Senior DevOps Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations daily rate in England is £600 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 451 506 533
Rank change year-on-year +55 +27 -76
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 84 157 251
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.23% 0.31% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.33% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 127 215
10th Percentile £500 £520 £500
25th Percentile £550 £575 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £738
90th Percentile £750 £775 £850
UK median daily rate £600 £650 £640
% change year-on-year -7.69% +1.56% +11.30%
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
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 27 April 2024.

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 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 +56 44 £600 -7.69% 23
North of England +24 12 £663 +1.92% 7
North West +16 12 £663 +3.92% 3
South East +26 11 £600 -11.11% 3
South West +14 5 £565 -14.72% 8
West Midlands +23 3 £350 -50.00% 1
Midlands +15 3 £350 -48.15% 2
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (59.52%) CI/CD
3 47 (55.95%) Terraform
4 39 (46.43%) Python
5 38 (45.24%) AWS
6 37 (44.05%) Kubernetes
7 33 (39.29%) Azure
8 30 (35.71%) Security Cleared
9 24 (28.57%) Ansible
10 22 (26.19%) Docker
11 21 (25.00%) Jenkins
12 20 (23.81%) PowerShell
13 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
13 18 (21.43%) Bash
14 17 (20.24%) Git
14 17 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
16 15 (17.86%) Agile
16 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
17 13 (15.48%) C#
17 13 (15.48%) Configuration Management
18 12 (14.29%) GitLab
18 12 (14.29%) SDLC
18 12 (14.29%) .NET
18 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
18 12 (14.29%) Product Ownership
19 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
19 11 (13.10%) Linux
19 11 (13.10%) Finance
19 11 (13.10%) Banking

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 4 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) Apache
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) ArcGIS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 38 (45.24%) AWS
2 33 (39.29%) Azure
3 16 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (13.10%) GitHub
5 9 (10.71%) GCP
6 8 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 7 (8.33%) Serverless
8 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.95%) PaaS
10 4 (4.76%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
10 4 (4.76%) OCI
11 3 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 3 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (3.57%) SaaS
12 2 (2.38%) Datadog
12 2 (2.38%) OpenShift
12 2 (2.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.14%) Network Security
2 5 (5.95%) Firewall
3 1 (1.19%) DNS
3 1 (1.19%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.14%) Relational Database
3 5 (5.95%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.38%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.38%) Redis
6 1 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.19%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 17 (20.24%) Git
3 12 (14.29%) GitLab
4 9 (10.71%) TeamCity
5 6 (7.14%) Artifactory
6 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.57%) CircleCI
7 3 (3.57%) JIRA
7 3 (3.57%) Selenium
8 2 (2.38%) Travis CI
9 1 (1.19%) Jaeger
9 1 (1.19%) Snyk
9 1 (1.19%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.19%) Subversion
9 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 11 (13.10%) Banking
2 11 (13.10%) Finance
3 10 (11.90%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.76%) Social Skills
5 2 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.19%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Electronics
6 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.19%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.19%) Marketing
6 1 (1.19%) Tech for Good
6 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (14.29%) .NET
2 5 (5.95%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (5.95%) WCF
2 5 (5.95%) WinForms
3 4 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (4.76%) Node.js
3 4 (4.76%) XML
4 2 (2.38%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.38%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.38%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.38%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.38%) Kafka
4 2 (2.38%) pytest
4 2 (2.38%) REST
4 2 (2.38%) YAML
5 1 (1.19%) LDAP
5 1 (1.19%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.19%) RESTful
5 1 (1.19%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.95%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.57%) Cloud Native
5 3 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.57%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.57%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.38%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.19%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.10%) Linux
2 8 (9.52%) Unix
3 6 (7.14%) Windows
4 3 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.38%) Alpine Linux
5 2 (2.38%) Android
5 2 (2.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.19%) VMS
6 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (100.00%) DevOps
2 50 (59.52%) CI/CD
3 17 (20.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (17.86%) Agile
4 15 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (15.48%) Configuration Management
6 12 (14.29%) SDLC
7 10 (11.90%) Containerisation
8 9 (10.71%) Migration
9 7 (8.33%) Roadmaps
9 7 (8.33%) Test Automation
10 6 (7.14%) Mentoring
10 6 (7.14%) Observability
10 6 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (7.14%) Scrum
10 6 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
11 5 (5.95%) Infrastructure Management
11 5 (5.95%) Service Catalogue
11 5 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 4 (4.76%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.43%) Python
2 20 (23.81%) PowerShell
3 18 (21.43%) Bash
4 13 (15.48%) C#
5 10 (11.90%) Go
6 9 (10.71%) SQL
7 7 (8.33%) Java
8 6 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.95%) Bicep
10 3 (3.57%) C++
10 3 (3.57%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.19%) C
11 1 (1.19%) Groovy
11 1 (1.19%) Perl
11 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 18 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.90%) DV Cleared
4 7 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 6 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.57%) Degree
7 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.19%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (1.19%) MCSE
8 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.76%) QA
2 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.19%) NIST
2 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (26.19%) Docker
2 9 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 47 (55.95%) Terraform
2 37 (44.05%) Kubernetes
3 24 (28.57%) Ansible
4 11 (13.10%) Grafana
5 8 (9.52%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.76%) Puppet
7 3 (3.57%) Progress Chef
8 2 (2.38%) Argo
9 1 (1.19%) BladeLogic
9 1 (1.19%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (1.19%) Kibana
9 1 (1.19%) Nagios
9 1 (1.19%) Packer
9 1 (1.19%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (5.95%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.95%) Oracle
2 3 (3.57%) Virgin Media
2 3 (3.57%) VMware
3 2 (2.38%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.38%) Citrix
3 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.38%) Splunk
4 1 (1.19%) Altiris
4 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
4 1 (1.19%) Google
4 1 (1.19%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.19%) New Relic
4 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.19%) SAP