Senior DevOps Contracts in England

Senior Development Operations
UK > England

The median Senior Development Operations 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 402 457 497
Rank change year-on-year +55 +40 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Senior DevOps 83 85 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.23% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.25% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 62 126
10th Percentile £502 £500 £520
25th Percentile £560 £550 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £738 £675 £722
90th Percentile £756 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £636 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +6.04% -7.69% +1.56%
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
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 1 May 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 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 +40 47 £635 +2.63% 35
North of England +33 26 £590 -10.94% 9
Yorkshire - 13 £688 - 3
North West +12 7 £663 - 6
North East - 7 £570 -
South West +44 3 £675 +19.47% 4
South East +37 2 £700 +16.67% 19
Midlands +20 1 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 £438 - 7
Senior DevOps
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 72 (86.75%) AWS
3 71 (85.54%) Terraform
4 61 (73.49%) Kubernetes
5 60 (72.29%) CI/CD
6 58 (69.88%) Python
7 47 (56.63%) Infrastructure as Code
8 46 (55.42%) Jenkins
8 46 (55.42%) Security Cleared
9 43 (51.81%) SC Cleared
10 41 (49.40%) Linux
11 38 (45.78%) GitLab
12 36 (43.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 36 (43.37%) Bash
13 35 (42.17%) Docker
14 32 (38.55%) Grafana
15 28 (33.73%) Prometheus
15 28 (33.73%) Go
16 27 (32.53%) Ansible
16 27 (32.53%) Continuous Integration
17 24 (28.92%) Agile
18 23 (27.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
19 22 (26.51%) Unix
19 22 (26.51%) Amazon ECS
19 22 (26.51%) Packer
20 21 (25.30%) CentOS
21 20 (24.10%) cloud-init
21 20 (24.10%) Containerisation
22 19 (22.89%) Observability
22 19 (22.89%) Amazon EC2

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 13 (15.66%) nginx
2 11 (13.25%) Traefik
3 2 (2.41%) Confluence
4 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.20%) MQSeries
Cloud Services
1 72 (86.75%) AWS
2 36 (43.37%) AWS CloudFormation
3 22 (26.51%) Amazon ECS
4 19 (22.89%) Amazon EC2
4 19 (22.89%) Azure
5 18 (21.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (19.28%) Entra ID
6 16 (19.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 15 (18.07%) AWS Fargate
8 14 (16.87%) Amazon S3
9 12 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
9 12 (14.46%) GCP
9 12 (14.46%) Serverless
10 11 (13.25%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (9.64%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (9.64%) GitHub
12 6 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (6.02%) AWS KMS
13 5 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (6.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 19 (22.89%) DNS
2 18 (21.69%) TCP/IP
3 6 (7.23%) HTTP
4 5 (6.02%) Internet
5 4 (4.82%) Firewall
6 2 (2.41%) SSL
7 1 (1.20%) DHCP
7 1 (1.20%) Network Security
7 1 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.20%) SMTP
7 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.28%) MongoDB
2 15 (18.07%) Amazon RDS
3 5 (6.02%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (6.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.41%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.41%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.20%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 46 (55.42%) Jenkins
2 38 (45.78%) GitLab
3 7 (8.43%) Git
4 5 (6.02%) JIRA
5 3 (3.61%) CircleCI
5 3 (3.61%) Maven
6 2 (2.41%) Artifactory
6 2 (2.41%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.41%) Gradle
6 2 (2.41%) Selenium
6 2 (2.41%) Subversion
7 1 (1.20%) Jaeger
7 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (20.48%) Public Sector
2 13 (15.66%) Finance
3 10 (12.05%) Banking
4 7 (8.43%) Military
5 5 (6.02%) Front Office
6 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Social Skills
7 2 (2.41%) Electronics
7 2 (2.41%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.41%) Marketing
7 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Games
8 1 (1.20%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (24.10%) cloud-init
2 16 (19.28%) Kafka
3 13 (15.66%) Elastic Stack
3 13 (15.66%) Keycloak
4 2 (2.41%) AWS CDK
4 2 (2.41%) AWS SAM
4 2 (2.41%) pytest
4 2 (2.41%) REST
4 2 (2.41%) SOAP
4 2 (2.41%) Spring
5 1 (1.20%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.20%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.20%) Bazel
5 1 (1.20%) LDAP
5 1 (1.20%) Node.js
5 1 (1.20%) OAuth
5 1 (1.20%) OpenID
5 1 (1.20%) RESTful
5 1 (1.20%) TypeORM
5 1 (1.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) PKI
2 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.41%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.20%) FMCG
5 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.20%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 41 (49.40%) Linux
2 23 (27.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 22 (26.51%) Unix
4 21 (25.30%) CentOS
5 5 (6.02%) Windows
6 2 (2.41%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.20%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (1.20%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (100.00%) DevOps
2 60 (72.29%) CI/CD
3 47 (56.63%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (32.53%) Continuous Integration
5 24 (28.92%) Agile
6 20 (24.10%) Containerisation
7 19 (22.89%) Observability
8 16 (19.28%) Cloud Security
8 16 (19.28%) Configuration Management
9 15 (18.07%) Secrets Management
10 13 (15.66%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 13 (15.66%) Identity Management
10 13 (15.66%) Static Application Security Testing
11 11 (13.25%) Mobile Device Management
12 10 (12.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (10.84%) Deployment Automation
13 9 (10.84%) High Availability
13 9 (10.84%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (10.84%) Software Engineering
13 9 (10.84%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (69.88%) Python
2 36 (43.37%) Bash
3 28 (33.73%) Go
4 11 (13.25%) Java
5 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.61%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.20%) Bicep
8 1 (1.20%) C#
8 1 (1.20%) Groovy
8 1 (1.20%) Ruby
8 1 (1.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 46 (55.42%) Security Cleared
2 43 (51.81%) SC Cleared
3 16 (19.28%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.02%) Degree
5 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.20%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) NCSC
2 1 (1.20%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
2 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.20%) QA
System Software
1 35 (42.17%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.41%) Lustre
3 1 (1.20%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 71 (85.54%) Terraform
2 61 (73.49%) Kubernetes
3 32 (38.55%) Grafana
4 28 (33.73%) Prometheus
5 27 (32.53%) Ansible
6 22 (26.51%) Packer
7 15 (18.07%) Puppet
8 14 (16.87%) Rancher
9 13 (15.66%) Consul
9 13 (15.66%) Istio
9 13 (15.66%) Jamf Pro
9 13 (15.66%) linkerd
9 13 (15.66%) ZABBIX
10 11 (13.25%) HAProxy
11 8 (9.64%) Progress Chef
12 2 (2.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (2.41%) Karpenter
12 2 (2.41%) Podman
13 1 (1.20%) Kibana
13 1 (1.20%) logstash
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Splunk
2 13 (15.66%) Okta
3 11 (13.25%) Apple
3 11 (13.25%) ESET
4 10 (12.05%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.82%) Oracle
6 3 (3.61%) Google
7 2 (2.41%) Confluent
7 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.41%) Microsoft
7 2 (2.41%) SAP
8 1 (1.20%) AppDynamics
8 1 (1.20%) Black Duck
8 1 (1.20%) Checkmarx
8 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.20%) MKS
8 1 (1.20%) Perforce
8 1 (1.20%) Rollbar
8 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.20%) Tenable