Senior DevOps Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 435 497
Rank change year-on-year -13 +62 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 50 117 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.19% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.34% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 81 120
10th Percentile £500 £513 £520
25th Percentile £519 £550 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -1.92% -
75th Percentile £653 £700 £728
90th Percentile £695 £760 £753
UK median daily rate £578 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -11.15% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £74.22 -
UK median hourly rate - £73.50 -

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 24,457 34,585 45,524
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.10% 92.93% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,942 22,634 32,270
10th Percentile £290 £300 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £663
90th Percentile £747 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,155 2,533 1,388
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.88 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.93 £16.86 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £44.06
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -9.20% +79.82%
75th Percentile £57.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.53 £77.58
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%

Senior DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior DevOps in England

Senior DevOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior DevOps in England

Senior 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 Senior DevOps within the England region over the 6 months to 6 July 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 33 £589 -9.42% 124
North of England +3 10 £550 -12.00% 45
Yorkshire - 6 £575 - 17
North West +1 3 £483 -22.80% 27
South East +28 2 - - 37
North East - 2 £550 - 1
Midlands +9 1 - - 21
East Midlands -1 1 - - 8
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Senior 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 Senior DevOps in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 42 (84.00%) AWS
3 39 (78.00%) Terraform
4 34 (68.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 33 (66.00%) CI/CD
6 30 (60.00%) Kubernetes
7 23 (46.00%) Ansible
8 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
9 21 (42.00%) SC Cleared
9 21 (42.00%) Jenkins
10 20 (40.00%) Docker
11 19 (38.00%) Azure
11 19 (38.00%) Python
12 18 (36.00%) Grafana
13 17 (34.00%) Containerisation
14 15 (30.00%) GCP
14 15 (30.00%) GitLab
14 15 (30.00%) Prometheus
15 13 (26.00%) Configuration Management
15 13 (26.00%) Linux
15 13 (26.00%) Agile
15 13 (26.00%) GitHub
16 12 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
16 12 (24.00%) Puppet
16 12 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (24.00%) Elastic Stack
17 11 (22.00%) AWS CloudFormation
17 11 (22.00%) Deployment Automation
17 11 (22.00%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (22.00%) Continuous Integration

Senior 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 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 42 (84.00%) AWS
2 19 (38.00%) Azure
3 15 (30.00%) GCP
4 13 (26.00%) GitHub
5 12 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (22.00%) Amazon EKS
6 11 (22.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (16.00%) Amazon S3
8 7 (14.00%) GitHub Actions
9 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (12.00%) Serverless
10 4 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (8.00%) AWS KMS
10 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (6.00%) Amazon SQS
11 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
11 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
11 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) DNS
2 7 (14.00%) HTTP
2 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
3 6 (12.00%) Internet
4 3 (6.00%) Firewall
5 2 (4.00%) SSL
6 1 (2.00%) DNSSEC
6 1 (2.00%) HTTPS
6 1 (2.00%) Network Security
6 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (24.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (12.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (6.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.00%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.00%) Metadata
5 1 (2.00%) MySQL
5 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (42.00%) Jenkins
2 15 (30.00%) GitLab
3 7 (14.00%) Git
4 4 (8.00%) JIRA
4 4 (8.00%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.00%) CircleCI
6 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.00%) Maven
7 1 (2.00%) Gradle
7 1 (2.00%) Jaeger
7 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.00%) Subversion
7 1 (2.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (16.00%) Banking
2 7 (14.00%) Finance
2 7 (14.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.00%) Military
4 2 (4.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Games
5 1 (2.00%) Legal
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.00%) OAuth
2 2 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (2.00%) .NET
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.00%) AWS CDK
3 1 (2.00%) Django
3 1 (2.00%) Flutter
3 1 (2.00%) JSON
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.00%) Node.js
3 1 (2.00%) OpenID
3 1 (2.00%) Playwright
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.00%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (2.00%) Swagger
3 1 (2.00%) TypeORM
3 1 (2.00%) Web Services
3 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (2.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (26.00%) Linux
2 2 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.00%) CentOS
3 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.00%) Unix
3 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) DevOps
2 34 (68.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 33 (66.00%) CI/CD
4 17 (34.00%) Containerisation
5 13 (26.00%) Agile
5 13 (26.00%) Configuration Management
6 11 (22.00%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (22.00%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (18.00%) Observability
7 9 (18.00%) Platform Engineering
8 8 (16.00%) Microservices
9 7 (14.00%) Mentoring
9 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
10 6 (12.00%) Cost Management
10 6 (12.00%) High Availability
10 6 (12.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (10.00%) Cloud Security
11 5 (10.00%) Task Automation
12 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 19 (38.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) Bash
3 5 (10.00%) Java
3 5 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.00%) Go
5 2 (4.00%) C#
5 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.00%) Ruby
5 2 (4.00%) SQL
6 1 (2.00%) Bicep
6 1 (2.00%) Perl
6 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (42.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.00%) Degree
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Certification
4 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.00%) GDPR
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 20 (40.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Lustre
Systems Management
1 39 (78.00%) Terraform
2 30 (60.00%) Kubernetes
3 23 (46.00%) Ansible
4 18 (36.00%) Grafana
5 15 (30.00%) Prometheus
6 12 (24.00%) Puppet
7 10 (20.00%) Progress Chef
8 2 (4.00%) Argo
8 2 (4.00%) Karpenter
8 2 (4.00%) Packer
8 2 (4.00%) Podman
9 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (2.00%) Graylog
9 1 (2.00%) Kiali
9 1 (2.00%) Kibana
9 1 (2.00%) logstash
9 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (12.00%) Google
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) Splunk
5 3 (6.00%) Oracle
6 1 (2.00%) Black Duck
6 1 (2.00%) Checkmarx
6 1 (2.00%) Confluent
6 1 (2.00%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.00%) Okta
6 1 (2.00%) OneLogin
6 1 (2.00%) Perforce
6 1 (2.00%) Rollbar
6 1 (2.00%) Tenable
6 1 (2.00%) UiPath