10%) Jenkins
2 25 (40.98%) GitLab
3 8 (13.11%) Git
4 5 (8.20%) JIRA
5 3 (4.92%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
6 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.28%) Maven
6 2 (3.28%) Selenium
6 2 (3.28%) Subversion
6 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.64%) Gradle
7 1 (1.64%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.64%) Terragrunt
General
1 12 (19.67%) Public Sector
2 8 (13.11%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Banking
4 5 (8.20%) Military
5 3 (4.92%) Social Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Electronics
6 2 (3.28%) Front Office
6 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.28%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.64%) Games
7 1 (1.64%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) Elastic Stack
2 9 (14.75%) cloud-init
3 5 (8.20%) Kafka
4 4 (6.56%) Keycloak
5 2 (3.28%) AWS CDK
5 2 (3.28%) AWS SAM
5 2 (3.28%) pytest
5 2 (3.28%) Spring
6 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.64%) ARM Templates
6 1 (1.64%) Bazel
6 1 (1.64%) LDAP
6 1 (1.64%) Node.js
6 1 (1.64%) OAuth
6 1 (1.64%) OpenID
6 1 (1.64%) RESTful
6 1 (1.64%) Swagger
6 1 (1.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) PKI
2 4 (6.56%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.28%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) FMCG
5 1 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (45.90%) Linux
2 11 (18.03%) Unix
3 10 (16.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (14.75%) CentOS
5 6 (9.84%) Windows
6 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.64%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (68.85%) CI/CD
3 40 (65.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (29.51%) Containerisation
5 17 (27.87%) Agile
6 16 (26.23%) Configuration Management
6 16 (26.23%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (18.03%) Observability
8 9 (14.75%) Deployment Automation
8 9 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
9 8 (13.11%) Mentoring
9 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (11.48%) Cloud Security
10 7 (11.48%) High Availability
10 7 (11.48%) Microservices
11 6 (9.84%) Cost Management
11 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (9.84%) Task Automation
12 5 (8.20%) Secrets Management
12 5 (8.20%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (57.38%) Python
2 23 (37.70%) Bash
3 15 (24.59%) Go
4 7 (11.48%) Java
4 7 (11.48%) PowerShell
5 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.64%) Bicep
7 1 (1.64%) C#
7 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 36 (59.02%) Security Cleared
2 34 (55.74%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) AWS Certification
4 4 (6.56%) Degree
5 3 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.64%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.56%) NCSC
2 1 (1.64%) QA
System Software
1 27 (44.26%) Docker
2 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Lustre
3 1 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 53 (86.89%) Terraform
2 43 (70.49%) Kubernetes
3 27 (44.26%) Ansible
4 22 (36.07%) Grafana
5 18 (29.51%) Prometheus
6 14 (22.95%) Puppet
7 10 (16.39%) Packer
8 9 (14.75%) Progress Chef
9 4 (6.56%) Consul
9 4 (6.56%) Istio
9 4 (6.56%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (6.56%) linkerd
9 4 (6.56%) Rancher
9 4 (6.56%) ZABBIX
10 3 (4.92%) HAProxy
11 2 (3.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (3.28%) Karpenter
11 2 (3.28%) Podman
12 1 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (1.64%) Kiali
Vendors
1 11 (18.03%) Red Hat
2 7 (11.48%) Splunk
3 4 (6.56%) Okta
4 3 (4.92%) Apple
4 3 (4.92%) ESET
4 3 (4.92%) Google
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle
5 2 (3.28%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.28%) SAP
6 1 (1.64%) Confluent
6 1 (1.64%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.64%) Perforce
6 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.64%) VMware